BY JOHN KARRIGAN I will start this month with the item from last month about the very big goldfish school about which some people are wondering. I have seen several more goldfish schools in May but none as big as the one I saw in April. Yes, the goldfish come…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE White men may have physically built Franklin Avenue, but it was, to a large degree, Native Americans, since the 1960s, who made it what it is today. The unique paradox of the Avenue is that it attracts immigrants, whatever the newest, most vulnerable wave is, and…

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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Polly Pockets was born Paulina Griffiths.  She lived in the neighborhood at Portland and Franklin all of her 60 years.  She was a humble woman who made it her mission in life to “love on people.” Papa Bear (Pastor Todd Finney) of Every Tribe and Tongue Church,…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The theme this year tying all the Minnehaha Avenue news together is the fusion of culture and sustainability. Minnehaha Avenue is sustainability city, from its start in the Seward neighborhood, to its end at the beautiful waterfall and park from which it gets its name. Last…

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BY DEBRA KEEFER RAMAGE The DFL’s Fifth Congressional District Convention was held at South High School on Saturday, May 7. A little over 200 delegates from a total of 230 precincts attended. As a Bernie Sanders pledged alternate, I got upgraded to delegate just before lunch time when one of…

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April 21, 2016 It was a very unusual day … an extraordinary day.  I was in the mood for quiet time so the computer, TV and radio remained off while I sipped on “cold press” and read the morning paper after which I headed for the basement to do some…

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BY ADAM M. SCHENCK ‘Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh’ Swandive Theater’s production of “Kid-Simple” at the Southern Theater has much to recommend it. Co-directors Meg DiSciorio and Damon Runnals create an intricate set with the best sound design I have seen, or rather heard, in local theater. Sound…

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BY ED FELIEN I accuse Dustin Schwarze and Mark Ringgenberg of Murder in the Third Degree for the killing of Jamar Clark. According to Minnesota Statutes 609.195, Murder in the Third Degree happens when “Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by…

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BY CARLA WALDEMAR The Lowbrow 4244 Nicollet Ave. S. 612-208-0720 thelowbrowmpls.com Here I am, eating fish sticks—something, after being liberated from my mother’s cooking, I swore I would never again do. But these didn’t come from a freezer box, they’re from the scratch kitchen of The Lowbrow, the in-town roadhouse…

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BY ED FELIEN Settlement houses are generally dreary places—the poverty, noisy kids, anxious mothers.  But they can also be exciting.  I had read about the Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, and how they had theater programs for children and became a cultural center.  I…

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BY ED FELIEN In one or two months Barr Engineering will release its study of flooding on Lake Hiawatha at a public meeting. Readers of Southside Pride might remember “Return to Mud Lake” from the March 2016 Nokomis and Riverside editions of Southside Pride in which we wrote how Barr…

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The South Chicago Avenue Business Alliance (SCABA) 7th Annual Classic Car Show will be held on Sunday, June 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.at the intersection of 48th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis. As in other years, the car show will feature a wide variety of classic…

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BY ED FELIEN All right, I admit it, I have a crush on Polly Mann.  My wife doesn’t mind.  She likes Polly.  [For those of you who don’t know Polly, she started Women Against Military Madness—WAMM—with Mary Hamilton 34 years ago.  She writes almost monthly for us.  She’s 96 and…

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BY ADAM M. SCHENCK Swandive Theater’s production of “Kid-Simple” at the Southern Theater has much to recommend it. Co-directors Meg DiSciorio and Damon Runnals create an intricate set with the best sound design I have seen, or rather heard, in local theater. Sound bumps and soothes the audience. Lead actor…

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BY POLLY MANN I do believe we need one, that is, a new economic system, and economist John Scales Avery describes one to us in this book. I didn’t read the book, knowing myself to become overwhelmed by its knowledge as such has happened to me before. But I read…

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