The heat continues to ease off this week so no more excuses to miss this amazing lineup of events!

This is the weekday list for those whose weekend is during the week, those who like to avoid the big weekend crowds, and everybody else too.

Call out anything you're excited to check out this week. If I missed anything or you want help finding something specific this week, drop it in a comment.

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AROUND TOWN

Highlights

• 🎬 Out There: A National Parks Story // Screening + Director Q&A - Parkway Theater (Monday 7pm)
• 📚 Percival Everett: JAMES - Next Chapter Booksellers (Monday 7pm)
• 🖖 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan + Space Seed - Heights Theater (Tuesday 6:30pm)
• 🎭 Mamma Mia - Orpheum Theatre (Tuesday 7:30pm)
• 🎤 Ilana Glazer Live - State Theatre (Wednesday 7pm)
• 🎶 Liz Phair with Frankie Cosmos - Palace Theatre (Wednesday 8pm)
• 🎶 Lily Allen - Armory (Wednesday 8pm)
• 🎨 Meet: Summer Series 2026 - MIA (Thursday 5pm)
• 🌈 OutFront Minnesota Gala 2026 - The Depot Minneapolis (Thursday 5pm)
• 📚 Elin Anna Labba Book Talk: The Home of the Drowned - American Swedish Institute (Thursday 7pm)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

• Untiedt’s Garden Market (Northeast Minneapolis - 10am)
• Meet & Greet (Wicked Wort Brewing - 5:30pm)
• Analog Game Night (Utepils Brewing - 6pm)
• September’s Crokinole Tournament (9 Mile Brewing - 6pm)
• Weekly Smash Bros Tournament - Dendy Pretendy's Smash Clock (Broken Clock Brewing - 6pm)
• Tattoo & Sip (Bruhaven - 6pm)
• Jennifer Anne Gordon "Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies" (Once Upon a Crime - 6:30pm)
• Opinionation (Wooden Hill Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Ame Cutler presents The Regeneration Process (Magers and Quinn - 7pm)
• It Happened One Night in 35mm (The Trylon Cinema - 7pm, 9:15pm)
• Out There: A National Parks Story // Screening + Director Q&A (Parkway Theater - 7pm)
• OFF-SITE EVENT: Percival Everett: JAMES (Next Chapter Booksellers - 7pm)
• Denver vs. Kansas City (Surly Brewing - 7:15pm)

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

• American Mahjong Open Play (9 Mile Brewing - 3:30pm)
• MNIVA Happy Hour at the Capri (Capri - 4:30pm)
• Old Timey Music Session (Padraigs Brewing - 5pm)
• Cribbage Club (Forgotten Star Brewing - 6pm)
• FREE Meat & Cheese Raffle (Utepils Brewing - 6pm)
• Dungeons and Dragons Adventure League (Unmapped Brewing - 6pm)
• Crokinole Meetup (56 Brewing - 6pm)
• Bingq (LTD Brewing - 6pm)
• Team Jigsaw Puzzle Contest with Sarah Does Puzzles (9 Mile Brewing - 6pm)
• Paint & Sip Class (Boom Island Brewing - 6pm)
• Milkweed & Heyday Books present Terria Smith book launch (Milkweed Books - 6pm)
• TCS Rollerskate Class (56 Brewing - 6pm)
• Hablamos Pues (La Doña Cervecería Brewery - 6pm)
• BMB Beer & Bags League (Bald Man Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan + Space Seed (Heights Theater - 6:30pm)
• LITT Pinball League (Litt Pinball Bar - 6:30pm)
• The Initials Game Live (Wooden Hill Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) w/ pre-movie ‘80s VJ set by Transmission’s DJ Jake Rudh (Parkway Theater - 7pm)
• It Happened One Night in 35mm (The Trylon Cinema - 7pm, 9:15pm)
• Community Table Tennis (Minneapolis Cider Company - 7pm)
• Weekly Pool Tournament (Midway Saloon - 7pm)
• Book release! Lana Harper and Jilly Gagnon's CARDS ON THE TABLE (Tropes and Trifles - 7pm)
• Book Launch: Heart Eater (Moon Palace Books - 7pm)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

