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St. Paul's best-kept Christmas secret

By Louise Ernewein , TC Daily Planet

From the outside, it looks like any other slightly neglected railroad building.

The paint is peeling, the letters are fading, and there is an old bus parked out the front.

But remember the old adage – don’t judge a book by its cover. Once you step inside the Jackson Street Roundhouse, you are transported to a magical Christmas wonderland filled with bells, whistles, flashing lights and an intricate Lego train layout featuring Mount Fuji, a fairytale European city and an underground forest. MORE »

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Building a "citizen’s archive" of the RNC

By Jeff Severns Guntzel , Minnesota Indpendent

Nigel Parry wasn’t arrested, harassed or gassed during the RNC. But he was affected.

At the Tilsner Artists’ Cooperative, where he’s lived on and off over the years, he shared a room a friend was renting out to people working for Indy Media and the Glass Bead Collective. “I spent the week with extremely freaked out and justifiably paranoid independent media people.” MORE »