Category: Phillips/Powderhorn
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Open Streets on East Lake Street
For the first time on East Lake Street, Minneapolis residents will have the opportunity to explore and enjoy their neighborhood streets without the presence of motorized traffic at Open Streets East Lake! Open Streets events bring together local businesses, families and neighbors to bike, walk, socialize, play and shop in…
Powderhorn Birdwatch: Birds carry on in face of loss
Franklin Avenue, Main Street for Hipsters?
BY ED FELIEN Recently BuzzFeed named Minnesota the Most Hipster State in the U.S., and City Pages named Seward as the most hipster neighborhood. Would that make Franklin Avenue Hipster Boulevard? BuzzFeed used these criteria to evaluate hipsterness: The Lumberjack Look—New Yorkers try to look like Minnesotans by wearing flannel,…
The Brightest spots on Cedar Avenue
BY ED FELIEN In Scandinavian countries people paint their houses bright colors to contrast with the bleakness of winter. Minnesotans generally paint their houses white, and sometimes the unrelieved whiteness of winter can become overwhelming. That’s why it is such a treat to drive down Cedar Avenue and see the…
Raina’s Wellness: A healthy summer rainbow
More than 5,000 people marched in St. Paul on Saturday, June 6, to stand up against the Enbridge Pipeline, which would send the highly dangerous tar sands oil from Canada to Duluth. These young women were part of the delegation from Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church: (from left) Katherine Parent, Martha…
LoLa 2015 is back on! September 19th and 20th!
Mexican elections: the view from Oaxaca
BY STAN GOTLIEB Tis the night before elections, and the teachers are at it again, only more so. Stomping around disrupting everything they can, they are the guarantors of a right-wing victory tomorrow. So far this week, they have destroyed some offices of the Federal Electoral Institute; closed down the…
Construction update for Minnehaha Avenue
As they say, “There are only two seasons in Minnesota, winter and construction season.” From Hennepin County: The Hennepin County Transportation Department in partnership with the City of Minneapolis is reconstructing Minnehaha Avenue from East 46th Street to Lake Street. Effective June 15, 2015, the intersection of Minnehaha Avenue and…
Franklin Avenue Bridge Repair
BY ED FELIEN Work began on the Franklin Avenue Bridge in April. This year construction will be limited to repairing the structural supports for the bridge. Routine inspections found exposed steel rebar. Some of the concrete has worn through from repeated freezing and melting. According to HongPong, Dan Fiedt’s personal…
Juno and the Paycock
Disappeared Mexican Students
AYOTZINAPA, EIGHT MONTHS OF CONSPIRATORIAL SILENCE AND IMPUNITY AYOTZINAPA IS NOT FORGIVEN NOR FORGOTTEN! MAKE PEÑA NIETO’S CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT PAY! “AYOTZI LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!” For all immigrants from Latin America and allies who are in the state of Minnesota, we are witnesses of the disappearance of students from Ayotzinapa…
