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🌮 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.
🍺 Stevens House and Minnehaha Falls debauchery of yore
Debate about repairing the Stevens House at Minnehaha Park recalls a colorful vignette from the park's sordid past.
