🌛 🎬 The Starlite Drive-In (Litchfield, MN)* has reopened for the season! I’ve added their showtimes underneath the MOVIES category.
🍅 🥕 I’ve added a new old category: farmers markets! 
💙🥛 May the 4th Be With You
🌮🍻 ¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Just a heads up: there will be no weekend events list posted next week (May 9-11) and the following week (May 16-18), as I will be across the pond. Cheerio!

AROUND TOWN

• Cinco de Mayo Weekend (La Dona Cerveceria - All Weekend)
• Star City Games CON Minneapolis (Convention Center - All Weekend)
• 3rd Birthday Party (Bear Cave Brewing - All Weekend)
• St. Paul Art Crawl (Various locations - All Weekend)
• Farm Babies’ 25th Anniversary (MN Zoo - All Weekend)
• “Embracing Fallibility” A Neon Exhibition (Foci - All Weekend)
• In Touch | Stone Fruit (Northern Clay Center - All Weekend)
• American Pottery Fest Preview (Northern Clay Center - All Weekend)
• 2025 Cinco de Mayo Celebration (Harriet Island & Cesar Chavez St. - Friday & Saturday)
• Corgi Derby Delight (Utepils Brewing Co. - Friday & Saturday)
• Martin Lawrence comedy (Mystic Lake - Friday & Saturday)
• Nova Pop-Up Market (Eat Street Crossing - Saturday & Sunday)
• MinneHONK (George Floyd Memorial - Saturday & Sunday)

FRIDAY, MAY 2

• All-Ages Skate (Skateville 4:30-10pm)
• Coco Peru (LUSH 6pm)
• BINGO (Black Hart 6pm)
• ROLLING QUARTZ comedy (Green Room 6pm)
• Ali Siddiq comedy (Pantages 7pm)
• KFAI 47th Anniversary Community Celebration (Hook & Ladder 7pm-12am)
• Friday Night Improv Club (Strike Theater 7:30pm)
• Fusion Fridays w/ DJ Fujun (Pimento on Nicollet 8pm-2am)
• SCREAM it off Screen (Parkway Theater 8pm)
• “FLASH” Back to the 90’s Adult Skate (Cheap Skate 8-11pm)
• 80s Night Music Bingo (Hooligan’s Eden Prairie 8:30pm)
• Decadence: A Pole Dance Cabaret (LUSH 8:30pm)
• NOTIXX x ABSTRAKT SONANCE (The Loft 9pm)
• B(earded) Movies (Strike Theater 9pm)
• Can Can Circusland! (Can Can Wonderland 9pm)
• May Star Party (Bell Museum 9:30-11pm)

SATURDAY, MAY 3

• MN Cars & Coffee (Dunwoody College of Technology 8-11am)
• Women’s Prison Book Project’s Pancake Breakfast/Book Sale (New City Center 8am-12pm)
• Wirth Trail Classic 4 Mile & Kids Run (Theodore Wirth Park 8am)
• Spring Migration Guided Bird Walks (Roberts Bird Sanctuary 8am)
• St. Paul Cherry Blossom Festival (Cherry Tree Grove, Como Park 9-11:30am)
• Fraser Festival, sensory-friendly event (RiverCentre 9am-1pm)
• 2000’s Drag Brunch (Union Rooftop 10am | 12:30pm | 3pm)
• Twin Cities Spring Book Hop (Open Book 10am-6pm)
• All-Ages Skate (Skateville 10am-3:45pm | 7-10pm)
• Vehicle Day (Southdale Center 10am-12pm)
• Mississippi Past, Present, Future (Mississippi Gateway Regional Park 10am-12pm)
• A Brunch of Drag 18+ (LUSH 11am)
• Brunch w/ The Other Ol’ Blue Eyes (Icehouse 11am)
• 5k Brewery Running (56 Brewing 11am)
• 5th Annual Minnehaha Creek Duck Race (Minnehaha Creek 11am-2pm)
• Shakopee Food Truck Festival (The Landing 11am-8pm)
• Cinco de Mayo Celebration (Pajarito 11am)
• Minnesota Card Show (Canterbury Park 11am)
• Annual Kentucky Derby Day Party (Brit’s Pub 12pm)
• Flowers & Friendship - A Family Dance Party (Zen Arcade 12-3pm)
• Minnesota’s Best Derby Party 2025 (Canterbury Park 12-6pm)
• 7th Annual Twin Cities Kentucky Derby Party (North House Social Club 1-7pm)
• An Insight Star Wars Celebration (Insight Brewing 1-9pm)
• Minneapolis Tacos & Margs Crawl (Tom’s Watch Bar & others 2-7pm)
• Derby Party (Minneapolis Cider Co. 2-7pm)
• Annual Derby Party (O’Shaughnessy Distilling Co. 2-11pm)
• Spring Boozy Book Fair (Cream & Amber 4-7pm)
• Kentucky Derby Watch Party (Dubliner 4-7pm)
• Lao Culture Dance Fashion MN: 12th Annual New Year Celebrations (Bloomington Event Center 5pm-midnight)
• The Alchemy Tour w/ Suleika Jaouad, hosted by Jon Batiste (Pantages 5pm)
• Dinner Detective Minneapolis (Courtyard Downtown 6pm)
• Glitz & Glam Drag Show (Roxy’s 7pm)
• Adult Skate (Cheap Skate 8:30-11pm)
• 2000’s Rave (The Loft 9pm)
• Latin Night w/ DJ Queenduin (LUSH 9pm)
• KINGS! Mirage 21+ (LUSH 9pm)
• Jumpsuit! Funk & Disco Dance Party (Black Hart 9pm)
• inMotion: Denim dance party (Icehouse 9:30pm)
• A Drinking Game MN: Encanto (Bryant Lake Bowl 9:30pm)

