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Things to do this weekend in Minneapolis and St. Paul include a poetry workshop, an art market, and a mixed media art exhibition.

From yakitori-grilled skewers prepared at local breweries to regionally ranked tacos in a Redwood City parking lot, theres an abundance of good food being made outside of traditional restaurant spaces on the Peninsula.

From yakitori-grilled skewers prepared at local breweries to regionally ranked tacos in a Redwood City parking lot, theres an abundance of good food being made outside of traditional restaurant spaces on the Peninsula.

From yakitori-grilled skewers prepared at local breweries to regionally ranked tacos in a Redwood City parking lot, theres an abundance of good food being made outside of traditional restaurant spaces on the Peninsula.

From yakitori-grilled skewers prepared at local breweries to regionally ranked tacos in a Redwood City parking lot, theres an abundance of good food being made outside of traditional restaurant spaces on the Peninsula.

From yakitori-grilled skewers prepared at local breweries to regionally ranked tacos in a Redwood City parking lot, theres an abundance of good food being made outside of traditional restaurant spaces on the Peninsula.

From yakitori-grilled skewers prepared at local breweries to regionally ranked tacos in a Redwood City parking lot, theres an abundance of good food being made outside of traditional restaurant spaces on the Peninsula.

Hoyle Nix and the West Texas Cowboys (“That’s ‘ Cowboys,’” says Nix, “not ‘Playboys’”) have been together since 1946. If he seems adamant about the name, it’s because he’s had a lifetime of being confused with Bob Wills’ band. Both are Western swing bands, but while Wills achieved national recognition in the thirties and forties, Nix’s group is a house­hold word only in the 250-mile radius around Big Spring in West Texas, where the Cowboys play every Saturday night at...