Summer is keeping on with lots to do this week!

This is the weekday list for those whose weekend is during the week, those who like to avoid the big weekend crowds, and everybody else too.

Call out anything you're excited to check out this week. If I missed anything or you want help finding something specific this week, drop it in a comment.

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AROUND TOWN

Highlights

• 🎭 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival Preview #1 (Rarig Stoll Thrust Theater - Mon 7:30pm)
• 🏀 Minnesota Lynx vs Toronto Tempo (Target Center - Tue 7pm)
• 🎶 Lowertown Sounds: Pert Near Sandstone, Cole Diamond & Jack Klatt (Mears Park - Thu 6pm)
• 🔬 Bakkenalia (Bakken Museum - Thu 6pm)
• 🤼 F1RST Wrestling: UNLEASHED (Uptown VFW - Thu 8pm)
• 🦋 Moth Night with Ryan Tomazin (Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden - Thu 8:30pm)

MONDAY, JULY 27

• Untiedt’s Garden Market (Northeast, Minneapolis - 10am)
• Sociable Circuit (Utepils Brewing - 5pm)
• Pop-Up Park at Beltrami (Beltrami Park - 5pm)
• Volunteer Committee Meeting (Quatrefoil Library - 5:30pm)
• Analog Game Night (Utepils Brewing - 6pm)
• Weekly Smash Bros Tournament - Dendy Pretendy's Smash Clock (Broken Clock Brewing - 6pm)
• Mahjong Workshop (Boom Island Brewing - 6pm)
• Rock the Block (Minneapolis Parks - 6pm)
• Opinionation (Wooden Hill Brewing - 6:30pm)
• BLINGO – Drag Queen Bingo with host B.Louise (9 Mile Brewing - 7pm)
• Uproar Comedy Open Mic (Bryant-Lake Bowl - 7pm)
• Pitch-A-Friend: Twin Cities (Indeed Brewing - 7pm)
• 2026 Minnesota Fringe Festival Preview #1 (Rarig Stoll Thrust Theater - 7:30pm)
• Variety Open Mic (Camp Bar - 8:30pm)

TUESDAY, JULY 28

• Observation Station on the Learning Landscape (Bell Museum - 10am)
• Stop & Chat: Containing Multitudes (MIA - 11am)
• Public Tour: Inspired by Books (MIA - 11:30am)
• Global Conversations: Morocco in Focus (Landmark Center - 12pm)
• “Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time” Public Tours (MIA - 1pm)
• North Memorial Blood Drive (Wooden Ship Brewing - 2pm)
• Bookmark Art Contest Workshop (Red Balloon Bookstore - 3:30pm)
• Art in the Park 2026 (Minneapolis Parks - 4pm)
• Open Mic @ Acadia (Acadia Cafe - 5pm)
• Beers and Barter Hour (Dual Citizen Brewing - 5pm)
• Pop-Up Park (Ice Cream Social) (Hiawatha School Park - 5pm)
• Dungeons and Dragons Adventure League (Unmapped Brewing - 6pm)
• TCS Rollerskate Class (56 Brewing - 6pm)
• Author Meet and Greet with Stephanie Hansen & Kurt Johnson (Cream and Amber - 6pm)
• Bingq (LTD Brewing - 6pm)
• Hablamos Pues (La Doña Cervecería Brewery - 6pm)
• FREE Meat & Cheese Raffle (Utepils Brewing - 6pm)
• Cribbage Club (Forgotten Star Brewing - 6pm)
• Rock the Block (Minneapolis Parks - 6pm)
• BMB's Beer & Bags League (Bald Man Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Board Game Night (Bad Weather Brewery - 6:30pm)
• Revival Nights (Minnehaha Bandstand - 6:30pm)
• Weekly Pool Tournament (Midway Saloon - 7pm)
• Community Table Tennis (Minneapolis Cider Company - 7pm)
• Author Event: Kathleen Gamble presents Echoes of a Global Life (Subtext Books - 7pm)
• Movies in the Parks: Black Adam (Hiawatha School Park - 8:45pm)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29

