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THE NEWS SOURCE FOR DOWNTOWN & NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS DECEMBER 13–26, 2018

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t’s never easy to say goodbye, but it feels odd to be putting this publication to rest.

Terry Gahan and I bought Skyway News in 2001. It had been around for 30 years, serving people who worked in downtown Minneapolis. It wasn’t really a newspaper, but it offered news briefs, entertainment and updates on office tower construction and light rail development.

We put out our first issue on Sept.

10, 2001. The world changed the next day, and here at home we ran a story about people returning to work in the IDS Center.

Over the next several years, downtown boomed as buyers lined up to get into new condominiums. Our readership and revenue were way up. The numbers of residents living downtown passed the 30,000 mark in 2006, which no one had seen coming. On Aug. 1, 2007, our newsroom emptied out as our reporters ran to cover the Interstate 35W bridge collapse.

We renamed the paper the Downtown Journal in 2005, aligning it with the reputation we had built for news coverage with the Southwest Journal.

(It became The Journal in 2010 when coverage expanded to include Northeast neighborhoods.) We focused on news to serve downtown residents, covering City Hall, light rail, Block E, grocery store plans, the new Twins and Vikings stadiums, Hennepin Avenue theaters and reclaiming the riverfront.

After the crash of 2008, we saw a marked decline in advertising sales.

We made cuts to keep going, but the writing has been on the wall for a few years now. The Journal isn’t what downtown residents are looking for.

Perhaps another publisher will step in with a new product.

I wish I could thank each and every staff member we’ve worked with over the years. The editors, reporters, freelancers, designers, ad salespeople, distribution staff, managers — everyone. We couldn’t have done it without you. Your efforts in creating a newspaper we could all be proud of are not forgotten. Thank you.

Thank you to the readers of this publication. You’ve turned downtown into a neighborhood, now home to over 40,000 residents. It’s been an honor to provide you with news and entertainment coverage these past 18 years.

Thank you to all of our advertisers.

Your commitment allowed us to serve our audience. It’s the best kind of partnership and we are grateful for your confidence and support.

As for us, we’re still putting out Southwest Journal, as we have since 1990. Long may it run.

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“The younger people in particular have no hope and believe the only possibility is migrating into Bangkok or some other big city where their situation often gets worse.

It’s not unusual that adults will abandon their children in these villages and move into the city. It’s really sad.”

By virtue of the chief of this particular village being a silversmith, a by-product of a history of blacksmithing, Ralf Oberg, the Raintree connection, put Houser and him together.

As Houser tells the story, the chief and his people were eager enough for the work, but that work had to stop when their essential agricultural duties required them to be in the fields for the rice-planting and harvesting seasons. Likewise, although Houser has made two trips to the village, in April and November of 2017, the need to have consistent communications with the craftspeople meant shipping in computers and printers so the tribe could have clear visual representations of the styles Houser was looking for.

The pipeline of materials and talent expanded further when Houser met up with “a guy from Seattle at the gem show in Tucson.” He became the go-to source for stones she was designing into the pieces she’d sketch out and send to the village chief.

As you might imagine for a village that’s a rocky, muddy, four-hour bus ride from Chiang Mai, getting the raw materials — the beads and silver granules — up to the Lawla craftspeople is a whole other adventure.

In the comfort of her bright, comfortable North Loop shop, a small staff bustling around on one of the first days of business, Houser was asked if she feels a special responsibility now to the Lawla people, after providing them with a source of income they otherwise would not have had.

“Oh yeah, I do,” she replied. “I feel a responsibility to them. But I’m not worried. I know all the stories about brick and mortar, but I believe this is going to work.”

Along with finishing off the interior decor of the shop, Houser said part of the business plan is to stage events where customers, assisted with a couple glasses of wine perhaps, can come in, sort through drawers of beads and silver and in a sense design their own pieces, which will then be custom manufactured and delivered back to them within a very short time.

“Obviously, I’ve always been interested in fashion. But with this store, with the brands I’m bringing in and with the jewelry from the Lawla, I wanted to offer things that I’d buy anyway, regardless of some good cause they might be associated with,” she said. “I want to offer things people will use and wear, not something they’ll just buy to feel good about making a donation or something and then go home and throw in a drawer.”

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Down on North 2nd Street, around the corner from the Monte Carlo, Denise Houser has recently opened her first retail shop. And a new chapter in her life.

In the process she’s putting to work a team of people in a small northern Thailand village who otherwise likely would be uncomfortably close to subsistence farming.

Called simply Houser, the barely 1,000-square-foot shop features simple but elegant handcrafted silver jewelry — necklaces, rings and bracelets designed by Houser and a couple far-flung colleagues and manufactured by the Lawla hill tribe of Thailand — along with chic handbags, scarves, candles and other upscale accessories she’s come across via connections she’s made in New York and elsewhere over the years.

She’s making a point of contracting with other companies that are similarly giving back to distressed cultures. They include the manufacturer of Bitchstix, a line of emollients that contributes a portion of income to aid battered women.

Divorced with two mostly grown children, Houser, a LaCrosse native with “12 years of Catholic education,” reached the point where her main gig — benefits consulting in the insurance agency — wasn’t doing what she wanted in terms of fulfillment.

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She took “a lot of arts classes,” Houser said, most at Minnetonka’s expansive art center, and became convinced that fulfillment, or at least something more satisfying than the insurance industry, required her to “follow (her) curiosity.” Knitting and silk painting were interesting, but jewelry was her primary focus, she said.

“If I was going to make a business of it,” she laughed, “I had to admit that there was probably more money in jewelry.”

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Do you think you know anything, really, about the cider business?

The guess here is that you don’t. For a lot of people, maybe most, cider is just some fruity variation on “the craft beer thing.”

In the interest of saving time, let’s just say you’re wrong and bring in Jason Dayton, one of the founders of what will be known as The Minneapolis Cider Company when it opens for business, he said recently, “Sometime in the first half of 2019.”

“Cider is licensed as low-alcohol apple wine,” he explained over, well, beer at the Fulton Brewery in the North Loop. “In other words, cider operations like ours are wineries and subject to a different set of rules than breweries, like Fulton here. That means, among other things, that no grains are allowed on the premises. We cannot distill. We are not allowed to use grain in our products. Hops and spices, yes. But no grain. Also, by way of basic differences, breweries have to have at least 51% malt. So for example, the Sociable Cider Werks (in the Northeast Park neighborhood) is actually licensed as a brewery.”

If all that sounds like something heavily lobbied into law by the liquor business, you’re right. But Dayton, a 30-something Target employee for the time being, and his two partners see only upside because of it.

They’re keeping the precise location of their “winery” a secret until the big reveal sometime after the first of the year. But we are allowed to report that it will be north of the river.

Dayton, University of Minnesota entrepreneurship program pal David O’Neil and Rob Fisk are currently well into the logistics of assembling the plant (i.e. pouring considerable sweat equity into transforming the space). Their bet is that demand for an alternative to beer — and there is a lot of beer out there — will only expand in coming years.

A key, Dayton concedes, is educating the public on the differences and advantages of cider.

The advantages for team Minneapolis Cider will be that they can sell six-packs out of their winery as well as distribute wherever they can cut a deal. One model Dayton says they like is storefront satellite locations in places like Milwaukee and Chicago, emphasizing the kind of grassroots vibe of their product as opposed to the corporate nature of the giants like InBev and regional breweries like Summit, which Dayton believes is facing a growing peril, since so much of their business is based on distribution.

“The competition for shelf space for craft beers is nuts right now. Every liquor store is being pitched by literally dozens of craft breweries, and they’re asking every one of them how they’re different than any of the 20 or 30 brands they’re already carrying.”

The problem of public understanding of cider, as something other than the (often way too) sweet beverage available by the barrel all over town every fall, is not insignificant. Like liquor store managers, the public is facing a glut of beverage choices.

Dayton sees a surge in cider interest nationally and said he believes media attention will go a long way toward explaining the differences between beer and his business.

As you would expect, he is confident that just as the public pretty quickly grasped the wide range of tastes craft brewing brought to the marketplace, so too will it grasp that “winery” cider is a significantly different creature — a collection of creatures — than the sweet brown stuff of autumn tradition.

“Not to get too technical,” he said, “but with cider you’re playing with the balance in variations of tannin, sweetness and acidity.”

He added that, ironically, the worstlooking apples, the ugly runts of the litter that would ordinarily get tossed for being too homely for sale, “are the ones that taste best for cider.”

When up and running, Minneapolis Cider Company will be the largest cider operation in Minnesota, Dayton said. The industry today is dominated by Washington and Oregon — the source of 80 percent of U.S. production — and internationally by the British.

“Our hope is to produce between 1,000 and 2,000 (30-gallon) barrels of cider our first year,” he said. “But when fully operational, we’ll have capacity for 20,000 barrels annually.”

He added, “Up until now production and distribution has all been about proximity between the rural and the urban, which is one reason why the U.K. is 50 percent of the cider market today. Over there it is not a niche product like it is here in the States.”

Dayton’s British father-in-law was “into home-brewing in Dorset for 40 years,” he said, and a visit to that green and pleasant land had a lot to do with convincing him there was a business opportunity for him back in the colonies.

Dayton’s enthusiasm and control of data is infectious and has obviously worked on investors and bankers underwriting the project.

“People like the idea of being in on the early end of the growth curve,” he said.

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$1.55 billion city budget prioritizes housing investments The $1.55 billion 2019 city budget approved Dec. 5 by the City Council includes the largest-ever single-year investment in affordable housing initiatives.

The budget directs $40 million toward addressing the city’s affordable housing crisis, an amount Mayor Jacob Frey said was triple the previous record, including more than $21 million for the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

The budget also funds new supports for renters, including a pilot program that aims to get more renters facing eviction legal representation in housing court, and adds dollars to a revolvingloan fund used to rehabilitate rental properties.

Frey, who signed the budget Dec. 6 in a City Hall conference room packed with housing advocates from the Make Homes Happen coalition, said Minneapolis was “poised to lead the nation in housing support.”

“It was your advocacy, it was your hard work during this budget process that made today possible,” he said to the coalition members.

Frey also won full funding for Stable Homes Stable Schools, an initiative announced earlier this year that would make housing vouchers available to families at Minneapolis Public Schools sites with high rates of homeless and highly mobile students.

While City Council members largely backed Frey’s ambitious plans for housing in the budget, the majority diverged from Frey’s plans for

Frey. Photo by Dylan Thomas

public safety. Led by council members Steve Fletcher (Ward 3) and Phillipe Cunningham (Ward 4), the council shifted about $1 million from Frey’s proposed budget that had been intended to replace sworn officers with civilians in some non-policing roles, freeing-up those officers to work on the street.

The amendments offered by Fletcher and Cunningham redirected some of those funds toward a program that pairs trained mental health specialists with officers on calls that

involve a mental health crisis, allowing the program to expand citywide from just a few precincts. Another portion of those funds will be used to set up an Office of Violence Prevention in the city’s Health Department. Even with the shift, the police department will see an overall budget increase in 2019.

The City Council supported Frey’s $370,000 plan to expand the anti-gang Group Violence Intervention program to South Minneapolis neighborhoods. The budget also includes $180,000 for an officer wellness program.

Frey said the shifts would not hurt the Minneapolis Police Department, adding that the budget process worked as intended and that “disagreements in municipal politics are inevitable.”

“The vast majority of the budget, something like 99.5 percent, has been passed as recommended. The vast majority of the public safety budget was passed as recommended,” he said.

The approved budget is roughly 10 percent larger than the $1.41 billion 2018 city budget, an overall increase of $140 million. It comes with a nearly 5.7 percent, or roughly $18.7 million, recommended increase in the city’s property tax levy.

The 2019 budget is expected to increase property taxes about 6.7 percent on a home at the city’s median value, currently $249,000.

That translates to a $92 increase on the property tax bill.

Noor faces additional charge in Damond shooting The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office was granted its request to add another, more serious murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed a Fulton-neighborhood woman while on duty in July 2017.

A motion filed Nov. 29 asked Fourth District Judge Kathryn Quaintance to add a charge of second-degree murder against Mohamed Noor.

At a September omnibus hearing, Quaintance ruled there was probable cause to charge Noor with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Damond, also known as Justine Ruszczyk.

Quaintance granted the motion to amend the complaint Dec. 7 after Noor’s defense team did not respond. Noor is represented by criminal defense attorneys Tom Plunkett and Peter Wold.

Messages were left with both attorneys, but they did not respond to requests for comment.

Quaintance agreed with prosecutors, who argued they are allowed to amend the charges against Noor prior to the start of the trial, currently scheduled for April 1. Their motion noted that, with Quaintance’s September

ruling, “the court has already found probable cause for the first three elements of second degree murder,” adding that a jury could find their case against Noor contains the fourth element: intent to kill.

County prosecutors argued that intent can be inferred from the circumstances of the shooting, which took place at night in a dark alley behind Damond’s home. Damond had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault and was shot when she approached the police vehicle driven by Noor’s former partner, Officer Matthew Harrity.

Noor, sitting in the vehicle’s passenger seat, reached across Harrity to fire the fatal shot out the driver’s side window. “(Noor) fired at (Damond) from no more than six feet away,” prosecutors wrote in the motion.

“He fired with tragic accuracy, managing to send a 9 millimeter bullet across his partner’s body and through the narrow space of the open driver’s side window.”

The motion stated that Damond was struck in the torso about five inches above her

waistline. As a trained police officer, prosecutors alleged, Noor “was fully aware that such a shot would kill Ms. Ruszczyk, a result he clearly intended.”

The motion cited a segment of Quaintance’s written order in September affirming probable cause for the two charges then facing Noor.

In that order, the judge wrote: “Defendant either saw and fired at what he believed was a person, or he fired into the darkness at an unknown target.”

Prosecutors argued the second scenario described in the judge’s order — Noor firing at an unknown target in the dark — met the definition for third-degree murder, which is defined, in part, as “eminently dangerous” act “without regard for human life.” But prosecutors said the first scenario — Noor firing at “what he believed was a person” — meets the standard for a charge of second-degree murder.

If a jury finds Noor’s guilt proven beyond a reasonable doubt, it would then parse the evidence and decide whether a third- or seconddegree murder charge is more appropriate.

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Minneapolis grows up On a 12-1 vote, the City Council adopts Minneapolis 2040

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com The Minneapolis City Council passed sweeping policy guidelines Dec. 7 to allow more housing in every neighborhood and place racial equity at the front of city attention.

Upzoning in the Minneapolis 2040 plan will allow triplexes citywide, recommend buildings of at least 10 stories downtown and concentrate multistory development along transit corridors. The ambitious plan brought national attention, thousands of public comments and heated debate. A Dec. 4 lawsuit filed by two environmental groups and a Fulton-based “Smart Growth” group pressed for an environmental review of the plan but failed to block the council vote.

“When you hear the differences of opinion of folks across the city, some of it is based on a really different experience of living in our city,” said Council President Lisa Bender, who was deeply involved in crafting the plan. “We have places of great wealth and privilege in Minneapolis, and we have places of deep poverty. And those are often found along lines of race, the consequence of decisions that were made over decades to exclude people from neighborhoods in the city of Minneapolis.”

