Phillips/Powderhorn

BY ED FELIEN The city DFL will be holding precinct caucuses on April 4. Anyone who cares about this city and their community should attend.  The caucuses will elect delegates who will endorse a candidate to represent their community on the City Council at a ward endorsing convention on either…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Adrian’s Tavern, beloved institution of Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis, closes forever on Jan.10. Adrian’s was tucked into a small slot between the Parkway Theatre and, most recently, Town Hall Tap. There has been a business in that space since the 1930s, and a place called…

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BY ED FELIEN What happened? Clinton lost Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.  She almost lost Minnesota. Why? When people were interviewed they said she and the Democratic Party were not speaking to them.  Trump talked to the people who were hurting from lack of jobs and from small town economic…

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BY ED FELIEN If Keith Ellison gets elected chair of the Democratic National Committee in February, the DFL will endorse a candidate to replace him.  Five and a half years ago we ran the above photo and caption of Senator Patricia Torres Ray on the cover of Southside Pride. In…

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BY SARAH MARTIN On Nov. 13, the Middle East Committee of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) hosted a report back from Syria with Judy Bello, a national peace and justice leader.  Judy reported (from NY via Skype) on her most recent trip to Syria. This was her second participation in a…

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BY ED FELIEN It’s the biggest deal he’s ever done. If he gets this done, he’s the richest, most powerful man in the whole world. It’s worth a trillion dollars. And it wipes out the billion dollars he owes the Russian oligarchs and Gazprom for bailing him out of his…

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BY ED FELIEN The city DFL will be holding precinct caucuses on April 4.  Anyone who cares about this city and their community should attend.  The caucuses will elect delegates who will endorse a candidate to represent their community on the City Council at a ward endorsing convention on either…

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BY JANE RAMSEYER MILLER Want to attend a fascinating concert on MLK weekend? Look no further! Two years ago I had lunch with a composer friend from Cincinnati who asked if I would be interested in commissioning a musical oratorio on the life of gay, African-American civil rights activist Bayard…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN There was not much for me to write about for the December issue, or perhaps I was hiding again. Anyway I did not produce a column. Then I learned there were two deer seen near my corner of the park (15th Avenue and 35th Street). In the…

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BY ED FELIEN We won a tremendous victory at Standing Rock. Probably because of tremendous popular pressure, Obama ordered the Corps of Engineers not to approve the permit to allow the pipeline to cross the Missouri River at the location they intended. The pipeline company is confident that Trump will…

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BY CHRISTINE, OUR REV MN VOLUNTEER Our Revolution Minnesota (ORMN) will definitely be involved in the Minneapolis city elections next year.  We will be endorsing and volunteering for candidates, including mayor, park board, City Council and more.  We’re still growing rapidly with new members at every meeting, and new chapters…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE There was always a New Year, and there was always a New Year’s Day, the first day of the New Year. We owe the Romans our date of Jan. 1, as we owe them for the word “calendar,” the fact that most of the business world…

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BY ED FELIEN When I got back to Minneapolis I heard about some people around the University who were thinking about starting a newspaper. I met with some of them. They were much younger than me. One of them, though, had actual experience working on a newspaper in college. This was invaluable because I…

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BY ED FELIEN Did the elected officials and city staff who were so obviously enjoying themselves at the Vikings game on the front page of the Star Tribune last week violate the City Code of Ethics by accepting free tickets from the Wilf brothers? The ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT Chapter of…

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BY ADAM M. SCHENCK The Guthrie’s new artistic director, Joseph Hajj, brings a Christmastime drama to the Guthrie, “The Lion in Winter,” a political intrigue play that offers Minneapolitans hope. Could it be that our times are better than in 1183, when Henry II of England mulled over which son…

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