A soft snow falls over the North Loop in Minneapolis, coating Washington Avenue in a fresh winter layer on January 9, 2025. Warm lamplight and neon glow from neighborhood fixtures like Bunker’s Music Bar & Grill and Club Solo cut through the flurries, lending the street a cinematic quiet. The North Loop — once an industrial hub of warehouses and rail spurs — has evolved into one of Minneapolis’s liveliest nightlife districts, where music venues, old brick buildings, and modern bars coexist in a mix of grit and polish. Even in the dead of winter, the area’s energy hums on, softened only by the sound of snow underfoot.

Bunkers Music Bar & Grill on Washington Avenue in the North Loop area of Minneapolis.

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