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t’s the second year Dameun Strange has had a top-down view of the artistic chaos known as Art-A-Whirl. Now in its 23rd year, the country’s largest open studio tour draws more than 40,000 art lovers to Northeast Minneapolis to check out artists in their natural habitats. Strange, executive director of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association since 2016, said the biggest thing he has learned — apart from “you can never depend on the weather” — is that each year families will line up before studios even open to buy art, despite the notion that breweries have taken over Art-A-Whirl. “I think I’ve learned despite the rumors that a lot of the people that are coming to Northeast and are visiting artists and checking out art and buying art,” he said.

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Minneapolis Public Schools details updated budget cuts School Board to discuss budget May 8

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@journalmpls.com Minneapolis Public Schools leaders cut an additional $4.8 million from the district’s 2018–2019 central-office budget this past month, after the School Board voted to restore $6.4 million in cuts to middle and high schools. Superintendent Ed Graff and his team cut an additional $1.5 million from the district’s human resources department, nearly $670,000 from its academics department and $610,000 from its information technology department. They also revised their revenue projections upward by over $1.5 million, factoring in a $500,000 tax-credit rebate and a proposal from Gov. Mark Dayton to address special education underfunding. “The implications of these reductions are wide-ranging, but with an eye to limiting service reductions as much as possible,” Graff wrote in an April 20 letter. “Never-

theless, with this round of additional central office reductions service delivery to schools, staff, families and community may not be as efficient and effective.” The release of the additional cuts came 10 days after a 5-4 vote by the School Board to restore the additional funding for middle and high schools. The district distributes that money, called time-adjustment funding, to middle and high schools on a per pupil basis to add time to the school day. Graff and his team had cut it as part of their plan for ending a projected $33 million budget deficit for 2018–2019. The deficit is due to factors such as enrollment declines, negotiated salary increases and increases in the costs of state and federal mandates, among others, according to the district. SEE SCHOOL DISTRICT CUTS / PAGE 7

$33.4 million TOTAL DISTRICT BUDGET CUT FOR 2018–19

$18.6 million TOTAL BUDGET CUT TO DISTRICT’S CENTRAL OFFICE

$14.8 million TOTAL BUDGET CUT TO DISTRICT SCHOOLS Source: Minneaoplis Public Schools

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n 1946, a new Stouffer’s restaurant opened at 89 S. 7th St. in Minneapolis. Part of a national chain, Stouffer’s promised its customers “delicious food served in charming colonial surroundings by carefully trained waitresses.” In contrast to the “quiet restful surroundings” advertised on this postcard, the local Stouffer’s was also the setting of a dramatic bombing when several dozen sticks of dynamite placed on their front doorstep shook downtown Minneapolis during the early hours of Dec. 16, 1946. No one was injured, although the building was heavily damaged. Newspapers of the time suggested labor disputes as a possible motivation, although later police inquiries focused on local criminals with organized crime connections and a track record with dynamite. Stouffer’s survived the bombing and hung on for another 10 years, finally closing in 1957 after being unable to obtain a liquor license.

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Marcus Parkansky aims to disrupt the coffee market. So why is the young coffee entrepreneur behind Misfit Coffee Co. venturing into the traditional brick-and-mortar coffee shop? Unsurprisingly, he hopes to do things differently. Parkansky has purchased the Urban Bean at 24th & Lyndale from owner Greg Martin with a plan to translate the mobile coffee trailer’s social, event-driven experience into his first coffee shop. Sometime in June, Parkansky said he hopes to have built out less of a study spot and more of a coffee bar during the day and a dimly lit lounge during the evening. Rather than a place people bring headphones and work for hours and hours, it will be a modular hangout spot that hosts a variety of social events. “I want to try and make the space that you go for a meeting or to have fun or to have a good drink,” he said. “We want people to gather and be there for the coffee … but we also want to utilize the space in a way where people come to be social.” The brick-and-mortar shop is a long time coming for Misfit, which started in 2015 as a coffee trailer. The mobile shop isn’t a food truck but rather a 98-square-foot coffee operation towed behind a truck. Parkansky relocated to Minneapolis from Milwaukee but brought a relationship — and beans — from Milwaukeebased roastery Valentine Coffee Co. The business is known for its specialty drinks made like cocktails and its nitro cold-brewed coffee. Beyond the trailer, Misfit has a burgeoning wholesale business with local fitness studios, coffee shops and advertising agencies. Martin announced April 20 that he’ll be handing over the keys to Parkansky. Martin took over the retail space in 2011 after renovating the former Muddy Waters location and has operated the third-wave coffee shop for the past seven years.

Parkansky has been searching for a permanent home for Misfit for over a year. He had explored the possibility of a space in the Sheridan neighborhood in Northeast Minneapolis for several months, but that didn’t work out. Then Martin reached out to him about a potential sale. “My big plan is that I wanted to open up something pretty large scale,” Parkansky said. Parkansky envisions the shop as a coffee bar with actual bar service, though he’s not sure if a liquor license will work with the location. He plans to move the espresso machine so it’s not blocking employees from customers. Instead of a single barista working the counter, he said two people will be working at a given moment to serve drinks and encourage conversation. The cafe’s constant presence will allow the trailer to be available for more events, a growing part of Misfit’s business. Parkansky said he’ll scale back the trailer’s hours at the Mill District’s Gold Medal Park during the week so it can take on more corporate events. Misfit also operates a coffee kiosk location at the Weisman Art Museum on the University of Minnesota campus. “We’re all about going anywhere people ask us to be,” he said. While he’s planning the café, Parkansky said Misfit will begin roasting its own beans for nitro cold brew for the trailer, shop and wholesale accounts. Eventually, he hopes to begin bottling or canning the coffee. Parkansky is already working on the second and third Misfit locations. While details haven’t been finalized, the next shop will likely be a store-within-a-store in Minneapolis and potentially open later this year. Another brick-and-mortar location may open in downtown St. Paul. But before then, Misfit customers can look for the first coffee shop to open at 2401 Lyndale Ave. S. around the end of the spring.

