Weekend Roundup February 14-16

🍁 maple syrup szn is around the corner! Here is a list of upcoming sugarbush events in the twin cities

AROUND TOWN 

  • North Loop Valentine’s Pub Crawl (Various breweries - All Weekend)
  • Space Fest: Cosmic Chaos (Bell Museum - All Weekend)
  • SUBTRONICS (Armory - All Weekend)
  • RAVE BAE Weekend (Skyway Theatre - All Weekend)
  • The Ultimate RV Show (Convention Center - All Weekend)
  • II Cinema Ritrovato On Tour (Main Cinema - All Weekend)
  • Ice Castles (MN State Fairgrounds - All Weekend)
  • The MN Ice Festival | Winter SKOLstice (Viking Lakes - All Weekend)
  • The Ice Palace (Delano Central Park - All Weekend)
  • Broadway in Love: A Valentine’s Celebration (Park Square Theatre - Friday & Saturday)
  • A Brunch of Drag (LUSH - Saturday & Sunday)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 

  • Taste the Movies - Beauty and the Beast (Granada Theater 5pm)
  • Cyclops Clubhouse dubstep/tech house/techno (Day Block Brewing 5:30-9pm)
  • Clay Throwing Taster - Valentines Edition (Dame Errant Clay 6-8pm)
  • Valentine’s Swing Dance feat. Katia + the Upswing (MOA 6:30-8:30pm)
  • Funky Fridays Drag Show (Roxy’s 7pm)
  • Tumblin’ Dice Valentine’s Day Bash (Richfield VFW 7pm)
  • Valentine’s Dinner + Comedy (Gambit Brewing 7pm)
  • Valentine’s Day: Moxie at the Moxy (Fly Freak Studio 7-10pm)
  • Sebastian Maniscalco (Xcel Energy Center 7:30pm)
  • Our Love Will Haunt This Home (Strike Theater 7:30pm)
  • Amore Under the Stars (Granada Theater 8pm)
  • Dancing with the Stars Live! (Northrop 8pm)
  • Mo Amer comedy (Varsity 8pm)
  • TGIF Adult Skate Night (Cheap Skate 8-11pm)
  • Dj izzie p presents “It’s All Love” Lounge (Zen Arcade 8pm-midnight)
  • Anti-Valentine’s Day Karaoke (Smash Park Roseville 8:30pm)
  • Body Language: All R&B Dance Party (Uptown VFW 9pm)
  • Sapphic factory: queer joy party (Fine Line 9pm)
  • Reventon - Reggaeton Party (First Ave 9pm)
  • Love is Blind viewing party (LUSH 9pm)
  • B(earded) Movies (Strike Theater 9pm)
  • Strictly R&B: Valentine’s Day Soiree (Cabooze 9pm)
  • Neon Night: Black Mirror: A Futurist Night For Valentine’s Day (Can Can Wonderland 9pm)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 

  • Cafe Meow 7-Year Celebration (Cafe Meow New Hope 10am-8pm)
  • The Love Train valentines activities (MN Transportation Museum 10am-4pm)
  • Taylor Swift Drag Brunch (Union Rooftop 10am | 12:30pm | 3pm)
  • Pride Cultural Arts Center Grand Opening (PCAC 12pm)
  • Love Is Blind party (Graze Provisions + Libations 12-4pm)
  • Rom-Com Movie Night (Insight Brewing 1pm-midnight)
  • The Official 2025 Flyfest Ski Jumping event (Hyland Hills Ski Jump 5-9pm)
  • Murder Mystery Dinner (Hopkins Elks Lodge #2221 6pm)
  • Fanny Pack burlesque/variety show (Amsterdam 6pm)
  • “Untitled 19” Opening Reception (Soo Visual Arts Center 6-9pm)
  • DiscoKnect - Silent Disco (Utepils Brewing 6:30-10pm)
  • Minneapolis Valentine’s Ghost Bus Tour (Foshay Tower 7pm)
  • Donnell Rawlings comedy (Parkway 7pm)
  • Rusty Nails & the Broken Hearts Club improv, etc. (Strike Theater 7:30pm)
  • TC Flamenco Collective w/ Jose Moreno (Crooners 7:30pm)
  • Petty Treason’s Burlesque Bonanza (Turf Club 8pm)
  • Shades of HUNKS (Cabooze 8pm)
  • Anti-Valentine’s Day Party (Troubadour Wine Bar 8-10pm)
  • Adult Skate Night (Cheap Skate 8:30-11pm)
  • Dre Day (Uptown VFW 9pm)
  • InMotion: Valentines Edition (Icehouse 9pm)
  • Mirage: LUSH LIVE! | TANK (TOP) NIGHT (LUSH 9pm)
  • Queer Circus! (Can Can Wonderland 9:30pm)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 

