Longfellow

Shabelle Grocery's secret Ethiopian restaurant now offers a lunch buffet

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

The little Ethiopian restaurant hidden away inside the Shabelle Grocery used to be one of the best-kept secrets in the Seward neighborhood—until recently, there was no sign outside to indicate that Shabelle was more than just a grocery store. Finally, last week, they put a sign in the window announcing their new $8.99 lunch buffet, served Monday to Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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42nd Avenue - History Still Happening

By Phil Anderson, Back Then But Now

“Dynamic” can describe even the calmest-looking streets. As an almost arbitrary example, take 42nd Avenue in Minneapolis, south from Lake to 42nd Street. It’s loaded with past, present and future food-shopping spots, which in 1930 alone (again, arbitrary) numbered twenty: bakeries, meat markets, grocers, dry goods.

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Back Then But Now

Peterson Machinery redevelopment

By Jim Mork, Cooper-Lake Diary

The Longfellow Community Council had a public meeting concerning a proposal to develop 3815 Lake Street E and the rest of the block. A former owner of Riverside Market is the proposed owner. He plans to replicate a turn of the century general store, with a host of quaint touches.

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Cooper-Lake Diary

Beer? Wine? Meat? Late hours? Dawn of the new—with a nod to its past—at Seward Cafe in Minneapolis

By Bruce Johansen, TC Daily Planet

Cafe crew toasting a new chapter (Photo by Julia Merle-Smith)

Bruce Johansen

Friday, March 8 marked a new chapter for the Seward Café, one that in many ways returns it to its roots. The worker-owned, collectively-run cooperative will once again be open late into the evening. Staying true to its mission, it will begin offering more meat options, as it did in the past, and resume pouring beer and serving wine. Entertainment will be regularly featured, beginning later this month.

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Ethiopian flavors spice up Shabelle grocery and restaurant in Minneapolis

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

Abdur Omer

Abdur Omer, co-owner of Shabelle, the little Ethiopian grocery store and restaurant on Franklin Avenue, opened his store 13 years ago after moving to Minnesota to be near friends. He first moved to Washington, D.C. from Ethiopia in the 1980s and it was there, just a couple of years before he arrived, where I first became aware of Ethiopian cuisine. The city’s many Ethiopian restaurants were popular with the many Ethiopian cab drivers, and although I was only an Iowan cabdriver, I’d grab the same take-out as my fellow cabbies, nibbling on dinner as I trolled for fares. I loved the fragrant stews and the bread it was served on. They were unlike any cuisine I’d tried.

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Moon Palace Books: A new Longfellow independent

By Amina Harper, TC Daily Planet

Angela Schwesnedl at Moon Palace Books. Photos by Amy Gee.

Moon Palace Books is a brand new independent bookstore tucked behind Peace Coffee and the Trylon Microcinema on 33rd and Minnehaha.

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Q & A with Abdiasis Hirsi: sharing a newfound passion for bicycling with East African community

By Bruce Johansen, TC Daily Planet
Bruce Johansen

Until Abdiasis (Abdi) Hirsi was hired as community outreach coordinator for SPOKES Bike Walk Connect last August, he had never ridden a bicycle.

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Minneapolis Airport "Highways in Sky" delayed, to get public hearing

By Michael McIntee, The Uptake

Senator Scott Dibble

The public will be heard before the jet noise gets any louder around the Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport.

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THEATER REVIEW | "Kill Me Don't Go" by Workhaus Collective: Four great performances and a great idea trying to get out

By Matthew A. Everett, TC Daily Planet

(standing) Neal Skoy (Ethan), Sara Richardson (Joy), (prone) Patrick Bailey (Richard), and Cheryl Willis (Marcella) in Kill Me Don't Go. Photo by Rich Fleischman, courtesy Workhaus Collective.

There are four great performances and a great idea trapped in Trista Baldwin's play Kill Me Don't Go. The problem is they have a really hard time getting out.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Ruling in favor of Anita Reyes late yesterday - Eviction order has been stayed because of illegal eviction procedure

By Richard LaFortune, Free Speech Zone

Woodlands National Bank summons authorities to eviction, police dismiss the call.

R LaFortune

RULING IN FAVOR OF ANITA REYES LATE YESTERDAY - EVICTION ORDER HAS BEEN STAYED BECAUSE EVICTION PROCEDURE DEEMED ILLEGAL.   ANITA SLEPT IN HER HOME OF 17 YEARS L

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