Blog
🎨 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.
🗓 Whatever Whenever: 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.