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Lee Wallace starts the day at her Kingfield home with a pour-over cup of Peace Coffee’s Pollinator Blend. “I’m trying to usher in spring,” she said. Then she heads to the Greenway building in the East Phillips neighborhood, where Peace Coffee is now roasting as an independent company. After outgrowing its parent organization, longtime CEO Wallace recently partnered to purchase the business with entrepreneur Kent Pilakowski. Peace Coffee’s parent company was the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, based in Whittier, which works to advance policies that benefit farmers, ecosystems and social justice. It launched Peace Coffee out of its basement in 1996, and Wallace retold the “accidental birth story” in a recent IATP podcast. As the story goes, IATP staff visited Mexican farmers ahead of the North American Free Trade Agreement and learned their biggest wish was new markets to sell coffee. About a month later, IATP received a surprise phone call: 40,000 pounds of coffee had arrived in Los Angeles ready to ship to Minnesota. Rather than return it, local staff quickly figured out how to roast and sell the coffee, and the profits left over were promising. They co-founded a cooperative in 1999 to buy direct from farmers. “When we first started Peace Coffee, people weren’t talking about where coffee comes from. There wasn’t this interest in the farmer behind the cup of coffee,” Wallace said. “… That has changed quite a bit.” While interest in coffee farmers has grown throughout the industry, Peace Coffee continues to stand apart in its pay scale for farmers, Wallace said. Peace Coffee guarantees farmers a certain price and pays organic premiums as well as fair trade premiums on top of that.

Peace Coffee’s new “Alchemy” blend features beans from the Sopacdi Co-op in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Submitted photo Three cents of every pound of coffee goes into a grant that communities can tap into. When Peace Coffee started buying from the Congo (a new bright and juicy Alchemy blend features coffee from a Congo co-op), farmers used the fund to install metal roofs on their houses. The fund aims to help communities become resilient in the face of climate change. Wallace has said that Peace Coffee will continue aiming to grow — the more they sell, the more they can buy fair trade from farmers. “Our whole reason for being is to show that you can run a profitable business that is successful on many different fronts,” she said.

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Vevang will be a new destination for art lovers to check out during this year’s Art-A-Whirl. Vevang Mpls is a studio collaboration between artists Michele and Erik Vevang located in Audubon Park next door to the Hollywood Theater. Since 2013, the two have used traditional Scandinavian woodcarving techniques to create unique spoons, bowls and more under the moniker. Vevang will be a new gallery at this year’s open studio tour. Over Art-A-Whirl weekend (May 18–20), the apartment above the studio, at 2807 Johnson St. NE, will turn into a pop-up maker market. So far, 14 artists are slated to oﬀer their creations, from ceramics, jewelry, photography, hand-

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Beancounter Coffeehouse is now open in downtown’s Soo Line Building. The Iowa-born coffee chain is a family business with downtown resident Zach Danekas, the son of founder Suann Wells, operating the Minneapolis café. Beancounter occupies the former World Café space on the apartment building’s skyway level across from St. Croix Cleaners. The 1,200-square-foot café, the first Beancounter location outside of Iowa, offers coffee from Grounds & Hounds Coffee Co., a Lawrenceville-based roaster that donates

20 percent of its proceeds to no-kill animal shelters. Beancounter oﬀers breakfast and lunch items, such as salads, wraps, soups and pastries. Danekas and Wells told The Journal earlier this year that they plan to open at least one more Minneapolis café, which would be similar to the Burlington, Iowa location with a liquor license, acoustic music nights and more square footage. Beancounter Coﬀeehouse, at 101 S. 5th St., is open 7 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Michelle Miller Burns to lead Minnesota Orchestra IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Minnesota Orchestra CEO and president Kevin Smith will step down later this year and be replaced by Michelle Miller Burns. Orchestra Board Chair Marilyn Carlson Nelson announced April 17 that Burns, the current chief operating oﬃcer and executive vice president for institutional advancement of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, will assume the helm of the state’s largest performing arts organization. Nelson said Burns was a “natural match” for the orchestra’s “highly cooperative governance model.” “Michelle has a deep knowledge of music, and a highly strategic business sense, as well as signiﬁcant experience leading major fundraising initiatives and building relationships. She is the right person for Kevin Smith to pass leadership of the organization on to at this point in the Minnesota Orchestra’s history,” she said in a statement. Smith will retire at the end of August after three years as the orchestra’s head executive. He had previously stepped in as the interim president and CEO and, before that, worked to help the orchestra in a transitional role. Smith spent 25 years heading the Minnesota Opera prior to joining the orchestra. Burns will assume the position on Sept. 1. Greg Milliren, a musician on the selection committee, described Burns as an “ideal successor.” “Michelle understands where we have come from as an organization and she shares our vision for where we want to go,”

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Noor to plead not guilty The former police officer charged with murder in the July 2017 shooting death of Justine Damond intends to plead not guilty, according to a Hennepin County District Court document filed April 25. The document indicates the attorneys representing Mohamed Noor intend to argue he was acting in self defense and used reasonable force when, as one of two officers responding to Damond’s July 15 911 call, he shot and killed her in the alley behind her home in the Fulton neighborhood. Noor’s employment with the Minneapolis Police Department was terminated in March on the same day he was charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The same document on file at the courthouse shows Noor’s defense intends to call

A 40-year-old native of Australia also known as Justine Ruszczyk, Damond was living in Fulton with her ﬁancé, Don Damond. They had planned to marry last August in Hawaii. Under pressure from then-Mayor Betsy Hodges, former Minneapolis police chief Janeé Harteau resigned a week after the incident. Damond’s death also prompted changes intended to strengthen the police department’s body-worn camera policy. Although both Noor and Harrity were equipped with the cameras, neither camera was recording at the time of the shooting. The next hearing in the case was scheduled for May 8.

