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Play by Play: A new independent bookstore for the theatrically-minded
Surrounded by empty bookshelves, stacked chairs, oversized papier-mâché hats, and other left-over props, Kelly Schaub, the owner of Play by Play Theatre Bookstore, and I sat down to discuss the inspiration and future plans for this unique store located at 1771 Selby Avenue in St. Paul—between Fairview and Snelling, near Macalester College and the University of St. Thomas.MORE »
Community theater potluck builds friendships in St. Paul
The lights were warm, especially compared to the falling temperatures outside, and the only camera was mine, but there was plenty of action during the Friday night reading of "The Subject Was Roses." The Frank D.MORE »
Calling all pasty Pats
by Jay Gabler | 8/17/09MORE »
St. Paul schools closing: Roosevelt, Longfellow
The St. Paul Board of Education voted Tuesday night to close Roosevelt and Longfellow elementary schools, but spared Sheridan, which had also been on the list. The 5-1 vote on Roosevelt came after the board heard more pleas from West Side residents to spare their community school. The schools will remain open for the 2009-10 school year, and will close for the 2010-11 school year.MORE »
8th Annual People's Choice Flavor Awards at Izzy's Ice Cream
Sun, 2009-06-28 13:00 - 16:30
Guerrilla gardeners: They give themselves permission to plant
"We sometimes just do it because it needs to be done. We don't do it for accolades, but we do know that people enjoy it. That is the fun part. It brings pleasure to others. We are the sort of folks who love flowers and want to beautify parts of the city," said Shawn Bartsh, a self-proclaimed guerrilla gardener.
Bartsh has adopted the planter at her community recreation center in St.MORE »
MUSIC | Room For Gray take "The Next Step" into hard-edged soft rock
“Anyone in the music industry knows that success is contingent on a bit of luck,” reads the press release for Room For Gray’s fourth outing The Next Step, “but luck is useless without a burning desire to win and a relentless work ethic to back it up.” Hard to argue with any of that. However, whoever wrote the thing left out an incidental ingredient called talent.MORE »
Gardening on the Red River Ox-Cart Trail
Over the past decade, this triangular lot at St. Anthony and Raymond Avenue in St. Paul went from a city-mowed blandness to a beautiful flower garden with benches and paths, all through the time and talent and care of Master Gardener Karen Wargo.MORE »
Organizing around the Central Corridor
Nieeta Presley says she is "not going to stand still and let the Central Corridor train run me over." Along with hundreds of neighbors along the Central Corridor route in St. Paul and Minneapolis, she is organizing to protect and promote the interests of the people who live and do business along that route. The executive director of the Aurora St.MORE »
Theater at St. Thomas: Dowling up, Foley down
by Jay Gabler | 4/30/09
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