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🌲 Dispensary coming to 41st and Lake
In the newsletter: A preview of Tree House dispensary, one of at least three recreational cannabis dispensaries planned in the neighborhood.
⛳️ "Iron Loon" golf club repair shop coming to 40th and Lake
Details on Iron Loon Clubworks, a small golf club repair shop and used equipment retailer that will be the only store of its kind in Minneapolis.
🌷 Mid-May miscellanea
Numerous development updates, spring festivals, Laune's rhubarb trade, and much more.
🪵 Rentable sauna opens in the lot next to Dogwood
Silver Lake Sauna opened for business on the empty lot next to Dogwood Coffee last weekend. Rentable by the seat, it's the only sauna business in the neighborhood.
👕 This year's East Lake Liquor t-shirt color is...
An exclusive sneak peek at this year's variation of the unofficial neighborhood uniform.
📆 Whenever Wherever: May events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🌸 April miscellanea
Spring bloom report, Doors Open preview, hand-painted sign rundown, restaurant updates, and much more.
☕️ "Ducks on Lake" coffee shop opening in the former Milkweed space
More coffee news this week: Duck Duck Coffee will open a second location, called Ducks on Lake, in the former Milkweed space at 39th and Lake. It could open as soon as next month.
☕️ Arya Cafe is back
Details on the reopening of Arya Cafe, where the owners are hoping the third time's the charm for the sunny coffee shop at 46th and Minnehaha.
✒️ Mid-April miscellanea: Lowbrow Saints reopens on Minnehaha
Plus new details on the potential new Anishinabe Academy, Sea Salt opening, a new boardwalk at Minnehaha Park, Dorman Avenue eagle updates, and much more.
🗝 Exploring Lori's Lost Treasures
A visit to 42nd and Minnehaha, where a pair of siblings have opened a shop stocked entirely with their late mother’s extensive antique and vintage
🥪 Shepherd's Table adding a dining room next door
Details on yet another neighborhood business expanding in place.
📆 Whenever Wherever: April events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🚶 March miscellanea: Announcing the Great Longfellow Saunter
In the newsletter: A long walk for no reason in particular, Cooper playground up and running, mutual aid updates, taco truck back in action, seasonal restaurant updates, brunch news, and much more.
🎭 Momentum building for the new Pangea World Theater at Lake and Minnehaha
Details on the oft-shifting plans for Longfellow residents Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukherjee to bring their storied Pangea World Theater to the neighborhood.
🎬 "The Boom" is an eerie short film inspired by the Longfellow Boom
The lowdown on the film and the phenomenon that inspired it, which remains stubbornly unexplained after decades of investigation.
🍀 Mid-March miscellanea
Mutual aid updates, community ed in the neighborhood, a chance to run for the LCC board, dance parties, baseball watch parties, bouquet subscriptions, egg hunts, and much more.
🎁 Corazon gift shop expanding into the old Papa Murphy's
After nearly 20 years in the tight confines of its middle retail space at West River Commons, Corazon is about to double its size.
💿 Storied record store Extreme Noise moving to 36th and Lake
The south Minneapolis institution will move into the former Nostalgia Zone Comics space, part of a recent shuffle of storefronts in the historic commercial building.
🍺 Mixed Culture Brewing planned for 45th and Minnehaha
Veteran brewery operators Qiuxia and Kevin Welch have purchased the building that formerly housed One on One Bike Shop.
🔊 The Longfellow ...Hum?
Residents troubleshoot an irritating new noise — the ones that can hear it, anyway.
📆 Whenever Wherever: March events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
💘 February rundown
LW celebrates 2 years, Lake Street LRT station construction delayed, a neighborhood angle on the Olympics, church for sale, and much more.
🌲 Neighborhood's first dispensary coming soon to 38th and Minnehaha
H.D.S.P.M. Cannabis Dispensary hopes to open as soon as April.
💸 Anatomy of a neighborhood aid fund
Under the hood of the Greater Longfellow Neighbor Relief Fund, the neighborhood's largest mutual aid fund.
🧊 Mid-February ICE rundown
Reports of ICE detentions in the neighborhood have slowed, even as sightings of agents remain common.
💿 Time Bomb and Nostalgia Zone both expanding at 36th and Lake
A shakeup is coming to the southwest corner of 36th and Lake this spring.
🍺 Arbeiter Brewing turns 5
A speed run through the brewery's first five years, which have been bookended by crises.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: February events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🧊 January ICE rundown
The latest on federal immigration activity and neighborhood response.
🤝 Neighborhood support swells in response to ICE activity
How neighborhood residents, businesses, and institutions are responding to novel challenges with little precedent.
🧊 Mid-January rundown: ICE activity intensifies
Federal immigration activity continues to intensify this week throughout the neighborhood.
🧊 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.
