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This longtime cheap date favorite draws hundreds toting picnic blankets and lawn chairs for free screenings and live music under the stars. The initial screenings happen at Loring Park; the series concludes a block away at the Walker's Open Field. Running a half-dozen Mondays in July and August, the series offers classic Hollywood and European movies preceded by global hip-hop, alt-country, abstract jazz, suave pop and progressive rock from Senegal to south Minneapolis.