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THE NEWS SOURCE FOR DOWNTOWN & NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS MAY 31–JUNE 13, 2018

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STONE ARCH BRIDGE AWAITS GOVERNOR’S ACTION Mark Dayton could kill inspection funds with veto, inaction

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The Stone Arch Bridge needs nearly $13 million in repairs to address issues such as the cracking of stone masonry and mortar. The Minnesota Department of Transportation may need to close the bridge if it does not receive initial funding to at least inspect it.

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ov. Mark Dayton is weighing whether or not to sign a $1.5 billion capital projects bill that includes funding to inspect and begin planning repairs to the crumbling Stone Arch Bridge. The DFL governor had not taken action on the bill as of May 29, nine days after the state Legislature passed it. He has until June 3 to either sign or veto the bill; otherwise, it does not become law. The bill includes $1 million in funding for inspecting the bridge and designing and planning for repairs to the 135-year-old span, which the Minnesota Department of Transportation owns. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board maintains the bridge deck, which includes a pedestrian trail and a bike trail.

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Neighborhood Sp tlight East Bank

Old Town: A new name for Nicollet Island-East Bank One local would give the neighborhood an historic brand

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com Some people call it Downtown Northeast. Others call it Old St. Anthony, or East Hennepin, or simply the area around Surdyk’s, or a laundry list of other names. How does Old Town sound? Scott Parkin would like to know. “If you ask people what they call the neighborhood, you’ll get 15–20 different names,” he said. Parkin has thought about what to call the Nicollet Island-East Bank area for years. He’s an owner and realtor with Verve Realty, which has a storefront oﬃce on 4th Street in the neighborhood. Parkin, formerly a longtime neighborhood resident, has served on the neighborhood group’s board and is a past

president of the Northeast Minneapolis Business Association. He hosts a historic walking tour in the summer. He may be its No. 1 fan. “I know the neighborhood and I know the history of the neighborhood,” he said, sitting at Whitey’s Saloon at 4th & Hennepin. “It feels good over here. I think this is a worldclass neighborhood and it deserves a brand. It should have a name.” If you ask the City of Minneapolis, the “limbo land,” as Parkin calls it, between Northeast and downtown Minneapolis is called the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood, which Parkin argues is less of a brand and more of a long-winded description. SEE EAST BANK SPOTLIGHT / PAGE 7

Landmarks of Nicollet Island-East Bank include Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, built in the mid1850s before Minneapolis was incorporated as a city. Photo by Eric Best

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Voices

Moments in Minneapolis By Cedar Imboden Phillips

A LANDMARK IN THE MAKING

t’s construction season, and the roads and skies of Minneapolis are filled with construction vehicles and cranes. The Minneapolis skyline offers constantly changing views. One longtime constant, however, has been the elegant Foshay Tower. Yet this iconic Minneapolis landmark hasn’t even yet hit centennial mark. Here, construction on the tower is shown in September 1928. But while the Foshay Tower itself is instantly recognizable even without its exterior completed, the skyline surrounding it has changed drastically. When completed in 1929 the 447-foot tall Foshay Tower was the tallest building in the city. It remained so until the IDS Tower was built in 1972.

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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County tapped again as SWLRT budget swells By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com As the Southwest Light Rail Transit budget continues to grow, more of the responsibility for funding the state’s largest ever transportation project will be borne by Hennepin County taxpayers. In a vote scheduled just after this edition went to press, Met Council was expected May 30 to oﬃcially increase the project’s budget 7.8 percent, to just more than $2 billion from about $1.86 billion. The following day, the Hennepin County Board and Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority were scheduled to convene in special meetings to consider a $204 million increase in their combined contributions to the project. The new county funds exceed the increase in overall project costs because some project components, including an in-kind land transfer from the county to Met Council, are accounted for differently in the revised budget. It’s not just Hennepin County taxpayers stepping up to the plate this time. While property tax revenues fund the railroad authority’s budget, the county pays for transit project with revenues generated by a half-cent sales tax — a tax paid by many non-county residents, Commissioner Peter McLaughlin pointed out. “We’ve got adequate resources,” he said. In exchange for its support of the Met Council plan, Hennepin County is proposing to take tighter control of the project’s contingency fund. It would add an executive control board to review change

orders exceeding $350,000, and it would place half of the contingency fund into a reserve controlled by the board. Transferring funds from the reserve account would require approval from a simple majority of board members. The county would also seek a more active role for its staff. Together, the county and railroad authority will soon control a slice of the budget pie worth at least $780.5 million — a nearly 40 percent stake in the project, second only to the contribution expected from the Federal Transit Agency. That total doesn’t include $11 million from various county funds earmarked for projectrelated trail improvements or the tax revenue Hennepin County funneled to the Counties Transit Improvement Board, another local partner on the project. And as the county’s contribution is growing, the federal share of the project budget is shrinking. For years, Met Council maintained FTA funds would cover half the cost of the project. But that contribution was capped at $928.8 million in December 2016, when Met Council applied to advance the SWLRT project into the engineering phase. The state is in for just $30.3 million, and CTIB voted to dissolve last year, leaving the Hennepin County as the only obvious source of new dollars for the project to tap. And while they have recently made painful cuts — eliminating a planned light rail maintenance facility in Hopkins

and replacing it with a very basic vehicle storage area — project leaders acknowledge the budget could continue to grow. Delays figure significantly into rising costs. The project faces two lawsuits and awaits a federal board’s ruling on a critical property transfer, all of which threaten to slow progress. The new budget counts on FTA approval of a smaller contingency

fund — not yet granted — and the ﬂuctuating price of copper figures to be a significant factor in the size of a contract for light rail control and communications systems that has yet to be awarded. If construction begins this fall, the 14.5mile extension of the Metro Green Line to Eden Prairie would begin revenue operations in 2023.

