😎 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
🚲 Aboard the Husky Bike Train
Tagging along with the gang of intrepid pedalers who ride to school every day — rain, shine, sleet or snow.
🏃♀️ 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.
🎸 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.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
⚜️ First look: Du Nord Cocktail Room
A preview of the New Orleans-style cocktail room inside the Coliseum building, which opens tonight.
🏬 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.
🎨 Anita White turns the sketchbook on herself
Anita White is one of 120 artists showing their work across the neighborhood this weekend, debuting an inward-looking book at the LoLA art crawl she helped launch.
⛪️ New owner planning community event center in former 41st Ave church
A look at plans for the 115-year-old building, which Thee House Uv Beth-el church put up for sale this summer.
🎨 Weekend paint-a-thon will complete transformation of 36th Ave Bridge
A unique partnership of students, artists, and neighbors have led the transformation.
🛏 What's up at Elsa's House of Sleep?
Tracing the fitful progress at the building that has sat vacant at 36th and Lake since 2019.
🚔 What we know about this morning's active shooter incident inside a Minnehaha Ave apartment building
A chaotic situation involving an active shooter inside an apartment building at 40th and Minnehaha Avenue ended with police shooting the suspect around 4:30 this morning.
🥬 Farm to sidewalk: 35th Ave's little free produce library
Becky Franklin's family can only eat so much asparagus and bok choy. So, every Friday morning after picking up her CSA produce haul, she plucks out what she thinks they'll use and leaves the rest in a cooler outside her house on the 3400 block of
🏗 New plan in motion for Dragon City site
A look at plans for development on the site, which has sat vacant since 2018.
💼 New LCC director joins group at time of existential crossroads
The plum funding that brought neighborhood groups to prominence in the 90s and 2000s has dried up, leaving many facing consolidation, austerity, or dissolution.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: September events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
👗 Audrey Rose Vintage brings retail flair to sleepy Snelling Ave
A look at the newly-relocated Audrey Rose Vintage, Snelling Avenue's only retail shop.
🎡 A fresh limbo for the Cooper School playground
A new wrinkle in the effort to save the vacant school's play area.
🎡 What happened to the Longfellow School playground?
Most of the playground, which has served as the immediate area's de facto play area for more than 100 years, was quietly removed last summer.
🍽 Lynette is open
The highly anticipated cafe-by-day-restaurant-by-night opened for real this morning, after a week of short-notice soft open events.
🏭 Smith Foundry closes this week. What's up with Acme?
A look at the history and future of the mysterious pink building at the corner of 32nd and Hiawatha.
🗑 Plogging the river gorge with Andy Lambert
He's kept up the near-daily ritual of picking up river litter as he jogs for three years, and is hosting a neighborhood group jog to celebrate.
🍔 "Francis" vegan burger joint is coming to the old Peppers and Fries building
The burger joint, which is expanding from its original location in Northeast, caters to vegans and meat-eaters alike.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: August events calendar
A good faith attempt to list every event going on in Longfellow this month.
✂️ A man "carrying large shears" probably caused today's power outage
About 1,400 homes in the neighborhood lost power this mid-morning.
🌊 Improvements coming to Minnehaha Park
The Park Board is considering a range of options for the crumbling south slope overlook, and is hosting a public meeting and survey to gather input.
🛍️ Exploring that strip mall on Hiawatha
A deep dive on the history and businesses of "Parkway Plaza," the easily-forgotten strip mall perched above Hiawatha.
🌽 The 50th-ish-annual Longfellow Corn Feed is on Friday
The event, little known outside the neighborhood, attracts as many as 1,000 people to Longfellow Park.
🛶 Scott Miller's quick trip down the Mississippi
Talking with Longfellow resident and business owner Scott Miller, ahead of next weekend's Riverview Theater premiere of a documentary about his team's world-record-breaking trip down the Mississippi.
