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Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board recently unveiled new concepts for Water Works, its proposed destination park that is designed to transform the downtown Minneapolis riverfront over the next several years. Among the biggest developments in the project is a park pavilion, which instead of a stand-alone structure near Mill Ruins Park is now planned to inhabit what’s left of the Bassett Sawmill and Columbia Flour Mill. The mills are

buried beneath the Fuji-Ya building, a former restaurant located between 1st Street and West River Parkway just east of the 3rd Avenue Bridge, which is slated to be selectively demolished as the first step in building Water Works. The more detailed design from Damon Farber Landscape Architects and HGA Architects shows the pavilion as a one-story building with a rooftop deck, large glassy

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In the breakup of a transit collaborative, good news for transit

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Transit board’s end could erase question marks for light-rail funding

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com A regional collaboration on transit planning and funding may be ending, but that turns out to be good news for the state’s largest-ever transit project. After backing off from a breakup earlier this year, members of the Counties Transit Improvement Board now have a plan to dissolve a partnership that lasted nearly a decade. It frees the counties to raise money for transit projects on their own, and potentially to erase the remaining questions marks in the local funding package for the nearly $1.9 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project. The funds CTIB spent on local transit

projects came from a quarter-cent sales tax and a $20 motor vehicle sales tax levied in its five member counties: Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka and Washington. Under current state law, once they end the partnership, those counties could choose to raise the sales tax to a half-cent. Hennepin County will likely do just that to make up for the state’s missing 10-percent contribution to the light-rail project, Hennepin County Board Chair Peter McLaughlin said. A 14.5-mile extension of the METRO Green Line that currently runs between Minneapolis and

St. Paul, the project would extend the tracks through the southwestern suburbs to Eden Prairie. “We’ve always had a way to finance Southwest; this is just a better way to finance Southwest,” said McLaughlin, who also chairs CTIB. Metropolitan Council Chair Adam Duininck described the pending deal as “another piece of good news” following word that Southwest Light Rail Transit would receive $10 million in the next federal budget. Project supporters consider that a down payment on the SEE CTIB BREAKUP / PAGE 2

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2 journalmpls.com / May 18–31, 2017 FROM CTIB BREAKUP / PAGE 1 nearly $930 million expected from the Federal Transit Administration, enough to cover half of construction costs. “Those two pieces of news together, again, it just removes any of this uncertainty the critics are trying to promote,” Duininck said. Those critics would disagree. The FTA has yet to approve a full-funding grant agreement for the project, which also remains the subject of an ongoing lawsuit by the Lakes and Parks Alliance. The local citizens group alleges planners improperly settled on a route through Minneapolis’ Kenilworth Corridor before completing a full environmental review.

Striking a deal Reaching an agreement on CTIB’s fiveway divorce required sweetening the pot for Dakota County. When CTIB funds are distributed among the five member counties, Dakota’s share of those funds will be $21.3 million, a more than 40 percent increase in the $14.8 million offer discussed by board members in March. As part of the deal, the Met Council also agreed to take over from CTIB operating costs for the METRO Red Line, which amounts to over $1 million a year. The bus

rapid transit route connects the Mall of America to the Apple Valley Transit Station in Dakota County. The plan still requires approval by the boards of all CTIB member counties. The goal is to notify the Department of Revenue in June so that taxes currently collected by CTIB can be rerouted to the counties by October, McLaughlin said. He said a more detailed timeline for the breakup would be developed after the current legislative session adjourns in St. Paul, where bills under consideration could have a significant impact on the resources available for transit projects.

Funding burden shifts The breakup of CTIB also means some of the burden for funding Southwest Light Rail Transit construction will shift to Hennepin County from the Met Council. Met Council reluctantly agreed last year to issue $103.5 million in so-called certificates of participation to complete the project’s local funding package, turning to the new and still largely unknown financial instrument as part of a $144.5million deal brokered by Gov. Mark Dayton. Hennepin County also increased its contribution to the project as part of a plan to get around Republican opposition to light-rail projects at the Capitol and

make up for the state’s incomplete financial contribution to the project. Duininck said he was “relieved” Met Council would not have to issue the certificates of participation as planned this summer, calling it “the best of bad options.” Instead, McLaughlin said, Hennepin County plans to borrow the $103.5 million and pay for it with the additional tax revenue it collects after CTIB ends. The county will also pay a lower interest rate than Met Council would have on certificates of participation. That shrinks, but only slightly, the budget deficit that has Met Council considering bus and light rail fare hikes for its Metro Transit service. Spokesperson Kate Brickman that deficit was estimated at $67.5 million for the coming biennium, down from an estimate of $74 million earlier this year. Not issuing certificates of participation will save the agency about $9 million over those two years, but Met Council will also pay an additional $2.5 million for METRO Red Line operations during that same period, Brickman said.

something that concerned him early on in the conversation about ending the transit partnership. But he said the relationships between the counties “are as strong as they’ve ever been.” “It aligns the region probably more with what the transit needs are,” Duininck added, noting that, while all CTIB member counties have transit operations, there are far more riders and much higher frequency service in Hennepin and Ramsey counties. “I think it’s about the outcomes,” he said. “It’s about having a strong bus and light-rail system.” McLaughlin shared a similar sentiment. While “on its face, it looks like step backwards for regionalism,” he said, the end of CTIB means more money for a transit system that is used in all of the member counties. “It’s a plus for the region, because the regional transit system is going to have more money invested in it in the long run,” he said.

The future of regionalism The pending end of CTIB could be interpreted as a blow to regionalism, and Duinicnk, whose Met Council is itself a form of regional governance, said it was

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The escape room trend has hit Northeast Minneapolis once again with the opening of Mission Manor. The business, which invites guests to solve puzzles in order to escape from themed rooms, opened at the end of 2016 in the newly renovated Miller Textile Building in the Beltrami neighborhood. Mission Manor, which has capacity for five themed rooms, has opened three rooms so far with a fourth on the way. “Asylum” has guests escaping an abandoned sanatorium, “Inheritance” involves finding gold in an old mansion and “Countdown” requires puzzle solvers to defuse a bomb. Guests have an hour to escape from the locked spaces. Owner Dan Shamp said they try to bring authenticity to the escape rooms with décor from the rooms’ real-life equivalents. Mission Manor’s puzzles have guests in teams of up to about six people solving much more than simple padlocks, he said, to “make your brain work in a strange and funky fashion.” It also helps to have staff members who come from a game design background. “We bring a lot of immersive experience to our escape rooms,” he said. The immersion is one element that Shamp said sets them apart from other escape room games, which have rapidly expanded in the Twin Cities metro in recent years. The number of escape room businesses has grown from just a few to more than 15 since Shamp started planning Mission Manor, he said. Luckily, Shamp said there’s power in numbers, as each business has a limited number of rooms to offer.

“We rely on each other less as competition than as continued advertising,” he said. “The escape room community is kind of a closeknit community.” For would-be puzzle solvers worried about difficulty, Shamp said their rooms range from very difficult to a good first-time experience with escape rooms. Staff can tailor the experience for a group, giving clues and guidance to guests who get stuck. Mission Manor can host corporate groups and teambuilding events thanks to its large lounge and lobby space. Mission Manor is at least the second live puzzle room game to open in Northeast Minneapolis. Riddle Room launched its first room on Central Avenue just a few blocks from the Miller Textile Building in 2014. It now operates several themed rooms at the corner of Central & Hennepin. The Miller Textile Building has welcomed several tenants since it opened last year. HeadFlyer Brewing opened its doors on the ground floor in April. Stahl Construction and Grassroots Solutions occupy spaces on the upper office levels. Nash Frame Design is located on the lower level with Mission Manor. There are two vacant spaces left in the nearly 50,000-square-foot building with 3,400 square feet open on the ground floor and about 6,000 square feet open on the fourth floor, according to Ackerberg, which redeveloped the former industrial complex. Mission Manor is open daily at 861 E. Hennepin Ave. Guests can book rooms at missionmanor.com.

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Two months after opening, Hennepin Steam Room is now closed. Ivy Taheri, the North Loop restaurant’s original owner, confirmed the closing, saying it was due to “irreconcilable differences” between new partners. The restaurant, which opened in February, was recently taken over by new ownership, Taheri added. Ivy and Ben Taheri had operated the space as

The Tangiers, a nightclub and lounge concept, until last fall when they decided to rebrand with a more food-focused concept. Former Bradstreet Crafthouse chef Jesse Spitzack led the kitchen at Hennepin Steam Room, which served a global menu and a full bar. Ivy Taheri operates Stem Wine Bar & Eatery in the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood.

