Fuller Tangletown Neighborhood News and Events

Fuller Tangletown

Photo by Steve Date

Tangletown, named for its graceful, curving streets, is primarily a residential neighborhood but is also home to a number of neighborhood businesses including restaurants, gift shops, and convenience stores.

Steve Date

Steve Date is our neigh-borhood corres-pondent for Fuller-Tangletown, and he wants to hear from you. Tell him about the garage sale, or the big bang on Sunday night - and ask him how to register and get your profile on TC Daily Planet! Email Steve at steven [dot] date [at] yahoo [dot] com.

"I'm a teacher in the Minneapolis Public Schools," says Steve. "I also do freelance video production and make documentary films.  I've lived in Tangletown for 17 years."

Steve's blog is "The 58th Year."

The neighborhood is walkable and safe and residents celebrate events like Earth Day and the 4th of July in Fuller Park-which is at the center of community.

Major city bus lines run along each border of the neighborhood, and major roads offer easy access to the rest of the city—including downtown, only 10 minutes away. (Description from livemsp.org)

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

Emotions run high at Minneapolis Washburn High School community meeting about doll-hanging

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Mel Reeves speaks. 

Hundreds of students, alumni, parents and community members packed Minneapolis Washburn High School’s auditorium Wednesday evening for a community meeting in response to the incident on Friday, Jan

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When a thoughtless prank looks like a hate crime: Washburn High School community responds to a troubling incident

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

An element from The Battle of Everyouth, a work performed by artists Ali Momeni and Jenny Schmid with students from Washburn High School in 2011. Photo by Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Creative Commons).

What possessed a group of kids, earlier this month, to hang a black baby doll from the stairs of Washburn High School? What were they thinking? Why would they do such a thing? I’ve spoken to a couple of students at the school—students who not involved, but who know the kids that did it. They say it wasn’t racially motivated—that it was just a stupid prank, that the kids weren’t thinking about the connotations of how their action would be perceived.

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Celebrate Day of the Dead — Día de los Muertos — in Minneapolis, St. Paul

By Erin Collins, TC Daily Planet

Altar for Día de los Muertos at Mercado Central (Photo by Becky George)

If you could spend one more evening with your dearly departed relatives and friends, what would you serve them? What were their favorite foods? What did they like to drink? What kind of music did they listen to? What else could you do to make them feel welcome, to entice them to pause in their roaming across the earth and take an annual rest stop to eat, drink and be merry one more evening with their you? If you celebrate Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), these questions are urgent, since Mexican traditional beliefs dictate that your ancestors’ spirits will visit soon (typically November 1st and 2nd) and you must prepare an altar in your home to receive them.

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Tammy Ortegon's ColorWheel turns to South Minneapolis block party on August 12

By Jeanette Fordyce, TC Daily Planet

St. Paul Farmers Market — one of Tammy Ortegon's Local Inspiration series. Two other paintings from the series — East Lake and Midtown Global Market — are shown in article. Artwork reproduced here with the permission of the artist. 

“Art is powerful.  The artists that have been remembered were activists.  Picasso was very much anti-war and then there was Frida Kahlo,” said Tammy Ortegon, community organizer and artis

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Parent push-back as Minneapolis schools experiment with "one-size-fits-all" classes

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Tracking students — the process by which students are put into a curriculum track based on their achievement level — used to be the mode of operation for many schools.

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