Welcome to the North end of downtown Minneapolis’s neighborhood bar, Grumpy’s. It’s got basically everything made real good. It’s got live music every once in a while in the side room, and karaoke on Thursdays. The Melvins have played here more than once, poster(s) by Shepard Fairey. Test Prints by Aesthetic Apparatus decorate the side room, while the back of the bar, (now on hiatus, not open,) is the OX-OP gallery.

Here’s hoping the OX-OP opens up someday in the future. There was hell of amazing shows in there! Nathan Jurevicius, Aesthetic Apparatus, Shepard Fairey, Jeff Soto, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gary Baseman, Niagara, Shag, Tim Biskup, Frank Kozik, Camille Rose Garcia, Glen Barr, Yumiko Oksana, Buffmonster, Burlesque Design, Kii Arens, Derek Hess, Gary Taxali. It seems to have been open 2003 to 2006, it’s going out show being the first Juxtapoz Magazine yearly show ever held in a city other than New York or Los Angeles. MINNEAPOLIS FO LIFE YEEE.

P.S. I’m sure I have some pics from at least the Nathan Jurevicius show I attended in ’06, so I’ll keep an eye out for those for the future.

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