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Chicago Avenue from downtown to 43rd Street and the state of George Floyd Square

September 6, 2021 September 6, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Downtown at Chicago Avenue’s northern terminus, the venerable Guthrie Theater is cautiously reopening. I have really ambivalent feelings about entertainment happening while the pandemic is in the situation where there are no ICU beds available, and kids are having to go back to classes with nothing…

New beginnings for In the Heart of the Beast

September 6, 2021 September 20, 2021

BY DAVID TILSEN Over 45 years ago, several of us from the Alive and Trucking Theater gathered in a small apartment in Phillips. We were called by Sandy Spieler and Ray St. Louis to discuss a vision. They believed that regular festivals helped make communities strong, and that South Minneapolis…

Why I love cops

September 6, 2021 September 20, 2021

BY TONY BOUZA One of the many flaws I’ve nurtured over what seems to have evolved into an interminable stay on the planet is a serious predilection for criticism. I’m always going on about this idiot or that fool. Surely I can’t be infallible on the issues. And I am…

The Dish: More restaurant news! More than two mini-reviews!

September 6, 2021 September 20, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE New eating places and concepts and “new to me” Amazingly, new restaurants and cafes and food service “concepts” keep on opening. Three fairly recent openings, in descending order of grandness (which pretty much relates to price and that pampered, entitled feeling, but not necessarily to actual…

Grand Avenue – re-emerging from chaos of first COVID year

August 16, 2021 August 16, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Grand Avenue is not like most of the other major thoroughfares we write about. It’s the only one with two esteemed liberal arts universities on it. Which may explain why it has no less than three independent bookstores on it as well. Also, although in terms…

Vote No!

August 10, 2021 August 16, 2021

BY ED FELIEN Before there was a city of Minneapolis, there was the town of St. Anthony on the east bank of the Mississippi. Its Main Street was bustling with a thriving lumber trade. In 1861 when they incorporated, they looked at the federal system of government in Washington, D.C.…

‘Walking With the Devil’: peer intervention and accountability in policing

August 9, 2021 September 6, 2021

BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Remember a few years back when Twin Cities Nonviolent partnered with individuals and peace organizations to create 10 Days Free from Violence in the Twin Cities? It was in the fall. The initiative wasn’t so huge the first year, but the next year, in 2019, hundreds of…

What’s new (and old) around Lyndale Avenue?

August 9, 2021 August 9, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE We have a load of interesting things to tell you about on or near Lyndale Avenue South. A few are long-time stalwarts, and a few are either new, or newly reopened since the last shutdown, or newly discovered by me and checked out for the first…

Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov. 19, 1919)

August 9, 2021 September 6, 2021

Call it murder The Catholic Agitator of June 2021, a monthly newsletter, carried an article by the journalist Chris Hedges, entitled “The Age of Social Murder” which should be required reading for all of us. He defines the murderer’s weapon as global warming, seldom defined or recognized as such. Each…

Bloomington Avenue reopenings and new openings

August 2, 2021 August 2, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Bloomington Avenue is looking OK these days. I love to see it, because a year ago, I wasn’t sure. Businesses along Bloomington tend to be either very small and/or creative and unusual. Eateries capitalized on being cozy and intimate, and had to pivot to takeout, which…

Magical thinking

August 2, 2021 August 16, 2021

BY TONY BOUZA Another proposed system change to reform the police. How we love gimmicks and formulaic answers. And yet, in our real lives, we mostly tend to be more practical. In the end we usually find that the person matters and the system can be manipulated. Talented folks make…

The Dish 2.0 – restaurant news and two mini-reviews

August 2, 2021 August 16, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Dining rooms reopened and indoor café returns The Seward branch of Pizza Lucé has opened its dining room. Quite a few other Lucés have been open for indoor and patio dining for a while now. But this one doesn’t have a patio, so that may have…

Brought together in sorrow and a hope for justice…

July 19, 2021 August 2, 2021

BY ELAINE KLAASSEN The day before Easter, 2021, I went to George Floyd Square to meet with Marquise Bowie, a member of Agape, and Marcia Sanoden, a “make-the-world-a-better-place” reader of Southside Pride, to talk about her offer to volunteer at Agape and what that might encompass. But we didn’t sit…

Highland Park – revisiting old favorites, discovering new ones

July 19, 2021 July 19, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE When you live in south Minneapolis, your only knowledge (if any) of Highland Park in St. Paul may be Ford Parkway and its mostly upscale businesses. That’s because Ford Parkway is accessed via the bridge over the Mississippi River which is at East 46th Street on…

The foolish public servant who wants to do good

July 12, 2021 August 2, 2021

BY ED FELIEN When I was a small boy attending Mass at St. Helena’s Church, I remember a sermon by my favorite priest, Father Don Schnitzius. The way Father Don told the story of The Ten Talents was slightly different from Matthew, Chapter 25, but the message was essentially the…

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Regular Columnists

Ed Felien • Elaine Klaassen • Polly Mann • Tony Bouza • David Tilsen • Debra Keefer Ramage • Stephanie Fox • Johnny Hazard

Chicago Avenue from downtown to 43rd Street and the state of George Floyd Square

New beginnings for In the Heart of the Beast

Why I love cops

The Dish: More restaurant news! More than two mini-reviews!

Grand Avenue – re-emerging from chaos of first COVID year

Vote No!

‘Walking With the Devil’: peer intervention and accountability in policing

What’s new (and old) around Lyndale Avenue?

Notes from the desk of peace activist Polly Mann (b. Nov. 19, 1919)

Bloomington Avenue reopenings and new openings

Magical thinking

The Dish 2.0 – restaurant news and two mini-reviews

Brought together in sorrow and a hope for justice…

Highland Park – revisiting old favorites, discovering new ones

The foolish public servant who wants to do good

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