Pilot initiative aims to preserve affordable apartments Minneapolis offered a deal to rental property owners in April aimed at preserving the city’s dwindling number of affordable housing units. The 4d pilot initiative, announced April 20 by Mayor Jacob Frey, is an effort to recruit more rental property owners into an existing state program that offers a property tax reduction in exchange for keeping a certain number of units affordable. The City Council on April 27 voted to approve a package of incentives that would lower barriers to participation, with the goal of adding 300 Minneapolis rental units to the program this spring. “We are in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, and across the city tenants and property owners are feeling the pinch of increases in property taxes and their operating expenses,” Frey said. “However, we know we have a group of landlords — a large group of landlords — who would like to keep units more affordable if the finances would allow. What this program does is allow for it.” The goal is to preserve so-called naturally occurring affordable housing before the tight housing market pressures landlords into raising rents. The affordable housing is referred to as naturally occurring because it isn’t government subsidized. But it takes some type of subsidy to qualify for the state’s 4d program, so the city is offering one on the cheap. For pilot participants, the city plans to cover the $10-per-unit fee the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency charges to apply for lowincome rent classification status, also known as 4d status. That classification comes with the 40 percent property tax reduction on affordable rental units. The pilot was open to market-rate multi-

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Minneapolis private investigator William O’Keefe to testify at trial. No other potential witnesses are listed. When he announced the charges against Noor on March 20, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said the ex-officer acted “recklessly” when he reached across his partner and fired his handgun from the passenger seat of their squad car. In an interview at the scene of the incident, Noor’s partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, said they “both got spooked” when Damond approached their vehicle in the dark alley. Freeman said there was no evidence of a threat that justified Noor’s use of deadly force. Attorney Tom Plunkett, part of Noor’s defense team, has said his client was acting in accordance with his training and department policy.

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family housing buildings with at least 10 units; 20 percent of those units must be occupied by and affordable to people earning 60 percent of the metro-area median income or less. That translates to below $949 per month for an efficiency, $1,017 per month for a one-bedroom or $1,221 per month for a two-bedroom. Tenant incomes for those units would be no more than $37,980 for an individual or up to $51,480 for a family of four. To enter the pilot, the property owner must enter into an agreement with the city that commits them to keeping those units affordable for 10 years. “It costs way less money to preserve any existing unit than it does to build fresh, and this policy … tackles the affordable housing we already have,” Frey said. Optionally, rental property owners who join the pilot can also sign up for energy efficiency programs offered through local utilities to qualify for subsidies and rebates, increasing their potential savings. “The beauty is it’s an improvement in the property for the owner which at the same time reduces the cost burden for the renter,” Frey said. The pilot program has the potential to expand in coming years and was limited to just 300 units this year because the annual application window for the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency’s 4d program had closed. The state agreed to extend the window two months to early May for the Minneapolis pilot. The deadline for Minneapolis landlords to apply was May 2. Ward 7 City Council Member Lisa Goodman said naturally occurring affordable rental units are often found in small multifamily

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buildings, including many with fewer than 10 units. She said council members debated opening the pilot to those smaller buildings but set the minimum unit count at 10 to get as many rental units as possible into the pilot. Goodman said landlords of small buildings are facing intense pressure to raise rents. As a hot housing market drives up rental rates across the city, apartment buildings are being assessed at higher rates and paying more in property taxes. “This is not a giveaway to developers, it’s an acknowledgement that small property owners between two and 100 units have a problem keeping their units affordable just based on rising property taxes,” she said. Minneapolis has about 38,000 naturally occurring affordable housing units, or roughly 23 percent of those available in the entire seven-county metropolitan area, according to a city report. Rents average $600–$1,200 per month in those units. Those units are also attractive to speculators who see the opportunity to purchase the properties and hike rents, according to that same city report. A metro-area vacancy rate of just 2.7 percent adds to the pressure. Prior to a unanimous City Council vote to approve funding for the pilot, Council President Lisa Bender (Ward 10) said the program would help shield some of her constituents from fast-rising rental housing costs. “This is such a huge issue in my ward, and I’m really, really excited that we’ve added this to the long list of things that we are doing in the City of Minneapolis to fight back against the displacement of renters that we’ve been seeing increasing year by year,” she said.

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journalmpls.com / May 3–16, 2018 7 FROM SCHOOL DISCTRICT CUTS / PAGE 1 Supporters of the School Board’s vote on April 10 said middle and high schools faced disproportionate budget cuts that would leave schools such as Washburn High School unable to operate. Opponents said it would be a continuance of poor budgeting practices and could jeopardize other district programs and services. The School Board’s resolution did not allow the district to make additional cuts to schools or lower its reserve funds beyond current levels, meaning the cuts had to come out of the district’s central oﬃce.

Central office takes cuts In his April 20 letter, Graff wrote that he and his team stand by their initial budget recommendations, which he said they arrived at using an equity lens while considering structural changes necessary to create stability. He wrote that they maintained a commitment to the district priorities of equity, socialemotional learning, literacy and multi-tiered systems of support in identifying the additional cuts, despite a short timeline. The additional reductions put the total cut to the district’s 2018–2019 centraloffice budget at nearly $18.6 million. District leaders made cuts to over 20 department budgets totaling $14.2 million and required departments to absorb nearly $4.4 million in salary and benefits increases. They also cut school budgets by a total of $14.8 million, making nearly $6.9 million in program adjustments and requiring schools to absorb $7.9 million in salary and benefits increases. Graff walked through each of the department cuts at the School Board Finance Committee meeting on April 26. He said there was probably not one cut that didn’t affect students and that district leaders were trying to find ways to offset that impact.