The plan guides citywide zoning changes, and it also lays the groundwork for a host of policy ideas to meet an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.

The Minneapolis plan for growth recommends new buildings of at least 10 stories in much of downtown.

Photo by Michelle Bruch

And the council adopted strong language to eliminate racial disparities.

“That says that we are drawing a line as a City Council, that we are going to do everything that we can to no longer be the city that is known for being prosperous as well as one of the worst places to live if you are black or native,” said Council Member Phillipe Cunningham.

Along Lake Street, buildings could rise two to six stories, increasing at areas like Uptown near Hennepin & Lake (two to 10 stories), near the West Lake light rail station (10–30 stories) and near the Kmart site at Lake & Nicollet (four to 15 stories). Zoning would allow one to four stories at intersections like 36th & Bryant and 43rd & Upton and along much of 50th Street. Some areas that would have allowed up to four stories

in the prior draft were downgraded to three stories in a new “Corridor 3” zone, including stretches of Bryant Avenue between 36th and 50th streets, some blocks along 44th Street & France Avenue in Linden Hills and portions of Penn Avenue south of 50th Street.

Monitoring impacts While some council members expressed concerns about how density would impact housing affordability, they voted 12-1 in favor of the plan, saying they would closely monitor development and adjust as needed.

“I do worry that allowing for a major up-zoning will have unintended consequences, especially in the areas of gentrification and displacement. Without question, developers are going to buy inexpensive

properties, tear them down, build more densely and likely raise rents,” said Council Member Lisa Goodman. “… That is what the private market does, and I do have concerns about that and I think we have to be very conscious in monitoring that to make sure we don’t see increased displacement as well as gentrification.”

To help address that issue, the council simultaneously approved an interim “inclusionary zoning” ordinance to mandate affordable housing in new construction. It would require certain multi-family residential projects to make at least 10 percent of units affordable at 60 percent of the area median income, equating to rent of $1,062 for a one-bedroom apartment. City financial assistance would be available for projects that make 20 percent of its units affordable at half the area median income, or $885 for a one-bedroom unit.

Bender said that if such an ordinance had been in place in recent years, it would have produced as many affordable units as the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

Bender said change would not happen overnight. In the four years since the city started allowing accessory dwelling units (or “granny flats”), about 100 have been built, she said. And the process to rewrite the zoning code could take years, she added.

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612-436-4391 classes and zeal for the kitchen “take this downturn and makeAn illustration of thekind assessing their lives — 9 project’s height — page 5 page 15page with constituents in the same way Ellison did probably is temporarily doing OK.” The Twins are spending $130 The county will take possesalso arcs from right to left field. their breath at this point.”

6th and 7th streets are billed as the Foundation, University teams after their visits to PLAYERS INVOLVED IN PLANS FOR dthomas@mnpubs.com over us,” a condo next during his campaign, which was fueled by by a damaged Metrodome, Temporarily orphaned something good come of it.” andsaid theirAnderson, needs.” who owns ON PACIFIC HITS ROADBLOCK

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Here’s million to construct the the ballpark sion of the ballpark propertyfunding. byKEY DATES Lighting of is Minnesota fixed underneath primary the ballpark. to the greenway, chairs neighborhood’s was left out of the discussion: By Jeremy FYI: FOR rves up cookware, THE NEW TWINS concerns about proposed on energizing that hadn’t been 12 after the fifth largest interest in math and science-related STADIUM whose roofconstituents collapsed Dec. Y OCity U panel Rentrances L Iraises FTO E ADDRESS D O to WN TO W N Stratton Contributing writers lanetarium designs are four politically involved before. It’s no small task, careers.

PLANETARIUM n — page 9 project’s height — page 5 of Design and Walker what they had to say about Loring Greenway Advisory Committee and sits on Next spring, after years of planning, work will itself, and whether ad- “Those are the doors we’ll knock on snowfall condemning the land and paying the canopy, and one light tower years old and statetheir funding arespecially considering that Ellison — the history, first only can go soTHE far,” said in Minneapolis the team will play Tammy Sproule Kaplan SOME PRESSING“We QUESTIONS ABOUT rived nearly two years ago, but Muslim to serve in Congress and the first black first,” Parisi said. “It’s a tough task but we Lead gift phase of Art Center.

The teams, they’re fi rst impressions a city committee that directs funding for such begin on a major renovation of Downtown’s only recent Star Tribune opinion piece dreamed SEVEN DAYSCounty TO FOR the Minnesota Planetarium Society is representative Minnesota has sent Washing-Bank Stadium, the think its fi nal home game atto TCF campaign: ditional capped contribution isit’s certainly doable.” its own $13.35 million appraisal, fundraising would stand near the light rail Commissioner DOWNTO WSTATE N Editor OF THEHennepin PROJECT SLATED THE Photo working to make up for lost time. The ton, D.C. — has been one of the highest-profile The $42.5 million project has so far senow through 2008 projects. selected in November from capital existing greenway, the Loring Greenway.

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While it’s a great idea — really, it is — another GREENWAY 6 see throughout the are see BALLPARK rlong@mnpubs.com During this phase, planetarium the amount of work being accomplished at provided that funding is available. fall 2008–fall 2009 itspage name9 next week to fall? home for thecorporateam? 2008, local leaders have settled R Athis C K IN T Atucked D inside I U the M society members are asking the offiS ce space Minneapolis The MNPST is preparing a business planG the Ballpark Authority Chair Steve on terms of liability and insurLoop/Neighborhood AssociaHe said construction of the / Lots at stake for Minneapolis in 2012 legislative session / / Proofreader Downtown tions and foundations to put a dent in Urban League building at 2100 Plymouth Ave. for city approval that details revenue and Journal. Next Here’s a lookN.at what’s at Will the city get a share on the Metrodome as the project’s $16.5 million fundraising Elliott jokes that there’s no handbook for expense projections.

December 4, 2006 Cramer.the “That’s what we took two ance. The Twins will contribute Design andconstruction: tion, said he appreciates that new bridge between Sid Korpi week’s campaign avenues such as bonding setting up a congressional office, so he’s just The planetarium’sstake. total cost has risen issue will not only 2nd and 1st avof athrough $775 million site. dtjournal.com WHAT best DO YOU LOVE ABOUT DOWNTOWN? corporate naming rights. Frank Parisi, been digging in. above the $30 million proposed in 2002, completed spring of 2009 LET US KNOW AND TAKE PART IN OUR READER RAVES CONTEST! PAGE 6 Neighbors of new Twins stadium site YOU NEVER KNOW or three months to fi gure out. feature a new front-page an unspecifi ed dollar amount construction enues would be the city’s interim executive director of MNPS, “There are no standard job descriptions which is attributed to rising construction Sales Manager bill that Dayton says will residents.

Nowor leaders are contemB Y N I C K would H A LT Ebe R distinct worry about a government December 5, 2005 said it is difficult to approach donors standard work,” Elliott said. costs and the need to hire staff before the logo, it will also feature Melissa Ungerman Levy December 4, 2006 from historic buildings in the HOW speculate the ballpark’s impact,corners in theget midst ofgot so many recent capital While half-unpacked boxes remain in a few how to pay for planetarium is built.

PEOPLE ARE that will oveR Hopefully, weconstruction itabout right.” for this infrastructure offset surround responsibility. workers Big questions plating shutdown summer. dtjournal.com campaigns, but the planetarium is a of the office, the congressional e-mail Grand opening: 612-436-4382 our 2006 Downtown Metrodome PLANETARIUM unique attraction will appeal to is now up and running the to fall 2009 – spring 2010 off the that bench?

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BY MICHELLE BRUCH PICKS Downtown Journal staff writer are bracing Thefor mother of 17-year-old Jesse Maynor III slow traffic, and attorneys smaller workloads.

On was at work when she met Linda Koelman last the ROLLICK upside, enrollment is higher at some Downtown colleges, and READY TO DANCEABLE TURMOIL BY JEREMY STRATTON hen the stock winter.

Downtown’s major banks avoided the subprime mess that other Keegan’s Irish Pub prepares Of Montreal First Avenue market crashed Koelman was nervous.

She alwaysisisat before AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE’S INTERNATIONAL OFFICES Downtown Journal staff writer financial institutions fell into across thecation. country. on Friday night for St. Patrick’s Day two months after a notifi 1: SUDAN-DARFUR LIBERIA 10: SRIin LANKA The unemployment rate Minneapolis is currently sitting the Foshay Tower openedHead After making surepage she was page 126:Head 13talkingatto the Head office: Khartoum offi ce: Monrovia office: Trincomalee

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Ifstadium so, issite theit enjoys off on a financing package. weigh heavily the Managing city Partner, 4 3 thing strange happens, Vikings stadium, — Triciaon Davidson, & Partners — Mark Dienhart, St. Thomasand University —How Susan Owner, Corazon Owner, Cooper LawHall Firmon Sunday Lake Trail near theresults snow on Nicollet Minnesota Mall — Steve Cooper, Orchestra date the Minneapolis and Downtown. ruary and agreed that because a three local units, including Local COO,protected their wages, hours age to your life ournalcs@mnpubs.com newpoliticians Central replete pageman4site theMay. The and Library Board oversees the hen you look at your Library pageLibrary, 6 13 Developers say affectthe local Metrodome bestThat’s when of Minneapolis its Minnesotans need not it appears that statepage and Hennepin2 County library merger should result in increased 99, which represents 150 MPL and working conditions SEE LEGISLATURE » PAGE 10 FRESH FARE 7 agement of the city’s 14 community with an architectural flourish jutting out over primary ballot systems rapidly moves through a service at the city’s libraries, Boardclerical and they support staff employprotected.” will preserve Creative Supervisor A view of Limes, tomatoes, avocadoes 4 3 process, they are not opposed to it. Theon Sept. ees, and local units reprePLUM President Helen Burke libraries, along with the new five- Hennepin, and to be topped in fall 2007 by a 13,twoyou’ll Lynnae governmental Schrader approval the and Central landmark tower’s Minneapolis Police more at Masa — page 11 the two largest unions representAmerican Federation 400 HCL Library $110from million Central Library $28 million Planetarium and Space Discovery findofaState, long list senting of names; 19,employees.charmsaid the decision by MPL librar- story, 612-436-4385 7 Department ing employees of the city’s librarCounty and Municipal Employ“Workers historical will embrace change, ians not to oppose a merger was volunteer Hennepin schrader@mnpubs.com due to open in May 2006. The board Center, opens up downtown. to be exact. butVoters can 1 as ies said they are not opposed to ees (AFSCME) Council 5, which they need security,” AFSCME to driven by the hope that a consolithey prepare chaplains reach outthe to authority to levy a tax 5 units repThe Skyway News questionnaires to each also has interesting choose on theEliot a merger provided that a certain includes several local Council Seide dation to better12 library third feature occasional series spotlighting Downtown work spaces.

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By Scott Russell 1 No pa and restaurants, it won’t mean you can light up | | civilians and pros rush to the rescue 5: GUINEA Arts 14 11: SUDAN-UGANDA hen Uptown resident Jennifer mmitmaintain qualified staff, not the state. ous offe Umolac heard Keith Ellison’s 3 Head office: Conakry Head office: Kampala, in Minneapolis establishments. victory speech after his win in 00 Klara Fabry, director of Public Works, got the districts could pay administrative leaders no ine of the city’sfered top-paid administrators Griffin C Uganda We all recognize to buy it for $1 in cash, “You never know how people are going September’s hard-fought DFL primary elecMusic 15 tion, she was moved to tears and spurred intomin Hennepin County and the cityorof Minneapolis with largest salary hike, from $114,288 a year to $132,685, more 95 said. percent of the governor’s salary received a raise,butthanks to was a change in to the building finally react,”than Koelman “Not knowing how 12: THAILAND action. the Police Department purchased that year by a they’re going to react or if it is the right person Head office: Bangkokstate law. square f “After the primary, he had the whole audi$114,288 a passed year, unless theordistate approved an a 16 percent raise, according to a July 27 memo by Calendar 16 similar ence chanting ‘love,’” Umolac said, adding group of bondholders for an can be a little frightening, and you do get ner2023, ac tribution@mnpubs.com was under that Ellison’s message of peace and unity Human Resources Director Pam French. exemption.

The 2005 Legislature approved a newtremendous Proponents say the salary increase undisclosed price. was overvous.

The nervousness doesn’t go away.” nances eight months resonated strongly with her. “I showed up “We h Classifieds 17 rocky start, Koelman, at Northof United at his [campaign office] door asking what I 110pastor percent theMethodist governor’s due; state law had frozenDespite city its department lead- cap: stresssalary, thisoryear,Eight in other administrators got raises, the memo Calendar be suble ago to ban smoking could do to help.”

Study group identifies possible routes for light-rail transit corridor linking Downtown and southwest suburbs the approved Foshay has managed in North Minneapolis, is among eight said. They were: $132,333 a year. ers’ wages below their pay toscales. Church calendar@mnpubs.com Skyway map for Bord 18 survive and thrive as part of active Minneapolis Police Department chap-terms of the demands see ELECTIONS page 16

BY DAN HAUGEN before 2020, though. The Metropolitan in bars, restaurants, • John Moir, city coordinator, $129,850 to Tim director However, the source, increasesthere don’t isn’t sit skyline. well Council with union Without another funding Classified Advertising if there’s Downtown’s Now, has whoGiles, volunteer to be on of callemployee 48-hours a services, said the Image submItted by mInnesota twIns Downtown Journal staff writer published lains its priorities for pool halls and bowlnearly eight decades later, month or more to notify families of homicide, s for light-rail transit corridor linkingservices Downtown and southwest suburbs the sales tax dollars, and they include Downtown inpushed the department and $133,746 (3 percent) League of Minnesota Cities had for the members who Ithave seentake minimal wage hikes is stayin 612-825-9205 An illustration of the stadium concourse, which will link Downtown with a new North Loop transit hub. a lot of19money to go around. doesn’t lmost two decades after county improving service andaccident victims and provide imdevelopers Ralph Burnet and its existing bus suicide and ing alleys. salary cap increase for However, several years, arguing the since assifieds@mnpubs.com Nicollet Mallwe’re loo 2020, though.

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DAVEand VAN HATTUM, Michelle Bruch Binkle that residents have ample opDowntown Journal staff writer timeline has the constructionmeeting of the Downtown section money to It www.skywaynews.net doesn’t take agree is critical. much as $90 million toDave con- Hattum, policy and sometimes improving its existing bus service and an advisory committee is expected to andNadvo- workplaces to make notificaof the network scheduled to begin March 8 and be comP H O T O BVan Y R I C H R YA bying from both Chris Damlo Downto portunities to see design options and FILE PHOTO gOOD thing At thE vert the 32-story officacy ce tower Theyfor offer families sympathy, compasitsdepending first-tier corridors: need of facelift recommend a route for the project later $865 million constructing and $1.4 billion on Minnesota voters approved a constituprogram managertions. for Transit hile other areas of the city are still pleted

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A study group has identifi ed three pos-COMMUNITIES or purchase right-of-way. at least 40 percent of motor vehicle sales profit, some legislators DAVE VAN HATTUM, TRANSIT FOR LIVABLE EnD thE These developers are said he worries about the police investigative procedure, the cdamlo@mnpubs.com ballpark have been buzzing “This iswill the andJournal staff writerCenter.

