🦐 What we know about Lagniappe, the NOLA-style restaurant anchoring the renovated Coliseum
The team behind Du Nord will open a restaurant and cocktail room on the ground floor of the historic building.
✈️ We should hear fewer planes over Longfellow this summer (but more next year)
And a mercifully brief explanation of why.
🏚 Cleanup has (slowly) begun at the former Third Precinct
The fences, barbed wire, and concrete barricades should come down later this summer.
🍔 Peppers and Fries is closing at the end of the month
Peppers and Fries, the beloved burgers-and-burritos sports bar on 39th and Lake Street, is closing June 29 after almost 10 years in business. Father-and-daughter duo Steve and Marie Frias have been planning to sunset the bar since the fall. Having recently finalized the sale of the building to a yet-undisclosed
🏷️ Garage sales galore this weekend
More than 70 sales are planned as part of the annual Longfellow Neighborhood Garage Sale this weekend.
🛶 Getting in the gorge with your neighborhood river tour guides
Paddle Bridge, whose trailer of kayaks you may have seen parked on 42nd Street, connects people to the splendor of the urban Mississippi.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: June events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of June events in Longfellow.
🕰️ Take a drive down Lake Street, 25 years ago
Strung together, these hastily taken photos provide a pretty good time-machine glimpse of what a drive down Lake Street looked like a quarter-century ago.
🚲 The mounting case for extending the Greenway
Momentum is building to extend the award-winning bikeway into St. Paul.
💸 All Square gets windfall grant
The money will help sustain All Sqaure's rapid growth from a small grilled cheese restaurant employing formerly incarcerated people to an influential criminal justice reform advocate connecting incarcerated people to legal training, and running a law firm of its own.
🦜 Bird alert: It's peak migration season in the gorge
Dave Zumeta has been meticulously documenting the birds of the river gorge for more than 35 years.
🏢 Longfellow spots to check out at Doors Open this weekend
The citywide festival opens notable buildings for public viewing.
👗 The "good used stuff" shop opening this weekend on 42nd Ave
True Finds, a secondhand clothing and accessories store, opens on Friday across from Sanford Middle School.
🦅 We’ve got an eaglet in the Dorman nest
Congratulations are in order to the longtime residents of the Dorman Avenue eagles nest, who’ve welcomed at least one new baby eaglet into their expansive family tree.
🍦 Minnehaha Scoop opens Friday
James Freid has been supplying his neighborhood with ice cream for a long time.
⚽️ Fight continues over Minnehaha Academy soccer field upgrades
The school is asking the city for the variances it needs for its soccer field overhaul. A group of neighbors has stepped up pressure to reject or modify the plans.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: May events calendar
Just about everything going on in the neighborhood this month.
👕 Sneak peek: This year's East Lake Liquor shirt drops Friday
The iconic t-shirt has become the neighborhood's de facto uniform, with a new color scheme every year. We have the scoop on this year's look, which drops Friday.
🏡 LCC's popular home improvement grants go live Wendesday
The popular program helps pay for home improvements and is open to people earning up to 80 percent of the area's median income.
🚶♂️Strolling with the lightpole-famous "Men's Walking Group"
The most common billboard in the neighborhood isn’t for Kris Lindahl or TSR or Nicolet Law. It’s for the "Men's Walking Group."
🏫 Vacant Cooper School boarded up to deter intruders
The school board said it has seen fewer intrusions at other vacant schools after boarding the first-floor windows.
🌮 Racket's Best Budget Bites: $7.50 ‘Mini’ Tacos Dorados From Mi Mexico Querido
Racket writer Em Cassel highlights the eyebrow-raising value of Mi Mexico Querido's Mini Tacos Dorados.
🌲 Exploring the Lake Street weed district
Ahead of Saturday's high holiday, a look at four Lake Street businesses staking their claim in the new market.
🌳 What are those brush piles by the river?
They’re part of a largely successful push to rid the area of a buckthorn infestation.
🚫 Don't get got: Street sweeping starts Wednesday
The twice-yearly chore of sweeping the streets of a half-year's worth of salt, sand, litter, and plant matter reaches Longfellow this week on Wednesday and Thursday, and will continue piecemeal over the next three weeks.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange closing for six months
All four ramps connecting the two roads will be closed and Lake Street will be down to one lane in either direction. But once completed, the intersection should be considerably easier to walk, roll, and drive through.
🧵 SKY Chairs HQ moves in
Bob Anderson, who's been handmaking the hanging canvas chairs for almost 50 years, sets up shop in Longfellow.
🗓️ Whenever Wherever: April events calendar
More than 200 things to do in the neighborhood this month.
🐟 Sea Salt opens April 19
Featuring a brand new sandwich shop next door.
🏗️ Latin American Center will replace vacant O'Reilly building
The vacant auto parts shop will be demolished mid-April, with new construction planned for next summer.