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Kado no Mise

Where the North Loop lost Origami it will gain two sushi restaurants, including Kado no Mise, which officially opened May 2. The concept from former Origami chef Shigeyuki Furukawa and partner John Gross is located on the first floor of the small fourstory building near the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Kado no Mise is an upscale sushi counter that serves nigiri and Japanese dishes, whereas its upcoming sister restaurant on the second floor, Kaiseki Furukawa, will have a more formal atmosphere and a multicourse menu. Kado no Mise, which opens up and brightens the former Origami space, seats nearly 50 people with a sushi counter and bar. On the menu, the restaurant has a selection of roughly $4–$11 nigiri options like Bluefin tuna and geoduck and small plates like bamboo shoots served with bonito flakes or an udon noodle soup with vegetable tempura. Diners can also get larger plates like Rohan duck. The restaurant offers a full bar with cocktails designed by Dan Oskey of Northeast Minneapolis’ Tattersall Distilling. The $12–$14 cocktail menu has a Gimletto ($12) with gin,

grapefruit crema and a mint-jalapeño orgeat syrup and the Ginza 75 ($14) with Tattersall’s aquavit, peach liqueur, jasmine green tea and sparkling wine. Kado no Mise also offers a sake menu, along with a few Japanese beers. Kado no Mise, at 33 N. 1st St., is open 11 a.m.–2 p.m. for lunch and 5 p.m.–10 p.m. for dinner Tuesday through Sunday. It is closed Mondays. Kaiseki Furukawa is expected to open soon above the restaurant.

Kado no Mise oﬀers a selection of nigiri, such as this Bluefin tuna. Photo by Eric Best

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Dulono’s Pizza has opened a restaurant in the former Sawatdee space in the Warehouse District. The 60-year-old pizza chain, a staple for Uptowners for decades, is making a foray into late-night dining downtown with the restaurant located near Second & Fourth, across from Pizza Luce. Not only does the downtown Dulono’s stays open until 3 a.m. during the week and 4 a.m. on weekends, it has the chain’s first full bar as well. The restaurant from owner Jared Gruett continues to serve the well known Dulono’s pizza, pasta and hoagies and, on the bar side, beer, wine and some house cocktails. The approximately 5,300-square-foot space, which has been vacant for nearly seven years, seats about 135 inside and features several games — “Pac-Man,” foosball, darts, billiards, etc. — and TVs. Dulono’s Pizza, at 118 N. 4th St., is open 11 a.m.–3 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.–4 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m.–2 a.m. Sunday. It offers a happy hour from 3 p.m.–7 p.m. daily. The restaurant is the fourth Dulono’s location after the chain’s longtime location in

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Corporate art consulting firm Hennes Art Company has moved into the West Market District area and is rapidly expanding in the process. The company moved at the end of April from the Harrison neighborhood across Interstate 35W to the former FinnStyle space on Glenwood Avenue near the Minneapolis Farmers Market. Beyond a lot more space — five times more than its previous home — Hennes’ new location includes an art outlet store and a showroom for designers and architects. It will also feature a production picture framing facility and a collaborative

space for artists to create or stage projects. Owner Greg Hennes said the outlet store, which he modeled after a similar store he had at his previous arts consulting firm, Art Holdings, will be open to the public and feature art of many different mediums and price points, from $50 to $5,000. “It’s going to be similar to that, but even better,” he said. Hennes, who founded Hennes Art in 2010, will host a grand opening celebration 7 p.m.–10 p.m. May 20 at the new location at 160 Glenwood Ave. N. The outlet store will be open Monday through Saturday.

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Cardigan Donuts brings comfort food to City Center

Justin Bedford left the corporate world to create what he didn’t see in the downtown Minneapolis skyway: a comforting doughnut shop for workers to escape the sometimes cold and hostile land of cubicles. Now, Bedford and co-owner Jeff Bull have made that dream into a reality with the opening of Cardigan Donuts in the City Center skyway. The 45-seat upscale doughnut shop offers “comfort food for everyone,” Bedford said, and it does it in a mid-century modern setting. “Our whole operation was made specifically for everyone I’ve met downtown over the years. Cardigan’s space is warm and welcoming — perfect for networking or taking a break to catch up with a friend,” he said in a statement. Chef Dan Rosene (Taste of Scandinavia, Commons Roots Café, Tria Restaurant) has put together a tiered doughnut menu featuring 10 or so varieties of classics ($1.95) like glazed doughnuts and French crullers, premium pastries ($2.75) like a Bismarck filled with strawberry-rhubarb jam or Cardigan’s own Churro Roll, and, lastly, “inspired” doughnuts of the shop’s own creation. This selection of doughnuts, which will range from $3–$5 with most being around $3.25– $3.50, Bedford said, includes the colorful Rainbow Road with marshmallows, a mocha long john and The Farmhouse, an egg yolk custard-filled Bismarck with candied bacon and maple icing.

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From left to right: A maple bacon doughnut, a French cruller, a Boston creme Bismark and a yogurt bowl at Cardigan Donuts. Submitted photos

What separates Cardigan’s doughnuts, even its most basic doughnuts, Rosene said, is that they will be fresher than what guests traditionally find on their way to work. “The oldest our product will be from when the door opens is two hours,” he said. Cardigan also offers customizable yogurt bowls ($3.95–$5.25) with fruit, house-made granola and sweetener options, along with an “inspired” tier with additions like cacao nibs

and poached pear. The menu will change with the help of Cardigan’s followers. Bull said they’ll crowdsource feedback during monthly tastings, which Cardigan calls its Donut Lab, where randomly chosen guests will be able to try out what Rosene is working on. On the beverage side, Cardigan Donuts partners with Blackeye Roasting Co. to provide espresso drinks, its nitro cold brew

and a variety of coffee unique to the shop. Customers can also choose from a variety of on-tap kombucha teas. Blackeye is a relatively new addition to the downtown Minneapolis skyway itself, with a café that opened in the Towle Building on the other side of downtown last year. Lauren and Joel Gryniewski of Eat Street gift store Greater Goods have developed a store-within-a-store concept of the shop near Cardigan’s coffee counter. The gift wall offers a changing selection of goods like cards from their stationery businesses Old Tom Foolery and Modern Lore, prints and even doughnutthemed goods that are nearly all under $30. “We wanted to be able to adapt this for the skyway customer and provide things that someone could bring back to their desk, back to a coworker’s birthday or grab a doughnut and a grab a card with it,” Lauren said. Cardigan’s 2,600-square-foot space is located next door to Naf Naf Grill on the second floor of City Center. The interior, designed by Smart Associates, includes couches and seating around a fireplace, a coffee bar and a table for groups to meet. “The vision for Cardigan is really a midcentury modern living room with a workspace in the back, somewhere that feels comfortable,” Bull said. “We are all about warmth, welcome and serving comfort food to people.” The shop at 40 S. 7th St. is open 6:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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CIVIC BEAT

By Dylan Thomas dthomas@journalmpls.com @dthomasjournals

Mayoral candidate Levy-Pounds criticizes Hodges and Harteau After Mayor Betsy Hodges and Police Chief Janeé Harteau publicly disagreed about Harteau’s pick to lead the 4th Precinct, mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds criticized their “ongoing miscommunication and lack of strong leadership” in a City Hall speech. In what was billed as a “State of the City” address, Levy-Pounds called for a “paradigm shift” in city leadership in front of a group of about 20 supporters who gathered in the City Hall rotunda May 4. “I know that such addresses are typically reserved for the mayor of the city,” she said. “However, considering the dysfunction that we have been witnessing at City Hall in recent weeks and over the last nearly four years, I took the liberty of crafting this message to help redirect our city leaders, to sharpen our areas of focus and to remind us all that the people of this great city are the ones who suffer when our government is not living up to its responsibilities.” A week earlier, Hodges had rejected Harteau’s

pick to lead the department’s 4th Precinct, which covers the city’s North Side. The fight over the appointment of Lt. John Delmonico played out in news reports and in public statements issued separately by the two city leaders. Delmonico, a former head of the police union, was a central figure in the so-called “Pointergate” episode of 2014, when he claimed Hodges flashed a gang sign in a photo with a campaign canvasser. In an interview after the speech, Levy-Pounds said Delmonico’s involvement in fueling the “Pointergate” story was “a slap in the face to the black community.” “We need an inspector that knows how to reach the community, how to advocate for what’s in the best interests of the community and how to build trust with the community. Delmonico is not that person. Chief Harteau should’ve known that,” she said. Levy-Pounds said after the speech she would replace Harteau if she wins the mayor’s race in November. Noting that news reports indicated

An untraditional Republican joins mayors race Political newcomer Jonathan Honerbrink entered the Minneapolis mayoral contest in April as a Republican. The last Republican to serve a full term as mayor of Minneapolis assumed office in 1957, DFLers have held it since 1978 and this year’s City Council races are pulling city politics to the left. But Honerbrink doesn’t present himself as a traditional Republican. “I’m not a normal Republican by any means,” he said. Raised on the North Side and a current resident of the West Calhoun neighborhood, Honerbrink said he comes from a “fairly liberal family” and has voted GOP only once in his life. He had few kind words for the Republican currently occupying the White House. The former small business owner said he read the job description for mayor of Minneapolis and thought: “This fits me very well.” He quit his job as a regional sales manager at Home Depot in April to focus all of his attention on the 2017 city elections. “The whole part of being mayor is to focus on the community and protect the community,” he said. “I want that job.” Honerbrink emphasized his community connections in a recent interview, including time spent volunteering as a parks league football coach and mentoring youth on the North Side. As mayor, Honerbrink would promote early learning — also a priority for the incumbent, Mayor Betsy Hodges, who formed the Cradle to K cabinet in

Honerbrink. Submitted photo 2014 — and try to expand access to healthcare, particularly mental health care. “I’m about kids,” he said. “My whole goal is about kids.” Honerbrink said he would like the city to use tax credits to incentivize businesses like CVS, Walgreens and Target to open new stores with minute clinics in underserved communities like North Minneapolis. He’d use the same tool — tax credits — to encourage Minneapolis police officers to move into the city, offering a $7,500 break on property taxes and other incentives to buy homes in the precincts where they work. Honerbrink suggested selling city assets, such

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Hodges initially supported Harteau’s pick, LevyPounds said it showed the mayor was “out of touch” with the city’s black residents. Levy-Pounds focused a significant portion of her speech on the city’s response to crime, calling for a “genuine model of community policing that involves community members and not just the usual suspects and shared decision making about how our police will function.” She said increasing access to educational opportunities, employment and affordable housing, as well as raising the minimum wage, should be coupled with police reform in a “holistic” approach to reducing violent crime rates. “The problems are a symbol of broken social systems and government neglect of our most vulnerable populations,” she said. Hodges is scheduled to deliver her own State of the City address May 23 at Masjid an-Nur, a mosque in Near North located about a mile from the 4th Precinct.

