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Q: Who IS that? A: Emily "Piefinger" Weiss, flavorful food writer

By Jay Gabler, Who IS that?

Courtesy Emily Weiss

Name: Emily Weiss

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Engine 261: A Milwaukee Road veteran gets back on track in Northeast Minneapolis

By Bill Huntzicker, TC Daily Planet

Logo on the side of a maroon and orange Milwaukee passenger train. Photos by Bill Huntzicker.

Steve Sandberg, who used to follow his grandfather to work at the Milwaukee Railroad roundhouse in South Minneapolis, today supervises his own train and crew on a 1944 steam locomotive he helped to rebuild over the past four years.

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OUR STORIES | Waiting time: Digital divide in South Minneapolis

By Juanita Espinosa, TC Daily Planet

Photo published under Creative Commons license, some rights reserved by thewebprincess

A young mother waits patiently to use the computer at the Franklin Library on a rainy, snowy, miserable February day.  Lisa (not her real name) checks the time on her phone, knowing she has two more hours before she has to be home. If she can just be patient, she can apply for a job she saw, with a listing that read "No phone calls please. Apply online by tomorrow." 

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Cat blogging: Orson comes home

By Patrice Johnson, Cultural Construct

T turned 40 this year. He admitted he was feeling a sense of ... well, midlife angst. I wondered how he would deal with it. Would he find a girlfriend? A sports car? Golf? Around that time we visited our local Chuck and Don's which is where we buy Oskar's food (elderly Olive is on a prescribed diet) and T fell in love with an orange tabby. "He'd be a perfect playmate for Oskar!"

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Cultural Construct

MPLSzine: A great way to get involved with the Twin Cities creative community

By Amina Harper, The Art House

A photo by Steven Lang occupies a two-page spread in the Beauty issue of MPLSzine

Hello, all. Today I thought I would change it up a bit and tell you about a local writing opportunity. The collaborative submissions based digital publication MPLSzine is now accepting submissions for their 13th issue, “Movement.” This is not a paid writing gig, but it is a great way to get your writing out to an audience, add something to your résumé, and contribute to a great local creative project.

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Save the dates: Lao New Year events in Minnesota

By Staff, Little Laos on the Prairie

Buddhist monks shuffling in. Baskets of candy offerings for the kids to devour. Fancy Lao classics to lum vong to.

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Little Laos on the Prairie

Sucky business: Modern vacuum technology, and appliance regret

By Dale Connelly, Trail Baboon

We finally caved in to a virtual wind tunnel of consumer desire and bought a new vacuum cleaner.

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Trail Baboon

COMMUNITY VOICES | Chillax, broseph, puns are alivelicious

By Art Allen, Community Voices

As the organizer of the Twin Cities Pun Slam, I am appalled at the idea that quality can dictate whether or not a pun is a pun. Slate.com writer Simon Akam suggests that portmanteaus (a subset of puns) such as "chillax," "Wikipedia," and "Bridezilla" are not puns because they stray too far from what some text book says a pun should be. He says we are experiencing "the death of the American pun, replaced by something grosser, dumber, uglier."

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Mulling a life spent in the science fiction community

By Eleanor Arnason, Facts and Fictions

I may have written what follows before. Mulling is like that. And I'm not going back over my old posts. Life is too short to reread what I have previously written.

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Facts and Fictions

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Put your rack where your mouth is: Dinkytown Scrabble tournament features cash prizes

By Bill Huntzicker, Neighborhood Notes

Photo by Logan Sakai (Creative Commons)

Are you a spelling whiz? Try your hand at competitive Scrabble with some people who take the game seriously—or at least competitively.

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