The Southwest Light Rail Transit project would extend the Metro Green Line 14.5 miles to Eden Prairie. File photo

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The roughly hour-long trips cost $60, or $10 per passenger at full capacity. Smaller groups can ride together. The experience is up for the passengers to decide. Guests can bring any food or drinks, including alcohol, onto the boat. Parkos said they’ve had families, groups celebrating bachelorette parties and even a couple that wanted a romantic evening. They took the cruise and had a horse and carriage meet them at the park and bring them to a restaurant. This year the Minneapolis Water Taxi will operate until the late evening, which means passengers can book rides during events like the Fourth of July and the Aquatennial. Parkos said the Twin Cities River Rats water ski shows will be a big occasion for the taxi this summer. “The city is pretty in itself, but at nighttime when it lights up, it’s really something. It’s a different perspective being on the water and seeing the city from being on land,” he said. The cruise is a little wilder than the average taxi. On a recent outing, Parkos spotted a wood duck, a Cormorant, beaver lodges and a great blue heron. Occasionally he said he’ll see foxes, woodchucks and even loons and eagles. The water is seldom choppy, Parkos said, but occasionally waves reach a foot high on windy days. “For the most part, it’s pretty calm,” he said. Parkos can serve as a tour guide for interested passengers. The Northeast resident is quick to rattle off landmarks like the war memorial at Sheridan Memorial Park, the newly created back channel at Hall’s Island and 19th century man-made logging islands between the Lowry and Broadway bridges. Parkos, who said he’s worked as a cake baker, letter carrier and sound engineer over the years, is glad the taxi will be his full-time job over the summer. “I’ve always loved the water and the river,” he said. Minneapolis Water Taxi rides can be reserved via email or over the phone. More information is available at mplswatertaxi.com.

You won’t find the city’s newest taxi service on an app or even on land. Try looking on the Mississippi River. The Minneapolis Water Taxi, a single six-person boat that exclusively operates in Northeast Minneapolis, is the taxi service for those who want the scenic route, if they want to get anywhere at all. It’s the first oﬃcial year the solar-powered vessel will take landlubbers from Boom Island Park around the north end of the river or the dock at the Sample Room bar and restaurant. At the helm are captains Cory Parkos and Greg Hoseth, two friends who are passionate about the Mississippi and sharing its beauty. “Basically, it’s a way to get people out on the river, which in Minneapolis is very underutilized,” Parkos said steering the taxi, a Duffy electric boat, through the back channel around Nicollet Island. The section of the river north of the St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam has been largely unused since the upper lock closed in 2015. Parkos said there are few opportunities other than Mississippi River Paddle Share program to explore the river where industrial barges and contaminated runoff once kept people out of the water. “One of the things I try to teach people is stewardship. When I’m out here I try to pick up a piece of garbage out of the river and keep the river clean. It’s come a long way in the past 30, 40 years when there was a lot more industry and pollution,” he said. This is where the taxi comes in. Despite its name, the Minneapolis Water Taxi is more of a cruise service where Parkos or Hoseth take up to six people around the river, from the falls on the south end — don’t worry, Parkos said, they don’t get too close — to the well-known great blue heron rookery and the Lowry Avenue Bridge on the north end. Riders typically schedule a one-hour cruise that begins at the docks at Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley St. NE, and can either come back to the park or end at the Sample Room upstream. Parkos said they’re working to get stops added to the route. “Eventually we want to get more docks and the idea is that one person can jump on and off in the future,” he said.

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Peavey Plaza is now closed as it goes through a $10 million renovation to turn the public plaza on Nicollet Mall into a functioning destination for daily work lunches and future events. The well-worn plaza and its defunct fountains have waited for repairs for years as the City of Minneapolis and partners searched for the necessary money. The wait is over as the 1970s-era landmark gets improvements like new, more accessible entrances and a new reﬂection pool. Ward 7 Council Member Lisa Goodman said the “facelift” is overdue. “Like all 45-year-old women, sometimes you just need a facelift,” she joked, “and that’s what’s happening to our beautiful midcentury modern plaza.” The project’s budget is about $10 million, including $4 million from the City of Minneapolis and $2 million in state funds. David Wilson, chair of Green Minneapolis, said the non-profit conservancy and the Minneapolis Downtown Council raised approximately $4 million in donations from private companies like Target and U.S. Bank. Wilson said the organization, which operates and maintains the Commons park near U.S. Bank Stadium, plans to have a similar relationship with Peavey Plaza. “Green Minneapolis’ vision is to make our downtown more welcoming, more diverse with wonderful public places, and Peavey Plaza is going to be one of those places,” he said. Shane Coen, founder of landscape architecture firm Coen + Partners, said the project will make the plaza more accessible, ﬂexible