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as the Minneapolis Convention Center, to pay for investments in programs for children ages 3–5. But Honerbrink said the “first thing” he’d do after taking office would be to hire a consulting firm to help him interview every Minneapolis police officer in an attempt to root out racist attitudes. “After you see a bunch of crap, you start getting bias,” he said. Pressed on the feasibility of these plans, Honerbrink said he’s prepared to be tested and to learn on the job. “I don’t have all the answers,” he said. “I have to ask questions to get the right answers.” If elected, Honerbrink said he’d spend less time in City Hall and more time out on the streets listening to community concerns and talking with business owners. “Betsy Hodges, she doesn’t go anywhere. She’s gone,” he said. On Facebook, Honerbrink has come out in support of Pathway to $15, a campaign backed by the restaurant industry that advocates inclusion of a tip credit (also known as a tip penalty) in any proposal to raise the citywide minimum wage. It would allow business owners to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage, as long as the workers’ tips plus wages totaled at least $15 an hour over the course of a shift. Honerbrink also placed fixing a “failing school system” high on his list of priorities, even though the mayor in Minneapolis has no direct control of schools.

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By Nate Gotlieb ngotlieb@journalmpls.com @NateGotlieb

Exhibit highlights intersection of art and water An art exhibit in North Minneapolis is casting light on the importance of the Mississippi River. The Hydro-Illuminata exhibit features dozens of miniature cast-iron boats created by 72 citizen artists and 13 iron-pour artists. The exhibit is the culmination of the nearly yearlong Hydro-Illuminata project, which aimed to spur deeper conversation about improving water quality and protecting watershed resources. “We want just to have people pause for a second and have them think about how they capture water,” said Jim Brenner, the lead artist on the project. Brenner, a Minneapolis-based sculptor, utilized funding from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association and the Minnesota Waldorf School to implement the project. He held four community workshops this past summer and fall, during which community members molded their own boats out of clay. Brenner and workshop leaders asked participants what water meant to them and also talked about the basics of best watermanagement practices. “It was more about asking questions and trying to have people look within,” Brenner said. “Just having that conversation had its own synergy.” The four workshops culminated in an iron-pour event Oct. 1 on the Mississippi River, during which Brenner and the artists cast the clay molds into molten iron. Other artists used slow-exposure photography to capture the boats on the water, and middle school students from the Minnesota Waldorf School did a performance. Ward 1 Minneapolis City Council Member Kevin Reich said the project helped boost the notion that art can be in service to science and environmentalism. Reich, who chairs the MWMO Board of Commissioners, said the project’s social nature helped instill a deeper understanding of the river’s importance in a way a public-service announcement, for example, could not.

The Hydro-Illuminata exhibit features cast-iron boats created by dozens of community members and 13 iron-pour artists. Photo by Nate Gotlieb “Being around the table and talking about it collectively deepened the understanding,” he said. Adelheid Koski, neighborhood coordinator and former board chair of HNIA, said in an email that the workshops were a great opportunity to learn about and reflect on the importance of the river and how water moves through the neighborhood. The association has focused on overarching goals pertaining to energy, art and innovation over the past decade, according to Koski. It’s begun to identify itself as a river community, in part because of its proximity to the river but also because the Green Campus initiative,

a series of environmentally friendly projects around Edison High School. “Ultimately we want to engage and empower the community to be aware of, engage with, and care for our water and our community,” Koski wrote. “Using the arts and events like Hydro-Illuminata is one way we do that. “ The Hydro-Illuminata exhibit runs through May 27 at Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave. Hours are 5 p.m.–9 p.m. Tuesdays, 1 p.m.–6 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays and 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Saturdays. There will be a closing party from 2 p.m.– 5 p.m. on the 27th.

An artist prepares molten iron at an iron-pour event held this past year on the Mississippi River. Photo courtesy Hydro-Illuminata

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Nowhere to go Downtown is growing, but are public bathrooms lost in the mix?

Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com It’s a predicament many in downtown Minneapolis have found themselves in. You’re walking through the Central Business District and need to use the bathroom, but there’s none in sight. While banks, restaurants and parks have bathrooms, one might not be nearby, open or accessible to the non-paying public. Even as a resident of Loring Park, Nick Magrino has found himself in the scramble. “It’s such a basic thing to be walking around downtown. There are 50-story buildings and it’s very dense and in theory there’s a lot of stuff. But to be there on a random Sunday as a tourist, there aren’t a ton of places to go,” Magrino said. Given that downtown Minneapolis has seen record levels of real estate investment in recent years, including more than $3.4 billion in the past two years, the situation raises the question if restrooms been lost in the growth. Ben Shardlow, the director of urban design at the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District and Downtown Council, said a lack of bathrooms and public urination downtown have been common concerns of downtown stakeholders who’ve participated in the organization’s annual perception survey. To get the ball rolling on the issue, DID funded a month-long pilot of a Little Free Lavatory in Peavey Plaza in 2015. Since then, the organization has partnered with Green Minneapolis to bring restrooms to the Commons in Downtown East. The projects help correct an issue of mismatched facilities downtown: There are many facilities in downtown Minneapolis, just not near where people need them, Shardlow said. On top of that, several recent high-profile closings of longstanding businesses like Macy’s and Barnes & Noble may have regular customers or skyway users in a scramble for other facilities. Not only do the projects allow for more public bathrooms, they may also get people to talk about the issue, a major roadblock to possible solutions, Shardlow said. “It does feel like the logistics are challenging, but the dialogue is more challenging at this point,” he said.

Public urination citations at an all-time low On the west side of downtown, Joan Vorderbruggen sees this issue firsthand. As the Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Cultural District arts coordinator, she brings port-apotties to the south side of the road for the non-profit art organization’s weekly

5 to 10 on Hennepin initiative. Vorderbruggen said she hears in listening sessions with property and business owners that increasing the number of public bathrooms is necessary to combat public urination. Public urination is so common in one alley just off Hennepin Avenue, she said, that the street name for it is the “pee corner.” Vorderbruggen said Hennepin Avenue is carrying the brunt of the issue thanks to reconstruction projects on Nicollet and Third avenues that push buses, pedestrians and other activity westward. “There’s a 10-pound bag sitting on Hennepin and it only has capacity for five, and people are feeling that — not only commuters or real-time users, but also the people who are waiting for services. Everybody is kind of having a negative experience on Hennepin right now, for the most part,” she said. “This is a cataclysmic moment where we have infrastructure transformation. We have a serious issue that is at the top of everybody’s [list].” The concern over a lack of publicly available bathrooms downtown, and related issues like public urination, comes at a time when citations for the crime are plummeting in downtown Minneapolis. Public urination citations in the 1st Precinct, which includes the Downtown West, Downtown East, North Loop, Elliot Park, Cedar Riverside and part of the University of Minnesota neighborhoods, were down about 80 percent between 2007 and 2016, according to Minneapolis Police Department data obtained by The Journal. Over the past decade, the precinct accounted for about 60 percent of the city’s public urination citations. A decade ago, a peak month for citations — typically in the mid or late summer — saw about the same number of citations as the entirety of 2015 or 2014, during which Precinct 1 saw 93 and 101 citations, respec-

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Public urination is so common in one area of downtown that some refer to it as the “pee corner.” Photo by Eric Best tively. As of April 27, this year has seen 28 citations in the precinct. Shardlow said public urination creates problems for the DID and the city’s ability to market itself to visitors. Any additional mess draws on the time and funding for the DID’s ambassador program, whose ambassadors power wash urine and debris off downtown’s sidewalks. “There are a lot of intuitive issues. It affects how people perceive the cleanliness of downtown,” he said.

A place to go Shardlow has looked to several municipalities across the world that are tackling the same issue, including a program in Germany to grant access to private facilities and a West Coast initiative to build more freestanding public bathrooms. The solution of more public restrooms isn’t as cut and dry as building more facilities, which could cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and would require a dedicated budget and staff to maintain. Shardlow said the high cost of operating public bathrooms is what leads building owners and developers to engineer them out in the first place. Magrino, who also serves on the City Planning Commission, said a possible solution could be better leveraging existing facilities through consistent signage and wayfinding. For visitors or people in downtown outside of business hours, keeping some bathrooms open could be another option.

