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In the newsletter: A full-on cornucopia on neighborhood news, including a new playground finally underway at Cooper school, teardowns and rebuilds, work at the 36th Street oak savanna, and more holiday news than you can fit under a tree.
🍂 Monthly miscellanea: November
A full-on cornucopia of neighborhood happenings this month.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In the newsletter: A full-on cornucopia on neighborhood news, including a new playground finally underway at Cooper school, teardowns and rebuilds, work at the 36th Street oak savanna, and more holiday news than you can fit under a tree.
In the newsletter: After the closure of Milkweed took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a tour of the boards that remain.
📌 Bulletin boards of Longfellow
After Milkweed's closure took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a look at 10 community boards still standing.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In the newsletter: After the closure of Milkweed took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a tour of the boards that remain.
In the newsletter: Kela Market quietly opened last week, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware in the heart of what you might call Longfellow's Ethiopian cultural district.
🛒 Specialty Ethiopian grocer opens at 40th and Minnehaha
Kela Market quietly opened last week at 4020 Minnehaha Avenue, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In the newsletter: Kela Market quietly opened last week, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware in the heart of what you might call Longfellow's Ethiopian cultural district.
In the newsletter: A breakdown of neighborhood voting patterns, food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
🗳️ Mid-November miscellanea: Election breakdown
Plus food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In the newsletter: A breakdown of neighborhood voting patterns, food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
In the newsletter: Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
🎃 Monthly miscellanea: October
Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In the newsletter: Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
In the newsletter: A highlight reel, and map, of Longfellow's Halloween decor.
🎃 387 spooky yards
A near-exhaustive look at Longfellow's Halloween decor.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In the newsletter: A highlight reel, and map, of Longfellow's Halloween decor.
In what may be the most riveting newsletter to date, a look at four new traffic-calming medians coming to the neighborhood and the bureaucratic details behind their approval.
⛔ Four traffic-slowing medians coming to previously excluded roads
Previewing four new traffic calming medians, and the (admittedly dry) bureaucratic details behind their approval.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In what may be the most riveting newsletter to date, a look at four new traffic-calming medians coming to the neighborhood and the bureaucratic details behind their approval.
In the newsletter: A look at the history and architecture of the house, designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, which is for sale for this first time since it was built.
🏠 The "Butterfly House" is for sale
A peek inside the midcentury gem designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, virtually untouched since it was built in 1960.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In the newsletter: A look at the history and architecture of the house, designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, which is for sale for this first time since it was built.
In the newsletter: Whatever Whenever, a roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month. Including more than a few spooky ones.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month, including more than a few spooky ones.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In the newsletter: Whatever Whenever, a roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month. Including more than a few spooky ones.
Plus, upcoming candidate forums, a new tenant in a long-vacant Lake Street space, the best marathon watching spots, a new Falls documentary, seasonal business closing dates, free beer brewed from the Community Hops garden, new plantings along the Greenway, fall color updates, and much more.
🎸 September rundown: Hook and Ladder Theater issues emergency fundraiser
Plus, upcoming candidate forums, a new tenant in a long-vacant Lake Street space, where to watch the marathon, a new Falls documentary, seasonal business closing dates, free beer brewed from the Commu...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Plus, upcoming candidate forums, a new tenant in a long-vacant Lake Street space, the best marathon watching spots, a new Falls documentary, seasonal business closing dates, free beer brewed from the Community Hops garden, new plantings along the Greenway, fall color updates, and much more.
In the newsletter: Cornbread didn't miss a beat after the closure of Palmer's forced him to move his weekly Sunday gig to Longfellow's own storied old dive bar.
🎹 Cornbread Harris, 98, brings famed weekly gig to the Schooner
Cornbread didn't miss a beat after the closure of Palmer's forced him to move his weekly gig to Longfellow's own storied old dive bar.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In the newsletter: Cornbread didn't miss a beat after the closure of Palmer's forced him to move his weekly Sunday gig to Longfellow's own storied old dive bar.
In the newsletter: Breaking down the neighborhood's 16 happy hour deals on this gray Tuesday morning.
🍻 Longfellow happy hour rundown
A look at 16 happy hour deals in the neighborhood.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In the newsletter: Breaking down the neighborhood's 16 happy hour deals on this gray Tuesday morning.
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of the Shepherd's Table cheese shop and deli, ahead of its grand opening tomorrow.
🧀 First look: Shepherd's Table
A sneak peek of the long-awaited neighborhood cheese shop and deli.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of the Shepherd's Table cheese shop and deli, ahead of its grand opening tomorrow.
In the newsletter: Tucked into a row of homes, the building doesn't stick out much from its surroundings. But there are clues that it's not a human dwelling.