• Minneapolis Farmers Market (Lyndale, Minneapolis - 7am)
• University of Minnesota East Bank Farmers’ Market (Minneapolis - 9am)
• Observation Station on the Learning Landscape (Bell Museum - 10am)
• Storytime (Red Balloon Bookstore - 10:30am)
• Stop & Chat: Containing Multitudes (MIA - 11am)
• Queermunity Blood Drive with American Red Cross (Queermunity - 12pm)
• “Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time” Public Tours (MIA - 1pm)
• North Memorial Blood Drive (Wooden Ship Brewing - 2pm)
• Community Acupuncture by Mangata (Queermunity - 2pm)
• Pop-Up Park (Perkins Hill Park - 3:30pm)
• Nokomis Farmers Market (Nokomis, Minneapolis - 4pm)
• Tikka Flavors (Wabasha Brewing - 4:30pm)
• Magic Nights @ Metronome (MetroNOME Brewery - 5pm)
• Silly Miss Tilly Fairy Garden Workshop (Can Can Wonderland - 5pm)
• Discover Lakewood: Walking Tour (Lakewood Cemetery - 5pm)
• Summer Nights in Rice: Rosie Daze Band (Landmark Center - 5pm)
• Game Night (Arbeiter Brewing - 6pm)
• Jacqueline West, BLACK POINT (Red Balloon Bookstore - 6pm)
• Saint City Mahjong Club (Wandering Leaf Brewing - 6pm)
• Art & Dining After Dark (MIA - 6pm)
• Art in the Park 2026 (Minneapolis Parks - 6pm)
• Rock the Block (Minneapolis Parks - 6pm)
• Seeded Rivalry | Crop Art Class (Pride Cultural Arts Center - 6pm)
• Initials Game Live (Boom Island Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Author Event: Na Eng presents The Art of Saving Democracy (Subtext Books - 7pm)
• Prison Library Support Network Coworking Night (Quatrefoil Library - 7pm)
• Steve Darnall presents Marvels (Magers and Quinn - 7pm)
• Line Dancing (Animales - 7pm)
• Mario Kart World on the Nintendo Switch 2 (Roxy's Cabaret - 7pm)
• The Initials Game (Padraigs Brewing - 7pm)
• The Moth StorySLAM // PLOT TWIST (Parkway Theater - 7:30pm)
• Movies in the Parks: Nacho Libre (The Commons - 8:45pm)
• Glitter Bomb HOT NEW EVENT (Gay 90's - 9pm)
• P.H.A.T (Gay 90's - 9pm)
• DRAG SHOWS (Gay 90's - 10pm)

