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FILM
Queer Takes: Visibly Out

For the third year in a row, the Walker Art Center launches Queer Takes an amazing film series (just in time for Pride Weekend of course!) focusing on LGBT films and filmmakers. Running through the 29th, this fest will include a wide variety of flicks from filmmakers from all over the world. Tonight Queer Takes screens Boystown (Chuecatown) , directed by Juan Flahn. Based in Madrid, this adaptation of a Spanish comic book follows bearish couple, Leo and Rey, who are pressured to sell their property by a shady real estate agent with plans to turn their neighborhood into an district for more trendy and upscale gays - and apparently Leo and Rey do not fit the bill, nor do they want to.

7pm, Walker Art Center Cinema, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, $8

READINGS
Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill

A murder in a south Florida retirement community would seem to be an event that is definitely out-of-the-ordinary. Add in a blind heiress loved by the town's only cop, a former slasher film queen who runs a raucous Bar & Grill for the under-65, and a trio of Swedish circusfolk, and you've got yourself a good mystery. Acclaimed author N.M. Kelby offers up her fourth book, Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar & Grill, which went on sale June 3rd. Library Journal has praised Kelby, a former Twin Cities journalist whose stories have appeared in Minnesota Monthly, as a cross between Carl Hiaasen and Christopher Moore, and Hiaasen described her as, "A natural-born storyteller who manages to be very funny and very wise at the same time." - Andrew Newman

4pm, The University of Minnesota Bookstore, Coffman Union, 300 Washington Ave. SE, Dinkytown, Free

MUSEUMS
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

This new exhibit at the Science Museum is a sprawling display filled with Star Wars fan drool-inspiring artifacts. Dozens of protective cases containing actual costumes, models, and mechanics from the Star Wars films pepper the space, filled in with interactive displays, such as an engineering design lab where show-goers can put together simple R2D2-style mini-robots step by step at mobility, programming, and sensor stations. Included in the exhibit is an actual hovercraft that attendees can try out for themselves - sort of a futuristic version of a bumper car. There is an interactive robotics station where you can control dangerous looking (and sounding) mechanical legs, along with plenty of other computerific games and experiments to try. All in all, this exhibit is definitely worth seeing, and weekdays are probably best to avoid the Star Wars nerd melee over the weekend.

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The Star Wars exhibit runs through August 24th, 8:30am-11:30pm Daily, Science Museum of MN, 120 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, $19, Advance tickets recommended and available HERE.