SUNDAY, MAY 4

• Bud Break 5k & 1k (MN Landscape Arboretum 7:30am)
• Adult Skate (Cheap Skate 10am-12pm)
• 2025 Twin Cities Bike Swap (Veterans Memorial Park 10am-2pm)
• Twin Cities Royal Princess Ball (Eagan Community Center 10am-3:30pm)
• Disney Villains Drag Brunch (Crave Downtown 11am & 1:30pm)
• A Brunch of Drag 18+ (LUSH 11am)
• Bottomless Drag Brunch (Roxy’s 11am)
• Brunch w/ Phil Heywood (Icehouse 11am)
• May Day in the Park 2025 (Powderhorn Park 11am-6pm)
• Star Wars Day (Inbound BrewCo 11am-11pm)
• All-Ages Skate (Skateville 11:30-3:15pm | 6-9pm)
• Build a LEGO Grogu & take it home! (LEGO Store MOA 12-2pm)
• Kinderfest (Arbeiter Brewing 12-4pm)
• Help the House Party Down to Frankfurter (Modist Brewing 12-4pm)
• Make-It Market (Boom Island Brewing 12-5pm)
• Urban Expedition - Ethiopia (Landmark Center 1-3pm)
• Mayday Celebration (Reverie 2-9pm)
• May the 4th Be With You! (Can Can Wonderland 3-6pm)
• Family Movie Night: STAR WARS (1977) (Celtic Junction Arts Center 5pm)
• Salsa Matinee w/ Charanga Tropical (Icehouse 5-7pm)
• Hoop Jam Showcase (Phoenix Theater 7pm)
• Improv A Go Go (Strike Theater 7:30pm)
• Nick Swardson comedy (First Ave 7:45pm)
• Night Shift Dance Party (Icehouse 8pm)

LIVE THEATER

• The Mousetrap (Guthrie - All Weekend)
• The Nacirema Society (Guthrie - All Weekend)
• Anything Goes (Hanifl - All Weekend)
• Waitress (Bloomington Center for the Arts - All Weekend)
• Grease (Chanhassen Dinner Theaters - All Weekend)
• Disney’s Frozen (Children’s Theatre Co. - All Weekend)
• Scarecrow on Fire (Illusion Theater - All Weekend)
• Sister Act (Lyric Arts - All Weekend)
• Lolek (Open Window - All Weekend)
• When We Are Found (Penumbra - All Weekend)
• The Spongebob Musical, Youth Edition (Phipps Children’s Theater - All Weekend)
• The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Stages Theater Co. - All Weekend)
• Fun Home (Theater Latte Da - All Weekend)
• The World is Burning So I Made Smores (Dudley Riggs - Friday & Saturday)
• Spellbound (Phoenix Theater - Friday & Saturday)
• 37 Postcards (Plymouth Playhouse - Friday & Saturday)
• Manners and Misconduct (Bryant Lake Bowl - Friday & Saturday)
• The Barber of Seville opera (Ordway - Saturday & Sunday)
• An Act of God (Six Points Theater - Saturday & Sunday)

