Gophers-Iowa, Wolves Home Opener, Mill City Market & Revival Returns

Your Twin Cities weekend playbook for October 24-25, 2026: border-battle football, a downtown sports triple-header, markets in full fall swing, and two restaurant stories worth your attention. In this episode: Gophers football vs Iowa for Floyd of Rosedale at Huntington Bank Stadium, Sat Oct 24; Vikings vs Colts at U.S. Bank Stadium, Sun Oct 26 noon kickoff; Timberwolves home opener vs Toronto Raptors at Target Center, Sun Oct 25 at 6pm. Mill City Farmers Market is open Saturday 8am-1pm at the Mill City Museum ruin courtyard (750 S 2nd St), running outdoors through the end of October. Saint Paul Farmers' Market in downtown Lowertown is open both days this weekend - Sat 7am-1pm and Sun 8am-1pm at 290 5th St E. Martiya, a halal Somali-diaspora restaurant at 3036 Nicollet Ave, is in a monthlong soft open now with a Nov 1 grand opening; Revival returns to the North Loop this month under new ownership. Live music: Juvenile (10/21), Palace (10/22) and Sylvan Esso (10/23 + 10/24) at First Avenue; Zac Brown Band at Target Center Fri 10/23; Indigo Girls with Linda Perry at the State Theatre, Fri 10/23. Stage: Kunene and the King at the Guthrie's McGuire Proscenium through Nov 8, closing weekend of The Sound of Music at the Orpheum through Oct 25, and Red Richardson at Acme Comedy Co. Tue/Wed. Family + culture: free Hmong Arts Celebration at Mall of America Sat noon-5pm, 44th & France Trick or Treat 1-3pm, and Thrill Uptown's synchronized Thriller dance 3-6pm; the monthlong Twin Cities Vintage Fall Crawl hits 16 women-owned shops through Oct 31. Cannabis + business watch: OCM's first Resource and Hiring Fair at UROC on Thu Oct 22, 2-6pm, with ~$10.9M in FY26 CanRenew grants coming; context on Anoka's government-run dispensary; plus Twin Cities Business tracking a potential Minneapolis bathhouse concept. Sources: Mill City Farmers Market Saint Paul Farmers' Market Downtown Saint Paul - Farmers Market Twin Cities Vintage Fall Crawl Hmong Arts Celebration + weekend events Saint Paul Art Crawl recap First Avenue calendar Minneapolis weekend sports + concerts Guthrie Theater 2026-2027 season Acme Comedy - Red Richardson Twin Cities Halloween events guide Timberwolves 2026-27 schedule 2026 Minnesota Lynx season Martiya + 2026 restaurant openings Revival North Loop opening date The case for a Minneapolis bathhouse OCM Resource and Hiring Fair Anoka government-run cannabis store MPR News - Anoka municipal dispensary Subscribe: mplsvegan.com Full transcript George: — okay but you gotta admit, the light this week has been just... chef's kiss. Laura: George, you ALWAYS say that about October. George: Because October ALWAYS does that. Laura: Fair. It's that golden hour that starts at like, three in the afternoon. George: Right? And it holds. It just holds. Laura: Mm. I walked the Greenway yesterday and the maples by the tunnels were ridiculous. Like, actually ridiculous. George: See, that's what I'm saying. We're in that pocket. Laura: Pocket season. George: Pocket season. Laura: Okay I'm stealing that. George: Take it. It's yours. Though — ope — I will say, the mornings? Sharp. Laura: Yeah, that bite is real. George: Had to dig the vest out. Laura: The vest. Of course. Minnesota's official unofficial uniform. George: Hey — the vest earns its keep. Laura: It is pretty spendy if you buy a nice one, though. George: Oh for sure. Mine's about fifteen winters deep. Laura: Fifteen winters. George. George: She's held up. Laura: Okay well while you were out there patting your vest, people with lives were figuring out their weekend. George: Rude. Laura: I'm just saying — a LOT going on this Saturday. George: Yeah, let's... let's lay it out. Because honestly my calendar looks like somebody spilled it. Laura: Mine too. So — Saturday is Gophers Iowa. George: Big one. Laura: Huntington Bank Stadium, border battle, floating pig trophy energy. George: Yeah, Floyd of Rosedale. Always weird, always great. Laura: Then Sunday the Vikings are home against the Colts, noon kickoff — George: — noon which is NICE because then your whole day's not blown. Laura: Exactly. And then Timberwolves home opener Sunday night. George: Wait, that's this Sunday? Laura: Sunday the twenty-fifth, Target Center, versus Toronto. George: Okay I did not have that on my radar. Laura: See, this is why we do the show. George: This is why we do the show. Laura: So Sunday is basically a sports triple-header if you can swing it. George: You could legitimately not leave downtown. Laura: You could, yeah. Walk from U.S. Bank over to Target Center, grab a bite, you're set. George: Beautiful. Just a beautiful problem to have. Laura: A beautiful problem. George: Can I ask you something, though, as a true Minnesotan? Laura: Mmhmm. George: Do you actually care about football, or are you just being polite? Laura: George. I care in October. I'm honest about it. George: Okay, that's fair. Laura: In August? Not really. In October when the leaves are doing their thing and there's a crispness? Yea...