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New places, changes, food news and the Vegan Chef Challenge 2024
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Lots of hot restaurant news! Lynette (3753 42nd Ave. S.) is open. This is the new restaurant, greatly anticipated, in the former Riverview Wine Bar space. Tender Lovin’ Chicks (2700 Lyndale Ave) is also open, the brick-and-mortar incarnation of a popular food truck. Two breweries will…
Look out Donald, Momala is gonna lock you up!
Don Samuels’ campaign evokes violent imagery
BY CLINT COMBS Four days after Don Samuels posted on Twitter that, “no one sees any end worth pursuing with political violence,” in condemnation against an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, his campaign released an ad featuring a heads Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on a missing person’s poster. The ad joyfully…
Debts to be paid, wounds to be healed
By Cam Gordon Minneapolis is falling behind in addressing its racist past. In October of 2020, following the police killing of George Floyd that previous May, the City Council and Mayor unanimously approved establishing a truth and reconciliation process. Then, the focus was clear. The staff report, presented by Joy…
Summer on Bloomington Avenue South
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Two East Phillips institutions at Bloomington and Franklin Avenues One of the biggest stories about this summer on Bloomington Avenue is happening right at its northernmost point. This is the heart of the city’s Indigenous people’s community at the Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC). In May,…
Summer on Lyndale Avenue South
Summer on Grand Avenue
BY STEPHANIE FOX It has been said that you don’t need a Minneapolis passport to visit the iconic St. Paul thoroughfare called Grand Ave., and it’s true. Among the 100-year-old houses and apartment buildings on that thoroughfare are unique restaurants and shops that are worth the trip across the river.…
Fighting Russia to the Last Ukrainian
By Dave Gutknecht Tragically, since my late 2023 article here, many more thousands of Ukrainian lives have been lost or ruined. Like President Biden’s decline, the direction of things on the battlefield has been evident for some time to those who believe their own lyin’ eyes rather than what approved…
The Trail of Tears and Sderot
BY ED FELIEN The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations between 1830 and 1850. 60,000 people were forced to leave their ancestral homes. Many thousands died on the trail that led from Georgia and South Carolina more than 800 miles…
Are we sure they are guilty?
BY KAY SCHROVEN Seven months after Marvin Haynes was exonerated, having served nearly 20 years in Stillwater Prison for a murder he didn’t commit, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced the creation of the first Hennepin County Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). The unit will be led by Andrew Markquart, former Staff…