Top 5 Local Holiday Songs, Plus Weed Cookies, Moose Balls and Pheasant Egg Rolls
We’re rockin’ around the Christmas tree with holiday tunes by Twin Cities musicians. Contributor, musician PaviElle French, and Racket’s co-owner Keith Harris help decide if these songs are up to Hallmark snuff. Plus, contributor Tane Danger shares weekly event highlights, like weed Christmas cookie baking and a half-scripted, half-improv holiday show.
Check out all the local holiday music played in today’s show.
Learn more about this week’s events:
- “Our Amazing Holiday Off” at Jungle Theater
- Eden Prairie Lion’s 52nd Annual Wild Game Dinner
- Jane Austen's 250th birthday party at Big Hill Books
- Black Nativity at Penumbra Theatre
- Cornbread Harris & Friends Holiday Blues Show at Hook & Ladder Theater
- Obi Original at The Cabooze
- Winter Solstice Lantern Parade in Powerderhorn Park
- Celebration of Life for Jellybean Johnson at Shiloh Temple
- Cannabis Xmas Cookies at HEAL MPLS D
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Dinner for One at Jungle Theater
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