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Seward Cafe at 40
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Seward Café, which turns 40 years old some time this year, is a study in contradictions. Although it’s known for its longevity, laying claim to being both the oldest collectively-managed business in the Twin Cities and the oldest collectively-managed restaurant/-café in the U.S., its actual…
From ‘Historic St. Paul’: early history
Since 1840, St. Paul has taken on different identities: frontier hamlet, steamboat burg, provincial capital, railroad boomtown, city in stagnation, city in decline, city in revival. These transformations have left their marks all over town. Nowhere can one see them better than on Selby Avenue. Follow Selby Avenue from where…
The A Line: Snelling Bus Rapid Transit (BRT); A new kind of bus service is coming to Snelling Avenue & Ford Parkway!
Charley’s Garden “And let’s not forget ‘the silver apples of the moon’”
Raina’s Wellness “Ice bucket issues”
BY RAINA GOLDSTEIN BUNNAG For the last month, newsfeeds everywhere have been full of friends, family and celebrities throwing buckets of ice water over their heads. The Ice Bucket Challenge charges people with either throwing a bucket of ice water over their head or making a donation to the Amyotrophic…
Queen of Cusine “Hotel food sails to new horizons”
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Radisson Blu FireLake 35 S. Seventh St. 612-339-4900 www.radissonbluminneapolis.com Get over it. Foodies have long shunned hotel dining rooms when it comes to a night on the town. But that was then and this is now: No longer the stepchildren of the restaurant experience, peopled by dreary…
Jewish Community Relations Council Response to Ed Felien’s With God on our Side
There was a time in the 1930s and 1940s when Minneapolis had its share of anti-Jewish clergy preaching hatred of the Jews from church pulpits. Fortunately, the growing civic disapproval of racism and anti-Semitism in the post war years gradually deprived these clergy of their audiences. Unfortunately, after a span…
Ed Felien responds to Jewish Community Relations Council
Lloyd Smith, Southside Pride says good-bye
Marty Roth responds to Rabbi Spilker:
Hiawatha Avenue Landscape Restoration
FROM THE OFFICE OF COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW JOHNSON The installation of the 350 trees along Hiawatha Avenue has been completed. Hennepin County contracted with Hoffman and McNamara to install 350 trees along Hiawatha Avenue from 32nd to 46th Streets. The project began on June 3 with the removal of 165…
Celebrate the end of summer at Autumn Daze
Teach In on Gaza
BY ED FELIEN Southside Pride, Women Against Military Madness, the Anti-War Committee, Walker Church and the Minnesota Green Party sponsored a Teach In on Gaza at Walker Church Saturday, Aug. 23. Mnar Muhawesh, the editor in chief of Mint Press, an online daily newsmagazine, spoke on the five myths regarding…
