Soul Asylum and the Bo Deans will be two of the bands featured at the Basilica Block Party in Minneapolis this weekend. The block party is an annual event at the Basilica of St. Mary, which has been a landmark in Minneapolis for nearly a century. Peg Guilfoyle (GILL foil) has written a new book about the history of the basilica. One of the things she finds most interesting about it is its role as both a public and a private place. She says that dual role is illustrated by an event at the basilica in the early 1940s.