“There’s really not a lot of public bathrooms for people to use, especially if they’re visiting. I know I get that question when it’s a ghost town walking around at 6 o’clock on a Friday,” he said. Patrick Higgins, a building official with the city’s Community Planning & Economic Development Department, said people could use bathrooms at facilities they may not traditionally think to go to when they’re scrambling to find one. If someone banks downtown, they could head there even if access to a bathroom may not be obvious. “[Businesses] have the authority to control that access, but that access is available to you as a customer. They really can’t deny you the right to use the facility,” he said. Several bathrooms are in the works across downtown, including new facilities at the Nicollet Mall Target where the company is putting in $10 million in renovations. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board also plans to add several bathrooms to area near Mill Ruins Park where it plans to build a new destination park and restauration building. Shardlow said the DID hopes to do something to “advance the conversation” around the lack of facilities this year. “It’s a funny little cultural thing. It’s a little bit challenging to even talk about because we live in a polite society and we don’t talk about that aspect of livable communities very often,” he said.

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Moments in Minneapolis By Cedar Imboden Phillips

A MINNEAPOLIS ICON IN THE MAKING

ounger or newer Minneapolis residents may have a hard time imagining the city without its iconic “Spoonbridge and Cherry” fountain and sculpture, the centerpiece of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, yet this sculpture has only been in Minneapolis for 29 years. Designed by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and manufactured in New England shipyards, the gigantic spoon and cherry was created over a three-year period between 1985 and 1988. This photo shows the newly installed sculpture just days before the oﬃcial September 1988 grand opening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, a partnership between the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The Cowles Conservatory stands in the background. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden closed for a two-year renovation in 2015 and will reopen to the public on June 3.

Photograph by Walker Art Center’s publicity department. It can be found in the collection at the Hennepin History Museum.

Cedar Imboden Phillips serves as executive director for the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or 870-1329.

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Step into the cockpit at Fallout Shelter Arcade In the depths of Northeast, one business preserves relics of old-school video games

Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com In a basement in Northeast Minneapolis people climb into giant mechanical robots to duke it out on the planet Solaris VII. While they never have to leave Minneapolis, these people are playing as pilots in the oncefamous simulation games of “BattleTech” at Fallout Shelter Arcade. Co-owner Frank Galatis started the business after falling in love with the game as a teenager on a band trip. A couple decades later and the old-school video game hasn’t loosened its hold on Galatis or his community of pilots. Fallout Shelter Arcade is well hidden inside the Strong-Scott Manufacturing Company building on Taft Street in the MidCity Industrial neighborhood. To find it, just look for the small, bright-yellow sign, follow several hallways and stairs into the basement and eventually you’ll hear the hum of the pods, the arcade’s main attraction. There are only two games to play at the arcade, “BattleTech: Firestorm” and “Red Planet.” The video game franchise is part of a 33-year-old world of “BattleTech” games, novels, media and more. It has drawn in a passionate community of pilots and enthusiasts, Galatis included, thanks to its deep and detailed history. Galatis’ obsession with “BattleTech” started when he was a 16-year-old on a band trip in Chicago in the mid-’90s. The Minnesota native found himself in the city’s North Pier where he stumbled upon a pod, a large cockpit designed to make the game’s giant fighting robots or mechs come to life through multiple screens, complex controls and a dozen speakers. Galatis would make monthly “pilgrimages” down to the city with friends just to play the game, which has players going on missions to fight and compete against human or computer players in a futuristic gladiator scenario. “Red Planet” transforms the pods into cockpits of vehicles racing through

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Northeast’s Fallout Shelter Arcade is one of the last publicly available places in the country with “BattleTech” Tesla pods open for play. Photo by Eric Best mining colonies on Mars. “You climb in the cockpit and close the door, and you can pretend the outside world doesn’t exist,” he said. Years later, Galatis would have the opportunity to buy his own pods, each high-end gaming machines back in their day. Fallout Shelter Arcade was born. It just happened to be in a co-owner’s garage at the time. Galatis and his team would open it up on certain days and broadcast over social media. When it got too popular — and the co-owner’s family wanted their garage back — the business settled in Northeast Minneapolis.

There were only about 144 pods in existence and a couple dozen have been destroyed over the years. Only a few places in the country remain where people can play “BattleTech” on such devices. Fortunately for them, Galatis and his four co-owners have collected 20 over the years and have fixed and sold others. “As far as I know, we’re the only people on the planet that refurbish and resell these. It’s hard to convey just how valuable there are,” he said. “Think of the rarest arcade game that you can think of. These are rarer by an order of magnitude.”

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The rare opportunity to play the games has drawn in many would-be pilots since the arcade opened in 2009, including several with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of 10-minute missions to their name, or callsign. Galatis, who goes by the callsign “Cyd,” estimates he’s played more than 2,000. A few of Fallout’s regulars may have even have more. “There a few pilots who legitimately have multiple 1,000-mission pins on their lapels,” he said. While fewer and fewer people are stumbling upon the pods like Galatis did, it’s not impossible. Keith “Sham” Dalluhn, another co-owner at Fallout who has played about 1,200 or so missions, chanced upon the arcade’s games at a convention in the Twin Cities and has been hooked since. “I was taken. I was smitten,” he said. Galatis said the games and the 21-year-old pods, fossils in today’s world of multiplayer video games, have their charms. Because they can’t play online, “BattleTech” pilots compete with others in the same room and can’t troll or trash talk from afar. Dalluhn even credits three marriages between pilots to the pods. “It’s a social game as much as anything else. It teaches a sense of decorum,” Galatis said. One issue on their radar is the growing popularity of Northeast Minneapolis, which threatens to raise rent and push the arcade out of its building. Galatis said it’s very possible they’ll be leaving for a new home with a storefront in the next year or two. “We don’t make money here. We bring in enough revenue to keep it running,” he said. But Fallout’s community of pilots have little to worry about for the time being. Galatis is committed to maintaining the pods and keeping his favorite game alive no matter where they take him. “It would take a lot to buy me out,” he said.

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Accompanying Sherman Associates’ 205 Park building is a proposed dog run that received approval from the City Planning Commission in early May. The Downtown East-based developer is planning an approximately 1,500-square-foot public dog park adjacent to the apartment building. The park would be a neighborhood amenity in an area where a lack of pet amenities has been an issue to nearby residents. A 2015 Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association survey on the project found that, among more than 300 respondents, 75 percent agreed 205 Park should include a pet-relief amenity.

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Central Lutheran Church Central Lutheran Church is proposing to demolish a two-story portion of its Loring Park campus to add a new 30,000-squarefoot addition. The church is planning to remove its Parish Hall and Education building near the Minneapolis Convention Center to provide space for the church’s ministries, community services and programs, according to plans submitted to the City Planning Commission Committee of the Whole. The addition would include a fellowship hall, a kitchen, a restoration center, oﬃces, a nursery and multi-purpose spaces. Kodet Architecture Group is designing the project.

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Canopy by Hilton The Heritage Preservation Commission is taking up a certificate of appropriateness for Sherman Associates’ proposed rehabilitation of the Thresher Square building into a Canopy by Hilton hotel. The project, which would bring a 181-room hotel to the Downtown East neighborhood, is a piece of the developer’s full-block redevelopment that also features the 180-unit East End Apartments and a Trader Joe’s grocery store. The Thresher

Finnegans recently released new plans for its new taproom, brewery and workspace development, dubbed the Finnovation Center, in the Elliot Park neighborhood. The non-profit brewery will partner with Shakopee-based Badger Hill Brewing Company to brew both of their beer lines in Badger Hill’s facility and a new 11,000-squarefoot brewery and taproom dubbed Finnegans House in downtown Minneapolis. Finnegans has partnered with Summit Brewery since 2003 to make its beer. The three-story Finnovation Center project, which Finnegans expects to complete next spring, will also include an event space and oﬃces.

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NordHaus Lennar Multifamily is making progress on NordHaus, a 278-unit luxury apartment complex that it plans to open to residents on Aug. 1. The 20-story building is taking shape in the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood, topping out in early May. While the developer has not disclosed how many units it has leased, Jon Fletcher, a senior development manager with Lennar, said based on the waitlist for the building that interest has been substantial. Lennar is in the process of designing a second phase, this time an approximately 27-story apartment tower, on the other side of the former Superior Plating site in Northeast Minneapolis. Lennar has received a letter of support from the neighborhood group for the unnamed project, which could see a groundbreaking in the first half of 2018, Fletcher said.

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Edison business team creates electronic rewards program A team of Edison High School students has created an online rewards platform with the goal of increasing student motivation. Edison’s Junior Achievement business team created the web-based Vanguard Rewards Program to increase student engagement. The team of five sold the system to Edison for $1,000, and several team members said they plan on helping the school implement the program next school year. “The whole basis of the program was to reward students in a positive way,” said 10th-grader Brandon Arneson. “… This is more than a product. It creates long-lasting impacts.” The program allows staff to reward students who speak up in class, demonstrate leadership or, more generally, go beyond what’s required of them. The students can then use the points they earn to purchase rewards. Staff can also take away “merits” from students for major disciplinary reasons, such as a suspension. The idea is that students need to maintain a certain number of “merits” to attend school events. The process of creating the program began earlier this school year. The team wanted to use technology to address what they perceived as a lack of student motivation at the school, which led them to brainstorm the onlinepoints system.

