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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Every movie you can watch for free in Minneapolis parks this summer
Few things feel as emblematic of summer in Minneapolis as watching movies in the park. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) has unveiled the full lineup of films parkgoers can drop into throughout the summer. Each of the more than 60 movies will play at dusk and will be free for everyone. This summer's lineup is heavy on recent family-friendly films, with a couple of 2025 releases — Captain America: Brave New World and A Minecraft Movie — as well as a whole lot of 2024 movies like Wicked, Wild Robot, Kung Fu Panda 4, Inside Out 2, Moana 2, and Paddington in Peru. Where last summer had a couple of nights tucked away for older audiences, like Past Lives or, arguably, the latest Godzilla x Kong installment. This summer has a little less of that. The more adult-geared fare, which is still largely family-friendly-ish, includes Barbie, Mamma Mia!, Grease, Footloose, The Fall Guy, and The Fifth Element. Also, for the second straight year, Cool Runnings is getting some love. It's bobsled time. Here's the lineup for the MPRB's Movies in the Park series in 2025: June 4: Footloose (2011) at The Commons June 5: Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) at Brackett Field Park June 6: The Garfield Movie (2024) at Webber Park June 7: Forrest Gump (1994) at Lake Harriet Bandshell June 10: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) at Bottineau Park June 11: Twilight (2008) at The Commons June 12: Wonka (2023) at Victory Memorial Drive June 16: Cool Runnings (1993) at Sumner Field Park June 17: IF (2024) at St. Anthony Park June 18: Black Panther (2018) at The Commons June 20: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) at Bohanon Park June 21: Barbie (2023) at Lake Harriet Bandshell June 23: Monsters, Inc. (2001) at Van Cleve Park June 24: Inside Out 2 (2024) at Lyndale Farmstead Park June 25: Barbie (2023) at The Commons June 26: Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) at Beltrami Park June 27: Wild Robot (2024) at Audubon Park July 1: Captain America: Brave New World (2025) at Powderhorn Park July 2: A League of Their Own (1992) at The Commons July 7: Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) at Painter Park July 8: Moana 2 (2024) at Hiawatha School Park July 9: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) at The Commons July 10: The Fall Guy (2024) at Victory Park July 11: Wicked (2024) at Armatage Park July 12: Angels in the Outfield (1993) at McRae Park July 14: Despicable Me 4 (2024) at Waite Park July 15: Moana 2 (2024) at Windom Northeast Park July 16: The Fifth Element (1997) at The Commons July 17: Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) at East Phillips Park July 18: Wild Robot (2024) at Lynnhurst Park July 19: IF (2024) at Kenny Park July 19: Soul (2020) at Lake Harriet Bandshell July 21: Finding Nemo (2003) at Northeast Athletic Field Park July 22: Elemental (2023) at Kenwood Park July 23: Wicked (2024) sing-along at The Commons July 24: Paddington in Peru (2024) at Powderhorn Park July 25: Inside Out 2 (2024) at Matthews Park July 26: Moana 2 (2024) at Fuller Park July 29: Shrek (2001) at Dickman Park July 30: Moana 2 (2024) at The Commons July 31: Lady and the Tramp (2019) at Loring Park Aug. 1: Remember the Titans (2000) at Lake Harriet Bandshell Aug. 2: Wild Robot (2024) at Folwell Park Aug. 4: Elemental (2023) at Linden Hills Park Aug. 5: Inside Out 2 (2024) at Luxton Park Aug. 6: Inside Out 2 (2024) at The Commons Aug. 7: Wicked (2024) at Logan Park Aug. 8: Aladdin (2019) at Lake Nokomis Park Aug. 9: Piece by Piece (2024) at Pershing Park Aug. 11: Barbie (2023) at Mueller Park Aug. 12: Captain America: Brave New World (2025) at North Commons Park Aug. 13: Mamma Mia! (2008) at The Commons Aug. 14: Wicked (2024) at Creekview Park Aug. 15: Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) at Phelps Field Park Aug. 16: Grease (1978) at Lake Harriet Bandshell Aug. 18: Haunted Mansion (2023) at Loring Park Aug. 19: A Minecraft Movie (2025) at 40th Street Park Aug. 20: Mean Girls (2024) at The Commons Aug. 21: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) at North Mississippi Regional Park Aug. 22: Wicked (2024) at Corcoran Park Aug. 25: Migration (2023) at Pearl Park Aug. 26: The Mighty Ducks (1992) at Jackson Square Park Aug. 27: The Fall Guy (2024) at The Commons Aug. 28: Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2024) at Bassett Creek Park Aug. 29: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) at Lake Hiawatha Park Aug. 30: Thor: Ragnarok (2017) at Bryant Square Park Films start at dusk, with tentative start times listed on the MPRB site. Be sure to check the Parks and Recreation Board website before heading out, as the schedule may change.