  • Valentine’s Day Shop and Brunch Pop-Up Market (Union Depot 10am-1pm)
  • Adult Skate (Cheap Skate 10am-noon)
  • Queer Writes Romance Book Fair (Machine Shop 11am-3pm)
  • Mosaic Festival: Dance & Music of World Cultures (Landmark Center 11am-3pm)
  • Real Housewives Drag Brunch w/ Meredith Marks (Quincy Hall 11am & 3pm)
  • Movies Made (right) Here: Grumpy Old Men (Nicollet Island Pavilion 3-6pm)
  • Playing House: Deep House & Queer Centered Makers Fair (Green Room 3-6pm)
  • Vilification Tennis: The Anti-Racist Show (Strike Theater 6-8:30pm)
  • Improvocation (Phoenix Theater 7pm)
  • The Sundance Film Festival Shorts Tour (Bryant Lake Bowl 7pm)
  • Light ‘em Up The BONG Show 4.0 (Hook & Ladder 7-10pm)

LIVE THEATER

  • Hadestown (Orpheum - All Weekend)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guthrie - All Weekend)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (Gremlin Theater - All Weekend) 
  • Romeo & Juliet theatrical dance (Luminary Arts Center - All Weekend)
  • Stolen Focus (Phoenix Theater - All Weekend)
  • Sweet Charity (Bloomington Center for the Arts - All Weekend)
  • Grease (Chanhassen Dinner Theatres - All Weekend)
  • Leonardo! (Children’s Theatre - All Weekend)
  • Sanctuary City (Open Eye Theatre - All Weekend)
  • The Root Beer Lady (History Theatre - All Weekend)
  • The Gin Game (Park Square Theatre - All Weekend)
  • Paradise Blue (Penumbra - All Weekend)
  • Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Stages Theatre - All Weekend)
  • School Pictures (Theater Latte Da - All Weekend)
  • Diamond Dreams: The Toni Stone Legacy (Conn Performing Arts - All Weekend)
  • ‘Til Death: A Marriage Musical (Art House North - Friday & Saturday)
  • This Girl (825 Arts & SPOC - Friday & Saturday)
  • The Snowy Day (opera) (Ordway - Saturday & Sunday)