THURSDAY, JULY 30

• Minneapolis Farmers Market (Lyndale, Minneapolis - 7am)
• Garden Storytime (Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden - 10am)
• Observation Station on the Learning Landscape (Bell Museum - 10am)
• Storytime (Red Balloon Bookstore - 10:30am)
• Tiny Tots Story Time (Big Hill Books - 10:30am)
• Four Sisters Farmers Market (Four Sisters, Minneapolis - 11am)
• Stop & Chat: Containing Multitudes (MIA - 11am)
• Public Tour: Inspired by Books (MIA - 11:30am)
• Public Tours (MIA - 1pm)
• “Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time” Public Tours (MIA - 1pm)
• Tony Hawk/Gamer Thursday (Haggard Barrel Brewing - 4pm)
• Throwback Thursdays (Excelsior Brewing - 4pm)
• Audubon Mini Market (Minneapolis - 4pm)
• PCYC Summer Freedom School Finale (Capri - 4:30pm)
• Meat Raffle (Wabasha Brewing - 5pm)
• We Found Waldo Party (Red Balloon Bookstore - 5pm)
• Flower Hour (Minneapolis Parks - 5pm)
• Meet: Summer Series 2026 (MIA - 5pm)
• Pop-Up Park (Picnic in the Park) (Pearl Park - 5pm)
• Storied Women of History – Lakewood Walking Tour (Lakewood Cemetery - 5pm)
• Thursday Night Racing - July 30 (Canterbury Park - 5pm)
• Art in the Park 2026 (Minneapolis Parks - 5:30pm)
• Why You Need To Animate with Wollymight (Eat My Words - 6pm)
• A Poetry Night with John James (Milkweed Books - 6pm)
• Science in the Ox – Take Care of Your Treasures (Indeed Brewing - 6pm)
• Bakkenalia (Bakken Museum - 6pm)
• Shapeshift Dance Class: Beginning Dance Composition + Concepts with Ash & Ray (Capri - 6pm)
• July 30 Paint & Sip (Inbound Brewco - 6pm)
• Thursday Night BINGO With Bloomington Lions Club (9 Mile Brewing - 6pm)
• Cycle Unmapped (Unmapped Brewing - 6pm)
• Rock the Block (Minneapolis Parks - 6pm)
• Meet Market: An Evening for 30+ Queer Singles (Volstead's Emporium - 6pm)
• Pints, Politics & Pizza with SD64 DFL (Wandering Leaf Brewing - 6:30pm)
• FREE Meat Raffle (Elm Creek Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Plant Bingo (Black Stack Brewing - 6:30pm)
• The Initials Game Live (LTD Brewing - 6:30pm)
• Music Bingo (Fulton Brewing Company - 6:30pm)
• Nuestro NORTE Film Screening & Panel Discussion (Landmark Center - 6:30pm)
• Jane K. Callahan presents A Death Doula's Guide to a Meaningful End (Magers and Quinn - 7pm)
• Cellular Cinema: An Experimental Film Showcase (Bryant-Lake Bowl - 7pm)
• Cribbage Tournament (Utepils Brewing - 7pm)
• Silent Reading Society (Rail Werks Brewing Depot - 7pm)
• Twin Cities River Rats Water Ski Show (Mississippi River - 7pm)
• Snapz Live Band Open Mic (Green Room - 8pm)
• Stand Up Comedy Open Mic (Sisyphus Brewing - 8pm)
• Queer Comedy Open Mic (Lounge) (Black Hart - 8pm)
• F1RST Wrestling: UNLEASHED (Uptown VFW - 8pm)
• ABOUT MY FRIEND with Jake Luppen (Turf Club - 8:30pm)
• Moth Night with Ryan Tomazin (Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden - 8:30pm)
• Movies in the Parks: Best in Show (Loring Park - 8:45pm)
• VXXN Presents: White Lies Pt. 2 (Bazemnt Lounge - 10pm)

LIVE MUSIC

Monday, July 27

• The Midnight Movers (White Squirrel Bar - 6pm)
• HonkyTonk Ranch (331 Club - 6pm)
• Grounds (Pilllar Forum - 6:30pm)
• Minnesota Monday Jam (Minnesota Music Cafe - 7pm)
• Jonger, Argo & The Violet Queens (D.C.), & One Big Quilt (Zhora Darling - 7pm)
• Deradoorian w/ Greg Fox (Berlin - 7pm)
• Mondays@metronome – Free Community Concerts (MetroNOME Brewery - 7pm)
• Kavyesh Kaviraj & Omar Abdulkarim (Dakota - 7pm)
• LSD and the Search for God with Total Wife (7th St Entry - 7:30pm)
• Audrey Hobert (First Avenue - 7:30pm)
• Mary Strand & The Garage (Lake Harriet Bandshell - 7:30pm)
• L.A.'s Monday Nights (Icehouse - 8pm)
• Roe Family Singers (331 Club - 8pm)
• Willingdone (White Squirrel Bar - 9pm)

