May 5, 2016 by The Journal

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Purple pain Tributes pour in for Prince

By Sarah McKenzie & Eric Best The city has turned purple in honor of pop icon Prince, 57, whose sudden death April 21 has generated an outpouring of grief around the world. Thousands turned out for a Prince Memorial Street Party that night outside First Avenue — a venue he put on the map with his 1984 film, “Purple Rain.” Several Twin Cities musicians performed, including rapper Lizzo who flew into the city to be part of the concert and delivered an electrifying cover of Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones.” “I love you so much, Prince,” she said before her song. “Thank you so much for what you did for all of us.” Singer Chastity Brown also enchanted the crowd with a cover of “Purple Rain.” First Avenue held all-night dance parties to pay tribute to the music legend and Minneapolis native for three days. City Hall’s bells rang out in Prince tunes April 24 for 30 minutes. People stood in the rain and sat in their cars to listen to the bells play the songs, “Kiss,” “1999,” “Nothing Compares 2 U” and “When You Were Mine.” The following day, state Rep. Peggy Flanagan, a DFLer from St. Louis Park, sang “Purple Rain” on the House floor after legislators honored Prince with an honorary resolution and a moment of silence. Sabathani Community Center — formerly Bryant Junior High School, which Prince attended — showed “Purple Rain” for five nights and held a Prince block party April 30. Meet Minneapolis has also put together a Prince’s Minneapolis map of his favorite hangouts, childhood home and other places that helped shape his life, including Cedar Lake where he had the famous “Purple Rain” scene with Apolonia where he told her she had to “purify herself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka” and then said “that ain’t Lake

A memorial for Prince at First Avenue. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

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Caught up in the whirl

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Back in Northeast for the 21st annual Art-A-Whirl

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com If you’ve ever gone to see a show or just knock back a few at the 331 Club — a beloved hangout for folkies, artists and all variety of Nordeasters — then you must know “Crossings,” a 1988 painting by New York artist John Bowman. When Art-A-Whirl spins again for the 21st time May 20–22, the 331 Club will, as usual, be in the thick of the action, the epicenter of the beer and live music sideshow that nowadays is as big a draw as the main event, a massive open studio tour that brings 30,000-plus people to Northeast on the brink of summer. And “Crossings” will be there on the bar’s west wall, near the stage, where it’s hung since the

331 Club opened in 2005. “I tried to rotate other work in and people went, Hey, what happened to that painting?” Jon Oulman, who owns bar with his son, Jarret, said. “They apparently needed more time with it, so I ended up leaving it up there.” “Crossings” is a panoramic nighttime scene of the forested hills at the edge of some low-lying city — definitely not Minneapolis, but maybe vaguely L.A.ish. An antlered buck stalks behind two human figures, all three bodies silhouetted against the lights of distant office buildings. The night sky, reflecting the urban glow, is coppery orange.

The painting’s mystique was best captured in a 2013 essay by local artist and writer Andy Sturdevant that appeared on mnartists.org. Oulman read the essay and was impressed with the way Sturdevant got its “inkblot” quality; how, when people spend time with that or any artwork, “it helps them to see their own world in different ways.” It also inspired Oulman to bring Bowman to town for his first Minneapolis show since 2005, with pieces hanging in the 331 Club and the Sheridan Room just down the block, as well as Como Dockside and Amsterdam Bar and Hall in St. Paul SEE ART-A-WHIRL / PAGE 22

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Reconstruction plan for Hennepin Avenue in the works By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com City planners are considering a new protected bike lane style and fewer turn lanes for Hennepin as part of a reconstruction plan for downtown’s stretch of the street. In order to apply for federal funding, the City Council is expected to approve a concept in June for a completely overhauled Hennepin Avenue. While the reconstruction isn’t slated until 2020 and major planning will be done in coming years, a conceptual plan necessary for the application will mold a basic layout for the project. In the current proposal, the city’s Public Works department is looking to make Hennepin between Washington and 12th more welcoming to bikers and pedestrians with a protected bike lane and a narrowed roadway with fewer turn lanes. Simon Blenski, a transportation planner with the project, is proposing 7-foot protected bike lanes on the sidewalk level instead of today’s shared lane. He told The

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Journal that these sidewalk bike lanes, first used in cities in Europe and then in some around the United States, would be the first in Minneapolis. The latest proposal shows the protected bike lanes near the curb of the sidewalk on blocks without a bus stop and wrapped behind bus shelters on blocks with stops, creating a separated waiting area, or what some call “floating” bus stops or “bus islands.” Blenski said their goal in using the unique configuration is to reduce conflicts between the various modes of transportation on Hennepin. “For this design, the details are really important to make it work for everyone,” he said. “The toolbox that we could use is really big, everything from the markings, the material choice for the pavement, other visual cues we’re giving people… all that stuff is going to be explored going forward.” The bike lanes are possible thanks to an approximately 11-foot reduction in the average width of the stretch of roadway. The current proposal would have four lanes with northbound turn lanes only at Washington and 3rd Street, instead of every other block. The proposal also reduces Hennepin’s sidewalks from an average of 20 feet to 18

feet, though Blenski said they could reverse that in future planning through additional cuts to the street. Along with the new bus stop configuration, the stations themselves will likely get a makeover. Blenski said Metro Transit is planning new stations for Hennepin that will resemble the upcoming stops along the agency’s A Line, the region’s first arterial bus route, that will primarily stretch along Snelling Avenue in St. Paul. Blenski said these transparent stations will have real-time transit information, along with heating and lighting components already a part of Hennepin’s stops. “This area becomes similar to a light rail platform,” he said at an April 25 presentation. The station design and the exact lane dimensions are not a binding part of the application for federal funding. Public Works is looking for $7 million through the federal grant for what could be a more than $15 million project, though that estimate is very preliminary and based on a standard reconstruction, Blenski said. Peter Wagenius, Mayor Betsy Hodges’ policy director, said the city will plan more than a standard street. Thanks to its size, which ranges from about 90 to 100 feet wide from building face to building face,

Hennepin provides room to bolster “nonfunctional” bike lanes, preserve wide sidewalks and balance all modes of transportation, he said. “This is a wider street than most. It has wider sidewalks than most. It has that opportunity to rebuild from scratch and shrink down the roadway, which means it should be possible for us to achieve peaceful coexistence and have all of these modes work together,” Wagenius said. Tom Hoch, president and CEO of the Hennepin Theatre Trust and chair of the Downtown Council and Downtown Improvement District, said he’s unsure Hennepin can hold all these modes while maintaining the pedestrian experience. “I think that we’re putting a lot on Hennepin. I’m just not sure we can manage all of it,” he said. “We have to be sure to design [Hennepin] sidewalk-out and not street-in.” Hoch said there is an obvious concern for people leaving the trust’s theaters along Hennepin and inadvertently walking into the bike lane. He suggested that fewer lanes of traffic could be a remedy for unclogging Hennepin. “These situations where you’re looking SEE HENNEPIN / PAGE 5

