Do you remember several months ago I wrote about the Steven “The Glitter Knitter” going into the space next to the café? Well, it turns out he decided not to take the space. Instead he will be doing knitting classes in the Parlor this Sunday (Dec. 2nd), and every other Sunday after that. You can email Steven (Steven@YarnGarage.com) and he will save a place for you, it only costs $10 per person….or you can just show up at 1pm this Sunday.
Check out this video about Police Warn Coffee Shops on KSTP Ch 5.
Minneapolis Police say a burglary ring skilled in stealing safes could be active this weekend and may target coffee shops.
“This is the holiday season. There may be people short on cash during this time,” said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Jesse Garcia.
Police said Caribou Coffee is a target, but they urge all coffee shops to make bank drops more often.
“Somebody broke in at night and took our whole safe. They took a dolly in the middle of the night and we found our dolly outside, took our whole safe out with them,” said Tom DeGree of Wilde Roast Café.
Wilde Roast Café had a break in last year. The café put in cameras and made other security changes after the robbery.
For a limited time we are bring back your favorite winter drinks:
Eggnog Latte
Eggnog
Peppermint Candy Cane Mocha
Minneapolis officials visited stores whose sales have been affected by the I-35 bridge collapse. Check out the story in the Star Tribune.
Listen to local foodies discussing the importance of neighborhood restaurants to the neighborhood, and to the city on the MPR web site .
Our friends Dan and Brian are the owners of Farm Boy/Farm Girl Clothing. You should check out the web site for shopping ideas. Many people ask us where we get out Farm Boy Tees…well you can get them online or at Fleet Farm.
The Minnesota Freedom Band will once again march in the Opening Night Holidazzle Parade in downtown Minneapolis.
This annual lighted parade includes hundreds of costumed characters and thousands of tiny lights on the costumes and the animated floats.
A Minneapolis Holiday tradition for 15 years, the parade draws thousands of viewers each season along the eight block route down Nicollet Mall. The parade begins at 6:30pm and goes form 12th street to 4th street north on the Mall.
The MFB will march in the first three parades, November 23 – 25 proudly representing the LGBT community as they don the brightly lit marching band uniforms for the route through the downtown business district.
The band will be playing “Deck the Halls” and Jingle Bells” under the director of auxiliary units director Eric Dollerschell and Drum Major Brian Blackard.
The band is celebrating its 25th anniversary year and will present the anniversary concert on December 1 at 8pm in the Hamline University Sundin Music Hall. The concert is FREE and open to the public. For more information on the MFB and other events, www.mnfreedomband.org
Dean and I have gone to John’s concert for the last few years and have always had a great time; good music, funny, all the things you would look for in a holiday show….all this and good eye candy!
Come by the cafe to sign up to win 2 tickets to John’s Christmas Concert, or John’s other show 1940’s Radio Hour.
Travel back in time with this marvelously unique and heart-warming show; a live broadcast of The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era, when the world was at war and pop music meant “Strike Up the Band” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” is charmingly captured as the harried producer of WOV copes with a drunken crooner, the delivery boy who just wants his big chance in front of the microphone, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the bass playing military lad who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.