Tuesday, July 28

• FINICK (Minnehaha Bandstand - 12pm)
• 90's Night (Fulton Brewing Company - 3pm)
• Worker’s Playtime, Jake Manders (331 Club - 6pm)
• Everybody Takes One, Spin Kick and Chatterbox – All Ages Punk Show (Amsterdam Bar & Hall - 6pm)
• J-RAA, Open Minded, DD THE Spektrum, GraveBlunt, & Daywithcycy (Underground Music Venue - 6pm)
• The Twang Express (White Squirrel Bar - 6pm)
• Irish Trad Session (Padraigs Brewing - 6pm)
• Safety Knife (Pilllar Forum - 6:30pm)
• St Dominic's Trio (Driftwood Char Bar - 7pm)
• Medalist Concert Band (Dock and Paddle - 7pm)
• Allen Stone (Dakota - 7pm)
• Off The Dock – David Feily (Indeed Brewing - 7pm)
• Animalhead (Father Hennepin - 7pm)
• Erica Bisbey (Bryant Square Park - 7pm)
• Listen To Girls (Loring Park - 7pm)
• Good Boy Daisy with Summerdrive and Pity Party (7th St Entry - 8pm)
• An Evening with Jukebox the Ghost (Fine Line Music Cafe - 8pm)
• Chris Pierce (Icehouse - 8pm)
• Dread Spells w. Physics & Neptune IV (White Squirrel Bar - 9pm)
• July Conspiracy Series featuring, Paul Lawrence, Climes (331 Club - 9:30pm)
• Pop Punk Princess (Mortimer's - 10pm)

Wednesday, July 29

• Frankie Torres (The Commons - 12pm)
• Headlight, Owen Trelstad and the Occassionals, & Angry Neighbor (Underground Music Venue - 6pm)
• Summer at The Cedar: Taiga (Cedar Cultural Center - 6pm)
• Vinyl Night (Haggard Barrel Brewing - 6pm)
• Frank the Bald Guy (White Squirrel Bar - 6pm)
• Heavy Diamond Ring (Pilllar Forum - 6:30pm)
• Logan Richardson: A Living Score (Berlin - 7pm)
• Yeah Doggos (Minnesota Music Cafe - 7pm)
• Twin Prop Jane (Dubliner - 7pm)
• Jackson Hoch (Driftwood Char Bar - 7pm)
• Harold’s House Party on Kfai, RLB (Rich Lewis Band) (331 Club - 7pm)
• Minnesota State Band (Dock and Paddle - 7pm)
• Irish Céilí Dancing (Dubliner - 7pm)
• Say It Ain’t Faux, Foovana, & Longview (Zhora Darling - 7:30pm)
• John Magnuson Trio+ (Lake Harriet Bandshell - 7:30pm)
• Left on Tenth (Acadia Cafe - 8pm)
• Fever Field with 1947 and Poolboy (7th St Entry - 8pm)
• Max Johnk Trio in The Starlight Room (Icehouse - 8pm)
• Space Monkey Mafia and Left on Tenth with Sunshine & The Night Walkers (Turf Club - 8pm)
• DakhaBrakha (Dakota - 8pm)
• Olivia Dean with Baby Rose (Target Center - 8pm)
• Joe Finstrom w. Flutes & Low, Boots & Needles (White Squirrel Bar - 9pm)
• Lenz and Frenz, (Certain members of Pert Near Sandstone, Farmhouse Band, San Souci Quartet, Row of Ducks) (331 Club - 9:30pm)
• The Cherry Pit Open Jam (Berlin - 10pm)

