One Night Only - Books, Bars, Twitter, Album Club, Pulitzers, and Prince - Tuesday, May 10

On Tuesday, May 10, two burgeoning local cultural touchstones, Books & Bars and Album Club, are teaming up for one big live event at Aster Cafe. And it's free. Here's the scoop.

 Books & Bars:  This isn’t your mother’s book club. We provide a unique atmosphere for a lively discussion of interesting authors, fun people, good food and drinks. Jeff Kamin hosts. Tuesday, May 10 we're talking about Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad. It's the novel that won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Pulitzers called it, "an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed." Doors at 6. Discussion at 7. Followed by....

Album Club:  Your mother probably doesn't know what an album club is. But that's okay. You can tell her it's where everyone starts the same classic album at the same time, listens, and tweets about it using the hashtag #AlbumClub. Cause your mom is on Twitter, right? Anyway, for our first ever live event, we're going to listen to Prince's Purple Rain after Books & Bars. Be there for the dance party, or listen at home and tweet along. We'll start Purple Rain at 9.

This may be the best way to spend a Tuesday night since Glee! Wait. Is that show still on? Oh.  Well, I'm sure it's a repeat that night.

WHAT:  Books & Bars + Album Club, Together Again For The First Time
WHERE:  Aster Cafe, St. Anthony Main, 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414, 612 379-3138
WHEN:  Doors at 6, Book Talk at 7, Album Club at 9
WHY:  Because we're creating innovative cultural hybrids of traditional media, social media, and the ways in which they are discussed. Oh, and it's fun.
HOW: Tweet along with hashtags #BooksandBars and #AlbumClub. Follow @BooksandBars and @Album_Club for live Twitter feed of the event discussion, too.
HOW MUCH:  FREE!  Plus drink specials with $3 Fulton beer and $3 house wines.

P.S.  Afterward you're on your own if you want to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka....