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THE SOUIX CHEF’S NEXT MOVE

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THE 10-FOOT WALL WAS A LATE ADDITION TO SOUTHWEST LIGHT RAIL PLANS

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Met Council hosted local officials on a tour of the Wayzata Subdivision in September. Submitted photo

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fter surprising city officials with a new 10-foot-high, mile-long crash wall along the proposed Southwest Light Rail Transit corridor through Minneapolis, the Metropolitan Council laid out plans in late September for elected officials and the public to have input on its design. The Met Council will also review the wall’s possible impacts on the environment and a railroad corridor that has been identified as potentially historic. Those plans were made public about a week after Minneapolis leaders, including Mayor Betsy Hodges, described the wall as a “significant and substantial change” to the $1.9-billion project and called on the agency to “promptly” conduct an environmental review in a letter to Met Council Chair Alene Tchourumoff. SEE LIGHT RAIL / PAGE 10

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ART THAT RUNS THE GAMUT After five years, collections are just as eclectic at Elliot Park’s Gamut Gallery

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com In any given month, Gamut Gallery might host glitch sound artists, art inspired by beer cans or paintings exploring the depths of the human psyche. The art that gallery owners Jade Patrick and Cassie Garner bring in is eclectic — it runs the gamut, they say — with pieces from young creatives to seasoned commercial artists. The gallery, located in Elliot Park for the past two years, has come a long way since its days as a collaborative art night in Patrick’s party space to show more than 400 artists at dozens of exhibitions in its five-year history. Since its inception Gamut Gallery has

Cassie Garner and Jade Patrick lead Gamut Gallery, a commercial art gallery in Elliot Park. Photo by Eric Best

been a place for various art styles presented without pretense. Inside its original home in the historic Handicraft Guild Building at 10th & Marquette, the gallery didn’t even have access to electricity and was forced to run its operations on extension cords, Patrick said. “It was the place we could afford to try these ideas out. We always knew there was going to be a day when they were going to kick us out,” Patrick said. A proposed redevelopment of the building meant the gallery had to move out of its “incubator” space,” Patrick said. It relocated SEE GAMUT GALLERY / PAGE 16

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The Sioux Chef will partner with Park Board on Water Works restaurant The future destination park will be home to city’s first year-round park restaurant The team behind a forthcoming Native American restaurant — and the recordbreaking Kickstarter campaign to launch it — are partnering with park officials to open another restaurant along the downtown Minneapolis riverfront. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the Minneapolis Parks Foundation and the founders of The Sioux Chef recently announced they intend to partner on a restaurant at Water Works, a proposed park that has begun to form between the Stone Arch Bridge and the Third Avenue Bridge. Chef Sean Sherman and partner Dana Thompson, the duo behind The Sioux Chef, specialize in cuisine made from indigenous can ingredients. Last year, the duo got national attention when they raised nearly $150,000 via a crowdfunding campaign to open The Sioux Chef concept, a record for a restaurant on Kickstarter. The two Southwest Minneapolis residents, who have traveled around the world teaching about the indigenous food model, have yet to announce a location for the concept. Sherman, an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, cooks with pre-colonial food and sources ingredients from indigenous communities. The two

also consulted on the Tatanka Truck, a traditional Native American food truck owned by Little Earth of United Tribes. “With the removal of colonial ingredients, our plan is to drive economic wealth back into indigenous communities by sourcing food from these growers first. We look forward to sharing and enjoying these diverse and healthy foods with all communities,” said co-owner Thompson in a statement. A major piece of Water Works will be a restaurant pavilion, which the Park Board plans to embed in what remains of the historic Bassett, Columbia and Occidental mills beneath the site. Beyond The Sioux Chef concept, the glassy structure will feature a public lounge, restrooms and a flexible room for small-group activities. The site, which the Park Board began working on earlier this summer, has a historical connection to food. Beyond being home to the flour mills for which the downtown riverfront is famous, the Water Works site is also home to the Fuji-Ya building, which was once the city’s first Japanese restaurant. Crews began demolishing part of the building in September to make way for the project. “Water Works will celebrate the complex

history of this area, through a layered park design, as well as programming, art, play and performance. Co-owners Sean Sherman and Dana Thompson, along with their team, are sharing powerful stories through food about the intricate relationship between people and land,” said Tom Evers, executive director of the Minneapolis Park Foundation. The river corridor is also part of the homeland of the Dakota, who have called the St. Anthony Falls area Owamni Yamni or “Place of Whirlpools.” “This location has been a sacred site of peace and well-being for the Dakota and Anishinaabe people for millennia,” Thompson said. “We plan to leverage this wonderful partnership with the Minneapolis Park Board, through our aligned mission of nutritional, physical, and spiritual health for all, as well as to create food access and education about the rich history of the [Native American] people in this beautiful area.” The foundation, the Park Board’s philanthropic partner, has raised $12.7 million of its roughly $18-million goal to finance the first phase of Water Works, according to a spokeswoman. Construction on the first of two phases, dubbed the mezzanine phase, will begin late

next summer. That phase, which includes the restaurant pavilion, is slated to open in 2019. Beyond the restaurant, The Sioux Chef team plans to support training and jobs for people interested in their field and work with the Park Board’s design team to create places to grow native plants. The team intends to create events and educational opportunities to highlight Native American cultures, the Mississippi River and the food. “Our partnership with The Sioux Chef opens up opportunities beyond what the Park Board could achieve on its own. Our goals of providing healthy, locally sourced food and meaningful recreational and economic opportunities are well-aligned with the vision of The Sioux Chef,” Superintendent Jayne Miller said. It will still be a number of years before the Park Board’s vision for Water Works is complete. The board expects to begin schematic design work of the final phase after the first phase opens two years from now. Work on the second or riverside phase, which will build further bicycle and pedestrian connections to the riverfront, is slated to begin in 2021 and wrap up in 2023.

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An Airstream trailer now serves as a kitchen for Fulton’s North Loop taproom. Photo courtesy Fulton Beer

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Breweries aren’t often known for their food, but Fulton Beer is doing things differently. The Minneapolis-based brewery has brought on Corner Table founder Scott Pampuch as an executive chef to lead a new kitchen at the North Loop taproom. The kitchen — a large Airstream outfitted with a culinary operation — has begun churning out what Fulton calls approachable and quality food. “Now our friend Scott is leading the charge on bringing Minneapolis the best beer food in the state. He has built a menu from the top down with a focus on pairing with Fulton beers. But make no mistake, this isn’t precious or over-complicated eating. This is classic Fulton approachability at its finest,” the brewery says. The menu, released in mid-September, features $3–$9 snacks like hopcorn — buttered popcorn with hop salt — a Polish pretzel, fries and chips with dip. Sausages from Lowry Hill Meats come several ways, from the Lonely Brat ($7), a Lonely Blondeinfused bratwurst with sauerkraut and onions,

to the Downtown Hot Dog ($7) with hop salt, spicy mustard and sweet kraut relish. For a more complete meal, the new taproom kitchen offers several sandwiches ($7–$9 for half, $9–$16 for a whole sandwich), like the Old School Grilled Cheese made on a 300 IPA-battered sourdough bread. The Capaldo ($9–$16) features Red Table Meat Co. mortadella, salami Francois and ham. Beer drinkers with a sweet tooth can buy Johnny Pops ($6) and War and Peace Tipsy Pies ($6). Sodas ($3) — Coke, Blue Sky Soda and IZZE — and a charcuterie plate ($9–$22) round out the menu. Pampuch is a one-time James Beard Award semifinalist and founder of the highly influential Corner Table restaurant. He briefly left the Twin Cities restaurant scene to lead the food and beverage program at the Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee. He has since worked as a chef and dining consultant. Fulton’s taproom, at 414 6th Ave. N., is open 3 p.m.–10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 3 p.m.–11 p.m. Friday, noon–11 p.m. Saturday and noon–6 p.m. Sunday.

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Loop Dental is located on the ground floor of the 5th Avenue Lofts building along a stretch with Crisp & Green and the newly opened Modern Love Veterinary. The office offers regular cleanings, implants, Invisalign and dentures. Loop Dental, at 207 5th Ave. N., is currently open Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For each new client, the office will make a donation to Secondhand Hounds, a pet rescue organization where the Bates got their dog Sydney.

