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Get Out in Northfield

We're helping you plan a few days of your week.

It’s Thursday, and you’ve got no idea what you’ll do for the weekend.

Northfield Patch is coming to the rescue. We’ve got the best bets for your done-work-outta-here time. Check our picks for the activities to hit and bars/restaurants/shops to explore.

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Where/When: 7:30-10 p.m. Thursday at

Why Go: Sometimes it's best to sit back, relax, and just listen and allow yourself be consumed by someone else's words. Dr. Maureen Jackson talks about her ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul. It will focus on religious music-making among Turkish Jews and Muslims amidst social ruptures and continuities across the 20th and 21st centuries. This lecture is at the Library Athenaeum.

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Pricing: Free and open to the public

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Where/When: 4:30-7:30 p.m. at

Why Go: Support the Northfield High School band by expanding your waistline. There is live entertainment at the event to help you keep pace during your waffle binge.

Pricing: Open to all, $7 each, free under 5


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Where/When: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday at

Why Go: It might be your thing. In this class you will learn all the processes involved to conduct a paranormal investigation, how to identify which type of haunting is present by the facts available to them, and learn about the legal aspects and advanced investigation techniques.

Pricing: $16, call 507-664-3649 or click here to register.


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Where/When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the

Why Go: Because it's an interesting tale. Widowed Ethel Savage is the recipient of a sizable inheritance and she endeavors to establish a fund to grant wishes and dreams to average people. Her horrified step-children have Mrs. Savage committed to The Cloisters, a sanatorium. The amusing contrast between the step-children and the residents of The Cloisters will make audiences question what is considered "sanity."

Pricing: Adults $15; students $10


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Where/When: 10 a.m. Saturday at various downtown businesses

Why Go: Not only will you get deals at many of the participating stores (click the above link to see who's participating), but you can enter a drawing for great prizes and you get to sample chocolate at each store you stop in. Sounds like a win-win-win situation to us!

Pricing: Free chocolate. You can't lose.

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