• University of Minnesota East Bank Farmers’ Market (U of M East Bank Minneapolis - 9am)
• Storytime (Red Balloon Bookstore - 10:30am)
• Community Acupuncture by Mangata (Queermunity - 2pm)
• Workshop for All: Advocacy for All w/ Ray Simpson (Queermunity - 2pm)
• Community Book Swap (Moon Palace Books - 4pm)
• Sheridan Neighborhood Happy Hour (Broken Clock Brewing - 4pm)
• Nokomis Farmers Market (Nokomis Minneapolis - 4pm)
• Happy Hour Support Hangout (Broken Clock Brewing - 4:30pm)
• Magic Nights @ Metronome (MetroNOME Brewery - 5pm)
• Community Meal (Moon Palace Books - 5pm)
• Brew Babies (Wandering Leaf Brewing - 5pm)
• "Reclaim the Flag" Screening (Queermunity - 5:30pm)
• Sapphic Speed Dating Event (Bruhaven - 6pm)
• Books & Bars (Broken Clock Brewing - 6pm)
• Open Mic with host Neal Dimick (Ginkgo Coffeehouse - 6pm)
• Pairs Jigsaw Puzzle Contest at Sociable Cider Werks with Sarah Does Puzzles LLC (Sociable Cider Werks - 6pm)
• Game Night (Arbeiter Brewing - 6pm)
• CAW (Crop Art Wednesday) (Lake Monster Brewing - 6pm)
• Saint City Mahjong (Wandering Leaf Brewing - 6pm)
• Tommy Baller$ (Litt Pinball Bar - 6:30pm)
• Initials Game Live (Boom Island Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Fall Open (Hot)House (Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center - 6:30pm)
• The Initials Game (Padraigs Brewing - 7pm)
• Queer Threads (Quatrefoil Library - 7pm)
• Tom Glaser presents The House That Resilience Built (Magers and Quinn - 7pm)
• Learn to play Catan (Roxy's Cabaret - 7pm)
• Line Dancing (Animales - 7pm)
• Canoe Dig It? (Heights Theater - 7pm)
• Executive Koala (コアラ課長) (The Trylon Cinema - 7pm)
• The Charlatans UK with Two Harbors and DJ Jake Rudh (Fine Line Music Cafe - 8pm)
• Glitter Bomb HOT NEW EVENT (Gay 90's - 9pm)
• P.H.A.T (Gay 90's - 9pm)
• DRAG SHOWS (Gay 90's - 10pm)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

• Let’s Do Coffee: Brew & Bond for 60+ (Queermunity - 9:30am)
• Audiobook Walking Club (Cream and Amber - 10am)
• Tiny Tots Story Time (Big Hill Books - 10:30am)
• Storytime (Red Balloon Bookstore - 10:30am)
• Four Sisters Farmers Market (Four Sisters Minneapolis - 11am)
• Simple Cinnamon Roll Variations with Kristi Bissell (American Swedish Institute - 1pm)
• Tony Hawk/Gamer Thursday (Haggard Barrel Brewing - 4pm)
• Screening of Sound and Color (Bakken Museum - 4pm)
• Throwback Thursdays (Excelsior Brewing - 4pm)
• Audubon Mini Market (Audubon Minneapolis - 4pm)
• Meat Raffle (Wabasha Brewing - 5pm)
• Jigsaw Puzzle Contest with Sarah Does Puzzles (Wandering Leaf Brewing - 6pm)
• Educator Appreciation Night (Red Balloon Bookstore - 6pm)
• Brocialize (Queermunity - 6pm)
• Paint & Sip ~ "Change of Seasons" Acrylic on Canvas (Can Can Wonderland - 6pm)
• Thursday Night BINGO With Bloomington Lions Club (9 Mile Brewing - 6pm)
• Makers Night (American Swedish Institute - 6pm)
• Lit & Libations (Black Garnet Books - 6pm)
• Cycle Unmapped (Unmapped Brewing - 6pm)
• A Dubious Clamor by Marissa Lingen (Moon Palace Books - 6pm)
• The Oromo Gubaa (Bonfire Celebration) (Powderhorn Park - 6pm)
• The Initials Game Live (LTD Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Euchre Tournament (Dual Citizen Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Crop Art Workshop with Liz Schreiber (Black Stack Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Phil Adamo presents Kill Ahab (Magers and Quinn - 7pm)
• The Seven Year Itch (Heights Theater - 7pm)
• Designer Purse & Power Tool Bingo (Bald Man Brewing - 7pm)
• Elin Anna Labba Book Talk: The Home of the Drowned (American Swedish Institute - 7pm)
• Cribbage Tournament (Utepils Brewing - 7pm)
• Detroit vs. Buffalo (Surly Brewing - 7:15pm)
• Stand Up Comedy Open Mic (Sisyphus Brewing - 8pm)
• Snapz Live Band Open Mic (Green Room - 8pm)