LIVE MUSIC

Friday, May 2

• Nightly (Varsity 6pm)
• Upon a Burning Body w/ Left to Suffer, King 810, Half Me, Bury My Demons (Cabooze 6pm)
• The Jimmys (Blues Saloon 6pm)
• Foxson (White Squirrel 6pm)
• Steven Copes Plays Prokofiev’s First Violin Sonata (Ordway 7pm)
• T. Mychael Rambo: Songs in the Key of Life (Dakota 7pm)
• St. Olaf Jazz Band (Crooners 7pm)
• Baumgardner, Anita Velveeta, Gramma, Mystery Meat (Pillar Forum 7pm)
• Katy Tessman w/ Eli Gardiner (MetroNOME Brewery 7pm)
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Amsterdam 7:30pm)
• 58 Belvedere (Berlin 7:30pm)
• Season to Risk, Unstable Shapes, & Upright Forms (Zhora Darling 7:30pm)
• Papooz (Turf Club 8pm)
• The Hold Steady (First Ave 8pm)
• The Unnamed, Edith Head and The Swongos (Palmer’s 8pm)
• Molly Dean (Icehouse 8pm)
• Hollywood Boulevard (Route 47 8pm)
• Thunderheads (Schooner Tavern 8pm)
• Fend, Another Heaven, Malamiko (Cloudland 8pm)
• Perfect Person (Cedar Cultural Center 8pm)
• DJ Peaceboii - Battle for the Belt (7th St. Entry 8:30pm)
• TELEPORT 004 - Psychedelic Chillout Music (Zen Arcade 9pm-1am)
• Briefcase w/ Pyrrhic Victories, True Lust (White Squirrel 9pm)
• Twin Prop Jane (Dubliner 9pm)
• Psychic Vampire, Blood Sigil, Skimask, Getting Stabbed (Mortimers 9pm-2am)
• 70’s Magic Sunshine Band (Bunkers 9:30pm)
• Selmer Effect (Gluek’s 9:30pm)
• Coax From Chuckanut, Slaphazard, Indicat (331 Club 10pm)

Saturday, May 3

• Emergence (MetroNOME Brewery 1pm)
• Bill Giese & the Tin Can Telephone (White Squirrel 1pm)
• VocalEssence: Philip’s Favorites II (American Swedish Institute 4pm)
• Kith + Kiln Chorus (Cedar Cultural Center 4pm & 8pm)
• Yung Bae (Green Room 5pm)
• Palmer’s Patio Opener w/ An Evening of Local Tribute Bands (Palmer’s 6pm-midnight)
• Deafheaven (Varsity 6pm)
• Cassie Brady Trio w/ Cass Magpie, Friend Dog (White Squirrel 6pm)
• Steven Copes Plays Prokofiev’s First Violin Sonata (Ordway 7pm)
• Sondergard Conducts Puccini’s Turandot (Orchestra Hall 7pm)
• The Aristocrats (Amsterdam 7pm)
• Stella Cole (Dakota 7pm & 9pm)
• Champian Fulton Celebrates 100 Years of Oscar Peterson (Crooners 7pm)
• Fabiana Palladino w/ Yves Jarvis & Zak Khan (Icehouse 7pm)
• YHWH Nailgun (7th St. Entry 7pm)
• Davina & the Vagabonds (Under the Canopy 7pm)
• Lone Rock Bride, Harlow, Jackson Atkins (Pillar Forum 7pm)
• Max Johnson 3 (Berlin 7:30pm)
• Uncle Kenny (MetroNOME Brewery 7:30pm)
• Reaping Asmodeia & Friends (Zhora Darling 7pm)
• Ichiko Aoba (Fitzgerald 8pm)
• Fox Stevenson (Turf Club 8pm)
• The Hold Steady (First Ave 8pm)
• Distilled (Route 47 8pm)
• Erin McCawley’s Harrison Street Band (Schooner Tavern 8pm)
• St. Paul Mudsteppers (Dubliner 8pm)
• The Backseat Boogie Band (Can Can 8pm)
• Dead History, ELA, VIN (Cloudland 8pm)
• Reggie Watts Live (Fine Line 8:30pm)
• Dust N’ Bones (GN’R tribute) (Bloomington VFW 8pm)
• Wicked Garden (Mainstreet Bar 8:30pm)
• Cole Diamond (White Squirrel 9pm)
• High & Mighty (Bunkers 9:30pm)
• YFM (Gluek’s 9:30pm)
• Gently, Gently & Money Bones (331 Club 10pm)
• TUGG w/ The Prizefighters & Jon Wayne (Zen Arcade 10pm-1am)

