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Weekly Highlights in Minnesota

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Movie Night in the Anoka Lions
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Movie Night in the Anoka Lions

The Anoka Lions open their big white tent beside Anoka City Hall on Monday, October 26, 2026 for a free double feature — Hotel Transylvania 2 at 6 p.m. and the R-rated Halloween at 8 — with a free art project from Rum River Art Center.

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Murder Mystery at Wangensteen
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Murder Mystery at Wangensteen

The Wangensteen Historical Library's fifth annual Halloween pop-up, "The Grave Mistake," turns its rare-book room into a whodunit on Oct. 29, 2026, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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NYT Journalists Talk Trust at
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

NYT Journalists Talk Trust at

New York Times standards editor Patrick Healy, Midwest correspondent Ernesto Londoño and visual journalist David Guttenfelder join Star Tribune editor Kathleen Hennessey at Northrop's Best Buy Theater on Oct. 26 for a free discussion on bearing witness and earning reader trust.

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Halloween Bus Bash in Maple
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Halloween Bus Bash in Maple

Northstar Bus Lines in Maple Grove hosts its 4th Annual Halloween Bus Bash on Saturday, October 24, 2026, with bus-to-bus trick-or-treating, free pumpkins, a haunted maze, a cake walk and hands-on school bus safety demos.

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Ramsey County Fix-It Clinic at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Ramsey County Fix-It Clinic at

Volunteer fixers take on broken toasters, lamps and laptops for free at the Oxford Community Center in Saint Paul on Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Como Planetarium: Halloween
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Como Planetarium: Halloween

St. Paul's 55-seat school planetarium in Como Elementary explains why Halloween falls at the midpoint between the autumn equinox and winter solstice, then tours the Halloween-night sky on Oct. 24, 2026.

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Great Minnesota Show & Tell at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Great Minnesota Show & Tell at

The Minnesota Historical Society turns its St. Paul museum into a one-day "people's exhibit" on October 24, 2026, inviting Minnesotans to bring family heirlooms, service medals and keepsakes for the nation's 250th anniversary.

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Anoka Grande Day Parade 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Anoka Grande Day Parade 2026

Anoka's Grande Day Parade, the free centerpiece of the self-proclaimed Halloween Capital of the World, steps off down Main Street on Saturday, October 24, 2026.

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Thrill Uptown: Thriller Dance
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Thrill Uptown: Thriller Dance

Thrill Uptown brings a synchronized Thriller dance, zombie makeovers and free family art fun to Seven Points in Minneapolis.

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Caponi Art Park Hot Metal Pour
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Caponi Art Park Hot Metal Pour

Caponi Art Park in Eagan hosts a free Third Saturday on October 17, 2026, with April Seller's Dance Collective and a live hot metal pour.

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Escape Room at the Historic
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Escape Room at the Historic

Stillwater's Washington County Historic Courthouse jail hosts a family-friendly escape room built on the story of Ada Hubbell, the only known woman to have escaped it.

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St. Paul Art Crawl at Schmidt
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

St. Paul Art Crawl at Schmidt

The St. Paul Art Crawl returns to the Schmidt Artist Lofts Brewhouse on West 7th Street for the fall crawl, with more than 80 artists, rooftop painting, and food trucks.

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Pond House Open House: Beading
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Pond House Open House: Beading

The Gideon and Agnes Pond House in Bloomington's Pond-Dakota Mission Park hosts a free drop-in beadwork program on Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 1 to 4 p.m.

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Anoka's Light Up the Night
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Anoka's Light Up the Night

Anoka's Light Up the Night Parade and bonfire returns to Main Street and City Hall on October 17, 2026, carrying on a Halloween tradition the town has kept since 1920.

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A Thousand Pumpkins, Carved by
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

A Thousand Pumpkins, Carved by

Before the trails at Springbrook Nature Center glow with jack-o'-lanterns, Fridley needs hundreds of hands to gut, carve, and light more than 1,000 pumpkins.

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When AIDS Remade the Twin Cities
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

When AIDS Remade the Twin Cities

A U of M alum returns to Northrop to argue that the Midwest's polite gay politics helped gentrify Minneapolis and St. Paul during the AIDS crisis.

