St Anthony West Neighborhood News and Events
October opening possible for Plymouth Avenue bridge
The long process of fixing the Plymouth Avenue Bridge will take even longer than was planned when the job was financed last fall. But if all goes according to plan, cars might start using the bridge again in October, two years after it was closed.
And, the price won’t be quite as high as the early estimates.MORE »
THEATER REVIEW | The MovingCompany's "Werther and Lotte": Melodrama beautifully frozen...but frozen, all the same
"Werther is a wanderer, a man trying to comprehend the society in which he exists. Captivated by Lotte's playfulness and compassion, he discovers that she shares his dream of a more empathetic, enlightened society." What does it say about me, I wondered when I read that program note, that I had just been assuming he wanted to do the horizontal bop with her?MORE »
THEATER | Too much of a "Beautiful Thing"? Not possible.
As a lover of theater and of those all-too-rare instances of well-told stories of gay life in unexpected places (aka the "real world" rather than some gay enclave), I was reminded recently that Jonathan Harvey's play Beautiful Thing ranks right up there for me with Tony Kushner's Angels In America. Yes, in many ways they couldn't be more different, but they have one big thing in common. I will never tell anyone not to see a production of them when they come along.MORE »
SATURDAY PICK | "Beautiful Thing" with the music of the Mamas and Papas
The plot of Theater Latté Da's newest production Beautiful Thing is nothing too scandalous these days: two teenage boys who unexpectedly fall in love. Still, the topic comes during an emotionally relevant time. It wouldn't be Theater Latté Da without music though, specifically that of the Mamas and Papas which is weaved throughout the story, with localite Emily Schwab singing Mama Cass. Beautiful Thing opens on Friday at The Lab Theater and runs through March 18. MORE »
Apartments planned for church site, University Lutheran Chapel raising funds to fight relocation
Plans for another apartment building near the University of Minnesota are moving forward.
On Thursday, Doran Companies heard concerns from the Minneapolis City Planning Commission about its proposed five-story, 94-unit apartment building at 1101 University Ave., where the University Lutheran Chapel currently stands.MORE »
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