Sorry if I'm late, but the Kitty Cat Klub (or however it's spelled) is great most nights, the Loring has salsa nights, and the Varsity has shows. Sadly, the Dinkytowner is closed. Al's Breakfast in the morning. Used book stores. Over in Stadium Village, go get a glimpse of Oak Street Cinema before it's not there anymore.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 21 August 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Sadly, the Dinkytowner is closed.
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― irreconcilable aesthetic criteria (Eric H.), Friday, 21 August 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
in '94, how did I miss a nabe called Dinkytown?
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 August 2009 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Hi, I am the cracked IDS.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2530/3865540097_880bb17fd7.jpg
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Friday, 28 August 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll very likely be visiting in summer 2012
(fair warning)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome! Drinks!
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I am here! I was too busy eating in San Antonio and forgot to make plans or read about neighborhoods, restaurants, bars, etc. Oops.
I have a job offer here so am sort of checking out the job and the town as potential places to move to (and maybe even figure out where to live). So I am looking for neighborhoods to hang out in rather than touristy stuff to do or anomalously amazing upscale dining experiences. Apparently it is going to snow tomorrow night so I want to make tomorrow count. I have a bike and I am going to try to check out the U, NE, downtown and uptown. Is this a bad/good/ludicrous idea?
Also is there any way to get the city public wifi without, uh, paying?
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bookhouseindinkytown.com/
in dinkytown just off from the east bank campus of the U
― j., Tuesday, 22 March 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lol weather
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Let me guess, it's snowing. But I have to say, I get more SAD symptoms from London life than I ever got in Minneapolis - in wintertime, when it isn't SNOWING, the sun's out a lot. If I were to settle in Minneapolis I'd try to be by the lakes because of bike trails/parks and nearness to good cheap restaurants/most things but there's a lot of INCREDIBLE housing stock in St Paul proper that is best viewed while doing an impression of someone's dog panting out the window of pickup truck.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
it is pissing it down UK style, which is the one thing i didn't pack for.
haha i am finding it weird how it is clearly winter, but it is not pitch black from 4pm until 10am.
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, my mom phoned up yesterday and said it was going to snow, not rain. Failmom.
The 45th Parallel North cuts across MInneapolis, as shown here: http://www.wurlington-bros.com/Museum/45th/Mpls.html so that's why you get all the light compared w/the UK.
Go shopping. NO VAT on clothing in the state of Minnesota.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i figure i will scale back my plans for today and just wander around downtown, maybe go to the lol white bread museum and some shops. i am in an area called seward, which is just over the river from the main u of m-mn campus.
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Seward is a nice little neighborhood, handy to many areas, lots of my friends live there. The Birchwood Cafe is reliably good for breakfast or lunch. Or Raja's mahal for Indian.
http://www.birchwoodcafe.com/http://www.rajasmahal.com/
If you're downtown tomorrow night come and see my band play at Lee's Liquor Lounge!http://leesliquorlounge.com/
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm, seems Raja's Mahal has become an Ethiopian restaurant since I was there last.
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i had lunch at the birchwood. it was delightful!
now i am i the skyways of downtown. it is like dubai but opposite world!
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the Twin Cities skyways are one of the coolest things in the world.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so i am leaning towards eating/drinking at the triple rock (no show tonight, but 241 drinks) - heres a link http://www.triplerocksocialclub.com/
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll be there at 8. if you're reading this you should be there too.
i am in a coffee shop that is done up like the great northern hotel.
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i'm trying to think of what that might be
the birchwood is great, i go there quite a lot
― goole, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wanted to drop by and see you guys this week, but it's not in the cards.
― mh, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Hit up the Wienery.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Also the Mayday Cafe is pretty much my ideal neighborhood cafe if you're into that sort of thing. Doesn't stay open very late though.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys get to engage with RUIN at the Triple Rock *emits jealous vibes* waaaaah....
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the twin peaks cafe was "caribou" (?) i think. it was v twin peaks except for the fact it was in the skyways of opposite-dubai
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah, that's a chain. they're based here tho!
http://www.cariboucoffee.com/page/1/company-info.jsp
― goole, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
caribou is a chain! kind of ironically, there was a chain email going around a few years back alleging the majority of the stockholders were some arab investment group!
― mh, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
sort of the Target to Starbucks' Wal-Mart
wait that probably makes no sense to you. not yet anyway :)
xp wait really?
― goole, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey btw caek considering i just went outside and now realize its fucking awful out there K and I would be gald to pick you up on the way to the triple rock if otherwise yer going to freeze to death at a bus stop/on a bike
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah, shit got real in the last hour or so, right? i may well take you up on that offer. i am trying to get around under my own steam if poss (for the local colour, etc.) but if it stays like this then screw local colour. is it ok if i let you know either (via text) around 7?
p.s. not one person in this town has understood me when i say the word "water".
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"wadder?"
now i am excited to hear you say water
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
also i have been warned that the triple rock sometimes gets a little inundated w/frat jerks around 10 on 241 nights but hey if it does, we go somewhere else so
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
frat jerks need cheap booze too
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
that is why god created sallys and stub and herbs tho
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
should come to a decision on summer visit soon
lol Dinkytown btw
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
whoa! I would be tempted to go up there for the weekend if you made the effort to make such a trip
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
On the weekend I would be preoccupied w/ baseball research findings & games, unforch.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
pssh, guess I could take a day off, mr. business
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
drinks will be had
― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't it sort of a "whole Midwest" trip?
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
But, yes, count me in if you do swing up. Plenty of dive bars in NE to sample.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
stoked for the morbness!
― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
there are cost and shall-I-or-can-I-move factors at play, so curb your anticipation.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
the morb giveth, and the morb taketh away
― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
maybe we can apply for a morbs subsidy
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'd try to lure him south but I don't think he needs to see the Cubs farm team
well, I'm PO'd cuz the St Paul Saints are on the road (cuz the Twins are home) during the confab, so I was in fact thinking of making a diversion to see Quad Cities. All theoretical at the moment tho.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I do have to say, for minor league baseball, dsm has a nice stadium
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
not booked yet, but p sure I'll be over dere June 27-July 2. Ish.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link