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

Comings and goings and moving to new spots in and around the Midtown Global Market

October 4, 2021 October 4, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Midtown Global Market’s 2021 is faring better, slightly, than its 2020 did. There have been four or five vendors who have left the market, some for larger spaces elsewhere, and two or three new ones have moved in since we last visited. There has also been…

School openings, community schools vs. GOP culture war, labor and funding shortages, changes at the federal level

October 4, 2021 October 18, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE New Secretary of Education At least we don’t have Betsy DeVos anymore! In March of this year the new Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, was appointed, and he couldn’t be any more of a refutation of DeVos if he had been designed by a computer that…

The MPD budget

October 4, 2021 October 18, 2021

BY TONY BOUZA The Minneapolis Police Department budget document itself is a turgid piece of bureaucratic invention intended to obfuscate and mislead you into thinking your $200 million is being sensibly spent. It ain’t. The pages are replete with references to how sedulously they monitor and invest your dollars, how…

How could I forget Sociable Cider Werks? Plus, new restaurants and other food news, and one mini-review

October 4, 2021 October 18, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE More great cider! Last month The Dish 2.0 covered a couple of innovative cideries in Minneapolis, and we didn’t even mention Sociable Cider Werks! I apologize for that, and I am going to make up for it by telling you all the cool things Sociable has…

Who is running in the 6th Ward?

September 20, 2021 October 4, 2021

BY ED FELIEN Southside Pride sent the following to the two candidates running to represent the 6th Ward on the Minneapolis City Council, Abdirizak Bihi and the incumbent, Jamal Osman: “Southside Pride will be publishing a Guide for Voters in the 6th Ward in our upcoming Riverside edition coming out…

Bethany Lutheran Church closed Sept. 12

September 20, 2021 September 20, 2021

BY ELAINE KLAASSEN “The Times They Are A-changin’ ” is ever true. Sunday, Sept. 12, was a “bittersweet” morning, said Bethany’s Pastor Jeffrey Schulz at the final worship service of Seward neighborhood’s Bethany Lutheran Church. An ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) congregation at 25th and Franklin Avenues, it was…

The ups and downs of Selby Avenue

September 20, 2021 September 20, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Selby Avenue’s hilly, bumpy history When Selby Avenue was first named on a map, in 1854, the site of the present Cathedral of Saint Paul (the fourth and final one to bear that name) was occupied by a 40-acre farm belonging to Jeremiah Selby. This land,…

Chicago Avenue from McRae Park to the Crosstown

September 13, 2021 September 13, 2021

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE McRae Park is one of the friendliest parks, much beloved by its surrounding neighborhoods. It stands as a green and welcoming gateway to the business hub of Chicago and 48th and the southern parts of south Minneapolis beyond. Current use information for parks and rec centers…

Celebrate! Open Streets Lyndale Avenue

September 13, 2021 September 13, 2021

BY STEPHANIE FOX Each year, thousands of people flock to Open Streets events in Minneapolis. During these city celebrations, streets are closed to automobile traffic for blocks and people walk, bike and even skate, visiting booths and businesses along the way. But then, COVID-19 happened. In non-pandemic years, there are…

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

September 13, 2021 September 20, 2021

The desperate need for prison reform Linda Franks of Baton Rouge, La., turned a room in her beauty salon into a meeting place for the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition, exemplifying what is happening to prison reform all over the country. One example is Vanessa Fano’s brother who…

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…

Columnists

Regular Columnists

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

Comings and goings and moving to new spots in and around the Midtown Global Market

School openings, community schools vs. GOP culture war, labor and funding shortages, changes at the federal level

The MPD budget

How could I forget Sociable Cider Werks? Plus, new restaurants and other food news, and one mini-review

Who is running in the 6th Ward?

Bethany Lutheran Church closed Sept. 12

The ups and downs of Selby Avenue

Chicago Avenue from McRae Park to the Crosstown

Celebrate! Open Streets Lyndale Avenue

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

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

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