Minneapolis Events

Are you into gourmet foods, fine wines and specialty beers? If so, Target Field is the place to be this upcoming weekend. On Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6, it’s Minnesota Monthly’s 22nd Food and Wine experience co-sponsored by Hy-Vee. Visitors have a chance to sample gourmet foods, fine wines and specialty beers from more than 200 vendors while enjoying the view of the baseball field and the Minneapolis Skyline from the comfort of the Metropolitan Club and the Legends Club. Attendees get to enjoy intimate wine seminars with winemakers and meet with local craft brewers, chefs and culinary experts.Tickets...

Finally, cold weather has arrived here in Minnesota. Also, it’s a little over a month until Spring Training starts for the Minnesota Twins. Can’t wait until then to get your baseball fix? The Twins are once again doing their two annual events later this month. The first is TwinsFest, which will be held on Friday January 29 to Sunday January 31st at Target Field. Tickets will be $20 for adults and $10 for kids 14 and under. Metro Transit will be providing free rides to and from the event. As I had described in ...

For those who love craft beer (I am amongst that group), the St. Paul Craft Beer Tour is a perfect event for you. Sure, it's way too cold to do almost anything that requires going outside -- but, almost anything does not include drinking delicious beer, especially when there are approximately 150 craft beers to chose from, and the number of samples is unlimited. Yes, unlimited. St. Cloud has a fantastic opportunity for you in the form of their tour, which kicks off at 2 pm and runs until 5 pm this Saturday, January 16. The 150 or so beers come from Minnesota and across the...

Alternative rock band The Maine are headed to Minneapolis and you can see them for the low, low price of FREE.

The Maine are doing an entirely free tour called the "Free For All Tour" and have made Minneapolis one of their destinations. The Tempe, Arizona-based band will be playing their fifth stop of the 13-stop tour at Mill City Nights near Target Field  Sept. 3. The tour is on a first-come, first-serve basis, so there are no tickets. The Maine's event page says 6 p.m., so get there...

Ah, it's that time of year again! The yearly ramp-up before the NFL season begins and the Vikings' trek to Mankato begins. Last year, Minnesota Connected was able to chronicle some of ...

This Saturday, if you're looking to relax and drink beer, there's not a much better place than Insight Brewing just off of 280 and Hennepin Ave.

The event runs 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. with music, food trucks, games and, of course, beer inside and outside of Insight's taproom, including their relatively new patio.

From Insight's Facebook:

"We’re filling up our parking lot and tapping the stuff of legends for our very first Insight Outside festival. The Brewmaster has just...

Once again, it’s time for the annual Internet Cat Video Festival, held this year at CHS Field, the new home of the St. Paul Saints. This year’s event, hosted by the Walker Arts Center, will feature videos curated by Will Braden, who created the Henri Le Chat Noir videos and the festival’s first winner of the Golden Kitty (People’s Choice) Award. Besides showing cat videos, the event will also feature: photo ops, art adventures and other "meowvelous" fun. Radio personality Barb Abney of Go 96 will host the...

If you're looking for something free to do over Father's Day Weekend, look no further than Minneapolis' iconic Stone Arch Bridge. Once again there will be musicians and food everywhere throughout the St. Anthony Falls area surrounding the bridge for the Stone Arch Bridge Art & Music Festival. Local musicians, more than 250 artists...

Would you like to make a difference and eat plenty of donuts? Well, believe it or not, you can. It’s the second annual Twin Cities Donut Crawl, held on Saturday, June 13, at Mears Park in St. Paul. Eight different shops will participate including Glam Doll Donuts that Minnesota Connected profiled last year. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon and will take place rain or shine, unless there is severe weather. There are three different...