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The Pourhouse is adding two more “party bars” to the Minneapolis nightlife. Demolition is underway at the former Library Bar space at 1301 4th St. SE, and renovations will transform the Coup d’Etat space in Uptown, which closed Oct. 1. The Pourhouse will bring live music to Uptown, with a stage near the kitchen and a new bar layout, said Brent Frederick, who co-owns Coup d’Etat and holds an ownership stake in The Pourhouse. The design will change dramatically, swapping the low-lit interior for extensive brickwork. “You’re still going to have the great food you have downtown,” Frederick said. The downtown menu includes a selection of burgers, sandwiches, salads and shared

plates like habanero cheese curds and calamari fingers. After three-and-a-half years in business, the owners of Coup d’Etat determined that drinks trump food in Uptown. As they were looking to rebrand, they realized The Pourhouse might be a good fit. “The younger crowd didn’t know exactly what kind of restaurant we were,” Frederick said. “They weren’t really looking for a food experience, I feel like they were looking for more of an entertainment or night life experience. … Drinks are possibly a little more primary and food might be a little more secondary in Uptown right now.”

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Office workers in the Fifth Street Towers won’t have to even touch the ground before hitting the bar. The recently renovated office towers will soon be home to Sphere Kitchen + Bar, a skyway-level bar and restaurant that will serve cocktails, locally brewed beer and graband-go meals. The bar is the latest concept from Hemisphere Restaurant Partners, which also runs three Tavern Grill locations in Edina, Blaine and Woodbury; downtown’s Mission American Kitchen; and U.S. Bank Plaza’s skywaylevel eatery Good to Go and ground floor restaurant Atlas Grill & Clubroom. The roughly 3,000-square-foot restaurant will seat about 56 people between tables and the bar, according to a liquor license application filed with the city. A full bar will serve cocktails, wine and beer. The menu at Sphere, located at 100 S. 5th St., will feature items

like truffle fries, salads, kebabs, salmon tacos and beef sliders.

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Chicago-based Aloha Poké recently announced it plans to expand into Minneapolis. The restaurant chain will open a skyway restaurant in the 811 LaSalle building by the end of the year. Aloha Poké specializes in build-your-own style poké bowls, which feature sashimigrade tuna, salmon or tofu on top of various toppings like edamame, ginger, pineapple and avocado. The bowls are then topped with the chain’s own sauces and seasonings. The expansion into the Twin Cities market is part of a larger nationwide rollout. Aloha

Poké plans to open locations in California, Florida, Washington D.C. and Wisconsin later this year. The chain, just a year-and-a-half old, first opened in the Chicago French Market and has since bolstered its Illinois presence. “We are so excited that poké has swept the country in such a huge way, and we’re confident that it’s more than just a trend — that people have fully integrated poké bowls into their weekly eating habits,” co-founder Zach Friedlander said in a statement.

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Dr. Michelle Donald opened the North Loop’s only veterinary clinic with a “quaint, oldfashioned” mission of connecting with families and their four-legged friends. Donald, the owner of Modern Love Veterinary, plans to take care of the cats and dogs of the growing number of downtown dwellers, who until recently had to look elsewhere to find a clinic. “It just felt like this neighborhood was well ready for a clinic,” she said. “It’s quite the dog parade at 5 o’clock when people get home from work and walk their dogs right here. We love it.” Modern Love began taking patients in early September in the Free Spirit Building on Washington Avenue. The clinic occupies nearly 2,700 square feet just down from Crisp & Green and Commers Custom Jewelers in the building, which had been known for longtime tenant Sapor Café until it closed in 2015. Modern Love is a full-service clinic offering dentistry, surgery and veterinary acupuncture. Donald, so far the clinic’s sole veterinarian, will occasionally make house calls and is certified as a Fear Free professional. The clinic is finishing a second, 700-square-foot addition for a classroom for dogs — for things like socialization classes for puppies — a sound-proof cat room and a break room. “I just want to bring down the stress level,” she said. Donald, a longtime resident of the North Loop and Northeast Minneapolis, said she had to commute to the suburbs for years. During that time, Donald said, she “watched this neighborhood blossom … with residential life.” Now she lives two blocks away from work. Like her neighbors Loop Dental, a dental office that recently opened next door in the 5th Avenue Lofts building, Donald said the neighborhood needs more services to meet the demands of its growing population. Health care services offered in the North Loop have been on the rise in the past year, with Hennepin County Medical Center opening a clinic and pharmacy in the TractorWorks Building. Donald said the name Modern Love comes from the clinic’s combination of modern medicine and old-fashioned service.

“It really encompasses what I want this clinic to feel like,” she said. “We just want to treat people and their pets well and be that neighborhood clinic.” The clinic, at 213 N. 5th Ave., is open 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, and 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Saturday. It is closed on Sunday. Modern Love Veterinary is the sponsor of the 1st Annual Minneapolis Dog Costume Parade Walk, an event that will have costumed pooches strutting around the clinic on Oct. 21 at 2 p.m.

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Government

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CIVIC BEAT

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Mayoral candidates discuss homelessness Eight candidates for mayor met Sept. 26 for a forum on homelessness in Minneapolis. Hosted by First Universalist Church of Minneapolis in CARAG, the forum was moderated by Monica Nilsson, who has worked in leadership roles at St. Stephen’s Human Services and for nine years served as board chair for the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless. Nilsson began the forum by recalling that, just one week earlier, the temperature in Minneapolis was 78 degrees and all 800 shelter beds in the city were full. On a seasonably cool evening, Nilsson noted the temperature would soon drop much more. The first question prompted candidates to reflect on a recently completed 10-year collaboration between Hennepin County and Minneapolis that sought to end homelessness. By one estimate, Nilsson said, the population of people experiencing homelessness had actually increased during that decade-long effort. State Rep. Raymond Dehn said the city needed to take a “systems approach” to homelessness by attacking a constellation of related issues, including access to affordable housing, mental health, addiction and employment. He noted many of the nonprofits that focus on those issues had experienced a decrease in funding. Al Flowers said that, 10 years ago when the effort began, he was a single father raising three children and counted himself among the city’s homeless. Flowers said the city, county and state had failed to live up to their promises and that the public needed to hold them accountable. Ward 3 City Council Member Jacob Frey said the estimated population of people experiencing homelessness might have grown, in part, because methods for counting that population had improved. Noting that 60–70 percent of the homeless population is working, Frey said the city needed to examine the roles health care expenses and the rising cost of living in Minneapolis play in keeping people from finding stable housing. Tom Hoch noted other factors that may have added to the homeless population, including the recession and a tornado that damaged some affordable housing units on the North Side. Adding that “we continue to have a wage problem,” Hoch said the reality for many homeless is they simply cannot afford a place to live. Mayor Betsy Hodges noted that she served as co-chair of the city-county effort, dubbed Heading Home Hennepin, and said it had some success targeting “long-term, chronic homelessness,” but added that it wasn’t possible a decade ago to predict the economic downturn and the subprime mortgage crisis that caused many to lose their homes. Hodges said the city needs to devote more resources to what she described as the worst housing crisis

since the Great Depression. In her response, Nekima Levy-Pounds highlighted the role of the criminal justice system in creating housing instability for young offenders, and said people experiencing homelessness should be involved in creating solutions. Levy-Pounds also suggested stronger oversight of developers in the “non-profit housing-industrial complex.” Aswar Rahman said he was “ashamed” of the city’s record on homelessness, adding that a top-down, “metrics-based approach” was part of the problem. Rahman said the city should instead focus on partnerships with organizations that provide food and shelter to the homeless and programs that provide job training for lowincome populations. Arguing that homelessness is driven by poverty and not a lack of housing, Captain Jack Sparrow emphasized the need for business and skills training while also advocating for a guaranteed basic income, ideas that he would return to throughout the evening. The second question asked candidates to identify the most important issue to address regarding homelessness, and the framing of the question — which linked the “aesthetic quality” of a city to its commercial success and the well-being of its citizens — provoked a variety of responses. Flowers said both shootings and youth violence have “a lot to do with homelessness,” while Frey’s response focused on inequality. Hodges, too, cited “systemic racism.” Hoch, the former Hennepin Theater Trust president, said the trust’s 5 to 10 on Hennepin, which activates the street with art and activities, was an example of “engaging everyone on the street.” Levy-Pounds said capitalism was a driving force behind homelessness, racism and other social ills by “putting profits over people.” Rahman argued that the city had misplaced priorities, and said it could invest more in the problem if it spent less on efforts like attracting the Super Bowl. Dehn said a better question would ask what businesses are doing to respond to homelessness, since business benefits from the aesthetic quality of the city and a workforce that has access to housing, transportation and affordable medical care. The third question of the forum touched on a debate over the best use of a $400,000 federal grant to Minneapolis that city policy guides toward capital expenses at shelters. It can’t be used to add shelter beds or staff, although some advocates would like to see that policy change. Frey said he was open to the idea of using the grant differently, but noted the $400,000 was “not even remotely close to what we need” — a point later echoed by Dehn — and argued it would be more effective to focus on housing, again noting many of those experiencing home-