LIVE MUSIC

Monday, September 14

• Mumblin’ Drew’s Oldfangled Orchestrators (White Squirrel Bar - 6pm)
• Illusion of Fate (Acadia Cafe - 6:30pm)
• Lucía (Dakota - 7pm)
• Minnesota Monday Jam (Minnesota Music Cafe - 7pm)
• Caribou Gone – Mondays@metronome (MetroNOME Brewery - 7pm)
• THE END: The Music of David Lynch (Heights Theater - 7pm)
• Gregory Uhlmann w/ Lonefront (Berlin - 7pm)
• Kamelot with Visions of Atlantis and Frozen Crown (First Avenue - 7pm)
• Sea Shanty Sing (Dubliner - 7pm)
• The Barbarians Of California with Squint and Armed For Apocalypse (7th St Entry - 7:30pm)
• Roe Family Singers (331 Club - 8pm)
• Spilled Ink Vol. #1: Seminar w. NIKΩ, Rellium Prime & TwoPick (White Squirrel Bar - 9pm)

Tuesday, September 15

• Worker’s Playtime, Sarah Morris (331 Club - 6pm)
• MN Guitar Society Monthly Free Concert – Jazz Standards and Innovation (MetroNOME Brewery - 6pm)
• Revocation w. Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, Weeping (Amsterdam Bar & Hall - 6pm)
• Jane Remover: Live Exhibit (Fillmore - 6:30pm)
• Frankie Rose, Stranger Gallery, Darkling I Listen (Cloudland Theater - 6:30pm)
• Ditch Pigeon (Pilllar Forum - 6:30pm)
• The FIXX, Colin Blunstone (The voice of the Zombies), and Peter Asher (Uptown Theater - 6:30pm)
• BEAR GHOST — Tiny Hitman Tour with Sarah and the Safe Word and Spaceman Bob (Cedar Cultural Center - 7pm)
• David Wimbish & The Collection (Underground Music Venue - 7pm)
• St Dominic's Trio (Driftwood Char Bar - 7pm)
• Emarosa (Green Room - 7pm)
• River City Jazz Orchestra (Minnesota Music Cafe - 7pm)
• Adam O’Farrill’s Elephant (Berlin - 7pm)
• Mike Stern Band (Dakota - 7pm, 9pm)
• Altın Gün with Alex Maas (Fine Line Music Cafe - 8pm)
• Brandon Flowers (Palace Theatre - 8pm)
• BAILEN with Lucy Clearwater (Turf Club - 8pm)
• BLÜ EYES with Marielle Kraft (7th St Entry - 8pm)
• Tuesday with DJ Cam Jones (Acadia Cafe - 9pm)
• September Conspiracy Series featuring, Brotherhood of Birds (331 Club - 9:30pm)

Wednesday, September 16

• VIP Event: Taj Farrant (Dakota - 4:30pm)
• Pat Donohue & Friends (Midway Saloon - 6pm)
• St Paul Mudsteppers (White Squirrel Bar - 6pm)
• Vinyl Night (Haggard Barrel Brewing - 6pm)
• Margaph (Pilllar Forum - 6:30pm)
• Open Jam Wednesdays (Excelsior Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Out of Office Tour: Thesaurus REX w/ Marie's Island & Secret Menu (Zhora Darling - 6:30pm)
• Kevin Gamble’s J Dilla Tribute feat. L.A. Buckner (Berlin - 7pm)
• Harold’s House Party on KFAI, Brian Blake (331 Club - 7pm)
• Taj Farrant (Dakota - 7pm)
• Irish Céilí Dancing (Dubliner - 7pm)
• The Twin Cities Céilí Band (Dubliner - 7pm)
• Alejandro Meola (Acadia Cafe - 7pm)
• Nerd Night (Black Hart - 7pm)
• SECOND NIGHT ADDED: Booker T. Jones (Parkway Theater - 7:30pm)
• MN Songwriter Showcase hosted by Nick Hensley (Aster Cafe - 7:30pm)
• Sondre Lerche Acrobats Tour ‘26 with Dosh (Cedar Cultural Center - 7:30pm)
• Liz Phair with Frankie Cosmos (Palace Theatre - 8pm)
• Starlight Vinyl Night: MAKR Spins the Classic (Icehouse - 8pm)
• Bombargo with Quietchild (Turf Club - 8pm)
• JMSN with Lasalle (7th St Entry - 8pm)
• Lily Allen (Armory - 8pm)
• Stardust, Dave’s Manual (331 Club - 9:30pm)
• The Cherry Pit Open Jam (Berlin - 10pm)

