BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Dish goes Meta: Review at the top not the end Not Meta as in the company, meta as in this is my column talking about itself. As you may or may not know, I am basically a Southside Minneapolis girl. Most of my restaurant news and…
BY ED FELIEN At first I thought, like everyone else, it must have been someone from the left who killed Charlie Kirk. Kirk had said things like: Black women shouldn’t be political leaders because they don’t have the “brain processing power”; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “huge…
BY ED FELIEN We loved you. We especially loved you and Gwen when you talked about teaching kids and watching over the lunchroom in the Mankato public schools. I still have your lawn sign. We thought you were on our side. You sounded like a prairie populist last year when…
BY ED FELIEN What does it look like? If it were under the old rules, where the candidate with the most votes wins, Frey would likely beat Fateh. He’ll probably get 40% of the vote. Fateh will probably get something like 34% of the vote. Davis will probably get something…
BY STEPHANIE FOX Students from Sanford Middle School walked out of their 6th grade class at noon on Sept. 5 and headed to Longfellow Park with hand drawn signs saying “Stop Gun Violence.” This was one of the many protests following the mass school shooting at nearby Annunciation School, only…
BY CAM GORDON The city’s failure to effectively respond to encampments made headlines again in September. Shootings at or near two southside encampments on E. Lake St., one at Stevens and the other at 27th Ave., resulted in 13 people being shot and injured. One of them, Jacina Oakgrove, died…
BY ED FELIEN Late Monday evening on Sept. 15, someone shot into two homeless encampments on Lake Street. One person was killed and six more were injured. Police believe it was a turf battle for who could sell drugs in the area. Trivon Leonard, Jr., from a Chicago suburb, is…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Annunciation School shooting overshadows opening days To be honest, I didn’t know about any prior school shootings in the Twin Cities, so I thought the shooting that killed two children and injured 17 other people might have been the first one here. It was not, but…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE We’re not Uptown, and we don’t wanna be gentrified! I have written quite a few times before about what I love about my neighborhood, Standish, and its adjacent partner, Ericsson. They’re the right size, friendly and diverse, with lots of well-loved small businesses. Last year, we…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Openings and closings and other changes The only opening I have is Shepherd’s Table at 3708 East 34th St. It’s not a restaurant but more of a cheesemonger / market / deli. There are a lot of closings, though. Palmer’s Bar closed on Sept. 14 as…
BY ED FELIEN The Frey campaign is serving sour grapes to anyone who cares to buy their analysis of what happened at the DFL City Convention that endorsed Omar Fateh for Mayor. Last month we detailed the process by which thousands of people in April elected some of their neighbors…
BY ED FELIEN On Aug. 19 the State DFL Constitution, By-laws and Rules Committee determined that the City DFL endorsement of Omar Fateh wasn’t valid and people in the city couldn’t do anything about it. We couldn’t hold another convention. And, what’s more, we can’t even meet for two years…
BY STEPHANIE FOX Chicago Avenue was once called Ames Street and it is unclear why the new name “Chicago” was chosen in the 1870s. Today, this street is lined with houses, churches and hospitals, including the acclaimed Children’s Hospital and Allina Health Care. Visitors to this diverse street can also…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Chicago Avenue – home to some wonderful community service organizations We will be looking at two of these organizations. First is Tubman – Chrysalis Center at 4432 Chicago Ave. The overall organization, now just called Tubman, is nearly 50 years old. They provide a huge array…
BY STEPHANIE FOX The last Open Streets celebration of 2025 will be the return of the event to Uptown on Hennepin Ave., between 26th and 34th Streets, on Saturday, Sept. 20. At Open Streets, car, truck and motorcycle traffic is banned, but pedestrians, bikes, skateboards and roller blades are not…
