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Food! Glorious Food!

4/17
The Happy Gnome in St. Paul hosts the boys from across the river at Fulton Brewery for an epic beer dinner. Guests can talk with the brewers about their beers and the growth of their brewery during the meet & greet at 6 p.m., then enjoy a multicourse dinner at 7 p.m. paired with Fulton brews. The whole gamut will set you back just $80, which is hopefully part of your return from finishing your taxes today.

4/19
The Mill City Museum features a free public reception to open the new exhibit "Growing Strong: How Farmers Markets Nourish People, Communities and the Planet" at 7 p.m. The exhibit celebrates the many ways farmers markets serve Minnesota communities. Through a combination of photomurals and first-person storytelling, visitors will explore the importance of farmers markets both now and throughout history. Tonight Dr. Marc Manley, vice president and chief prevention officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, will deliver remarks at 8 p.m. Visitors can enjoy a cash bar and music performed by Light of the Moon.

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One of the Questions

Everybody asked when I was growing up in the flatlands of North Dakota, "What should we do this summer?" The correct answer, of course, was "Play softball if it falls on a Sunday this year." which was funny in the winter months, and even the Ogodwinterwillneverend months of March, April and May. Not of course, so funny in the long and horribly hot days of July and August when winter seemed like a fairy story, impossibly far, distant, and cool.

Here in Minneapolis, it looks like summer fell on Saturday this year, and I took my cousin, once removed, to see the Falls and the Sculpture Garden. Today, it's snowing tight and bitter flakes, and the hounds of spring are lost in some other land, more distant even than St. Paul.