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Hattum, policy and tax advosible routes between Downtown and Eden So how do weDave pay for revenue go toward transit projects. The will think the amendment means they’vemissioner Mark Stenwireless Internet network. outfitted with the wireless network will be Southwest looking to renovate the 1929 funeral arrangement process, counseling opabout the stadium for years, “This it should be reflective of what nd $1.4 billion depending Minnesota approved a constitumanager for Transit for will be phased in over five years Prairieon that would also pickvoters up commuters It won’t be cacy easy, program transportation experts measure taken care of transportation. Their mestrykerthey Owens muscled his wheelchair Construction of the network, which is the result of Printing Foshay office an building into tions andneeds, other services. als will need to buildintunnels tional amendment last month Livable Communities, a St. Pauland nonHopkins, St. Louis Park, Minnetonka andrequiring said, but it’s likely we’ll find a way. The is expected to eventually generate sage: “This doesn’t solve the full loon café Manager Kaye stein want,” in bored circles as he waited formany a friend di public-private partnership between Minneapolis see WIRELESS page 14 said. glein put forward an but the tone of the conversationa now Goodman one afternoon last week outside a 230-room W hotel.but The W us a critical step Chaplains also make themselves availght-of-way. sales will face profit, saidcompetition he worries some Southwest. at least intense for legislators additional $120 millionaper year for transit it gives in the right ECM Publishers, Inc.40 percent of motor vehicleproject ranges from elation to indifference. location At a North Loop presentation on the Nicollet Mall coffee shop. e pay for this? revenue go towardendorstransit projects.

The will think amendment means Whichevertax path the committee government money andthe might need to wait in they’ve the state. direction.” amendment Nov. Hotel is an edgy, fashionable to work with police personnel who need29 The 47-year-old Chicago transplant, with for residents and about $30Jan. a asy, transportation experts measure will be phased in over five taken of transportation. meses, the price tag will likely sound massive inyears line several yearscare unless state lawmakers TheirIt’s unlikely the Southwest Many pub and restaurant owners AT A OVERVIEW: City officials have signed a 10-year con- COST: $20 a month she said ballpark site plan 18, neighbors drivenlight-rail branch of Starwood someone to talk to. frizzy white cornrows and a clean black tract with U.S. Internet, a Minnetonka-based commonth for businesses. ely we’ll find a way.to The and is expected to eventually an a new sage: “Thissource. doesn’t solve the fullcorridor needs, would see any of that money see TRANSITWAY page 20to scale back the many taxpayers, somewhere between generate approve funding tracksuit, is athe regular he Emergency vehicles and cars caught in a traffic jam on pany the edge of build the bridge collapse Aug. 1 on the East Bank. Firstasked responders responder from aroundabout the region headed to col- on the mall, where Borde that will and manage the Wi-Fi network.

Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Stewart, who oversees the said they are excited about the plans, questions future police GLANCE: e intense competition for additional $120 million per year for transit but it gives us a critical step in the right lapse site to help with the recovery effort. spends his days politely panhandling so he TIMELINE: Construction will start in March and Once up-and-running, the wireless Internet network that recently expanded into Minneapolis Police Chaplains,ban said chaplains county’s to Downtown night club owners frustrated with oney and might need to wait in the state. direction.” so long as new competition doesn’t Block presence, public restrooms, can paytrash for food, collaundry and a modest room E the entire network should be complete by early will be accessible at 95 percent of the city’s outdoornew WIRELESS NEWS SPACE PICKS at a nearby hotel. years unless state lawmakers It’s unlikely the Southwest light-rail the Middle East and South are often associated with bad news, but their November. locations and 90 percent of the indoor locations.

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Where: Riverview all, it’s been less than a decade he’s going to be running on his see BALLPARK page 6 City officials are now working to patch having trouble battling the river’s current He said people were exiting five or six “There’s an individual where an indi“It was like scale an aftershock of that,” said noise different to measure deros case had a “phenomenal” noise low hisheworkspace company’s found- be a tion to Harmon Greece.

Hartung the back of an 5403 Theater, 3800 42nd victory for many Hennepin County since played spoiler himself and 1-2-foot visibility. The nine-foot river the gap, beginning with the Citybars Council’s Kunin, 25, who initially thought the sensa- vidual was severely injured and was talking cars located in the center of the bridge, violations takes the deepest depth at the bridge was lowered a couple a few of which were hanging off inclines. to medical personnel and was able to say tion came from that construction jackhammers S.losing 5.9205 This week’s desk subject is Stefan Nov. 17Ave. decision to another allocate $1.1 million features sandpaper, to previous Mayor Sharon Sayles ing in 2001, when Avenue included said annual report for see RYBAK page 5 see NOISE page 7 owners, who claim they’re customers lost feet using the lock and dam system to aid FOOD People in the roughest shape were exithis goodbyes to his family and he passed that had been hammering the nearby InterPiCKs Streetcar No. 1850 at Hennepin Avenue and 6th Street circa 1953; well before City Center, Block E, Borders and the Target bass intonations more heavily the divers.

25.0929 ing smashed cars where girders or freeway away,” Dolan said. from the contingency fund to the MPD. Thestate 35W bridge in recent days.

Center dominated the area.

Hartung, the co-founder and hand-drawn letthey used sawhors-to smoking this movable employee visited Target Corp. bars inhand other counties.

The crew used sonar equipment to locate signs had fallen. Two park police officers Among the first responders was MinThen he stepped outside.

Police Department has agreed to curtail its conductedDining CPR on victims, one who did not underwater objects, which were searched ns are $64 per year neapolis firefighter Ramos, of OF team hOtEl From the walk-out roof of his apartment A Raul tAstE Flying creative director of HartungKemp tering and Crayola es to hold up their Forpointing to their and kept by divers tethered to boats. At least one survive.

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Minneapolis bars, the victory would be bitspending for Greece the remainder ofbrought the year, but at 1Hartung Basil’s gets makeover, Cosmos Catch th submerged vehicle from the bridge collapse Park police officers later focused on conOnce at the site, Ramos said he put a on a bridge — about 20 feet away from his Assistant Chief Sharon Lubinski said 35W routes reduce THE RETURN OF location. was located the day after the collapse, but trolling the perimeter, and they continued Design Agency. rubber “mustang suit” and started making home — plungeafter into the river.

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STREETCARS? clients include Target Corp. and partner appeal to Hartung’s now has a second back for him, “to profit to Rubylicious, which provides a intact, with little hope for an amendment on the page 13 economic, environmental 12out of the Johnson said. “Initially we would see people missing. Five were confirmed dead as of lion would be an “enormous challenge.” If “You don’t even think. You don’t think,” tions in the next couple months. Corridors ted the rear endpage of a car sticking Aug. 3. right under the 10th Avenue Bridge, right the city puts together a on water. He said he found a woman in the said while standing on his roof days the money from the contingency fund isn’t under consideration include Chicago, thebenefi Loft Literary The staff system top in at Rubylicious Caribbean Café forCenter. forAssimplicity support — work, housing, jobtaste coaching horizon.

Smoking bar-goers would need to Kunin life Hartung’s remind me I’monly an ts by building lines Approximately 20 cars were estimated where first responders needed to be.” vehicle, pulled her out and brought her to after the collapse.

“My girlfriend immedi“I like the idea 10-year transportation plan, enough to cover the budget overage, officials Hennepin and Washington avenues. to still be in the river immediately after Johnson said he was amazed at the volshore with the help of a Minneapolis police sprinted down these stairs, out this moved last summer streetJamaican favorites such as jerk chicken or into aand training, The andstreetcars mental health services — for flee the city’s boundaries toold light up. in design. desk, along with man, he city’s said,fund bal-ately it’s looking into bringing ume of cooperative aid that flooded in from the collapse. About 60 were visible on the officer. Ramos was told she had a pulse, but door over here, right yellow down to the river to

BY DAN HAUGEN will likely have to dip into” the would replace existing that the battered bridge, a section of which is just other towns. said he was uncertain if she survived. sight. I slapped on clothes as fast as level space helped design “state side” fare like jambalaya orDowntown a they Chicagopeople withbus developmental disabilities and streetcars relat- back to Minneapolis.

However, the county’s amendment — should itthe Journal staff writer near ance to make up the difference. lines at a cost of about $30 milothers scattered laughing. outside Kunin’s home.

“In my 31 years, I haven’t seen anything He returned to the bridge, where he was possible and started sprinting and followed brick road gets A feasibility study is Kunin said the collapse happened in seclike it, and I hope I never do again,” he said. involved in the rescue of about 15 other The issue has upset some members of theher.” lion per mile. The mayor has committyle hot dog, and you’ll get a taste of owner Ruby ed conditions. pass — would only be temporary; like the St. Hennepin and South 12th Street. onds and his involvement in rescue efforts The rescue team was reduced to a couple throughout the city. people. He said all of the agencies involved Smoke from burning vehicles billowed looking at 10 possible routes. you somewhere, ” e can get a glimpse of the City Council — not because the MPD projects ted money in next year’s budget for a only lasted about 10 or 15 minutes, but it dozen people by midnight, said Minneapocommunicated and worked together well, throughout the scene, which was eerily NovemberPaul 25, “People 1982it isactually 1994 provide 1962 good foodmayor’s  January 1970to continue July 1987 & 1991  2001 Billingsley’s intention: to in a transportation lis Fire Chief Jim Clack. Most of the rescuers felt much longer.

After years of 21, working supportive services ban, set to expire 2007, when enabling a quick rescue effort. But the site just after the collapse, Kunin said. it will exceedafter its budget, but because many aquiet finance work teamin studying They include: Hartung said.

He was evacuated from his home on the at that time were technical specialists who presented challenges, such as the current Then he and about a dozen others at the vision by looking the councilmembers of theTwins prob-scene got to work pulling people from theSkyway potential projects.

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Survivors also joined in the recovery effort, until they were replaced with hundreds of rescuers from city and county agencies throughout the state.

“It’s amazing to see the responders we have,” said Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan.

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many ways, we are going ‘back to have aBars proactive response to an upcoming praisal, skeptical of the Billingsley is nowas stranger towhether new ventures.

She yet to be determined. separated from heir luck by giving them a job and“In the support University Avenue/4th Street future’ to recreate the Minneapolis situation than a reactive response to a done depend on property values has a degreecity incould business administration andSoutheast has restaurants with proper ventilation and a “freshhey need to thrive in mainstreamthesociety. we grew up in,” Rybak told reporters and rising as a result of the construction of deal,” Hodges said.

Washington Avenue owned aatconstruction company, “built houses air entrance” could also be exempted. In such Rubylicious opened in March 2004 at 27Thursday S. 7thin an auditorium supporters streetcars.

Lyndale/Bryant cases, Avenue BUDGET page 15 the Central Library. and•run a beautyGutierres the restaurant andMoore bar would need to keep t. in the arcade of the Eslinger Marshall Field’s building as over North [Minneapolis]” • Mattie • Melissa Ungerman-Levy • Micah Edel Michael • Michael Kiesow •see Michael Metzger South see STREETCARS page 16 A streetcar task force is studying 10 separate books. small hot dog store. Little more than a year later, salon. Billingsley currently runs a foster home out Billingsley expanded into the larger NEWScafé. (Next LIFE PICKS see SOUL FOOD page 20 see SMOKING ORDINANCE page 21 pring, look for the outdoor hot dog cart on South GYPSY ROCK SKINNY ON THE MILL CITY HOUSING ON HENNEPIN

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up the issue at a committee meeting the day convicted later of arson the City Council voted to confirm the The amendmentbefore 31–Nov. 3 1991 appointmentOct. of Police Chief Tim Dolan. spelledHodges out the histhe amendIDS Center completed, saiddetails learning of about issue so Nicollet Mall completed Halloween Blizzard Lake Street/Midtown eventual and environmental late in the year has left policymakers with building the lines. And public-private ment.

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Felicia and her mom revenue could apply for the exemption at a cost nd employee Felicia — or those investing just down on streetcar in a citywide system.

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to happen… we were just wanting to get [survivors] out of there as soon as possible,” Ramos said.

Park Police Chief Brad Johnson arrived at West River Parkway just south of the collapsed bridge around 7 p.m.

By then, he said, all of the people there were told to get off the bridge because its structural integrity was still unknown and

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Clack said the procedures emergency personnel had in place helped everyone remain exceptionally well organized and coordinated throughout the disaster.

“The training and equipment we have gotten over the past six years since 9/11 has played a critical role in the success so far of this incident,” Clack said. “This has gone

Dayton’s at 7th & Nicollet rebranded by Marshall Field’s

itself was a huge part of Kunin’s life, he said.

He biked under it every day and was accustomed to traffic and construction noise.

Sitting in the taped-off disaster scene, his home is quieter than it has ever been, he said, but everything else seems normal, until he looks out his window.

“I never thought this would ever happen here,” he said.

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Bjorgen, who was headed to Northeast to make a delivery in his 2005 Dodge Neon, spotted a construction worker in the bridge’s southbound lane start running for safety.

“After I saw him running, I started to speed up again and started to go. And then I heard the second thing that sounded like an explosion, and then I felt the bridge really shift this time, and then I felt it start to drop. I felt it drop twice and then I floored it at that point,” he said. “In front of me, a piece of the bridge was coming up and making an incline. Not to over dramatize it, but I didn’t know if that was the end of it, like it stopped there or it was going to keep going up, but I’ll tell you this much, I wasn’t waiting to find out. I floored it and went right over it.”

As he maneuvered the treacherous terrain, he started to scream into his cell phone: “Oh my God, I’m going to die!”

When he made it over the incline and pulled over, he turned around to see the destruction.

“I pulled over to the side and I called 911 and I looked behind me and all I could see was dust in the southbound lane and a gigantic piece of the highway just sticking straight up,” he said. “… I guess I had some angels pushing me from

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Bjorgen started calling members of his family to tell them about his harrowing experience, and then he continued working. He had four more deliveries to make that night. At his second stop that evening, a woman hugged him and gave him some chips and a croissant after she heard about his brush with death.

Besides wrapping up work, Bjorgen fielded about 50 calls from friends and relatives who wanted to check in with him.

He managed to fall asleep that night, but said he had some crazy dreams.

“I’m OK. You think about it and my thoughts and prayers do go out to everybody. I consider myself extremely blessed,” he said.

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of the collapsed bridge, a school bus fell with a chunk of bridge near the river’s edge. The plight of the children in that bus has been one of the most dramatic and widely reported stories of the tragedy.

Olivia Reynolds, 11, of South Minneapolis, was among more than 50 children ages 5–14 on the

school bus. The bus landed upright on the edge of a large section of the bridge near the river’s edge.

