St. Anthony Park

Iron Ladies of Liberia, a documentary on the leadership of Liberia’s president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, will be screening at the St. Anthony Park Branch Library November 19. MORE »

by Alan Berks, MinnesotaPlaylist • 11/11/08 •

Most people are lucky if they find one thing in life they enjoy and can get paid to do.

St. Anthony Park resident Chuck Solberg hit the jackpot. He has two gigs—both of them offering outsized pleasure to his creative nature.

At his day job, Solberg is an award-winning potter with a national reputation and works displayed in the permanent collections of museums from the Twin Cities to San Francisco. When evening comes, he’s a blues and jazz musician who has played with some of the greats and still performs regularly in his own trio. MORE »

Billed as a listening session, the Central Corridor meeting was actually a post-it-note brainstorming session geared to members of the business community and property owners around the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (LRT) line in Saint Paul. It was not about discussing the pros and cons of the light rail line, and it was not a question and answer session. Rather, it was to collect information and data that will compiled into a report that will be given, unedited, to city and county officials, to the Met Council and to the non-profit organizations that are part of the partnership. MORE »

When architect Lucas Alm and his wife set out to remodel their Saint Anthony Park home three years ago along “green” lines, their main goal, he says “was to use our house as a way to test a lot of ideas in my practice and with my clients…to answer the question ‘how do you take an old home and make it energy efficient?’” Today, the home abounds in innovative technology and design features. Alm speaks about them with such passion and purpose that sometimes ideas seem to want to tumble out of his head faster than words can form. MORE »

Britta Hansen, originally from St. Anthony Park, has spent the past year as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, near the eastern edge of the Andes Mountains, training villagers in apiculture. Family and friends in Minnesota have directly supported Hansen’s efforts by contributing funds to launch a beekeeping business in the village of Paredones. MORE »

Jim Schrankler is a modest man. His students just made the high water mark in the state science test and he’s trying to spread the glory around. He’s pointing his finger at the students, at the classroom teachers, at the computer specialist, at the parents. MORE »

Americans are often accused of voting, not with their heads, but with their hearts — not to mention other anatomical regions. George W. Bush may have won the last election because he was the candidate most voters preferred to have a beer with. This year’s election might turn on such factors as a taste for moose burgers or the incendiary potential of porcine lipstick. MORE »