Tag Archive: Lyn-Lake


Forever Young: Yearbook Dance

Forever Young is Uptown’s best dance party! Shake your bootie to the jams and gems of the late 90s/early 2000s.

Come celebrate the last dance party before Prom. To celebrate, we are turning the VFW into a giant yearbook. We will cover the walls with all the Photo Booth pictures from every Forever Young. Find your photos, sign your name, or take them with you.

Dress in your year Yearbook best. This year, we will have the legendary laser background. You won’t have to pay extra to get your photo in front of the coolest backdrop on picture day.

Saturday, April 27, 2013
9pm
James Ballentine VFW Post 246
2916 Lyndale Avenue S.
Minneapolis
$7 Cover, $5 with RSVP on Facebook

WIN TICKETS: The Women in Crisis Film Series

Longtime readers of the blog know that The Women in Crisis Film Series events are at the top of my list for things to do in the Twin Cities.  The WICFS generally includes a screening of a Lifetime Original Movie being mocked by a panel of sassy, merciless gay men.  The shows also include trivia, prizes and are simply a ton of fun.

I’m thrilled to have two pairs of tickets to give away to their next show!  The WICFS will present “The Landlady.”  Watch the trailer above.  To win tickets, comment on this Facebook post.  Two winners will be randomly selected and announced on Facebook on April 3rd at 1pm.

Friday, April 5, 2013
10pm
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
810 E. Lake St.
Minneapolis, MN
Tickets: $7-10 (sliding scale)

WIN TICKETS: Young and Fearless: A Day in the Park

What day in the park would be complete without picnics, pirates, food, flashers and agents from the IRS? Young and Fearless includes sketches written by Matt Allex, Ben Denson, Elizabeth Ess and YoungNotions, and features stand up comedy with Zach Coulter and Jenn Schaal. Hosted by Bill and Jena Young.

I’ve seen standup from Zach Coulter and Jenn Schaal before and they are very funny.  I expect this will be a great show!

I have two pairs of tickets to giveaway ($16 value per pair)!  To enter, simply comment on this Facebook post.  Two winners will be randomly selected on April 1st at 8pm.  Please do not enter if you cannot attend the show.

Thursday, April 4, 2013
10:00pm (doors 9:30)
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
810 E. Lake St.
Minneapolis
Tickets: $10 / $8 in advance or with Fringe button

 

WIN TICKETS: An Evening with Martina and Gabe

Silver Slipper Productions presents a NEW fabulous, “One Night Only” engagement. An Evening with Martina and Gabe” features some of Martina and Gabe’s favorite performers from the Twin Cities with a mixture of LIVE Vocals, Burlesque, Drag/Gender performances. In addition to the performances, Martina and Gabe will be inviting some entertainers onstage to their “Interview Couch” to answer questions and give you a chance to get to know them better!!!

I have two pairs of tickets to give away ($30 value!).  To win tickets, comment on this Facebook post.  Winners will be randomly selected and announced on Facebook Monday, March 25 at 7pm.  Please do not enter if you cannot attend the show.

Friday March 29, 2013
10:00pm (doors 9:30)
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
810 W. Lake St.
Minneapolis
Tickets: $18 day of show / $15 advance/ students and seniors

Forever Young: Slumber Party Dance

Put on footie pajamas or an over-sized T-shirt for Forever Young! Uptown’s best dance party!

Remember when you had sleepovers and made pillow forts with the couch cushions? Remember making paper fortune tellers and playing MASH? Remember staying up all night, eating pizza and gossiping about your crushes?

Instead of dancing in your pajamas to the Top 40 station, you can dance in your pajamas to the music you forgot you loved to dance to. Music like Ginuwine, Outkast, Daft Punk, Ashanti, Justin Timberlake, Ja Rule, Snoop Dogg, Aaliyah, Blink 182…

Instead of stealing sips from every bottle in the liquor cabinet you can drink legally. With the cheapest drinks in Uptown, the Basement of the VFW is the best club to get tipsy and dance.

Saturday, March 23, 2013
9pm
James Ballentine VFW Post 246
2916 Lyndale Avenue S.
Minneapolis
$7 Cover, $5 with RSVP on Facebook

50% off at moto-i

With today’s Groupon, save 50% off at moto-i.  Choose from the following deal options:

  • $15 for $30 worth of Japanese and Asian-fusion food for brunch, valid Saturday or Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  • $25 for $50 worth of Japanese and Asian-fusion food for dinner, valid Friday or Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight
  • $25 for $50 worth of Japanese and Asian-fusion food for dinner, valid Sunday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to midnight

moto-i
2940 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55408

 

Free Ink Day

Four times a year Highpoint invites the community to an afternoon of hands-on printmaking and creative fun. At these free, public events visitors of all ages can drop in anytime during the afternoon to make prints to take home. Since 2002 Free Ink Days have been an opportunity for the community to create unique, hand made artwork. All materials for the planned activity are supplied by Highpoint, and no registration is necessary – just drop in anytime during the afternoon, bring your creativity, and be ready to get inky! Past activities have included monoprinting and relief block printing, and have incorporated themes such as Día de los Muertos, Intergalactic Ink, and Prints and Puppetry.