“It was really rumbly, it was shaking a lot and there was just this big drop,” Olivia said.

She said everything happened within seconds.

During the fall, children flew out of their seats and many were crying and screaming, she said.

Olivia made it off the bus with no injuries and said her friends that were on the bus are doing just fine. But several children from the bus were hospitalized for injuries sustained in the fall.

Olivia’s father, Jay Reynolds, said he found out about the ordeal from his mother-in-law about 30 minutes after the collapse. Jay’s wife, who heard the news from one of Olivia’s friends who had a cell phone, was too distraught to tell him, he said.

“there was just this big drop.”

Jay raced to the scene and was eventually united with his daughter in the North Memorial Medical Center emergency room. He said the situation was surreal.

“You don’t understand how something like this could have happened,” he said. “It’s unfathomable to have that sinking feeling that the thing that’s most precious and dear to you might be gone.”

The school bus was from Waite House, a community center that is part of the nonprofit Pillsbury United Community Organization. It was coming back from a field trip to a water park in Blaine, Minn.

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By Michael Metzger At the time of the incident, a conJim Clack, City Council President and Kari Vand VanderVeen struction crew at the site was fixing Barb Johnson (4th Ward), City cosmetic blemishes by replacing Council Member Sandy Colvin Roy o one knows yet why the concrete, guardrails and lights.

(12th Ward), and Hennepin County I-35W bridge spanning In the hours after the collapse, Commissioners Peter McLaughlin the Mississippi River col colcrowds flooded nearby river (District 4) and Mark Stenglein (Dislapsed Aug. 1 as rush hour ground bridges. Throngs of University of trict 2). Representatives from the to a close. What we do know is grim: Minnesota students and others ran Federal Emergency Management The collapse sent dozens of vehicles down a dusty dirt road on campus Agency (FEMA) were also in the city, plunging more than 60 feet into the to catch a glimpse from a pedestriRybak said.

Mississippi River, ending several an bridge near the scene. Millions of The Minneapolis City Council lives and rearranging others forever. others around the country watched declared a state of emergency in the Some vehicles landed in unnatu unnatuon television as the tragedy uncity at its Aug. 3 meeting. ral poses, crumpled in deadly piles folded. Gov. Tim Pawlenty called The National Transportation against each other, shocking the the disaster “a horrible incident that Safety Board (NTSB) has begun the senses of everyone lucky enough to takes your breath away and sinks slow, laborious process of solving be able to look from a safe distance your heart.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar the mystery of the collapse. NTSB or watch on TV. (D-Minn.) said it was a disaster that Chairman Mark Rosenker said the That night, a somber Rybak spoke shouldn’t have happened. organization sent a team of invesat City Hall about the devastation “A bridge in America just tigators to the scene shortly after just a few blocks away. shouldn’t fall down,” Klobuchar the collapse occurred. Those 19 “Our hearts and our prayers go said. investigators have expertise in areas out tonight to the families and the Officials from all levels of governranging from bridge engineering to friends of the victims of one of the ment poured into the area to pledge survival factors, he said. most tragic nights in the history of support and examine the scene.

The investigation into what Minneapolis,” he said.

Mayor R.T. Rybak, whoRybak, was with who hiswas family with his caused the bridge to collapse will be The eight-lane-wide bridge was family in northern in northern Minnesota Minnesota when he when complex, and answers won’t come built in 1967, carrying more than he received received news news of the of the collapse collapse from quickly, Rosenker said. He estimat100,000 vehicles a day over the a friend, from a friend, was joined was joined at an at Aug. an2Aug. ed it would be about a year before river. The Minnesota Department of press 2 press conference conference byby leaders leaders that that the NTSB releases its final report Transportation inspected the bridge included the governor, Klobuchar, detailing what caused the disaster. as recently as 2006 and determined U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, U.S. Rep. “The first thing we must do is it to be safe. Still, inspectors found Keith Ellison, Sen. Larry Pogemiller recover the pieces. After we recover “structural deficiencies” that report report- (DFL-59), House Speaker Margaret the pieces of the bridge, we will edly prompted MnDOT officials to Anderson Kelliher (DFL-60A), U.S. begin actually trying to reassemble consider either stepping up inspec inspecSecretary of Transportation Mary them, not in a way where it’s actutions or reinforcing the bridge Peters, Minneapolis Police Chief ally standing, but kind of in a jigsaw structure.

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Eddie Bjorgen, 22, stands outside his home in Southwest Minneapolis next to his Dodge Neon.

Bjorgen, a courier, narrowly escaped the bridge collapse while on his way to Northeast.

photo by jake weyer Olivia Reynolds, one of the children that survived the bridge collapse in a school bus, and her father Jay (left) talk to Mayor R.T. Rybak about her frightening experience.

Tony Lipa, 28, was driving northbound on West River Road when the bridge collapsed. “… All of a sudden everybody in front of me slammed on their brakes. I couldn’t see what had happened and I stopped and got out of my car,” he said. “A motorcyclist had turned around and was coming back and I asked him what happened and he had said, ‘The bridge just fell. The bridge is gone.’’

Lipa ran up to the collapse site to see if there were any cars trapped underneath the rubble.

“I got down on my stomach and I didn’t see any,” he said. “I looked up and I could see a guy kind of milling around in a tan minivan. He was in the passenger side of his car and he had been on the deck when it dropped. And I was yelling at him ‘you need to get down. You need to get down.’”

The man was still up on a section of the bridge.

at the various parts of this bridge and understand what made it fall down,” Rosenker said.

That effort will require some care be used at the scene of the collapse, Pawlenty said.

“They will be treating this area and the area of the bridge as essentially an investigation scene or, in some respects, a crime scene, so they want to be careful about how and when things are moved,” Pawlenty said.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters pledged an initial federal contribution of $5 million to go toward recovery efforts. More federal funding will likely be on the way to assist with bridge reconstruction efforts.

“We are prepared to provide both technical and financial assistance to keep both the road and river traffic moving,” Peters said.

The last bridge collapse of this magnitude in the United States occurred in 1983 in Connecticut, Peters said.

Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan said the investigation into what happened would look at all possible angles.

“Right now we have no reason to believe that we have anything other than a collapsed bridge, but we have to cover all our bases,” Dolan said.

“… He was just like sobbing uncontrollably and he had his briefcase in his hand. So I assume that he had gotten out and he was trying to get his briefcase and he was crying,” Lipa said. “He kept saying over and over again: ‘I’m OK. I’m OK. The bridge collapsed. The bridge collapsed.’ He was standing up above me looking at me and shaking.

I kind of grabbed his briefcase and helped him by the arm and he slid down.”

Within an hour

of the bridge collapse, hundreds of people lined the Stone Arch Bridge, and the riverfront was teemteem ing with photographers, bikes, dogs and a few mopeds. Much of the early crowd was dressed for the night’s Minnesota Twins game and stood in groups on the riverbank next to the Guthrie TheThe ater. Nearly half of the onlookers were talking on cell phones, some assuring callers that they were OK and describing their views from the bridge.

“This is really strange,” said a woman who was walking along the riverfront.

One young couple, seemingly oblivious to the commotion, stood near the Mill City Museum posing for what looked like a series of engagement photos. People with cell phone cameras captured the dark smoke that was slowly rising from the bridge site. People counted off the number of heliheli copters in the sky, and a constant stream of sirens filled the air.

“Is that it, right there?” one girl asked the guy she was with.

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toivonen Berndt Toivonen snapped this shot with his cell phone after the span of bridge he was driving on crashed.

“I can’t believe it, the damn thing just collapsed,” said another onlooker.

Vern Bellanger, who lives in an Elliot Park highrise, said he caught the news from his home at 6:15 p.m.

“I couldn’t believe my ears,” he said, so he grabbed his bike and a pair of binoculars and stood for more than 30 minutes watching the scene from the Stone Arch Bridge.

Michael Rainville, a member of Meet Minneapolis and former president of the St. Anthony Business Association, also headed out to the Stone Arch bridge with binoculars when he heard the news.

“Construction equipment is tipped over, and I can see the girders are all twisted,” he said. “On the East Bank near the bridge, there are a lot of ambulances and a lot of activity. They’re using that

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was just seconds from an exit ramp on the East Bank when the I-35W bridge started to crumble behind him.

Bjorgen, 22, a courier who lives in Southwest Minneapolis, was talking on his cell phone with his friend when he heard something that sounded like an explosion.

“I felt the entire bridge just shift. So I slowed down almost to a stop because that was completely out of the ordinary, and the last thing I wanted to do was drive into something up there that was making that noise,” he said.

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as an exit point.”

Andy Schwert was working on a cruise boat on the river when he saw the bridge fall. The Mississippi Queen and its 60-plus passengers took off at 5:30 p.m. and headed for the St. Anthony lock and dam. They dropped through the upper lock, maneuvered into the lower lock, and, once inside, Schwert tied the boat to a floating device.

“I heard a noise,” he recalled. “I looked and I saw the south side of the bridge collapsing. And I turned really quick and I looked and the whole central mid-part of the bridge had already fallen and was about, I don’t know, maybe 20 feet from hitting the ground. It looked like a giant U.” Schwert ran inside and called 911. For the next five minutes he and his fellow passengers stared in silence, watching the smoky rubble. “I saw the cars on fire, I saw a body laying out of a car, all this construction,” he says. “It seemed like a movie.”

“Four cars were piled on top of each other in front of me.”

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The worst part of the experience, Schwert remembers, was not being able to help. The boat wasn’t allowed to exit the lock in case they got stuck or more rubble fell. “We were 100–150 feet away,” he said. “For five minutes, we were the first ones on the scene and then we couldn’t get to them. There was nothing we could do.”

Emergency workers showed up, and a half hour after they entered the lock, the captain turned the boat around and went back to the dock. “Ten more minutes,” Schwert said. “If we’d have dropped that lock, [in] 10 minutes we’ve have been under that bridge.”

Paradise Lady, the Mississippi Queen’s sister boat, was also on the river when the bridge collapsed, but too far upstream to watch it fall. The captain gave the passengers the option of going back to shore or continuing their cruise in a different direction. They chose to stay on the ship.

Hillary Heinz, who was bartending on the boat, was shocked that 35–40 people remained onboard. “They stayed on and partied it up and drank. I was so angry,” she said. “I was so disgusted that anyone would to be out on that same river, you know what I mean, while people are drowning.”

Berndt Toivonen, wearing a T-shirt and carrying a lunch pail and a paint bucket of his belongings, walked alone across the Stone Arch Bridge, heading to catch a bus or possibly call a family member for a ride home.

His Ford Explorer, he said, was still on the 35W bridge. He had been driving southbound at about 30 miles an hour, and when he had reached within 40 feet of a truss support column he saw that the mid-section of the bridge and all of the cars there had disappeared.

“It really wasn’t a fast drop,” Toivonen said. “I just felt that the bridge was going down.”

He put the vehicle in reverse and backed up as the deck was falling.

“Four cars were piled on top of each other in front of me,” he said.

Toivonen saw four people walk out of their cars who seemed to be doing fine, but about 15 people near him could not leave their vehicles without assistance. One woman had hurt her head, but she was able to walk a little bit, he said. He saw a pregnant woman taken away on a stretcher.

“I felt okay, so I helped people out of their cars,” he said. “I’m real lucky. I was helping out as much as I could.”

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Blue Line light rail opens Four years ago this week,

Minnesota Premier Publications bought Skyway News. We’ve worked hard since then to make the paper a well-respected, Downtown-focused news source keeping you on top of happenings in this vibrant, fast-changing part of Minneapolis.

With this issue, Skyway News becomes Downtown Journal, a name that better

reflects the area we cover. We think of it as an evolution because it builds on the best of Skyway News — and in the coming weeks, we’ll steadily introduce new features and approaches to enhance your life Downtown, whether you live, work or visit here.

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MN passes ordinances banning D smoking in bars, restaurants and other establishments Free rides from trains down Nicollet Mall of “marginal importance,” says Met Council chief; business leader says promise broken

Historic Wesley Methodist hopes activist California church can inspire new urban outreach

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espite its strong social-justice roots and central location, Loring Park’s Wesley United Methodist Church has seen its membership slip from more than 1,000 four decades ago to 125 today.

So Wesley, one of the city’s oldest congregations, is turning to an inner-city San Francisco church to help revitalize its ministry.

Wesley dates back to 1852, the first Methodist congregation west of the Mississippi River. The castle-like 1891 building at 101 E. Grant St.— now on the National Register of Historic Places and next to the Minneapolis Convention Center — gave birth to many other local congregations, including Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Ave. “We have a big history, but over the years, we’ve grown really small,” said Rev. Suzanne Mades, the church’s senior pastor. “It’s hard to carry out our mission and ministry with smaller numbers.”

Now, Wesley is looking to Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District for help. The church attracts seekers worldwide who want to bolster declining urban ministries and broaden community outreach programs.

In the 1960s, Glide’s congregation hovered around 30. Today, more than 10,000 people belong.

Metro Transit: current Mall bus service has enough capacity for LRT.

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By Scott Russell

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Skyway News changes to Downtown Journal UPTOWN’S NEW C E N T E R O F AT T E N T I O N .

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Dwindling Downtown congregation hopes to find new heart in San Francisco

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s the curtain rises on Metro Transit’s new light rail transit (LRT) line, a planned circulator bus timed to get passengers up and down Nicollet Mall is missing.

Metro Council Executive Director Peter Bell said mothballing the so-called “Downtown circulator” plans would not create significant problems

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height variances. taking campaign If affordable housing is Rybak questions McLaughlin the mayor said would choose whom to support? cash from developers, which some in style, some in judgment about develThere are differences — compromise his opponent’s are both that the mayor is McLaughlin fires back .T. Rybak and Peter McLaughlin housing substance. accepting affordable building heights, a opments. with the “symbolism” of DFLers, say they support One of the more substantial: in down- too preoccupied to back it up. help developers and can point to accomplishments for Local hot issue after condo-tower controversies height campaign cash and has failed to director McLaughlin said he A McLaughlin idea: want to invest in the city; Paul Williams, senior program town and Southwest. units — taller build- who (LISC), a source of Initiatives Support Group bonuses in return for affordable would be more “hands-on.” can afford. for affordable housmoney and technical support have been really ings for housing poorer Minneapolitans code and says the guys see HOUSING page 24 Rybak defends the zoning ing, said, “both of these very without giving numerous affordable housing in strong advocates for city has room to grow tough economic times.”

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fool you. Yes, after Don’t let the hubbub over the urinals Stasiu’s is back — but sitting vacant for more than a year, not as you might remember it. that the Polish When news broke late this summer to hold equal appeal rock palace, an iconic dive known skinny-jeaned hipsters amongst neighborhood old-timers, be reborn as Stanley’s and frat-boy pub crawlers, would all that wouldn’t Bar Room, the enthusiasm surrounded

urinals! The local change. They’re keeping the famous got Christy Hunt rock shows are coming back! They’ve booking bands again! the bar enjoyed a But step inside Stanley’s today — you’ll hardly recogquiet soft opening on Oct. 8 — and nize the place. venue is now flooded The cramped darkness of the old a suite of large in natural light, pouring in through S E E S TA N L E Y ’ S

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The Stanley’s crew: father and son owners Steven (left) and David Benowitz (right), manager Luke Derheim.