Edison Junior Achievement team members (from left to right): Raul Lazcano Gonzalez, Abdimalik Abdulahi, Brandon Arneson, Therence Niyonkuru and Max Barnard. Photo by Nate Gotlieb It wasn’t easy to create, however. None of the boys had experience building or designing a website, for one, and they also had to navigate the challenges of security associated with school information. The boys teamed with two information technology professionals who are Edison

alumni to design the platform. They surveyed Edison students and staff, tested the product with a few teachers and presented it to the Edison site council, a local entrepreneur and Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff. “We wanted a tool that would help teachers

get students engaged,” 11th-grader Therence Niyonkuru said. The team sold stock in the company, which it called Vanguard Tech. Each of the team members took a role in the company, from president to vice president of finance. The team presented the product at the Junior Achievement Company of the Year competition in April, where it finished third out of six teams. Team members said the experience taught them skills such as teamwork and gave them valuable experience in running a business. Arneson, who wants to become an entrepreneur, said it helped him define what he wants in the future. Twelfth-grader Raul Lazcano Gonzalez, who plans on majoring in international business at the University of St. Thomas, said it gave them hands-on experience in how a business runs. Company president Max Barnard, a 12th-grader who plans on studying business/ entrepreneurship in college, said he learned how to overcome obstacles. “Every time we hit a wall, we were able to pivot and keep moving forward,” he said. “Everybody was so focused. Everybody was on the same page, and it was just really rewarding.”

FAIR School honored for social work partnership The FAIR School received an award this spring for its social work partnership with local colleges and universities. The grades 1–3 and 9–12 school in Downtown Minneapolis received the Bronze Star of Innovation award from the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals. It was one of 29 schools to receive an award and the only in the Minneapolis school district. FAIR hosts students in master’s of social work programs, who work 15–20 hours a week at the school. The graduate students do everything from one-on-one counseling and crisis intervention to hosting social skills groups and academic coaching. The school has 10 interns this year from five programs: Minnesota, Augsburg, St. Thomas/St. Kate’s, St. Cloud State and Metro State. The students receive school credit for their work but are not paid.

The program began in 2009 when licensed social worker Kayci Rush started working at FAIR. Rush had been part of a project at the University of Minnesota Medical School that used interns and decided to bring the model to FAIR. “I think high school students can relate easier and faster to (graduate students),” she said. “Graduate students just seemed able to develop rapport with students much faster than typical staff.” Rush said mental health issues have gotten dramatically worse since the Great Recession. She said she’s seeing more post-traumatic stress among kids born around 2008, 2009 and 2010, some of whom have already experienced prolonged periods of homelessness. She said 42 percent of FAIR’s students in grades 9–12 are diagnosed with a mental health condition. About one-third of its high

school students require special education services because of their mental health conditions, and eight percent are homeless at any one time, Rush said. “You can’t do homework if you’re living in your car,” she said, adding that it’s extremely embarrassing for a high school student to be homeless. The 10 interns provide the school with the equivalent of three full-time positions worth of work. It would cost the school $75,000 for a first-year social worker, Rush said, so the program effectively saves the school about $225,000 annually. Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals Executive Director Dave Adney said the FAIR program is innovative in the way it uses resources. He added that the program could be replicated in other districts. Other award-winning programs this year

included a career academy at Bemidji High School, a “wall of hope” at Virginia High School and a life-story project at Foston High School, Adney said. Brianna Lamoso, a first-year graduate student in the University of Minnesota’s social work program, said she’s learned the value of seeing the same clients for a whole year by working at FAIR. “I’m learning I feel like a deeper picture of who they are,” she said. Lamoso has a caseload of four high school students and four third-graders. She said it’s taken a while to gain the students’ trust and that she’s gained a greater appreciation for working in a school. The FAIR School is hoping to add more therapeutic services such as a licensed social worker within the building, Rush said. It’s also aiming to get kids more support over the summer.

Top chefs, middle schoolers compete in iron chef Four acclaimed Minneapolis chefs competed alongside Minneapolis Public Schools middle school students May 8 in the district’s thirdannual Junior Iron Chef competition. Lucas Rosenbrook of Alma, Molly Herrmann of Kitchen in the Market, Marshall Paulsen of Birchwood Café and Vincent Francoual of Cara Irish Pubs each worked with teams of two students to create and cook a meal for a panel of celebrity judges. The teams had about an hour to conceptualize, cook and plate their creations before presenting them to the panel at the Solar Arts by Chowgirls building in Northeast. The event aimed to raise awareness about fresh food and efforts around healthy eating within Minneapolis Public Schools, said Bertrand Weber, director of Culinary and

Nutrition Services. “It’s really about connecting Minneapolis Public Schools with the local culinary community,” he said. “It’s a really nice example of top chefs getting involved.” The district has moved away from serving prepackaged meals out of a central kitchen to preparing fresh foods at individual buildings under Weber’s leadership. It’s in the process of installing kitchens in each building and has also worked to install salad bars in schools. The district has also created the True Food

MORE INFO Visit journalmpls.com to view photos of the event.

Chef Council, a partnership between Weber’s department and the Minneapolis restaurant and culinary community. The council aims to spread the word about the positive changes on Minneapolis’ lunch menus, said member Tracy Singleton of Birchwood Café. She said the council has helped fundraise for the salad bars and has contributed recipes to MPS. Herrmann, a member of the True Food council, worked with seventh-graders Darah Ross and Tiana Novack at the Iron Chef event to create potato and lentil salad with radishes and homemade empanadas with farro, turkey and cranberries. She said it was fun to work with the girls, adding that the hardest part for them was chopping evenly. Darah and Tiana, best friends who attend

Northeast Middle School, said they thought it would be scary to cook in a competition, though it turned out to be fun. The girls have been cooking since third grade and like their food spicy, so Herrmann had to implore them not to add too much Sriracha sauce to their dish. Adjacent to them, Ramsey Middle School eighth-grader Max Myrvik made tostadas with chorizo and a farro/lentil chili alongside Rosenbrook and Marcy Open School student Riyan Said. The trio earned the Iron Chef crown for their recipe. Max said the dish exceeded his standards, adding that it was nice to learn from a pro chef. “Cooking’s like one of the funnest things ever,” he said.

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Have mercy Here we go again. The restaurant of Le Meridien Chambers, the hip hotel on Hennepin Avenue, couldn’t make it under the reign of the d’Amicos nor with Jean-Georges’ bold-name allure. The next occupant, the health-forward Marin, closed, too, in February. Now its chef is back in the saddle at Mercy, debuting in the now-familiar space as a “Southern seafood concept,” according to our excellent server, whom I’d be happy to nominate as poster girl for the industry. Will this new thrust stick? Let’s wait and see. To hedge his bet, Chef Mike Rakun also has incorporated a menu section entitled “Steaks on a Plate” (as one would hope), $24–$88, requiring additions from a list of sides to complete the meal. But we came for the seafood. We started with the apps list’s ($7–$13) crab empanadas, a quartet of petite turnovers stuffed with cream cheese, mozzarella and bits of sweet, come-hither crab meat to dip in a sweet chili sauce. They’re longer on the rich, bland cheeses than actual crab, reminiscent of Leeann Chin’s signature wontons. Next, a pair of oyster po’ boys built of lettuce, tomato and mayo gussying up a slim, cornmeal-crusted fried oyster residing in a generous, sesame-coated bun. Those addicted to oysters (count me among you) are better off ordering them raw from the separate menu. Other seafood starters range from shrimp and octopus ceviche to calamari and Paco fish ribs. (Yes, we asked: flaky white flesh from the Pacific.) Or look to the menu’s middlecolumn offerings ($8–$10) where lobster-corn chowder heads the list of soups and salads. Instead, we proceeded to the entrees (eight listed, from a $21 fish fry starring black sea bass to a $38 roasted lobster). Scallops — yes! This had been my favorite at the chef’s former Marin. This round, the composition favors three large, sweet and quivery-tender medal-

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lions on a plate paved with spinach and bits of portobellos in a (greasy, over-abundant) bacon vinaigrette. Croutons of robustly bodied grits complete the sorta-Southern slant. Speaking of which: next up, an immense, super-flavorful and well-timed pork chop (OK, fatty, too) sided with braised greens spangled with smoked hock bits and a couple of hush puppies — hushed too long before serving, perhaps, for they proved more solid than pliant in body. Or go for the beer-can chicken with dirty rice or duck breast with pot stickers and ginger-orange sauce. (From Southern what? Beijing?) No room for dessert, but a peek at the list ($4–$16) revealed that, of the seven choices, all are ice cream or sorbet except these: tiramisu and Key lime pie. Oh, wait: They’re both sided with ice cream, too.

