Category: Riverside
Raina’s Wellness “Ice bucket issues”
BY RAINA GOLDSTEIN BUNNAG For the last month, newsfeeds everywhere have been full of friends, family and celebrities throwing buckets of ice water over their heads. The Ice Bucket Challenge charges people with either throwing a bucket of ice water over their head or making a donation to the Amyotrophic…
Queen of Cusine “Hotel food sails to new horizons”
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Radisson Blu FireLake 35 S. Seventh St. 612-339-4900 www.radissonbluminneapolis.com Get over it. Foodies have long shunned hotel dining rooms when it comes to a night on the town. But that was then and this is now: No longer the stepchildren of the restaurant experience, peopled by dreary…
Jewish Community Relations Council Response to Ed Felien’s With God on our Side
There was a time in the 1930s and 1940s when Minneapolis had its share of anti-Jewish clergy preaching hatred of the Jews from church pulpits. Fortunately, the growing civic disapproval of racism and anti-Semitism in the post war years gradually deprived these clergy of their audiences. Unfortunately, after a span…
Ed Felien responds to Jewish Community Relations Council
Lloyd Smith, Southside Pride says good-bye
Marty Roth responds to Rabbi Spilker:
Hiawatha Avenue Landscape Restoration
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…
Celebrate the end of summer at Autumn Daze
Teach In on Gaza
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…
Letter to the Editor
The three state solution
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…
The Replacements and memory
On the porch and in tune with Chastity Brown
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…
