Cookie Cart: Baking cookies, building bright futures
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Walking down West Broadway Ave., it is almost impossible not to smell the sweet aroma coming from the Cookie Cart, 1119 West Broadway Ave.
Elders’ Circle focuses on intergenerational learning
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On Thursday, April 26, the North Community YMCA & Teen Enrichment Center played host to Elders’ Circle 2012, which gathered elders representing various West Metro area s
October opening possible for Plymouth Avenue bridge
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The long process of fixing the Plymouth Avenue Bridge will take even longer than was planned when the job was financed last fall.
FREE SPEECH ZONE | North Minneapolis Hmong Students Vote on Bottineau LRT
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On April 21, 30 Hmong students were taken on a tour of the possible routes of the proposed Bottineau Light Rail Train through north Minneapolis. After the tour, the students voted
Minneapolis continues debate over benefits of adding streetcars to city’s north side
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This past fall, street resurfacing crews removed several city blocks of old streetcar rails along Riverside Avenue left behind from its glory days in the early 20th century.
Rybak pushes for improving North Minneapolis in speech
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In his annual State of the City address Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak linked the fate of the struggling North Minneapolis neighborhood to the overall health of the city.
Beyond “Cornerstones,” common ground and history in North Minneapolis
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UROC Executive Director Heidi Barajas could hear elders filling in details as the documentary “Cornerstones” played on the screen Feb. 23, stuff she’d not heard before.
THEATER REVIEW | The MovingCompany’s “Werther and Lotte”: Melodrama beautifully frozen…but frozen, all the same
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“Werther is a wanderer, a man trying to comprehend the society in which he exists. Captivated by Lotte’s playfulness and compassion, he discovers that she shares his dream of a more empathetic, enlightened society.” What does it say about me, I wondered when I read that program note, that I had just been assuming he wanted to do the horizontal bop with her?
VJ Smith takes lead of national “Mad Dads” organization
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V.J. Smith describes himself as “a turnaround specialist.” He was abandoned by his parents when he was nine years old.
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Teen Poetry Slam April 26 at Sumner library for National Poetry Month
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April, as a growing number of Americans know, is National Poetry Month, a month spearheaded since 1996 by the American Academy of Poets.