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FROM WATER WORKS / PAGE 1 windows and restored mill perimeter walls. Tom Evers, executive director of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, said they’re planning the building be used as a restaurant similar to Sea Salt Eatery, a seafood restaurant that anchors the Park Board’s Minnehaha Park in South Minneapolis. The current plan for the concept at Water Works, which

the board has yet to find a restaurateur to operate, is to make it the first year-round restaurant in the city’s park system. The pavilion would also have several bathrooms, an elevator and office space. It would keep the same hours as the park. The change came after further investigation into remnants of the mill, which were unexpectedly rich and intact. Rather than simply demolish the Fuji-Ya building and

partially expose the infrastructure, Evers said they would rather activate them and weave in their history into Water Works. “Living cities need to respect places of power by both honoring the past stories that unfolded before and making room for new stories to emerge, giving voice to communities that may often be left unheard. This is true for Water Works,” he said in a statement. Evers said Water Works would be a place

where people will be able to add their own stories with the reopening of the historic infrastructure to the public. “This is a place where stories have always been told and created in our city,” he told The Journal. Estimated costs for the project have grown to just under $30 million. The foundation, the board’s philanthropic partner tasked SEE WATER WORKS / PAGE 17

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journalmpls.com / May 18–31, 2017 17 FROM WATER WORKS / PAGE 16 with fundraising for Water Works and other RiverFirst projects, estimates the first or “Mezzanine” phase will come with a price tag of $19.6 million, a nearly $3-million increase from previous estimates. So far, the nonprofit has raised $12.3 million in committed donations and gifts from groups like General Mills, its board members and private donors. Other funds will come from the Park Board and additional fundraising. A second phase, which is estimated to cost $10.2 million, would focus on overhauling the riverfront and creating connections to the water. The new concepts show improvements to West River Parkway, a kayak launch and more greening, among other changes. It’s the goal of the board and foundation that Water Works build on the growing popularity of downtown’s riverfront area. As part of the Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park, the area is one of the most-visited places in the state’s regional park system with more than 2.5 million annual visitors, a number

that has ramped up in recent years. “We hope it continues to grow,” Evers said. Crews will begin to deconstruct the Fuji-Ya building later this year, perhaps as early as this summer. Construction on Water Works is slated to begin early next year. The board expects to open the first phase in 2019. A survey on the updated concepts is available through Sunday, May 21 at minneapolisparks.org. The Park Board is expected to vote on the updated plans this spring. Water Works is among several projects that the Park Board is planning to transform parkland on both ends of the Mississippi River into new destinations. It is already vying for approvals to restore Hall’s Island in Northeast Minneapolis. That project calls for developing the former Scherer Bros. Lumber site near the Plymouth Avenue Bridge into an 8-acre park with a rebuilt island for wildlife habitats and a visitor pier. Along the upper riverfront, the board and foundation are planning the Great Northern Greenway, what the two call a critical trail link and pier at the end of 26th Avenue in North Minneapolis.

The Park Board would get its first year-round restaurant under a new proposal for Water Works.

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Minneapolis residents join climate march in D.C. By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com State Rep. Frank Hornstein was among a group of Minneapolis residents who joined about 250 other Minnesotans in traveling to Washington, D.C, for the April 29 People’s Climate March to urge action on protecting the environment. Attended by what organizers estimate were 300,000 people, the march coincided with President Trump’s 100th day in office. The five busloads of marchers from Minnesota included Hornstein and his Southwest Minneapolis neighbors Ann Manning and Patty O’Keefe. The march took place in 91-degree heat on a day of record-breaking high temperatures in the Washington, D.C., area. “It was almost too hot to march at the global warming march,” joked O’Keefe. Hornstein described as “very concerning” the direction of environmental policy under President Trump and his pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who has questioned the settled science of global warming caused by human activity. An executive order Trump signed in March ordered Pruitt to undo much of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which targeted the greenhouse gas emissions produced by power plants, and the president has publicly toyed with pulling out of the

Paris Agreement, a global plan to limit human-caused climate change. “It’s alarming because we’re currently in a climate crisis,” said O’Keefe, an organizer with environmental nonprofit MN350, noting that in April the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere registered at 410 parts per million for the first time in human history. Created mostly by burning fossil fuels, atmospheric carbon dioxide is associated with a warming climate. “It’s already impacting people’s lives viscerally,” O’Keefe said, adding that as the planet warms we experience more extreme weather and rising sea levels. “... The time to act was yesterday.” “It just seems like we are on the brink of no return,” said Manning, who leads the Women’s Congress for Future Generations. All three, however, described the march as an inspiring event. Manning said local environmental activists are “on fire” and planning multiple actions each day. “What we really need now is collective action to show the muscles of the movement,” O’Keefe said.

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Preserving anything but tradition Beth Dooley and Mette Nielsen’s “Savory Sweet” takes a modern approach to preserving By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com When author Beth Dooley was working on her 2013 book, “Minnesota’s Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook,” she and photographer Mette Nielsen scoured local farmers markets for whatever was fresh and in season, hauling home piles of produce to concoct their recipes. Inevitably, there were leftovers — nothing new for Dooley, who admits to a habit of overbuying at the farmers market. “We were like, ‘We should do a preserving book, because we’ve got to figure out what to do with all this stuff,’” she recalled. The result, published this spring by University of Minnesota Press, is “Savory Sweet: Simple Preserves from a Northern Kitchen,” a preserving book that dispenses with tradition. This is not old-fashioned canning, the laborious process that filled farmhouse kitchens with steam and pantries with sustenance for a long winter. The book preaches a faster, simpler approach to preserves that takes advantage of modern conveniences and delights in unexpected flavor combinations. “Savory Sweet” is premised not on the old problem of scarcity but the new problem of overabundance. Instead of guiltily adding uneaten vegetables to the organics recycling bin, it suggests, turn them into delicious relishes, chutneys, mustards and marmalades that concentrate and enhance the flavors of our local produce. Dooley and Nielsen recently sat down to talk about the book at Nielsen’s house in Seward — or, rather, the new, two-story accessory dwelling unit in Nielsen’s backyard, which includes a sleekly designed modern kitchen on its first floor. The kitchen was filled with natural light from a bank of windows overlooking Nielsen’s backyard, an average-sized Minneapolis plot supporting a way above average number of vegetable beds, herb patches and fruitbearing bushes and trees, which were just coming into flower then, in mid-April. The rest of Nielsen’s gardens seemed preternaturally advanced for season. The leafy greens growing near the path to her front door looked almost ready for the salad bowl. Some of what she grows over the course of a summer ends up at nearby Birchwood Cafe, where she also tends a small kitchen garden of herbs, fruit and edible flowers. Nielsen’s incredible talent as a grower (she is a master gardener) was another inspiration for the book. This time, she crafted the recipes with Dooley in addition to taking photos. “You can only eat so much fresh, you can only give so much away, so you’ve got preserve it if you can find a simple way of doing it,” Nielsen said. She prepared a small spread of local cheeses, Red Table Meat Co. salami and toasted baguette slices to accompany an array of her homemade preserves. Among them was blood orange marmalade made from a recipe in the book; it included vanilla bean to smooth the spiky tartness of the

citrus and chili that punctuated the complex flavor with a late-arriving hint of spice. Her gardens wouldn’t deliver their full bounty for months. And yet, here on her table was a lovely, garnet-red coulis made from black currants, tasting as bright as summer itself. Nielsen, who grew up in Denmark and moved to Minneapolis in her 20s, comes up with some surprising and creative uses for vegetables that are pantry staples in those northern climes — like parsnips paired with grapefruit in a relish spiced with jalapeno, garlic, ginger, coriander and mustard seed. “The whole point of the book is to think about savory and about sweet at the same time when you’re making condiments,” Dooley said. “This is one of the hallmarks of Scandinavian or northern climate cooking. The food is so plain that, because we don’t have access to all these fresh herbs all year long or all these wonderful citruses and things like that, you put things up but make them super-intense, so they can swing both savory or sweet. “You can put it on your toast in the morning or you can have it with your chicken at night. You can take a really simple meal and you can really fire it up using these.” Nielsen prepares her preserves in small batches, not mass quantities. And they aren’t preserves in the traditional sense, or not exactly; they live in the refrigerator or freezer, not the pantry. “I was reading all these recipes and I wanted to cut way down on the sugar or add fresh herbs or do all these (other) things, and these were all the things the traditional books told us were not safe,” Nielsen said. “So, I’m like, this is the 21st century. We have refrigeration.” Relying on the refrigerator removes two of the major barriers to canning for beginners: the laborious process of boiling, sealing and sterilizing preserves and the worry that, if it isn’t done perfectly, botulism will spoil the work. “It seems silly, especially in the heat of August, to be standing over a hot stove stirring and making stuff bubble and having to spend all afternoon when you’d rather be out at the beach,” Dooley said. Their approach also cuts down on the equipment required for making preserves. Nielsen said her most important tool was a 10-inch stainless steel sauté pan — the kind found in most home cooks’ kitchens — which she used to prepare every recipe. “I always say, I have nothing against traditional canning books, I just don’t want to do it that way,” Nielsen said. “We’re trying to offer an alternative.”

Onion pomegranate marmalade

• Heat the olive oil in a 10-inch sauté pan, then add the onion slices and salt.

makes about 4 half-pints

• Cook, uncovered, over low heat until the onions are very soft and have collapsed to about half the volume, about 15 minutes.

Despite the name “marmalade,” with its implied sweetness, this classic British condiment is served with a variety of roasted meats and savory pies. Soaking the onions in water first mellows their sharpness (unless you’re using sweet onions, such as Vidalias). Find pomegranate molasses in Middle Eastern markets and the ethnic section of some grocery stores. 2 pounds onions, cut in to thin slices (about 8 cups) 3 tablespoons olive oil ½ teaspoon salt ½ cup packed light brown sugar ½ cup cider vinegar 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses 1 tablespoon finely grated fresh ginger 2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes • Place the sliced onions in a large bowl, and cover them with cold water and a few ice cubes. Let the onions sit for about 15 minutes, then drain and pat the onions dry between two large kitchen towels.

