To go with your bottled water, canned air: Feeling fuzzy-headed and fatigued? Trying to pump up for a meeting or a workout? Mahtomedi-based Oxygen Plus recommends that you breathe deep from a can of O+. That’s 90 percent oxygen (more than four times what you get in regular air), scented, in cans. Oxygen Plus makes it in peppermint, pink grapefruit, and natural aromas, and says it will boost muscle and brain function in as little as three breaths. It’s selling O+ ($5 for the 25-breath O+ Mini) at spas, hotels, and fitness venues around the country, including the Hotel Ivy, Spalon Montage, and Steele Fitness locally.
Treehenge, a spiral of curving walls, benches, and open spaces designed by Minneapolis-based IOTA architects, is part of a 1.5-mile juried art walk at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (arboretum.umn.edu) during the summer Treeology exhibition, May 24 through October 12. Treeology, all about the beauty, benefits, and science of trees, also features living willow furniture that’s been grown in place.
HealthPartners’ research foundation and the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota are recruiting participants through the summer for a study that will seek better means of stress management for people who are caregivers to an older family member with dementia. To learn more or sign up, contact Dana McGree at 952-967-5031 or dana.a.mcgree@healthpartners.com.
No Windmills: The artist-designed miniature golf course on the Walker Art Center campus (May 24 to September 7) is less about kitsch than about a recycling aesthetic. A breaking wave is covered in recycled glass, then there’s the dangling plastic water-bottle hazard. Two seven-hole courses are open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., $8 a game. No advance reservations.
People have anxiety about choosing paint colors, says Hans Hirschfield. So the CEO of Hirschfield’s has launched a new in-home service ($150 for an hour of consultation time). Expect your consultant to ask about your home and lifestyle, work with you on color plan that ties rooms and design ideas together, then deliver a color plan detailing paints needed in each room and a $20 gift card to use at the store.
