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In the newsletter: It's hard to put the splendor of a frozen Minnehaha Falls into words. But plenty have tried.
🖌 Worth a thousand words: 19th-century descriptions of Minnehaha Falls in winter
It's hard to put the splendor of a frozen Minnehaha fall into words. But plenty have tried.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
In the newsletter: It's hard to put the splendor of a frozen Minnehaha Falls into words. But plenty have tried.
Joining Ed Kohler — one of those people who seems to know everybody — on his quest to run with 100 different people in 2025.
🏃 Ed Kohler's year of 100 friendly jogs
Joining Ed Kohler — one of those people who seems to know everybody — on his quest to run with 100 different people in 2025.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Joining Ed Kohler — one of those people who seems to know everybody — on his quest to run with 100 different people in 2025.
In the newsletter: A visit to 29th and Dorman, where a new window painting greets passersby and eagle watchers each month.
🪟 The Dorman Avenue window painter
Shawna Wolf paints a new window mural each month at 29th and Dorman.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In the newsletter: A visit to 29th and Dorman, where a new window painting greets passersby and eagle watchers each month.
In the newsletter: The full details on the cult-followed neighborhood bakery's plans for moving to larger and St. Paul-ier pastures in the coming months.
🍰 Savory Bakehouse is moving to St. Paul
Savory Bakehouse's social media posts are usually full of good news: In-progress previews of what they're dreaming up for the upcoming weekend; photos of golden-brown items fresh out of the oven; snap...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In the newsletter: The full details on the cult-followed neighborhood bakery's plans for moving to larger and St. Paul-ier pastures in the coming months.
In the newsletter: Upon completion, the house was opened to the public for seven straight days, nine hours a day. Thousands of people filed through, "to glean new ideas on the latest modes of home architecture and furnishings."
🏡 Inside the briefly famous "1936 Insulite House"
Thousands of people filed through the house upon its completion, as it was opened to the public for seven straight days, nine hours a day.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In the newsletter: Upon completion, the house was opened to the public for seven straight days, nine hours a day. Thousands of people filed through, "to glean new ideas on the latest modes of home architecture and furnishings."
In the newsletter: A full-on cornucopia on neighborhood news, including a new playground finally underway at Cooper school, teardowns and rebuilds, work at the 36th Street oak savanna, and more holiday news than you can fit under a tree.
🍂 Monthly miscellanea: November
A full-on cornucopia of neighborhood happenings this month.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In the newsletter: A full-on cornucopia on neighborhood news, including a new playground finally underway at Cooper school, teardowns and rebuilds, work at the 36th Street oak savanna, and more holiday news than you can fit under a tree.
In the newsletter: After the closure of Milkweed took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a tour of the boards that remain.
📌 Bulletin boards of Longfellow
After Milkweed's closure took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a look at 10 community boards still standing.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In the newsletter: After the closure of Milkweed took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a tour of the boards that remain.
In the newsletter: Kela Market quietly opened last week, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware in the heart of what you might call Longfellow's Ethiopian cultural district.
🛒 Specialty Ethiopian grocer opens at 40th and Minnehaha
Kela Market quietly opened last week at 4020 Minnehaha Avenue, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In the newsletter: Kela Market quietly opened last week, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware in the heart of what you might call Longfellow's Ethiopian cultural district.
In the newsletter: A breakdown of neighborhood voting patterns, food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
🗳️ Mid-November miscellanea: Election breakdown
Plus food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In the newsletter: A breakdown of neighborhood voting patterns, food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
In the newsletter: Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
🎃 Monthly miscellanea: October
Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In the newsletter: Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
In the newsletter: A highlight reel, and map, of Longfellow's Halloween decor.
🎃 387 spooky yards
A near-exhaustive look at Longfellow's Halloween decor.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In the newsletter: A highlight reel, and map, of Longfellow's Halloween decor.
In what may be the most riveting newsletter to date, a look at four new traffic-calming medians coming to the neighborhood and the bureaucratic details behind their approval.
⛔ Four traffic-slowing medians coming to previously excluded roads
Previewing four new traffic calming medians, and the (admittedly dry) bureaucratic details behind their approval.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In what may be the most riveting newsletter to date, a look at four new traffic-calming medians coming to the neighborhood and the bureaucratic details behind their approval.
In the newsletter: A look at the history and architecture of the house, designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, which is for sale for this first time since it was built.
🏠 The "Butterfly House" is for sale
A peek inside the midcentury gem designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, virtually untouched since it was built in 1960.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In the newsletter: A look at the history and architecture of the house, designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, which is for sale for this first time since it was built.
In the newsletter: Whatever Whenever, a roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month. Including more than a few spooky ones.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month, including more than a few spooky ones.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In the newsletter: Whatever Whenever, a roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month. Including more than a few spooky ones.