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At a new bar in Northeast Minneapolis, water is the only thing on tap. Owners Shanai Matteson and Colin Kloecker are opening the Water Bar & Public Studio in the Holland neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis during Art-AWhirl. The concept, a combination business and art project, will serve tasting flights of free water from cities across the Twin Cities metro in order to spark conversations on what goes into something most people take for granted. Matteson and Kloecker, co-directors behind Works Progress Studio, started the concept a couple years ago with pop-up water bars at events around the city, such as Northern Spark. Now, with a long-term home of its own, the two want to create a hub for artists, residents and professionals who work with water. “It’s about much more than drinking water. You’ll be able to come in and be able to learn something about our water system. You’ll be able to ask questions [and] share stories about water,” Matteson said. Water Bar & Public Studio will be one part taproom and one part collaborative art studio. During regular taproom hours, people can come in and taste free flights of a few different waters served by experts on the water system. In the back, Works Progress Studio, their public art and design

studio, will have an incubator and store for art that connects with themes of water, place and environment. One thing they’ve learned serving water is that Minneapolis has highquality drinking water, which comes from the Mississippi River. Many suburbs get their water from groundwater and rural communities may draw from wells, so the processing, composition and even taste fluctuate. With the Flint, Mich. water crisis making headlines, contaminants and other issues with water are a national concern. “Minneapolis actually has really great tap water so it’s nice to be able to feature that. We want to be a place to talk about and compare the way that water matters in different communities,” Matteson said. While not a traditional Northeast Minneapolis taproom, Matteson says the concept ties in to the culture of breweries. “If you really like beer, you probably also like water. Water is really important to beer,” Matteson laughed. “We do want to be on the taproom tours. We want to be a part of that experience of Northeast.” Water Bar & Public Studio at 2516 Central Ave. NE will open during Art-A-Whirl weekend. For hours and more information about the Water Bar & Public Studio visit water-bar.org.

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In The Loop Coffee Co. has opened in the Itasca Building. Photo by Eric Best

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In The Loop Coffee Co. is now open in the former 708 Deli space in the Itasca Building. Marisa Thom opened the North Loop café after several years at another coffee shop. Thom and her husband Bill travel extensively, so they’ve seen how coffee is made in Costa Rica and how they take their espresso in Spain, and Thom wants to bring these flavors to the North Loop. “We just loved how coffee is grown and everything, and what good coffee should taste like,” Thom laughed. “We kind of consider ourselves coffee snobs.” In The Loop, located above Acme Comedy Company, serves organic, fair trade coffee from Minneapolis-based B&W Specialty Coffee Co. The café’s baked goods, much of them baked in house, are from Mon Petit Cheri. They also serve sandwiches, breakfast items, house-made parfaits and are developing other options.

Thom also plans to bring international influences to the drink menu. In The Loop serves a decadent French-style hot chocolate (“It’s almost like pudding,” Thom said) and this summer the café will roll out new specialty drinks each month. Among them are a German eiskaffee (ice cream and coffee), a Cuban cafecito (espresso sweetened with raw sugar as it’s brewed) and a Spanish café bombon (espresso served with sweetened condensed milk). In The Loop at 708 1st St. N. also has outdoor seating and is pet-friendly. The café is open Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. and is closed on Sundays. “We’re super excited to be in the North Loop and to be a part of the neighborhood. And we’re willing to evolve and change to meet the needs of the neighborhood,” she said.

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ties in dermatology, chiropractic, women’s health and sports medicine care. HCMC continues to expand its presence in downtown Minneapolis. HCMC broke ground on a major $220 million ambulatory clinic and surgery center last fall that will consolidate 40 clinics into a 377,000-square-foot building as part of its Elliot Park campus. That expansion will open in early 2018. “Between the new North Loop Clinic and our main campus we are able to meet every health care need of downtown residents, workers and visitors,” said Scott Wordelman, HCMC’s senior vice president of ambulatory care and support services. “People can stay in one system to get the full continuum of care, and it’s all located close to where they live or work.” The clinic and pharmacy will open later this year at 800 Washington Ave. N.

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The Guthrie Theater is making space for more community programming. Photo by Mark Vancleave courtesy of the Guthrie Theater

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Guthrie Theater plans Level Nine initiative UPDATE

The Guthrie Theater recently announced its plan to make its ninth floor a place for community engagement thanks to a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The theater’s initiative will help provide greater access to the ninth floor, which includes the 200-seat Dowling Studio and the Citizens of Minnesota Overlook or “amber box” overlook, by cutting ticket prices to $9. “In today’s world we face increasingly complex questions, yet we have fewer places where we can come together as a community to grapple with and address them,” said artistic director Joseph Haj in a statement. “With this funding we are afforded the opportunity to be nimble and responsive to what’s happening in the world around us.” Haj will begin the six-pronged “Level Nine” initiative in the 2016-2017 season. The Guthrie will be hiring a director of community engagement to develop programming for underserved members of the community. The theater plans to upgrade the ninth-floor

area’s lobby space and host “happenings,” such as salons, dance parties and town hall meetings. The foundation awarded the Guthrie $750,000 for the initiative over three years and invested another $250,000 through a matching grant. As part of the program, the Guthrie will also commission a major work by a playwright and host a devised theater ensemble each year for the next three seasons. The theater has commissioned KJ Sanchez, playwright and American Records’ founding CEO, to create a documentary play about the resettlement of refugees in the Twin Cities. The Moving Company will produce the world premiere of “Refugia” at the Guthrie. “Former Guthrie Artistic Director Liviu Ciulei once said that a community can be measured by the questions its theater asks,” Haj said. “In devising this initiative we have allowed that thought to be our guiding principle.”

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Hennepin Avenue Bridge. “We’ve got to be collaborating with the county to ensure consistency,” he said. “If we’re trying to create a beautiful gateway, we need a consistent flow.” Staff will seek City Council approval in early June for a preferred street concept and submit the federal transportation grant application in July. Public Works will dive into more detailed design work in 2017 with advanced utility work slated to begin in 2019 and construction in 2020.

for a way to create all winners and no losers just make it harder to get to that point, but that’s what we’re trying to do, [to] make sure this is a winning street for everyone and every mode of transportation.” Council Member Jacob Frey, whose ward includes much of the reconstruction, said the project should remedy the thoroughfare’s unevenness, especially in the Gateway District near the downtown riverfront. Hennepin County controls Hennepin north of Washington near the

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City Council passes $800M funding plan for parks, streets The City Council voted unanimously April 29 to approve a new $800 million long-term funding plan for the city’s neighborhood parks and streets — heralded as a historic agreement among city and park leaders addressing significant infrastructure needs in Minneapolis. The plan dedicates $22 million in new money for street projects annually along with $11 million for neighborhood parks — a compromise proposal crafted by Mayor Betsy Hodges, City Council and Park Board officials. Park leaders had previously been considering moving ahead with a referendum for voters this fall. City and park leaders embraced after the vote and City Council chambers erupted in applause. “This is a generational moment for the City of Minneapolis,” Hodges said. “This agreement addresses the critical infrastructure and operating gaps for both our streets and our neighborhood park system, and it invests in infrastructure equitably. It provides clear, transparent sources of funding and acknowledges that we’re making real, tough choices.” The proposal addresses a projected $15 million annual funding gap for capital needs in neighborhood parks and an estimated $30 million annual funding gap for street repairs and reconstruction projects. The plan ramps up next January with an initial $1.5 million in startup funds that will be reimbursed to the Park Board, which Superintendent Jayne Miller has said will be used for hiring and planning for the additional funding. Miller called the funding plan a “game changer” for the Park Board, the City of Minneapolis and residents. “The ordinance provides 20 years of maintenance, rehabilitation and capital funding for our neighborhood parks,” she said. “This funding will benefit parks and park users throughout the city, and will be implemented using a criteria based system to ensure investments address racial and economic equity.” The proposal taps a variety of funding sources, but most heavily relies on property taxes, which will fund 82 percent of the plan, said Mark Ruff, the city’s new chief financial officer. The remainder will come from sales taxes, stormwater fees and issuing new debt, among