• Stir in the brown sugar. When it’s dissolved, add the vinegar, pomegranate molasses, ginger, and crushed red pepper flakes. • Simmer over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until most of the liquid has evaporated, about 30 minutes. • Taste, and adjust the seasoning. • Wash the jars, lids, and bands in very hot soapy water, rinse them well, and place them upside down on a clean towel to drain. • Spoon the marmalade into the jars, leaving a half inch of headroom to allow for expansion during freezing. • Wipe the rims with a clean wet cloth or paper towel, add the lids and bands, and finger tighten the bands. • Label the jars. Cool completely before tightening the bands and storing the jars in the refrigerator or freezer. SEE SAVORY SWEET / PAGE 19

journalmpls.com / May 18–31, 2017 19 FROM SAVORY SWEET / PAGE 18 macerate the fruit at room temperature for 8 to 24 hours.

• Bring the mixture to a boil over mediumhigh heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Allow the liquid to cool, then pour it into a large stainless or glass bowl.

• Place a small plate in freezer for the set test. • Split the vanilla bean lengthwise, and scrape the seeds into the oranges.

• Add the squash cubes, and mix until the squash is well coated.

• Add the vanilla bean and the crushed red pepper flakes to the pan.

• Cover the bowl, and let the squash macerate at room temperature for 8 hours, or overnight.

• Bring the marmalade to a gentle boil over medium-high heat, lower the heat, and cover the pan.

• Drain the liquid from the bowl into a 10-inch sauté pan.

• Simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes.

• Put the ginger, allspice, and peppercorns into a spice bag, or tie them in a square of cheese cloth, and put it in the pan. Over medium-high heat, bring the liquid a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

• Stir in the sugar and continue simmering, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until the mixture looks sticky and thick, about 45 minutes.

Blood orange marmalade with vanilla and chili makes 5 to 6 half-pints Every year, different varieties of blood oranges (from shades of pink to pure ruby red) come to market. All make a lovely marmalade. This one is vanilla-scented and packs a chili kick. It’s nearly impossible to get all of the seeds out of these oranges before you put them into the pan, but they will float to the surface as the marmalade simmers and can be easily skimmed off. 2 pounds organic blood oranges 4 cups water 1½ cups sugar 1 vanilla bean 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

• Remove the pan from the heat and discard the vanilla bean. Do a set test.* If the marmalade isn’t thick enough, return the pan to the heat for a few minutes, and then repeat the test. • Wash the jars, lids, and bands in very hot soapy water, rinse them well, and place them upside down on a clean towel to drain. • Spoon the marmalade into the jars, leaving a half inch of headroom to allow for expansion during freezing. • Wipe the rims with a clean wet cloth or paper towel, add the lids and bands, and finger tighten the bands. • Label the jars. Cool completely and tighten the bands before storing the jars in the refrigerator or freezer.

• Scrub the oranges well under running water, and remove the hard blossom ends and any blemishes on the skin. • Cut the fruit in half lengthwise, and then slice it crosswise into very thin half-moons. Remove and discard seeds as you go. • Put the orange slices in a 10-inch sauté pan with the water. Cover the pan, and

* Put a plate in the freezer before starting the recipe. For the set test, remove the frozen plate, place a dab of marmalade in the center and return it to the freezer for a couple minutes. Remove the plate and run your finger through the marmalade; if the mark stays, the marmalade is thick enough. Otherwise, keep cooking.

• Add the squash, cover, and simmer until the pieces start to turn translucent around the edges and are just softened but firm, about 30 minutes.

Sweet pickled winter squash makes about 4 half-pints This unusual pickle has a fine, firm texture and sweet, zesty flavor. 1 cup cider vinegar 1 cup water ½ cup lime juice 1 tablespoon finely grated lime zest 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes ½ cup sugar 1¼ pounds butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and medium-diced (4 cups) 1-inch piece ginger, peeled and thinly sliced 1 teaspoon whole allspice 1 teaspoon black peppercorns • Combine the vinegar, water, lime juice, lime zest, crushed red pepperflakes, and sugar in a small saucepan.

• Remove and discard the spice bag. • Wash the jars, lids, and bands in very hot soapy water, rinse them well, and place them upside down on a clean towel to drain. • Spoon the squash and syrup into the jars, leaving a half inch of headroom to allow for expansion during freezing. • Cover each jar with a square of wax paper slightly larger than the jar opening, fold in the corners with a clean spoon, and gently push down so some of the syrup comes up over the wax paper. • Wipe the rims with a clean wet cloth or paper towel, add the lids and bands, and finger tighten the bands. • Label the jars. Cool completely before tightening the bands and storing the jars in the refrigerator or freezer.

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Mill City Cooks / By Jenny Heck

EATING OUR CURDS IN MAY

resh cheese curds are one of the best parts about grocery shopping at farmers markets. The fresh and squeaky bite-sized morsels are products of heating fresh milk and adding rennet (enzymes) that clot the milk. The milk continues to clot as it is cooked, and then it is pressed to produce solid curds and liquid whey. At the Mill City Farmers Market, you can find cheese curds from several vendors, including traditional curds, herbed curds and even goat’s milk curds. Read more about the farms offering cheese curds at the market below: • Cosmic Wheel Creamery is a “micro-dairy” part of Turnip Rock Farm in Clear Lake, Wis. Owners Josh Bryceson and Rama Hoffpauir make aged and fresh cheese from ten grass-fed Jersey cows. They focus on raw-milk aged cheeses made in small batches with a natural rind. “People really taste the difference that the healthy diet of the cows and the careful handling of the milk makes. We are so proud of our cheese. We love going to farmers markets to see the look of surprise and delight that often comes over peoples’ faces when they taste the cheese!” said Rama Hoffpauir.

• New to the Mill City Farmers Market in 2017, Kappers’ Big Red Barn is familyrun dairy in Chatfield. Bob and Jeanette Kappers, along with their three sons, milk 30 cows and sell cheese curds, heavy cream and whole, skim and chocolate milk at markets and also directly from their farm. • Singing Hills Goat Dairy is a 25-acre farm in Nerstrand. Owner Lynne Reeck milks 25–30 does of mixed Saanen, Nubian and Alpine goats. With this milk, she makes fresh goat cheeses including feta, chevre and curds, offering a variety of seasonal flavors and even whey-fed pork products. Find all of these fresh cheese curds, eggs and all the other seasonal ingredients you need to make scrambled egg and cheese curd bruschetta 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday at the Mill City Farmers Market. Plus, enjoy a free Mill City Cooks cooking demo with professional chefs and seasonal ingredients at 10:30 a.m. in the market’s Train Shed patio. More information is at millcityfarmersmarket.org.

Scrambled egg & cheese curd bruschetta with chives & grilled vegetables By market chef Heather Hartman Ingredients 1 Tablespoon butter 9 eggs fresh chives sea salt, to taste black pepper, to taste 1 bag of fresh cheese curds from Singing Hills Goat Dairy or Kappers Big Red Barn (I love the dill-flavored ones from Singing Hills) 1 baguette from Salty Tart or Heritage Breads (maybe 2, be prepared) 1 lb spring vegetables (asparagus, fiddle heads, green onions, ramps, etc.), grilled and cut into small pieces

Directions In a medium sized bowl, break eggs and whisk with a fork or an actual whisk. The fork is what I reach for, as it’s easier to clean. Heat a nonstick pan or well-seasoned cast iron pan on medium heat. Add the butter, and let it melt around the pan. Add eggs, cover and turn pan down to low for 1 minute. Uncover and add chives, salt and black pepper. Stir gently with a spatula. I like mine soft, others like them firm. Add the cheese curds and cover. Cook for 1 more minute. Do not overcook. Cut the bread in half the long way and grill, cut side down. Cut the halves into slices and rub with garlic if you like. Spoon the egg and cheese mixture on top of the bread and add grilled vegetables.

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During World War II, the family of Pulitzer Prizewinning photographer Paul Kitagaki, Jr., was incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp. He later discovered that one of his favorite photographers, Dorothea Lange, had taken photos of his family in 1942 while they awaited a relocation bus in Oakland, California. This eventually led him to the National Archives, where he found photographs of his family and others interred in the camps taken by Lange and photojournalist Tom Parker. In “‘Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit’: Japanese American WWII Incarceration, Then & Now,” he has juxtaposed these historic photographs with contemporary portraits he took of the same individuals or their descendants. Also on display will be “Patriot Nations: Native Americans in Our Nation’s Armed Forces,” an exhibit that illustrates the history of the Native American and Alaska Native men and women who have served in the United States military (May 27–Aug. 12).