“Yes, there will be construction. Yes, there will be a bit of noise. Yes, it’ll be a little bit dirty at times. But once it’s complete, this plaza will be extraordinary,” said Mayor Jacob Frey at a May kickoff ceremony at Peavey Plaza. Photo by Eric Best

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The city has shut down Uptown Locavore, a private buying club allegedly operating as an unlicensed “indoor farmers market,” selling unpasteurized raw milk and other goods in the CARAG neighborhood. Shortly after the buying club relocated to 3137 Hennepin Ave., inspectors arrived on May 3 and placed all of the food under embargo to prohibit its sale. Although the club has operated since 2008, according to its website, city staff said they recently pursued an anonymous complaint shared by the Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture. At issue is the sale of raw milk, said Dan Huff, the city’s environmental health director. He said Uptown Locavore’s website indicates that it carries milk from Hartmann’s Dairy, or M.O.M.’s, a farm that the Minnesota Department of Health ﬂagged as causing E. coli cases in 2010. An attorney with the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund contests whether the state proved illnesses were linked to the farm. The Agriculture Department says it is legal for customers to buy raw milk directly from farmers at the farm where the milk was produced. Uptown Locavore’s website says members can pay a $50 annual membership or apply for a volunteer membership.

During the unannounced inspection May 3, health inspectors documented foods like sourdough bread, pizza dough, organic coffee, fresh unprocessed milk, raw milk Monterey Jack cheese, Mangalitza pork and Alaskan sockeye salmon. Uptown Locavore proprietor Will Winter said in a message to friends that the buying club isn’t technically a public store, and called to put pressure on city oﬃcials for the “unfair vendetta.” “So, for right now, The Uptown Locavore is totally closed down, the food cannot be touched by me or anyone, and the farmers are not able to bring the additional milk, eggs, meat and other items we have already ordered,” Winter writes. “This is hurting not only me but over 20 sustainable farms. We are in pain, now, and for no legal reason whatsoever. Justice is not being served!” Huff said there are plenty of ways to buy direct from farmers in Minneapolis, and the city employs a full-time staff person to support locally grown food. “We have 29 farmers markets in Minneapolis, more than any community in the state,” he said. Huff said the dairy has likely gone bad and needs to be condemned, but he hopes to return the meat and fish to the producers.

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A city ‘poised’ to overcome obstacles Delivering his first State of the City address, Mayor Jacob Frey on May 24 announced a new partnership with Minneapolis Public Schools that aims to provide direct support to district families experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Frey announced the three-year pilot, dubbed the Minneapolis Stable Homes, Stable Schools Initiative, near the beginning of a wide-ranging speech that touched on planning for the city’s growth, efforts to improve police-community relations and the business climate, reconnecting North Minneapolis to the riverfront, combating the opioid epidemic and the city’s goals to counteract climate change. At the end of the 45-minute speech in front of an audience of several hundred gathered at the Lundstrum Center for Performing Arts, Frey declared the state of the city as “poised” to take significant steps forward. He was also clear about the obstacles to progress, including a shrinking stock of affordable housing and rising rents. “It is diﬃcult to overstate the severity of our housing crisis and the need to address it,” he said. Frey spent more time on his proposed solutions to the housing crisis than any other topic, reiterating his intention to add $50 million to the city’s funds for affordable housing, a goal he has acknowledged will be diﬃcult to reach. Other components of his affordable housing plan include efforts to preserve existing affordable units and creating more “deeply affordable” housing targeted to people earning 30 percent or less of area median income. He has also pitched a plan to create more first-generation homeowners.

He also announced a plan to place placards in every Minneapolis police vehicle explaining, in both English and Spanish, the rights of people who encounter Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Frey, who also noted the city is fighting a Trump administration effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census, raising concerns the city’s immigrant population will be undercounted, said, “We will not let the lack of compassion demonstrated at the highest levels of our government prevent us from doing right by our immigrant community.“ Near the end of the speech, as Frey turned his focus to the city’s infrastructure and economy, he highlighted paths to broader inclusion in prosperity and city amenities. He emphasized his support for Village Trust Financial Cooperative, currently in development as the state’s only black-owned financial institution. “This is huge,” Frey said. “Why? Because whether it’s mortgage underwriting, lending criteria or access to capital in general, black people have traditionally gotten the short end of the stick. How do we change that? Move out of the way and support black bankers in making the banking decisions.” Frey also described the city’s vision for a new riverfront park in North Minneapolis. The planned redevelopment of the Upper Harbor Terminal “is our No. 1 capital improvement priority,” he said, predicting the transformation of the 48-acre site on the Mississippi River would not just create a new amenity but also drive economic development in nearby neighborhoods.