Plus, upcoming candidate forums, a new tenant in a long-vacant Lake Street space, the best marathon watching spots, a new Falls documentary, seasonal business closing dates, free beer brewed from the Community Hops garden, new plantings along the Greenway, fall color updates, and much more.
🎸 September rundown: Hook and Ladder Theater issues emergency fundraiser
Plus, upcoming candidate forums, a new tenant in a long-vacant Lake Street space, where to watch the marathon, a new Falls documentary, seasonal business closing dates, free beer brewed from the Commu...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Plus, upcoming candidate forums, a new tenant in a long-vacant Lake Street space, the best marathon watching spots, a new Falls documentary, seasonal business closing dates, free beer brewed from the Community Hops garden, new plantings along the Greenway, fall color updates, and much more.
In the newsletter: Cornbread didn't miss a beat after the closure of Palmer's forced him to move his weekly Sunday gig to Longfellow's own storied old dive bar.
🎹 Cornbread Harris, 98, brings famed weekly gig to the Schooner
Cornbread didn't miss a beat after the closure of Palmer's forced him to move his weekly gig to Longfellow's own storied old dive bar.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In the newsletter: Cornbread didn't miss a beat after the closure of Palmer's forced him to move his weekly Sunday gig to Longfellow's own storied old dive bar.
In the newsletter: Breaking down the neighborhood's 16 happy hour deals on this gray Tuesday morning.
🍻 Longfellow happy hour rundown
A look at 16 happy hour deals in the neighborhood.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In the newsletter: Breaking down the neighborhood's 16 happy hour deals on this gray Tuesday morning.
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of the Shepherd's Table cheese shop and deli, ahead of its grand opening tomorrow.
🧀 First look: Shepherd's Table
A sneak peek of the long-awaited neighborhood cheese shop and deli.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of the Shepherd's Table cheese shop and deli, ahead of its grand opening tomorrow.
In the newsletter: Tucked into a row of homes, the building doesn't stick out much from its surroundings. But there are clues that it's not a human dwelling.
🛜 USI's being acquired. Let’s visit its oddly handsome utility building.
It doesn't stick out much from the single-family homes that surround it, but there are clues it's not quite a human dwelling.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In the newsletter: Tucked into a row of homes, the building doesn't stick out much from its surroundings. But there are clues that it's not a human dwelling.
In the newsletter: A drive down Minnehaha Avenue a quarter-century ago, via a collection of hastily taken photos by a lost-to-history municipal worker.
🕰️ Take a late-90s drive down Minnehaha Avenue
Last spring, we took a semi-historical drive down Lake Street via a collection of city planning photos from 1998. Per the intro of that piece:
During the warmer months of 1998, a lost-to-history muni...
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August 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In the newsletter: A drive down Minnehaha Avenue a quarter-century ago, via a collection of hastily taken photos by a lost-to-history municipal worker.
In the newsletter: Too much to summarize, really!
🌞 Mid-August rundown: Sneak peek at the Hi-Lake murals
(And much more.)
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August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In the newsletter: Too much to summarize, really!
In the newsletter: Details on the long-awaited deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, set to open September 1.
🧀 At long last, Shepherd's Table is about to open
Details on the long-awaited deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, set to open September 1.
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August 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In the newsletter: Details on the long-awaited deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, set to open September 1.
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of Arya Cafe ahead of its August 9 grand opening, a community meal on 36th Ave, a key hearing for renaming Edmund Boulevard, a new roundabout and speed bumps, a massive loss of groceries due to power outage, an eyebrow-raising deal at Parkway Pizza, and much more.
☀️ July rundown: First look at Arya Cafe
Details on Arya, a community meal on 36th Avenue, a new roundabout and set of speed bumps, a massive loss of groceries due to power outage, an eyebrow-raising deal at Parkway Pizza, and much more.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of Arya Cafe ahead of its August 9 grand opening, a community meal on 36th Ave, a key hearing for renaming Edmund Boulevard, a new roundabout and speed bumps, a massive loss of groceries due to power outage, an eyebrow-raising deal at Parkway Pizza, and much more.
The ...juicy... story behind the community-tended orchard, where anyone is invited to make a modest harvest.
🍑 It's almost harvest season at the Adams Triangle orchard
The ...juicy story behind the community-tended orchard, where anyone is invited to make a modest harvest.
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July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The ...juicy... story behind the community-tended orchard, where anyone is invited to make a modest harvest.
In the newsletter: Business closing, moving, and reopening; major weekend events; the Walzes visit East Lake DQ; and much more.
🍉 Mid-July rundown: Prairie Woodworking and Lowbrow Saints both moving, Asian Duck reopens
Closures, reopenings, major events, the Walzes at East Lake DQ, and much more.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In the newsletter: Business closing, moving, and reopening; major weekend events; the Walzes visit East Lake DQ; and much more.