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🔊 The Longfellow ...Hum?
Residents troubleshoot an irritating new noise — the ones that can hear it, anyway.
📆 Whenever Wherever: March events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
💘 February rundown
LW celebrates 2 years, Lake Street LRT station construction delayed, a neighborhood angle on the Olympics, church for sale, and much more.
🌲 Neighborhood's first dispensary coming soon to 38th and Minnehaha
H.D.S.P.M. Cannabis Dispensary hopes to open as soon as April.
💸 Anatomy of a neighborhood aid fund
Under the hood of the Greater Longfellow Neighbor Relief Fund, the neighborhood's largest mutual aid fund.
🧊 Mid-February ICE rundown
Reports of ICE detentions in the neighborhood have slowed, even as sightings of agents remain common.
💿 Time Bomb and Nostalgia Zone both expanding at 36th and Lake
A shakeup is coming to the southwest corner of 36th and Lake this spring.
🍺 Arbeiter Brewing turns 5
A speed run through the brewery's first five years, which have been bookended by crises.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: February events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🧊 January ICE rundown
The latest on federal immigration activity and neighborhood response.
🤝 Neighborhood support swells in response to ICE activity
How neighborhood residents, businesses, and institutions are responding to novel challenges with little precedent.
🧊 Mid-January rundown: ICE activity intensifies
Federal immigration activity continues to intensify this week throughout the neighborhood.
🧊 ICE activity ramps up throughout Longfellow
Updates on ICE activity, and community response, throughout the neighborhood.
🖌 Worth a thousand words: 19th-century descriptions of Minnehaha Falls in winter
It's hard to put the splendor of a frozen Minnehaha Falls into words. But plenty have tried.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: January events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🏃 Ed Kohler's year of 100 friendly jogs
Joining Ed Kohler — one of those people who seems to know everybody — on his quest to run with 100 different people in 2025.
🪟 The Dorman Avenue window painter
Shawna Wolf paints a new window mural each month at 29th and Dorman.
🍰 Savory Bakehouse is moving to St. Paul
Details on the planned departure of the cult-loved bakery in the teeny-tiny space at 36th and Lake.
❄️ Mid-December rundown
Longfellow resident detained by ICE, plan approved for former Shower of Blessings Church, the tallest(?) tree in the neighborhood comes down, and much more.
🏡 Inside the briefly famous "1936 Insulite House"
Thousands of people filed through the house upon its completion, as it was opened to the public for seven straight days, nine hours a day.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: December events calendar
Hundreds of events in the neighborhood this month.
🍂 Monthly miscellanea: November
A full-on cornucopia of neighborhood happenings this month.
📌 Bulletin boards of Longfellow
After Milkweed's closure took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a look at 13 community boards still standing.
🛒 Specialty Ethiopian grocer opens at 40th and Minnehaha
Kela Market quietly opened last week at 4020 Minnehaha Avenue, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware.
🗳️ Mid-November miscellanea: Election breakdown
Plus food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
