Twin Cities Calendar

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						1 Mondo Show Polar Plunge Trisha Yearwood
2 Oscars	3	4 Mardi Gras Free Pancakes	5 Ash Wednesday	6 Kings of Leon	7 Mr. Peabody & Sherman	8
9 Daylight Savings	10 Miley Cyrus	11	12	13	14	15 Prom Fashion
16 JazzMN	17 St Patricks Day♣ (see below)	18	19	20 Spring Begins (Yeah, right.)	21	22 Earth hour Joan Jett Writers' Fair
23	24 Passover begins	25	26	27 Drive-By Truckers	28	29
30	31

Twin Cities Calendar for March 2014

	March 1	gymnastics Gopher Women, Sports Pavilion, University of Minnesota juggling Mondo Spectacular, Central High theater, 275 Lexington Parkway, St. Paul (7pm, $12) extreme Polar Plunge, Thomas Beach, Lake Calhoun, Thomas Av S & W Calhoun Pkwy, Mpls (11am) country Trisha Yearwood, Mystic Lake (8pm)
	March 2	movie awards 86th Academy Awards, KSTP-ABC (7:30pm) -- hosted by Ellen DeGeneres
	March 3, 5, 10, 12, 14, 23, 26, 27, 30	hockey Wild, Xcel Center ($36+)
	March 4	holiday-ish Mardi Gras food Free Pancakes Day, IHOP (donations requested for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals)
	March 5, 7, 9, 11, 16, 23, 26, 28, 31	basketball Timberwolves, Target Center ($17+)
	March 6	rock Kings of Leon, Target Center (7:30pm, $30+)
	March 6-8, 10	sale Hallie Q. Brown Community Center rummage sale, 270 Kent St (E of Dale & Marshall), St. Paul
	March 7	movie Mr. Peabody & Sherman -- here's the trailer
	March 9	time Daylight Savings Time begins (2am) -- spring forward one hour (2am becomes 3am)
	March 9-17	show Auto Show, Minneapolis Convention Center
	March 10	pop Miley Cyrus, Xcel Center (7pm, $42+)
	March 15	fashion Prom Fashion Show, Mall of America - Macy's court (2pm, free)
	March 16	food, music Gastro Non Grata, Triple Rock Social Club (6:30pm, $15) jazz New York Voices, Hopkins High School Auditorium, 2400 Lindbergh Dr, Minnetonka (3pm, $30+)
	March 17	holiday St. Patrick's Day ♣ (see below)
	March 18	pop Demi Lovato, Xcel Center (7pm, $30+)
	March 20	time Spring begins lecture Kim Berman - South African artist, Visual Arts Lecture Hall, St. Catherine University (7pm, free)
	March 20-22	swimming NCAA Women's Championships, Aquatic Center, University of Minnesota
	March 22	fair Comedy Writing Convention, Hopkins Center for the Arts ($59) rock Joan Jett, Treasure Island Casino (8pm, $35+) fair Writers' Festival, Bloomington Arts Center (9:30am-5pm)
	March 23	environment Earth Hour - lights out from 8:30-9:30pm
	March 26-30	show Northwest Sportshow, Minneapolis Convention Center ($11)
	March 27	rock Drive-By Truckers, First Avenue (7pm, $25)
	March 28-29	variety Elements in Transition, Patrick's Cabaret (7:30pm, $10)

Art at Highland has been discontinued in 2014.

♣ St. Patrick's Day Events in the Twin Cities - 2014 ♣

St. Patrick lived and died 1600 years ago.
They say he drove the snakes from Ireland. I say there never were any snakes in Ireland.
They say that's a metaphor. I say O'.

March 8 - 9am    -  100% Irish For A Day TC 5K, Lake Harriet Bandshell
March 13 - 6pm    - Miss Shamrock 2014, O'Garas, 164 Snelling Av N, St Paul crowning
March 14-16 - 7pm - Kickin' It Irish, Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Av N (near Hewitt Av), St Paul ($20)
March 15 - 8:30am - Get Lucky Half Marathon, Kellogg & Robert (map), St Paul
March 15 - 9am    - Get Lucky 7k, 5th Av S & 2nd St S (map), Minneapolis
March 15 - 11am     - Maple Lake Irish Scamper, Maple Lake ($25)
March 15 - 8pm    - Boiled in Lead, Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Av S, Minneapolis ($15)
March 16 - 9am    -  St. Pat's Irish Traditions 5K run, Como Lake, St Paul ($40)
March 16 - 11am-5pm - St. Patrick's Day - Irish Celebration, Landmark Center, Rice Park, St. Paul ($6)
March 17 - 9am - St. Paul's Cathedral mass
March 17 - 10am-5pm - St. Patrick's Day - Day of Irish Dance, Landmark Center, Rice Park, St. Paul ($6)
March 17 - noon     - St. Patrick's Day Parade, 5th & Sibley (Mears Park) to 5th & Market (Rice Park), St. Paul
March 17 - 3:30pm - St. Patrick's Day Celebration, O'Gara's (shortest parade), 164 Snelling Av N, St Paul
March 17 - 6-10pm    - St. Patrick's Day Dance, Celtic Junction, 836 Prior Av N (near Hewitt Av), St Paul ($10)
March 17 - 6pm-1am - Free Rides - Miller Lite, any Metro Transit route (6pm-1am) 800-FREE RIDES
March 17 - 6:30pm -   St. Patrick's Day Parade, Nicollet Mall (from 11th St to 5th St), Minneapolis

Irish Pubs -
      Kieran's Irish Pub - 601 First Av S (6th St & 1st Av N), Mpls
                                     3-17 11am-music Alicia Corbett, The Sweet Colleens, & Broken Spoke

Kip's Irish Pub & Restaurant - 9970 Wayzata Blvd, St. Louis Park
3-15, 3-16, & 3-17 full weekend of music & events

    O'Gara's Bar & Grill - 164 Snelling Av N, St Paul
                                    3-14, 3-15 music & 3-17 events
as well as....
                                       Brit's Pub - 1110 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis

Dubliner Pub - 2162 University Av W (Cretin & Vandalia), St Paul

Eagle Street Grille - 174 7th St W, St. Paul
Happy Gnome - 498 Selby Av, St. Paul

Keegan's Irish Pub - 16 University Av NE, Minneapolis

Liffey Irish Pub - 175 7th St W, St. Paul (across from Xcel)
Morrissey's Irish Pub - 913 Lake St W, Minneapolis
O’Donovan’s Irish Pub - 700 1st Av N, Minneapolis
Shamrock's - 995 7th St W, St. Paul

August 8-10 Irish Fair, Harriet Island, St. Paul

Irish on Grand - Irish merchandise - 1124 Grand Av S, St Paul
St. Patrick's Guild - more Irish merchandise - 482 Snelling Av S, St Paul

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Irish Pubs are disappearing in Ireland and it's not due to fewer people...
(What country's capital has the largest population? Ireland, because the population is always Dublin.)

The Irish Times reports that they're losing a pub every two days, about 1,100 since 2005. And it's not primarily due to smoking bans and drunk-driving laws. It's irrelevancy. [read more]

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