other things. Overall, the impact on taxpayers will be minimal, he noted, as the funding plan will account for less than 2 percent of the city’s annual expenditures. The city’s annual budget is about $1.3 billion. The city’s proposed tax levy would increase to 4.8 percent in 2017 and the funding plan’s future impact on the levy would be about an 0.7 percent increase each year. The semi-autonomous Park Board will have complete authority to spend its share of the money on neighborhood parks. The board will have to present a five-year project schedule to the Council before it adopts the city’s 2017 budget and each subsequent year under the plan. The Park Board will take up its own version of the ordinance May 4 and a public hearing has been set for May 18. The agreement came after City Council President Barb Johnson and City Council Member Lisa Goodman had proposed an ordinance backed by park leaders that would have dedicated $13.5 million annually for the parks, but Hodges and other Council members expressed concerns that the plan lacked specifics about funding sources. Since then they have been working on a compromise solution. “I celebrate today,” Johnson said. “This kind of collaboration is not only in the best interest of city and park leadership, it’s also in the best interest of everyone in Minneapolis who wants better streets and better parks for their neighbors, families and future generations.” Goodman said she had “unbelievable emotion and pride” about how the deal came together. “Parks are the only thing that weave through all the other things we collectively do as a city,” she said.

A focus on equity The Council’s Committee of the Whole heard from supporters and opponents of the funding plan at a public hearing April 27. The plan includes provisions requiring leaders to use a racial equity framework when determining priorities for street projects and neighborhood parks.

Funding agreement for neighborhood parks, streets ``Overview: A 20-year, $800 million funding plan to address infrastructure needs in the city’s neighborhood parks and for city streets. Annually, the plan will provide $22 million for street reconstruction/repair projects and $11 million for neighborhood parks’ capital needs and operations. The plan also specifies that the racial equity framework must be used when determining priorities. ``Funding sources: About 82 percent of the funding program will be paid for through property taxes with the remainder financed through sales taxes, issuing new debt and city fees, among other things. The impact on the property tax levy will be about 0.7 percent annually. In 2017, the proposed levy increase is 4.86 percent — about $14.48 million. ``What’s next: The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will discuss a concurrent ordinance that mirrors the one passed by the city May 4 and May 18. The May 18 meeting will include a public hearing. Both meetings start at 5 p.m. at Park Board headquarters, 2117 W. River Road.

Several people testified at the hearing with concerns about discrimination and a hostile work environment for park employees of color. Nekima Levy-Pounds, a University of St. Thomas law professor and president of the Minneapolis NAACP, along with many others, urged Council members to delay a vote on parks funding until the allegations of discrimination have been adequately addressed and the Park Board has outlined a specific plan showing how resources will be equitably distributed throughout Minneapolis neighborhoods. The University of St. Thomas School of Law’s Community Justice Project — a civil rights legal clinic led by Levy-Pounds — has been investigating the Park Board for allegations of discriminatory employment practices. In a letter sent to Council members, students involved in the project raised doubts about whether park leaders are willing to make substantive changes to address the concerns of employees of color. Parks Superintendent Jayne Miller and Park Board President Liz Wielinski sent the Council a letter responding to the concerns of the Community Justice Project. The city’s parks system has been working with a variety of groups on racial equity since 2011 and plans are underway to post its ongoing efforts on its website, they wrote.

A ‘historic’ agreement Local leaders lauded Park and Council leaders for collaborating on the funding plan and creating a new spirit of cooperation after having a dysfunctional relationship for many years. Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10) called the plan a “really hopeful moment for Minneapolis.” “I think this is a really important moment in this Council,” Bender said. “You know, we’ve had some pretty public debates, we’ve had divided votes, and I think that this shows that we will come together when we need to do really great things for our city.” Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) said he had doubts that the city and Park Board could come to a consensus so quickly given the long history of acrimony between the two government bodies. “I was imagining a disastrous train wreck,” he said. “By golly, you proved me wrong.” Council Member Abdi Warsame (Ward 6) called the plan the biggest investment that the city has made in terms of addressing a racial equity gap. “For us this is a big deal that we could make such an agreement with the Park Board. I think this sends a good message, a message of collaboration and consensus building, to our city,” he said. Save Our Minneapolis Parks, a citizen group supporting the board’s ballot measure, endorsed the compromise. “This compromise is a historic victory for our city’s neighborhood park system,” said Mark Andrew, who chairs the group.

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Rolling into Minneapolis Bike Week Leave the car at home during Minneapolis Bike Week, returning this year May 16–22. Minneapolis Bike Week challenges those who don’t normally ride a bicycle to give it a try, whether that means a two-wheeled commute to work or school, biking to the grocery store or a joy ride around the Chain of Lakes. And if that already sounds like an average week for you, then just let it roll. Minneapolis is just one of many communities across the country celebrating bicycling during May, declared National Bike Month by the League of American Bicyclists. Local bike week activities are a coordinated effort between businesses, nonprofits, community groups and the city, with the nonprofit Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition playing a leading role. The week kicks off with “Fix It Day” on Monday, with bicycle repair events scheduled across the city to help riders get ready for the week. Then comes “Go By Bike Day,” “Nice Ride Day” (a celebration of the city’s bicycle-sharing service), “Women’s Day” and one of the week’s major events, “Bike to Work Day” on Friday. Minneapolis Bicycle Week continues

Big polluters will pay more to the city in pollution control fees after Minneapolis changed the way it assesses those fees on businesses this spring. The restructuring also eases the financial burden on small businesses and businesses that have installed pollution control equipment. Nearly 4,000 small businesses, office buildings and religious institutions will no longer be charged sanitary sewer fees, and businesses already trying to limit their environmental impact could be eligible for exemptions, the city reported in April. Businesses that pollute more will have to pay more under the new fee structure. The goal is to encourage those businesses to make upgrades or adopt more environmentally friendly practices. Businesses pay pollution control fees on equipment and operations that impact the environment, including pollutants discharged to the air or sanitary sewer system, and the money generated is used to pay for city pollution control and remediation efforts. The fees also fund cost-share programs that help businesses like dry cleaners and auto repair shops make pollution-reducing upgrades.

Minneapolis Bike Week is set for May 16-22. File photo over the weekend. Bicyclists are encouraged to ride and shop at local businesses on Saturday’s “Small Business Day” and then enjoy some more time outdoors on Sunday, “Family Bike to Parks Day.” Groups that are planning a Minneapolis Bike Week event can submit their ideas through the website mplsbikeweek. org. That’s also where bicyclists can find information about volunteering at bike week events. The Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition is

encouraging regular cyclists to register as a Bike Buddy and invite a friend, neighbor or coworker along for a ride during Minneapolis Bike Week. The more experienced “roll models” are eligible for prizes, and their new bicycling buddies get a bit of encouragement to keep riding in the form of a goodie package from restaurateur Kim Bartmann of BryantLake Bowl, Red Stag, Tiny Diner and other local eateries.

