Calhoun (Carag) Neighborhood News and Events
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CARAG is a distinctive and exciting city neighborhood located just minutes from downtown Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes—including Lake Calhoun, which is within walking distance. The neighborhood includes a mix of single family homes, small and large apartment buildings, churches, a park and small businesses. The CARAG area is well known because part of the community lies within the trendy Uptown and Lyn Lake business nodes—giving residents and visitors many opportunities to eat and shop at unique establishments as well as visit art and theater spaces. (Description from livemsp.org)
Rub elbows . . . and cereal boxes, with professional racers: Bike Festival seeks host families
Organizers of the Nature Valley Bicycle Festival are seeking host families who will share their homes with professional cyclists competing in the prestigious Nature Valley Grand Prix, which runs from June 13 to 17. The Uptown Criterium is Friday, June 15, 4:30 pm to 9 pm.MORE »
Super Duper CARAG Sale: One of Uptown's biggest garage sales is May 19
Spanning eight hours, 48 city blocks and over 50 sales, the CARAG Super Sale is a great way to condense all of your shopping or selling into one day. If you’re simply rotating the clothes in your closet or clearing out your basement, buying or selling – this sale is the new power shopping. De-clutter, reinvent or simply search for essentials. May 19 is the day and CARAG is the place.MORE »
Food Fight! Uptown Cafeteria and Support Group–a restaurant review
Now that the Twins are playing again, it seems appropriate to point to an Uptown bistro that pulls in large crowds for baseball and every other televised sport – people who are typically lively, celebratory, hungry, thirsty and have their game on.MORE »
Tastes from around the globe
Food from all over the world - and you can have it all in Uptown! No matter if you are into European, Asian or American dishes, Uptown is the meeting place for food lovers. Places featured in this article are only some suggestions out of many more options, and certainly all of them will make your mouth water.
The land of smilesMORE »
Getting to green: How do we make environmental decisions?
When I used to walk my dog around Lake Calhoun years ago, I enjoyed being able to feel the earth beneath my feet and notice things that I couldn’t in a car or on a bike. I would notice how the water looks on a cloudy day or the hundreds of ways people walk.MORE »
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