West 7Th Neighborhood News and Events
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The West Seventh neighborhood is an eclectic mix of historic homes and modern riverfront condominiums; long-time neighborhood establishments and new neighborhood gathering spots; booming entertainment in Seven Corners near downtown and quiet residential areas throughout. The neighborhood has miles of trails flanking the Mississippi that connect to downtown, excellent schools, a burgeoning arts scene, and one-of-a-kind shopping, dining, and entertainment venues along the West Seventh/Fort Road corridor. West Seventh is also home to some of Saint Paul’s most historic homes in the Irvine Park neighborhood (one of Saint Paul’s designated historic districts). The neighborhood has great access to downtown Saint Paul, MSP airport, and the surrounding suburbs—and is served by high frequency transit along West Seventh Street. (Description from livemsp.org)
Union reaches tentative agreement with The Saint Paul Hotel
After six months of unusually bitter contract negotiations, union workers at The Saint Paul Hotel will vote May 17 on a tentative agreement with the company on a new three-year contract. Leaders of UNITE HERE Local 17, the union that represents about 170 workers at the downtown hotel, are recommending members vote to accept the tentative agreement.MORE »
THEATER REVIEW | "The Addams Family" musical: La cage de la mort
In The Addams Family musical, the famously morbid tribe must welcome into their Gothic mansion a family who are distressingly lively and bright. But there's a larger problem that they're not allowed, except for one sly aside about word-of-mouth, to realize: they're in a Broadway musical, a genre as antithetical to unhappy endings as country music is to flag-burning. A successful Addams Family musical would steer into that skid, would deploy the contrarian Addamses to tear down the walls of a genre that's desperately in need of renovation. Instead, the characters inhabit this by-the-numbers show like the brand they are, answering to their names but not their natures.MORE »
THEATER REVIEW | At Park Square Theatre, "Doubt" is a riveting drama
A riveting production of Doubt: A Parable is now playing at Park Square Theatre. In 2005, playwright Patrick Shanley’s play won both the Pulitzer Prize Award for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Director Craig Johnson delivers a tight, well-paced and tense production of this multi-layered play.MORE »
‘Untold Stories’ series celebrates folksinger Woody Guthrie's legacy of song and protest
Most everyone grows up learning to sing “This Land is Your Land,” written by American folksinger Woody Guthrie. You sang about the “redwood forests” and “diamond deserts” but you likely didn’t learn the little-known verses seething with Guthrie’s sharp critique of American inequality.MORE »
"Operation Medicine Delivery" coming to 55102 areas of Summit Hill May 6
On Sunday, May 6, U.S. Postal Service volunteers will make an unusual delivery in selected Twin Cities’ neighborhoods: an empty pill bottle at each residential mailing address.MORE »
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