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Is anyone doing anything spectacular on Sunday? It's looking like bunch and bloody marys with Cristina are in the cards for me. If you're looking for a table for two Sunday night, there are still plenty of options. Check OpenTable.com;...

Ask and you shall receive. Props to Girl Friday reader Scott for the tip on the black and purple Sorel Torinos at Rosedale Herberger's. They were even on sale, so I'm now a proud owner and a happy customer. If...

It's my birthday! I'd like to thank all the readers of Girl Friday over the last nearly five years for checking out this blog and making it a regular stop (and let's not forget those of you who were following...

It’s been a good week for geezer nostalgia: Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Jackson Browne at the fair—and, last night, Loggins and Messina at the State Theatre, touring together for the first time in thirty years.

8:20 p.m.: You couldn’t have asked for a better night to see one of the most anticipated concerts of the summer: Dave Matthews Band at 10,000 Lakes. The clouds blew out, the wind died down, and it settled into a perfect summer evening—actually better than perfect by Minnesota standards. 80 degrees, unseasonably dry, uncharacteristically bugless—the sort of evening to which all summer nights should aspire.

It was perhaps fitting that, at the stroke of midnight, in the middle of Atmosphere’s late-night set, the skies opened up, lightning ripped across the sky, fat sheets of rain began to fall, and another day at the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival came to an abrupt, soggy conclusion. Atmosphere’s hip-hop superstar Slug was apologetic (for not having more god-like powers, I presume), but urged everyone to make the best of it and “go make some babies.”

Last night was a great one to be at the Minnesota zoo. Gov’t Mule—a side-project of Allman Brothers guitarist Warren Haynes—was playing, the air temperature was perfect, humidity was low, and even the caribou were in a friskier-than-usual mood.

I hate to pull a Chandrew here and unload a bunch of press releases on you, but I'm just getting back to my inbox after 5 days and things are a little backed up. If it makes you feel any...