Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

Oxymoron.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

I don't think we do know that. My own guess is that it's more a business thing between them, but they are trying to use privilege to keep it secret.

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

Answered on Facebook too but will offer more advice than you probably want there's anything else you want thoughts on.

Even with a car, I wouldn't stay in St. Paul (downtown or any particular neighborhood). Lowertown would be fine place to spend an evening or take in the Saints baseball game and there's the capitol, history center and science museum but even if any of that interests you, it's not enough to recommend staying over there.

The trendy option is the North Loop, which is part old warehouse district and part new apartments and condos. The Hewing Hotel is recently-renovated old warehouse on Washington Avenue, with North Loop restaurants and the like to the north and nightlife to the southwest on 1st Avenue. It's a short walk o the light rail for getting around too.

Another option would be the brand new Moxy hotel in Uptown. The area also has restaurants, nightlife and shopping, but isn't near the train (yet, give it a decade or two). The area used to have more of an arty atmosphere, but there's been a ton of new housing built along the Midtown Greenway (former raile trench, now bike and pedestrian path) and things have grown a bit bro-ier. Nonetheless, it's a more appealing location to me that the heart of downtown, which will be quiet at night and on weekend (although not far from the North Loop).

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

If you're going to stay in the suburbs, I would recommend Sioux Falls over Rochester or Hibbing, but staying in the city is probably a better option.

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

I would do Hewing Hotel over Uptown. Uptown has kind of a generic 20-something bro vibe these days. LynLake is a little hipper, but I think the better place to stay is North Loop.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Don't you have a Sex Practice Group at your firm?

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

You've never met Less?

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

It's weird how I would totally have said "stay in Uptown" 20 years ago, but there wasn't a hotel there then. Now that there is, I also gotta say avoid Louie's and Cowboy Slim's (and whatever else) unless you like the bro set.

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

Thank you both for the advice. I could have as many as five nights over the Memorial Day weekend (Wed. - Mon.) and may split the time between the two cities or rent a car and go somewhere else for a couple of days. Duluth and the North Shore look most interesting, but maybe La Crosse?

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

Duluth and North Shore. St. Paul maybe for day trips, but I would not stay there. Veeeeeery quiet.

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

Met a decidedly non-bro friend of mine there with some of his friends for happy hour drinks last summer and I can honestly say I'd rather shoot myself in the face than go back there.

TM

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

At my last big law a GP had to go to counseling for bringing a big book of porn into the restroom a few times a week. But he was advised to stop practicing sex. So no.

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

Did a chunk of the light rail open in the last few years? I was there 4 years ago. Stayed in Minneapolis near Prince’s bar, and had to get to the Moth in SP. pre-Uber and I didn’t want to drive. The Moth venue is near a current green light stop. Is there a stop near where I stayed? I can’t believe I didn’t just take a train. Took a cab, fine there but big hassle getting one back.

Re: MSP Trip Bleg
 

Which part of the concept of going to a bar called Cowboy Slim's in Uptown did NOT immediately send up multiple red flags for you?

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Dunno. I don't go to St. Paul.