Twin Cities Calendar

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						1 Art Escape Free Comic Book Day Journey to Night May Day Owl City & Lights Ran Art Young Inventors
2 May Day Fair picture moment St. Olaf Handbells	3 String Chamber Orchestra	4	5 Cinco De Mayo	6 David Coperfield Dead Sea Scrolls	7 Movie: Iron Man 2 Taylor Swift	8 Average White Band Cinco de Mayo Honeydogs Randy Travis Simon & Garfunkel U of M Powwow
9 Mother's Day Natalie Cole Race for the Cure	10	11	12 Catch Wine Tasting	13 Retrorama Taste of Lakeville Women's Choir	14 Mo'Nique Movie: Robin Hood Ratt	15 Arts in the Park Fishing Opener Princeton Swap
16 Lyn Lake Fest	17 Barenaked Ladies Korn	18 Conan O'Brien	19 Chaska Taste Daughtry & Lifehouse Goo Goo Dolls	20	21 Movie: Shrek Forever	22 Charlie Daniels Phalen Waterfest Scottish Fair & Highland Games Scratch Day
23 Global Day of Prayer	24 Helen Hunt Nickelback	25 Carole King & James Taylor	26 Motivated	27	28 Movie: Sands of Time	29 Coolio
30 Manhattan Transfer Soundset	31 Memorial Day