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lessness work but can’t bridge the “gap” into permanent housing. Hoch said the grant could buy 20 beds but wouldn’t be enough to keep them open, adding, “We simply need to make that commitment.” While noting there were restrictions on how the grant dollars could be spent, Hodges said a “majority of the council” was blocking efforts to spend that money on adding beds, “including Council Member Frey.” Frey responded later in the forum, saying he would have supported a different use of the dollars if he’d been asked. Levy-Pounds said the city was just one of many partners working together to end homelessness, adding that she would use the mayor’s bully pulpit to make it a central issue. Rahman, too, said housing instability should be a higher priority, adding that in the long run the city also needs to keep an eye on the rising cost of living. Flowers suggested Minneapolis follow Seattle’s example and adopt some form of a linkage fee, which ties funding for affordable housing to new development. The final two questions asked candidates to focus on specific facets of the challenge: statistics that show people of color are disproportionately likely to experience homelessness and the risk factors that drive youth homelessness, particularly for LGBTQ and indigenous youth. Hoch said the best way to address homelessness was to prevent it in the first place, adding that he would focus on jobs, safe communities and affordable housing as mayor. Hodges noted that her Cradle to K initiative was meant to address the disparities that arise early in life. Levy-Pounds said she would “call a spade a spade” as mayor and force the city to reckon with persistent racial disparities, noting that children often experience homelessness because of generational poverty and the effects of unequal access to jobs and housing on their parents. Dehn also focused on the role of institutional racism in creating and widening those disparities in his answer, adding that a holistic response to homelessness would include increased access to addiction and mental health treatment. Frey noted the effects of institutional racism are reflected in health rates and the disparate impacts of pollution on Minneapolis neighborhoods, and said an ordinance he co-authored that tied pollution to fees was an example of taking action. Rahman said the city needed to invest more in both early childhood care and vocational training programs. Sparrow said a recently approved ordinance that will gradually raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 was a mistake that would harm people of color the most by eliminating jobs. Flowers said the city needed better partnerships and a focus on results.

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SCHOOLS NOTEBOOK

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Roadshow oﬀers admissions, scholarships to students of color Some students at the Empower Me Tour on Sept. 22 were accepted to college within minutes of meeting a college counselor. Others took home $5,000 scholarships. The event was hosted at the Convention Center by the United Negro College Fund, which provides scholarships to students and financial support to historically black colleges and universities. Representatives from 19 historically black colleges and universities were on hand to review resumes and hand out acceptance offers, as were local business and community leaders. Those leaders led panel discussions for the 960 students in attendance, most of whom were students of color. “They got to see success that looks like them,” said Terry Henry, executive director of Minneapolis Public Schools’ Department of College and Career Readiness. “(That)

Minneapolis superintendent to be interviewed on stage Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff will be interviewed as part of The Theater of Public Policy show on Oct. 9. Graff and St. Paul Superintendent Joe Gothard will both take part in an onstage discussion with the show’s host. Actors will use the interview as the basis for an improvised scene. The event runs 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. at Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St. Tickets are $12 in advance or at the door with a fringe button and $15 at the door with no discount. Learn more at t2p2.net/upcomingevents/2017/10/9/fall-season.

has been the pivotal focus for Minneapolis Public Schools.” Students of color in Minnesota enroll in college at lower rates than white students, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. They’re also less likely to complete a degree within six years. Southwest High School senior Amina Hassan said many youth of color end up going to community college. Hassan said she hopes more can go to four-year schools. She learned at the UNCF event that HBCUs aren’t only for black students. Hassan’s classmate Tatiana Jara-Pacheco was awarded a $5,000 Target scholarship at the event. “It’s just amazing to have that support coming,” she said. UNCF Vice President of National Development Paulette Jackson said the goal of the

tour is to get kids excited about college and expose them to HBCUs, most of which are in the South. Many HBCUs are smaller and more affordable than other universities, Jackson said. That could allow students to be more involved in activities and developer closer relationships with professors, she added. South High School senior Kayla Arnold said the event made her more excited to go to college. Arnold’s classmate Samantha Sander said she could tell a difference in energy between an HBCU college fair and a regular one. South senior Aymaiya Martin said her favorite speaker was a businesswoman who was part of a panel discussion about finding inner beauty. The panelists, all successful women of color, talked about breaking down perceived barriers of beauty.

“It’s nice to hear people you can relate to,” senior Antanajsha Brown said. Patrick Henry High School sophomores Glentrel Carter and Mark Campbell said the event was helpful. Colleges will know they’re interested at a young age, Carter said, and will take them more seriously. When they’re seniors, they will know about more options, he added. Carter wants to be a lawyer, study engineering and hopefully play in the NBA. He said HBCUs “just make you feel comfortable,” describing them as a “home away from home.” Campbell said he wants to go to an HBCU. He said other students should know there are more opportunities to get into college beyond athletics. “College will get us ready for the real world,” he said.

Washburn theater thrives, thanks to Lee Washburn High School had gone 17 years without hosting a musical before Nancy Lee arrived in 2008. Since then, the school has hosted annual musicals, drawing hundreds of students. Many credit Lee, the school’s fine arts coordinator, for facilitating the turnaround. She’s been nominated for the Tony Awards Excellence in Theatre Education Award several years and has earned honorable mention recognition the past two. The status goes to just 20 educators out of 1,100 nominated. Lee, a native of Iowa, taught at Southwest High School for eight years before coming to Washburn. She said some people questioned whether an urban school like Washburn could sustain a theater program. The school had a choir of 15 at the time and an auditorium that didn’t get much use.

Now the school has five choirs and puts on two musicals a year. “Where there are kids, there’s going to be talent,” she said. “You just have to be able to find that talent and foster it.” Lee credits the school’s theater revitalization to a dedicated group of parents, some of who created the Washburn Arts Council. “The amount of support we get is amazing,” she said. Lee started her own theater company this year and hosted a program for college students this summer in Iowa. The students put on a new show every two weeks. Lee said it was a huge success, noting that town gave the program a $10,000 grant. Washburn’s fall musical is “Heathers: The Musical,” a rock show based on a film. The school will be doing “Hairspray” in the spring.

Washburn’s Nancy Lee was recognized by the Tony Awards Excellence in Theatre Education Award program this past spring. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

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SUPER BOWL COUNTDOWN

DAYS REMAINING UNTIL KICKOFF

By Dylan Thomas dthomas@journalmpls.com @dthomasjournals

Hotel bookings strong in lead-up to Super Bowl Early February is typically not the busiest time for the Minneapolis hotel market. But just try to book a Minneapolis hotel for Feb. 2–5 — the Friday before to the Monday after Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium on Feb. 4 — and, well, you can’t. On the popular hotel-booking website Travelocity, a search on those dates in early October brought up a map speckled with red dots, signifying soldout hotels. There were some rooms available, but in places like Chaska and Apple Valley — second- and third-ring suburbs a half-hour drive from the stadium. Travelocity still showed some downtown hotel vacancies in the first half of Minneapolis’ Super Bowl week. Any out-of-towners planning to come in for the pre-game festivities, like the NFL Experience at the Minneapolis Convention Center or the free Super Bowl Live celebration on Nicollet Mall, should keep in mind rates for those nights are likely only going in one direction: up. “The prices will obviously get higher the longer you wait,” said Kristen Montag, communications manager for Meet Minneapolis, the city’s convention and visitors association. Montag said the NFL began negotiating with local hotels to book a block of 19,000 metro-area rooms almost as soon as Minneapolis was awarded the Super Bowl in 2016. The league planned to release some of those rooms onto the market in October, she said, but Meet Minneapolis still expects bookings to be tight during the entire 10-day lead-up to the Super Bowl. Even hotel alternatives are experiencing a surge in demand. In late September, Airbnb announced that it had 1,730 active hosts in Minneapolis and St. Paul, a 73-percent increase in just six months.

