BY KAY SCHROVEN This odd and delightful play began in 1960 as a low- budget movie, created by B-movie master Roger Corman, who recently passed away. The screenplay was written by Charles Griffith, Alan Menkin composed the music and Howard Ashmen the lyrics. The play has enjoyed multiple iterations on…
BY ED FELIEN Instead of burning Roman slums to make way for the Via del Corso to the Colosseum, Michael Schroeder, the planning “genius” of the Park Board, is flooding homes in South Minneapolis to make room for his vision of a swamp. If Nero could be credited with the…
BY ED FELIEN It’s a rematch from two years ago when Samuels came within two points of beating Omar. This year, Samuels says he wants to “end the divisive politics that has been so successful in dividing neighbors and even family members against one another.” He was the subject of…
BY CAM GORDON Linda Tirado is dying. On May 29, 2020, author, journalist and photographer Linda Tirado was injured by a police officer while covering the civil unrest in south Minneapolis. In a lawsuit she filed later, she said that a police officer shot her in the face with a…
BY DEBORAH KEEFER RAMAGE Where to eat on Cedar Avenue? Twice now, in The Dish, I have reviewed a really good Persian restaurant in my son’s neighborhood of the northern Atlanta suburb of John’s Creek. My excuse was that Minneapolis didn’t have a real Persian restaurant. But last time, I…
BY STEPHANIE FOX For many in Minneapolis, Richfield, the city’s next-door neighbor to the south, might seem like a mystery; a place to drive through on the way to someplace else. Those who take a journey to the other side of the Crosstown Highway will discover that there are a…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Highland Bridge status check-in I started writing the July articles on Highland Park in 2016, so this marks our ninth piece summarizing the year’s news on this St. Paul neighborhood. In 2016, we noted the impact of automobiles and the Ford plant on Highland Park’s development.…
BY CLINT COMBS Few months in University of Minnesota history, if any, were like June, with Raz Segal seemingly on his way to the Twin Cities to run the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), only to see the deal killed by university officials. The University of Minnesota appeared…
Dear President Ettinger and colleagues: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our grave concern about your decision to rescind the offer which the University of Minnesota (U of M) made to Dr. Raz Segal to assume…
BY ERICK BOUSTEAD The original May 7 article stated, “Nazir Khan of the Zero Burn Coalition, who is likely the author of this anonymous letter from a mass organization (of one?), this EJ Caucus, wants the incinerator to close in 2025 and opposed the resolution Fernando authored and passed. This is a…
BY JESSICA HAYSSEN Workers from four Twin Cities Half Price Books locations ratified their first union contracts on May 31, 2024. Workers unionized with the United Food and Commercial Workers Locals (UFCW) 663 and 1189 to secure better wages, working conditions and a seat at the table. Because of Minnesota…
BY DEBORAH KEEFER RAMAGE Openings and closings There are three interesting openings to report this month, although none are in South Minneapolis. The first is Little Canada’s Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co. (3 Little Canada Road E.), part of a small national chain. It’s drawing rave reviews and it’s open seven…
BY ED FELIEN To the person pasting a QR code over our article “Never forget Hind Rajab” in our June edition: Please stop. Write to us. Let’s talk about it. Your QR code linked to a recapitulation of the horror of October 7. We have, in past issues, condemned that…
Everyday workers are the backbone of our democracy. The work they put in keeps our country moving and functioning on a daily basis. When we think of who we want representing us in Congress, we think of Ilhan Omar. As educators and elected leaders of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers…
BY ED FELIEN “The road not taken,” a lecture by Michael A. Meeropol, will be Tuesday, July 23, 7:30 p.m. at the Women’s Club (410 Oak Grove St.). Admission is free. As an historian, and someone who has lived American history as the eldest son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,…
