Category: Riverside

Co-op Creamery Café

The Co-op Creamery Café celebrated its Grand Opening as a part of Open Streets/ Franklin Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 16.  The Co-operative Creamery Building got a modern annex built on its eastern side, which has housed the office space for Seward Co-op since the spring. In addition to the cafe…

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Corbyn win moves Britain left

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Quite early on Saturday, Sept. 12, in fact before it even was Sept. 12 here, the ballot counters in the British Labour Party leadership election announced that “outsider” Jeremy Corbyn was the decisive first ballot winner. He won with just under 60% of the votes, which…

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Selby Avenue JazzFest 2015

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Golden Thyme Coffee Café is not very big, and doesn’t have fancy food or elegant decor. It has decent coffee—from Peace Coffee—and is a friendly local hangout on a mostly residential stretch of Selby Avenue in the Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul. But once a…

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Queen of Cuisine: Skinny Dipping

BY CARLA WALDEMAR The Melting Pot 80 S. 9th Street 612-338-9900 www.meltingpot.com I recall a memorable fondue party I hosted as a young bride. The hot oil spilled upon the fuel and the tablecloth went up in flames. Nonetheless, I still love fondue. But these days, I leave it to…

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A small but important election

BY ED FELIEN Barcelona.  In January, the president of Catalonia, Artur Mas, called for new parliamentary elections to be held in Catalonia on Sept.27.  Mas has called for Catalan independence since 2012, and he has declared that this new parliamentary election will be a plebiscite on Catalan independence. If his…

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MAC expansion plans frustrate residents

BY DEAN AMUNDSON, MSP FAIRSKIES ORGANIZER About 100 Minneapolis and Edina residents showed up at the Metropolitan Airport Commission (MAC) general offices on Thursday evening, Aug. 27.  The MAC was unveiling its huge expansion plan that will accommodate an estimated 54 million passengers by 2035 (their numbers).  That number will…

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Future of golf at Hiawatha looks dim

BY ED FELIEN There will be an important community meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Nokomis Community Center, 2401 E. Minnehaha Pkwy., to discuss future options for the Hiawatha Golf Course.  For golfers, it doesn’t look good. The park board has done nothing to…

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Keeping it local at 48th and Chicago

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Mike Kmiecik (pronounced ki-mick) is the proprietor of Bikes and Pieces, currently operating in the storefront right by the corner of 48th and Chicago. He is also the visible and active leader of SCABA, the South Chicago Avenue Business Alliance. SCABA was launched over 30 years…

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Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Over here, we have the Bernie Sanders phenomenon. Sanders, a “self-avowed” democratic socialist, has somehow managed to make a pact with the Democratic party, which has allowed him to operate in an inside-outside strategy and gain seniority and clout in the U.S. Senate. This was a …

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