Surge in construction Minneapolis is experiencing a surge in hotel construction, with 1,050 rooms added in 2016, according to Meet Minneapolis. Those new rooms amount to nearly 12 percent of the city’s current 8,973-room total capacity. Meet Minneapolis is tracking another 1,705 rooms currently planned or in development. Of those, just the 55-room boutique luMINN under construction near City Hall and the 124-room Moxy Uptown at Lake & Emerson are expected to be ready for Super Bowl guests. Montag said the buildup wasn’t just about the big game coming to town. Hotel devel-

Marriott opened the 245-room AC Hotel Minneapolis Downtown in 2016. File photos

A gin and tonic from the AC Hotel bar.

opers closely monitor occupancy levels, and with Minneapolis posting a sustained occupancy rate above 70 percent for several years, there was a demonstrated need to add capacity, she said. “The rooms would have been built regardless of the Super Bowl,” she said. “Many of them were probably in development before we even knew we were getting the Super Bowl, but obviously once you have something like that booked it spurs interest in the destination.”

Bringing the crowds The game is also bringing a surge of visitors during what is traditionally a slow time for Minneapolis tourism. Montag said the April–November time period is considered “convention season” in Minneapolis, and hotels are usually looking for a little more help driving bookings during the winter. The city’s hotel market is also strongly influenced by business travel, which generally leads to more weekday bookings and slower hotel business on weekends, she said. Minneapolis hotel occupancy dipped to about 26 percent on Feb. 5, 2016, the date of last year’s Super Bowl in Houston. During the week leading up to the game, occupancy peaked at just over 62 percent on the prior Tuesday.

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Another view of the AC Hotel.

One common measure of hotel financial performance is revenue per available room. During last year’s Super Bowl week, Minneapolis hotels did the best on Monday– Wednesday bookings and made less per room on Friday and Saturday night. The local tourism industry sees the Super Bowl as a chance to convince some visitors that a return visit is in order. The Great Northern — the new catchall brand name for

the Saint Paul Winter Carnival, City of Lakes Loppet Ski Festival, U.S. Pond Hockey Championships and other wintry events that take place each year around Super Bowl time — is part of that strategy. “We’ll all be doing whatever we can do to make sure the experience is good for visitors,” Montag said.

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GREEN DIGEST

By Nate Gotlieb ngotlieb@journalmpls.com @NateGotlieb

Zebra mussel found in Lake Harriet A single zebra mussel was found in Lake Harriet on Sept. 8. The adult zebra mussel was discovered on a boat cover recovered from the bottom of the lake. Park Board staff worked with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and contractors to conduct 67 hours of shoreline, snorkel and scuba surveys. No additional mussels have been found. “We are thankful that no additional zebra mussels were found during the extended search,” Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller said in a statement. “We are also very grateful to the DNR and the MCWD for their assistance and ongoing support in the Park Board’s Aquatic Invasive Species efforts.” The DNR added Lake Harriet to its infested waters list for zebra mussels. The lake can get off the list if future surveys show no zebra mussels in the lake. Zebra mussels, first found in the Great Lakes nearly 30 years ago, cause over $1 billion in economic harm in North America each year, according to the state’s aquatic invasive species research center. They can cut swimmers’ feet, clog irrigation intakes and other pipes, outcompete native species for food and smother native mollusks. According to the DNR, about 1.8 percent of Minnesota’s lakes are listed as infested with zebra mussels. No mussels have been found in Lake Calhoun/Bde Maka Ska or

Lake Nokomis, according to the Park Board. The finding won’t impact public use of Lake Harriet. The Park Board, which began an invasive species-inspection program in 2012, will continue to inspect boats and watercraft entering and exiting Lake Harriet, Lake Calhoun/Bde Maka Ska and Lake Nokomis through public boat launches until Dec. 1 or when the lakes ice over. Jeremy Barrick, the Park Board’s assistant superintendent of environmental stewardship, cautions that anglers and other lake users need to remain vigilant in stopping the spread of zebra mussels and other invasive species. “We believe that our extensive (invasive species) program, greater public awareness and more Minnesotans following our state’s invasive species laws have helped keep our lakes free of zebra mussels up to now,” he said in a statement. “However, we also know that it may take years for an infestation to fully develop.” State law requires boaters to clean watercraft of aquatic plants and prohibited invasive species, remove drain plugs and keep them out during transport and dispose of unwanted bait in the trash. The Park Board recommends boaters take precautions such as spraying boats with high-pressure water, rinsing with hot water and drying for at least five days. Visit dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/aquatic to learn more.

The founder of Minneapolis’ Boomerang Bag program is looking to expand it to neighborhoods beyond Linden Hills. Submitted photo

Linden Hills resident brings reusable bags to neighborhood Felicity Britton brought Boomerang Bags to Linden Hills. Now she’s trying to bring them to other neighborhoods. Britton, a Linden Hills resident and Linden Hills Power & Light board member, is trying to get other organizations to create the reusable bags, which can replace single-use plastic bags. A couple of groups have expressed interest, she said. She and other volunteers create the bags and distribute them for free at the Midtown Global Market, Linden Hills Farmer’s Market and Heartfelt. They make about 20 bags a month. Britton, an Australia native, first saw Boomerang Bags on a visit to the country about five years ago. She tried to get Linden Hills Power & Light board to start a program, but its focus was on curbside organics recycling at the time, she said. She started the program last fall. Five people came to the first sewing bee, and 12 came to

the second one, Britton said. She was going to have bees every other month but switched to every month because they were popular. People are needed to iron, cut and pin the bags, in addition to sewing, she said. She said the average family uses 500 plastic bags a year and the bags are used an average of 12 minutes. Less than five percent are recycled, she said. Bags blow away from landfills and end up in trees and freeways. She continues to hope for passage of a plastic bag fee in Minneapolis, despite the City Council delaying a vote on it. “People don’t change their behavior just based on education,” she said. “Unfortunately, there needs to be an incentive.” People can do the sewing at home, Britton said. They’ll accept other reusable bags, such as ones given out at Athleta. Visit lhpowerandlight.org for more information.

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A cross section shows the wall between freight and light rail trains. Submitted image FROM LIGHT RAIL / PAGE 1 “As elected officials representing residents of Minneapolis, we are surprised at the lack of information about the proposed barrier wall that has been provided to us,” the letter stated. “We are also surprised about the lack of a public process and open community engagement about a subject that is important to our residents.” The letter was co-signed by state Sen. Scott Dibble, Rep. Frank Hornstein and City Council members Cam Gordon, Lisa Goodman, Kevin Reich and Lisa Bender. The wall was added to the SWLRT project less than a week before the Met Council voted in August to approve a series of agreements with two freight rail operators that will share their rail corridors with the light-rail trains. The crash wall will separate freight and light-rail traffic in the Wayzata Subdivision, which is owned by BNSF and extends from roughly Interstate 394 to the North Loop. Met Council officials have previously said they were not able to discuss negotiations with the railroads while they were ongoing. While SWLRT plans already included shorter sections of wall in the Wayzata Subdivision, the new plans connect and lengthen those sections. That has raised concerns in nearby neighborhoods about the visual impacts of the wall, especially if it becomes a target for graffiti, as well as the possibility that it could reflect and amplify the noise from passing freight trains into residential neighborhoods, said Barry Shade, a member of the Bryn

Mawr Neighborhood Association board. “It just introduced a whole bunch of other questions,” Shade said. Met Council officials met with the BMNA and other neighborhood organizations in mid-September and later in the month led two tours of the Wayzata Subdivision for local elected officials and reporters. A community open house was scheduled for Nov. 15, at a time and location to be determined.

Review process SWLRT project director Jim Alexander said a community workgroup would have input on the design of the wall, which could use color, texture, vegetation or other features to soften its visual impact. Along many portions of the corridor, the grade difference between freight and light rail tracks will make the crash wall appear shorter than 10 feet to viewers on the light rail side of the barrier. The design process will also be guided by a historic review. That review is required because the Minnesota Department of Transportation previously determined the Wayzata Subdivision was part of a much longer railroad corridor — stretching from Minneapolis to the North Dakota border — that may be historically significant, Alexander told the members of the SWLRT Corridor Management Committee on Sept. 29. Alexander said Met Council had already begun an environmental review of the changes to the project, which also include shifting a nearby bicycle and pedestrian path. Those findings will be submitted in a

memorandum to the Federal Transit Administration, which is expected to determine by December whether a deeper environmental study is necessary. Tchourumoff said that a much more consequential decision by the FTA, on whether to award the full-funding grant agreement expected to cover half of all project costs, was now not expected until late 2018. The local elected officials on the Corridor Management Committee also quizzed Alexander on the cost of the wall and its potential impact on the project budget. Alexander said it would “more than likely” be dealt with as a change-order to the civil construction contract after it is awarded. While no decision had yet been made on how to pay for the crash wall, Alexander said it would likely be paid for out of the project’s contingency fund. That totals close to $300 million, or about 16 percent of the total budget. After the meeting, Alexander estimated the cost of the wall at about $20 million. It may require a support system of piers or pilings because of the unstable soils in the Wayzata Subdivision, which runs through the Bassett Creek Valley area.

