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MN VIDEOS | Art-a-Whirl 1996: What the first year looked like

By Jay Gabler, MN Videos

Art-a-Whirl, now the largest art crawl in the country, had its start in 1996. John Akre was then a volunteer at MTN, and created a 40-minute documentary about the new Northeast Minneapolis event. He's now edited the documentary down to a more concise five minutes to provide this peek into the past.

Time for action to make Washington Avenue in downtown Minneapolis an asset to the neighborhood

By Ethan Fawley, Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition

Washington Avenue is an unsafe and unattractive barrier in the middle of downtown Minneapolis. It severs downtown from the Mississippi River, degrades quality of life in a growing downtown, and creates a hostile highway between the North Loop, Downtown, and the University of Minnesota.

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Minnesota Vikings, University of Minnesota sign multi-million-dollar contract for use of TCF Bank Stadium

By Bill Huntzicker, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Jenni Konrad (Creative Commons)

The Minnesota Vikings will cover all expenses of game-day activities and other impacts on the surrounding communities—and will contribute to the Good Neighbor Fund—when they move into TCF Bank Stadium to play for two to four seasons beginning in the fall of 2014.

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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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100-year-old mining inspection policy will be updated

By Liz Stoever, Session Weekly/Session Daily

Mining companies and employees will have an updated list of mine inspection standards to abide by.

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It's going to be an "African Summer" at the Cedar Cultural Center

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

Amadou & Mariam perform at the Cedar in 2012. Photo by Jon Behm for Reviler.

The Cedar Cultural Center has just announced the lineup for its "African Summer" series: six concerts featuring performers representing the power and diversity of African music today.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Embedded: With the Mosaic Quilting Project in Minneapolis's Kingfield neighborhood

By Francesca Davis DiPiazza, Community Voices

A volunteer adds a piece of cut glass to a mosaic-in-process. The glass pieces are glued onto a fiberglass mesh backing. Later the mesh will be attached with mortar to a firm backing board. Come see the "glass quilts" unveiled at ML King Park (40th & Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis) on Saturday, April 27, at 1–2:30 PM. Photo by Francesca Davis DiPiazza.

I am not the craft-making type. I am a klutz, with an X-Acto blade scar on my thigh to prove it.

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Spring and summer arts festivals in the Twin Cities: What not to miss

By Amina Harper, The Art House

Northern Spark 2012. Photo by Jay Gabler.

When my mother told me that I didn’t understand a true Minnesota winter because it had been many years before my birth that a winter had been this long, it made me feel like I was on an episode of Game of Thrones—because seriously, who talks like that?

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | In Northeast Minneapolis, it's full steam ahead as Engine 261 comes back to life on May 10

By Bill Huntzicker, Neighborhood Notes

A volunteer inspects the horizontal piston that drives one side of the locomotive. Below: home of the 261 in the Harrison Street yard in Northeast Minneapolis. Photos by Bill Huntzicker.

Celebrate the return of steam to the Northeast Minneapolis railroad yards at 5 p.m. May 10 with the restoration of a 1944 Milwaukee Railroad steam locomotive.

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