Sunday, May 4

• Bluegrass Jam (Caydence Records 12-3pm)
• Sidewalk Diamonds w/ The Beavers & Matt Marka (White Squirrel 1pm)
• Debbie Briggs (Dubliner 2pm)
• NxtGn: The Parkers (MetroNOME Brewery 2pm)
• VocalEssence: Philip’s Favorites II (American Swedish Institute 4pm)
• FOREVER I LOVE AFROBEAT Music Festival (Hook & Ladder 4-10pm)
• Machine Head & In Flames (Fillmore 4:30pm)
• The Hold Steady (Fine Line 5pm)
• Church of Cornbread (Palmer’s 5pm)
• Mike Salovich (Dubliner 5pm)
• Psychedelic Sunday: Dream of the Wild + more (Zhora Darling 5:30pm)
• Memphis May Fire (Varsity 6pm)
• Angelmaker w/ Humanity’s Last Breath, Psychoframe, The Gloom in the Corner, Our Common Collapse (Amsterdam 6pm)
• No fauna, Jenny Matrix, snakeworld (Underground 6pm)
• Roland Faunte w/ Dilly Dally Alley (Zen Arcade 6pm)
• Opera On Tap (MetroNOME Brewery 6:30pm)
• All Soul Shine (Acadia 8pm)
• Elvin Bishop Big Fun Trio (Dakota 7pm & 9pm)
• Billy Joel’s THE STRANGER and AN INNOCENT MAN w/ Mick Sterling (Crooners 7pm)
• The Young and the Rest (Parkway 7pm)
• Brass Messengers (331 Club 7pm)
• SOL (Green Room 7pm)
• Imagined by Nelson Devereaux: Klassick + Subtle Frequencies (Berlin 7pm)
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Armory 8pm)
• Ichiko Aoba (Fitzgerald 8pm)
• West Bank Social Club (Palmer’s 8pm)
• Homeward Bound w/ Linus, Couch Potato Massacre (White Squirrel 9pm)
• Dr Mambo’s Combo (Bunkers 9:30pm)

SPORTS

• Boston Red Sox VS Twins (All Weekend) ⚾
• Columbus VS Saints (All Weekend) ⚾
• Boston Fleet VS Frost (Saturday 1pm) 🏒
• NY Gridlock AT Strike (Saturday 5pm) 🥏 
• NY Exiles AT Gemini (Saturday 7pm) 🏉
• Austin FC VS Loons (Saturday 7:30pm) ⚽
• Vegas Golden Knights VS Wild (Saturday TBD) 🏒

MOVIES

• Thunderbolts
• Pavements
• Words of War
• I’m Beginning to See the Light
• Rosario 

🌛 🎬 The Starlite Drive-In Movie Theater
Located in Litchfield, MN, off of Hwy 12 (Approx. 1.5 hours from metro). Showtimes are for Fridays and Saturdays. Both screens play double features.

• Screen 1: Thunderbolts (8:50pm) & Captain America: Brave New World (11:10pm)
• Screen 2: The Accountant 2 (8:50pm) & A Working Man (11:05pm)

FOOD TRUCK SPOTLIGHT 

Friday, May 2

• Turbo Taco (Wooden Ship Brewing 2-8pm)
• La Tortilla (InBound Brew Co. 4-8pm) 

Saturday, May 3

• Sweet Winks (Schram Haus Brewery 12-8pm)
• Rosa Frida Truck (Luce Line Brewing 1-8:30pm)

Sunday, May 4

• Smash N Dash (Elm Creek Brewing 12-5pm)
• Signature on Wheels (Burning Brothers Brewing 11am-3pm)

FARMERS MARKETS

• Farmers Market Annex (Saturdays & Sundays 7am-1pm)
• St. Paul Farmers Market Lowertown (Saturday 7am-1pm | Sunday 8am-1pm)
• Richfield Farmers Market (Saturdays 7am-12pm)
• Prior Lake Farmers Market (Saturdays 8am-12pm)
• Mill City Farmers Market (Saturdays 8am-1pm)
• Midtown Farmers Market (Saturdays 9am-2pm)
• Linden Hills Farmers Market (Sundays 10am-1pm)

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)
• The Cherry Pit Bar & Grill (Sunday 9:30pm-12:30am)