Grants make for greener Lake Street businesses A Lake Street Council program that helps small businesses along the commercial corridor make energy-efficiency upgrades recently got a boost from two grants. The council reported in April that it worked with the Great Plains Institute and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce to secure a $50,000 grant from Wells Fargo Foundation and a $35,000 grant from Carolyn Foundation. Both grants will support the energy efficiency program, which launched in the summer of 2014. Since then, 83 Lake Street corridor busi-

nesses have undergone energy efficiency assessments. Nineteen have gone ahead with improvements at an average cost of just under $4,000, much of it paid for through utility rebates and micro-grants from the council and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. Most of those improvements have come in the form of more efficient lighting, the council reported. The council estimates those projects have collectively reduced annual electricity use by more than 1 million kilowatt hours.

The reduction in carbon dioxide emissions is equivalent to taking 270 cars off the road, according to the council. And it’s saving small businesses money. Taqueria la Hacienda, 334 E. Lake St., reportedly cut its energy bills by more than $1,600 per year when it installed more energy efficient lighting. There are plans to expand the energy efficiency program beyond Lake Street to other Minneapolis commercial corridors.

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City Council approves $28.9M bid for Nicollet Mall project The City Council voted April 29 to accept a $28.9 million bid from Maple Grove-based Meyer Contracting Inc. for reconstructing the roadway and streetscape for the Nicollet Mall project. The city issued new bids for the project after receiving only one bid earlier in the year that came in $24 million over budget. The new design will now feature poured concrete in a variety of finishes and styles rather than brick pavers as originally planned to keep costs down. The new bid puts the project back on track to be completed for just under $50 million, Don Elwood, the city’s director of transportation engineering and design, told the Council committee. “The principles have not changed for the project,” Elwood said, noting the new Nicollet

Mall will be designed to be more pedestrian friendly, “durable and elegant.” Landscaping, street furniture and art installations, including the signature “Light Walk” feature, will still be part of the new design. The Nicollet Mall reconstruction project includes $21.5 million in state bonding, $3.5 million from the City of Minneapolis and $25 million from assessments on downtown properties. The mall will be reconstructed from Washington Avenue to Grant Street. Utility work will continue through the summer. Construction is expected to start in June with most of the work done by November 2017, Elwood said. New York-based James Corner Field Operations is the designer on the project.

Minnesota House and Senate DFL legislators pushed House Republicans to pledge a minimum of $50 million to address the state’s racial disparities during the 2016 legislative session at a press conference April 26. Gov. Mark Dayton has dedicated $100 million in his supplemental budget for racial equity efforts and the DFLcontrolled Senate has proposed $91 million. Rep. Rena Moran, a DFLer from St. Paul, said communities of color in the state face a crisis, noting that the median household income for black Minnesotans dropped $31,500 in 2013 to $27,000 in 2014, according to recent Census figures. “With a $900 million budget surplus we need to address these disparities with urgency now,” Moran said. “Families of color throughout the state have fallen behind and our economy will suffer if we don’t do everything we can to increase opportunity to students, workers, and business owners of color. We have the power to help, and we need to do it now.”

House GOP leaders, meanwhile, released a plan showing $25.7 million for several different programs tackling disparities in the jobs and K-12 bills. DFL Rep. Peggy Flanagan of St. Louis Park argued that addressing the state’s racial gaps is a top issue for Minnesotans. “We can no longer say that we don’t know what the problem is,” she said. “We know the problems, and now we need action and we need to invest in these Minnesota families. Even if Republican leaders would support a budget target for racial equity that was only half of Governor Dayton’s, that would be a start, but they are not even doing that.” A coalition of black leaders unveiled a United Black Legislative Agenda on April 6 that outlined several criminal justice reforms and economic development ideas, including $75 million in startup capital for black businesses.

Commons fundraising surpasses halfway mark City leaders have raised more than half of the price tag necessary to build the twoblock Downtown East Commons park outside U.S. Bank Stadium. Green Minneapolis, the conservancy tasked with fundraising for The Commons park, announced April 15 that nearly $14 million has been raised to make the high-profile green space in Downtown East a reality. The fundraising committee, co-chaired by Mayor Betsy Hodges and Pat Ryan of Ryan Companies, has raised about $3 million since its last announcement in January. Their goal of $22 million will go toward design, construction and initial operating and maintenance costs. “The campaign’s steady success shows that businesses and philanthropists understand its value and transformational potential for downtown and our entire city,” Hodges said in a statement.

An illustration of the Commons Park. Image courtesy of Hargreaves Associates

The park’s latest supporters include Valspar, U.S. Bank, The Pohlad Family Foundation, Julia Dayton, Jay and Page Cowles, The Edward J. Phillips Family Foundation, Piper Jaffrey, Century Link, The David Wilson and Michael Peterman Family and Toro.

Due to the pace of fundraising, the city put several planned features on hold for the park’s first phase earlier this year until more funding becomes available. The first phase of the 4.2-acre park is expected to open to the public later this

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A TOUR THROUGH THORP A look inside Logan Park’s menagerie of local businesses

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com The Thorp building has brought artists, businesses and makers to Logan Park for decades. The 1902 building complex is famous for bring the birthplace of Art-AWhirl, but in recent years has welcomed many new businesses, from a cocktail room to a clothing company, to the neighborhood. So here’s what to look out for in the Thorp’s maze of studios. If you ever have trouble finding the Thorp building on Central Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis, look for the sign outside Diamonds Coffee Shoppe. The landmark café is for many the first thing people experience when heading inside. You might miss it because its door is downstairs on the southern side of the complex, but below your feet is the Northeast Minneapolis Tool Library. Co-founders Thomas Ebert and Zachary Wefel started the nonprofit tool lending library — the state’s first — last spring so local residents wouldn’t all have to buy new tools, they could just share. For an annual fee, members of this sharing economy can check out tools, work in the library’s open workspaces and participate in workshops. The concept, which recently hit its first year anniversary, has drawn more than 250 members and amassed a vast tool inventory, larger than it can fit in its current space. The library will officially relocate to a 1,500-square-foot space on the first floor during Art-A-Whirl weekend. It’ll also have a St. Paul counterpart coming around the end of the year. Just passed the library’s new space, you’ll eventually find a door to Tattersall Distilling Company, though the new distillery and cocktail room is also accessible via its outdoor patio in the back of the building. Dan Oskey and Jon Kreidler opened the 9,000-square-foot distillery last summer with some ambitious liquor goals, churning out several spirits and liqueurs last year. Oskey said they’ll be releasing a couple vermouths soon, along with their

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THE THORPE BUILDING Where: 1618-1620 Central Ave. NE What: Home to an eclectic mix of art studios, galleries and small businesses. Website: bohmcre.com/thorp.htm absinthe, apple brandy and a whiskey collaboration with Bauhaus Brew Labs. When Art-A-Whirl takes over the area in May, Tattersall will have two bars outside to handle the extra crowds. If you make your way back to the main hallway, you’ll eventually find yourself outside a big red door. Beyond it is Bodies by Burgoon, Jason Burgoon’s personal fitness company, which has been in the building since 2013. However, the company has been flexing its own muscles recently, opening Torque, a 1,100-squarefoot cycling studio on a second floor. The studio, led by Tom Karlson, features a mural from local artists Adam Turman. Torque is hosting unlimited free cycling class for all nurses in honor of National Nurses Week (May 6-12). Dawn Bryant, the company’s operations director, said they’re putting off a third expansion until next spring. The project will add a rooftop yoga studio with views of the downtown Minneapolis skyline to the growing fitness company. Bodies by Burgoon even endorses some of Tattersall’s drinks so bar patrons know a drink is on the healthier side of the cocktail menu. In one corner of the Thorp complex, you’ll find Tread Light. Lynn Balvin manages the leather goods store, which sells leather sandals, boots, moccasins, belts, key chains, purses and accessories. The company offers its wares at summer festivals and online at treadlightgear.com. Tread Light originally opened as a leather studio, but they figured they might as well have it open as a shop for those who want to stop by.