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Dramatic makeover unveiled at Sheridan Elementary library

December 12, 2010

There’s a paradigm shift occurring in Minneapolis that showcases a not-sotraditional partnership between church and state.

Businesses are seeking the support of churches in fund-raising efforts.

Churches are supporting the 10-year-plan to end homelessness created

by Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis.

Citizens are gathering at

BY MICHELLE BRUCH

Principal Al Pitt had an eyeopening encounter shortly after starting his new job at Sheridan Elementary School this fall. It started with a basic instruction: he encouraged the children to read at least 20 minutes every night at home.

“Read what?” asked one student. Pitt was shocked to

learn that some of the kids didn’t have a single children’s book at home.

Now, students have no excuse not to read. Sheridan sent them home last month with seven free books apiece.

And the library is now the school’s major attraction.

It’s totally renovated with

Metrodome roof collapses SEE CHURCHES

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Rolf Lowenberg-DeBoer and Annie (From left) Heidi Johnson McAllister, Homelessness.

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LUNCH TIP: Voices

Lunchtime Tourist / By Linda Koutsky

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES I

Early Lunchtime Tourist columns were illustrated with line drawings such as these.

was in elementary school when Skyway News first appeared on news racks in 1970.

Later, in high school, my best friend Marta and I often hung out at the glitzy new IDS Center Crystal Court. We rode the bus from Golden Valley. Suburbia felt far away when we set foot on the corner of 6th & Hennepin.

After browsing through magazines at Shinder’s, we’d hurry on the sidewalk past Moby Dick’s bar, then cut through Dayton’s Arcade on the way to the department store’s sixthfloor Art Deco women’s restroom.

The IDS Center was, and still is, the epicenter of Minneapolis. Hanging out on the second floor and watching people below was a favorite pastime. We shopped the stores on both levels, had

sodas at Woolworth’s downstairs coffee shop then headed into building’s basement movie theater.

After the matinee, we’d explore Nicollet’s retail establishments. Large elaborate window displays offered shoes, clothes and art and office supplies. Waiting for the bus, we’d pick up copies of Sweet Potato and Skyway News to read on the way home.

When I graduated college and moved west for a couple years, my father got me a subscription to Skyway News. I moved back a few years later and pitched the Lunchtime Tourist idea to the paper. I said I’d write about art, architecture and cultural curiosities and recommend a place for lunch.

That was the year 2000. They took me up on it.

Lunchtime Tourist destinations, now gone Teener’s Theatrical Department Store • Eagle Magic & Joke • The Handicraft Guild • The Star Tribune Building • The Scroll by John Rood • Cafe di Napoli • Dayton’s Skyroom • Tom Nussbaum’s window art at Neiman Marcus • Antiques Riverwalk • Peter’s Grill • Big Brain Comics • Penco Artists’ Supply Warehouse • Elliot Offner’s bronze fountain • Gaviidae Common’s State Fare food court • The Grain Exchange trading floor

In the 1960s and ’70s my great aunt Evelyn took the bus downtown to pay her gas bill. She’d go on Wednesdays when Peter’s Grill had a special on apple pie. Sitting in those old wooden booths is nearly the same since Hen House Eatery took over the Art Deco space. Save room for an Apple Pie Bar.

For nearly 18 years I’ve been exploring and documenting downtown — the streets, buildings, alleys, rooftops, artworks and skyways. Eventually the paper was renamed Downtown Journal and then, later, The Journal, and my column became the Weekend Tourist when it was included in the paper’s sister publication, the Southwest Journal.

When my 200th column was published several years ago, I wrote that beauty and inspiration are everywhere — it just takes time to look, and it takes curiosity. And without curiosity life would be dull.

I’m still on the lookout for interesting places, but I’m sorry to lose all those other stories that enlivened our days reading Skyway News and The Journal.

Koutsky’s former Lunchtime Tourist column evolved into the Weekend Tourist, now appearing in the Southwest Journal.

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WHEN THE SKYWAY NEWS DEBUTED IN 1970, it included a feature that would endure for decades and cement itself in the minds of readers: Miss Skyway. These brief profiles of downtown office workers — typically 20-something women — often focused as much on their subjects’ dating habits as their career objectives. The balance shifted over the decades, and much of the leering sexism was filtered out by the time future-Sen. Amy Klobuchar made the column in 1988. As early as the late ’70s, Skyway News even profiled the occasional Mr. Skyway.

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Linda Szabla, June 1978

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Retrospective

At the helm Former editors look back on their time at downtown’s community newspaper What can I tell you about editing The Journal?

Well, not as much as Tim Lyke, David Brauer and Sarah McKenzie can. All three former editors spent much more time steering the paper than my two-plus years.

For this final issue, I asked Tim, David and Sarah to reflect on their time with the paper and its place in the local mediascape. They represent three different eras of this publication, long known as Skyway News before it was renamed the Downtown Journal and, later, The Journal.

Both David and Sarah, my former boss, have been indispensible sources of advice and guidance for me in my first editing gig. But the inspiration for this piece was Tim, who I hadn’t met until he emailed in November, one of a number of former staffers who have reached out since the paper’s closing was announced.

I think I can speak for all of us when I say it’s been an honor serving you, our readers.

— Dylan Thomas, editor 2016–2018

Tim Lyke, editor 1985–1990 Since stepping down as Skyway News and Freeway News editor 28 years ago, I haven’t given the position much thought.

Until last month.

Three events converged in November to cause me to reminisce, fondly, on my time at the community newspapers that for almost a half-century have served the Twin Cities downtown and suburban areas.

One was trivial: Sen. Amy Klobuchar bragged to Stephen Colbert that she’s a former Miss Skyway.

Another, heartbreaking: My Skyway News “Lyke ’n’ Mike” co-columnist, Laurie (Michael) Kumerow of Lake Elmo, died of a brain tumor at age 56.

The last was disappointing: News that after Dec. 13, no more The Journal, successor to

the newspaper entrepreneur Sam Kaufman founded in 1970 to serve the second-story downtown community.

By the time I joined the Skyway crews in 1985, Sam had grown his publishing empire to include Tuesday and Thursday downtown Minneapolis editions, as well as downtown St. Paul and suburban papers on Wednesdays.

Our news staff of seven edited and wrote for four papers weekly, not to mention the gargantuan 120-page Aquatennial behemoths we produced each July.

In 1985, the papers largely were filled with lightly edited news releases, local columnists and syndicated features.

By 1990, canned copy, photos of bikini-clad women and biweekly columns by a restaurant reviewer whose puffery focused on her PR clients were replaced with bylined news

Tim Lyke, left, with his Lyke ’n’ Mike co-columnist Laurie (Michael) Kumerow. Submitted photo

stories that occasionally scooped the crosstown Goliath on Portland Avenue. We wrote gossipy in-the-know columns and interviewed celebrities who came to town. We offered a Thursday A&E section, with editor D.L. Mabery junketing off to Hollywood every other weekend — at studios’ expense — to interview movie stars.

We had Olympic gold medal gymnast Bart Conner stand on his head for a photo; retired President Jimmy Carter told us why he still needed Secret Service protection

(fear that an enemy could kidnap him and hold the U.S. hostage); and we set aside 20 minutes to interview Fred DeLuca, who insisted that his new downtown Minneapolis sandwich shop would blossom into the world’s largest chain of franchises. (Actually, Subway is only No. 4).

During my half-decade of fun, Sam and son Steve Kaufman sold their franchise to Clint Andrus, who bravely gave us the green light to redesign and re-conceptualize the papers before they were bought by Todd Klingel, a

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THE FINAL ISSUE positive spirit with boyish charm who was then publisher of Twin Cities Directory.

We had fun back then, moving downtown from Park Avenue to 5th Avenue, covering Police Chief Tony Bouza firing a confetti cannon over Nicollet Mall, sharing a beer with Joan Baez at a downtown block party, watching a live elephant wave his trunk at Peavey Plaza passersby, earning kudos from media luminaries such as WCCO’s Dave Moore and the Strib’s Barbara Flanagan and, yes, awarding Murray’s steaks and a month of Jazzercise classes to a future U.S. senator.

But now, Laurie, Sam, Steve, D.L. and Todd are all gone. Not so the memories of a great paper produced by people with great respect for their readers and advertisers.

Like its successor, The Journal, Skyway News created connections that were no less vital to our community than the series of second-story bridges that link the network of otherwise isolated office buildings.

the Daily board (no shock Sarah became the Downtown Journal’s longest-tenured editor); Sue Rich, a wonderful and supremely socially conscious managing editor; Robyn Repya White and Ellen Nigon, two of the hardestworking and nicest beat reporters an editor could hope to manage; Kevin Featherly, who pushed the envelope with me; Rich Ryan, our tireless photographer who created awesome images despite way too assignments.

And the paper wasn’t just reporters. There were Marcia Roepke and Brian Nanista, who made the paper look exceptional; Marlo Johnson, who got the paper distributed with a smile we didn’t always deserve; sales reps who got those condo developers to pony up; receptionists who often caught flack first while freeing us do our jobs.

I’m so glad Janis and Terry asked. And that I said yes.

Sarah McKenzie, editor 2006–2016

David Brauer, editor 2001–2005 In 2001, I’d been enjoying life as a national freelancer when Janis Hall and Terry Gahan approached me: Would I like to edit Skyway News?

It was a ridiculous notion. I was a City Pages guy; Skyway News was the product of three-martini lunches, cheesy boosterism and the cheesecake of “Miss Skyway.”

No, no, they said. Turn Skyway News into a community paper for a place that doesn’t know it’s a community yet. Condo-dwellers had just started to arrive, and we grafted on the Southwest Journal model: indefatigable coverage of neighborhood meetings and ward-level City Hall coverage; arts coverage that didn’t pander; voices of real people.

For me, it was a great chance to influence local news again. We ended up winning a statewide public service award for exposing contractor influence on the Minneapolis Park Board; regularly scooped the competition on downtown development deals (projects first emerged at neighborhood association meetings); and generally raised havoc when we could get away with it, as countless angry phone calls from City Council Member Lisa Goodman attested.

We indulged in April Fools issues, re-bannering as “Slyway News.” We lampooned then-Gov. Jesse Ventura’s paranoid tendencies with a front-pager that he’d ordered the skyway system dismantled. (We used a photo of a skyway being erected.)

The all-timer was an announcement that ABC was remaking “Three’s Company” with a senior couple just in from the suburbs forced to share a downtown condo with a millennial. KSTP-TV was so excited Minnesota got national attention that it ran our joke as real news — no fact checking, even though KSTP is an ABC affiliate! Then the Star Tribune copied KSTP, also with no reporting. We’d parodied viral news before we knew what that was.

It wasn’t all fun though. I was especially proud of a profile we’d run on a downtown woman who was trans, who willingly told us her personal story and her harrowing life on the streets — the antithesis of the rosy “Miss Skyway” view of Downtown. But within a week, the reporter and I found ourselves sitting before a row of angry trans advocates, who told a couple of straight, white, cis guys we’d made our subject a target for violent transphobes, whether she knew it or not. It was a pointed education about privilege and that feeling personally virtuous is no substitute for fully understanding other realities.

I learned so much about downtown, a place I’d always loved, but my greatest joy was giving journalists a chance to shine: Scott Russell, our most experienced reporter, got a bigger platform to explain and expose the city; Sarah McKenzie, who I literally hired because she’d fought for editorial independence as a Minnesota Daily editor against

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I will miss seeing it around town and am grateful for the opportunity I had to serve as editor for The Journal and Southwest Journal for more than a decade before my longtime colleague Dylan Thomas took the helm in 2016. I led the papers at a time of transformational change in downtown Minneapolis and in the media landscape.

Navigating those changes was both very challenging and rewarding.

The Journals have always been produced by a small but very scrappy and talented team of journalists who have filled the pages with informative and entertaining stories documenting life in Minneapolis.

While I worked as an editor and reporter at the newspapers, I had the opportunity to cover a wide range of stories — from quirky profiles on unique characters like the late Ruth Adams, “the barking dog polka lady” at Nye’s, and a cuckoo clock collector in the North Loop, to in-depth reporting on critical issues like homelessness and gun violence.

Downtown Minneapolis became much more vibrant in the decade that I worked at the newspapers with thousands of new residents moving into new condo and apartment buildings, bringing new energy to the neighborhoods in the heart of the city. It continues to become more dynamic with dramatic changes on the east side of downtown and the arrival of the new stadium, The Commons and neighboring new development and the recent transformation of Nicollet Mall. The recent arrival of “Nimbus,” a massive and majestic cantilevered sculpture in front of the Minneapolis Central Library, is the perfect finishing touch for the new Nicollet.

It can be tempting to just focus on the negative while writing about the city. It’s an important function of newspapers to hold leaders accountable and point out problems that need fixing. While writing and editing The Journal, I was also intentional about celebrating the city and spotlighting all the wonderful people and places that make Minneapolis so special. That’s my biggest takeaway from my time working there — this city is filled with compassionate, innovative and creative people who care about making Minneapolis a better place.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of this newspaper for more than four decades, especially Janis Hall and Terry Gahan, who have served as the publishers since 2001. I learned so much from all the talented people I got to collaborate with over the years. A note of appreciation, too, for all the advertisers who have supported the paper as well.

Finally, keep supporting and reading newspapers. We need them more than ever.

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14 journalmpls.com / December 13–26, 2018 Before he began delivering newspapers nearly 25 years ago, Lyle James did janitorial work and assembled items like coloring books for a local daycare company.

That job didn’t provide much work for him during the summers, so he picked up a delivery route for the Star Tribune. Immediately, James was drawn to the independent, do-it-yourself style of the job.

“I found out I liked it so much that I just started calling around to the different papers,” he said. “Within a few years, I had dropped the job at the place that made the daycare items and went full-time with the newspapers.”

This eventually brought James to the Downtown Journal, as it was known at the time, in the mid 2000s. By then, he had already been delivering sister publications Minnesota Parent and Minnesota Good Age for Minnesota Premier Publications, which also publishes The Journal. The company’s distribution manager, Marlo Johnson, offered James delivery routes for the Downtown Journal in Northeast and around the University of Minnesota, which James stuck with for the next decade.

“I’m going to hate to see the Downtown Journal go,” he said. “The routes I had were very fantastic and easy to deliver, but that’s technology, I guess.”

James isn’t quitting his job. He plans to continue delivering about a dozen other local publications, including MPP’s other community newspaper, the Southwest Journal, for the next five years until he reaches retirement age. And he still has enough work delivering newspapers to keep him busy more than 40 hours a week.

“To tell you the truth, I’m surprised I’m still in business with any of these papers, because of the lack of advertising revenue due to the Internet,” he said. “I’m just surprised that they’re hanging tough.”

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From our doorstep to yours Long-time carriers reflect on the end of The Journal

By Joey Peters

Lyle James is one of the dozens of carriers who have stocked street-side boxes and skyway racks with The Journal over the years. Photo by Dylan Thomas As long as there’s business, delivering newspapers will continue to suit James.

