BY ED FELIEN There is a hunger in all of us for community. The impulse is older than human understanding. We long to be part of the tribe, to feel the comfort, to know the security, to be part of something bigger than ourselves. We were family, then clan, then tribe, then…
BY NICK REA On Friday, May 19, Communications Workers of America (CWA) announced that negotiations had broken down with AT&T Mobility after management failed to provide their workers with a contract with fair wage increases and adequate healthcare protections. In response, and in an era when hand-wringing over the state…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I HATE musicals, but they are definitely not my favorite genre. I’ve heard a lot of people say they don’t much care for musicals, so for that crowd I’d say, “Go see ‘Fly By Night’ at the Jungle…
BY ED FELIEN According to a memorandum sent out June 8: “MPRB staff has considered the potential of a 9-hole golf course, but has determined 9-hole golf is not financially viable at this course. As a result, the options for use of the property in a reduced pumping scenario no…
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE When Sean Doyle, general manager of Seward Co-op, gets me on the phone, he agrees with me that Seward Co-op is currently the biggest news item on Franklin Avenue. It all happened very quickly, with little warning, so the board and managers have understandably been busy,…
BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Coolly and calmly Sarah Rasmussen strides amongst the opening night crowd at the Jungle Theater. She directs “Fly By Night” and organizes the operation of the Jungle as its artistic director. When she speaks to introduce the show, Sarah utters not a single “umm” and speaks…
BY ED FELIEN The Our Revolution Twin Cities membership meeting on Sunday, May 21, endorsed Ray Dehn for mayor of Minneapolis. They sent out a lengthy questionnaire to all candidates seeking the Our Revolution endorsement. One of the questions asked was: “What are your top three priorities once elected?” Ray…
BY TONY BOUZA “Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” — George Santayana Metempsychosis—the Buddist theory of transmigration of spirit-lives. The spirit of Charles Stenvig (remember him?) has landed on Chief Janee Harteau. How deliciously ironic. In 1980 I was hired to exorcise the spirit of…
BY CARLA WALDEMAR Town Talk 2707 E. Lake St. 612-353-5398 towntalkmpls.com Farm to fork. Old news, right? These days, that credo has become table stakes (thank goodness) in restaurant kitchens. Freezers are for ice cream, not broccoli or fish. Yet it’s embraced at Town Talk, the rejuvenated East Lake Street…
I was fried—mentally and psychologically exhausted. I needed to get away, and I wanted to go out and see Jimmy again. So, I told everybody I was taking a week off, and I hitchhiked out to Massachusetts. Jimmy was great. Pontificating like an apostate pope. Talking about Nixon “with the…
I just finished reading a long article about Prime Minister Abe of Japan, who is seeking to overturn Japan’s policy of nonviolence foisted upon it as a result of the settlement at the end of World War II. Why, why, I thought, would he want to do this? There are…
BY ED FELIEN The Park Board will hold a final public meeting on July 20 at Nokomis Community Center to decide what should be done with Hiawatha Golf Course. Currently the Park Board is pumping millions of gallons of water from the golf course into Lake Hiawatha. Of course this water…
In May of 2000, the Nicollet Avenue Task Force published its official report, laying out its plans to guide the “Revitalization” of Nicollet Avenue, or “Minneapolis’ Main Street,” as the report referred to it in the subtitle. Looking back from our vantage point of 17 years later, it seems the…
Friends, I believe we are a nation in crisis and although it may not look like it from where you sit, we will all pay a steep price if we continue to ignore the signs and remain silent. The sky may not be falling, but with Trump in the White…
BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK “They must be so happy together,” he said. “Well, we’re not inside the relationship,” she responded. While my dialogue may not match the wit from Noël Coward in his 1930 comedy of manners “Private Lives,” the phrase “inside the relationship” probably hits home for many of…
