Charley Underwood, longtime Southside Pride garden columnist, wrote on the Minneapolis Issues List: I was out foraging this afternoon, scouting out several of my favorite places to gather juneberries (aka serviceberries or saskatoon, etc.). One of those places is along the grassy strip between the parking lot and Minnehaha Falls. …
BY ED FELIEN FAA statement on July 31: “On Friday, July 24, the Federal Aviation Administrat-ion temporarily suspended certain operations on Runway 30-Left and Runway 35 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.” They suspended operations because the heavy congestion was causing planes to intersect each other’s flight patterns while trying to…
BY COLE MORGAN NICHOLS AND COOPER Anders Billund Phibbs is a 17-year-old queer artist and activist, and the founder of QYA Magazine, a Minneapolis-based online queer arts periodical. In his work, Anders illustrates and identifies much of what is wrong with the commercial and commodified image of queer people and…
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Arezzo 5057 France Avenue 612-285-7444 arezzoristorante.com Can’t make it to Tuscany this summer? Me neither. But to savor a taste of the region’s dolce vita, head over to Edina’s 51st & France (no passport, no euros needed) to inhale its wine-and-dining way of life at Arezzo, boasting…
BY FRANKLIN CURBELO U.S and Cuba reopen embassies Fifty-four years have passed since President Eisenhower broke relations with Cuba, in 1961. From that moment on, Cuba has been in the cross-hairs of the United States as it aimed to bring about the downfall of the Cuban Revolution through U.S.-sponsored terrorism;…
BY ED FELIEN Recently BuzzFeed named Minnesota the Most Hipster State in the U.S., and City Pages named Seward as the most hipster neighborhood. Would that make Franklin Avenue Hipster Boulevard? BuzzFeed used these criteria to evaluate hipsterness: The Lumberjack Look—New Yorkers try to look like Minnesotans by wearing flannel,…