Axios
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Pool season, laser tag and more weekend events
🏊 Splash around — or maybe wait until it's a little warmer. Columbus' Dodge, Driving Park, Glenwood and Tuttle pools open for the season on Saturday. $1. Hours Zoombezi Bay is also open daily starting Saturday. $32-47 day pass. Kids under 3 free! Hours 🔫 Take no prisoners at Deathmatch, a traveling laser tag experience hosted by Fear Columbus. Various times Friday-Sunday, 2605 Northland Plaza Drive. $20. 🎸 Celebrate classic rock with original and cover performances. 6pm Friday: The Commons hosts a double feature of Pink Floyd tribute band The Dark Side of the Moon and Led Zeppelin tribute band A Song Remains. Free! 7:30pm Friday: Pat Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo play OSU's Mershon Auditorium. $90-144. 7:30pm Friday and 2pm Sunday: Shadowbox Live tributes Aerosmith and Van Halen with " Rock This Way". $54+. ⚽️ Support women's sports as the Columbus Eagles host Corktown WFC at Fortress Obetz. 7pm Friday, 2014 Recreation Trail. $20. ⚾️ Join the Clippers for a pair of themed nights.
Time Magazine
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time Magazine
La June Montgomery Tabron
In 2023, almost a decade into her tenure as president and CEO of the $9.4 billion W.K. Kellogg Foundation, La June Montgomery Tabron commissioned a year-long 'listening tour' with its more than 2,000 grantees. Not content to keep doing what she'd been doing, she wanted ideas about how philanthropy could have a greater long-term impact on children by imagining the world in 2035. The report, published in April 2024, is heavy on suggestions to combat systemic racism, climate change, and gender-based violence. Montgomery Tabron's enthusiasm for many of the specific proposals—improving Black maternal health care, say, or investing in financial incentives to encourage people to become home health care providers—reflects her pursuit of new ways to be of service. Montgomery Tabron's dedication to these issues is reflected in two books she published this year—a memoir, How We Heal, which details her ascent from life as one of 10 siblings in inner-city Detroit in the 1960s, and a children's book, Our Differences Make Us Stronger. More than half of Kellogg grants now go to groups led by people of color and her larger goal, she says, is to level the playing field for all children as early as possible. 'We didn't start out with a quota,' she said on The Commons podcast in January. 'We started out in earnest saying, 'Who do we need to lift up to sustain the changes that we want to achieve?''
Axios
28-04-2025
- Business
- Axios
Crowdfunding program helps open community centers, dog parks
Hundreds of public spaces from Detroit to Lake Superior have benefitted from a state-sponsored crowdfunding program that recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Why it matters: The program, Public Spaces Community Places, infuses state grants up to $50,000 or $75,000 into community crowdfunding campaigns to open playgrounds, pickleball courts, dog parks and more. Flashback: In 2018, the program helped open The Commons, a unique development on the city's east side that is part-coffee shop, part-laundromat and part-community center. "There isn't really a good community space around here," a general manager told Hour Detroit when it opened. "There's no libraries or public space, so that was also part of the plans." Case in point: Grace Johns, a barista at The Commons for two years, tells Axios she feels a real sense of community there. Customers can learn about property taxes or even pick up boxes of Eastern Market produce or canned goods that are made available on occasion. The laundromat and coffee shop blend together surprisingly well, with a colorful mural and plants surrounding the space. "A lot of laundromats in the area aren't clean. I hear that a lot from customers," Johns tells Axios. State of play: Public Spaces Community Places is a partnership of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), the Michigan Municipal League and crowdfunding platform Patronicity. Since it launched in 2014, the program has contributed more than $13 million in matching grants to more than 400 projects. More than 100 of those have been in Metro Detroit. How it works: The program is open to municipalities, community groups and nonprofits. Applicants use Patronicity's website to build out their project's parameters. Approved projects get help launching their crowdfunding campaign, press release and all. If the crowdfunding campaign is successful, the MEDC will match. The program boasts a 97% success rate. Zoom in: Curtis Jones Park, which opened in northwest Detroit in 2022, and Factory Two, a coworking space in downtown Flint, are among the program's success stories.
