🧊 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 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.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: November events calendar
Hundreds of events in the neighborhood this month.
🎃 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.