Graff said that leaders of the district’s academics departments, which include special education, teaching and learning and athletics, cut the equivalent of 56 full-time positions, including one of the district’s four associate superintendent positions. The largest academics cut, at nearly $2.4 million, was to the district’s teaching and learning department, which subsequently eliminated the equivalent of 13 full-time positions. Graff said the cuts would require teachers and principals to take more time to ensure that curriculum and implementations occur, adding to their roles and responsibilities in the classroom. The district also cut its special education department’s budget by $1.7 million, leading that department to eliminate the equivalent of 21 full-time positions. Graff said the district’s special education staff would receive less guidance from the special education department because of the cuts. He added that the department reduced clerical support roles, reduced its traveling health office and is discontinuing a pilot multi-tiered systems of support training, among other changes. Outside of academics, the district cut over $2.4 million from its transportation budget after reducing its number of bus routes because of bell-time changes at 20 schools. It also cut over $2.1 million from its human resources department and over $1.8 million from its information technology department. The district also made sizable cuts to athletics (nearly $500,000), research and assessment (nearly $379,000), finance (over $250,000) and communications ($275,000), among other departments. “These are not easy reductions throughout the district,” Graff said. “There’s no easy solution, but I also feel like we’ve done our part with trying to maintain a high level of integrity and an equity lens and those priorities that we’ve set forth.

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These are not easy reductions throughout the district. There’s no easy solution, but I also feel like we’ve done our part with trying to maintain a high level of integrity and an equity lens and those priorities that we’ve set forth. — Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff

Superintendent Ed Graff

Graff said the district would have trouble hiring the most desirable candidates if the board were to again change the district’s budget recommendations. He added that the district would put its state aid at risk and would have to rely on its dwindling fund balance if the board does not pass the budget by June. “The district’s better served by an improved and timely budget, as required by the state, than by returning to the drawing board for a small portion of what we’re trying to address here,” Graff said. Still, the board doesn’t appear to unanimously approve of the budget. Board Member KerryJo Felder, who was elected from North Minneapolis, said she doesn’t feel like some of the board’s values came out in some of the cuts and that she wished she had more time to review the budget. Graff said he, too, would have liked more time to evaluate the additional cuts, noting the months district leaders put into their initial recommendations. He noted that he has asked board members on numerous occasions throughout the school year, both privately and publicly, to tell him their priorities and values. “I think that yes, it would be nice to have more time to have these conversations,” he said. “But I don’t know how else to present it other than we’ve had these conversations.” The five-member School Board Finance Committee voted to advance the district’s 2018–2019 budget to the full board by a 4-0 vote. Board Member Bob Walser abstained, saying he didn’t feel like he had enough time to review the budget. The School Board will review the 2018– 2019 budget proposal at its May 8 meeting and vote on the final budget in June.

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Park commissioners pass changes to outdated ordinances The Park Board is preparing to pass several revisions to its ordinances involving spitting, bathrooms and prohibited conduct in the city’s park system. The board’s Administration & Finance Committee unanimously voted April 18 to approve a repeal and two revisions to what park legal counsel describe as outdated and constitutionally overbroad laws that park police rarely enforce. The full board is expected to vote on the changes in May. Commissioners plan to repeal PB2-14, which criminalizes spitting in any boat, canoe, building or walk-in in any park or parkway. Chief Jason Ohotto said in a report to the board in March that park police haven’t cited

anyone under the law in at least three years. They plan to revise PB2-13, an ordinance that is meant to criminalize drug use, vandalism and sleeping in the hundreds of bathrooms in the city’s park system, by taking out vague words like “lurk,” “loiter” or “lie in wait.” Park police have only issued four citations for lurking in bathrooms in the past three years. The new ordinance would read: “No person shall, in restroom facility, sleep, remain for any period of time beyond that required to use the facility, or enter for the purpose to engage in any criminal act.” The board’s prohibited conduct and language ordinance, PB2-16, would get the largest edit under the revisions. Nearing

100 words, the current version of the law contains several outdated words and what the board’s legal counsel described as constitutionally protected speech. Commissioners plan to take out the ﬁrst clause that prohibits “threatening, profane, abusive, disorderly, insulting or indecent language, conduct or behavior.” In his report, Ohotto described the ordinance as an umbrella law for disorderly conduct. Park police have issued 54 citations under the ordinance in the past three years. Citywide Commissioner Londel French has said that revising these laws is part of a larger mission of improving relations between the Park Board and communities of color.

He brought up a recent incident at a Philadelphia Starbucks in which two young black men were arrested and removed from the café for suspicion of trespassing. The April 16 incident sparked conversations nationwide about how the country’s antiloitering laws have historically been used to discriminate against people of color. “This is one of the reasons why (these changes are) good. It’s a social justice issue,” he said. The board may open up the revisions to community input, according to a staﬀ report. The changes will require two readings at the full board and a public hearing prior to the board’s ﬁnal vote.

Park Board, partners to weigh new Cedar-Riverside facility Over the next year the Park Board and its partners will look at building a new multi-use facility in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood where need for community space has vastly outgrown the popular Brian Coyle Center. As part of an agreement approved April 18, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will explore working with the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, Augsburg University and Pillsbury United Communities to add another community center to the most densely populated neighborhood in the city. Local leaders say the area’s large East African community and other residents require another place to gather beyond the aging one-story center.

