Queen of Cuisine: The Saint Comes Marching In
BY CARLA WALDEMAR St Genevieve 5003 Bryant Ave. S. No phone reservations taken Quick: Name your favorite local go-to for French food. Right, that’s the trouble—there aren’t (m)any. We lost longtime icon Collette when Hotel Sofitel changed hands. More recently, we lost Vincent, on the Nicollet Mall, tragically replaced by…
Is there a hydrologist in the house?
BY DEANNA BOSS I live across the street from Lake Nokomis on the west side. This past month I’ve dealt with three episodes of water in my previously dry basement. I couldn’t determine the source of the problem since the obvious causes (clogged gutters, faulty landscaping, roof damage, defective water…
FROM WHERE I STAND: Reform the criminal justice system
BY POLLY MANN Once again, the United States tops the list. Its incarceration rate is now more than four times the world’s average with about 2.2 million people in prisons and jails. Economists Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action…
FROM WHERE I STAND: How the wealthy burden the poor
BY POLLY MANN The headline of the three-page Dec. 30 New York Times article (large pertinent snaphots included) was “By Molding Tax System, Wealthiest Save Billions.” Yes, indeed, they molded. They’ve been using their influence to “steadily whittle away at the government’s ability to tax them.” The details, no doubt,…
Neighboring city is a rich field for artists
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The Richfield Historical Society has a motto on its website home page—Proudly Suburban since 1854. The 1854 part refers to the fact that Richfield claims to be Minnesota’s oldest suburb. The “Proudly” part indirectly references the fact that suburban had become something to be slightly ashamed…
Water rising
POWDERHORN BIRDWATCH: Where are the Canada Geese?
Cedar Avenue’s West Bank performance spaces
BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The northernmost part of Cedar Avenue vanishes into a small theater district. Three unique performance spaces in Minneapolis are there, two in Seven Corners, where Cedar Avenue actually terminates, and one a few blocks away. Just off Cedar in the other direction there is the U…
Who is ISIS?
Trying to make sense of the park board
Sanford’s spirit soars
Stupendous adventures on Franklin Avenue
New Left Convention in Chicago, 1967
Everything we believe is real—in a certain way
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN “The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes” is a book that challenges not a few assumptions. And Frank Bures is a writer for whom nothing is weird. To research the book, seasoned traveler Bures criss-crosses…