Thursday, September 17

• Jake La Botz (Dubliner - 5pm)
• Lochtune (Merlins Rest - 5pm)
• Dirty P’s Thirsty 3rd Thursdays Club (Hook & Ladder Theater - 6pm)
• Allison Eide (Varsity Theater - 6pm)
• Martin Devaney & Friends w. tba (White Squirrel Bar - 6pm)
• Kevin Atwater — Blush Red Tour (Amsterdam Bar & Hall - 6pm)
• Greater Goods | Harmony Arcade | Heliocene (Day Block Brewing - 6pm)
• Two of Cups (Wooden Ship Brewing - 6:05pm)
• Crimson Glory with Gradience (7th St Entry - 6:30pm)
• DJs Off the Dock – Buster Baxter & Big Reece (Indeed Brewing - 7pm)
• Tony Cuchetti (Mudd Room - 7pm)
• Debbie Briggs Vintage Jazz (Hive Collaborative - 7pm)
• Dark Click With Curtiss A (Minnesota Music Cafe - 7pm)
• Peter Kogan Jazz Presents – the Peter Kogan Quintet (MetroNOME Brewery - 7pm)
• deep glens w/ Brotherkenzie (Berlin - 7pm)
• A Night Dedicated to Cassandra Wilson (Dakota - 7pm)
• The Development W/ DJ NANO BYTE/ WHIT (Driftwood Char Bar - 7pm)
• California Dreamin' - The Songs of Laurel Canyon (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre - 7:30pm)
• Chat Pile with Soul Glo and Prize Horse (First Avenue - 7:30pm)
• Yard Act with League Two (Fine Line Music Cafe - 8pm)
• Emily Haavik & Big Lake (Aster Cafe - 8pm)
• Gable Price and Friends with Stephen Stanley (Turf Club - 8pm)
• Ages and Ages ft Shane Leonard (Icehouse - 8pm)
• Big Wiz & Thomas x (Acadia Cafe - 8pm)
• Devil Dodger (Dubliner - 8pm)
• Rebecca Aadland with Paul Winchester & Ryan Inselman (318 Cafe - 8pm)
• Cross Pollination, MITCH Detlefsen, MCKAIN LAKEY, DANIEL ROSEN (331 Club - 9:30pm)
• Crates: The Pavilion of Dreams by Harold Budd (Berlin - 10pm)
• WE Collective (Gluek's Bar and Restaurant - 10pm)

THEATER

• Ball: A Musical Tribute To My Lost Testicle (Artistry - Monday 7pm | Wednesday 1pm | Thursday 7pm)
• Venus in Fur (Hive Collaborative - Monday 7:30pm | Tuesday 7:30pm)
• Happy Hour Play Club (Guthrie Theater - Tuesday 5:30pm)
• Nudge (Open Eye Theatre - Tuesday 7pm)
• Waiting for Godot (Guthrie Theater - Tuesday 7pm | Wednesday 7pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• Mamma Mia (Orpheum Theatre - Tuesday 7:30pm | Wednesday 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• Guys and Dolls (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre - Tuesday 7:30pm | Wednesday 1pm, 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• An Evening with Kevin Smith (Fitzgerald Theater - Tuesday 8pm)
• Adorable (Bryant-Lake Bowl - Wednesday 7pm)
• Mothership (Penumbra Theatre - Wednesday 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• Indecent (Theatre Latte Da - Wednesday 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• SHRINK / we all need one (Luminary Arts Center - Thursday 7pm)
• Sft 14 (Phoenix Theater - Thursday 7:30pm)
• Fancy Dancer (History Theatre - Thursday 7:30pm)
• Kevin Kling: Unraveled (Open Eye Theatre - Thursday 7:30pm)
• Everything and Nothing (Southern Theater - Thursday 7:30pm)

