Welcome to Let’s Go! – your passport to dining, music, art, shopping and fun. Located approximately 30 minutes south of Minneapolis, the southwest suburbs are home to nationally known entertainment and recreation venues like Valleyfair Amusement Park, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres and the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

What you’ll find on Let’s Go!

Events calendar. Cool stuff to do in your town and in the Twin Cities. Submit your special events, too.

Dining. Restaurant profiles and recipes

Three to Go! Weekly e-mail newsletter highlighting the weekend’s best entertainment picks.

Discuss. Your favorite restaurant; where singles in the suburbs hook up; whether scrapbooking is art; where to hear live bands; cheap, family-friendly activities. Ask a question. Answer a question.

Movie reviews. Show times, tickets and your votes.

Blogs on pop culture, technology, sports, food.

Your stuff. Original photos, drawings, poems, short stories, videos, music, opinion. The best content will be published in the print edition.

Southwest Newspapers began publishing an arts and entertainment supplement in 2004 called Let’s Go! and has added a weekend publication called Southwest Saturday to its roster. Let’s Go! covers Belle Plaine, Burnsville, Carver, Chanhassen, Chaska, Cologne, Eden Prairie, Excelsior, Jordan, Lakeville, Prior Lake, Savage, Shakopee and Victoria, as well as the metro.