Bottineau Neighborhood News and Events

Located along the Mississippi, in the heart of the Northeast Arts District, Bottineau is a destination for many artists to live and work-with the conversion of the California Building into artist studios in the 1980s. The Bottineau neighborhood has a nice mix of amenities including a large park, a library, restaurants and bars along University Avenue, and its close proximity to downtown.  The neighborhood.  Home prices are modest, streets are lined with trees, and residents participate in programs that beautify the neighborhood and improve it for the future.  Mulberry Junction Community Garden was established in 1996 by artists from the adjacent California Building and it now holds a grassy picnic circle to enjoy mature perennial and native gardens as well as thirty-five vegetable plots tended by a diverse array of gardeners. 

(Description from livemsp.org)

For detailed demographic information, see the neighborhood profile from Minnesota Compass. 

 

Sea Change's happy hour, Psycho Suzi's patio, and roasted goat at the An-Nuur International Restaurant

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

Highlights of a week of eating: 

Let's see—Sunday night Carol took me out for Father's Day for dinner and a show. The real highlight was actually the show, Clybourne Park at the Guthrie. It's one of the best plays I have seen in years: a sharp, funny, serious play about race that had the audience laughing out loud (and squirming in their seats). (Read Jay Gabler's Daily Planet review.) But the late night bite next door at Sea Change was also a treat. Sea Change offers a happy hour every night from 8 to 11 p.m.  (and also Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3 to 6, and Mondays from 5 to 6.) We split an order of fries, a cup of bouillabaisse ($6), crisp fried calamari with curry aioli ($7), and a shrimp cocktail ($8), all beautifully presented and robustly flavorful.

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Bottineau Park Bike Rodeo brought bike culture to East African Community

By Beth Peloff, TC Daily Planet

WellShare International, SPOKES Bike Walk Connect and Bottineau Recreation Center teamed up to put on a bike rodeo as a part of Bike Walk Week. At this multicultural event, participants learned about how to ride a bicycle, bike repair basics, bike safety, and practiced riding in challenging situations.

Parka and The Sample Room: Smart and unpretentious

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

Tracing the genealogies of the local restaurant scene is a bit like sleuthing the vectors of STD transmissions: Chef A worked in the kitchen at restaurant B with sous chef C, who transmitted his technique of making dish D to chef E, who showed up six months later at restaurant F with a variant strain of that dish, which sous-chef G spread to cafe H...etc. etc.

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Lowry Ave. Bridge in "9th inning"

By Kerry Ashmore, Northeaster

Drivers on both sides of the river look forward to the day when the construction cranes won’t be in this picture. The final layer of cement is set to go in starting September 10 and will take until the end of the month. The most recent projected opening date for the Lowry Avenue bridge is sometime in October. (Photo by Margo Ashmore)

Talk of “delay” in opening the new Lowry Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River rubs Hennepin County Construction Project Engineer Paul Backer the wrong way.

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THURSDAY PICK | SpoutStock takes local musicians between the covers for independent literature

By Mary Treacy, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Venus DeMars

What’s hot in Northeast Minneapolis these days is the growing visibility of the several independent publishers that call the neighborhood home. Among these, Spout Press is the longest-running and one of the most prolific literary publishers in the Twin Cities. Sprout Press will hold their tenth annual cover song contest and fundraiser on Thursday, July 19.

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