One day you may find yourself sipping your triple low-fat half-caf espresso with a shot of hazelnut and dollop of whipped cream. You’ll be typing away at your laptop and you’ll look up and there on the wall will be a painting that will catch your eye. You’ll stand up, appreciating the gem that was there all along, but that you never noticed before, and you’ll decide it would go perfectly in your living room. So you’ll inquire of the barista, after you bus your dishes, and you’ll arrange to purchase the painting. MORE »

The garden at Loring School is an example of one of those few communal community gardens. Its story begins with a program called Kid’s Cook, an optional after-school cooking class that volunteers Robin Krause, Starla Krause and Susan Telleen started teaching five years ago at Loring Elementary School in Minneapolis. Eager to help students understand and appreciate the origins of food in this age of pre-packaged, processed meals, they focused on the basics of home cooking from scratch. Children learned how to cook a chicken, roast vegetables, bake bread, and make a variety of healthy foods like vegetable stock for soup and curry. MORE »

The University has done controversial studies on ethanol in the past, but a World Bank report leaked in early July pressed the debate even further. MORE »

Although it may take years for complaints against Minneapolis police officers to be resolved, and only a few result in any disciplinary action or victim compensation, city officials and civil rights activists encourage immigrants to file formal complaints. MORE »