Category: Riverside
Queen of Cuisine “Two steps backward, one step forward”
BY SOPHIA SMITH Restaurant options in the Longfellow neighborhood took two steps backwards and one step forward in the past month. Parka Café closed. The food was always amazing and beautifully presented. Whether a wonderfully thick Rueben with whole grain mustard and lots of sauerkraut, or a special hamburger, or…
Raina’s Wellness “Fortify yourself with the new protein primer”
Buster’s is back where it belongs
Soul food: Gotta get up to get down – Southside Desire means it, too
BY JEANETTE YOUNG POWER In the tradition of many indehiscent bands before them, Southside Desire is releasing their second album eponymously on Oct. 22, 2014. Like a big sister mourning for her youth, the album is a step back in time both in its reminiscent lyrics and retro-styled album artwork/sound.…
Talking to a wall is not dialog: trying to talk to the American Jewish World
BY ED FELIEN On Wednesday, Aug. 27, Mordecai Specktor published an editorial in the American Jewish World that accused me of anti-Semitism. I wrote a response and told him, “I have always published Jewish Community Relations Council responses to my editorials regarding the actions of the Israeli government in the…
Learning from the Adrian Peterson experience
We report firsthand from the streets of NYC
BY AMY BLUMENSHINE We were there! Southsiders turned out in disproportionate numbers to the massive People’s Climate March in New York City, Sunday, Sept.21, demanding action on climate change. At least 225 locals journeyed on chartered buses, four from the Midtown Farmers’ Market parking area, and others got across the…
Powderhorn Birdwatch “Buffalo Alert”
The Day of the Dead comes to Midtown Global Market
Trust but verify
Seward Cafe at 40
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Seward Café, which turns 40 years old some time this year, is a study in contradictions. Although it’s known for its longevity, laying claim to being both the oldest collectively-managed business in the Twin Cities and the oldest collectively-managed restaurant/-café in the U.S., its actual…
From ‘Historic St. Paul’: early history
Since 1840, St. Paul has taken on different identities: frontier hamlet, steamboat burg, provincial capital, railroad boomtown, city in stagnation, city in decline, city in revival. These transformations have left their marks all over town. Nowhere can one see them better than on Selby Avenue. Follow Selby Avenue from where…