BY STEPHANIE FOX Open Streets, the popular Minneapolis tradition of closing long thoroughfares for neighborhood celebrations, was started by the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition in 2009 as a way to show people how the city would look without cars. The group, now called Our Streets Minneapolis, organized the events together with…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Chicago Avenue, from downtown to the city line Every year since 2020, when we check out this section of Chicago Avenue, we focus most sharply on George Floyd Square. And this piece will do the same, but let’s not start there. We sometimes overlook the things…
BY EMERY BRUSH On Thursday, August 15, Executive Leadership at Agate Housing & Services announced that they would be closing the 510 S. 8th St. building. This building contains 42 shelter beds, as well as over 90 low-income Single Room Occupancy units. The closure of this building will also mean…
BY CLINT COMBS From the nosebleed seats in the Minnesota Senate Building, anti-war activists see Attorney General Keith Ellison in a state of perpetual bewilderment looking down at his papers, never once looking up to make eye contact. Occasionally his fingers ruffle through packets of paper, still looking disengaged. “Hey…
BY KEITH KARNES The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe shares more boundary with the federally managed National Forest System than any other Tribe in the United States, with 75 percent of the reservation border adjoining the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota. Being in the North Woods, timber harvesting and forest management…
To the Editor: Following up my column in the August issue: I hope readers are not so quick as the editor was to dismiss all the historical notes in the public record, some cited by me, about how the US and allies planned and provoked the Ukraine war for years.…
BY ED FELIEN An international contingent was at the Cedar Cultural Center on August 16 to celebrate the release of a new album and a new biography of Cornbread by Andrea Swensson, Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris. Jimmy Jam Harris from LA, US Senator Amy…
Unhoused people asking for money outside Seward Co-op on Franklin Avenue If you see something, say something. “Hello.” Get the baby food and water. See how the parent is. See if the parent has the social services they need. Call 911 and report Child Endangerment. Drawing and text by Clea…
BY KATHRYN KELLY At a community meeting a few years ago, Commissioner Musich was asked if the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MPRB) would start the Hiawatha Golf Course project before they had the money. She replied, “We don’t start projects until we have the funding.” On August 7, 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…
BY ED FELIEN Okay, so the Cheapside Carnival Freak show that is the Trump campaign, just got freakier. First, some idiot kid takes his dad’s AR-15 and, at the last minute, picks up a couple boxes of shells and heads off to become famous. He makes it to the roof…
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…
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…
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,…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Wonderful Wedge Do you mean the neighborhood or the cooperative grocery store? I could mean both! But right now I mean the co-op. Although I’ve been a member of a different co-op for 33 years, my favorite co-op to shop is the Wedge (2105 Lyndale…
