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Sorry about the holiday hiatus, but I’m back now and so is the weird list. Today’s post is all about bright ideas: a building that may be the world’s largest mood ring (thanks for the suggestion DK), and a light fixture so big it affects the temperature around it.
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I’m glad so many of you are enjoying the ongoing Twin Cities Weird List posts. I thought it would be helpful to create a master list of all of the weird things I have written about, complete with links to their respective posts. As I add new oddities [...]
The weirdness continues with today’s post featuring a bridge whose builders ignored the fact that “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”, and a surprise celebrity cameo. Also check out previous installments of the weird list: part I, part II, part III or check out the ever-growing master list to see all of [...]
Welcome back to another exciting edition of the weirdest and wackiest the Twin Cities has to offer. Today’s post features two more Minneapolis oddities: a misshapen mill and a misnamed park. As always, please comment, especially if you know more about any of these strange places, know of any other odd spots in the Twin [...]
The first installment of the Twin Cities Weird List has been immensely popular so far. Here is the much anticipated (I assume) second installment in my ongoing posts about weird things in Minneapolis and St. Paul. This episode features a flying car of biblical porportions, and anomaly in downtown Minneapolis that surprisingly did not evoke [...]
When I was a kid, anytime my family went on a trip, we always looked for weird things. When one of us saw something unusual, we would point it out and crown it “Weird Thing number 1″, the next would be “Weird thing number 2″ and so on. So I thought [...]
Happy Halloween!
Today is the creepiest, crawliest, most horrifyingly haunted-est day of the year (okay, fine - besides April 15th, A.K.A. Mandatory Government Appreciation Day, A.K.A. Tax day). Anyway, today is a day of costumes, candy, and carousing across the country. But I decided that the fun of dressing up on Halloween shouldn’t be limited to [...]
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Today I visited the Walker Art Center, located at 1750 Hennepin Ave (map), just southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Unlike the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, whose collection features works of art hundreds to thousands of years old, the Walker Art Center showcase contemporary art. I guess it’s only fitting that [...]
Grab your brushes and palette! Put on your smock and beret! We’re off to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts!
Minneapolis and St. Paul have a vibrant and thriving arts community that celebrates talented local artists as well as nationally and internationally reknowned artists. One of the largest organizations within the Twin Cities arts community is the [...]
On we go…
After an intense trek from the Mill City Museum south all the way across the street, we have arrived at the new Guthrie Theater (map). I have by no means seen every theater in the world, but I think it’s safe to say there isn’t another one anywhere that looks remotely like this:
There [...]