Other concerns Beyond its discussion of the wall, the Mayor Hodges’ letter reiterated local officials’ concern with another provision of the shared-corridor agreement with BNSF, one that would potentially require Met Council to challenge in court any future law restricting

freight traffic in the shared corridor. That could put the Met Council in the position of fighting in court on behalf of BNSF against either the city or Hennepin County. “Having not been able to read the actual agreement, but only Met Council staff’s descriptions of it, we cannot confirm the situation,” the letter stated. The letter described a supplemental environmental impact statement as “the best remaining tool to reassure the public that the right questions will ultimately be answered.” Met Council also agreed to take out a $295million railroad liability policy to cover any incident involving both freight and lightrail trains in the BNSF-owned corridor. Met Council has a similar agreement regarding the Northstar Commuter Rail Line, which also operates on BNSF right-of-way. SWLRT is a 14.5-mile extension of the METRO Green Line from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie and the most expensive public works project in state history. The Met Council on Sept. 20 rejected all four bids for civil construction work on the project, which ranged from $796.5 million to nearly $1.1 billion, saying they went beyond the project budget and weren’t completely responsive to the plans. That decision pushed the repeatedly delayed opening date for the line into 2022. The Met Council now plans to trim costs from the project before reopening the civil construction contract for bids in October. It will also consider offering contractors a stipend for the bidding process, and may adjust the project’s timeline to control costs. Alexander said a labor shortage was a “big deal” for the bidders. “That’s going to be the biggest challenge,” he told the Corridor Management Committee. A new deadline for bids was set for January, and Met Council expects to award the contract in April. Tchuroumoff said that timeline would keep almost the entire 2018 construction season in play.

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Thrivent building The Hennepin County Commission voted Sept. 26 to approve the $55-million sale of Thrivent Financial’s downtown headquarters building, a 17-story building the county plans to use to consolidate its fragmented facilities. Commissioners voted 5-2 to buy the 525,000-square-foot building. Along with the deal, the county intends to purchase more than 330 parking spaces for $11.5 million that would be in a new mixed-use building proposed just to the east of the Thrivent building. Thrivent announced a plan last month to build a new headquarters in a full block it owns kittycorner to its current building. The darkpink building is across the street from the Hennepin County Government Center.

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Nicollet Mall renovation Crews have begun reinstalling the iconic Sculpture Clock, one of the first public art pieces on Nicollet Mall, near Peavey Plaza. The 16-foot-tall clock tower stood next to Peavey Plaza from 1968 until its recent restoration. The piece from artist Jack Nelson was temporarily removed for repairs during Nicollet’s $50-million renovation. The 12-block overhaul of the mall will be substantially complete later this fall.

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Authority lot The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is looking to purchase a surplus parking lot in the North Loop for $7.5 million, according to a Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority Board memo. The threeacre property, also known as the Heritage Landing parcel — not to confused it with the condo building of the same name in the neighborhood — was declared surplus by the authority. The Federal Reserve has indicated to the authority that it intends to develop the site to support its downtown Minneapolis operations.

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Streetscape / By Ethan Fawley

WHAT WILL VISION ZERO MEAN FOR STREETS?

n Sept. 17, 20-year-old Ria Patel was killed by a suspected drunken driver in Northeast Minneapolis. Patel marked the fourth person killed in a crash on Minneapolis streets in a month. Jill Friedrich, 34, was killed while biking near the Lowry Avenue bridge. Seventy-yearold Michael Webb was killed while trying to walk across Hennepin Avenue downtown. Michael Williams, 45, died after being hit by a bus while biking. All leave family and friends mourning. All died too soon. That same month, Minneapolis officials announced that they want to eliminate traffic deaths in the city by 2027 as part of an initiative called Vision Zero. There is certainly work to do. Over the last decade, an average of more than 10 people a year have been killed in crashes on Minneapolis streets and thousands more injured. So, what exactly will Vision Zero work look like? The Vision Zero page on the city website says, “We will use proven strategies such as lowering speed limits, redesigning streets, and implementing meaningful behavior change campaigns to help make the streets safer for anyone who uses them, no matter if by foot, bicycle, or vehicle. “The commitment to Vision Zero is a citywide commitment, and will require the

work of numerous departments throughout the City to reach the goal of zero fatalities or serious injuries. In addition, the City will engage communities affected by this vision to solicit their ideas and support in making safer streets a reality.” Mineapolis will be creating a Vision Zero Action Plan over the next year or so to focus on specific strategies to reduce injuries and deaths. Some steps are already evident:

• Reducing speeding traﬃc The most fundamental reality of traffic safety is that speed kills. A pedestrian hit at 40 miles per hour dies more than 80 percent of the time, while one hit at 20 miles per hour dies about 10 percent of the time. The state currently mandates a standard 30-mile-per-hour speed limit, even on quiet residential streets. Most neighboring states have lower speed limits on local streets. Minneapolis can’t currently set its own speed limits, but the city has updated its legislative agenda to include local control of speed limits in the hopes of doing so in the future.

• Being proactive about pedestrian safety Mayor Hodges has proposed $600,000 in the 2018 budget for proactive pedestrian safety improvements at intersections,

including new bump-outs, crosswalks and medians. The city is finishing a pedestrian safety study that will be used to prioritize improvements at the most problematic intersections.

• Building complete streets Last year, the city dedicated more than $20 million in additional funding for repairing streets. As streets are redone, Minneapolis is leaning on its recently adopted Complete Streets policy and focusing on making streets safer for everyone.

Equity and Vision Zero Around the country, people of color, people with low income, older adults and people with disabilities are more likely to be injured or killed in traffic crashes. That’s partly because of historical inequities that have seen fast, busy streets routed through lower-income neighborhoods. Think 26th and 28th streets and Park and Portland avenues in Phillips or Emerson and Fremont avenues in North. Minneapolis has the opportunity to put equity front and center within Vision Zero and learn from what’s worked well or hasn’t

worked in other cities. Some other cities — most recently Chicago — have seen Vision Zero efforts slowed over concerns around lack of community engagement or enforcement measures. Other Vision Zero cities, like Los Angeles and Portland, have been able to build community buy-in by empowering diverse community voices to be at the table shaping the key strategies of Vision Zero. Successful cities have also de-emphasized traffic enforcement as part of their strategy due to concerns about inequitable enforcement and biases in policing. Minneapolis is quick to point out that they are at the very beginning of their Vision Zero work and that robust community engagement is still to come. The city’s Vision Zero resolution even says, “Vision Zero Action Plan will put equity at its forefront.” We certainly hope it will and look forward to seeing the city engage the communities most impacted by traffic crashes in a meaningful and collaborative fashion. Vision Zero has the opportunity to greatly improve street safety and improve the lives of people in Minneapolis, but it must be built with the community.

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former Metrodome site and the new Wells Boundaries: East Town is bounded on the north by the Mississippi River, on the east by Fargo campus on 4th Street, with its twin Interstate 35W, on the south by Interstate 94 and on the west by 5th Avenue. office towers overlooking a new 4.2-acre park, Demographics: The combined populations of Downtown East and Elliot Park The Commons. Those two projects represent totaled 8,423 residents in 2015, St according to Minnesota Compass, which draws its Broadway St Broadway the bulk of $2 billion in development in East data from 5-year U.S. Census Bureau estimates, among other sources. Downtown Town since 2012, according to the East Town East’s median household income was $70,669 in 2015, and the median income in e Business Partnership, whose board currently Av Elliot Park was $31,531. 8th includes representatives from neighborGet involved: The Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association (thedmna. hood organizations, downtown businesses org) meets on the third Monday of the month, with times and locations posted on the and nonprofits, the Guthrie Theater and the organization’s Facebook page. Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc. (elliotparkneighborhood. org) holds board meetings on the second Monday of most months at various locations. Minnesota Vikings. 52 The East Town Business Partnership (easttownmpls.org) holds board meetings on the Hennepin County Medical Center, East 94 first Thursday of the month at various locations. Town’s largest employer with roughly 6,300 Plymouth Ave workers on its sprawling campus, is helping Mi ss iss to power the commercial district’s construcip pi Ri ve tion boom. In November 2015, Mortenson 30 percent since the 2000 Census. Minneapolis Armory, located three block Construction broke ground on HCMC’s $160East Town will be center stage when the from the stadium in East Town and most W a e used as a parking garage, into an million, 377,000-square-foot specialty center, shin Super Bowl comes to Minneapolis early recently Av pin gt ne n o e scheduled to open next year. nnext year. H entertainment venue that is scheduled to Av e U.S. Bank Stadium, home to the MinneWhile new hotels have added hundreds of host several nights of concerts during the rooms to East Town in recent years — with sota Vikings during the NFL season, hosts Super Bowl celebration. — Dylan Thomas more in the pipeline — the district’s resiSuper Bowl LII in February, and events are dential population has also grown. The East scheduled around the Twin Cities in the days 35W Town Business Partnership estimated about leading up to the big game. Swervo Devel52 8,500 residents in 2014, an increase of nearly opment is currently remodeling the 1935 r

