Phillips/Powderhorn


Actually the food of love is food

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE If you have ever been around domesticated birds, or really closely watched wild birds, you may know that one of the most common mating rituals across many species is feeding the prospective mate. I don’t know if many other animals do this, except of course for…

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The Saudi miscalculation

BY ED FELIEN Up until the middle of 2014 the price of oil had been relatively stable at around $110 a barrel.  But then the Saudis started over producing and flooding the market with cheap oil.  The price of oil fell to under $50 a barrel. What has been good…

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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…

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Graduate school politics

BY ED FELIEN But before I could write my dissertation, I had to pass my written prelim’s, a three- day ordeal that was more like a madcap game of Trivial Pursuit: What is a Dutch brush? (a six-inch wide paint brush).  Frustrated at the banality of the questions, I perked…

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Under Attack

BY ED FELIEN According to a police report, Charmaine Mackbee was driving home and was driven off the road by a pickup truck with a crudely painted sign in the back that said, “NOW NIGGA.” Ms Mackbee is black. The photo of the truck, the sign and the license plate…

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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…

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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…

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Polly Mann

BY ED FELIEN I got to know Polly during her first run for the U.S. Senate in 1988.  She was running for DFL endorsement against Skip Humphrey at the DFL Convention in Rochester.  My wife and I helped stuff envelopes, and Carol got elected a state delegate.  I got a…

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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…

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Queen of Cuisine: Giordano’s Chicago’s finest

BY CARLA WALDEMAR Giordano’s 2700 Hennepin Ave. S. 612-444-3143 Take-away orders: www.orders/giordanos/com “Is the Pope in town?” I wondered, trying to make my way down South Hennepin through crowds of the devout. Well, sort of. Blame the traffic hazard on Giordano’s, the Holy See of stuffed pizza. The new Uptown…

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Stay loud!!!

BY ELENA KUENNING VIDAS I’ve been thinking about “Jane the Virgin” a lot lately. In the midst of all this ugliness about “us” and “them” in current events, I’ve been thinking about a TV show. Dylan, my husband, and I marathoned this starting last month and it is hands-down the…

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Letter to the Editor

You’ve probably never heard of DARPA, the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Defense Department. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the 1990s, DARPA has been active in many areas, from solving infectious disease to transforming humans for the theater of war. For example, with…

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Prisons

BY POLLY MANN There I was sitting on the long bench facing the condominium’s mail boxes going through the mail—at least eight requests for donations from organizations that, each and every one, represent good causes. I delegate the majority to the recycle bin since there’s a limit to what I…

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My dissertation

BY ED FELIEN Before the 20th century, drama entertained by telling a story.  The first modern innovation came with Henrik Ibsen’s introduction of social purpose to the story; his plays used drama to prove a thesis: a woman’s need for self-actualization—“A Doll’s House”; the need to confront a community about…

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