BY CAM GORDON This November, Minneapolis voters may have to decide whether to move the city elections to coincide with state and federal elections. On April 17, a Minneapolis Charter Commission workgroup voted to recommend holding public hearings on a charter amendment to move city elections from odd-numbered years, when…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Clusters of fun and joy dot 34th Avenue As I also mentioned in “Spring on East 38th Street,” a Racket.com article from April 17 listed their take on “the 13 best intersections in Minneapolis,” and the single street that occurred the most was 50th Street,…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE A mixed overview Racket.com did a list of the 13 “best intersections” in Minneapolis on April 17, and 38th Street was the cross street in two of them (Cedar and 38th, Grand and 38th), exceeded only by 50th Street, which featured in three of them. So…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Service organizations – Fun City Dogs, The Bond Between, ReUse, and ReStore Fun City Dogs (2200 E. 25th St.) has to be the best doggy daycare in the city, and also the most fun. Just watching the doggies play on their webcams is some of the…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Trends in 2024 – dopamine decorating Trends in home decor, renovation, and even home choices for buyers and renters, follow cycles, as all style considerations do. In the current age of instant information, changes in these trends come more frequently. Whereas before, a design trend might…
BY KATHRYN KELLY Record golf revenue The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) reports that the Minneapolis golf courses produced record revenue in 2023 of $9,228,460 with an operational profit of $928,922. How much of the revenue does Hiawatha get for maintenance and improvements? Superintendent Bangoura confirmed that, “Hiawatha Golf…
BY ED FELIEN Doug Marvy died last month after a short and intense relationship with cancer as a result of a long-term blood disease. I first heard about Doug when I learned about the Milwaukee 14 burning draft records and serving prison terms for their opposition to the draft and the…
BY SUE KOLSTAD Seward faces the possible demolition of Bethany Lutheran Church at 2511 E. Franklin Ave. Augsburg University, the building’s owner, announced in March an agreement to sell the former Bethany Lutheran Church property to the Somali Museum of Minnesota to develop a permanent museum facility and cultural center…
BY ANDREW JOHNSON Given the desperate need for affordable housing in our city right now, I was disappointed by Perry Thorvig’s narrow view on the potential consequences of more widespread upzoning across Minneapolis in the article “Future density! Farewell, neighborhoods?” in the March 2024 issue of Southside Pride. Minneapolis needs…
BY CAROL BECKER I wanted to respond to Alexander Johnson’s response to Perry Thorvig’s piece, “Future density! Farewell, neighborhoods?” In it, Johnson defends the 2040 plan’s replacement of ownership housing with rental, out-of-scale buildings throughout the city, and its destruction of neighborhood character. We first must start with facts. It…
Loki BY ANN REDDING Wednesday. A cold day, a windy day people intent on getting to whatever warm place they’re headed to, not looking up. Waiting for the #18 A man is searching for cigarette butts in the wood chips beneath a sickly tree. He’s wearing only a sweater and…
BY JOHNNY HAZARD While it may appear to be desirable that former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum win the presidential election to avoid the threat to international solidarity that a return of the right (this time under Xóchitl Gálvez, who was a member of Vicente Fox’s cabinet) forebodes, Sheinbaum offers…
BY STEPHANIE FOX Four years ago, after a Minneapolis police officer murdered a Black man named George Floyd at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, the location became a memorial to Floyd’s life and to the struggle of Black citizens in Minneapolis. At first, local people blocked off…
BY ED FELIEN I grew up Roman Catholic. St. Helena’s Church in South Minneapolis. I was a good Catholic, went to Mass, took Communion. It fell apart for me in my freshman year at the U. I started reading James Joyce, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Then…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Openings, closings and other news The Seward Cafe (2129 E. Franklin Ave.) is now serving brunch all day (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) from Thursday to Sunday. It is closed Monday to Wednesday. A branch of Cafe Ceres, helmed by famed pastry chef Shawn McKenzie, opened…
