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The West Broadway Business and Area Coalition posted on Facebook today that The Avenue Eatery was again open for business, and under new management. I stopped by for a meal and to chat with the new folks about what I experienced before, in hopes those mistakes wouldn’t be repeated. Continue Reading
Six months ago, I took a challenge. I participated in Thirty Days of Biking, in which people commit to getting on a bike at least once every day in the month of April. Continue Reading
Two years ago, I was the first (crazy) person in the area to blog about the bhut jolok Continue Reading
This morning I got my first taste of how an election recount is handled. Turns out the process is a cure for insomnia. To start, the rules were read so that everyone was clear on how the day would proceed. This was an administrative recount only, and would be limited to whether ballots were counted properly for each candidate. Continue Reading
In the game of cribbage, nineteen points is an impossible score. When a player gets a worthless hand with zero points, the running joke among experts and novices alike is that they pegged nineteen points. Continue Reading
This was the question most frequently posed to me over the course of a few months when I would tell friends, neighbors, or colleagues that I wanted to buy the house at 2601 Penn, with “Are you crazy?!” and “Do you want to get shot?” as first and second runners-up. Continue Reading
The Old Highland neighborhood and Preserve Minneapolis have joined forces with renowned preservationist Bob Yapp to put on a series of home rehab “boot camp” sessions over the next several days. Window Restoration Boot Camp started on Friday and lived up to its name. Continue Reading
On Tuesday, June 12, the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority held a meeting seeking public comments on the Bottineau LRT proposal. There’s about sixteen different local government bodies that will weigh in on the merits of various aspects of the Bottineau line, and that’s probably an understated number. Continue Reading
At Saturday’s Spring Green-Up event on West Broadway, I won the prize for the most metaphysical piece of litter picked up along the corridor. (It was a prize I made up on the spot and arbitrarily awarded myself, but I earned it.) A broom was laying in the middle of the street along Broadway and Washington. Continue Reading