“I’ve never been warm toward bosses,” he said. “I like the freedom of being able to do what I want.”

The same can be said for John Manders, who started delivering The Journal in 1997, when it still carried the Skyway News flag.

“It kind of gets in your blood to do this,” Manders said. “We like being outdoors, and

we like being independent. We don’t like being in an office with someone looking over our shoulder.”

Throughout the years, Manders delivered the paper as it transformed from the twice weekly Skyway News to the every-otherweek Journal.

Like James, he’s an independent contractor and does delivery for multiple news publications around town. In his time delivering The Journal, Manders said he dropped off each issue of the newspaper to 80–85 locations, most of them downtown and in the skyways.

Delivering The Journal took a full day of work, not including the half-hour he spends loading his Ford Ranger with 1,000 pounds worth of newspapers.

Anybody in the delivery business knows that this means quicker wear and tear on their cars. But the extra car maintenance that comes with the job was well worth it for Manders. The pay was good and drivers were treated well, he said.

Still, Manders found new challenges delivering The Journal downtown in recent years, navigating more paid parking spaces and limited commercial parking zones. It didn’t help that he could only park at the meters without charge before noon.

“It just got more difficult, more timeconsuming,” he said. “You had to keep looking for places to park.”

That said, it’s been a good run for Manders, and he plans on continuing to deliver the Southwest Journal and other local newspapers for at least another year.

He isn’t sure if he’ll do anything special to pay homage to The Journal after making his final delivery of the publication.

“I might have a couple of beers afterward,” he said.

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A fresh infusion of residential space is being planned by Ivy Properties for the Northeast Park neighborhood. On a spot in between The Quarry commercial area and the Jim Lupient Water Park, Ivy plans a 155-unit, five-story luxury project, according to a City Planning Commission memorandum. The units would be a mix of efficiencies, one- and two-bedrooms. The unusual Z-shaped building will have 161 underground parking stalls and another 60 surface-level parking spaces. The site near the Interstate 35W onramp is currently occupied by a one-story light industrial building and an unpaved area used for parking and storage.

After many years, the site of the Minneapolis AIDS Project in Elliot Park will be getting a new life. The development, planned for a 1.7-acre plot on the southwest corner of 14th & Park, was first proposed more than three years ago. In 2015, Weidner announced plans for a six-story building with 240–260 apartments, underground parking and roughly 2,000 square feet of first-floor commercial space. Those numbers appear to remain fairly close to what will begin construction after the NCAA Final Four festivities end at U.S. Bank Stadium next April. Utility work will be going on throughout the winter.

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Iron Store The affordable housing project known as Iron Store is cancelled, apparently because of a dispute with the city over what exactly is “affordable.” Plymouth-based Dominium has called off the development planned for the North Loop. What Dominium has done is cancel a purchase agreement for buildings and property that were the former home of the C.J. Duffey Paper Co. Dominium had planned to create 210 affordable apartments out of three existing buildings and construct one entirely new building, all at a cost of up to $110 million.

The problem, basically, is that worked out to roughly $550,000 per unit, or nearly double what Minneapolis sees as proper for affordable housing.

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Amp House* Another long-discussed project, this one the so-called Amp House, a decommissioned 1913 electrical substation proposed to be transformed into a 12-unit apartment complex, is gaining traction. The plan presented to the city calls for subdividing the two lots the building sits on for the renovation of the brick substation and totally new construction of a second, attached three-story building. Tenants on the ground level will have a principal entrance to the exterior of the building. Upper-level residents would share a principal entrance facing the south property line.

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L&H Station Phase II* The second phase of an ambitious project directly west of the Metro Blue Line Lake Street Station was presented to the

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The work, scheduled to take a year, will include opening the area between the lower level and the first floor and adding skylights to bring in more natural light into the building. Though the building has functioned as a library for more than 50 years, the structure still has some remnants of its previous life as a credit union.

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Mixed-use development* A six-story, 123-unit apartment complex with 2,900 square feet of retail space is in the works for a triangular lot overlooking Interstate 94 on the 1700 block of Nicollet Avenue South. Yellow Tree’s plans call for a mostly white-clad building with balconies and rooftop decks for the second floor. Parking for 61 vehicles will be provided below grade.

Because of the unusual layout of the lot, a 92-foot setback will abut LaSalle Avenue on the west side of the building and may be used as a community garden or dog park.

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Lake Street Kmart* The long-sought demolition (or at least reorientation) of the Kmart store blocking off Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street may be moving toward reality. The city has revealed that it is undertaking to gain full control of the site from now-bankrupt Sears Holding Corp. and to offer it for sale for redevelopment, which would almost certainly mean restoring access through the site. The city purchased the land beneath the Kmart store in 2017, but

Construction is progressing on schedule for another hotel addition to the East Washington Avenue area. Graves Hospitality’s second Moxy Hotel (after the Uptown location that opened in January) is scheduled to open in the spring of 2019 as part of the company’s Ironclad project, which will also include 174 apartments and 15,000 square feet of retail.

The building design is broken into three distinct portions: a hotel, private residences and a four-story retail complex. The finished building will include an outdoor pool and prominent use of wood decor throughout.

“Ironclad” is a nod to a long-since departed iron-reinforced grain elevator that used to be on the site. Kraus-Anderson Construction is handling construction. The Ironclad is owned by the Kharbanda family, which owns several downtown properties, including the nearby 511 Building.

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Rand Tower Construction that will totally transform 26-story, 1929-era Rand Tower in downtown into a yet-to-be-branded hotel is expected to begin within the next few weeks with a projected cost $60 million. ESG Architects are handling the top-to-bottom redesign, which includes what is planned to be a signature element: a full service restaurant and outdoor dining area on the roof the building’s fourthfloor annex.

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C H A RITAB L E GI V I NG As much as you may want to, you can’t solve all of the problems of the world in one fell swoop.

Bummer, right?

Every day we are inundated with terrible news: environmental devastation, the horrible conditions faced by immigrants, poverty, homelessness, racial disparities and much more. The good thing is that there are reasons to take heart.

Navigation center miwrc.salsalabs.org/ FranklinHiawathaEncampment/index.html Native American organizations and the city have been hard at work putting together a new navigation center to address the needs of those living in a large homeless camp near Franklin & Hiawatha.

Groups working on site include Natives Against Heroin, Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors, the Native American Community Clinic and Livio, a mobile healthcare service provider that will also be working in the new navigation center, currently under construction at a nearby site.

Those interested in helping can also donate to the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, which is overseeing a discretionary fund to meet the immediate needs of families who have experienced

By Sheila Regan

All over the world, and even right here in Minneapolis, there are individuals and organizations that are working to make it a better place.

Some charities operate on tiny, scrappy budgets and yet are able to have a huge impact on the problems they face.

Here are a few of the groups that are solving the world’s problems, one step at a time.

chronic homelessness or housing instability.

The coordinated effort between organizations and government entities shows just how much of an urgent need there is to address homelessness in the city.

Small Sums smallsums.org Small Sums helps people who have experienced homelessness get back on their feet by giving them things they need to for new jobs.

If, for instance, a job requires a particular kind of uniform, Small Sums can help with the costs. If a person needs a certain type of pants or shoes, Small Sums makes certain that need won’t be the barrier to a person’s first day on the job.

The organization also provides equipment and tools — especially helpful for those with a background in the trades who no

longer own the tools they need to get work.

Small Sums also provides bus passes, because transportation costs are another potential barrier to employment. They’ll help cover licensure testing fees and renewal fees. A little extra support can boost Small Sums’ clients above minimum wage.

Small Sums also supports individuals on a path to owning their own business. Those selected through an application process receive tuition for a 12-week entrepreneur training program at the Neighborhood Development Center. They then also are eligible for assistance with startup business expenses.

Border Angels borderangels.org Reports of asylum seekers being sprayed with tear gas on the U.S.-Mexico border illustrate the dangerous situation immigrant communities are in as they try to

reach the United States for a better life.

Often fleeing violence in their homelands, they don’t exactly receive a warm welcome in this country and often face harsh conditions en route, crossing deserts and mountains.

Border Angels is a San Diego-based nonprofit organization that brings volunteers to the desert near the border, where they place water for immigrants crossing as well as winter clothing and food during the colder months of the year. They also provide outreach to the San Diego-based immigrant community, including providing legal aid services, day worker outreach, immigration consulting and advocacy.

The organization was in the national spotlight as the “migrant caravan” reached Tijuana, located just across the border from San Diego. With shelters overflowing with men, women and children, the nonprofit has asked for help to support the urgent need.

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events, so donors and friends can get to know the animals. They’ve hosted yoga events, vegan donut pop-ups, wine tastings and more.

To support the farm’s work, you can sponsor a particular animal or give a onetime or monthly gift. Or you can volunteer at the farm, which is a great way to get to know the animals.

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One farm animal at a time, Spring Farm is on a mission to end animal cruelty.

It was founded in 2016 by vegan animal lover Robin Johnson, who volunteers at Underdog Rescue and Animal Folks and also launched the nonprofit Save Minnesota Moose in addition to serving on the board of Pause for Paws.

With Spring Farm, the focus is on farm animals that have been abused or neglected. There’s Jack Penny, a pig found running through a bean field in Iowa, and Marge, another pig who fell from a transport truck and broke her jaw. Frankie, Raisin and Martha — all Toggenburg goats — were slated to be slaughtered for their meat before an act of intervention saved them. The farm also has ducks, chickens, cows, sheep and a very handsome turkey.

Spring Farm is open to visitors during the warmer months and often has special

No one should have to go hungry just because they are poor. For nearly 50 years, Joyce Uptown Foodshelf has been serving people in Southwest Minneapolis and beyond who need a little bit of help with groceries.

In 2017, the non-profit organization served about 11,000 people, a third of whom were under 17 years old, according to the organization’s GiveMN.org page.

That added up to 200,000 pounds of food, with each participant getting a three-day supply of ingredients for healthy and nutritious meals.

Run by a small staff as well as volunteers who come from faith groups, businesses, local nonprofits and the community, the food shelf distributes groceries purchased at a discount from The Food Group and Second Harvest Heartland food banks.

Because Joyce is able to purchase food at a discount, it means donation dollars can go quite a bit farther, with one dollar able to stretch into two to three meals.

The economy might be doing pretty well right now, but because housing costs are so high in Minneapolis, folks still fall through the cracks, even if they are currently working. Donating to your local food shelf — or volunteering — is a great way to help folks out with one of the basic necessities of life.

zAmya zamyatheater.org Things are shifting and changing for zAmya Theater Project, a theater company that addresses issues surrounding homelessness.

No longer a program of St. Stephen’s Human Services, the troupe is now venturing in new directions, including an upcoming project at Harbor Lights home-

less shelter made possible through a partnership with the Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Made Here program. (Their fiscal sponsor, meanwhile, is Propel.)

Made up of performers who have experienced homelessness themselves, as well as other professional collaborating artists, zAmya makes shows for public spaces, often in places where people who are experiencing homelessness can attend. The company’s last show, performed outside of the Minneapolis Central Library, was funny, heartfelt and entertaining and drove home the message of the inherent humanity of people that have been or are homeless.

Led by Artistic Director Maren Ward, zAmya blends activism, art and community-building in ways that upend the status quo of doing things, and the result is performance different than what anybody else is doing in town. They serve a need, but in a way that is filled with joy and fun, bringing light to participating artists and audiences alike.

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Upstream Arts upstreamarts.org Julie and Matt Guidry started Upstream Arts back in 2006, after they noted how much the arts benefited their son Caleb, who was born with Cornelia de Lange syndrome, which affects physical and cognitive development. A professional theater professional and actor, Matt Guidry discovered that his son responded positively to arts-based tools, with benefits that effected his physical movements, body language and facial expressions.

Since then, the organization has conducted classes, workshops and residencies in pre-K–12 schools, transition programs and adult disability centers, using theater techniques as a way to develop social and communication skills.

The organization works with children and adults who experience a range of disabilities, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing or have visual impairments, those who are nonverbal and individuals diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome or other developmental or cognitive disabilities. They also conduct trainings to share with other educators their arts-based programming and teaching methods.

Upstream’s work shows how much the value of arts goes beyond simple entertainment. The arts and creativity are more than anything tools for communicating.

Tapping into that unique aspect of the performing arts to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities is truly something special that’s worthy of support.

A free and open government starts with transparency, and that’s why the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information is such an important organization. It provides education and also advocacy around government transparency, making sure that the lawmakers and government offices are accountable to the public.

With a volunteer board made up of journalists, lawyers, archivists and Freedom of Information Act experts, MNCOGI works to make government more transparent in a number of ways. They hold workshops where they teach folks how to file information requests through FOIA and the Minnesota Data Practices Act. They also testify before the Minnesota Legislature on information policy, making sure state laws ensure transparency at all levels. They file comments on specific applications for temporary data classifications and write public commentaries on information policy and transparency issues.

Sound a little dry? Well, it is to a certain extant, and yet so important. If there aren’t organizations out there putting pressure on government agencies to continue to be transparent, we end up with closed-door meetings and decisions that are hidden from the public eye.

Minneapolis Climate Action mplsclimate.org If you are a fan of Minneapolis’ organics recycling program, you have Minneapolis Climate Action to thank.

Formerly called Linden Hills Power and Light, the organization spearheaded the collection of food scraps and non-recyclable paper products to create compost for soil in the Linden Hills neighborhood about a decade ago. The organization also partnered

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with Minneapolis Public Schools to bring organics recycling to school lunchrooms and, now that the organics recycling program is citywide, works to expand participation.

Linden Hills Power and Light was founded

by Wild Rumpus bookstore owner Tom Braun, who died in October. Braun went to a talk by his friend Will Steger, a polar explorer and activist, about climate change, and that experience was the kernel that resulted in LHP&L’s work. The organization recently changed its name to Minneapolis Climate Action when it became clear their work went beyond just one neighborhood.

Besides continued outreach around organics recycling, the organization also promotes bag reuse by holding sewing bees.

Volunteers make reusable “Boomerang Bags” from used fabric and distribute them in the community as a means to cut down on single-use plastic bags.

The organization also works with partners to promote community solar, a way to cooperatively tap into solar energy without having to purchase one’s own solar panels.

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Women’s Prison Book Project wpbp.org Of the 2 million people serving time in U.S. prisons — more than any other country by far — about 200,000 are women. Unfortunately, many of these facilities aren’t equipped to specifically address the needs of these women, including everything from feminine hygiene products to resources for surviving sexual or physical trauma, which according to some reports affect over 85 percent of them.

Since 1994, the Women’s Prison Book Project has worked to provide books for women in prison. Those books often contain resources that are targeted to their specific needs, including information on families, children, self-help, women’s health and legal aid.

Providing books is also just the humane thing to do. Fiction and books on politics, history and science all give respite, education and enrichment to the women serving time, who are mostly people of color and indigenous.