East Town is a new name for one of the oldest parts of the city. It’s not a name that’s found on the official map of Minneapolis’ 84 neighborhoods. In 2016, the board of the East Downtown Council voted unanimously to rename itself the East Town Business Partnership and at the same time rebrand a commercial district that includes the Downtown East and Elliot Park neighborhoods as East Town. (By drawing a boundary line straight down 5th Avenue, the East Town Business Partnership also claimed a few square blocks of the Downtown West neighborhood as East Town.) The rebranding recognized a major transformation happening on the east side of Downtown, where redevelopment is fast replacing a desert of surface parking lots with offices, apartments and restaurants. The East Town Business Partnership argues that transformation began with the 2004 opening of the METRO Blue Line light rail, which runs 55 along 5th Street through downtown. But it really picked up steam during the construction of U.S. Bank Stadium on the

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16 journalmpls.com / October 5–18, 2017 FROM GAMUT GALLERY / PAGE 1 seven blocks eastward in 2015. While Gamut works with collectors, the larger, more open space is especially popular with people who don’t have collections at home. “We’re still definitely the place for firsttime art buyers. We’ve been able to make them regular art buyers,” Patrick said. To celebrate its fifth birthday, Gamut built out a storefront gift shop, started online sales and began regular hours outside monthly exhibitions. Fans of the gallery can buy $50-$250 memberships that come with free admission to all openings and finales, discounted tickets or exclusive invites for other events, and discounts on artwork. “It just makes total sense for us to strengthen the community of people who are here and focus on our collectors too,” Patrick said. While other downtown art galleries have closed in recent years, Gamut has diversified its business by hitting on lower prices to bring in first-time art buyers, hosting unique, art-driven events and expanding its retail sales. The gallery offers a pyramid of price points, Patrick said, with original pieces running for several thousands of dollars to just $25 or $50 for small pieces. “You’ve got to make yourself a destination. It doesn’t matter where you’re located — Downtown, South, Elliot Park, Northeast. As long as you’re doing something people want to come to, they’re going to come,” Garner said. A major part of Gamut, Patrick said, is curating unique experiences inside the gallery. For the “Glitch Art is Dead” exhibition earlier this year, Gamut had a curator put together a night of noise art combined with visual art. A closing reception this past winter for “Valure,” a mixed-media exhibition of feminist pieces, featured a dance performance from Ghostbridge Theatre. Garner said the ticketed

Even the courtyard at Gamut Gallery isn’t safe from becoming a gallery space for its monthly exhibitions and events. Photo by Eric Best shows get people to check out exhibitions and connect with the art. “People, when they come to our openings or finales, they hang out. It’s not like they just come in [and] take a spin around… They hang out in the back courtyard. They meet new people here. We provide a really fun experience for people,” Garner said. If there’s a key element to Gamut’s success, it’s that art can co-exist together. Whether there’s lowbrow work or fine art on the wall,

Patrick said it doesn’t really matter. Often the gallery juxtaposes professional artists with several shows under their belt with new and local artists showing work for the first time. “We’ve literally had a 17-year-old and a 70-year-old in the same show,” Patrick said. “You can’t really tell who’s who once you get the art up on the wall.” Next up for Gamut is “Art is My Weapon,” a local version of the national “Guns in the Hands of Artists” collection. The art, curated

by Nikki McComb of Pillsbury United Communities and John Schuerman of the now-closed Instinct Art Gallery, includes pieces made from guns collected through a City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Police Department buyback program last year. It opens Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. with a spoken word performance from Chadwick “Niles” Phillips of Avant Garde.

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U.S. BANK STADIUM, ONE YEAR IN REVIEW The landmark of East Town brought in 1.6 million visitors in its inaugural year

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com East Town residents began watching U.S. Bank Stadium rise more than four years ago. Now, more than a year after it opened its five massive doors, the home of the Minnesota Vikings has hosted a lot more than football games. In its first year, more than 1.6 million visitors flocked to roughly 650 events at the $1.1billion stadium. General Manager Patrick Talty with stadium operator SMG called U.S. Bank Stadium a “monumental project” that is uniquely versatile as an NFL facility. SMG operates five other NFL facilities in addition to the roughly 66,000-capacity stadium. “Our operation provides opportunities to host a broad range of events, putting Minnesota on the world’s stage. The diversity and quantity of events hosted in our first year is unparalleled in the sports and entertainment industry,” Talty said in a statement. The first major event at the stadium was an International Champions Cup soccer match between A.C. Milan and Chelsea F.C. Jenn Hathaway, director of communications for the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, said the sold-out game wouldn’t have been played in the Metrodome. ESPN’s X Games ended the year of operation, bringing 110,000 visitors to the neighborhood for four days of extreme sports and nightly concerts in the Commons park. It’ll return to the stadium next year. “Those events would not have come here if we had not had the building,” she said. “What people are wanting more is being able to be in a world-class facility.” The Vikings made a big show of coming to U.S. Bank Stadium, winning their first game there against rivals the Green Bay Packers. The team went 8-8 in the first season at the stadium, winning five of eight home games on the new turf. “U.S. Bank Stadium immediately became one of the most recognizable stadiums in the world,” said team owner Mark Wilf. “We

U.S. Bank Stadium lies in the center of a rapid redevelopment of downtown’s east side, which has been given the name East Town. Photo by Erdahl Aerial Photos

are thrilled with the game experience the stadium offers to Vikings fans, the home field atmosphere it gives to our team and the positive impact the venue has already had on Minnesota.” Youth games remain one of the cheapest ways to experience the stadium, with tickets typically going for $5–$10. High school and college teams played well over 150 games at U.S. Bank Stadium, including the Minnesota State High School League soccer and football championships and the Dairy Queen Classic college baseball game. Nearly 30,000 fans watched more than 140 college and high school baseball games in the stadium’s first year. Major concerts have also played a big role in the stadium’s first year, from country music singer Luke Bryan’s show last summer to the Guns N’ Roses show this past July. Coldplay and U2 kicked off its second year,

playing for full houses before the summer’s end. This time next year, pop star Ed Sheeran is set to fill the arena. While it’s one of the state’s largest venues, U.S. Bank Stadium was home to many smallscale events throughout its first year. The stadium hosted 425 private events ranging from weddings — none on the turf yet, however, Hathaway said — corporate meetings, parties and conventions. Residents also got in free at the stadium’s Party of the Plaza outdoor concert series. About 88,000 guests have roamed its 1.75 million square feet at 3,850 ticketed, 90-minute tours. Stadium staff release more tour dates regularly. “That’s been very, very successful,” Hathaway said. Fans of the open rollerblading time at the Metrodome were able to roller skate or run around the stadium at 17 events that

frequently sold out. The Super Bowl will reduce the number of skating and running club events, but Hathaway said the program will return in the stadium’s second year. The first year is just the beginning for U.S. Bank Stadium, which will host huge national events like the 2019 NCAA Men’s Final Four and the 2020 NCAA Wrestling Championships. The biggest thing on the stadium’s horizon is undoubtedly Super Bowl LII, a 10-day football extravaganza that is expected to bring 1 million people to the Twin Cities next February. “The building is living up to the spirit of the stadium legislation, that it be a resource for all Minnesotans. From youth football, to high school championships, to concerts and Vikings games, the stadium has events for almost every interest level,” said Kathleen Blatz, interim chair of the MSFA.