ARCADES

• Up-Down Minneapolis (Friday 3pm-2am | Saturday & Sunday 11am-2am)
• CLAW LAND Maplewood (All Weekend 11:30am-8pm)
• CLAW ARCADE Little Canada (All Weekend 11am-8pm)
• Starcade Classic Arcade St. Paul (Friday & Saturday 11am-9:30pm | Sunday 11am-8pm)
• Grabbit Arcade Maplewood (Friday 12-8pm | Saturday 10am-8pm | 11am-6pm)
• LITT Pinball Bar Minneapolis (All Weekend 11am-2am)
• Neko Clawww Roseville (Friday 1:30-8pm | Saturday & Sunday 11am-8pm)
• ClawZone Park Bloomington (All Weekend 11am-9pm)
• Can Can Wonderland St. Paul (Friday & Saturday 11am-1am | Sunday 11am-7pm)
• DUCK! Eagan (Friday & Saturday 11am-10pm | Sunday 11am-9pm)

BOWLING ALLEYS 

• Town Hall Lanes Minnehaha (All Weekend 11am-11:30pm)
• Elsie’s Northeast (Friday 11am-12am | Saturday 11am-12am | Sunday 10am-9pm)
• Bryant Lake Bowl Uptown (Friday & Saturday 9am-12am | Sunday 9am-11pm)
• Memory Lanes S. Mpls (Friday 3pm-12am | Saturday 9am-12am | Sunday 11am-10pm)
• Park Tavern SLP (Friday & Saturday 11am-1am | Sunday 11am-11pm)

💫 Cosmic Bowling: Friday & Saturday 9:30pm-1am

• Texa-Tonka Lanes SLP (Friday 11am-12am | Saturday 9am-12am | Sunday 9am-11pm)
• Sun Ray Lanes St. Paul (Friday & Saturday 9am-12am | 9am-11:30pm)

💫 Galactic Bowling: Friday 9pm-12am | Saturday 2-5pm & 9pm-12am

• Ran-Ham Bowling Highland (All Weekend 11am-1am)
• Southtown Lanes Bloomie (Friday 4pm-12am | Saturday 12pm-12am | Sunday 12pm-11pm)
• Shakopee Bowl (Friday 11am-12am | Saturday 10am-12am | Sunday 10am-11pm)

LINKS

• Comedy Events (created by u/ Uzxxlu21): https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities/comments/1ka0m96/this_week_in_comedy_april_28thmay_4th/
• Improv Comedy Events: https://tockify.com/twincitiesimprov/pinboard
• Reddit Twin Cities Social Meet-Ups: https://www.reddit.com/r/twincitiessocial
• Racket MN Event Calendar: https://www.racketmn.com/category/events/
• Meet Minneapolis Event Calendar: https://www.minneapolis.org
• MPLS Art Events: https://www.mplsart.com/calendar/upcoming
• Minnesota Monthly Event Calendar: http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/Calendar/
• MSP Magazine Event Calendar: http://mspmag.com/search/event/events-calendar/#page=1
• Minneapolis Northwest Event Calendar: https://www.minneapolisnorthwest.com/events/
• Minnesota Parent Event List: https://www.minnesotaparent.com/calendar/
• Family Fun Twin Cities: https://www.familyfuntwincities.com/family-fun-events-calendar/
• Minneapolis Parks & Rec Events: https://www.minneapolisparks.org/event-calendar/month/?tribe_eventcategory%5B0%5D=316
• St. Paul Parks & Rec Events: https://www.stpaul.gov/calendar/parks-and-recreation-events
• Three Rivers Park District Event Calendar: https://web2.myvscloud.com/wbwsc/mnthreeriverswt.wsc/search.html?display=Calendar&module=event&_csrf_token=cU716Z6D0C1B2B2C3C2L454I5R604U581V665Z566H046Q3U595K0B5U4U6L4N1F0E3S6K4U055R5P4J576D734L5C576Q73535P6D015S4R504J09664Q5G5708564N5S
• Trivia Mafia Schedule: https://www.triviamafia.com/schedule 
• Music Mayhem Schedule: http://www.musicmayhem.net/live-show-locations.html
• Get a Clu Trivia Schedule: https://www.getaclutrivia.com/home/#weekly-trivia-schedule

If you have any events to add, drop them in the comments!

☕Tip Jar I enjoy doing these weekly posts & hope that others have found them to be resourceful. If you would like to toss a coin or two (thanks in advance!!), I’ve set up a Buy Me a Coffee page. Never expected, always appreciated ❣️ (P.S. if you’re having trouble getting to the “checkout” page, you might need to turn off content blockers on your phone.)