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Wright's Antifascist Blueprint
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Wright's Antifascist Blueprint

A free University of Minnesota lecture connects Richard Wright's radical politics to Zohran Mamdani's New York mayoral win.

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Cages, Buttons, and the Freedom
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Cages, Buttons, and the Freedom

The University of Minnesota Bookstore's Banned Books Week table traces its roots to a padlocked cage of 500 books at a 1982 trade show.

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Rooster Roundup Takes Over
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Rooster Roundup Takes Over

Northfield kicks off the 2026 Governor's Pheasant Hunting Opener with live music, late-night shopping, and a historic popcorn wagon in its downtown square.

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A Mudpuppy Named Miguel and the
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Mudpuppy Named Miguel and the

A bilingual, water-themed festival at Greenvale Park Elementary carries a 35-year-old river-protection mission into Northfield's Spanish-speaking neighborhoods.

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Noon in Courtroom 317: Where
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Noon in Courtroom 317: Where

For more than four decades, the Schubert Club has filled a historic St. Paul courtroom with free Thursday lunchtime music — in a room where John Dillinger's girlfriend and Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis once faced a judge.

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Where the Pumpkins Weigh More
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Where the Pumpkins Weigh More

In the self-proclaimed Halloween Capital of the World, a free fall festival puts giant pumpkins, homemade scarecrows, and knife-wielding carvers on the same City Hall lawn.

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In Anoka, the Pumpkins Weigh
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

In Anoka, the Pumpkins Weigh

A century after the town invented the American Halloween to stop kids from tipping over outhouses, Anoka's Great Pumpkin Expo turns a city plaza into a stage for one-ton gourds.

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The World's Lens Lands in
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

The World's Lens Lands in

Flickr brings its international photography festival to downtown Minneapolis for three days of workshops, concerts, and creative collisions—making the Twin Cities the permanent home of Mode.

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The Serious Sparkle: A Museum's
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

The Serious Sparkle: A Museum's

The Goldstein Museum of Design opens its golden anniversary season with an exhibition that takes the humble sequin seriously — tracing its glittering path from King Tut's tomb to the microplastic debate.

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Beneath the Sparkle: Sequins
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Beneath the Sparkle: Sequins

A new exhibition at the University of Minnesota's Goldstein Museum of Design explores the glittering history, cultural weight, and environmental cost of the sequin, as the museum marks its 50th anniversary.

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When the Outlaws Met Their
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

When the Outlaws Met Their

Every September, the town that defeated Jesse James lines Division Street for a parade that turns a 150-year-old bank robbery into a celebration of community courage.

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The Day Northfield Said No: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

The Day Northfield Said No: How

For nearly eight decades, the town that stood up to Jesse James has turned its most famous defeat into a five-day celebration of courage, community, and carnival rides.

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A Night of Steiger Green: The
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Night of Steiger Green: The

On the eve of the largest Steiger tractor exhibit ever assembled, the Steiger Heritage Club hosts a banquet in Hawley, Minnesota, bringing together the founders, factory veterans, and enthusiasts who built a barn-born legend.

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A Prairie Family Reunion
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Prairie Family Reunion

The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion has turned a 1940 supper-table idea into one of the country's great living museums of agricultural history — and this year it's celebrating a homegrown tractor dynasty.

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From Oregon's Trash-Strewn
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

From Oregon's Trash-Strewn

Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea brings ten monumental sculptures made entirely from beach debris to Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, where visitors can see a 1,200-pound sea turtle, a 17-foot bald eagle, and the story of one artist's grief transformed into a global movement.

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First Glitter at the Fair: Power: Drag Revue Brings Drag to the Great Minnesota Get-Together
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

First Glitter at the Fair: Power: Drag Revue Brings Drag to the Great Minnesota Get-Together

On the first two days of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair, Power: Drag Revue becomes the first drag production company ever to perform at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

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First Glitter at the Fair
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

First Glitter at the Fair

On the first two days of the 2026 Minnesota State Fair, Power: Drag Revue becomes the first drag production company ever to perform at the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

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Making It Up as They Go: A
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Making It Up as They Go: A

Stevie Ray's Improv in the Park brings free, audience-driven comedy to Lake Ann Park on August 30, reviving a 1992 tradition to fund the School of Improv's future home.

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