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Longfellow Whatever is a reader-funded news project focused on the fine-grained details of life in the Longfellow communities of Minneapolis (Longfellow, Cooper, Howe, and Hiawatha).

Subscribers get frequent, brief updates delivered to their inbox in a tone somewhere between a local newspaper and dispatches from a plugged-in friend: How’s construction coming along on that new restaurant? What does that business in the tiny corner space actually do? What's the plan for that vacant building? Who's behind that iconic holiday lights display or landscaping oddity? How’s business lately at your favorite cafe, movie theater, grocer, or auto shop?

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🗓 Whenever Wherever: November events calendar

A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.

🗓 Whenever Wherever: November events calendar
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🍂 October Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea

Updates on Francis, the Third Precinct, new happy hours, Community Hops Garden, and more.

🍂 October Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
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🚔 What we know about the recent shootout(s) at 34th and Lake

A forced eviction is pending for the promoter who has been throwing large, unlicensed parties associated with the incidents.

🚔 What we know about the recent shootout(s) at 34th and Lake
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🎃 100 spooky yards

A highlight reel (and map) of the neighborhood's most ghoulish decor.

🎃 100 spooky yards
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📚 After parent pressure, Hiawatha will no longer have the two largest first-grade classrooms in the district

A look at the fight against crowded classrooms at Hiawatha-Howe Community School, where three teachers were cut this year despite steady enrollment.

📚 After parent pressure, Hiawatha will no longer have the two largest first-grade classrooms in the district
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🥣 Soup for You! brings gourmet approach to free community meals

Paying a visit to the daily free community meal in downtown Longfellow, ahead of its annual fundraiser on Saturday.

🥣 Soup for You! brings gourmet approach to free community meals
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🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange will stay closed until December

An update on the major reconstruction, which promises to make the complicated junction more palatable no matter how you traverse it.

🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange will stay closed until December
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🦐 First look: Lagniappe

A look at the upscale New Orleans-style restaurant opening in the Coliseum building tonight.

🦐 First look: Lagniappe
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😎 The guy in the chair at the falls

Most non-winter days since he retired 12 years ago, Jerry Miller fires up his Harley-Davidson and rambles down the river road from his home in Seward to Minnehaha Park. Once there, he sets up his camp chair in the same shady spot between Sea Salt and the Falls, tunes his

😎 The guy in the chair at the falls
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🚲 Aboard the Husky Bike Train

Tagging along with the gang of intrepid pedalers who ride to school every day — rain, shine, sleet or snow.

🚲 Aboard the Husky Bike Train
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🏃‍♀️ 5 neighborhood spots to watch the marathon

Longfellow's stretch of the river road offers some of the best spectating locales for the Twin Cities Marathon, which will draw 300,000 spectators and 8,000 runners on Sunday morning.

🏃‍♀️ 5 neighborhood spots to watch the marathon
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🎸 Cloudland rings in a year on Lake Street

It's been a year since Cloudland opened at 36th and Lake, no small feat for a small independent music venue. They're celebrating the milestone with a birthday party Saturday night.

🎸 Cloudland rings in a year on Lake Street
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🗓 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar

A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.

🗓 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar
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⚜️ First look: Du Nord Cocktail Room

A preview of the New Orleans-style cocktail room inside the Coliseum building, which opens tonight.

⚜️ First look: Du Nord Cocktail Room
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🏬 Development plans at former El Nuevo Rodeo move forward

A look at the planned "Viva" project, one of a wave of developments moving forward near 27th and Lake.

🏬 Development plans at former El Nuevo Rodeo move forward