“It is extremely busy. The Brian Coyle Center is old, crowded,” Assistant Superintendent of Planning Michael Schroeder said. “I think the needs in this community are signiﬁcant enough where it’s reasonable to imagine that we would have two facilities.” How the shared facility would work out is still unclear, but Augsburg would provide the land — a large parking lot at Riverside & 25th on the east side of its campus — and the YMCA and Pillsbury United Communities, a nonproﬁt that operates the existing Brian Coyle Center, may operate or program the building. Augsburg may replace displaced stalls with structured parking, Schroeder said.

Park staﬀ and partners will study how feasible a second center is through more than $300,000 of funding from the Legislature. Schroeder said the project won’t likely look quite like a recreation center or a YMCA facility. “We don’t know what it would be, but this initial stage would help us resolve that,” he told commissioners during an April 8 meeting. Amano Dube, director of the Brian Coyle Center, said the need for resources in the area is intense because the center is a regional destination for East African communities across the metro area looking for family programming, kitchen space or a place to play.

“Over the years, the issue of space … and the number of amenities for diﬀerent age groups has been a critical issue,” he told commissioners. Schroeder said a new facility would bring the area up to speed with neighborhoods that have seen investments like the new Northeast Park Recreation Center in Northeast Minneapolis. “There is no comparison between the facilities,” he said. The new center would also mean that residents would still have the access to resources while the Brian Coyle Center sees potential future renovations.

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LOGAN PARK ESSENTIALS By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com Logan Park comprises the southeast corner of what the City Council designated in 2003 the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, recognizing the crucial role artists and galleries have played in the area’s post-industrial revitalization. While the annual Art-AWhirl crowds are unmatched, Logan Park’s studio buildings — including the Casket Arts, Solar Arts, Northrup King and Thorp buildings — bustle year-round with art-making and creative activities. Logan Park residents see the inﬂux of artists as an integral part of the neighborhood’s evolving character. The neighborhood small area plan, completed in 2016, notes that the re-use and adaptation of Logan Parks’ former industrial buildings have helped the area not just adapt to change but thrive. First remade into workspaces for artists and craftspeople, they’ve more recently attracted the brewers, distillers and restaurateurs who are reshaping the Northeast Minneapolis economy.

The vision described in the small area plan calls for Logan Park to retain a balanced mix of employment and residential uses in the neighborhood as it develops. Logan Park has two residential areas on either side of the active railroad lines that run diagonally across the neighborhood. The majority of homes predate 1920, according to a neighborhood action plan developed for the Neighborhood Revitalization Program, and housing remains relatively aﬀordable, the more-recent small area plan document attests. The plan calls for maintaining a mix

of housing options into the future; currently about 60 percent of the neighbohrood’s households are renters, and the proportion of homeowner households has steadily increased since 1990. Minneapolis 2040, the proposed update to the city’s comprehensive plan, would encourage taller, denser residential development along Broadway Street Northeast, and mixed-use development reaching 2–6 stories along transit-rich Central Avenue — even up to 10 stories at the 18th & Central intersection.

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This year, Memorial Day lands on May 28. That might be a good day for a stroll through Logan Park. Logan Park the neighborhood takes its name from the two-square-block greenspace on Broadway Street Northeast, its southern border. A 2008 Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board history written by David Smith notes the park itself was named for John A. Logan, 52 an Illinois congressman and Union Army general who, following the Civil War, played an instrumental role in the creation 94 of a national holiday honoring the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S. military — Memorial Day. The three-day Memorial Day weekend may mark the unoﬃcial start of the summer, but the bigger weekend for the Logan Park neighborhood takes place just a couple weeks earlier. Each year, Art-A-Whirl (May 18–20) draws tens of thousands of visitors to Northeast, and Logan Park is near the center of the action.

Neighborhood overview Boundaries: Logan Park is bounded by 19th Avenue Northeast to the north, Central Avenue to the east, Broadway Street Northeast to the south and Washington Street Northeast to the west. Demographics: Logan Park had a population of 2,246 in 2016, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures compiled by Minnesota Compass. The median household income was $52,321.

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A-Mill artist Sue Mooney will have work, such as “English Pilot,”on display and available for sale during Art-A-Whirl weekend. Submitted image

Weather permitting, NEMAA central will be located in a kiosk at Logan Park to help whirlers ﬁnd their way across the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. There are three easily accessible areas to check out during this year’s Art-A-Whirl, May 18–20.

The heart of the whirl Strange calls Quincy Street the “heart of ArtA-Whirl.” Thanks to the nearby Northrup King Building, the largest of the studio buildings participating in Art-A-Whirl, the intersection of 14th & Quincy is ground zero for finding one-of-a-kind art. Inside the complex web of 10 studio buildings you’ll find Goldenflow GlassWorks, a glassblowing studio that churns out gold leaf-filled snowdomes. Owners Dan Mather

and Rollie Reis-Mather started making them as a side business decades ago while he drove limousines on weekends. This year, the two plan to showcase the studio’s growing lighting business, which has led to large-scale art installations that combine Mather’s glass blowing and metalwork. The studio opens to the public on Saturdays in the fall, but Mather said Art-A-Whirl is their biggest day by far, with roughly 5,000 people expected to come in and out of the studio over the weekend. It’s become a tradition since they participated in the first Art-A-Whirl 23 years ago. “We see a lot of people from out of town, a surprising number people from out of state,” he said. Following the success of a new live gallery space in the Northrup King Building, Strange said NEMAA will continue to host Art N|Motion with about two-dozen rotating artists creating work throughout Art-AWhirl weekend. The third-floor studio flips the traditional gallery space on its head, combining the live artistic element of a studio with the showroom of a gallery. By the end of the weekend, guests will be able to buy the work that they saw as a blank canvas just days ago. On that floor whirlers will find another recent addition to the building. Revel Art Gallery, a new artist space, opened at the end of March. Founder Thomas Unise said he’ll be showing art from Julie Garretson, Barret Lee, Darren Terpstra and Janella Fesenmaier. Next door in his co-working office, Growth Lab, Unise will show even more work. Outside the building, whirlers can find food trucks. But this year will bring a pop-up taco service from Centro at Popul Vuh from chef José Alarcon and the team at