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CELEBRATE OKTOBERFEST AT HOME WITH SPAETZLE Fried spaetzle with vegetables and quark

ll around Minnesota and the world, Lederhosen-clad beer drinkers are celebrating Oktoberfest, a German beer festival held in mid to late September or early October every year. In September, the Mill City Farmers Market indulged in the festivities with a live polka band, hard cider samples and a spaetzle cooking demonstration during the free Saturday cooking class, Mill City Cooks. If you missed the demo from Beth Jones, executive chef of the University of Minnesota’s Campus Club, don’t worry, because we’ve

got the simple recipe for this German pasta right here! Celebrate the local harvest with Jones’ spin on the recipe, which brings some color to the traditional dish with kohlrabi, sweet peppers and zucchini. You can shop for all the local ingredients you need for this dish and catch the Mill City Farmers Market’s free chef-led cooking demonstrations at 10:30 a.m. every Saturday through the end of October. Find seasonal recipes and more information at millcityfarmersmarket.org.

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Recipe by market chef Beth Jones Serves 2-4 This recipe calls for quark, an un-aged German-style soft cheese. Mill City Farmers Market vendor Cosmic Wheel Creamery makes excellent herbed and plain quark that goes great with this dish! Ingredients 1 batch spaetzle (recipe below) 3 Tablespoons butter, divided 1 small onion, small dice 1 large kohlrabi, peeled, medium dice 1 small zucchini, medium dice 2 teaspoons fresh thyme, minced 1 clove garlic, minced Salt and pepper to taste 1⁄2 cup white wine 1⁄2 cup fresh parsley or basil, chiffonade 1⁄2 cup Cosmic Wheel Creamery quark 1 small red or yellow pepper, seeded, medium dice Method Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a large cast iron pan, allowing it to brown slightly. Add the spaetzle, tossing to coat. When thoroughly coated, allow the spaetzle to brown over medium high heat. This can take anywhere from 3–6 minutes. Once browned, stir and allow to brown for another 3 minutes. Remove the spaetzle from the pan, and add an additional tablespoon of butter. Sauté the onions until brown, and add the remaining vegetables, thyme, garlic and salt and pepper. Cook for 2 minutes. Add 1⁄2 cup white wine and cook

for 1 minute. Add the spaetzle and toss with the parsley and or basil. Top with the quark and serve. Spaetzle Ingredients 1 1⁄4 cup flour (regular or rice flour for a gluten free option) 2 eggs 3⁄4 cup milk 1 Tablespoon grainy mustard 1⁄4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg Zest of 1 lemon 1⁄2 teaspoon salt 1⁄2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper Method Mix together the flour, eggs, milk, mustard, nutmeg, lemon zest, salt and pepper in a bowl until the dough is smooth. The dough should be elastic enough to stretch about 5–6 inches. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, then lower the heat to simmer. Lightly oil a colander, potato ricer or spaetzle maker with oil. Working in batches, take 1⁄2 cup of the dough and press it through the colander directly into the simmering water. Simmer for about 2 minutes, then remove with a slotted spoon, drain and place on an oiled baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough. The spaetzle can be served immediately, or lightly oiled, cooled, and frozen or refrigerated for a later use.

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Speak for your selﬁe Visual arts critic Alicia Eler turns her attention toward selfies in new book

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com

Writer Alicia Eler, author of “The Selfie Generation,” takes a selfie with her forthcoming book, an analysis of how self-images interact with privacy, consent and activism. Submitted photo

It turns out there’s a lot more to those quick photos of yourself you take on your phone. Or so says Alicia Eler. Whether you love the word “selfie” or hate it, Eler thinks you’ll glean something about the cultural phenomenon in her new book, “The Selfie Generation.” Inside, the Chicago native and Star Tribune visual arts critic delves deeper into how these self-images interact with big topics like privacy, sex, activism and art. From activists recording themselves through what Eler calls “sousveillance” to artists exploring how social media users craft their own self image, “Selfie Generation” uses these images to explore the boundaries of the Internet and the physical world, along with questions of consent and copyright. Through interviews with both professionals and friends, Eler toes the line between a personal essay and a scholarly resource. We spoke with Eler to see how she defined selfie — it turns out it’s also a verb — and how she views the images as an art critic. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

How do you deﬁne the selﬁe generation? Who is the audience for the book? The way I think about the selfie generation is anyone who actively participates in using the selfie in social media, even people who hate social media. People who are ready to say that there’s more to this than just some picture that some random person took or Kim Kardashian takes. I feel like I wanted to reach people who do selfie, people who are fearful of the selfie, people who are queer and people who read my journalism already, people who want to read about the selfie as a broader cultural trend.

THE JOURNAL: What prompted you to write about selﬁes? ELER: It was 2013 and I was writing for Hyperallergic and selfies were becoming a thing that people were having opinions about. In the art world, it was like: Selfportraiture has been around for a while, what’s the big deal? I kept seeing all these stories that were really sensationalizing the selfie — as if a trend could totally ruin the world — like really catastrophic types of critiques. I thought that was interesting, so I said to my editor that I’m seeing all these stories and he asked me if I wanted to do a regular column. Every week we ran a column, part selfie stories and part analysis on what the selfie meant as a cultural trend. We paired it with reader submissions of selfies and a couple sentences on why they shot the selfie. That column ran for about a year and the

at a photo album together. A selfie happens any time, anywhere. You might catch it while you’re sitting on the bus on the way home from work or on a plane or you’re checking your phone at a stoplight or while waiting for a friend. So it occupies a space of distraction that would otherwise be a quiet space. It’s being able to just control the image of yourself that you’re putting out into the world. People assume I have a strong opinion that someone should selfie or shouldn’t selfie because that’s how the topic is. It’s such a polarizing topic. I’ve not met someone who doesn’t have something to say about the selfie.

word “selfie” became [Oxford Dictionaries’] word of the year.

How do you deﬁne a selﬁe? How do you view it through your arts critique lens? It’s a form. It’s visual. I don’t think the selfie in and of itself is art, but it can be used as part of an artistic practice or critique. It’s really a meme. A selfie is really a meme at the end of the day. The question is: Are memes art? No, memes are memes, but they can be considered art in context. That’s the thing that fascinated me about the selfie. Everything about it depends on the context and where it ends up or doesn’t end

up. There’s a selfie that someone takes with their phones and it stays on there forever. There are selfies that become viral memes like with Kim Kardashian. There’s an artist who takes selfies every day to think about: “What does it mean? How am I presenting myself to the world?”

Are selﬁes diﬀerent from self-portraits? I think so. I think it’s really the aesthetic. I have not seen a self-portrait that’s taken with a long arm. The aesthetic form is one thing that separates it. A selfie is a mirror. With a self-portrait or a printed photo maybe it would be assumed you could consume it in a gallery space or while looking

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‘Jizi: Journey of the Spirit’ During his almost half-century-long career, contemporary Chinese painter Jizi explored the complex elements at work in modern Chinese art and culture during a dynamic period of Chinese history. Organized by the Weisman Art Museum in partnership with the artist’s son, Chunchen Wang, “Jizi: Journey of the Spirit” is a new retrospective memorializing the artist, who died in 2015. It features a broad selection of the artist’s large-scale ink paintings as well as a monumental, rarely seen horizontal scroll considered to be the largest Chinese landscape painting ever created. His bold, confrontational work challenges the legacy of the Chinese Revolution and its antipathy to religion and traditional Chinese attitudes, shedding light on the complex impulses at work in contemporary Chinese art and culture while invoking a strong metaphysical, spiritual aspect. When: Oct. 7–Dec. 31; panel discussion: Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. Where: Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Road Cost: Free Info: wam.umn.edu

‘Audrey Phillips: Midstream’ Audrey Phillips’s abstract waterscapes have always contained subtle references to nature’s power. Following the recent spate of hurricanes battering the Caribbean islands and Atlantic coast, they take on a more evocative power. The artist, who lives and works in northern Florida, had completed the exhibition paintings for “Midstream,” her new solo show at Circa Gallery, when the storms hit. With the help of a friend, Phillips managed to wrap and move all of her paintings out of her studio and into her home to keep them safer. Fortunately, the paintings emerged unscathed — yet filled with vibrant colors and chaotic movement, they almost seem inspired by the unpredictable storminess of a hurricane. When: Oct. 14–Nov. 25; opening reception Saturday, Oct. 14 from 5 p.m.–8 p.m. Where: Circa Gallery, 210 N. 1st St. Cost: Free Info: circagallery.org

