Nokomis
Transcending Gender: David Bowie, Prince and what it is to blur the lines
BY KARI ANDRADE More than 40 years before Will Smith’s son shocked the fashion world by modeling women’s wear for a Louis Vitton, there was Ziggy Stardust and David Bowie. Jaden Smith has been called the “gender queer fashion icon of 2016” by pride.com. Did David Bowie, a perennial fashion, music and art…
Changing Lake Hiawatha into Lake Swampy
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Another view of Jeff Hayden
In the absence of any communication from Senator Hayden regarding supportive strategies for new arrivals in our subsidized senior citizen highrise, we are now told that a 10th of our units are newly reserved for individuals coming out of the homeless shelters around town, and we are discovering, not surprisingly,…
Voter’s guide to the precinct caucuses
Actually the food of love is food
The Saudi miscalculation
Freezing to death in Minnesota
Editor’s note: It is disgraceful that a city that can afford to subsidize billionaire sports promoters (half a billion for a baseball stadium; $155 million for renovating a basketball arena; almost a billion for the city share of the new Vikings stadium over 30 years) can’t afford to house homeless…
Graduate school politics
Under Attack
Do you stand with Bernie?
Southside Pride asked all the candidates we knew about who were running in legislative districts 60B, 61 and 62 how they stood on issues. We received responses from Susan Allen (SA), incumbent representative from 62B; Ilhan Omar (IO), candidate for State Legislature 60B; Captain Jack Sparrow (CJS), candidate for State…
Hiawatha Death Star strikes again
BY ED FELIEN On Sunday, Jan. 3, around 6 p.m., 61-year-old Daniel Wiese, a resident at the nearby Dungarvin Group Home’s Hiawatha Campus, was hit and killed by a northbound train at the 32nd Street intersection while trying to cross the tracks in his electric wheelchair. Other disabled residents have…
Polly Mann
RADICAL TWIN CITIES YOUTH ARTISTS: Maya Ixchel Morales
What we do at Southside Pride
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Meredith Webb, the third-grade teacher at Hiawatha Leadership Academy, at 38th Avenue South and 56th Street, called Southside Pride asking if someone could talk to her class about newspapers. In the absence of our owner/publisher/editor-in-chief, who was out of town, I was the logical candidate since I’m…
