Twin Cities Real Estate Blog

Jesse Ventura Preps for Potential 2016 Presidential Run

[caption id="attachment_187" align="aligncenter" width="480"]Jesse Ventura Presidential Run Joseph Friedrichs prepares to chat with Jesse Ventura at the 617 Lounge in White Bear Lake in this 2009 photo. Photo credit: Paul Dois[/caption] Get ready Minnesotans, in just three years former Governor Jesse Ventura will likely be running for President, of the United States, of America. During a recent interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, Ventura explained the timing would be right...

'James Murphy' DJ set @ First Avenue

2013-05-31 01.17.00 LCD Soundsystem are no more, but that doesn't mean their front man James Murphy, has retired.  The DFA record label co-founder is still performing, as a DJ. He stopped by First Ave to spin a 3 hour set, which by most measures, is pretty lengthy.  Truth be told, I only made it an hour.  Having just come from another concert and needing to get up to go to work the next day, I was intent on seeing 2 AM from my bed.  Sadly, I wish I could have stayed the entire time, because I'm not sure when I'll get that atmosphere again. The setting was very minimal.  Murphy was onstage with just his record crates and his turntables.  The lights stayed low, aside from...

Kings of the Mic Tour @ Target Center

2013-05-31 01.17.30 Walking into the Target Center to hear the Kings of the Mic tour, 3 security guards ran by saying concernedly "it was either a knife or an iPad".  You'd think those 2 things would be easy to tell apart, but more importantly, it perfectly describes what the Kings (and their fans) were, and are now. First up, De La Soul, who did their damnedest to warm up the still skeletal crowd.   Continually asking the crowd, "is the party over here" the 3 members seemed to be begging for the crowd to prove, that yes, the party was in fact, here.  The only problem was, there were very few areas to point to, where enough people were sitting to constitute a party.  If you...

'The Bloody Beetroots' (w/ 'Valentino Khan') @ Skyway Theatre

2013-05-28 18.22.33 How can less people attend a Monday night show you might wonder? Simple, make that Monday night a holiday. Toss in an extra late night set time, and it becomes painfully obvious why the Skyway Theatre was empty for The Bloody Beetroots. Lucky for the few in attendance however, the performances that night weren't reflective of the small crowd. Valentino Khan started off the late night getting the crowd warmed up. Over the course of his nearly 90 minute set he took us from Trap to Dubstep to Moombahton and back again. His energy was infectious as he jumped and bounced around while encouraging the crowd to get moving too. Although he started out fairly mellow,...