Photographer Lisa Roy teamed up with her neighbor, woodworker Francis Keys, to create what she calls PrintShapes, or photographs printed onto curved wood. Submitted photo

Lyn 65. The weekend will serve as a preview of the concepts at 1414 Quincy St. NE with menu items like tacos and churros, along with margaritas, beer and wine. Indeed Brewing Co., Architectural Antiques and studio buildings like the Solar Arts Building, Thorp Building and 1330 Quincy Street Studios also make Quincy Street a popular Art-A-Whirl destination.

The main drag Sheridan’s 13th Avenue connects restaurants, galleries and studios from Rogue Buddha Gallery to the east to the Grain Belt Studios near the riverfront. On the same block as the warehouse studio building, which boasts nearly 130,000 square feet of space for artists and creative businesses, an ominous carved head is visible from the parking lot. The face, a piece Nick Legeros made for his daughter’s

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a pop-up vintage shop and guest artists selling their own wares. Meyers said one shopper will win a basket full of local artisanal items in a drawing. The neighborhood’s eateries are planning several special treats for the event. Across the street, the mixologists at Young Joni’s back bar will create a signature Art-A-Whirl cocktail. Sleepy V’s, formerly known as Rebel Donut Bar, at 13th & 2nd will have live donut painting with Christopher Brown from 5 p.m.–7 p.m. Friday, donut face painting from 1 p.m.–3 p.m. on Saturday and a donut coloring contest all day on Sunday. Inside, Sleepy V’s will feature work from artists Brown, BrieAnna Lindquist and Loren Seel in addition to providing discounts for those with “I Bought Art” stickers. Their neighbors, Social Catering Co., will be providing barbecue steam buns and dim sum throughout the weekend under the direction of chef Joe Wagner and his wife

Michelle, owner Jaren Turley said. Craig Kaiser of Cry Baby Craig’s will have his new retail shop open to sell hot sauce. The core of the weekend’s music sits with Anchor Fish & Chips and the 331 Club. Anchor will bring in local Monica LaPlante on Saturday and Minneapolis band Romantica on Sunday, in addition to other artists throughout the weekend. The 331 Club will have new performer every hour of Art-AWhirl, from Gaelynn Lea (5 p.m. on Sunday) to Mark Mallman and Charlie Parr (7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday). Strange said Theater Latte Da will open the doors of the Ritz Theater to give tours and give whirlers a behind-the-scenes look at the theater company’s musical productions. Next door, Rogue Buddha Gallery, a NEMAA member, will be showcasing owner Nicholas Harper’s ﬁne art and portraits — “classically based with a contemporary bent,” he said — in the main gallery and nearly a

dozen artists in two smaller gallery rooms. Harper said the weekend will likely bring a couple thousand people inside Rogue Buddha. “In terms of sheer traﬃc, (Art-A-Whirl) is huge,” he said.

The one-stop shop The Pillsbury A-Mill isn’t really in Northeast Minneapolis, but its concentration of artists, not to mention its riverfront real estate, make it a destination, Strange said. “The A-Mill is an isolated area for Art-AWhirl,” he said, “but it has a beautiful view of the city, lots of artists in the area (and) Main Street is known for its restaurants.” A group of artist-residents have taken on the mission of making the historic mills — now more than 250 units of affordable artist housing — into an Art-A-Whirl hotspot with more than 50 artists on display. In addition to booths and open studios, many residents simply open their door and sell art directly out of their homes. “Our building is a very fun place to explore,” said Sarah Callahan, an organizer with Artists of the A-Mill, in an email. In the building whirlers will find Theresa Angelo of Lost and Bound Books in the third-floor atrium. The old-school bookbinder applies medieval binding methods and customizable foil stamping to create hand-bound books and cards. Sue Mooney is a self-taught artist who creates funky and vibrant portraits of animals wearing goggles, sunglasses or simply a goofy expression under the moniker Wild Barking Moon. Mooney and her canvases will be located on the seventh floor in the clubroom. Lisa Roy, a wedding photographer by trade who now creates unique landscapes, will open her studio on the fifth floor to whirlers.

She has partnered with her neighbor, a woodworker, to create rounded woodprints of her scenes of waterfalls and sunsets. “I wanted to do something different. They’re totally one-of-kind,” she said. Stray Dog, chef Kevin Kraus’s takeover of the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood’s Bulldog, will offer food and cocktails in three locations throughout the A-Mill complex. The community’s performance hall on the first floor and a fourth-floor atrium will host a lineup featuring bands like Alex Kish, BZB Trio, Hot Pink Hangover, Stone Arch Isles, and more.

