Category: Riverside

BY ELAINE KLAASSEN A group of young artists from the Americas (roughly between the ages of 20 and 40) have found companionship, joy and common cause as they work to save the Earth. They are part of a relatively new organization, founded in 2013, called Carnival de Resistance. They convene…

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BY DWIGHT HOBBES Summer 2011: the Minneapolis Police Department struck at the South Minneapolis intersection of Chicago and Franklin. Crack dealers along with hookers and other junkies, accustomed to complacently setting up camp at the Thrones Plaza entrance to Peavey Park, hardly knew what hit them.  Literally overnight, coordinating undercover…

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BY ED FELIEN President:  Vote for Hillary.  OK, she’s not Bernie.  I’m not Bernie.  You’re not Bernie.  Bernie says vote for Hillary.  It’s the best chance we’ve got to make some changes that can protect people at the bottom from greedy clowns. Congress: Vote for Keith.  He stood with Bernie. …

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Midtown Global Market just celebrated 10 successful years last June. We covered it a year ago, and to tell the truth there has not been a lot of change since then—which is kind of a good thing, because it means that a lot of small, local…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN Another month with lots of rain and lots of high water in the park. And various American Bald Eagles near or in the park, from Sept. 3 on. My best in-the-park Eagle sighting was around 6 p.m. on Sept. 10. I saw it approach the park, perch…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR Picture a perfect Minnesota meal: Salad of heirloom tomatoes and micro greens dotted with fresh mozzarella; Fisher Farm barbecued pork ribs with mashed potatoes rich with local Hope Creamery butter and cream; grilled and roasted summer vegetables and ears of corn. And pies! Pies celebrating blueberries, strawberries,…

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CHRISTOPHER HARRISON ELDRIDGE On the morning of Christmas Day 1885, St. Paul residents awoke to see a trail of black greatcoats and bowler hats cutting through the snow atop the frozen Mississippi River. Each man, armed with a household broom, was doing his part to clear off a long, narrow…

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BY ED FELIEN K’naan came to town and caused quite a stir. Keinan Abdi Warsame, better known by his stage name K’naan, is a Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer, musician and, now, screenwriter and director.  He is in Minneapolis to begin filming his HBO pilot next month, produced by Kathryn…

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BY ADAM M. SCHENCK “Hell or High Water,” a Western-heist film combination starring Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine, stands out in the midst of Hollywood’s cautious, ho-hum summer releases. While the movie does not expand the film form in terms of narrative or production, this well-crafted work does instruct us…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR Picture a perfect Minnesota meal: a salad of heirloom tomatoes and microgreens dotted with fresh mozzarella; Fisher Farm barbecued pork ribs with mashed potatoes rich with local Hope Creamery butter and cream; grilled and roasted summer vegetables and ears of corn. And pies! Pies celebrating blueberries, strawberries,…

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BY ED FELIEN The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, Aug. 31, that the citizens of the City of Minneapolis do not have the right to govern themselves by deciding to require liability insurance for police officers or raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in 2022. It was the…

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BY ED FELIEN Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau has updated the manual on police conduct. She says officers should “reduce their exposure to a potential threat using distance, cover or concealment”; they should “communicate from a safe position intended to gain the subject’s compliance, using verbal persuasion, advisements or warnings”;…

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BY POLLY MANN An independent board of scientists, the Science Advisory Board, has stated that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should clarify why it claimed, in a landmark draft report on fracking, that there is a lack of evidence of its widespread impacts on water. The board said that it…

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BY POLLY MANN Puerto Rico is not exactly little. It actually has a very dense population of almost 4 million people on an island 100 miles long and 35 miles wide and is comparable in size to an American state. Right now it’s in deep economic disaster with a debt…

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BY ED FELIEN David Morton was the son of an art professor at the University of Minnesota.  He was one of three Minnesotans who went on the Freedom Rides in the South in 1961.  Since then he had dropped out—did psychedelics, didn’t have a straight job and grew his hair…

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