Officers won’t march in uniform in Pride Minneapolis Police Officers won’t be allowed to march in the annual Pride parade while wearing their uniforms, Chief Medaria Arradondo announced May 22 in a letter posted to the department’s Facebook page. The department is providing rainbow T-shirts with a badge design to those officers who wish to march in the June 24 parade in plain clothes. Arradondo said his decision was made in response to the “adamant opposition of law enforcement’s participation by some representatives of our local LGBTIQ communities.” “Representatives have conveyed to me that there is still a great deal of pain and harm that has occurred in their community, specifically our LGBTIQ communities of color, which has not been completely heard and addressed,” Arradondo wrote. Twin Cities Pride organizers last year decided to limit the presence of police at the event, which took place about a week after Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony police officer, was acquitted of all charges in the shooting death of Philando Castile during a July 2016 traffic stop. Organizers reversed course before the event, and the parade

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It was during that section of the speech he unveiled the plan to aid Minneapolis school district families. He said the initiative would seek to provide stable housing for up to 320 families and as many as 648 district K–8 students, funded with a $3 million annual investment from the city to leverage another $1 million in Minneapolis Public Housing Authority funds. Details released by his staff indicate housing vouchers will be made available to families with students in the 15 schools with the highest rates of homeless or highly mobile students. Frey pitched Minneapolis 2040 — the city’s next comprehensive plan, currently out for public comment — as another tool to combat housing inequities. A key component of the plan, and possibly its most controversial piece, is a proposal to open up much of the city to the development of fourplexes. “Right now, as much as two-thirds of our city is still zoned exclusively for single-family homes and restricted further for the wealthy by lot size,” he said. “In other words, unless you have the means to own — not just a home but a very large one on a very large lot — your chance of living in many neighborhoods is zero.” Frey frequently called out the accomplishments of individual City Council members, most of whom he served alongside during his single term as Ward 3 alderman. He praised Ward 13 Council Member Linea Palmisano’s efforts to back up the city’s stricter police body camera policies with audits that measure compliance, which he described as “invaluable.”

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was disrupted by protestors who slowed its progress down Hennepin Avenue. Darcie Baumann, chair of the Twin Cities Pride Board of Directors, said festival organizers heard from many people both for and against the participation of police. The decision to restrict oﬃcers from marching in uniform was Arradondo’s alone, Baumann said.

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“We respect his decision,” she said. Asked if a police contingent might march in the parade in the future, Baumann said, “That will be a decision that will be made by the oﬃcers of the various police departments.” “I hope so,” she added. “Twin Cities Pride is all about inclusion and all about living your authentic self.”

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The area, founded as the City of St. Anthony in the mid-1800s, is the birthplace of Minneapolis and was once part of its industrial core. It’s home to old things, from the city’s oldest continually used church, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, to the city’s oldest wood frame home, the Ard Godfrey House in Chute Square Park. It has some of the city’s oldest businesses, like the Terminal Bar, as well as multi-generational immigrant-owned businesses. It’s this history that Parkin feels should be captured in its name. “It feels old timey,” he said. “Every cool town embraces its history. That’s really what it comes down to.” That’s why Parkin feels Old Town should be the next brand to follow in the footsteps of successfully branded areas like the North Loop and the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. The name isn’t far off from well-established areas like Uptown and St. Paul’s Lowertown, as well was newly created names like East Town, a term recently developed by the East Town Business Partnership (formerly the DownAve 27thEast town Council) to rebrand the Elliot Park and Downtown East neighborhoods. It’s a name that is used in countless cities, from Chicago Lowry Ave to San Diego, so Parkin said it would be recognizable to tourists and out-of-towners. “A lot of great cities have an Old Town,” he said. “It universally signifies that there is a ‘there’ there, that there’s some to do there (and) that it’s a place to go.” 19th Ave But why the rebrand now? “Because17th people are now seeing MinneAve apolis as a travel and tourism destination. We want to compete and have friendly competition and hold our own with the other parts of Northeast,” he said. The brand, Parkin argues, would capture the spirit of the area, which besides a few

restaurant chains, is still dominated by independent business owners and historic buildings. Despite several recent large residential tower developments, Parkin said the neighborhood hasn’t been turned over to developers. “This is one of the coolest, mostHart conveLake nient neighborhoods in the city of Minneapolis, but it historically alludes big-time development and big-time developers,” he said. Parkin, whose company has sold hundreds of homes in the area and nearby downtown and Northeast neighborhoods, envisions Old Town merchandise, an Old Town music festival, an Old Town beauty pageant and a tortoise mascot, fitting for the neighborhood’s longevity. He’s started a Facebook page for the rebranding effort and has already purchased a domain for a website. The work now31stisAvegetting money together to support the effort and getting exposure. Parkin said winning over local business owners, neighborhood groups, residents and developers with all their competing interests will be his biggest hurdle to getting the area to embrace the Old Town moniker. “I’ve never had such a challenging project. I don’t think that there’s a logical outcome that’s going to come from getting everyone together to think about it. It’s not really going Lowry Ave to work that way,” he said. “There’s just so many different ways to look at it. It’s like a Jenga thing. The minute you try one thing it makes all the other things fall apart.” Do you have a better idea? Then Parkin would like to hear it. “If someone could come up with a better name, I would adopt it and advocate (for it), but the neighborhood needs a name,” he said. “I would like to finally make something happen and I think the business owners 35W would like to see something too.” To follow Parkin’s progress, follow facebook.com/oldtownmpls.

