A pedestrian-and-pedal-friendly downtown and welcoming Midwestern vibe make it easy for first-time visitors to quickly feel at home in Minneapolis. Snow can fall here from October to April, so the arrival of warm weather launches a full throttle, June-August celebration of arts, music, and cultural festivals (check out the Minneapolis Aquatennial, July 16-24); farmers markets (17); and fan-friendly Minnesota Twins baseball (played downtown at Target Field—ranked the top sports stadium in North America by ESPN The Magazine). Survey the vibrant scene from the new CRAVE restaurant rooftop patio near the State Theatre, then grab a bike at the nearest Nice Ride Minnesota kiosk ($5 plus trip fees) and cruise all or part of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway, a 50-mile urban trail loop.
Happy Monday everybody! In this Easter Edition of Weekend Twitterings we report on several great concerts, family outings, food induces comas and even some celebrity gossip:
YES.
Who can blame him?
Just do it.
LOL.
Hey, it's a fair warning.
We've seen multiple tweets about this mosh pit. Has Lecky survived? Anybody?
This is a tough one.
That's some old fashioned Easter fun.
Congrats!
This according to Twitter, went really well.
Raise you hand if you did exactly the same thing.
OMG.
Not shocking.
Duran Duran and the Pixies stopped by.. The shows went really well.
.. except for this. And the fact that Simon Le Bon tweeted Minneapolis has crappy food.
Earlier this week City Pages announced the results of their annual Best of the Twin Cities poll. Twitterverse immediately exploded with messages from winners, losers and those who just wanted to share their opinion:
Also, can we please talk about the awesomeness that is this cover?
l'etoile magazine's LOL/OMG Blog is a daily mish-mosh of the most talked about moments in local social media communications. From Facebook gossip to Twitter banter to the most buzzed about news being discussed by web-savvy locals, LOL/OMG brings you entertaining items from the seedy underbelly of the Twin Cities social media circuit (and by "seedy," we just mean "the internet").
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