Operated under the fiscal sponsorship of Boneshaker books, WPBP is a volunteerdriven project with a lot of heart. They take book and cash donations, but cash donations are especially important because of the costs of shipping.

Volunteers can help out at WPBP or its sister program, the Midwest Trans Prisoner Penpal Project, which pairs volunteers with a trans pen pal in prison.

able items from partnering businesses and co-ops and distributes them to hunger relief organizations on a regular business.

Volunteers collect, sort and deliver fresh fruits and vegetables by bike or car, aiming

for a speedy turnaround so that recipients get the freshest food possible. By doing this work, TC Food Justice is completing two aims: reducing food waste, the largest component of landfills and a source of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, while also ensuring that healthy, fresh food isn’t just for rich people.

Some of the partnering businesses include Breadsmith on Grand Avenue, Panera Bread, Phenli Thao Farm and numerous co-ops (Eastside, Hampden Park, Lakewinds and Seward), as well as the Kingfield and Nokomis farmers markets. The food then heads to service organizations and food shelves around the Twin Cities. One recipient is Aliveness Project, which delivers groceries to individuals with HIV/AIDS and other chronic diseases.

TC Food Justice tcfoodjustice.org The philosophy behind TC Food Justice is simple: Take food that is going to be thrown away but is still good and put it in the hands of folks that otherwise can’t afford fresh options.

At the core of the organization’s work is their food rescue program. TC Food Justice collects excess produce and other perish-

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Rising rental prices make it tough for arts organizations, which tend to need a lot of space for not a lot of money. This is especially true for performance venues, where you need space for a stage, backstage, lights and audience.

The Phoenix Theater, located in the former Brave New Workshop space near 26th & Hennepin, offers an intimate performance space in Lowry Hill East, also known as The Wedge. It’s run by Arts’ Nest, a small nonprofit that makes putting on shows accessible to fringier, less established theater groups.

Arts’ Nest offers an affordable space for small theater and performance groups to rent for shows and rehearsals. Through its Fledgling program, Arts’ Next nurtures emerging playwrights, directors, dancers, musicians, comedians and other folks with big dreams and limited budgets by providing low- to no-cost space for rehearsals and performances, box office management and introductions to technical designers and production staff.

Arts’ Nest also operates an education program with classes for producers, technical artists and performers. Its offices feature local art in their lobby gallery, where artists are showcased for three months at a minimal commission for the organization.

In all, it’s a great place for artists to explore, learn, try out material and grow.

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FROM MINNEAPOLIS 2040 / PAGE 7

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By Andrew Hazzard ahazzard@journalmpls.com

RiverFirst nears groundbreaking with grant

An aerial rendering of the planned Water Works space at Mill Ruins Park.

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A $1 million grant has brought the Minneapolis Parks Foundation within reach of starting the first phase of a campaign to revitalize the city’s upper Mississippi riverfront with new parks and trails.

Bank of America awarded the foundation the grant Nov. 28. The funds are going to the Minneapolis Parks Foundation’s $17.9 million RiverFirst Initiative capital campaign, which is raising money to bring public parks and trails to communities historically deprived of access to the river.

The grant keeps the foundation on track to hand over funds to the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board in time to begin work on phase one of RiverFirst in the spring, according to Minneapolis Parks Foundation executive director Tom Evers. He said they are about $600,000 away from being able to break ground on the project.

“Today, Bank of America is demonstrating a deep understanding of what makes Minneapolis great — our parks system and our connection to the water, particularly the Mississippi River,” Evers said during a celebration announcing the grant at the Nicollet Island Pavilion. “… With RiverFirst, we know we can become one of the best parks systems on the planet.”

With the Bank of America grant, the Parks Foundation has now raised $15.9 million for the campaign from individual and corporate donors, just $2 million shy of its overall goal.

“The RiverFirst project is a strong investment with potential to produce impressive social, economic and environmental results,” said Katie Simpson, Bank of America Minneapolis market president.

The first phase of the RiverFirst Initiative involves two projects: Water Works, a transformation of Mill Ruins Park that will add recreation spaces and a public pavilion featuring a new restaurant from “The Sioux Chef” authors Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson; and The Great Northern Greenway River Link, a planned park with views of the river and space to play and relax. The River Link would be located at the end of the recently completed 26th Avenue North bike and pedestrian trail and make a

new connection with the Grand Rounds.

“Great cities in our country highlight that which sets them apart,” Mayor Jacob Frey told the crowd. “What sets us apart, especially from a parks standpoint, is our Mississippi River. It runs right through the center of our city, and it deserves to be highlighted.”

The RiverFirst project also calls for a restoration of Halls Island in Northeast, connecting Northeast and North Minneapolis via an Upper Riverfront Trail Network and transforming the Upper Harbor Terminal in North Minneapolis into parkland.

“Through RiverFirst, and with this gift, we will transform the upper Mississippi riverfront into a welcoming cultural and recreation destination,” Parks Foundation Board Chair Tom Paul said.

Park Board President Brad Bourn said the work along the riverfront is a vision generations in the making.

He said it’s undeniable that recreational areas in his district in Southwest Minneapolis along the Chain of Lakes are nicer than the public spaces in North and Northeast Minneapolis.

“That is unacceptable, and while we have the best parks system in America, we can do better, and we must do better,” Bourn said.

When interim parks superintendent Mary Merrill started working with the MPRB in 1972, there were no park spaces along the Mississippi. She helped lead a renewed push to develop the riverfront as superintendent in the early 2000s.

“We have this incredible river that really drives our city and has driven our city for a long time when it was a working river. And now that it’s much more of a recreational river, having access to that is really important,” Merrill said. “And our North Side and Northeast side really haven’t had that access.”

She said it was important to ensure improvements to areas along the riverfront don’t lead to current residents being priced out of their neighborhoods.

“The one thing we want to make sure is that the people we’re building the access for continue to have the ability to be there,” Merrill said.

Bangoura in line for superintendent job The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has chosen a familiar face as the next leader of the city’s parks system.

Commissioners voted Nov. 28 to nominate Al Bangoura, who previously worked for MPRB for 19 years, to be the next parks superintendent. Bangoura currently serves as the recreation superintendent for Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina.

He was selected after an extensive process

that included the hiring of consulting firm KP Companies, 22 community listening sessions and blind reviews by both a resident selection committee and a commissioner team comprised of Board President Brad Bourn, Vice President AK Hassan and Commissioner LaTrisha Vetaw.

Bangoura and another finalist, Subhajeet “Seve” Ghose, director of Louisville Parks and Recreation in Kentucky, participated in public interviews with commissioners on Nov. 13.

In shaping the final plan, council members’ policy ideas covered a lot of ground. They considered and rejected a proposal to penalize people who don’t recycle, worrying fines would hurt low-income people. They moved to pursue home energy-efficiency disclosures, perhaps tied to buying a house or leasing an apartment. While devoting land for higher-wage production and processing jobs, they thought about a potential cannabis industry. They agreed to explore a public bank and continue to fund neighborhood organizations while providing oversight of spending.

The council also directed staff to communicate future zoning changes to the public. And it directed staff to write zoning laws so that “interior” zoning regulations closely match single-family homes.

New “cultural districts” could aim to highlight the cultural identity of certain areas and work to prevent displacement.

New “innovation districts” could experiment to tackle the city’s biggest challenges, from inequality to climate change.

One new policy area is dedicated to the North Side, with ideas for increasing homeownership, supporting small business, offering “right to return” support for homebuyers who were displaced and addressing root causes of violence in a public health approach to public safety.

Citing demands on staff time, however, council members said they would need to prioritize and champion policy ideas to see them implemented.

The final plan offers a new approach to the Shoreland Overlay District, which regulates height and other design features near shoreline. Proposed by Goodman, the new language focuses on

water quality and recommends that new small-scale residential building design be consistent with surrounding property.

Goodman said she voted in support of the plan as a result of revisions in her ward. Properties surrounding Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles, West Franklin Avenue and West 21st Street were downzoned from the initial draft, among other changes.

Goals vs. strategies Council Member Linea Palmisano, who represents Southwest Minneapolis, was the lone vote against the plan. Palmisano said she agreed with the plans’ goals but not its strategies. The plan would make affordable housing in her ward harder to keep, she said.

“This is untested and the risk we’re taking is something that we can’t walk back. And I wish we’d have settled on something more incremental,” she said.

She suggested switching from triplexes to duplexes in the lowestdensity zoning district, but the idea didn’t find support.

Bender said allowing triplexes is the most gentle change the city can make.

Council Member Cam Gordon said a reduction from triplexes would exacerbate redlining and historic racial covenants the city is trying to correct.

“The goals are so high in this plan,” Gordon said. “… We want to make sure that as we move forward and change our city for the better, we’re also preserving what’s best and treasured most about it.

I think the plan offers us guidelines and a pathway to do that.”

The Metropolitan Council, which required Minneapolis to adopt the plan to accommodate population growth, will now review the plan. For more information, visit minneapolis2040.com.

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Orange Line BRT is fully funded With the announcement of a $74 million federal grant on Nov. 28, a 17-mile bus rapid transit project along the Interstate 35W corridor is set to move into the final stage of construction.

The Federal Transit Administration grant was the final piece of the funding puzzle for the $150.7 million Metro Orange Line BRT project, which will link Minneapolis and Burnsville with frequent, two-way bus service seven days a week when it begins fare service in 2021. The FTA cleared the project for construction in 2017, and work began that same year as part of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s fouryear project on I-35W between downtown and Highway 62.

That work will include construction the Lake Street Station, a new transit hub that will connect a highway-level Orange Line stop to street-level local bus service on Lake Street and, below grade, the Midtown Greenway bicycle and pedestrian corridor. Located between the northbound and southbound lanes, it will replace a highway-side bus shelter that could only be reached by climbing a long flight of crumbling concrete stairs, making it inaccessible to some transit users.

The Orange Line will also replace the Route 535 bus that currently serves the stop.

Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-61A), the incoming chair of the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee, predicted the completion of the Orange Line should ease commutes on what he described as “the busiest transportation corridor in the state, both in terms of transit use and automobiles.”

Few transit users will miss this highwayside bus stop. File photo “It will be the first freeway-based bus rapid transit line in the region, and we’re hoping to build another one from St. Paul to Woodbury,” Hornstein said, referring to the Metro Gold Line, which is still in the project development stage and would open in 2024 at the earliest.

Hornstein said he would be seeking a “major investment in bus rapid transit” as chair of the Transportation Finance and Policy Committee. He said he is also prioritizing “adequate funding” of local bus service, Metro Mobility and arterial bus rapid transit.

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Streetscape / By Sarah Tschida

THE EVOLVING STREETSCAPE

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inneapolis streets are constantly evolving. Many recent changes are products of two policies: Complete Streets, which prioritizes people walking, biking and taking transit, and Vision Zero, which seeks to eliminate fatalities and severe injuries that are a result of crashes on city streets by 2027.

Planning and design are focused on improving safety and encouraging more people to bike or walk, whether for commuting, running errands or recreation, said Nathan Koster, Minneapolis transportation planning manager.

“We want to make sure people have options that are safe and comfortable for their daily activities,” Koster said.

In many cases, the city is testing out new infrastructure and monitoring it in different seasons to see how it is functioning and how it can be improved.

“The more feedback we get from residents, the better it helps us hone in on where there are issues of access and mobility in the city,” Koster said.

The infrastructure benefits everyone traveling around the city, regardless of transportation mode.

Koster explained, “In a lot of cases, people might see this as biking and walking infrastructure. In a lot of cases it provides better organized and more predictable streets. It actually benefits people driving, too.”

Read on for an overview of some of the new infrastructure you can experience around Minneapolis.

MIDBLOCK CROSSWALKS allow people to cross the street where they want to cross, rather than strictly at intersections. These crosswalks change infrastructure rather than trying to change the social behavior of people crossing the street and are usually installed in places where there are several desirable destinations — such as transit, retail, parks or schools — on both sides of the street.

Minneapolis has two midblock crossings: in Uptown on the newly reopened Hennepin Avenue South and in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood. These crossings are raised above the grade of the rest of the street, forcing drivers to slow down. There are also neon pedestrian crossing signs to help alert drivers.

Spotted: In Uptown in front of Penzey’s Spices and the Dogwood Coffee Shop in Calhoun Square (Hennepin Avenue South between West Lake and West 31st streets.)

HAVE A QUESTION OR CONCERN ABOUT STREETS OR SIDEWALKS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? Using 311 is a good first step to report the issue or ask a question.

City staff actively monitor these submissions.

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RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASH BEACONS are installed at intersections without a traffic light and are meant to signal to cars that a pedestrian wants to cross the street. Push the beg button to turn on the yellow flashing lights and then wait before crossing the street to be sure that cars in both directions come to a complete stop.

Spotted: West 35th Street, West 36th Street and Pleasant Avenue South.

PROTECTED BIKE LANES provide a structural barrier between people in cars and people on bikes. Research from the University of Minnesota looked at five different types of road designs and found that protected bike lanes are the safest design. In Minneapolis, there are several different types of protected bike lanes.

Spotted: Curb protected bike lanes provide a narrow median between the car and bike lanes and can be found on 11th Avenue South.

Raised bike lanes are slightly above street level at the same grade as a sidewalk and can be found on Washington Avenue South in downtown.

Planter-protected bike lanes can beautify a lane while keeping people safe and are being tested out on a portion of the 3rd Avenue South bike lane in downtown.

Bollards are the white posts used throughout the city and can be found on Blaisdell Avenue South from the Midtown Greenway to West 40th Street.

Tall concrete barriers are employed on the Franklin Avenue Bridge to separate cars from people biking.

PROTECTED INTERSECTIONS use some simple design strategies to organize space and guide people biking, walking or driving through an intersection. They typically include curb bump-outs to reduce the crossing distance for people walking, which also decreases the chances of a person being hit by a car. Protected intersections also provide more separation between people biking and driving and are designed to get cars to travel at the speed limit and stop at intersections.

The city is currently piloting a protected intersection near Gold Medal Park. So far, Koster reports that the feedback has largely fallen into two categories: confusion on what the infrastructure is meant to do and people reporting that it is easier to cross the street.

The city is actively monitoring the intersection and plans to continue doing so through the snow and ice of the winter.

Spotted: Near Gold Medal Park at 11th & 2nd.

HEAD START CROSSWALKS give pedestrians a walk light to cross an intersection a few seconds before cars get the green light.

This is an attempt to give people more visibility to prevent cars from turning into them.

It also gives pedestrians a little more time to get across the intersection. Many intersections don’t provide enough crossing time for pedestrians, especially for the elderly, kids and people who have a mobility disability.

Spotted: Near Lynnhurst Park at Minnehaha & 50th.

ZEBRA-STRIPE CROSSWALKS alternate light and dark markings and provide more visibility than crosswalks with simple parallel lines. The city unveiled a rainbowcolored crosswalk for the Twin Cities Pride Festival this past summer, but it isn’t clear if more culturally relevant crosswalks are planned for the future.

Spotted: Loring Park Rainbow Crosswalk at Willow & Yale.