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Mixtape The cultural significance of hip-hop is at the center of “Mixtape,” a collaboration of seven Twin Cities dance artists with diﬀerent perspectives on the genre. Together, the group explores the question of “What is hip hop?” They challenge commercial “hip hop” culture while reclaiming the movement and exploring its history. The lineup includes veteran hip-hop dancer J-Sun, who approaches dance with a critical lens; Al Taw’am, a pair of 18-year-old identical-twin Muslim sisters dancers who are the youngest winners of a Minnesota Sage Award for dance; and Magnolia Yang Sao Yia, a Hmong artist-activist who blends social justice and dance. When: 7:30 p.m. May 19 and 20, 2 p.m. May 21 Where: The Cowles Center, 528 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $20–$25 Info: 206-3600 or thecowlescenter.org

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As screens continue their dominance of popular culture, art institutions are evolving to become part of the digital age. The always-innovative Walker Art Center is responding by presenting interactive, multi-sensory exhibitions, such as “Graﬃti Nature — Still Mountains and Movable Lakes” by the Tokyo-based international art collective teamLab. Taking inspiration from traditional ukiyo-e painting, manga and anime, the group looks for new ways to explore themes of perspective and space through technology. “Graﬃti Nature” layers images, sound and movement to create a virtual ecosystem of exaggerated wildlife and plants that encourages viewers to create and scan their own drawings, removing the boundaries between people and the environment.

North Loop’s Form + Content Gallery presents an eclectic assortment of work by some of Minnesota’s most acclaimed contemporary female artists. Known for her vivid, largeformat images of engineered landscapes such as public parks, orchards and topiary gardens, photographer Lynn Geesaman’s work emphasizes composition and geometry. Shana Kaplow’s paintings of everyday, common objects touch on themes of mass production and the connections between cultures, labor and domestic life, while Barbara Kreft utilizes repetition to create intricate patterns and multiple layers of paint to create depth in her abstract paintings. Jantje Visscher’s abstract photographs examine patterns of natural objects, such as water, shells and fish skin, and painter Valerie Jenkins uses abstract shapes and lines to explore how interpretation is shaped by perception.

When: May 20–Sept. 10 Where: Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave. Cost: Free with museum admission ($14 adults, discounts available) Info: walkerart.org/calendar/2017/teamlab-graﬃti-nature

Midwest Comic Book Association’s MSP ComiCon 2017 With its big-name celebrities and high-priced meet-and-greets, Wizard World’s Comic Con is the summer blockbuster movie of the comic convention world. The homegrown MSP ComicCon is a more creator-focused convention, with appearances from more than 250 DC and Marvel comic book artists and a 100,000-square-foot marketplace with hundreds of dealers from all over the country. Founded by the Midwest Comic Book Association in 1988, the volunteer-run event also oﬀers panels, charity art auctions, game demos and kids’ activities. When: 10 a.m.–6 p.m. May 20, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. May 21 Where: Minnesota State Fairgrounds, 1265 N. Snelling Ave., St. Paul Cost: $14 Info: mcbacomicons.com

When: May 25–July 1; opening reception is 6 p.m.–8 p.m. May 27 Where: Form + Content Gallery, 210 2nd St. N Cost: Free Info: formandcontent.org

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Grab your sunscreen — music festival season has oﬃcially begun. Over the next two weekends, the Twin Cities hosts a slew of block parties and festivals packed with live music spanning punk rock to hip-hop.

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What started as an open artist studio tour in Northeast Minneapolis has expanded into a full-blown, neighborhood-wide block party. No fewer than a dozen venues are hosting live music lineups during Art-A-Whirl weekend. Highlights include Bauhaus Brew Labs’ Liquid Zoo, which features performances by R&B darling Caroline Smith, hip-hop band Heiruspecs and indie band Communist Daughter, and Indeed Brewing’s Whirlygig, headlined by piano man Mark Mallman and punk duo Birthday Suits.

South Minneapolis bowling alley bar Memory Lanes hosts its annual Memory Lanes Block Party over Memorial Day weekend, with two full days of live music from nearly two dozen acts in its parking lot. Chicagobased indie-soul band JC Brooks and R&B songstress Sarah White are featured in Saturday’s lineup, while influential local punk band Dillinger Four headlines Sunday’s bill with Afro-funk throwback act Black Market Brass and Cuban band Malamanya. After 10 p.m., the party heads indoors with hip-hop DJs Shannon Blowtorch, Sophia Eris and DJ Keezy on Saturday and old-school soul DJs Lady Heat on Sunday.

Now in its 10th year, the annual Soundset Festival has become a national draw. The brainchild of Minneapolis-based hip-hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment, Soundset’s 2017 lineup features more than 40 acts, including Lauryn Hill, Mac Miller, Pusha T, T.I., Travi$ Scott, Gucci Mane, Talib Kweli and Rhymesayers’ own Atmosphere, Brother Ali and Sa-Roc, as well as past label artist and Doomtree member P.O.S., up-and-coming Minneapolis neo-soul band Zuluzuluu and the first reunion show of cult hip-hop act Dr. Octagon of California.

When: May 19–21 Where: Bauhaus Brew Labs, 1315 Tyler St. NE, and Indeed Brewing Company, 711 15th Ave. NE Cost: Free Info: bauhausbrewlabs.com, indeedbrewing.com

When: 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m. May 28 Where: Minnesota State Fairgrounds, 1265 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul Cost: $88–$98 GA (VIP sold out) Info: soundsetfestival.com and Fifth Element, 2411 Hennepin Ave. S., 377-0044

When: 3 p.m.–2 a.m. May 27–29 Where: Memory Lanes, 2520 26th Ave. S. Cost: $5 per day, free after 10 p.m. Info: memorylanesblockparty.com

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The North Loop has a new hotspot in Kado no Mise, an upscale nigiri-forward sushi restaurant that has taken over Origami’s space and its owner, chef Shigeyuki Furukawa. While there’s another restaurant planned for the building’s second floor — side note: this is one of the cutest buildings in all downtown Minneapolis — there’s plenty to enjoy at Kado no Mise. Walk inside and the concept is light airy, as if Origami was transported into an Ikea commercial thanks to its minimal and modern wooden décor. Take the sushi counter on your left and you’ll get a front-row seat to the action and be able to chat with knifewielding sushi chefs about what nigiri to order. On the cheaper side ($5.5), the salmon is extremely flavorful at Kado no Mise and very approachable if sushi isn’t exactly your thing, but I wouldn’t leave without trying the Bluefin tuna ($7 for lean, $10 for fatty). I always like to finish with tamago, a sweet egg omelet ($4.5).

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On the right, you’ll have the bar, which offers a menu put together by Northeast Minneapolis-based Tattersall Distilling. My bartender said the distillery gives them plenty to work with, and many of its liqueurs and spirits make it on to the menu. There’s the Mukashinagarno ($13), which combines Tattersall’s sour cherry liqueur with bourbon, bitters and honey tamari, which gives the cocktail a satisfying edge. I’ve recently been experimenting with eggs whites in my home bar, and the Tokyo Drift ($14) is a drink worth recreating. It shows off two Tattersall creations, a pommeau — a collaboration with Social Cider Werks — and an aromatic crème de fleur, and combines them with vodka, an egg white and lemon juice. Kado no Mise also has an impressive and — fortunate for us non-sake experts — descriptive menu. Thanks to many, many sushi trips over the years, I’ve at least developed a taste for the rice wine and opted for the Dewazakura Ginjo Oka “Cherry Bouquet” ($11). The spirit from the Yamagata region of Japan is perfect for our newfound warm weather with floral notes and refreshing flavor when served cold. Of course, there’s traditional seating as well. For a quick bite, the restaurant’s firefly squid ($12), served atop greens and sweet mustard miso, are unique and oddly adorable. For downtowners, Kado no Mise isn’t just a dinner spot and serves a comparatively affordable lunch menu. The restaurant converts to a fast-casual concept during the day, serving hand ball sushi that can make for fancy takeout. There’s no need to call ahead of time or order online either.

The Mukashinagarno, a cocktail that fuses American bourbon with Japanese tamari, is one of many drinks crafted by Tattersall Distilling for the North Loop’s Kado no Mise. Photo by Eric Best

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Bright and Early Eyes The Minneapolis-based band Early Eyes has released just a few songs this year, but is already garnering attention for their pop-influenced alternative rock.

Early Eyes is comprised of Jake Berglove (guitar, vocals), Wyatt Fuller (drummer), Desmond Lawrence (bass) and Henry Patterson (guitar), a collection of college students who between finals are readying their debut release, an EP dubbed “Minutes.” “Minutes” has Early Eyes feeling out its edges with sounds and genres. The band recently released a music video for “Take You,” a swift, airy love song with gritty vocals, beachy guitars and a quick drum beat. “Waste of Time,” the first single oﬀ “Minutes,” has the band taking a slower, more soulful approach with a thumping bass line and Berglove’s charismatic vocals. Early Eyes will debut the rest of the EP with a release show at First Avenue’s 7th Street Entry on Thursday, May 25. The 18-plus show will see performances from special guests Sass and The Happy Children.

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WORLDS OF COMEDY

This Spring, Dalia Rosenfeld is launching her book, “The Worlds We Think We Know,” a collection of original short stories published by downtown Minneapolis’ own Milkweed Editions. Rosenfeld’s debut book takes readers into far-oﬀ places, from New York to Tel Aviv and Eastern Europe, and grounds its stories in passionate characters with a comedic eﬀect. The author will give a talk and book signing at Open Book on May 22 at 7 p.m. with writer Julie Schumacher leading the conversation on humor in storytelling, writing the anti-hero and social criticism in fiction. Schumacher should know what it takes to be funny. The University of Minnesota professor won the Thurber Prize for American Humor not that long ago, and she’s the first woman to receive the award that has gone to Jon Stewart, David Sedaris and others.

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