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Neighborhood Sp tlight Logan Park Across the hall you’ll see that the Minneapolis Television Network recently made the Thorp building its new home. The public-access station, which runs channels 16, 17 and 75, moved its studios to Northeast Minneapolis last year. The member-based community media center offers media training and is open to artists, producers and media makers to create original material. A MTN membership gets you access to the station’s equipment, airtime and discounts on classes. If you make your way to the second floor, you’ll find the Minnesota-minded MPLS / STP Clothing Company. The locally themed apparel company, owned by Katie Olson and Clint McMahon, announced the move to the building late last year. The retailer is known for its shirts, which feature designs inspired from everything from the Minneapolis skyline to hotdish — and even Prince’s passing. MPLS / STP Clothing Company is open Thursdays from 2-5 p.m.. and other hours vary, but its online store at mspclothing. com never closes. You can also find the clothing at festivals and wholesale retailers around Minneapolis. The Thorp building is home to dozens more businesses, artist studios and clubs, so whether during Art-A-Whirl weekend or any time of the year, a tour is sure to reveal something new in Logan Park.

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The City of Minneapolis is seeking development proposals for a surface parking lot near the Guthrie Theater near the east side of downtown Minneapolis. The city’s goals for 205 Park Ave. S. include a maximizing of the site’s development potential, a preference for residential use (either ownership or rental) with long-term affordability and maximizing ground-floor retail, including a restaurant that serves breakfast. Proposals are due June 10. The roughly 36,000-square-foot parcel has operated as a surface lot since the city purchased it intending it for development.

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Iron Clad Minneapolis-based Graves Hospitality has submitted new plans for its hotel and apartment project, now dubbed “Iron Clad,” in Downtown East near U.S. Bank Stadium. The preliminary plans, submitted to the Planning Commission Committee of the Whole, show a 153-room Marriott Moxy hotel and 166 market-rate apartments. The mixed-use project, consisting of an eight-story hotel, a 15-story apartment and a four-story office building, would also have roughly 30,000 square feet of office space and 15,000 square feet of retail space. The project also features a rooftop sign on the apartment building for the Moxy hotel, which is part of Marriott’s growing line of hip hotels.

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200 Central Alatus’ 40-story condo tower project is back on track now that the City Council’s Zoning & Planning Committee has denied a petition for an environmental assessment worksheet. A resident group called Neighbors for East Bank Livability filed the petition in April due to the project’s size and inconsistencies with zoning and historic frameworks. The project, which has been in the planning stages for nearly two years now, currently consists of 207 condominiums. It would be located in the St. Anthony Falls Historic District on the site of the Washburn-McReavy Funeral Home and St. Anthony Athletic Club, which Alatus purchased last year.

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Colonial Warehouse Building CBRE Capital Markets announced that it has sold the historic Colonial Warehouse building in the North Loop to a JV Partnership including The Excelsior Group. The five-story retail and office building was 87 percent leased at the time of the sale. The 203,000-square-foot building is home to notable tenants like high-end menswear store MartinPatrick3, the new Flirt Boutique and Grethen House. The Minneapolis-based Capital Markets team sold the building on behalf of a private owner.

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Washington Square Minneapolis-based tech company Code42 announced that it is relocating from its home in southeast Minneapolis to the 22-story Washington Square building in downtown Minneapolis. The company will join JAMF Software, another locally headquartered tech company, in the newly renovated office tower. Code42 backed out of anchoring the MoZaic East development in Uptown in late 2014. The quickly growing software company is based in the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood on Main Street.

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venue’s name. The $1.1 billion stadium is roughly 95 percent complete as the hiring begins at the new home of the Minnesota Vikings. The U.S. Bank Stadium is looking for more than 2,500 part-time employees to serve as the face of the stadium’s hospitality when it opens this summer. The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority will also be offering free public tours of the stadium July 23-24 with tickets on the way in the coming weeks.

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Nicollet Mall After a high bid surprised the City of Minneapolis, a redesigned Nicollet Mall overhaul has garnered five new bids closer to the city’s expected budget. The City Council is now considering the lowest bid, nearly $29 million from Meyer Contracting, to get the project back on track. City officials expect to break ground on the paving work early this summer with a substantial completion in November 2017 and completion in May 2018. The $50 million overhaul has already secured $21.5 million in state bonding and $3.5 million from the City of Minneapolis. The rest will come from an assessment on downtown area property owners.

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Kraus-Anderson headquarters Kraus-Anderson hosted an official groundbreaking ceremony April 28 for its full-block development in Elliot Park. Once completed, the entire project will consist of the developer’s new five-story headquarters, a 17-story apartment building with 307 units and an eight-story hotel with 158 rooms. The project will also include a brewery, a restaurant, event and office spaces for Finnegans and the nonprofit’s FINNovation Lab. A spokesman with the developer said the headquarters is expected to open in the fall of 2017. KrausAnderson, which has been headquartered downtown since 1897, will temporarily relocate to Northeast Minneapolis during construction.

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hen you picture Hennepin Avenue, what words come to mind? This is a question Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition volunteer Galen Ryan recently asked 519 Minneapolis residents through a survey focusing on the street. The most popular descriptors included: chaotic, hectic and unsafe, but people’s imaginations were not limited by current conditions. They used words like: vibrant, safe, friendly and accessible to describe their future vision of the street. If you have a vision for this street, now is the time to make your voice heard. Hennepin Avenue is slated for reconstruction, and Public Works is in the process of developing a new design for the section of the street between Washington Avenue and 12th Street. Although construction on Hennepin will not take place until 2020, the plan is being developed now so the city can apply for federal funding to help cover project costs, which are estimated to total $15.625 million. Public Works will seek City Council approval of the new configuration in early June

before submitting the application for federal funding. This means there is some urgency to the current process. Hennepin has been identified in city plans as a mixed-use corridor where pedestrians, protected bike lanes and transit are all meant to have priority. At the same time, the street is still expected to move a lot of car traffic and is key in getting people in and out of downtown. The city has undertaken a traffic analysis to understand the opportunity for improving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and transit users on this street. The recommended configuration includes four lanes of motorized traffic, a protected bike lane, enhanced transit stops and slightlyreduced sidewalk space. Proposed changes include removing left-hand turn lanes, except at 3rd and Washington Avenue North. Adding raised protected bike lanes (to be level with sidewalks) and routing bike lanes behind transit stops. Transit stops would be placed on islands in between motorized traffic and bike

