Eric Mahmoud on charter school expansion
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The Minneapolis School Board has voted to expand charter school options available to families in the city.
Minneapolis North High welcomes Dr. Shawn Harris-Berry as new principal
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Monday March 5, Northside community members gathered at the Minneapolis Urban League to welcome Dr. Shawn Harris-Berry as North High’s new principal.
Post-Tornado tear-down list analyzed
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Thankful for a non-snowy winter, the City of Minneapolis reports 154 homes in the North Minneapolis tornado path still having open orders for roof repairs, according to Jill Kiener, coordinator of
FREE SPEECH ZONE | A Peek Inside North Side Biking: The story of JB Hood
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UPDATED 3/21/2012 (see below) — For 10 short months JB Hood Bikes, a small bike shop with big dreams, worked out of a garage on the south side of West Broadway, between Fremont and Emerson.&nb
SUNDAY PICK | The melodrama of “Lucia di Lammermoor” takes hold of St. Paul
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Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, while it may be entirely in Italian (with English subtitles projected above the stage, mind you), has stood the test of time. The plot contains all the vital components of a titillating drama: forbidden love, bitter feuds, and disastrous consequences. With only five showings at the Ordway, Lucia di Lammermoor will probably leave you wanting more, especially if you don’t see it.
Wanted: Northside residents with passion for helping families
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Later this summer, the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) will be hiring just under 30 people to fill new employment slots.
Catalyst cut staff, will focus on properties in portfolio
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Sue Wollan Fan promptly returned a call to her cell phone, and talked frankly about Catalyst Community Partners’ recent eye-opening “pilot” that didn’t work, in North Minneapolis.
THEATER | Too much of a “Beautiful Thing”? Not possible.
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As a lover of theater and of those all-too-rare instances of well-told stories of gay life in unexpected places (aka the “real world” rather than some gay enclave), I was reminded recently that Jonathan Harvey’s play Beautiful Thing ranks right up there for me with Tony Kushner’s Angels In America. Yes, in many ways they couldn’t be more different, but they have one big thing in common. I will never tell anyone not to see a production of them when they come along.
Northside Achievement Zone envisions a ‘tipping-point’ of success, Promise Neighborhood grant offers a chance to break the poverty cycle
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Over the next five years, just over 1,000 families in an 18-by-13-block area of North Minneapolis will be participating in a $28 million social experiment.
SATURDAY PICK | “Beautiful Thing” with the music of the Mamas and Papas
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The plot of Theater Latté Da’s newest production Beautiful Thing is nothing too scandalous these days: two teenage boys who unexpectedly fall in love. Still, the topic comes during an emotionally relevant time. It wouldn’t be Theater Latté Da without music though, specifically that of the Mamas and Papas which is weaved throughout the story, with localite Emily Schwab singing Mama Cass. Beautiful Thing opens on Friday at The Lab Theater and runs through March 18.