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Bored Teachers Comedy Tour

Gitchee Gumee Agate Festival
Fri. & Sat., Aug. 11 & 12
Ursa Minor Brewing & Duluth Makerspace
Third annual gathering for rockhounds at venues five blocks apart. Ursa Minor hosts the vendor meet & greet Friday 3-8 p.m., with the main event at both locations Saturday.

Peace & Music on the Water
Friday, Aug. 11, 6:30 p.m.
Woodstock Bay
Sonja Rebecca Martin sings from a private dock. Boaters are encouraged to paddle in from the Billings Park Landing, as the Woodstock Bay Landing is closed for construction.

50th Anniversary of Hip Hop
Friday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.
RT Quinlan’s
Live performances from some of the legends of the Twin Ports and Twin Cities. There will be DJ's playing music from all of the era's of Hip Hop. Acts include Mike The Martyr, MC Cannon, Dre Aka Jamaican, Just Some Cat and more.

Pickup Truck Opera: Romeo & Juliet
Aug. 11-13, North St. Louis County
Aug. 24-26, Cook County
Traveling theater troupe presents Bellini’s 1830 opera, updated as a satire on the age of social media. For times and places check the Reader calendar or mixedprecipitation.org/summer-2023.

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Saturday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m.
Earth Rider Brewery
Based in Stevens Point, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades are a spirited acoustic roots quintet whose music dances around the boundaries of bluegrass, old-time, folk, and country. With special guests Wild Horses.

Bored Teachers Comedy Tour
Sunday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m.
DECC Symphony Hall
“We Can’t Make This Stuff Up” national tour with actual teachers doing stand-up. Their videos have amassed hundreds of millions of views on the internet. 

Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Aug. 17-20
Depot Theatre
Pulitzer Prize-nominated play about four young conservatives who reunite at their alma mater shortly after the 2017 Charlottesville riot and find themselves divided over their country’s future, and their own. And what’s that weird loud cosmic noise that keeps interrupting?