lanes. Currently there are no built raised protected bike lanes in Minneapolis through they are planned on Washington Avenue. Raised protected bike lanes go a step beyond the current iteration of protected bike lanes most commonly seen in Minneapolis, which feature paint and white plastic poles. It’s possible that these types of bike lanes could make winter cycling easier. Raising the lanes slightly could make it easier to avoid the situation where snow gets plowed into bike lanes. Even better would be planning maintenance operations so sidewalks and protected bike lane are cleared at the same time. Further, raised protected bike lanes will also be built on Washington Avenue when it is reconstructed next year, which could set the stage for a protected intersection at Washington and Hennepin. It’s too early to confirm these types of details, but it’s not too early to put the ideas forth. “We really would appreciate feedback from the public on this, even if there are specific comments not related to this phase of design work,” city transportation planner Simon Blenski said. The current recommended configuration reduces sidewalks from 20 to 18 feet in most places. It may be possible, however, that sidewalks can be maintained at 20 feet with slightly narrower lane widths in line with what has been done on some other Minneapolis streets and is commonplace in downtowns across the country. Blenski said reconstructing the street will provide an opportunity to reclaim sidewalk space through clearing out haphazardly placed benches, newspaper boxes, light poles and designing a more consistent and potentially space-saving order for these types of

furnishings. He also noted that placing the bike lane next to the sidewalk adds a buffer between pedestrians and motorized traffic, which could make walking more enjoyable and also reduce crossing distance. Indeed, respondents to Ryan’s survey indicated the best streets are full of people and offer the opportunity for people watching. Even with a narrower road and projected increase in traffic over time, it is estimated cars traveling from the river to 16th Street would experience 8.4 seconds of additional delay at most during evening rush hour. This delay would still allow the street to flow at an “acceptable” level according to standards set by traffic engineers. “To successfully redesign Hennepin to meet the needs of transit riders, cyclists, pedestrians, businesses and cars will require even the most experienced of engineers and planners to carefully listen to the lived experienced of those who travel and conduct business along Hennepin Avenue,” said Joan Bennett, outreach and program coordinator at the Downtown Minnneapolis Neighborhood Association. Hennepin Avenue is home to the county’s flagship public library, the heart of the theater district, dozens of restaurants, plus hotels, housing, office space and more. If you use Hennepin Avenue, don’t miss this chance to help shape the street into a place that is welcoming to all people, no matter how they choose to travel.

Annie Van Cleve is a freelance writer, blogger and volunteer with the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition.

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FROM PRINCE / PAGE 1 Minnetonka” after she jumped into the cold water. (To see the map, go to minneapolis.org.) Target Field posted a photo of Prince on scoreboards with the words: “Good night sweet Prince” and lit up the ballpark in shades of purple. The I-35W and Lowry Avenue bridges’ LED lights also turned purple, as did the lights ringing the top of the IDS and landmarks around the world. The Minnesota History Center in St. Paul has the star’s famous “Purple Rain” suit on display and has created a memory wall for people to leave notes about Prince.

First Avenue’s ‘Patron Saint’ Once news of Prince’s death at Paisley Park in Chanhassen was reported midday April 21, fans started flocking to First Avenue to pay their respects, placing flowers, purple balloons, candles and other tributes by his star. Lauren Melzer lives downtown and works in the music industry. She walked down to the music venue donning her “Minnesota Nice” Prince shirt and purple headphones. “I was walking in the skyway and dancing in my head a little bit because his music is so good, but it’s a really sad day. I can’t believe how young he [was],” she said. “He’s iconic of Minnesota music. It’s such a big impact.” Shenandoah Bauer joined the crowd outside the venue to pay her respects to Prince, whom she saw at Paisley Park. “I listened to him when I was in grade school, high school,” she said. “I feel so lucky to have seen him them.” Her favorite will always be “Purple Rain.” “I love all of his work, but that’s classic

The purple, Prince-inspired skyline. Photo by Tony Webster Prince,” she said. “Prince changed my life. He did.” In a post on its Facebook page, First Avenue wrote: “Our hearts are broken. Prince was the Patron Saint of First Avenue. He grew up on this stage, and then commanded it, and he united our city. It is difficult to put into words the impact his death will have on the entire music community, and the world. As the tragic news sinks in, our thoughts are with Prince’s family, friends, and fans. We deeply mourn the loss of our friend, a true star. Rest in peace and power Prince.” Local and national leaders were quick to express sympathies. President Barack Obama said the world

has lost a “creative icon.” “Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince. Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. As one of the most gifted and prolific musicians of our time, Prince did it all. Funk. R&B. Rock and roll. He was a virtuoso instrumentalist, a brilliant bandleader, and an electrifying performer,” the president said. Gov. Mark Dayton said Prince “defined an era.” “His tremendous talent was matched only by his generosity and commitment SEE PRINCE / PAGE 16

One of the many tributes left for Prince near his star at First Avenue. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

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Thousands filled the streets outside of First Avenue for an impromptu tribute concert for Prince on April 21. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

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to improving his community. Minnesotans and our nation mourn the loss of a great artist today; one who has left an unforgettable mark on music history, and whose contributions to the betterment of our state will be remembered for years to come,” he said. Congressman Keith Ellison also offered his condolences. “My heart is heavy with the news of Prince’s passing. To the people of Minnesota, Prince was a cultural ambassador. He inspired countless others around the world with his music and theatrics. Prince showed us it was OK to be different. He showed us that the best way to be cool was to be yourself. Prince wasn’t merely a pop star — to many of us, he was much, much more,” Ellison said. “But the world will be a little less bright without Prince in it.” In a lengthy blog post, Mayor Betsy Hodges wrote: “For the residents of Minneapolis, the loss of Prince is too large to describe. His music brought untold joy to people all over the world. But in Minneapolis, it is different. It is harder here. Prince was a child of our city and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates our love of Minneapolis.” Black Lives Matter Minneapolis posted: “Today we mourn with the world the loss of one of our most beloved hometown heroes. He pushed us all to be our whole selves. Rest In Peace and Power Prince. It’s hard to put into words what Prince means to us. We love you. We will never be the same without you.” Glen Taylor, owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx, lamented the star’s loss, noting Prince was a devoted fan of the basketball teams. “Today we lost a local icon, legend and musical innovator. Prince represented Minnesota with grace, passion and a hunger for helping others. Over the years

be became a huge Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx fan, attending numerous games and even treating our Lynx players and staff with a private concert at Paisley Park after winning the WNBA Championship this past fall,” he said. “Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this tragedy, especially the Prince family.”

