Category: Nokomis

Thank you Rabbi Spilker for your response.  But I think it is most unfair of you to equate a criticism of the current Israeli government with a “shocking disdain for Jews and Judaism.”  I believe reasonable people can love and respect Jews, Jewish culture and the state of Israel while…

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BY ED FELIEN Lloyd Smith delivered Southside Pride from its beginning 23 years ago.  He died Friday, Aug. 29, 2014.  He was a wonderful character—a thoroughly delightful reactionary.  We would argue politics almost every week, but he was always charming and funny (in a Rush Limbaugh kind of way).  One…

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If a Jew can take part in this dispute, I’d like to register a little outrage at the rabbi’s manicheaism which casts the Israeli government as a group of gentle souls praying for 47 years for peace in the face of desperate terrorism, loving the Palestinian children more than the…

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FROM THE OFFICE OF COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW JOHNSON The installation of the 350 trees along Hiawatha Avenue has been completed. Hennepin County contracted with Hoffman and McNamara to install 350 trees along Hiawatha Avenue from 32nd to 46th Streets. The project began on June 3 with the removal of 165…

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BY ED FELIEN It used to be church dinners were a big community event.  Then they fell out of fashion, but the Basilica Block Party seems to have revived the tradition in the Catholic Church.  St. Helena’s Autumn Daze is an annual event that seems to excite most of South…

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BY ED FELIEN Southside Pride, Women Against Military Madness, the Anti-War Committee, Walker Church and the Minnesota Green Party sponsored a Teach In on Gaza at Walker Church Saturday, Aug. 23. Mnar Muhawesh, the editor in chief of Mint Press, an online daily newsmagazine, spoke on the five myths regarding…

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BY ED FELIEN “Israel has a right to defend herself,” Pres. Barack Obama. As long as Hamas and others use violence to achieve their legitimate aims of independence and statehood, they continue to play into Israel’s hands.  The collective guilt of the holocaust will always force Americans and Europeans to…

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BY ED FELIEN This Friday, Sept. 12, at the Parkway Cinema there will be a showing of “Color Me Obsessed,” a documentary about The Replacements—Minneapolis’ official bar band from the ’80s.  Everybody loved The Replacements.  They were drunk all the time, out of their minds on drugs and ready to…

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BY RICHARD TAYLOR Your correspondent has the good fortune to live upstairs from singer-songwriter Chastity Brown.  We met recently for an interview. SSP: Why do you make music? Well, it’s been a compulsion from childhood.  I come from a musical family.  My father played the piano, trombone, and sang, and…

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BY ED FELIEN If you believe the Bible is the word of God,  and if you believe God spoke to the Jews, then you also believe: Deuteronomy 7: 6-For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special…

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The area south of Lake Street down to 38th Street, between Hiawatha and 35W, was hit with a string of armed robberies in August.  Generally the robbers operated in groups of two or three or even four.  They varied in age, ethnicity and gender.  They showed either a knife or…

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BY ED FELIEN The Minneapolis Commiss-ion on Civil Rights hosted a public forum on affordable housing at Pillsbury House on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Nekima Levy-Pounds, professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, moderated a panel discussion by specialists in the field from government agencies and nonprofits. Sue…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Any time you see a Going Out of Business Sale sign, you know some lives are changing, as an institution  is coming to its end. But what if that business has been in the same location, in the same family, and with only two owners, since…

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BY ED FELIEN The front nine at Hiawatha is open.  It’s rough in spots. The fairways on 2 and 6 and 7 have spots that look like a moonscape, but the greens are probably in better condition than they’ve ever been.  The plus side for serious or casual golfers is…

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