🎃 Monthly miscellanea: October
Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
🦊 Getting to know the Longfellow foxes
The foxes have become neighborhood folk heroes. Here's what we actually know about them.
🎃 387 spooky yards
A near-exhaustive look at Longfellow's Halloween decor.
🍁 Mid-October rundown: American Rug Laundry is moving
Plus an election preview, the latest on Anishinabe and the Cooper School, construction updates, and much more.
⛔ Four traffic-slowing medians coming to previously excluded roads
Previewing four new traffic calming medians, and the (admittedly dry) bureaucratic details behind their approval.
🏠 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.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month, including more than a few spooky ones.
🎸 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 Community Hops garden, new plantings along the Greenway, fall color updates, and much more.
🎹 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.
☕️ Milkweed is closing
Milkweed will close October 5, ending a seven-year run for the coffee shop at 39th and Lake Street.
🍻 Longfellow happy hour rundown
A look at 16 happy hour deals in the neighborhood.
🧀 First look: Shepherd's Table
A sneak peek of the long-awaited neighborhood cheese shop and deli.
🚨 Eight wounded in Monday night shooting at 28th and Lake encampment
After months of contention between the city and building owner, crews began clearing the encampment Tuesday morning.
🌤️ Mid-September rundown
Details on this year's LoLa art crawl, encampment updates, neighborhood seed art, cheap breakfasts, a new gallery, and much more.
🌾 Ian Young wants to help you help your neighbor plant their boulevard
Ian Young doesn’t want to tell you what to do with your boulevard — but, if you have no preference, he’s pretty sure you’re best off filling it with native plants.
🗳️ Choosing the community tenant for 3000 Minnehaha
Two finalists proposed their vision for using 8,000 square feet of space within the repurposed building.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: September events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
⛺️ August rundown: 27th and Lake encampment standoff continues
Plus updates on Shepherd's Table, Savory Bakehouse, the "Gold Medal Flour" house, and much more.
🛜 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.
🕰️ Take a late-90s drive down Minnehaha Avenue
Via a collection of hastily taken photos by a lost-to-history municipal worker.
🌞 Mid-August rundown: Sneak peek at the Hi-Lake murals
(And much more.)
⚽️ The old Minnehaha Academy ice arena is now a fieldhouse – while it lasts
The history, and future, of the iconic vintage arena on Minnehaha's lower campus.
🧀 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.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: August events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
☀️ 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.
🍑 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.
🏗️ Long-planned redevelopment will begin soon at 44th and Snelling
The four-story, 95-unit affordable apartment building marks the second phase of a project that started with the neighboring Hillock affordable senior apartments.
🍉 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.
🏍️ 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.
🎭 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.
