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BY ED FELIEN Probably the first illegal immigrants on Chicago Avenue (before it was a city street) were the Ojibwe.  In 1745 the Lakota lived in the area around Chicago Avenue, but the British gave guns to the Ojibwe, their allies in Canada and New England, and the Ojibwe used…

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BY JULIE KNOPP When I was growing up in Fresno, Calif., my family lived next-door to Matzi and Norman. My parents sometimes exchanged greetings with them during evening walks. When my sister was born, Matzi brought over a gift for the new baby. Our families started to form a friendship.…

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Charley Underwood, longtime Southside Pride garden columnist, wrote on the Minneapolis Issues List:  I was out foraging this afternoon, scouting out several of my favorite places to gather juneberries (aka serviceberries or saskatoon, etc.).  One of those places is along the grassy strip between the parking lot and Minnehaha Falls. …

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BY ED FELIEN No, not that King. King’s Fair is coming to Matthew’s Park on Sept. 19. Every two years the Seward Neighborhood Group puts on a neighborhood fair at Matthews Park that is meant to commemorate the King’s Fairs produced by Colonel William S. King at that site, from…

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BY ED FELIEN Last fall the City of St. Paul approved a loan to replace seating, carpeting, drapes and concession stands at the Grandview Theater on Grand Avenue.  They had already approved $166,250 in July for new seats, plumbing and carpeting for the Grandview and the Highland theaters.  The new…

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BY ED FELIEN FAA statement on July 31: “On Friday, July 24, the Federal Aviation Administrat-ion temporarily suspended certain operations on Runway 30-Left and Runway 35 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.” They suspended operations because the heavy congestion was causing planes to intersect each other’s flight patterns while trying to…

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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.   – Baruch Spinoza There are many ways to work for world peace. One of them is to create the world we…

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BY POLLY MANN There has been no media attention given to the after-life of President Obama once he leaves the White House.  My hope is that he will continue to make criminal justice a big part of that life, especially the part of the criminal justice system that deals with…

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BY COLE MORGAN NICHOLS AND COOPER Anders Billund Phibbs is a 17-year-old queer artist and activist, and the founder of QYA Magazine, a Minneapolis-based online queer arts periodical. In his work, Anders illustrates and identifies much of what is wrong with the commercial and commodified image of queer people and…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR Arezzo 5057 France Avenue 612-285-7444 arezzoristorante.com Can’t make it to Tuscany this summer? Me neither. But to  savor a taste of the region’s  dolce vita, head over to Edina’s 51st & France (no passport, no euros needed) to inhale its wine-and-dining way of life at Arezzo, boasting…

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BY ED FELIEN It was overcast with sprinkles last Wednesday, July 15.  Only about 30 people showed up for the weekly Peace Vigil on the Lake Street Bridge. The Vigil started in 1999 when local peace groups decided to act in solidarity with the people of Yugoslavia who were standing…

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BY ED FELIEN Lyndale Avenue used to be called Bloomington Road. The township of Richfield began at Lake Street, and the geographical, cultural, social and business center for the new township was near the site of the flour mill at 53rd Street.  Minnehaha Creek flowed much stronger in the early…

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BY FRANKLIN CURBELO U.S and Cuba reopen embassies Fifty-four years have passed since President Eisenhower broke relations with Cuba, in 1961. From that moment on, Cuba has been in the cross-hairs of the United States as it  aimed to bring about the downfall of the Cuban Revolution through U.S.-sponsored terrorism;…

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BY ED FELIEN There are two raging civil wars going on in the U.S. right now! One is a race war: the white race against everybody else.  And the second is Muslims fighting against the occupation of their home countries by U.S. business interests. At this point, white racist lone-wolf…

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BY ED FELIEN Recently BuzzFeed named Minnesota the Most Hipster State in the U.S., and City Pages named Seward as the most hipster neighborhood.  Would that make Franklin Avenue Hipster Boulevard? BuzzFeed used these criteria to evaluate hipsterness: The Lumberjack Look—New Yorkers try to look like Minnesotans by wearing flannel,…

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