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Melanie Danke is our neighborhood correspondent in Northrop. Tell her about the garage sale, or the community garden - ask her how to register and get your profile on TC Daily Planet!

Melanie lives in the Northrop neigh-borhood, but crosses the river to her Two Smart Cookies shop in St. Paul. She is excited to be involved in community journalism as a neighborhood correspondent, and looks forward to hearing from you. You can hear from her on her blog, Plumb Tuckered Out.

Melanie says her favorite spots include, "Any of the many beautiful Twin Cites libraries... despite my habitually massive fines."

Contact Melanie at melaniedanke [at] tcdailyplanet [dot] net

Field Regina Northrop is conveniently located less than 5 miles from downtown Minneapolis just east of 35W, roughly midway between Lake Harriet and Lake Nokomis. Our neighborhood is bordered to the south by Minnehaha Creek, along which runs a path for walking, running, in-line skating or biking. The business district at 48th and Chicago is home to restaurants ranging from Mexican to Sushi and businesses ranging from hardware to tennis supplies. McRae Park and Recreation Center is the focal point for a number of youth activities; and in the spring the park serves as the location where the neighborhood holds a festival to celebrate the diversity of its residents 

(Description from livemsp.org)

For detailed demographic information, see the neighborhood profile from Minnesota Compass. 

 

Who made those pretty red tiles?

By Lisa Peters, Bridge Number 9

Not every neighborhood has a 100-year-old red tile grain elevator.

I’ve strolled past this Main Street landmark a million times and not really seen it. But in the right light and close up, those red tiles are very cool.

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Bridge Number 9

The era of conservative discontent

By Myles Spicer

It takes very little political savvy to see the discontent that roams the right in the American political scene. A conservative House of Representatives is dysfunctional – with Speaker Boehner unable to coalesce his troops. The popularity of GOP presidential candidates changes monthly, with half already dropping from the race.  The voices of the Tea Party are surprisingly quiet.

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Sending out a pebble of happiness.

By Melanie Danke, Plumb Tuckered Out
Does winter finally get to everyone? It seems funny to say, since we've been having the mildest winter in, well, forever. No ice on the road, no snow emergencies, no days off school, no worrying that you're going to get frostbite waiting for the bus... so why am I still yearning for spring?
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Plumb Tuckered Out

Loose Lips & Loose Fingertips

By Jean Holewa

The expression "Loose Lips May Sink Ships," was coined by the  U.S.

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Mission Impossible

By Melanie Danke, Plumb Tuckered Out
 

This is exactly how I get into trouble.

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Plumb Tuckered Out

Body parts

By Emilio DeGrazia

Because I’ve always been interested in what people believe, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at pictures of their gods. For many years the ancient gods––Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek––seemed very bizarre. The people in those old lands had so many strange looking gods I wondered how they knew what to believe.

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Passing on the torch from the geriatric generation

By Steve Clemens, Mennonista

In one week in early January 2012, the Twin Cities peace community lost Dr. Gene Ott, age 82, and Marv Davidov, age 80 after months and years of failing health.

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Mennonista

Martin Luther King, “Where do we go from here?”

By Dick Bernard, Outside the Walls

Sunday morning at Basilica of St. Mary, Fr. Greg Miller chose to close his homily with an extended quote from Martin Luther King’s talk to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 16 August 1967.

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Outside the Walls

I have a minor distate for some political bloggers

By Sam Gelfand

Last week, I wrote about a blogger named David Seaman who was a contributor for Business Insider.  Business Insider is much like another website that I wrote about in the past called Triond.&n

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"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is as twisted as it is dark

By Zachary Tollefson, Tuesday Movie Men

Often times, when there is a screenplay adapted from a book, folks tend to believe the movie can’t live up to the hype.  The stigma is not true of this thriller, which delivers nothing short of perfection.  Adapted for the silver screen from the international best seller by the late Steig Larsson, this film is features a truly misunderstood girl that works as an investigator, using no

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Tuesday Movie Men
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