GREEN CONFLICT MARKINGS demarcate where people driving should expect to see a person biking through an intersection. These markings have become more standard practice over the past couple of years and are usually found at intersections with traffic lights or in areas where there are known issues.

Spotted: Along Chicago Avenue South between East Lake and East 54th streets at intersections with traffic signals.

Sarah Tschida lives in Kingfield and is a volunteer board member with Our Streets Minneapolis.

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Ask Dr. Rachel / By Rachel Allyn

TWELVE TIPS FOR SURVIVING CHRISTMAS

Q:

I hate to be a scrooge, but I’ve come to dread Christmastime. The cold weather, the darkness, the abundance of sweets that I can’t resist, plus all the money I feel pressured to spend on gifts is exhausting. It’s overwhelming to run around to different stores trying to pick out the right present (which they’re probably going to return anyway) and then see my credit card statement skyrocket later. How can I figure out a way to have the Christmas spirit, especially while sticking to a budget?

1. Money and gifts are your biggest anxiety.

Consider taking a seasonal job to make a little extra cash. You could start working part-time as one of Santa’s elves like comedian and author David Sedaris. Or at least get a laugh from reading his book “Holidays on Ice.”

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4. Even better: Avoid stores, crowds and running around town altogether by shopping from the comfort of your home computer. Let Amazon do your dirty work.

f all holidays, Christmas is the most challenging to have a grinand-bear-it approach because it lasts about as long as that traditional holiday fruitcake you got stuck with last year.

Once upon a time, the music, advertisements, decor and merriment launched just after Thanksgiving, but now it seeps into the airways and our collective consciousness much earlier. We live in a consumerist culture, and what was once a religious holiday is now more of a materialistic throw down.

Just as Jesus was upstaged by an old, bearded white man, you can trump your stress with a little creativity, self-indulgence and humor. I present for you my 12 tips for surviving Christmas:

2. Insist on drawing names with your friend group, extended family or both. This cuts down the gift list sizably, and then you can focus on giving them something they really want.

3. Start keeping an eye out for gifts people might appreciate much earlier in the year.

Putting it off to the last minute certainly won’t help your bah humbug attitude.

5. If you’re crafty, focus on homemade gifts. Get creative and tastefully repurpose things in your house. If you’re not crafty, now could be the time to start; consider it meditative and a way to engage different parts of your brain.

there are a couple traditions you can get on board with. Find a favorite holiday movie to re-watch or an old family decoration to highlight in your home. Maybe you think mistletoe is a hoot or your childhood stocking is adorable? Hang it as your morsel of holiday cheer. Then give yourself permission to leave it at that.

8. With all that money you’ll save from tip No. 5, plan a warm weather trip shortly after Christmas to reward yourself for surviving.

6. If you’ve got to spend money, then consider the gift of experiences. Buy tickets for an athletic or cultural event you can enjoy with others. Memories last a lifetime.

9. Regarding sweets: Now is not the time to diet. It is also not the time to cope with emotional eating. Stay active, hydrated and enjoy soup season — preferably the kind with veggies and fiber.

7. Mentally brainstorm what, if anything, you do you like about Christmas. Perhaps

10. Check in with yourself about the gratitude and abundance that exists in your life, recog-

nizing there are others who have even less money or tolerance for Christmas than you.

11. Appreciate that you’re not writing me because you dread seeing your relatives. You didn’t mention anything about struggling with family dynamics or the nightmare of traveling back to your hometown, so consider yourself lucky.

12. When all else fails, light a candle, spike your eggnog and take a long bath, in the Danish spirit of hygge.

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David Fhima’s latest, Fhima’s Minneapolis, revives the former Forum space on South 7th Street.

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by Carla Waldemar

David Fhima’s glass is always half full.

Tracing his career as a restaurateur in the Twin Cities, his adopted home, he’s always expected us to rise to the cause, to understand and appreciate the sophisticated cookery celebrated on menus floating from the various kitchens he’s helmed. He puts us on our best behavior, trusting we’ll get it, that we’ll understand and appreciate the thoughts behind his compositions and their culinary heritage: French technique married to his roots in North Africa.

In a word, he assumes we’re closer to, say, savvy New Yorkers than the folks in Lake Wobegon.

He’s doing it again as patron of our beloved Forum, downtown’s Art Deco dining palace, now home to Fhima’s Minneapolis. Its décor (by law, thankfully) remains intact: a classy montage of mirrors, ice blue and cream.

He’s added gauzy privacy curtains to the circular booths lining the walls (unfortunately, in my opinion, for they hide a portion of the dazzling zigzag motif ). But the rest of the room sparkles as the new epicenter of see-and-be-seen.

It’s a chance for us to rise to our inner Scott and Zeldas, with a menu — and prices — to match.

Diners are greeted with a complimentary “amuse booze,” a sweet, vodka-based cordial

to sip while perusing the menu. Starters (mostly $15) scroll from pastis mussels with tapenade tartine and tuna tartare with coconut daquiose, lime gel and orange powder (see what I mean?) to our choices.

We began with frog legs (your grandpa may remember that delicacy from a Wisconsin supper club menu), here dressed in a nicely spicy tempura crust that coddles the tender, mild and juicy meat within. The pair is presented atop a suave English pea cream and attended by saffron polenta croutons, moist and magnificently corn-y squares.

Next we summoned a pair of scallops — giant, sweet and nubile — partnered with tomato concasse, a fried wonton and deliriously sweet-tart hunks of preserved lemon.

We’d also ordered the shakshuka tomato tartine, having become addicted to this “hangover cure” on visits to Israel, but our servers thoughtfully took pains to inform us that this was a different presentation, upon a baguette.

Not this time, then, but perhaps on a later visit.

Instead, we proceeded to the small plates section of the menu ($12–$19), enchanted by a description of braised rabbit stew that lived up to its promise: a comforting concoction of mild-flavored meat nuzzling up to bouncy, homemade gnocchi bathed in a rich gorgonzola cream. We could have ended our meal right there, well fed and happy.

The list continues with items like merguez sausage paired with tater tots; short ribs and sweet potato mousseline; kefta on harissa broth; and bone marrow — yes, right here in flyover country — served with Moroccan charmoula and “mother dough” boule. By the way, that bread (served in a basket later with our entrée)

comes from the chef ’s prized yeasty starter, passed down to him for over a century.

Main courses (mostly $30–$49) read well, too: fish of the day poached in almond milk; tuna with lemongrass-asparagus sauce; Wagu tenderloin with sweet pea puree and, yes, steak frites.

We chose the most Moroccan of the offerings, a tagine large enough for two hungry eaters — which we no longer were (doggie bag). The long-braised stew married lamb shank with carrots, onions, Brussels sprouts and sweet potatoes plus a mix of seven beans, all perfumed with cinnamon, rose water and a near-forest of rosemary. Good, for sure, but not the must-have I was expecting: less rich and dense than those I’ve encountered abroad, though that wasn’t the chef’s intent, to be fair. I’d love to see a choice of several tagines in the future.

Instead we perused the dessert menu, mostly $10 with the exception of an alluring assiette gourmande plate, $16, featuring cheese, a Napoleon, chocolate lava cake and French meringue.

We made fools of ourselves by devouring the crème brûlée to end all crèmes brûlées, its surface burnt tableside, hosting a mellow cream below. Next, an apple tarte tatin, overflowing with true-flavored fruit, spared of over-sugaring. Then the pièce de résistance (words that would sound stuffy anywhere else but here): a foie-butterscotch tartlet infused with espresso, sesame and crème fraîche. One of a kind, for sure, and not to be missed (nor for the faint-of-heart, but nobody ever accused me of owning that moniker).

Wines BTG, beer and interesting cocktails at “average” price points, too. Add in servers who know what they’re doing and care.

Maybe, then, this is the reincarnation of the Forum that will last.

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Winter Crostini

Voices

Recipe courtesy of the Mill City Farmers Market.

Mill City Cooks / By Jenny Heck

The rich flavors and bright colors in these crostini are perfect for elegant holiday appetizers. You can serve them directly on sliced bread or in bowls with bread and sliced vegetables on the side for your guests to dip. Either way they are best served with bread!

BEST WITH BREAD

Beet bruschetta

Parsnip-walnut spread

Ingredients 3 medium beets*, scrubbed clean 1⁄2 a medium onion*, diced 1⁄2 bunch of basil, shredded 2–3 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar 3 Tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Goat chevre, quark or any other soft cheese*

Ingredients 1 pound parsnips*, peeled and sliced (about 2 cups) 1 Tablespoon brown sugar 1 Tablespoon lemon juice 1⁄4 cup parsley or microgreens*, plus more for garnish 1⁄4 cup walnuts, toasted Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method Grate the beets with a cheese grater.

Combine with onions, basil, vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper in a large bowl.

Set aside to allow the flavors to mingle.

Spread cheese on the bread slices and generously spoon the beet mixture on top. Drizzle the remaining juices on top.

Method Put the parsnips in a medium pot, cover them with water by 1 inch and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until the parsnips are very tender, about 10 minutes. Transfer the parsnips to a blender or a food processor. Add the sugar, lemon juice, parsley and walnuts.

Puree, drizzling in just enough water to make a stiff puree. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Spread over bread slices and garnish with additional herbs or microgreens if desired.

Makes 2 cups.

Jonathan Kaye of Heritage Breads.

Submitted photo

Makes 21⁄2 cups.

Blue cheese butter with radish Makes 1 cup.

“Life is too short to eat bad bread.”

That’s the slogan on the back of Jonathan Kaye’s T-shirt and his business motto. As the owner and lead baker of Heritage Breads artisan bakery they are truly words he, his staff and growing cult following of customers are living by.

Heritage Breads makes a variety of breads, cookies and cakes using a 100-year-old sourdough culture, 100 percent organic ingredients and heritage non-hybridized flours from Sunrise Flour Mill — which happens to be Heritages Breads’ “neighbor” vendor at the Mill City Farmers Market.

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from indigestion, inflammation and worse.

“At Heritage Breads, we like to keep things simple,” Kaye says. “We make artisan bread that is as good for the body and planet as it is delicious. We are committed to educating people about the power of eating heritage grains and local, sustainable, organic foods.”

You can learn more and find Jonathan and his team at the Mill City Farmers Market’s Winter Market 10 a.m.–1p.m Dec. 15 inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St. The winter market offers the best quality groceries and gifts from over 40 sustainable and local farmers, food makers and artists.

You can even pick up the local ingredients you need for the three crostini recipes below!

Learn more at millcityfarmersmarket.org

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Ingredients 3 Tablespoons walnuts 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, softened 6 ounces bleu cheese*, softened 1 small shallot*, diced 1⁄2 teaspoon salt Pinch of freshly ground pepper 4–6 radishes*, sliced thinly or in matchsticks Method In a small, dry skillet toast the walnuts on medium-high heat for 3 to 5 minutes, tossing frequently. Let cool. Chop the walnuts and combine with butter, bleu cheese, shallot, salt and pepper in a bowl.

Mix well. Spread on bread slices and top with radish.

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Glögg tours at ASI Stop by the American Swedish Institute after hours for a glögg tour of the museum’s current Handmade Holidays exhibition.

What is glögg, you ask? Well, glögg is a Scandinavian spiced wine that ASI mixes up into cocktails for your pleasure, to serve along with tasty bites. Enjoy Nordic holiday traditions, including decorations, handmade crafts and stories. (21-plus)

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A Very Die Hard Christmas

‘Fight Night’ at the Phoenix

Roma Di Luna at Icehouse

Is “Die Hard” a Christmas Movie? If you’ve been hoping to get to the bottom of this very pressing question, head on over to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for this spoof on Hollywood, pop culture and Christmas all at once. If you’re looking for something a bit riotous and fun this holiday, “A Very Die Hard Christmas” just might be for you.

No celebrity, politician or fictional character is safe when Theatre Coup d’Etat puts on “Fight Night,” an evening combat with hands, swords, axes and some objects you won’t expect. “Fight Night: Decked Halls Edition” will have a holiday theme, as comedy, stage combat, audience participation and beer get tangled up in an evening of fun.

Roma di Luna brings their sweet melancholy to Icehouse for an evening of music taken from the band’s entire catalogue, including a few unreleased songs. The Minneapolis band — featuring Polica’s Channy Leaneagh and her former husband, Alexei Moon Casselle of Kill The Vultures — split up in 2011 when the singer-songwriter couple dissolved their marriage. Thankfully, they’re back, along with vocalist Jessi Prousha (Fraea) and the Grave Trio rhythm section (JG Everest, Ben Durrant and Ryan Lovan). Chastity Brown joins as a guest DJ.

When: 10 p.m. Dec. 13–15 and 20–22 Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St. Cost: $18 at the door, $15 in advance Info: bryantlakebowl.com

When: 10:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21 Where: Phoenix Theater, 2605 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $10–$20 Info: fightnight.brownpapertickets.com

When: 10 p.m.–1 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 22 Where: Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Ave. Cost: $16 Info: icehousempls.com

‘Detours: Made Here’ launch For five years, Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Made Here Program has been livening up downtown through public art and performance. Whether it’s miniature exhibits in storefronts, giant murals or pop-up live music events, the program has added a dose of local art to the heart of downtown.

For their upcoming “Detours” launch, Made Here will look back at its five years with a retrospective exhibition, live performances and a virtual reality lounge, all at 900 Hennepin Ave. (the former Solera building, now owned by Hennepin Theatre Trust).

Check out the all-new public art installed downtown, then come inside for some entertainment and a Lisa Frank cocktail.

When: 5:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 Where: 900 Hennepin Ave. Cost: Free Info: hennepintheatretrust.org

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If gift giving is part of your holiday tradition, why not check out some of these artist pop-up events?

This time of year is huge for artists, artisans and craftspeople, who tout an array of unique, handmade items you can share with your loved ones.

JXTA Holiday Pop-up Shop

Festive AF Holiday Craft Pop-up

Support the next generation of artists by purchasing handmade ceramics, textiles and more from youth artist apprentices.

For something a little more non-traditional, try this edgier craft pop-up, featuring jewelry, ceramics, cat fashion, subversive cross-stitching, bow ties and more.

When: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 Where: JXTA Pop-Up Shop, 2007 Emerson Ave. N. Cost: Free Info: juxtaposition.org

When: Noon–5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16 Where: ArcStone Technology, 2836 Lyndale Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: facebook.com/ThirdDRD

Linden Hills Holiday Market

SooVAC Artist’s Holiday Shop

The Linden Hills Holiday Market has been going strong since the beginning of November, featuring artistic gifts as well as delectable treats and winter home and garden decor.

If you’ve been looking for that perfect piece for your home, check out Soo Visual Arts Center’s annual Artists’s Holiday Shop, where you’ll find prints, paintings, jewelry, sculpture, and much more by local artists and makers.

When: 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 16 and 23 Where: Sunnyside Gardens, 3723 W. 44th St. Cost: Free Info: mplscraftmarket.com

When: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Thursday–Friday and 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday–Sunday through Dec. 23.

Where: Soo Visual Arts Center, 2909 Bryant Ave. S., Suite 101 Cost: Free Info: soovac.org

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