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A TRIP TO GREECE THROUGH FOOD Gardens of Salonica has served authentic Mediterranean cuisine for nearly three decades

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com Gardens of Salonica has stood the test of time in the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood. Founded in 1991, the restaurant, named for a Greek city more than 8,000 miles away, offers traditional Greek eats from the kitchen of Chef Anna Christoforides and her husband Lazaros. Christoforides describes the country’s food, one of the world’s oldest culinary traditions, as “foraging and scavenging cuisine.” “It’s fun to go back. It has a more varied and rich cuisine,” she said, talking over the phone before heading to an opera in Athens. Before it was a restaurant, Gardens of Salonica began in 1989 as a wholesale business specializing in Boughatsa, hand-rolled pastries made of phyllo dough that can be made savory or sweet. “It really started from the pastries,” she said. Christoforides and Lazaros lived in student housing on what was then Como Avenue and studied at the University of Minnesota. Her program was in Russian and Byzantine art history and her husband was studying sociology. “It had nothing to do with business, right? It had to do with philosophy and beauty. That’s the basis of our effort,” she said. After a couple years of selling at events like the Uptown Art Fair, the two bought their current building and started the restaurant, which was originally a café focused on the pastries, soup and takeout orders. Then,

when guests started sitting down to enjoy the food, Christoforides said it became more of a cafeteria and then the restaurant it is today. “By the time we opened we already had a following. They were literally banging on the doors,” she said. “We became a bit of an overnight sensation.” Gardens of Salonica is known for its lamb shank as well as its vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free menu items. Lazaros convinced her to add baklava to the menu, but Christoforides makes it her own way with different kinds of nuts, organic orange peel and local honey. Christoforides said they use local, natural and organic ingredients when available and the cooking is just how she cooks at home for her family. Diners won’t find special deals and coupons here. Christoforides said their food prices are already as low as they can go. “Whatever we do we try to do the very best we can, and make it a good price,” she said. The menu has shrunk over the years to focus on five classic entrees with regular specials, a strategy to keep the restaurant lean and sustainable. In the past few years Gardens of Salonica has started making its own gyro meat a couple of days a week, and Christoforides said she’d like to make it more regularly. Each month brings a new kind of meat, from traditional pork and lamb to the more

Greek restaurant Gardens of Salonica has operated out of a nearly 130-yearold building on 5th Street since 1991. Photo by Eric Best

unusual capon, turkey, duck and pheasant. “We’re trying to do new things with a real tried-and-true authenticity,” she said. Along with new items, new guests are also coming through the door. The Nicollet IslandEast Bank neighborhood has seen the development of several large apartment buildings, including several within a block or two of the restaurant. Before, Christoforides said she could look out into the dining room and recognize several repeat customers. Now there are new people to acquaint to authentic Greek food. “There are a lot more new faces. It’s another opportunity to reintroduce ourselves and bring more food out to people, and that’s

a good thing,” she said. “Right now, we’re just trying to stay alive.” Despite changes over the years, the restaurant has never lost touch with Greece. Christoforides said she tries to spend six weeks of the year in the country, hosting private tours as well as occasionally heading to Europe with college students. This year the restaurant will close for two weeks for these Greek excursions. Gardens of Salonica, at 19 5th St. NE, is open 11 a.m.–9 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It’s available for private events Sunday and Monday.

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MPS kicks off summer-reading campaign Minneapolis Public Schools kicked off its summer-reading campaign May 22 with an event at Hmong International Academy. Students at the pre-K-8 school in the Jordan neighborhood picked out books to take home and keep, courtesy of the nonprofit Start Reading Now. Minneapolis Superintendent Ed Graff noted multiple district and community efforts to keep students engaged over the summer, from book giveaways to celebrity readings. “It’s so important that we give students opportunities to read,” Graff said, encouraging the community to get behind the idea of reading. “It’s the bedrock of all learning,” he added. The event came 17 days before the start of summer vacation, during which students can lose learning and reading skills they develop during the school year. Research notes how the “summer slide” is especially pronounced among low-income students, many of whom don’t have access to many books at home. Start Reading Now co-founder and Southwest Minneapolis resident Kevin Terrell noted research from Florida that showed how providing students with books over the summer has a positive impact on their achievement in reading. He said such research compelled him and co-founder Pam Longfellow, also a Southwest resident, to start the program in 2014. Start Reading Now works in schools

where at least 50 percent of the students qualify for free and/or reduced lunch, providing students in grades 1-3 with 10 books apiece. The organization plans on providing over 5,000 MPS students with books this year. At the May 22 book fair, students picked out books dealing with everything from ninjas to zombies to kittens and puppies. Students “paid” for the books with a $50 Start Reading Now voucher. They also received “this book belongs to” stickers and a drawstring backpacking to carry their new books. “There’s no downside to kids having 10 books,” Terrell said. Start Reading Now has raised about $500,000 for its program, Terrell said, noting its low overhead costs. Atomic Data has provided the program with about $200,000, allowing it to function as a standalone nonprofit. The Lynne and Andrew Redleaf and Roger and Nancy McCabe foundations are also among those that have given the organization support, Terrell said. Jim Wolford, CEO and owner of Atomic Data, noted the access his own children have to books and said he wanted to make sure that other kids had access, too. Longfellow told a story of a third-grader at a recent book fair at Bancroft Elementary School who received books. The student picked out 10 books relating to sharks and told Longfellow that he wants to be a marine biologist when he grows up.

Students at Hmong International Academy get stickers to put on their new books during a book fair on May 22. Photo by Nate Gotlieb Graff said the idea of putting a book in every child’s hand is powerful. He said he hopes the district can give students opportunities to understand that power and provide kids with enriching experiences throughout the community. MPS has a list of events during which students can receive books for no cost.

