What you need to know
Salon Saloon takes place every 4th Tuesday of the month from 7:00 to 8:30pm (doors at 6pm) at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater at 810 W. Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Google map). Tickets are sold online or at the door on a sliding scale from $6 to $12, pay what you can. The Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater serves beer, wine, & cocktails, as well as a full dinner menu during Salon Saloon.
The Radio Show | Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Baby, if you've ever wondered -- wondered whatever became of me, I'm living on the air in Minnesot-y, Minnesot-y at the BLB. No, wait -- that was WKRP in Cincinnati. Well, whatever. For our February show, Salon Saloon is joined by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber and KFAI's Crap From the Past to celebrate that show's twentieth anniversary, and the medium of radio itself. Left-of-center music, inflammatory political talk, sound effects, organ chords, personal dedications, and crime-fighting serial heroes have all found a home on the radio airwaves, and so too will they find a home on this month's show. Gerber will trot out some truly amazing musical selections and tell the story of his show, and a lineup of guests working in, with and on radio will bring their expertise, as well. Get ready for an evening of the best diction you've ever heard emanating from the BLB stage. We highly recommend getting your tickets online in advance of the show!
This month's guests:
+ Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber of KFAI's "Crap from the Past"
+ Joel Stitzel and Chuck Tomlinson of "Cosmic Slop"
+ Sasha Aslanian, metro reporter for Minnesota Public Radio
+ Daniel Henry of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting
The Whale Show | Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Call us Salon Saloon. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in our purse, and nothing particular to interest us on shore, we thought we would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. That didn't work out very well, so we've returned to the stage of the Bryant-Lake Bowl to bring you a show dedicated to the largest, smartest, and all-around greatest living mammals of them all: whales! From Moby-Dick and the 1978 Hartford Whalers to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and your mom's relaxation tape of humpback whale songs, join a saltwater-loving group of guests as we strip down to our underwear, jump into the sea, and swim with the cetaceans. We highly recommend getting your tickets online in advance of the show!
The Tent Show | Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Salon Saloon is delighted to be the Minneapolis stop for San Francisco artist Alison Pebworth's traveling Beautiful Possibility tour in April! Using the traveling medicine show format of the 19th Century as a starting point, Pebworth will join the Salon Saloon crew onstage for discussions of elixirs, patents, snake oil, folklore, and the mysterious malady of "Americanitis." With a cast of Minnesota speakers, artists and musicians co-curated by Pebworth, the show will pay raucous tribute to the variety show genre's distinctly frontier American roots. Read more about the tour here: www.beautifulpossibilitytour.com.
We highly recommend getting your tickets online in advance of the show!
The Oakland Show | Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
"It's time to bury the term 'Twin Cities," said Mayor R.T. Rybak in 2008. There are lots of twin cities, but "there's only one Minneapolis / Saint Paul." As with most matters not relating to stadiums, we agree with our mayor on this one! All across America, there are twinned cities of equivalent size and stature, co-existing easily (or uneasily) in close proximity. Other than MSP, few would dispute that America's most famous feuding civic twins are the cities sitting across the Bay from one another: San Francisco and Oakland. For our season finale, Salon Saloon will toss aside the more famous twin and focus in-depth on its in-depth sibling: Oaktown! Drawing on the expertise of Minneapolitans with personal and creative ties to the East Bay -- and with the Skyped-in assistance of our California-based comrades-in-variety Oakland Nights...Live! -- we'll look at the things that make Oakland a perennial favorite of artists and other deadbeats. We highly recommend getting your tickets online in advance of the show!