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Blogging about North Minneapolis on www.johnnynorthside.com and now picked up by the Twin Cities Daily Planet.

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Tootie's Boiled Peanuts at the West Broadway Farmers Market!

By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

Tootie Martin--no relation to the Tootie's on Lowry Ave. N.--has been making appearances at the West Broadway Farmer's Market selling a Dixieland delicacy: boiled peanuts.
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The Lowry Cafe is looking good and soon to open!

By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

Today, Johnny Northside blog was specially invited for a sneak peak inside the Lowry Cafe, (click here for their Facebook page) which is set to open in early May.MORE »

Street vendor license for Sandy's, home of the Knockout Dog

By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

Sandy's, a food stand which often sets up shop in front of Cub Foods in North Minneapolis, has reportedly been granted a street vendor license by the City of Minneapolis and -- at some time in the foreseeable but more temperate future -- will be setting up shop in the vicinity of the Gay Nineties Bar in the Warehouse District.
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Citizens can jog at the Metrodome!

By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

As much as I enjoy running around the Jordan Pond for exercise--interrupted, from time to time, by some kind of interesting drama--I don't enjoy jogging in Minnesota's winter weather.
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Future MPS headquarters presentation

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By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

The September 27 community forum, Dessert with Don, featured a powerpoint presentation of the anticipated construction specifics of the new Minneapolis Public School Educational Services Center, although I think we will mostly hear it referred to as the district headquarters.MORE »

From soccer mom SUVs to the streets of North Minneapolis...

By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

About a month ago, I purchased "new to me" tires at Rusty's Tire, 2401 West Broadway. The tires cost 30-something dollars each, which included the installation. Where, I wondered, does Rusty's get such affordable tires?

One of the guys at the shop told me how the owner goes to scrapyards and finds the vehicles with decent tires, which he purchases and resells at the shops.MORE »

New public art in NoMi (and it doesn't even make you cringe and clutch your purse)

By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

A new mural is taking shape on the side of the 4th Street Saloon Building, and--unlike a lot of other public art in North Minneapolis--it doesn't appear to be a cringe-inducing chaotic celebration of "urban dystopianism" with an overriding anarchistic graffiti motif, such as the "distorted facMORE »

Get thee behind me, tree-killer phone book devils...

By John Hoff, Johnny Northside

I was under the impression that putting in a formal request NOT to receive a phone book was a futile gesture, that a truck would still drive by and somebody would heave a big portion of a dead tree onto my front steps.MORE »

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