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Five Things You Should Know Today: September 5
The last gasp of summer will feel like the first taste of fall today.
- We’ll have sunny skies for Labor Day and the last day of the Minnesota State Fair, but the high will reach only about 66, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will stay calm today and tonight, and skies will be clear this evening, with a low dipping to around 42.
- The last day of the Minnesota State Fair always makes me sad. But inevitably, today is Kids and Last Chance Day, meaning if you’ve been procrastinating, today is the day to head to Falcon Heights. Tonight’s sold-out grandstand show is Maroon 5, which fortuitously has the No. 1 song in the country right now – “Moves Like Jagger” – and opening act Train of “Hey Soul Sister” fame (and if you want to talk serendipity, that’s one of the songs featured in the Giant Sing Along up at the top of Machinery Hill). So go, eat one more Pronto Pup, buy another bucket of Sweet Martha’s cookies, ride the Sky Glider and the Old Mill one more time. Then mark your calendar for Aug. 23, 2012, the opening day of the 2012 State Fair.
- Take in a movie at the Great Clips IMAX Theater at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley: The movie takes viewers back 200 million years in time to the Mesozoic Era, when giant marine reptiles lived beneath the sea. Tickets are $9.50 for adults and $7 for children and seniors. If that’s not your taste, the theater is also showing “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” (just through Thursday) and “Born to Be Wild 3D.” Find tickets here.
- If those activities don’t appeal, how about Valleyfair? Disc golf? Kayaking? For more ideas, check out
- Today is National Be Late for Something Day. For some of us, unfortunately, every day is Be Late for Something Day. (Perhaps those of us who are habitually late should surprise everyone today and be on time for a change.)
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