🛜 USI's being acquired. Let’s visit its oddly handsome utility building.
It doesn't stick out much from the single-family homes that surround it, but there are clues it's not quite a human dwelling.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In the newsletter: Tucked into a row of homes, the building doesn't stick out much from its surroundings. But there are clues that it's not a human dwelling.
In the newsletter: A drive down Minnehaha Avenue a quarter-century ago, via a collection of hastily taken photos by a lost-to-history municipal worker.
🕰️ Take a late-90s drive down Minnehaha Avenue
Last spring, we took a semi-historical drive down Lake Street via a collection of city planning photos from 1998. Per the intro of that piece:
During the warmer months of 1998, a lost-to-history muni...
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August 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In the newsletter: A drive down Minnehaha Avenue a quarter-century ago, via a collection of hastily taken photos by a lost-to-history municipal worker.
In the newsletter: Too much to summarize, really!
🌞 Mid-August rundown: Sneak peek at the Hi-Lake murals
(And much more.)
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August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In the newsletter: Too much to summarize, really!
In the newsletter: Details on the long-awaited deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, set to open September 1.
🧀 At long last, Shepherd's Table is about to open
Details on the long-awaited deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, set to open September 1.
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August 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In the newsletter: Details on the long-awaited deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, set to open September 1.
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of Arya Cafe ahead of its August 9 grand opening, a community meal on 36th Ave, a key hearing for renaming Edmund Boulevard, a new roundabout and speed bumps, a massive loss of groceries due to power outage, an eyebrow-raising deal at Parkway Pizza, and much more.
☀️ July rundown: First look at Arya Cafe
Details on Arya, a community meal on 36th Avenue, a new roundabout and set of speed bumps, a massive loss of groceries due to power outage, an eyebrow-raising deal at Parkway Pizza, and much more.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In the newsletter: A sneak peek of Arya Cafe ahead of its August 9 grand opening, a community meal on 36th Ave, a key hearing for renaming Edmund Boulevard, a new roundabout and speed bumps, a massive loss of groceries due to power outage, an eyebrow-raising deal at Parkway Pizza, and much more.
The ...juicy... story behind the community-tended orchard, where anyone is invited to make a modest harvest.
🍑 It's almost harvest season at the Adams Triangle orchard
The ...juicy story behind the community-tended orchard, where anyone is invited to make a modest harvest.
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July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The ...juicy... story behind the community-tended orchard, where anyone is invited to make a modest harvest.
In the newsletter: Business closing, moving, and reopening; major weekend events; the Walzes visit East Lake DQ; and much more.
🍉 Mid-July rundown: Prairie Woodworking and Lowbrow Saints both moving, Asian Duck reopens
Closures, reopenings, major events, the Walzes at East Lake DQ, and much more.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In the newsletter: Business closing, moving, and reopening; major weekend events; the Walzes visit East Lake DQ; and much more.
In the newsletter: A peek inside the architecturally-curious Honda Town building, which is for sale after more than a half-century on 43rd and Lake.
🏍️ Honda Town winding down business after 56 years on Lake Street
Honda Town has listed its building for sale and plans to sunset the business once it's sold, marking the end of a run on Lake Street that has stretched across seven decades and three generations.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In the newsletter: A peek inside the architecturally-curious Honda Town building, which is for sale after more than a half-century on 43rd and Lake.
In the newsletter: A peek inside Rick Polenek's corner studio across from Longfellow Park, where he's designed theater sets for the past quarter-century.
🎭 Inside the small world where Rick Polenek builds small worlds
A peek inside Rick Polenek's corner studio across from Longfellow Park, where he's designed theater sets for the past quarter-century.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In the newsletter: A peek inside Rick Polenek's corner studio across from Longfellow Park, where he's designed theater sets for the past quarter-century.
In the newsletter: George Johnson caused a minor media circus in the neighborhood yesterday after discovering a long-hidden ad painted on the side of his home during a re-siding project, revealing its past as a corner grocery store.
🏅 Minnehaha Ave house goes locally viral after unearthing 110-year-old shop sign
A routine siding job revealed evidence of the house's heritage as a corner grocery store.
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July 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In the newsletter: George Johnson caused a minor media circus in the neighborhood yesterday after discovering a long-hidden ad painted on the side of his home during a re-siding project, revealing its past as a corner grocery store.
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In the newsletter: Whenever Wherever - July, an attempt to roundup every event in the neighborhood this month.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: July events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
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July 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Honestly this is probably my favorite email newsletter (with @racketmn.com a close second!).
In the newsletter: Whenever Wherever - July, an attempt to roundup every event in the neighborhood this month.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: July events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
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July 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In the newsletter: Whenever Wherever - July, an attempt to roundup every event in the neighborhood this month.