Longfellow Neighborhood News and Events

Stretching south from I-94 along the Mississippi River, the Longfellow community includes these neighborhoods: Seward, Longfellow (of course), Cooper, Howe, and Hiawatha

The Greater Longfellow Neighborhood may be best known for its bungalows.

It proudly declares itself a Traditional Bungalow Neighborhood on signs throughout the community, and has had its special homes featured in countless magazines and books. Built to be affordable, manageable and most of all beautiful, Longfellow provides the perfect setting for Craftsman cottages. But maybe it's the Mississippi River and its biking and walking trails on the east, or historic Minnehaha Falls to the, or the new Hiawatha Light Rail line on its western border that Longfellow is best known for. Or perhaps, it is the lush, new, Midtown Greenway bike path on its northern border. It can be difficult to decide.

And you can't ignore Lake Street, which travels through Longfellow to the Mississippi, providing a vast array of shops and businesses. From sushi to Sliders, from motor scooters and car mechanics to veterinary care and cappuccino, you can find it here.

Longfellow remains an affordable, friendly, diverse and walkable neighborhood, with scenery second to none.

(Description from livemsp.org)

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

 

MONDAY PICK | Accordo play classical music in a modern landmark

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Michael Hartford (Creative Commons)

It might be going a little far to call Minneapolis "a great chamber music town," but classical music played by small ensembles is enjoying a local renaissance with the opening of St. Paul's Baroque Room and the happily busy crack team who call themselves Accordo. The group, which includes top players from both the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, can handle a wide range of music; on May 14, they're presenting a program that ranges from the classical period (Haydn) to the modern period (Ingolf Dahl), with a stop in the late Romantic era (Brahms). The venue for the concert is unmistakably modern: the Saarinens' landmark Christ Church Lutheran.

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Community Sings this Saturday Corcoran Park

By Cynthia Frost, Neighborhood Notes

This appears to be the Weekend of 2nd Annual Events in Corocran neighborhood, with the 2nd Annual Community Sings at Corcoran Park and residents Re-Painting the Pavement at the park's southwest int

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WEDNESDAY PICK | Return to the Cedar Tavern via the Trylon Microcinema

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

In the 1950s, the Cedar Street Tavern in New York City was home to some of the most pivotal meetings and discussions in the history of modern art: regulars included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Phillip Guston—not to mention writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. You can't visit the Cedar bar any more (the original bar was torn down in 1963, and its successor was lost to condominium development in 2006), but you can see Alfred Leslie's 2001 documentary The Cedar Bar, which screens at the Trylon Microcinema on May 2 as part of the Every Hundred Feet series of movies about art and artists.

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | East Lake Library gears up for 2012 Book Sale

By Jim Mork, Neighborhood Notes

The Friends of the East Lake Library hold an annual sale of books, mostly used.  The purpose of the sale is to create a fund upon which the library can draw in order to add items to its collec

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WEDNESDAY PICK | "The Peanut Butter Solution" makes for a sticky situation at the Trylon Microcinema

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Sometimes you're watching a movie and you start thinking about all the people involved in it. There must have been a writer, and a director, and a set designer, and an entire production team. Did any of them realize just how...weird this movie is? With the strangest movies, it's hard to know. Such is the case with The Peanut Butter Solution, a 1985 Canadian film that Jezebel calls "the most horrifying film of all time"—despite the fact that it's intended to be a light family comedy. (Maybe the songs by Celine Dion had something to do with it.)

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