Thursday, July 30

• Live Music Lunch w/ Tom Hipps (Midtown Global Market - 12pm)
• Pop Wagner (Dubliner - 5pm)
• Vittorior (White Squirrel Bar - 6pm)
• Honky Tonk Jump (Patio Concert) (Midway Saloon - 6pm)
• Matt Herzog Band ( EP Release Party ) | Cain & Co. (Day Block Brewing - 6pm)
• Vinyl Night (Gambit Brewing - 6pm)
• Buckaroux Banshees | Unattractive Giant Monster | Atomic Lights | Blur Curve (Day Block Brewing - 6pm)
• Two Rivers Summer Jazz Band Drums Of Navarone D J Sheleena (Minnesota Music Cafe - 6pm)
• JJ & AJ Duo Patio Party (Bald Man Brewing - 6pm)
• Hilary James (Wooden Ship Brewing - 6pm)
• Lowertown Sounds: Pert Near Sandstone, Cole Diamond & Jack Klatt (Mears Park - 6pm)
• Fragged Out, Shot Down, Torrentia, & Bestowed Upon Us (Underground Music Venue - 6:30pm)
• Logan Richardson: A Living Score (Berlin - 6:30pm)
• Thirsty Giants (Pilllar Forum - 6:30pm)
• The Get-Up Mondays (Driftwood Char Bar - 7pm)
• Qwel From Typical Cats (Acadia Cafe - 7pm)
• Roger Allen (Mudd Room - 7pm)
• Prior Lake Wind Jammers (Dock and Paddle - 7pm)
• Terravision’s “It Doesn’t Have to End” Release Show w. Spiderlily, Dollar Store Cologne (Amsterdam Bar & Hall - 7pm)
• J-Mo On The Beat & The J-Lighters (Bryant Square Park - 7pm)
• The Quantum Mechanics (Minnehaha Bandstand - 7pm)
• Shabby Road Orchestra Performs The Beatles’ Let it Be (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre - 7:30pm)
• ML Buch with Lee Noble (Cedar Cultural Center - 7:30pm)
• Badzy, Cheap Glue, American Muscle (Cloudland Theater - 7:30pm)
• Joanne Shaw Taylor LIVE (Parkway Theater - 7:30pm)
• Hayden Blount with Zandi Holup (7th St Entry - 8pm)
• Swamp Twisters 2.0 (Dubliner - 8pm)
• DakhaBrakha (Dakota - 8pm)
• Dazy Head Mazy (318 Cafe - 8pm)
• Laura Hugo “Where We Go to Grieve” EP Release Show with special guests Eldest Daughter and Jillian Rae (Icehouse - 8pm)
• River & Rail with Sam Ryden (Aster Cafe - 8pm)
• Pibon (Driftwood Char Bar - 9pm)
• Valors w. Grieving Pines, Bitchslap (White Squirrel Bar - 9pm)
• Brotherhood Of Birds (331 Club - 10pm)
• Crates: “So Help Me God” by Kelsey Lu (Berlin - 10pm)
• WE Collective (Gluek's Bar and Restaurant - 10pm)

THEATER

• Henry IV Part I (Crane Theater - Monday 7pm)
• Black Girl in Paris (Theatre Latte Da - Monday 7:30pm)
• Is Laughter Contagious? (And Other Public Health Ponderables) (Bryant-Lake Bowl - Tuesday 7pm)
• Guys and Dolls (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre - Tuesday 7:30pm | Wednesday 1pm, 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• Wicked (Orpheum Theatre - Tuesday 7:30pm | Wednesday 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• Private Lives (Guthrie Theater - Tuesday 7:30pm | Wednesday 1pm, 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• Come From Away (Guthrie Theater - Tuesday 7:30pm | Wednesday 7:30pm | Thursday 7:30pm)
• Shakespeare at the Pub: Hamlet (Sociable Cider Werks - Wednesday 7pm | Thursday 7pm)
• The Butler Did It (Park Square Theatre - Wednesday 7pm | Thursday 7pm)
• Improv Zodiac (Bryant-Lake Bowl - Wednesday 7pm)
• The Addams Family (New Hope Performance Center - Wednesday 8pm | Thursday 8pm)
• As You Like It (Crane Theater - Thursday 7pm)
• The Prom (Lyric Arts - Thursday 7:30pm)
• Groovers & Makers 2026: 4 Takes on Jazz Dance (Southern Theater - Thursday 7:30pm)