LIVE MUSIC

Friday, February 14

  • Four Spirits w/ Abel Selaocoe (Ordway 11am)
  • Sweethearts Show on Valentine’s Day (Crooners 5pm & 8pm)
  • Soulmates 33rd Anniversary Party Show (Blues Saloon 6-9:30pm)
  • Grand Lilac w/ Muscle Fork (White Squirrel 6pm)
  • Valentine’s Day w/ Midnight Love (Berlin 7pm & 9pm)
  • MMEA All-State Jazz Band w/ Wycliffe Gordon (Dakota 6:30pm & 8:30pm)
  • Foster the People (Fillmore 7pm)
  • Charles Wesley Godwin (Uptown Theatre 7pm)
  • Rachel Grae (7th St. Entry 7pm)
  • Lady is a Tramp w/ Mistress Ginger (Bryant Lake Bowl 7pm)
  • Valentine’s Day w/ Lasalle & friends (Zhora Darling 7pm)
  • Cyrille Aimee (Parkway 7:30pm)
  • The 701 Takeover (Amsterdam 7:30pm)
  • A Sinatra Valentine (CDT 7:30pm)
  • Park, Ortiz and Prokofiev (Orchestra Hall 8pm)
  • I Love Lucy - Kiss the Tiger Tribute to Lucinda Williams (Turf Club 8pm)
  • EIVOR w/ Sylvaine (Cedar Cultural Center 8pm)
  • Vacant, Count Spookula, Miracle Debt, Laugh Track (Palmers 8pm)
  • Erik Koskinen & Band (Icehouse 8pm)
  • Just Luv, Inc. (Schooner Tavern 8pm)
  • Duck Bomb (Acadia 8pm)
  • The Boot RNB, Jim Ruiz Set, Oliver Phibes, DJ Megan O (Cloudland 8pm)
  • Junk FM Anti-Vday party (The Dog House Maplewood 8:30pm-midnight)
  • Spiderlily w/ Oceanographer, Twin River, 1947 (White Squirrel 9pm)
  • Wild Colonial Boys (Dubliner 9pm)
  • Mathias St. John, Jamie Quinn, Taylor Robert’s Roll & Soul Band (Terminal Bar 9pm)
  • R Factor (Bunkers 9:30pm)
  • YFM (Gluek’s 9:30pm)
  • All the Pretty Horses, Butter Boys (331 Club 10pm)

Saturday, February 15

  • Brunch w/ The Dollys (Icehouse 11am)
  • LAZARUS w/ Tony Ortiz & Unfinished Products (White Squirrel 1pm)
  • Steve Solkela: The 24 Piece 1 Man Band! (Can Can Wonderland 3-6pm)
  • 13 Howell w/ Muun Bato (White Squirrel 6pm)
  • Phantogram (Fillmore 6:30pm)
  • Lungs + Too Late, But Still + friends (Zhora Darling 6:30pm)
  • Park, Ortiz and Prokofiev (Orchestra Hall 7pm)
  • Four Spirits w/ Abel Selaocoe (Ordway 7pm)
  • Good Kid (First Ave 7pm)
  • Parmalee (Varsity 7pm)
  • Fatality, Fierro, & Borrachoz Inc (Zen Arcade 7pm)
  • Stringdingers & Buffalo Galaxy (Day Block Brewing 7pm)
  • KYX (Driftwood Char Bar 7pm)
  • King Muskie (Basement Bar 7pm)
  • Good Morning Bedlam (Green Room 7pm)
  • Michael Gold Quartet (Berlin 7:30pm)
  • Leep 27 (Tuttle’s Hopkins 7:30pm)
  • Love In Every Note: Songs from the Swing Era (Hanifl 7:30pm)
  • Gravel on Mud (MetroNome Brewery 7:30pm)
  • A Sinatra Valentine (CDT 7:30pm)
  • Switched @ Birth (Merlins Rest 7:30pm)
  • Blind Pilot (Fine Line 8pm)
  • Mustafa (Cedar Cultural Center 8pm)
  • The Dire Wolf (Shaws 8pm)
  • Lipstick & Dynamite (Route 47 8pm)
  • Craig Clark Band (Schooner 8pm)
  • Loud Sun, Family Ledgers, Cha Cha 9 (Palmers 8pm)
  • Two Broke Blokes (Dubliner 8pm)
  • Lazarus (Terminal Bar 8pm)
  • Makeshift (Acadia 8pm)
  • Tender Comrade, Ramson, TV For Dogs (Cloudland 8pm)
  • Michigan Rattlers (7th St. Entry 8:30pm)
  • High & Mighty (Mainstreet B&G Hopkins 8:30pm)
  • Matt Wilson & his Orchestra (Volstead’s 9pm)
  • Woodzen w/ Red Wing Blackbird & Miss Georgia Peach (White Squirrel 9pm)
  • Lazenlow, Mild Manner, Pure Shifter, Leslie (Mortimers 9pm)
  • Gothess DM Tribute (Hook & Ladder 9pm)
  • The Good the Bad & the Funky (Bunkers 9:30pm)
  • Heavy for the Hawk (Gluek’s 9:30pm)
  • The Crimson Boys, Porch Knights (331 Club 10pm)

