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Cynthia Frost

Cynthia Frost is a real estate agent, attorney and investor who has purchased and renovated dozens of homes in Minneapolis.  She designed the Bargain Homes Tour™  to help people find, finance and fix a home or investment property.  Cynthia’s favorite place to spend Saturday mornings is the Midtown Farmers Market and Midtown YWCA.  She enjoys dining in neighborhood bistros across the city, boating the Mississippi River and singing with the Twin Cities Women’s Choir.  Cynthia serves on the Board of Directors of the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization and chairs the CNO Housing Committee.  Email Cynthia at Cynthia@MidtownMpls.com.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Community Sings this Saturday Corcoran Park

By Cynthia Frost (Neighborhood Notes) | May 10, 2012

This appears to be the Weekend of 2nd Annual Events in Corocran neighborhood, with the 2nd Annual Community Sings at Corcoran Park and residents Re-Painting the Pavement at the park’s southwest int

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Corcoran Dutch Colonial featured on Home Tour

By Cynthia Frost (Neighborhood Notes) | April 25, 2012

The Minneapolis & St Paul Home Tour is this weekend, and a proud Corcoran homeowner has offered  her Continue Reading

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | There’s Still Time to Create Puppets for May Day Parade

By Cynthia Frost (Neighborhood Notes) | April 6, 2012

May Day is just around the corner, but there’s still time to help create puppets for the May Day Parade.  Join Heart of the Beast artists who will walk you through a giant story board of the p

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | The Great Egg Crawl

By Cynthia Frost (Neighborhood Notes) | April 3, 2012

Here’s your chance the find The Golden Egg!  Discover clues at three Easter egg hunts at three local parks on Saturday and find the golden egg to win the grand prize.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Learn How to Guard Your Home Against Burglaries

By Cynthia Frost (Neighborhood Notes) | March 20, 2012

Burglaries have been up in several Minneapolis neighborhoods, and a community gathering this week offers tips on how to reduce the chances that your home will be targeted.  Learn how to assess

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | 18th annual South Minneapolis Housing Fair is Saturday at South High School

By Cynthia Frost (Neighborhood Notes) | March 9, 2012

Is spring fever prompting you to start on that home remodeling or landscaping project?  Stop by the South High on Saturday to get new ideas and find the pros who can help you get that project

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | A Taste of Phillips Art Festival, and a tamale sale

By Cynthia Frost (Neighborhood Notes) | October 27, 2011

A Taste of Phillips Art Festival kicks off Friday with a night of poetry, spoken word and music with open mic.  The event features local youth poets and musicians Taylor Wilson, Holly

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Meet with GROWS this weekend at the Market

By Cynthia Frost (TC Daily Planet) | September 16, 2011

Have you noticed painted doors popping up in neighbors’ yards and wondered what that’s all about?  Perhaps you’ve seen public art projects sprouting up throughout the neighborhood, or heard ab

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Minneapolis to get Museum in the Streets on Lake Street

By Cynthia Frost (TC Daily Planet) | September 13, 2011

Think of a museum, and what comes to mind?  Placid marble hallways. An air of cultured beauty.  Now think of Lake Street.  Clamorous, perpetual motion.  Cacophony of sounds.  Grit.  A new project from Lake Street Council brings it all together with Museum in the Streets.

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Green beans sprout in Frogtown

By Cynthia Frost (TC Daily Planet) | September 9, 2011

Neighbors celebrated the success of the Green-Beaning of Frogtown project last Friday with a Magic Bean Party at West Minnehaha Recreation Center, complete with locally grown food provided by Youth Farm and Market Project, a jazz band from Walker West Music Academy, and a petting zoo.

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Arts

  • Dance as deep listening: “Weave” by Rosy Simas Danse comes to the Ordway

    Rosy Simas of Rosy Simas Danse is Haudenosaunee, Seneca, Heron Clan. She brings a Native feminist lens to the contemporary dance world with her body of work, the latest of which is “Weave,” a collaborative dance project. “Weave” will make its debut on Jan. 12 at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, a co-commissioner in […]

  • Ritual and revelation: Black Ensemble Players reimagine Shakespeare

      “It was kind of a whimsical artistic impulse,” recalled Antonio Duke, as he reminisced on this past spring when Ashawnti Sakina Ford drove him home each night after their rehearsals for a production of “Imaginary Invalid,” a play by 17th-century French actor and playwright, Molière. Duke mentioned that he would love to play Puck, […]

Food and restaurants

  • Project sweetie pie north minneapolis
    North Minneapolis takes back food systems, land through urban agriculture

    Transforming the community and its residents is the main goal of Northside food system organizers, who are using food as a tool to aid in that transformation.

  • Ha Tien Market
    Ha Tien Market still finds home along the Green Line, despite problems

    On a rainy, cool day Ha Tien is a warm and welcoming site.

Education

  • St. Paul’s school resource officer policies still leave district room for improvement

    On May 25, 2016, St. Paul School Resource Officer Bill Kraus forcibly arrested then 19-year-old Darion Bell outside of St. Paul Central High School. Bell, a Black youth who had recently transferred out of Central to the High School for Recording Arts, was on Central’s campus to visit one of his former teachers. Kraus used […]

  • Hiawatha Collegiate High School goes beyond ‘beating the odds’ for students of color

    Equity is one part of a broader vision for the Hiawatha network of schools.

Community Voices

  • [COMMUNITY VOICES] Non-criminal ‘technical violations’ are increasing Minnesota’s prison population

    When it comes to incarceration rates, Minnesota stands out as one of the few states who is experiencing an increase in their prison population despite prison overcrowding and crime at a 50-year low. While there are multiple factors for this, a significant part of this increase is due to the incarceration of formerly released individuals […]

  • Community Voices: [PHOTOS] Minneapolis comes out strong for “Families Belong Together” nationwide march

      On the afternoon of Saturday, June 30, Minneapolis was one of 600 cities and towns across the country to come alive with thousands of people vigorously and collectively denouncing the U.S. government’s federal immigration policies as part of the Families Belong Together nationwide march. Photographer Nancy Musinguzi’s recent photos captured the over 7,000 people […]

In Case You Missed It

IGGERS DIGEST | Katar River: flavors and aromas of Ethiopia

It's easy to miss the Katar River restaurant, hidden away in a little industrial strip behind the Lake & Hiawatha shopping center in south Minneapolis. And even if you saw the big sign outside, you probably wouldn't know that this is specifically an Ethiopian restaurant, and a very good one.

Lynnell Mickelsen: Why all the conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching in this year’s school board race?

This has been the hottest school board race I’ve seen in 25 years of living in Minneapolis, with lots of conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching. Many of my neighbors and friends see the furious posts on Facebook, with all the hysterical warnings about the imminent destruction of public education as we know it, and are honestly confused.

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