Black Morel Hootenanny – A Celebration of Wild Morels, Food, & Community!
Join us in Grand Rapids, MN, May 16-18, 2025, for a weekend of foraging, food, music, and morel madness! The Black Morel Hootenanny is an immersive event bringing together mushroom lovers, chefs, outdoor enthusiasts, and the local community to celebrate the legendary spring morel season in northern Minnesota.
Let’s be real: the pressure to pack up and move in your 20s is loud. But before you start browsing apartments in New York or LA (hello, $3,200 apartment with a shower in the kitchen), we’re here to drop a hot take: your best post-grad life might be right here in Minnesota.
The Little Mermaid Café offers delicious home-cooked meals with free wi-fi. The Café was named after the Danish Author Hans Christian Andersen, which is fitting since the former high school building was named Hans Christian Andersen School.
16th Minnesota Cuban Film Festival
Wednesday, April 30 at 7:00pm
Discussion follows the screening.
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The Gunflint Trail Historical Society/Artist-in-Residency Program committee is excited to announce that Linda Powers and her husband will visit the Gunflint Trail, May 18 - 23.
Linda studied Studio Art and Art History at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she had the opportunity to work with several talented fine art professors. These experiences helped her build a strong foundation for observing the world, appreciating light and shadows, and developing the skills needed to express her artistic vision.
The Building Bridges Memory Choir will perform a concert of Patriotic and Americana songs at the Fagen Fighters WWII War Museum. The concert will be located in the "Fighter Hanger." Adults $10.00; Active Military and children 10-17 $5.00; children 9 and under free. Tickets provide one day admission to the museum.
One Night Only • Thursday, May 1 • 7pm
A WCCO Original
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Jeanie Childs was brutally murdered in her south Minneapolis apartment in 1993.
For years her family pushed for answers.
Decades later DNA and a bloody footprint left at the crime scene led police to a hockey dad with a checkered past.
One Night Only • Thursday, May 8 at 7:00pm
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Fabled English record producer Mark Pritchard, luminary songwriter Thom Yorke and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present Tall Tales – a debut collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making.
Saturday, May 3 at 10pm
Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas.
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David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
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July 4, 2026, will mark the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the founding of the United States. History organizations throughout Dakota County have discussed how we can accurately commemorate this national milestone.
You are invited to attend an Open House to provide feedback on our ideas and concepts to celebrate and recognize the past 250 years.
