garbage is swinging through town on Friday April 5th at Mill City Nights. Anyone else attending? Food / beers beforehand? I really hate that they chose this venue to perform at, but oh well.

Gram Rabbit is performing in Minneapolis at Cause on Tuesday night. Anyone else going? Want to grab a bite before the show?

Let us try and finalize this meetup. I am suggesting Thursday, 30 May and Common Roots on Lyndale and 26th. I realize we have a Wednesday/Thursday split, but Thursday ended up looking best for me. Any further thoughts?

Hey, I'm going to NTEN on April 13/14 in Minneapolis. Anybody else going? Want to get together?

My new husband (who is a lurking MeFite) and I are moving to Minneapolis, MN, and we'd like to meet our new bean plate overthinking friends! [more inside]

Thursday night at Eyeo: MeFi dinner. [more inside]

I am returning. The meet-up last year was grand, so I figured I would call another. Wednesday 30 May, 7pm, Cafe Ena in Minneapolis. [more inside]

Would you like to learn Python in a non-alpha geek, friendly environment? Come out to the third PyStar MPLS to get started learning this amazingly intuitive programming language. These workshops are modeled after the RailsBridge "Ruby on Rails for Women" courses and are targeted at women who are new to programming, or new to Python. All skill levels & interests welcome. This course is aimed at female identified folks (self-identified, full-spectrum - cis, trans, and otherwise); if you do not identify as such you are welcome to come if you are the guest of a female identified person. Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions. Register here (for free!): http://pystar-mpls-3.eventbrite.com/ [more inside]

Join Bunny and Coco Ultramod of the pop punk band The Ultramods (AKA Max "Bunny" Sparber, Astro Zombie on MetaFilter and arts columnist for MinnPost, and Coco Mault, writer for City Pages' Dressing Room blog) as they read selections from their nonficiton ebook, "Bunny and Coco Get Smashed." [more inside]

I left Minneapolis before MetaFilter existed, but I will be back in town for a bit in late May/Early June, and I would love to meet some Minneapolis (and St. Paul, naturally -- no hard feelings) MeFites! [more inside]

Come and join us on Saturday, 3/26/2011 from 9-4 for the the first Minneapolis PyStar workshop. PyStar is a 'best-practices' Python programming workshop. All women (self-identified, full-spectrum - cis, trans, and otherwise) are invited to join us. Folks who identify as non-female are welcome so long as they are a guest of a female-identified person. Non-programmers (yet!) who are interested are especially welcome to attend! THIS MEANS YOU. cf: http://pystar-mpls-1.eventbrite.com/ cf: http://pystar.org [more inside]

wheelieman is working on a meetup already for the end of February...but in the meantime, let those of us beer-lovers enjoy one of the Surly Anniversary events! [more inside]

Minneapolis March 2, Kitty Kat Club in Dinkytown

My band, Derailleur, is playing its/our first show in a long, long time... making our comeback at Minneapolis's very fancy-dan Aster Cafe (fancy-dan in space, not in price!).

The Twin Cities' filthiest Celtic punk band, The Peter O'Tooles, present a late-night variety show at the Bryant-Lake Bowl. Guests will include St. Paul's poet laureate Carol Connolly, singer/songwriter Martin Devaney, and food and sex blogger Erica Rivera. [more inside]

A documentary about giant roadside attractions. [more inside]

Minnesota’s favorite cult hillbilly erotica act, The Dirty Curls return to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for their monthly variety show, The Grand Ole Orgy. This month’s theme: Nerds. The show’s title: Rock Out With Your Spock Out, of course. [more inside]

The second production of a self-assembling play by Bunny Sparber. A book club gathers to discuss a selection of vintage pornographic novels. Each performer provides a summary and a reading from their book. New books are assigned to random audience members. [more inside]

The premiere of my play Sleaze Book Club -- a self-assembling play in which the cast reads pulpy adult literature from the mid-20th century, reads their favorite passages aloud, and then gives a book report. And that's it. That's the entire play. [more inside]