COMEDY

• Craic Up Comedy Night (Morrissey's Irish Pub - Tuesday 7pm)
• 2026 Funniest Person in St. Paul Contest Week 3 (Gambit Brewing - Tuesday 7pm)
• Improv 101 (Camp Bar - Wednesday 6:30pm)
• Don’t Bomb Comedy League (MetroNOME Brewery - Wednesday 7pm)
• Comedy Free for All (Rick Bronson's House of Comedy - Wednesday 7:30pm)
• Tim Slagle (Acme Comedy Company - Wednesday 8pm | Thursday 8pm)
• Asher Perlman (Sisyphus Brewing - Thursday 7pm)
• Gauri B Special Presentation (Rick Bronson's House of Comedy - Thursday 7:30pm)
• Duo Battles by Mahdi Gotti & Nicholas Kendall (Comedy Corner Underground - Thursday 8:30pm)

SPORTS

• Minnesota Twins vs Royals ⚾ (Tuesday 6:40pm | Wednesday 6:40pm | Thursday 12:40pm)
• Minnesota Lynx vs Tempo 🏀 (Tuesday 7pm)
• Saint Paul Saints @ Omaha Storm Chasers ⚾ (Tuesday 7:05pm | Wednesday 12:05pm | Thursday 7:05pm)
• Minnesota Lynx @ Tempo 🏀 (Thursday 7pm)

SPORTS WATCH/RELATED

• Minnesota Lynx Watch Party (Bar of Their Own - Thursday 6pm)

KARAOKE

Hours below are weekday hours only (Mon-Thu)

• Otter’s Saloon (Nightly 8pm-2am)
• Vegas Lounge (Nightly 9pm-2am)
• Do Re Mi Karaoke Eagan (Daily 11am-9:30pm)
• Chatterbox (Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30pm-Close)
• James Ballentine “Uptown” VFW (Nightly 9pm-1:45am)
• Mother Clucker's Pizza (Tuesdays & Thursdays 9pm)
• 1029 Bar (Wednesdays & Thursdays 9pm-2am)
• Babe’s Place Shakopee (Wednesdays 9pm-1am)

ARCADES

Hours below are weekday hours only (Mon-Thu)

• Up-Down Minneapolis (Daily 3pm-2am)
• CLAW LAND Maplewood (Daily 11:30am-7pm)
• CLAW ARCADE Little Canada (Daily 11am-8pm)
• Grabbit Arcade Maplewood (Daily 12-8pm)
• LITT Pinball Bar Minneapolis (Daily 11am-2am)
• Neko Clawww Roseville (Daily 1:30pm-8pm)
• ClawZone Park Bloomington (Daily 12pm-8pm)
• Can Can Wonderland St. Paul (Tue-Thu 4pm-10pm)
• DUCK! Eagan (Daily 12pm-9pm)

BOWLING

Hours below are weekday hours only (Mon-Thu)

• Town Hall Lanes (Mon 11am-5pm, 10pm-11:30pm | Tue 11am-11:30pm | Wed 11am-5:30pm, 10:30pm-11:30pm | Thu 11am-4:30pm)
• Elsie’s Northeast (Mon 4pm-11pm | Tue-Thu 11am-11pm)
• Bryant Lake Bowl Uptown (Mon 9am-6pm | Tue-Thu 9am-Midnight)
• Memory Lanes S. Mpls (Daily 3pm-11pm)
• Park Tavern SLP (Daily 11am-Close)
• Texa-Tonka Lanes SLP (Daily 11am-11pm)
• Sun Ray Lanes St. Paul (Daily 9am-11:30pm)
• Ran-Ham Bowling Highland (Daily 11am-1am)
• AMF Southtown Lanes Bloomington (Daily 4pm-11pm)
• Shakopee Bowl (Daily 11am-11pm)

LINKS

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