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New law prohibits tobacco sales to those under 21 By Sonya Chechik The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted May 25 to raise the minimum purchasing age for all tobacco products to 21. Council members shared personal stories at the meeting that encouraged them to support the ordinance, known as Tobacco 21, and thanked the community advocators for their work to bring about change. Following its passage, a largely green T21 T-shirt-clad audience and council members celebrated with a standing ovation. “The best way to help someone quit smoking is to prevent them from starting in the first

place,” said Council Member Andrew Johnson (Ward 12), co-author of the ordinance. “By making it harder for teens to get their hands on tobacco products, fewer will start smoking.” According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 90 percent of youth start smoking by 18 and 95 percent start by 21. “This is a great next step for the city to take. It’s a really sound policy that is backed by a lot of science,” said Betsy Brock of the Association for Nonsmokers Minnesota. According to the Minnesota Youth Tobacco Survey, the youth smoking rate is on the rise

Supporters of the ordinance wore green T-shirts to the City Council meeting. Photo by Sonya Chechik

for the first time in years due to the growing presence of e-cigarettes and vapes. Supporters argue this policy will help protect youth from being disproportionately marketed to by tobacco companies. “We have an obligation to our residents to protect our youth from a predatory tobacco industry,” said co-author Council Member Jeremiah Ellison (Ward 5). Minneapolis has previously enacted other measures to restrict tobacco sales appealing to youth. Beginning in January 2016, the sale of ﬂavored tobacco products was restricted to specialty tobacco shops that only admit adults 21 and older. In 2016, Chicago raised its legal purchasing age to 21. The following year the city saw an immediate decline in the rate of cigarette and e-cigarette use among youth 18–20. Last May, Edina became the first city in Minnesota to raise the minimum purchasing age of tobacco products to 21. Since then, Bloomington, Falcon Heights, North Mankato, Plymouth, Shoreview and St. Louis Park have followed suit. “Seeing these other cities lead on this has really helped inspire this movement and give us additional energy to get this done,” Johnson said. So far, more than 300 cities and five states have raised the minimum tobacco purchasing age to 21. Lance Klatt, executive director of the Minnesota Service Station & Convenience

Store Association, said he worries about T21’s impact on local businesses. “An increase to 21 will only add to the carnage of what these small business owners may be facing,” he said. Meghan Shey, a representative from the Coalition of Neighborhood Retailers, said Minneapolis businesses are already struggling with the rising minimum wage, property taxes and other tobacco restrictions. “I’m not surprised, but certainly disappointed,” she said, following the passage of T21. A 2012 report from the U.S. Department Health and Human Services showed young people ages 18–20 account for only a fraction of the tobacco market but provide a majority of the tobacco to minors who smoke. Ellison said, “We know we want to support our businesses, but nothing can come at the expense of our youth and our community at large.” According to a report from the National Academy of Medicine using state-specific data, a statewide increase of the tobacco purchasing age of 21 similar to T21 would prevent 30,000 youth from starting to smoke within 15 years. Mayor Jacob Frey, council members and advocates are now looking at pushing the Minneapolis law to the state level. In a press conference following the meeting, Frey signed T21 into law saying, “let’s go save some lives.”

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We’re all fascinating, unique, sensate beings with our own history, beliefs and sense of meaning.

Yes it can get confusing. What’s important to remember is that being perceived as belonging or not belonging to a group can have dramatic effects on our wellbeing. We have long lived in a world in which we’re put into boxes — male or female, single or married, gay or straight. Dealing with ambiguity does not come naturally. We prefer the either/or versus the yes/and. Categorizing people comes from a place of fear going back to tribalism; if we label ourselves as distinct from that which is “other” we think we have a framework to understand and protect ourselves. No one should be reduced to labels by others. For example, I cringe a bit every time I have to select a diagnosis for a client because their insurance company demands it. Just as we should be careful with potentially stigmatizing diagnoses, we must be mindful of how people are defined based on the shade of their skin. It should be up to the individual person to decide whom they most identify with. Tiger, Barack and Meghan (excuse me, Her Royal Highness) should be allowed to choose the terminology that resonates and feels true to them. Terms such as mixed-race, multiracial and biracial may not feel quite right for everyone, but perhaps it can never be perfect when we’re talking about putting broad labels on something as unique as an individual’s perceived experience. We’re all fascinating, unique, sensate beings with our own history, beliefs and sense of meaning. Each individual should have the right to decide the terminology that agrees with them because no one deserves to be stereotyped. Of note: While Harry and Meghan’s wedding represents a change to the norm, let’s not forget the contradiction at play. On the one hand we have a bride who represents something groundbreaking for the royal family — she is a slightly older, divorced, biracial woman — but on the other hand this union is still within a tradition steeped in colonialism and patriarchy. Seems fitting to check the box labeled “it’s complicated.”