Art-A-Whirl Where: Northeast Minneapolis Arts District When: 5 p.m.–10 p.m. Friday, May 18; noon–8 p.m. Saturday, May 19; noon–5 p.m. Sunday, May 20 Cost: Free Info: nemaa.org

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“Golden Girls” has long carried an unlikely cult status, thanks in large part to its progressive values and whipsmart humor. Last year, the 1980s sitcom about a group of elderly women who share a home in Florida enjoyed a revival when Hulu picked up the full series, allowing fans to stream the show 24/7. That inspired everything from themed merchandise and an off-Broadway puppet parody to a “Golden Girls” Bar Crawl in Minneapolis, created by LGBTQ nightlife promoter Flip Phone to get a Guinness World Record for the most people dressed as the characters in one place at one time. (More than 1,100 showed up.) This year’s version attempts to top last year’s total, with five participating venues, drag performances, piano sing-alongs, trivia and dance parties. Plus, 10 percent of all bar sales will be donated to LGBTQ advocacy group, OutFront Minnesota.

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When: Saturday, May 12, 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Where: The Pourhouse/The Exchange, The Saloon, The Shouthouse, Mercy Restaurant and Union Rooftop Cost: $20–$42 Info: flipphoneevents.com

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The second annual Candy Box Dance Festival is a project of Minneapolis choreographer Mathew Janczewski and his company, Arena Dances, to spotlight contemporary dance from mid-career and emerging artists. The nine-day event comprises an eclectic collection of performances, workshops, a panel discussion and community events. Twin Cities–based Black Label Movement, led by two-time McKnight Foundation choreography fellow Carl Flink, will present works throughout the festival, along with choreographer Taja Will, a queer Latina artist known for her structured improvisation and bold, kinetic movements. The festival also features a series of works-inprogress showings by Michel Kouakou’s Daara Dance Company; Hatch Dance, founded by former Minnesota Dance Theatre company member Helen Hatch; Faux Pas, a new collaboration between two Minnesota dancers; and Alexandra Bodnarchuk, whose work explores the physicality of human touch.

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s MayDay parade and festival have long marked the beginning of spring in Minneapolis. The neighborhood tradition was founded 44 years ago as a way to bring the community outdoors after a long winter. The May Day tradition dates back to the Gaelic May Day festival created by the Druids of the British Isles, which celebrated the return of life and fertility to the earth. The Minneapolis event is one of the largest May Day celebrations in the country, drawing more than 50,000 spectators each year. The parade — which features 10-foot-tall puppets, papier-mâché masks, dancers and musicians — leads to a festival in Powderhorn Park with live music, dance performances, canoe rides, yoga, food vendors and plenty of people-watching opportunities, culminating with a Tree of Life Ceremony on Powderhorn Lake at 3 p.m.

In recent years, the art world has seen a move away from postmodernism and conceptual art, and back to the basics. Under the critical umbrella of formalism, today’s contemporary painters are eschewing narrative concerns and putting the focus on basic visual aspects of painting, such as brushwork, color, space, line and texture. Two MCAD alumni, Josh Meillier and Shannon McElree, are two Twin Cities–based painters working in this realm. In this dual exhibition, the artists are using only black and white, the lack of color serving as a means to eliminate distraction from the materials being used, as well as to play with the way the panels absorb light or reflect it. Meillier’s works explore mark making, material and process using a mix of paints, papers, tapes and other materials to explore the possibilities and limitations of various media. McElree’s gestural abstract paintings, often created on out-size masonite panels, contain a sense of fluidity and movement.

When: May 4–12 Where: The Southern Theater, 1420 S. Washington Ave. Cost: $10–$24 for shows, $5–$15 for workshops Info: arena-dances.org

When: Sunday, May 6. Parade begins at 11 a.m.; festival runs noon–7 p.m. Where: Parade begins at 25th & Bloomington and travels south on Bloomington Avenue, then turns west on East 34th Street and enters Powderhorn Park Cost: Free Info: hobt.org/mayday

‘Marisol’ Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera’s darkly absurdist play, “Marisol,” reflects the social and spiritual upheaval of the early 1990s and urges society to recover its compassion for humankind. Winner of the 1993 Obie Award, this poetryinfused play is a surreal urban nightmare and tale of survival in post-apocalyptic New York City, in which angelic warfare, mental illness and the disintegration of modern society have descended upon the city. The story follows a young Puerto Rican woman named Marisol Perez through a disturbing and disorienting world that pushes the boundaries of conventional theology, personal relationships and the pathology of fear and paranoia. Presented by two-time Ivey Award– winning Theatre Coup d’Etat, an independent theater company based in Minneapolis, this restaging combines actor-driven movement with black box-style staging for what is sure to be a dramatic production.

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This year, Cinco de Mayo and Kentucky Derby land on the same day: Saturday, May 5. Whether you’re a fan of margaritas or mint juleps, there are plenty of parties celebrating both occasions.

Derby de Mayo: Celebrate the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo in style at Brick x Mortar, a new membersonly social club in downtown that’s rarely open to the public. The event includes a viewing of the derby, a live brass band, miniature horses, Southern-style fare from Soul Bowl, hand-rolled cigars and a live DJ, plus piñatas, margaritas, cervezas and tequila. A portion of proceeds benefits nonprofit This Old Horse, which provides sanctuary to retired horses. When: Saturday, May 5, 1 p.m.–7 p.m. Where: Brick x Mortar, 314 N. 1st Ave. Cost: $30 Info: brxmo.com

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Dalton & Wade Kentucky Derby Party:

Leave it to Betty Danger’s Country Club — the kooky, retro hot spot that combines Tex-Mex food and cocktails with mini golf and a full-sized Ferris Wheel — to throw a great Cinco de Mayo–Kentucky Derby fusion party. They’re pulling out all the stops with a derby hat contest, a mint julep bar, live ponies (!), inflatable horse races, mini golf and a derby ball.

As far as authenticity is concerned, Dalton & Wade is an ideal spot to take in the Kentucky Derby. The whiskey-centric, southern-inspired bar and restaurant is hosting a viewing party on its rooftop with views of the downtown skyline, multiple big screens, a barbecue feast, outdoor games, mint juleps and, in a nod to Cinco de Mayo, piñatas and margaritas.