Time Out
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Celebrate International Jazz Day with live sets and zero entry fees at The Commons
Every April 30, International Jazz Day creeps up like a saxophonist arriving just behind the beat – slightly late, entirely intentional. UNESCO, in a rare moment of groove, declared back in 2011 that jazz wasn't merely a genre but a kind of musical diplomacy. A passport in treble clef, uniting strangers with a trumpet and a bit of unresolved yearning. This year, Bangkok joins the global jam session with all the flair and mild chaos one might expect. The Commons is once again hosting its annual jazz festival together with Sweets Records, summoning the city's jazz faithful for a festival that's as sonically bold as it is sartorially unpredictable. This isn't just a soft launch for jazz rookies still figuring out how to carry a trumpet case without looking terrified. Yes, there are wide-eyed newcomers, fuelled by youthful enthusiasm and probably an alarming amount of caffeine. But they're sharing the stage with musicians who've seen things. People who've played smoky clubs, botched solos then turned them into standing ovations, and once made a saxophone sound like the end of a relationship you never really got over. Evenings are a free-flowing buffet of sound, bolstered by the clatter of cocktail shakers and the aroma of whatever's being grilled within 15 metres. You're encouraged to graze, linger and perform your best impression of someone who totally grasped that inverted chord progression. Entry is free, so come as you are. Bring your ears, your hunger, your faintest understanding of syncopation. And the line-ups are as deliciously unpredictable as the music. The Commons Thonglor – Saturday April 26 MOMO – 7pm A quartet from Rangsit University known for their contemporary approach. Raise a glass as they play standards, pop bop and original compositions. Hot Club of Siam – 8pm Ever wondered what Paris would sound like if it had Bangkok's humidity? Voilà. The city's foremost gypsy jazz outfit brings swing, sass and perhaps a rogue accordion. Awin Special – 9pm Pawin Limkangvanmongkol leads a band that reads like the syllabus of a jazz history course. Post bop, straight-ahead and 1960s NYC nostalgia in sonic form. PAS Lo-Fi – 10pm If jazz wore oversized headphones and lived in a record store, it would sound like this. Think groove-heavy standards and vibes curated for maximum existential sway. Arm x First x Far – 11pm Three names, many grooves. Their set ends with free improv and a surprise vocalist. Think of it as musical speed dating with impeccable timing. The Commons Sala Daeng – Wednesday April 30 Salaya Pochana – 7pm Fronted by two recent jazz competition winners, this duo kicks off with the sort of confidence only found in people under 25. Modern jazz and post bop, served hot. Marc Chartsayam Quartet – 8pm Modern jazz with just enough existential dread to make it art. Their debut album is called Since Eternity, which sounds both romantic and slightly unhinged. Julian Cary – 9pm A singer, composer and lecturer who makes you feel underachieved but deeply entertained. He teaches vocal jazz at Silpakorn University and performs like he invented it. The Photo Sticker Machine – 10pm The name sounds like something found in a Tokyo arcade, but this is Vichaya Vatanasapt's musical brainchild. Expect sax, nu-jazz and vocals dipped in cool detachment. Big band, big sound, big energy. Led by Professor Dr. Denny Euprasert, whose credentials include being an actual dean. They'll close the night with brass and bravado.