Visitors may drop in anytime during Free Ink Day to make prints. Each visitor is supplied with a printing apron and instructions on the activity of the day. Visitors will learn to mix colored ink and use traditional printing tools and techniques to make multiple works on paper. (All inks are water-soluble and wash up with soap and water.) Staff and volunteers will be able to answer any questions along the way.

The next Free Ink Day is March 16, 2-13
Printing from 1 – 5 pm
Highpoint Center for Printmaking
912 West Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408

 

Forever Young: Winter Semi-Formal Dance Party

Great dressy and dance to the best jams from the late 90s and early 2000s. Just like high school but with less awkwardness and more drinking. We will remind you of the music you forgot you loved to dance to.  Music like Ace of Base, Outkast, Daft Punk, Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake, Nelly, T.A.T.U, Aaliyah, TLC… Since we have moved out of the basement and into the hall, we have four times more dance floor, lights, and booty shakin. With the the cheapest drinks in town, there is no better place to dance than the VFW.

$3 Tallboys
$4 Well Drinks
$5 Call Drinks

Saturday, February 16, 2013
9pm
James Ballentine VFW Post 246
2916 Lyndale Avenue S.
Minneapolis
$7 Cover, $5 with RSVP on Facebook

The Rockstars are back with the naughtiest storytelling show this side of the Mason Dixon line! (You know how dirty those Southerners can get). We’ll have stories about sex, love, lust, longing, yearning, boners (we hope), and just about anything else that gets the juices flowing. You know what juices we mean.

Join Rockstar Storyteller Courtney McLean with her band The Dirty Curls for our first show of 2013 featuring The Curls’ trademark blushingly inappropriate ditties. And check out this lust-inducing lineup: the devastatingly handsome Ben San Del (“Nice Guy’s Guide to Awkward Sex,” “Agony Of Fools”), Mr. Abs of Steel Tom Reed (“The Hungry Games,” “Bite Me Twilight”), the hilarious and adorable Amy Salloway (“Entwined,” “So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!”), the dark and mysterious phillip andrew bennet low (“Fear And Trembling,” “Descendant Of Dragons”), and everyone’s local celebrity crush, Joseph Scrimshaw (“OBSESSED with Joseph Scrimshaw,” author of “Comedy Of Doom”).

This show is going to sizzle so hard, we’re doing it late on a Friday night so you can sleep off your Rockstar hangover all weekend. Wear a diaper, ladies. Dudes – bring something to put in your lap to hide your raging Mr. Jones. Smell you there!

I have two pairs of tickets to giveaway!  To enter, comment on this Facebook post and two people will be randomly selected to win one pair!  Contest ends February 4 at 7pm and winners will be announced on Facebook.  Please do not enter if you cannot attend.

Friday, February 8 , 2013
10:00pm (doors open at 9:30)
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
Minneapolis
Tickets: $15 / $10 students, seniors or with Fringe button

 

 

With this Groupon deal, receive the following menu for two at Fuji Ya:

$40 for a Tasting Dinner Menu for Two ($81.15 Value)

  • Two miso or sumashi soups (a $5.50 value)
  • Two house salads (a $7.50 value)
  • One order of gyoza (a $6.25 value)
  • Four pieces of chef’s choice nigiri (a $10 value)
  • One #9 specialty maki roll or one crunchy specialty maki roll (a $15.95 value)
  • Two bento boxes; grilled salmon, shrimp and vegetable tempura, yakitori, rice and pickles (a $18 value)
  • One wasabi crème brulee (a $7.95 value)
  • Two drinks: choice of small Japanese beer, small hot sake, house wine (a $10 value)

$16 for a Tasting Lunch Menu for Two ($32.65 Value)

  • Two miso or sumashi soups (a $5.50 value)
  • One tempura specialty maki roll (an $8.25 value)
  • Two bento boxes; grilled salmon, shrimp and vegetable tempura, house salad, rice and pickles (a $15 value)
  • Two sodas or teas (a $3.90 value)

Fuji Ya
600 West Lake St.
Minneapolis, Minnesota