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🎡 A fresh limbo for the Cooper School playground
A new wrinkle in the effort to save the vacant school's play area.
🎡 What happened to the Longfellow School playground?
Most of the playground, which has served as the immediate area's de facto play area for more than 100 years, was quietly removed last summer.
🍽 Lynette is open
The highly anticipated cafe-by-day-restaurant-by-night opened for real this morning, after a week of short-notice soft open events.
🏭 Smith Foundry closes this week. What's up with Acme?
A look at the history and future of the mysterious pink building at the corner of 32nd and Hiawatha.
🗑 Plogging the river gorge with Andy Lambert
He's kept up the near-daily ritual of picking up river litter as he jogs for three years, and is hosting a neighborhood group jog to celebrate.
🍔 "Francis" vegan burger joint is coming to the old Peppers and Fries building
The burger joint, which is expanding from its original location in Northeast, caters to vegans and meat-eaters alike.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: August events calendar
A good faith attempt to list every event going on in Longfellow this month.
✂️ A man "carrying large shears" probably caused today's power outage
About 1,400 homes in the neighborhood lost power this mid-morning.
🌊 Improvements coming to Minnehaha Park
The Park Board is considering a range of options for the crumbling south slope overlook, and is hosting a public meeting and survey to gather input.
🛍️ Exploring that strip mall on Hiawatha
A deep dive on the history and businesses of "Parkway Plaza," the easily-forgotten strip mall perched above Hiawatha.
🌽 The 50th-ish-annual Longfellow Corn Feed is on Friday
The event, little known outside the neighborhood, attracts as many as 1,000 people to Longfellow Park.
🛶 Scott Miller's quick trip down the Mississippi
Talking with Longfellow resident and business owner Scott Miller, ahead of next weekend's Riverview Theater premiere of a documentary about his team's world-record-breaking trip down the Mississippi.
🏋️♀️ Solcana Fitness is coming to downtown Longfellow
The gym, focused on small group fitness classes, will move from Seward this fall.
🚸 Andy Sturdevant traces Longfellow’s “geography of childhood”
Sturdevant, a one-of-a-kind chronicler of Minneapolis life and a semi-recent Longfellow transplant, is leading a neighborhood walking tour this weekend.
🍽 Lynette on pace to open in about a month
A speed run of everything we've learned about Lynette lately, ahead of its opening next month.
🍜 Asian Duck makes a go of it at 46th and Minnehaha
Following two short-lived predecessors, the husband-and-wife duo is serving up a tight menu of Thai and Laotian favorites.
🌳 Brackett Park is (finally) getting its swings back
The set should be back in swing in about two weeks.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: July events calendar
200+ events going on in Longfellow this month.
🧀 When's Shepherd's Table going to open?
Soon. Ish.
🏢 Agate breaks ground on emergency shelter, affordable housing project on 27th Ave
The four-story building, a block east of Cub, will provide shelter and housing for about 100 people at a time.
🎒 Little Sparks Montessori preschool opening this fall
A group of parents are reviving the spirit of Riversong Montessori, which closed suddenly this winter when its founder passed away.
☕️ A year of growth for Wildflyer Coffee
Catching up with Wildflyer ahead of its annual fundraiser on Wednesday.
🦐 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.