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Minneapolis has nation’s best park system six years running, study says It’s become a slogan for the city’s park leaders that Minneapolis has the country’s No. 1 park system. The title was once again aﬃrmed May 23 with the release of the Trust for Public Land’s latest ParkScore index, which Minneapolis has topped since it debuted on the list in 2013. The national nonprofit’s annual ranking of the country’s 100 largest cities is based on a park system’s park size, investments, amenities and access. Mayor Jacob Frey described Minneapolis, which continues to narrowly edge ahead of second-place St. Paul after the two cities tied in 2015, as a “great city in a park.” “From quality of life, to safe recreational space, to tourism — our parks are critical to who we are as a city. I’m thrilled that our park system continues to earn accolades. We have world class parks and the world is taking notice,” he said in a statement. Minneapolis scored 84.2 out of a possible 100 points, ahead of St. Paul (82.4), Washington, D.C. (81.9), Arlington, Virginia (81.6) and San Francisco (79.6). The city is on track to spend about $249 for each of its nearly 416,000

residents on parks, which earned it a perfect score in the investment category. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board recently began a 20-year plan to invest $800 million over the next two decades into better maintaining the city’s neighborhood parks. Investment across the country totaled $7.5 billion this year, up $429 million over last year’s index. “My motto is ‘playing for life’ and parks are a vital resource for youth, adults and families throughout the city. We are committed to serving the diverse needs of our residents, and we’re proud of the initiatives we’ve taken to continually assess and improve our park facilities and the services we provide the community,” said Superintendent Mary Merrill of the Park Board. Minneapolis scored high because nearly all residents, about 97 percent, live within a half-mile or about a 10-minute walk away from a park, according to the Trust for Public Land. San Francisco is the only city in the index to have 100 percent of its residents living within 10 minutes of park, a goal that more than 200 mayors across the country have adopted. About 70 percent of the country’s population

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‘Reckoning’ / ‘Fleeting Traces’ The word “reckoning” has several meanings — it can refer to retribution and punishment as well as a settling of debt. In the new solo show by Minneapolis multi-disciplinary artist Rebecca Krinke, who often creates temporary, participatory projects, the word evokes questions about what possessions we hold onto and the costs of holding onto them. Taking the shape of a large installation, “Reckoning” creates a domestic, psychological space of wonder and terror, comprising a bed surrounded by ominous, swirling black feathered curtains and stacks of black-bound notebooks visible on a burned wood floor. The show opens in conjunction with “Fleeting Traces,” an exhibit of new paintings, collages and a large installation of hand-cut paper insect silhouettes by Eleanor McGough, whose work explores the fleeting nature of life through imagined life forms. The exhibition captures the nostalgia of natural history dioramas and vanishing landscapes.

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‘Tart’ Considered one of the greatest stage comedies of all time, Molière’s “Tartuffe, ou l’Imposteur” tells the story of a religious hypocrite (Tartuffe) and the havoc he wreaks upon Orgon, a gullible nobleman and his family. For this new adaptation, Minneapolis director Adrian Lopez-Balbontin — the same man behind the highly stylized, well-received reboot of another Molière play, “The Misanthrope,” in 2015 — has reset the action from a stately home in 17th-century France to backstage at a present-day gay nightclub, where a cast of friends, lovers and drag performers unite to try to save Orgon from the hypocritical moral crusader, Tartuffe. Like the original version, “Tart” combines wit, satire, slapstick and psychological drama to illustrate the power and ultimate impotence of hypocrisy. When: Various dates from June 1–June 16, at 7 p.m. Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St. Cost: $14 advance, $18 door Info: bryantlakebowl.com

Kaleena Miller Dance: ‘I Love Her’ ‘Instagram and the Artist’s Studio’ Before social media, artists had to promote themselves and their art by sending out slides or CDs or by building their own website. But the rise of Instagram has drastically changed the experience of the way artists around the world promote their work — and how the public views art. Instagram also functions as a creative space for artists to curate and offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their process. Many artists also make work that only exists in a virtual online environment or specifically for their social media network. “Instagram and the Artist’s Studio” explores the ways ten different artists and artist collectives utilize Instagram through installation that offer an enlarged visual presence that challenges the perception of social media and its relationship to art.

Kaleena Miller Dance’s work is rooted in American tap dance, celebrating its legacy while expanding its creative possibilities. Though the Twin Citiesbased dance company was founded just a year ago, founder Kaleena Miller has been a fixture of the local tap scene for well over a decade as a solo tapper, co-founder of the Rhythmic Circus dance troupe and co-director of the Twin Cities Tap Festival. Although a relative newcomer to the local percussive dance scene, the company has already presented sophisticated, boundary-breaking works on local stages. This new tap dance work premieres at the Southern Theater with innovative choreo-graphy and staging by Miller and her dancers.

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NORTHERN SPARK FESTIVAL Northern Spark marks the summer solstice with more than 50 artists and 27 projects spanning three zones in Minneapolis. Founded in 2011 as an all-night arts fest, Northern Spark was modeled after Paris’ Nuit Blanche and St. Petersburg’s White Nights to encourage citizens to experience art activities, shows and installations at night. This year, the festival is switching its dusk-’til-dawn format for two nights and an earlier closing time of 2 a.m. Here are some highlights from this year’s event.

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‘COMMON URBAN EDIBLE PLANTS’ Combining food and plant life with new creative technology, Minneapolis artist Paige Dansinger will recreate native Minnesota common urban edible botanical plants in virtual reality with members of Best Buy Teen Tech Lab, projected on the ceiling of the Minneapolis Central Library’s atrium.

Where: The Commons (425 Portland Ave. S.), Minneapolis Central Library (300 Nicollet Mall) and Nicollet Mall between 4th and 8th streets

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This multi-functional pavilion at the Commons is an interactive sculptural installation that reimagines the home as an open structure, where walls disappear and the public is invited to engage. Featuring a stage, a colorful mural, a reflecting garden, a photo gallery and a sculpture built from repurposed suitcases, the piece celebrates the immigrant cultures around the world that call Minnesota home. On view June 15 through the summer.