April 29-30, May 1-2	fair	Festival of Nations, RiverCentre, St. Paul
May 1	art, travel comic books street game labor electro rock art fair fair	Art Escape, southern MN - travel from Bloomington to Mankato & New Ulm Free Comic Book Day, Big Brain & Comic Book College in Minneapolis, The Source in Falcon Heights, Midway Books & Uncle Svens in St. Paul, and other locations for a bag of free comic books. Journey to the End of the Night, MNzero, Prospect Park (Tower Hill), Mpls (7pm) May Day Red & Black, Black Dog Cafe, St. Paul (6:30pm) -- int'l labor issues Owl City & Lights, State Theatre >> Here's Owl City with Fireflies >> Here's Lights with Saviour - pics 1, 2, 3 Rainforest Action Network, Tarnish&Gold Gallery, 1511 Marshall NE, Mpls (7pm) Young Inventors Fair, Mall of America rotunda (1pm)
May 1-2	art tour show	Lake Minnetonka Arts Tour, various Lake Minnetonka locations (10am-6pm) Living Green Expo, Grandstand, State Fairgrounds
May 1-8	circus	Circus Juventas, near Highland Park Golf Course, St. Paul -- here's Yulong Adagio
May 1, 15	environment	Tree Plantings, Como Park (5-1) & Newell Park (5-15), St. Paul >> Planting 200 native trees. Watch your efforts grow.
May 1-2, 6-9, 12-16, 19-22	musical	The King and I, Schneider Theater, Bloomington Arts Center
May 2	fair, parade art handbell music	May Day (Tree of Life ceremony - festival - parade), Powderhorn Park (1-7pm) Moment in Time, NYT (10am) -- worldwide picture taking moment Spring Concert, St. Olaf Handbell Choir, Urness Recital Hall (2pm)
May 3	classical music	String Chamber Orchestra, Our Lady of Victory Chapel, St Catherine's (7:30pm)
May 3-9, 11-12, 21-23, 25-30	baseball	Minnesota Twins, Target Field
May 4-16	musical	South Pacific by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, Ordway Center >> Some Enchanted Evening
May 5-6	garage sale	Mount Olivet Lutheran Church Garage Sale, 5025 Knox Av S, Mpls
May 6	illusion lecture funeral	David Copperfield, State Theatre (5:30 & 8pm) Dead Sea Scrolls, Science Museum (7pm) Sgt. Joseph Bergeron, Maplewood Police Officer, Cathedral of St. Paul (10am)
May 6-7, 13-15, 17-19, 28-30	baseball	St. Paul Saints, Midway Stadium
May 7	movie country music	Iron Man 2 -- Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark - Iron Man Scarlett Johansson is Natasha Romanoff - Black Widow Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury Garry Shandling is Senator Stern -- trailer Taylor Swift, Xcel Energy Center -- here's Love Story
May 7-8	music sale fair skating	Bernedette Peters & the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra Hall (8pm) Cathedral Treasure Sale, Hayden Hall, Cathedral of St. Paul Cinco de Mayo, Cesar Chavez Street, St. Paul Ice Show, Bloomington Ice Garden
May 7-9	skating	Eden Prairie Ice Show, Community Center, 16700 Valley View Rd, Eden Prairie
May 8	soul music rock music country music folk music food drive powwow	Average White Band, Dakota Jazz Club (7 & 9:30pm) -- here's Pick Up The Pieces Honeydogs, First Avenue (6pm) -- here's Rumor Has It Randy Travis, Tresure Island Casino (8pm) -- here's Forever and Ever Simon and Garfunkel, Xcel Energy Center (8pm) -- here's Sounds Of Silence Stamp Out Hunger, USPS, at your mailbox University of Minnesota Spring Powwow, Coffman Union Great Hall (noon)
May 8-9	plant show fair	Bonsai Show, Marjorie McNeely Conservatory, Como Park (10am-6pm) Shepherd's Harvest Sheep & Wool Fest, Washington Co. Fairgrounds, Lake Elmo >> Sheer fun.
May 9	holiday R&B music run	Mother's Day Natalie Cole, Mystic Lake (7pm) Race for the Cure, Rotunda, Mall of America (6am)
May 10-Aug 20	construction	Interstate 94 resurfacing, between downtown Minneapolis & downtown St. Paul
May 12	wine game	Wine Tasting, Nicollet Island Pavilion, ESNS, Minneapolis (5-8pm) World's Largest Game of Catch, Midway Stadium
May 13	fashion food choral music	RetroRama, Minnesota History Center (7pm) -- here's a RetroRama sampler Taste of Lakeville, Lakeville Area Arts Center (5-9pm) Women's Choir - Collage, Our Lady of Victory Chapel, St Catherine's (8pm)
May 13-16	environment	Urban Birding Festival, St. Paul Audubon Society, multiple locations
May 14	comedy rock music movie	Mo'Nique, Target Center (8pm) Ratt, Medina Entertainment Center (8:30pm) -- here's Round and Round Robin Hood, Universal Pictures with Russell Crowe & Cate Blanchett -- trailer
May 14-15	fishing ballet	Minnesota Fishing Opener, Kabetogama Lake, Voyageurs National Park (map) Sleeping Beauty, Ballet Minnesota, Fitzgerald Theater
May 14-16	art tour musical	Art-a-Whirl, NEMAA, various NE Mpls locations Cats, Orpheum Theatre -- here's Cats & Cats the musical
May 14-Aug 29	horse racing	Canterbury Park, Shakopee
May 15	art fair swap meet	Arts in the Park, Purgatory Creek Park, Eden Prairie (10am-5pm) Princeton Swap Meet, Princeton Fairgrounds (8am-7pm)
May 15-16	comic books	Springcon, MCBA, Grandstand, State Fairgrounds (10am-5pm) >> Adam Hughes & 225 other creators -- here's the Idea - Process - Tools
May 16	fair	Lyn Lake Street Fest, Lyndale & Lake, Minneapolis (noon-7pm)
May 17	rock music heavy metal	Barenaked Ladies, Orpheum Theatre (7:30pm) Korn, First Avenue (7pm)
May 18	comedy	Conan O'Brien, Orpheum Theatre (7:30pm)
May 19	fair rock music rock music	Chaska Area Taste, City Square Park, Chaska (5-9pm) Daughtry & Lifehouse, Target Center (7:30pm) >> Here's Daughtry with Over You >> Here's Lifehouse with You And Me Goo Goo Dolls, Orpheum Theatre (7:30pm) -- here's Iris
May 20-22	fair	Soybean Festival, Farmington, MN
May 20-23	dance skating	Ragamala Dance, Southern Theater -- here's Sva Roseville Open, Roseville Skating Center
May 21	movie	Shrek Forver After -- Mike Myers as Shrek Paul McCartney as Rumpelstiltskin Cameron Diaz as Fiona Eddie Murphy as Donkey-- trailer
May 21-22	pop music fair	Colin Hay, Cedar Cultural Center (8pm) -- here's Overkill (Scrubs) Golden Valley Days (May 21st - Brookview Park & May 22nd City Hall)
May 21-23	art sale show skating ballet	John Lennon Artwork, presented by Yoko Ono, 701 E Lake St, Wayzata Minneapolis Home Building & Remodeling Expo, Mpls Convention Center Rock the Ice, Maplewood Figure Skating, Polar Arena (by North HS), North St Paul Sleeping Beauty, St. Paul City Ballet, Concordia University
May 22	country music kids fair creative	Charlie Daniels, Northern Lights Casino, Walker, MN (6 & 8pm) Phalen Waterfest, Lake Phalen (10am-2pm) Scottish Fair & Highland Games, Dakota County Fairgrounds (9am-5:30pm) Scratch Day, Science Museum >> Scratch is a multimedia programming language for games & animations.
May 22-23	fair art fair	Afton May Fair, Town Square, Afton Wayzata Art Experience, downtown Wayzata
May 22-July 11	play	Dollhouse, Guthrie Theatre
May 23	religion	Global Day of Prayer, Roy Wilkins Auditorium (5-8pm)
May 24	talk rock music	Helen Hunt, Orchestra Hall (7:30pm) Nickelback, Target Center (6:30pm) -- here's Photograph
May 25	folk music	Carole King & James Taylor, Xcel Energy Center (8pm) >> Here's Carole King with It's Too Late >> Here's James Taylor with Fire And Rain
May 26	lectures	Get Motivated, Target Center & Mpls Convention Center hall E (8am-4:45pm) >> Colin Powell, Zig Ziglar, Tamara Lowe, Steve Forbes, Rudy Giuliani, and by satellite: Sarah Palin & Brett Favre
May 27-31	fair	Wild West Days, Zimmerman, MN -- softball, paintball, agate hunt...
May 28	movie	Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time, Walt Disney Pictures -- trailer
May 28-30, June 4-6, 11-13, 18-20	play	Quartermaine's Terms, Theatre in the Round
May 29	rap music	Coolio, Insane Clown Posse, Kottonmouth Kings, Kittie, & Necro, Cabooze (5pm)
May 30	pop music hip hop music	Manhattan Transfer, Orchestra Hall (2pm) Soundset, Canterbury Park, Shakopee (11am) >> Atmosphere, Method Man & Redman, Brother Ali, Hieroglyphics featuring Del The Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, Casual & Pep Love, & much more.

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