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🏗️ What's going on in the old substation at 32nd and Hiawatha?
Spoiler: A little, but not a lot.
🐶 A sneak preview of the Howe's new all-season "pawtio"
The new structure will feature clear walls, a roof that opens and closes, a nine-foot gas fireplace, TVs, expanded seating, and more.
🌮 Visiting downtown’s permanent taco trailer
Jaime Lopez operates the trailer at Lake and Minnehaha seven days a week.
🏈 Skol! The Vikings house just got a fresh coat of purple
Mary and Paul Uphoff first painted their Minnehaha Avenue home a Vikings-inspired purple more than 30 years ago.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: November events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
🍂 October Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
Updates on Francis, the Third Precinct, new happy hours, Community Hops Garden, and more.
🚔 What we know about the recent shootout(s) at 34th and Lake
A forced eviction is pending for the promoter who has been throwing large, unlicensed parties associated with the incidents.
🎃 100 spooky yards
A highlight reel (and map) of the neighborhood's most ghoulish decor.
📚 After parent pressure, Hiawatha will no longer have the two largest first-grade classrooms in the district
A look at the fight against crowded classrooms at Hiawatha-Howe Community School, where three teachers were cut this year despite steady enrollment.
🥣 Soup for You! brings gourmet approach to free community meals
Paying a visit to the daily free community meal in downtown Longfellow, ahead of its annual fundraiser on Saturday.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange will stay closed until December
An update on the major reconstruction, which promises to make the complicated junction more palatable no matter how you traverse it.
🦐 First look: Lagniappe
A look at the upscale New Orleans-style restaurant opening in the Coliseum building tonight.
😎 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.