Sunday, February 16

  • The Okee Dokee Brothers (Cedar Cultural Center 11am & 2pm)
  • Brunch w/ Nicholas David & Demetrious Rallis (Icehouse 11am)
  • Four Spirits w/ Abel Selaocoe (Ordway 2pm)
  • A Billy Joel State of Mind (CDT 2pm & 7pm)
  • Greazy Gravy Blues Band (Shaws 3pm)
  • Taylor Dayne (Dakota 5pm & 7:30pm)
  • The Beavers & Steam Machine (Dusty’s 5pm)
  • Church of Cornbread (Palmer’s 5pm)
  • Phil Heywood (Dubliner 5pm)
  • Joyann Parker: The Music of Patsy Cline (Crooners 5:30pm)
  • Sidewalk Diamonds, Creekside Ruffians, John Magnuson Trio (Cloudland 6pm)
  • Assorted Portions, Gates of Dawn (Underground 6pm)
  • The Clean Plate Club, Red40, Emily & the Space Butterflies, Gentlebrass (Amsterdam 6pm)
  • Decapitated w/ Incantation, Darkest Hour, Exmortus (Cabooze 6pm)
  • Red Hot Django Peppers (MetroNome Brewery 6:30pm)
  • Hauser (Mystic Lake 7pm)
  • Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol w/ Lip Critic (Zhora Darling 7pm)
  • Mary Bue (Parkway 7pm)
  • Switchyard (331 Club 7pm)
  • Medium Zach & Kavyesh Kaviraj (Berlin 7:30pm)
  • Dua Saleh (Fine Line 7:30pm)
  • Raegan Elizabeth (Acadia 7:30pm)
  • Caifanes (Fillmore 8pm)
  • Jarv (7th St. Entry 8pm)
  • Benjamin Booker (Turf Club 8pm)
  • Dr Mambo’s Combo (Bunkers 9:30pm)
  • Eleven degenerates (331 Club 10:30pm)

FOOD TRUCK SPOTLIGHT

Friday, February 14

  • Krunchy Munchies (The Savage Tap 4-9pm)
  • Pep Island (Bobbing Bobber Brewing 4-8pm)
  • Roon’s Savory Cones (56 Brewing 4:30-8pm)

Saturday, February 15

  • Sweet Lou’s Craft Sausages (Wild Mind Ales 12-8pm)
  • BD Sammies (Wabasha Brewing 1-7pm)
  • Egg Roll Queen (Bruhaven 3-9pm)

Sunday, February 16

  • Sunny Days Comfort Food (Getaway Motor Cafe 9am-1pm)
  • Acme Chicken Bowls (Wandering Leaf Brewing 1-8pm)
  • Young Man (Arbeiter Brewing 2-8pm)

SPORTS

  • MECCA XXIV (MMA & MUAY THAI) @ Canterbury Park (Saturday 1pm)
  • Boston VS Frost (Sunday 12pm)

MOVIES

  • Captain America: Brave New World
  • The Dead Thing
  • Rounding

KARAOKE 

  • Otter’s Saloon (All Weekend 8pm-2am)
  • Vegas Lounge (All Weekend 9pm-2am)
  • Do Re Mi Karaoke Eagan (Friday & Saturday 11am-9:30pm | Sunday 11am-8:30pm)
  • James Ballentine “Uptown” VFW (Friday & Saturday 9pm-1:45am)
  • 1029 Bar (Fridays & Saturdays 9pm-2am)
  • Black Hart of St. Paul (Friday 9pm-12am)
  • Park Tavern St. Louis Park (Saturday 9pm-12:30am)
  • Babe’s Place Shakopee (Sunday 9pm-1am)

LINKS

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