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Try your hand at machine knitting with “Meme Weaver,” an Arduinocontrolled, peoplepowered weaving machine that explores humanmachine collaboration, textile manufacturing and consumerism by knitwear designer Danielle Everine and her engineer/product designer husband, David Heisserer, at the Commons.

Representing more than 200 years of immigration to Minnesota and the United States, Tiffany Carbonneau’s architectural video projection will illuminate the City Center façade along Nicollet Mall. Overlaying historic photographs, found film and animated data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics, this work illustrates the shared history of ancestral migration among Americans.

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The members of Flip Rushmore just played their first show together in May. A month later, and they’re ready to debut their first album. It’s a milestone frontman Alex Smith, drummer Adam Szczepaniak and their bandmates Dan Klauer (guitar) and Nick Spielman (bass) have been waiting years for. Over the past 18 months, Smith, who lives in Nashville, made trips up North to write, rehearse and record what’s become “Big, If True,” a 10-song record they’ll release June 1. Sometimes he just made excuses to visit family so he could work on music with his bandmates in Minneapolis. Eventually the four pieced it together hundreds of miles apart. “It just felt like a really long time,” Smith said. “I still wanted to be in a cool Minneapolis rock band despite the fact that I was in Tennessee.” That cool Minneapolis rock band came together in 2015 when Smith, who is originally from the Twin Cities, felt the itch to finally make the music he always wanted to make. The local music scene has an eclectic mix of influences, something he didn’t see in the pop-country world around him. “I feel like Minneapolis has so many musicians like that,” Smith said. “Here, you’re not going to run into pop artists or people trying to be Top 40.” The result delivers on that variety. “Big, If True” meanders from ’90s West Coast rock through genres like folk, alternative rock and funk. “I think variety is starting to become more important. There’s so much music coming out. You need a band that can write hard songs, balls to the wall, and you need a band that can pull on your heart strings, too,” Szczepaniak said. Intro “Phife and Merle” references two music figures, Tribe Called Quest rapper Phife Dawg and country singer Merle Haggard, who died within a month of each other in 2016. The listener is hanging on the edge of each word of Smith’s fast-paced voice as he breezes through the nearly four-minute song, a

reminder of our fate at the beginning of the album. “Please don’t lose me now. I’m still delivering,” Smith sings in the chorus. “That Hollow Sound,” a single the band debuted on 89.3 The Current in March, is reminiscent of the Red Hot Chili Peppers with a dose of melancholy. “DDT” or Diet Dr. Thunder, the Walmart soda, is based on an actual Washington Post profile of a man who’s passionate about bringing his semi-automatic rifle into the big-box store. The song, written from the man’s perspective with details fleshed out by the band, delves into politics with a dark humor, along the lines of the band’s name, which Szczepaniak envisions as Mount Rushmore flipped upside down. A continuous theme throughout “Big, If True” is nostalgia, which comes through with Flip Rushmore’s ’90s-style sound and songs like “Christmas Lake Rd,” which has the singer remembering a trip down the road off Hwy. 7. Even the title of “Aspen, CA,” one of the band’s oldest songs, is a reference to an off-hand comment Jim Carrey’s character makes in 1994’s “Dumb and Dumber.” “The song is about nostalgia through media, television, movies and things so that was sort of the jumping off point lyrically,” Smith said. The album is a journey back through the mind, from the youthful, albeit wise, tone of “Phife & Merle” (“And you can’t plot this chorus any better than I”) to the Beckinspired ending with reminiscent songs “Sunflowers,” a recounting of a changing hometown, and “Loserhead,” where Smith sings about summers long past (“Time is slippin’ like a ghost / Just me, my friends and Captain Oats”). Flip Rushmore will play songs from “Big, If True” on Sunday, June 10 at First Avenue’s 7th Street Entry. The 18-plus show will feature opener Telamones, the local indie rock duo of Chris Wald and Zach Gonet.

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many of the same recipes). Nutritionally, fiddleheads have a good amount of vitamin C, niacin and potassium. Fiddlehead ferns are hyper-seasonal, available for a few weeks in late May and early June. Come to the farmers market early to buy them. Like morel mushrooms and ramps, these spring treats can only be foraged in limited quantities and sell out quickly. When shopping, look for fiddleheads with bright green color and tightly

coiled tops. The stem should only be 1 or 2 inches long. If it is any longer, snap it off and compost, as the texture will probably be tough. Buying fiddleheads from a knowledgeable forager at a farmers market is the safest way to enjoy this seasonal treat, as some varieties of ferns are toxic. Fiddleheads should be steamed or sautéed, since they are diﬃcult for most people to digest raw. Since fiddlehead ferns are wild and not bred for storage like many common vegetables, they have a short shelf life. It is best to eat fiddleheads as soon as possible after harvest to avoid browning and loss of their crisp texture. You can find fiddlehead ferns, asparagus, fresh pasta and all the other local ingredients you need for this simple market pasta 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturdays at the Mill City Farmers Market. Learn more about the market’s cooking demos, live music, free outdoor yoga, kids’ activities and more at millcityfarmersmarket.org.

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