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French multimedia artist Laure Prouvost is known for her lush sound and video installations, for which she won the coveted Turner Prize in 2013. Her latest collection of sounds and imagery are the subject of a new exhibition opening this month at the Walker Art Center. The artist, who has said her art is about “blurring the boundary between fiction and reality” and conflating art with everyday life, creates immersive environments that encourage audience participation. Combining painting, sculpture and found objects alongside her projected images, Prouvost aims to help her audience-participants rediscover the joy of language, words and meanings. In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist will debut a performance work commissioned by the Walker that draws on similar thematic elements in February 2018. When: Oct. 12–Feb. 11 Where: Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Place Cost: Free with gallery admission ($14 adults, $12 seniors, $7 military, $9 students, kids 18 and under free) Info: walkerart.org

Founded by local tap dancers Kaleena Miller and Brenna Brelie, the second-annual Twin Cities Tap Festival brings together top national and local tappers along with students of all ages for a weekend of classes, workshops and performances. The festival kicks off on Thursday with a showcase of the best local tap talent and youth tap ensembles, including Keane Sense of Rhythm Youth Tap Ensemble, MinnesoTAP and the stage debut of Elite Tap Feet, an elite group of teen tap dancers from around Minnesota. Friday and Saturday night features a concert headlined by national tap artists Dianne “Lady Di” Walker, Jason Samuels Smith, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and Mark Yonally, along with local talent, Ricci Milan, Rick Ausland, Joe Chvala and Karla Grotting. When: Performances: Thursday, Oct. 19–Saturday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m.; classes: Oct. 19–22 Where: The Cowles Center for Performing Arts, 528 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $15–$30 performances, $30 classes, $70 workshops Info: thecowlescenter.org

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THE FIRST AND LARGEST FESTIVAL OF ITS KIND, THE ZOMBIE PUB CRAWL FEATURES 25 MUSICAL ACTS ON TWO OUTDOOR STAGES, DOZENS OF PARTICIPATING BARS AND FOOD TRUCKS AND HUNDREDS OF ZOMBIES. INFO: ZOMBIEPUBCRAWL.COM

Zombie Pub Crawl Live Entertainment: Headlining acts for the main event on Oct. 14 include ’90s alt-rock band Third Eye Blind, horrorcore rapper Tech N9ne and the king of Autotune, T-Pain. Privé, 315 N. 1st Ave., features local hip-hop acts including Neon Blaque and Chance York. Beginning at 8 p.m., Gluek’s, 16 6th St. N., will have a lineup of five metal bands and the Fine Line, aka the “Covered in Blood” stage, 318 1st Ave. N., hosts a series of cover bands. Head to Brother’s Bar & Grill, 430 1st Ave. N., for zombie karaoke all night long and Clockwerks Brewing, 25 N. 4th St., for the ZPC photo booth. When: Saturday, Oct. 14 at 10 p.m. Where: Various locations Cost: $28–$90 festival pass

A Flip Phone Evening of Dance and Drag: Drag queens meet spooky zombies during this party, which is headlined by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alumni Tatianna and Max, plus local queens Bad Karma, Kamaree Williams, Julia Starr, Genevee Ramona Love and Sunny Kiriyama. Death drops will be served. Attendees must purchase Zombie Pub Crawl pass to attend event. 21+ When: Saturday, Oct. 14 at 10 p.m. Where: Music Hall Mpls (Dragged to Hell stage), 111 N. 5th St. Cost: $28–$90 festival pass

Zombie Pup Crawl: New this year is Zombie Week, a full slate of activities for the undead the week prior to Zombie Pub Crawl, each benefitting a different local charity. They include the Zombie Pup Crawl, a canine costume contest presented in collaboration with the Midwest Animal Rescue Services. Sign up your pup at zombiepubcrawl.com. When: Saturday, Oct. 7 from 2 p.m.–4 p.m. Where: Bauhaus Brew Labs, 1315 Tyler St. NE Cost: Free

Drag queen Tatianna is scheduled to perform at the Flip Phone Zombie Pub Crawl event. Submitted photo

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Some bluegrass musicians just sing about cars, cabins and the countryside. The three guys behind The Last Revel, however, live the words in their songs.

Midwestern folk trio The Last Revel will open for Pert Near Sandstone at First Avenue’s mailroom on Saturday, Oct. 21. Submitted photo

The trio of Vinnie Donatelle (fiddle, bass), Ryan Acker (banjo, guitar) and Lee Henke (lead vocals, guitar, banjo) play a kind of Americana and alternative music folk that they say is inspired by their native Upper Midwest. Acker is a perfect example. Before making the band his full-time job more than a year ago, the St. Paul resident used a biology degree out in the field, working for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and then as a river guide. “Besides for music, that’s my other passion. I’ve always been about the outdoors,” he said. “It’s a part of who we are. It’s a part of so many people’s lives in the Upper Midwest. … If our music can embody some of that in a song, it’s a pretty authentic thing to me.” The band started through the music program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Acker and Henke, two longtime friends, began playing open mic nights with Donatelle. The three came together around a shared baseline of roots, rock and bluegrass and an interest in artists like Neil Young, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. “We all became really good friends, and the music came naturally because of that,” he said. Roughly six years and three albums later, and the Last Revel have established themselves in the folk scene unique to the Midwest. Acker describes the area’s roots and bluegrass scene as “songwriter oriented.” The band is a result of that culture. Each member of the band writes and sings on most of their songs. “I draw it all the way back to a Bob Dylan influence,” he said. “This is a songwriting community.” Despite its old-school charms, the genre has grown. This has led to new folk festivals across the region, including many led by bands like Trampled By Turtles and Pert Near Sandstone that have paved the way for up-and-comers like The Last Revel, Acker said. “People have really latched on to this type of music,” he said. The Last Revel will open for fellow Twin Cities band Pert Near Sandstone when they play First Avenue’s mainroom on Saturday, Oct. 21. Two Midwestern bands, Henhouse Prowlers and Old Salt Union, are also on the lineup. The band’s latest record, this year’s “Hazard & Fate,” blows past the genre’s most bland contemporaries — you won’t ﬁnd any twee songs here — with emotive tunes packed with personality. Between Henke’s earthy, raspy voice and layers of banjo and bass, the humble songs tell honest tales worth listening to.

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AN INDIGENOUS KITCHEN Now that news has broke that the Sioux Chef himself Sean Sherman will get a restaurant along the downtown Minneapolis riverfront, it’s about time to get to know what’s up with his unique cuisine.

Sherman is a local chef behind a Kickstarter-famous restaurant concept based on cuisine made from indigenous Native American ingredients. Sherman and partner Dana Thompson recently announced they will partner with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to bring the model to a new destination park site near the Stone Arch Bridge and Mill Ruins Park area in the Mill District. It turns out they’ve written the book on this indigenous model of cooking. Sherman and local cookbook author Beth Dooley will launch their new book, “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen,” at the Aster Café on Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Locals will get a chance to try out some items from the cookbook, purchase the book and hear from Sherman himself how he dispels antiquated notions of Native American food.

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‘East meets Northeast’

You probably pass by it once a day, but Ginger Hop is worth interrupting your commute home if you’ve never been tempted by the “East meets NE” restaurant. Stop in for happy hour, and you’ll find a menu packed with plenty to order under $4. Try finding anything that cheap anywhere else. I’d start with the wontons ($4). At Ginger Hop, you have two kinds to choose from, traditional and caramelized onion. If your server is willing, I’d cajole them into bringing you a half order of both. Each comes with its own sauce to

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mix and match to your liking. Now you can stock up on spring and egg rolls ($4). Ginger Hop’s banh mi spring rolls can’t imitate the crusty goodness of a sandwich on a French baguette, but they do capture much of what makes the Vietnamese dish so good. If you’re staying vegetarian, then the spring rolls with hoisin-lathered tofu is a good option. Finally, you can really get a sense for Ginger Hop’s Minnesotameets-Asia vibe with its satays. The skewers come with chicken, beef, walleye, tofu, mock duck or even pickles (no, this is not the Minnesota State Fair). I’d recommend the chicken, which comes with a peanut curry sauce.

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Of course, if you need something more substantial, you won’t have to break the bank. Grab one of the restaurant’s many creative burgers ($5.95), from the Kung Fu Panda — a burger topped with kimchi and ghost pepper cheese — to the Jet Li — this one is bit more Midwestern with bleu cheese, caramelized onions and bacon. Wash it all down with a Sake Grove, a house cocktail with blood orange liqueur, citrus vodka and sake that can either refresh you in the summer or liven things up in the winter. You can find Ginger Hop, at 201 E. Hennepin Ave., just outside downtown in the Nicollet IslandEast Bank neighborhood.

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