When: Saturday, May 5, 2:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Where: Betty Danger’s Country Club, 2501 Marshall St. NE Cost: $15–$20 Info: bettydangers.com

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Minneapolis’ next drag superstar

Mother has arrived. Or the step mother anyway. Michelle Visage, the judge from “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” is coming to town to name Minneapolis’ own Flip Phone superstar. Flip Phone, Chad Kampe’s team behind nearly everything drag related in the Twin Cities, is throwing its annual competition, a one-night version of the hit TV show at First Avenue’s mainroom. Last year’s winner, Julia Starr, will be a special guest judge, along with Meatball of draghorror series “Dragula,” Giselle Ugarte of Go 96.3 and Samantha Rei of “Project Runway.” The show will bring the metro’s talent into one room. Contestants include Zon L. Slarii, Dexter Maine-Love, Lila Vera, Giselle Obermay, Puffy, Izzy Legal, Lala Love-Iman, The Other Jeannie Retelle, Magic Dyke, Anya DeGrant, Sunny Kiriyama, Alana Chapelle, Tygra, Britney Love, Fiona Fierce, Mercedes Iman Diamond, Utica Queen, Sasha Carter Iman, Rosie Bottoms and Symone Smash It, who I featured back in our Feb. 5 issue. The 18-plus show is on Sunday, May 6 at 7 p.m. at First Avenue.

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Turn on Dizzy Fae’s music and it will make sense why there’s such a buzz around the St. Paul native. The 19-year-old singer has already performed before local favorites like Polica and big-name R&B acts like Kehlani, Jorja Smith and The Internet. While she may not be a household name in the Twin Cities yet, her songs rack up tens of thousands of hits on Soundcloud and Spotify. One reason for her success is her chameleon-like attitude of blending into styles and personalities seamlessly, all without losing her characteristic edge. On “Johnny Bravo” from her new mixtape “Free Form,” Dizzy coos an airy tune produced by local Psymun, also known as producer Simon Christensen of thestand4rd, and Sen 09. The

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It’s gonna be May

Now that we have the weather to back it up, Restaurant and Café Alma are helping locals get into the spring spirit with a May Day market. If you’ve ever stayed in the hotel upstairs, you know that Alma has its own smells created just for you from Bespoke Body & Wellness. Margo Roberts, the wife of Alma founder and chef Alex Roberts, has created a spray that I use whenever my parents come visit — or just when I need to relax. It’s that good, and it will be available at the market. There will be at least six other vendors at the market, including Better Bee’s Candles and EverythingIsAllWays, a wearable art shop from artist Britney Hansen and Reed Wilson. Bittercube will be on hand to sell its handmade crafts. Plus, a massage therapist is on board for the event. Pastry chef Carrie Riggs won’t have one of her infamous table of goodies available, but I’m told that the café will be carrying even more of her beautifully crafted creations behind the counter. So, it would be as good of a time as any to buy a few treats. Alma’s May Day Market is slated for 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on Saturday, May 5 inside the restaurant at 528 University Ave. SE in Marcy-Holmes.

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Lettuce wraps

Mill City Cooks / By Jenny Heck

Recipe by market chef Jenny Breen Serves 4

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rab your favorite tote bag and your grocery list: Mill City Farmers Market opens outside for its 13th season on Saturday, May 5. Get ready to shop the market’s curated assortment of over 130 farmers, food makers and artists. All of these vendors follow the market’s Sustainability Statement, ensuring all products at the market — from lettuce to a can of jalapeño-ginger kombucha — are sourced with the health of our land, local economy and people in mind. In 2017, Mill City Farmers Market’s Saturday and Tuesday markets drew in over 115,000 local food enthusiasts who enjoyed

shopping the wide assortment of vendors and the market’s unique programming — including chef-led cooking demonstrations every Saturday at 10:30 a.m., farm-to-table breakfast, dinner and lunch from local restaurants and food trucks, free outdoor yoga classes June through September, live music every week and so much more. Bring the family! On opening day, actors from the Guthrie Theater will be preforming dramatic readings of their favorite children’s books at 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., and the market’s kids’ vegetable tasting club, Power of Produce, will be kicking oﬀ for the season. In the program, kids ages 3–12 can

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Ingredients 1 teaspoon sesame oil 2 teaspoons sunflower or other neutral oil, divided 1 small yellow onion*, diced small 8 ounces mushrooms from Cherry Tree House Mushrooms*, chopped small 3 cloves garlic*, minced 1-inch piece ginger, peeled minced (about 1 tablespoon) 3–5 Tablespoons hoisin sauce 1 8-ounce can water chestnuts, drained and chopped small 1 pound chopped chicken thighs or breasts from Sunshine Harvest Farm* or 1 pound crumbled tofu, cooked and set aside 2 Tablespoons tamari or other soy sauce 2 Tablespoons rice vinegar 1 package cooked soba noodles from Dumpling & Strand* or 2 cups cooked rice 2 small or 1 large heads lettuce* About 6 green onions*, sliced thinly 1–2 medium carrots*, grated Red pepper flakes, to serve Preparation Heat sesame oil and 1 teaspoon neutral oil in skillet. Add onions and sauté 2 minutes. Add mushrooms, garlic and ginger and sauté another 2–3 minutes. Add hoisin sauce, water chestnuts, cooked meat or tofu, tamari and rice vinegar and combine to heat through. Mix with cooked noodles or rice. Open each lettuce leaf and place two spoonfuls of filling inside. Garnish with grated carrots, green onions and red pepper flakes. *Ingredient available at Mill City Farmers Market

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ADA parking discount (monthly contracts only) 4/24/18 11:38 AM

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