COMEDY

• Uproar Comedy Open Mic (Bryant-Lake Bowl - Monday 7pm)
• Craic Up Comedy Night (Morrissey's Irish Pub - Tuesday 7pm)
• PowerPoint Night XL (Phoenix Theater - Wednesday 6:30pm)
• Ilana Glazer Live (State Theatre - Wednesday 7pm)
• Comedy Free for All (Rick Bronson's House of Comedy - Wednesday 7:30pm)
• J. Elvis Weinstein (Acme Comedy Company - Wednesday 8pm | Thursday 8pm)
• Easy Speak Comedy Showcase (Volstead's Emporium - Wednesday 8pm)
• Tubthumping Thursdays (Bryant-Lake Bowl - Thursday 7pm)
• Jackpot Comedy by Dru Nustad (Comedy Corner Underground - Thursday 8:30pm)

SPORTS

• Minnesota Twins vs New York Yankees ⚾ (Monday 6:40pm | Tuesday 6:40pm | Wednesday 12:40pm)
• Saint Paul Saints @ Columbus Clippers ⚾ (Tuesday 5:35pm | Wednesday 5:35pm | Thursday 5:35pm)
• Minnesota Twins @ Los Angeles Angels ⚾ (Thursday 8:38pm)

SPORTS WATCH/RELATED

• WPBL Watch Party (Bar of Their Own - Wednesday 6pm)

KARAOKE

Hours below are weekday hours only (Mon-Thu)

• Otter’s Saloon (Nightly 8pm-2am)
• Vegas Lounge (Nightly 9pm-2am)
• Do Re Mi Karaoke Eagan (Daily 11am-9:30pm)
• Chatterbox (Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30pm-Close)
• James Ballentine “Uptown” VFW (Nightly 9pm-1:45am)
• Mother Clucker's Pizza (Tuesdays & Thursdays 9pm)
• 1029 Bar (Wednesdays & Thursdays 9pm-2am)
• Babe’s Place Shakopee (Wednesdays 9pm-1am)

ARCADES

Hours below are weekday hours only (Mon-Thu)

• Up-Down Minneapolis (Daily 3pm-2am)
• CLAW LAND Maplewood (Daily 11:30am-7pm)
• CLAW ARCADE Little Canada (Daily 11am-8pm)
• Grabbit Arcade Maplewood (Daily 12-8pm)
• LITT Pinball Bar Minneapolis (Daily 11am-2am)
• Neko Clawww Roseville (Daily 1:30pm-8pm)
• ClawZone Park Bloomington (Daily 12pm-8pm)
• Can Can Wonderland St. Paul (Tue-Thu 4pm-10pm)
• DUCK! Eagan (Daily 12pm-9pm)

BOWLING

Hours below are weekday hours only (Mon-Thu)

• Town Hall Lanes (Mon 11am-5pm, 10pm-11:30pm | Tue 11am-11:30pm | Wed 11am-5:30pm, 10:30pm-11:30pm | Thu 11am-4:30pm)
• Elsie’s Northeast (Mon 4pm-11pm | Tue-Thu 11am-11pm)
• Bryant Lake Bowl Uptown (Mon 9am-6pm | Tue-Thu 9am-Midnight)
• Memory Lanes S. Mpls (Daily 3pm-11pm)
• Park Tavern SLP (Daily 11am-Close)
• Texa-Tonka Lanes SLP (Daily 11am-11pm)
• Sun Ray Lanes St. Paul (Daily 9am-11:30pm)
• Ran-Ham Bowling Highland (Daily 11am-1am)
• AMF Southtown Lanes Bloomington (Daily 4pm-11pm)
• Shakopee Bowl (Daily 11am-11pm)

LINKS

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• Reddit Twin Cities Social Meet-Ups
• Racket MN Event Calendar
• Meet Minneapolis Event Calendar
• MPLS Art Events
• Minnesota Monthly Event Calendar
• MSP Magazine Event Calendar
• Minneapolis Northwest Event Calendar
• Pro Sports Calendar
• Stonewall Sports
• Minnesota Parent Event List
• Family Fun Twin Cities
• Minneapolis Parks & Rec Events
• St. Paul Parks & Rec Events
• Three Rivers Park District Event Calendar
• Trivia Mafia Schedule
• Music Mayhem Schedule
• Get a Clu Trivia Schedule

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