Encounters with the superstar Jenise Doty, who went to school with Prince, shared memories on South High School’s website. “As a kid, Prince was short, shy and not remarkable looking. He wasn’t as popular a basketball player as his half brother,” she wrote. “But he loved music, and he pursued it relentlessly (sometimes skipping class to do it).” She said the star’s passing should encourage people to take time to reflect. “Today is a perfect opportunity for us and our students to take another look at that person at school that we have been underestimating,” Doty wrote. “Look left, look right and look within and ask ourselves; how awesome would it be if this person found something they really loved to do, worked at it, and shared it with others? You don’t have to be world famous to have impact. Love, work, share and be proud of who you are and where you are from: these are Prince’s legacies. Oh, and the music.” The passing of Prince got Randy Korn thinking about the history of the Kingfield neighborhood building where he and the employees of House Lift, his home remodeling business, show up for work every day. Through much of the 1980s and ’90s, 4330 Nicollet Ave. S. was owned by Flyte Tyme Productions, the music production company of Prince associates “Jimmy Jam” Harris and Terry Lewis. “Whether Prince recorded here I can’t

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Prince’s Minneapolis ``Birthplace: Mt. Sinai Hospital, 2215 Park Ave. S., on June 7, 1958 ``Childhood home: 539 Newton Ave. N. Prince wrote his first song, “Funk Machine,” on his father’s piano at the age of 7. ``Home (1972-1977): 1244 Russell Ave. N. Prince lived with the Anderson family and reportedly left carvings on window sills. Schools: ``John Jay Elementary, 1014 Penn Ave. N. (the school no longer exists) ``Bryant Junior High School, 310 E. 38th St. (school closed in 1978 and is now home to Sabathani Community Center) ``Minneapolis Central High School, 3416 4th Ave. (the school was closed in 1982 and later demolished) Music venues/studios: ``Sound 80, 222 S. 9th St.: Where Prince recorded his first album, “For You,” in 1977. ``Capri Theater, 2027 W. Broadway Ave.: Prince formed a band and performed at the theater in the winter of 1979. ``First Avenue, 701 1st Ave. N.: The music venue was featured in the 1984 movie “Purple Rain,” propelling Prince to major stardom. ``Bunkers Bar & Grill, 761 Washington Ave. N.: The bar occasionally hosted impromptu Prince jam sessions.

A new Prince mural in Uptown near 26th & Hennepin. Photo by Sarah McKenzie

verify, but I know a lot of the projects he was involved with did,” Korn said. “It’s not a stretch to think that.” Korn recently offered a tour of the building, which retains many of the features of a recording studio. For acoustical reasons, none of the walls meet at right angles, and the nearly foot-thick walls block out any sound from the busy avenue out front or the jet flight path overhead. Many of the interior doors have special sound-dampening rubber seals. Before they became Grammy-winning producers of Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan and many others, Harris (a Washburn High School graduate) and Lewis were members of The Time with Morris Day, a group that

toured with Prince in the early ’80s. As a story recounted in a number of places online goes, the pair were fired — either by Day or Prince — from an early ’80s tour after their flight was grounded by a blizzard and they missed a performance. Back in the ’80s, a television crew from the Minneapolis PBS affiliate toured the Flyte Tyme Productions studios on Nicollet. Led by the gregarious Harris, the walk-through of the building appears in the KTCA-produced 1988 documentary, “The Minneapolis Sound,” which has been preserved on YouTube. Jenell Johnson had brushes with Prince while working at the Uptown/Lagoon theaters.

``Dakota Jazz Club, 1010 Nicollet Mall: A frequent hangout for Prince and the site of some of his surprise concerts. Source: Meet Minneapolis “Every once in awhile, Prince would rent out an entire theater and he and his entourage would sneak in the back to watch a movie,” Johnson said. “We had a special salt shaker with Prince’s symbol on it just for these occasions—the lucky manager on duty got to deliver popcorn and the special salt shaker to Prince and his crew. Every time I ate popcorn on break, I would use Prince’s salt and feel like I was this close to greatness.” Prince was found unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park shortly before 10

a.m. April 21. Paramedics tried to administer CPR but were not able to revive him. He was pronounced dead at 10:07 a.m., according to the Carver County Sheriff ’s Office. Autopsy results are expected in coming weeks.

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Why did you decide to visit the Prince memorial outside First Avenue?

Photos and interviews by Stephanie Glaros

KIERAN KNUTSON, MINNEAPOLIS I grew up in the neighborhood that Prince is from. He grew up on the North Side, but he’s also from the Central neighborhood in South Minneapolis. He went to Central High School. He went to Park Avenue Methodist Church. And I grew up in that neighborhood. So I’ve always felt like he came from us, and that he was a champion of us. He embodied all of our greatness. And even as a rock star, he was loyal to us. I remember as a kid being conscious of where Minneapolis fell in the list of cities in the United States by population, or by sports team’s success. And there was this cable TV show called Night Flight. I remember they did this whole thing on the “Minneapolis Sound.” And so much of that was driven by him. He took it to that international level. The fact that there were people around the world who were thinking about Minneapolis as a music center was inspiring and gratifying. He pushed boundaries around sex and race. I remember when I was a little kid and I first saw his Dirty Mind poster where he’s got his bikini briefs on. I was kind of scared, but also intrigued. I don’t know if there’s another fan base like it that crosses those lines like it did, and was so important to so many people. Gay cats love Prince, black folks love Prince, and so many white people love Prince. It’s like the best of Minneapolis.

BRIDGET HOSEK, STILLWATER My mom was a Prince fan, so I heard a lot of his music growing up. When I was 11 or 12, Musicology came out. Every time the video came on, I would be glued to the TV. It wasn’t until a couple years later that my mom told me he was from here, and I was like, “No way.” Do you have a favorite Prince memory? The Super Bowl halftime show. I remember watching that and being transfixed by every little move. I’d never seen anyone perform like that before. Unfortunately, I never got to see him live in person, so the closest I ever came was watching a love broadcast. My mom and I were screaming and cheering as if we were there. What does Prince represent to you? Individuality. Being who you are regardless of what people think or say. He was a symbol of gender fluidity. You can do what you want, you can say what you want. You can still be somebody being an individual. And that means a lot to me.

DENNIS ROGERS, MINNEAPOLIS Prince did a lot for the community. He used to try to take the gangbangers off the street. He’d try to get them into the music studio. People don’t know that. He knew it was all about rap and everybody wanted to rap. So he’d try to bring them in and help them out. I don’t know if a lot of them became successful, but I always stuck behind him because he was the Man. This is my second time up here today. I just can’t believe it. You don’t wanna see that good of a person leave when he contributed to the community. He helped people out. He did what he could do.

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About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Nate Gotlieb is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live.

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Lake Street Bike & Brew Tour

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Summer is fast approaching, and what better way to get in the warm-weather mood than a bike and brewery tour? The Lake Street Council is throwing such a tour across the breweries and distilleries of Lake Street in South Minneapolis. For 10 bucks, participants get a commemorative pint glass designed by local artist Luke Lieske, one free drink and access to drink specials and discounts at taprooms like Harriet Brewing and Du Nord Craft Spirits. The self-guided tour begins on the Midtown Greenway across from Freewheel Bike Shop and includes prize giveaways.

Interested in a new crop of variety shows? Pianist and writer Dan Chouinard is bringing a live, written-for-ready variety show about raising food and living close to the ground in the city. “The Urban Farmer’s Almanac” features a new lineup of guests each show, from food writer Beth Dooley, Christopher MacLeod of Laune Bread and many more local business owners, performers and gardeners. The show, a part of Theater Latte Da’s NEXT Festival, is a new format for the local theater company. “This is a seed of a show, nourished by a desire to celebrate urban earthiness in its many forms. Here’s hoping it takes root and grows into something useful and beautiful,” Chouinard said.

