Riverside

Letter to the Editor

September 8, 2014 October 28, 2017

This letter is in regards to David, Angela and Trey Brown’s current circumstances that I heard about on the news last night. Specifically, parents of a boy who has been suffering with severe brain trauma and took it upon themselves to use unprescribed marijuana oil to ease their boy’s pain.…

The three state solution

September 8, 2014 September 8, 2014

BY ED FELIEN “Israel has a right to defend herself,” Pres. Barack Obama. As long as Hamas and others use violence to achieve their legitimate aims of independence and statehood, they continue to play into Israel’s hands. The collective guilt of the holocaust will always force Americans and Europeans to…

The Replacements and memory

September 8, 2014 September 8, 2014

BY ED FELIEN This Friday, Sept. 12, at the Parkway Cinema there will be a showing of “Color Me Obsessed,” a documentary about The Replacements—Minneapolis’ official bar band from the ’80s. Everybody loved The Replacements. They were drunk all the time, out of their minds on drugs and ready to…

On the porch and in tune with Chastity Brown

September 8, 2014 September 8, 2014

BY RICHARD TAYLOR Your correspondent has the good fortune to live upstairs from singer-songwriter Chastity Brown. We met recently for an interview. SSP: Why do you make music? Well, it’s been a compulsion from childhood. I come from a musical family. My father played the piano, trombone, and sang, and…

With God on our Side: the theology of Zionism

September 8, 2014 September 8, 2014

BY ED FELIEN If you believe the Bible is the word of God, and if you believe God spoke to the Jews, then you also believe: Deuteronomy 7: 6-For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special…

Crime Report

September 2, 2014 September 2, 2014

The area south of Lake Street down to 38th Street, between Hiawatha and 35W, was hit with a string of armed robberies in August. Generally the robbers operated in groups of two or three or even four. They varied in age, ethnicity and gender. They showed either a knife or…

Forum on affordable housing held at Pillsbury

September 2, 2014 September 2, 2014

BY ED FELIEN The Minneapolis Commiss-ion on Civil Rights hosted a public forum on affordable housing at Pillsbury House on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Nekima Levy-Pounds, professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, moderated a panel discussion by specialists in the field from government agencies and nonprofits. Sue…

All sales final

September 2, 2014 September 2, 2014

BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE Any time you see a Going Out of Business Sale sign, you know some lives are changing, as an institution is coming to its end. But what if that business has been in the same location, in the same family, and with only two owners, since…

Golf at Hiawatha

September 2, 2014 September 2, 2014

BY ED FELIEN The front nine at Hiawatha is open. It’s rough in spots. The fairways on 2 and 6 and 7 have spots that look like a moonscape, but the greens are probably in better condition than they’ve ever been. The plus side for serious or casual golfers is…