Where: Lake Street breweries and distilleries When: Saturday, May 14 from 1-6 p.m. Cost: $10 Info: lakestreetcouncil.org

Best of the Wurst Best of the Wurst is a celebration of charcuterie, craft cider — and ranked choice voting. The celebration at Sociable Cider Werks, hosted by FairVote Minnesota in collaboration with the Northeast Minneapolis-based taproom and the Beer Dabbler, is a festival and ranked election of artisan sausages created by some of the Twin Cities’ top chefs. Best of the Wurst will have a sausage tasting featuring two-dozen local purveyors, in addition to live local music, cider and craft beer. Attendees will use ranked choice voting to select the winner of a people’s choice award and a panel will use the voting method to elect their choices for Best of the Wurst.

Where: Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave. NE When: May 12, 14 and 15 Cost: $13 Info: latteda.org

Ineffable Artist Ramses Alarcon-Sanchez blends photography and mixed media art, reality and dreams, and the self and image in Gamut Gallery’s latest exhibition, “Ineffable.” The series showcases the work of Alarcon-Sanchez, who took inspiration from his journeys with shamans and medicine men from Central and South American traditions, to manipulate and embellish photography from 11 collaborators to create something entirely new. The artist uses ink, beads, sewn materials and more to challenge the ideas of beauty, our obsession with perfection and our consciousness of self. Gamut will host an opening reception with live music on Saturday, May 14 from 7-11 p.m.

Where: Sociable Cider Werks, 1500 Fillmore St. NE When: May 15 from 2-6 p.m. Cost: $35, includes tasting and one drink Info: fairvotemn.org

612Brew Art-A-Whirl Bash Northeast Minneapolis-based 612Brew is once again hosting an art and music bash during Art-A-Whirl weekend. The brewery’s party this year features two days of local music from the likes of Mac Irv, Nooky Jones and Hustle Rose, along with a healthy dose of food truck fare. The bash, presented by Go 95.3, also includes artists Dogfish Media, the Bow Tie Shoppe, Melinda Wolff, O’Briens Custom Metal Art and EmLavArt who will be showing off their creations. The brewery will be serving six of its most popular beers, including a re-release of its German-inspired Radler. Guests who present a receipt for art purchases at a gallery during Art-A-Whirl will receive a free pint. Where: 612Brew, 945 Broadway St. NE When: Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21 Cost: Free Info: 612brew.com

Little Free Library Festival Little libraries have inspired one big movement to connect people around books. The Little Free Library Festival will celebrate these tiny libraries with volunteers and Minneapolis police building 100 Little Free Libraries, a massive book swap, a dog parade, a “tutus on wheels” challenge and much more. The event at Minnehaha Park is especially connected to Southwest Minneapolis thanks to Kingfield resident and author Margret Aldrich who literally wrote the book on the Little Free Library movement. The first-ever festival will also feature live music from the Brass Messengers, random acts of poetry and pop-up puppet shows.

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(all of them Oulman-owned), plus a to-beannounced pop-up exhibition. Oulman, who ran a downtown art gallery through most of the 1980s and ’90s, first showed Bowman here in 1990, and the two have been friends for even longer. He said Bowman plans to bring more than 30 paintings, many of them in the style of “Crossings.” “It’s all stencil work, kind of like the kids are doing now,” Oulman said. “That Banksy kind of thing, right?” The exhibition is just one example of how Art-A-Whirl inspires Minneapolis to celebrate its homegrown creativity beyond the officially sanctioned studio tour. That includes everything from the daylong outdoor concerts planned at Northeast bars and breweries to gallery shows to the garage concerts and craft sales that tempt the Art-A-Whirl crowds into Nordeasters’ backyards.

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Getting around gets easier The sprawl, the crowds, the labyrinthine studio buildings — it can all be a bit overwhelming, especially for the first-time Art-AWhirler trying to, say, get from the California Building to the Casket Arts Carriage House in time for a wooden spoon carving demonstration (noon–2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, studio 100, by the way). Enter the Art-A-Whirl app. Developed with funding from a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council grant, the app promises to be a must-download for visitors (although it wasn’t quite ready for launch as of press time). The design bundles event and demonstration listings, links to Art-A-Whirl mentions on social media, a listing of deals for art buyers and, most importantly, maps and other tools to help whirlers navigate the event. “This app will be a better way to help you find your way through, especially once you’re here,” said Alejandra Pelinka, executive director of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association, the nonprofit that coordinates Art-A-Whirl. You’ll still be able to pick up printed artist directory and guide, but those went to press back in March. The app will have the most up-to-date information on who’s showing what and where, Pelinka said. NEMAA is doing even more to help whirlers get around this year, running three

Scenes from Art-A-Whirl, the nation’s largest open art studio. Submitted photos free trolleys between the studio buildings (up from just one or two in the past) and adding a third information booth (find them near Grain Belt Studios, the Q.arma Building and the California Building). And artists are sharing in the benefits of what Pelinka described as a very successful grant-writing season for NEMAA; they’ll be paying stipends to artists doing demonstrations and other participatory activities. “Visitors really enjoy the interactive aspect of Art-A-Whirl,” Pelinka said.

A new audience It’s been years now since Art-A-Whirl’s popularity made it too big for even those massive studio buildings to maintain. Oulman, who

has both observed and propelled its growth, described it as “a little South by Southwestlike,” referring to the Austin, Tex., music festival. “Now there’s kiosks in people’s front yards,” he said. “People come from around the region to show their wares.” These days, local artists share the Art-AWhirl spotlight with both local musicians and, ever since the Surly bill was signed into law in 2011, the local breweries that have proliferated in Northeast. The 331 Club catalyzed the transition when it added bands in 2006; this year, in addition to the stage in the bar’s parking lot, whirlers can catch live music at the 612Brew taproom, Bauhaus Brew Labs, The Anchor Fish and Chips, Grumpy’s Northeast and probably a few garages in between.

The shifting focus of Art-A-Whirl is sometimes a cause for angst, but Oulman said he thinks it’s all for the better. “It’s an opportunity for people who are showing art,” he said. “It’s a new audience for them.” It’s also a chance for galleries to do something special, which is exactly what Howard Christopherson has planned for his Icebox gallery in the Northrup King Building. Christopherson will be showing work by New York City photographers Sid Kaplan and Flo Fox, both of whom have had fascinating careers. James Estrin, writing in 2013 for The New York Times’ Lens Blog, called Kaplan “the darkroom equivalent of the session man.” A longtime teacher of darkroom printing at the School of Visual Arts, he never achieved the renown of the artists whose work he printed, including Robert Frank, Louis Stettner and Cornell Capa, but is himself an accomplished photographer. Christopherson is showing Kaplan’s photos of the iconic, wedge-shaped Flatiron Building, studies in light and perspective. Fox’s career is a study in perseverance: born blind in one eye and orphaned as a teenager, she took up photography in her 20s — just a few years before she started losing sight in her good eye. Then came a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Despite all of that, Fox not only built a career as a photographer on the streets of New York City and in the studio, she briefly hosted a television talk show in the early 1980s and launched a second career as a disability right activist. These days, Fox is legally blind and gets around in an electric wheelchair, and can only take photos with the help of an assistant. A small edition of her digital prints is coming to Icebox. It’s the kind of show Christopherson likes to have ready for the Art-A-Whirl crowds. “It’s like a state fair,” he said. “You’ve got everybody.”

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