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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com

Upper Cuts Barber Shop owner Monell Castellan, left, cuts Brian Moore’s hair outside his former storefront on the 1400 block of Nicollet. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Monell “Locks” Castellan set up a barber chair on the Nicollet Avenue sidewalk outside his empty Upper Cuts Barber Shop with a sign: Closed for reconstruction. After 17 years in business, Upper Cuts and other storefronts on half of the 1400 block will be demolished to make way for 232 apartments and ground-floor retail. But Castellan considers himself lucky. He’s still operating a second location at 116 W. Lake St., and he’s talking to the developer about leasing a space when the

new project opens in the spring of 2020. He wants to open a barber school to give back to the community, a place for kids to cut hair and learn professional skills, “not as a hustle, as a career,” he said. Reuter Walton Companies co-founder Nick Walton said he’s also talking to Market Bar-B-Que and Salsa a la Salsa about returning to the block, although no leases are signed for the five retail bays. “We always wanted smaller, local, entrepreneurial retailers, and as many of the existing as possible, to

be in the new building,” he said. “I’m fortunate the developer worked it out with me,” Castellan said, thinking of other businesses that won’t be coming back. “… They’ve got to start from scratch, and they’ve been there as long as me.” As part of the Minneapolis 2040 long-range plan for the city, staff members said they heard one issue from the business community come through loudest:

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Blocked in the bike lane More drivers are cited for stopping or parking in bicycle lanes

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com The edge of the roadway is a space in demand for pickups, drop-offs and the short-term parking of delivery vehicles of every type, from boxy white Amazon vans to Sysco’s refrigerated semis. It’s also a space where drivers frequently come into conflict with bicyclists. On-street bikeways comprise more than half of Minneapolis’ lauded 244-mile cycling network, mostly in the form of dedicated bike lanes striped next to a curb or street parking — places where it is illegal for motor vehicles to park or even stop, with few exceptions. But stop they do, even when those bicycle lanes are separated from motor vehicle traffic by a row of plastic bollards, as on Blaisdell Avenue South, or a wide cement curb, as on 11th Avenue east of U.S. Bank Stadium. Evidence often turns up on social media, and one Twitter user posted a photo of a car

parked on the wrong side of the 11th Avenue curb just days after it was installed this fall. Cyclist Jay Gabler said he doesn’t get as annoyed with delivery vehicles, which just as often block motor vehicle traffic when no loading zone is available, as “with the cars and vans that block lanes with impunity while they idle for whatever reason, whereas they would rarely just hang out in a car traffic lane.” “Let them block parking or other lanes,” said Willy Lee, a cyclist who lives in South Minneapolis and works on the West Bank. “I’m in grave danger when I try to go around and traffic is coming at 40 mph.” Steve Mosing, a city traffic operations engineer, said it’s a problem Minneapolis has tried to address through a combination of roadway design, signage and driver education, with mixed results. SEE BIKE LANE PARKING / PAGE 14

A cyclist rides around a car parked in the Hennepin Avenue bicycle lane between 11th and 12th streets. When approached for an interview, the car’s driver pulled away. Photo by Dylan Thomas

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Voices

Moments in Minneapolis By Cedar Imboden Phillips

WHAT’S THAT SMELL? LUTEFISK SEASON!

f it’s November, that means that lutefisk season in Minneapolis is oﬃcially underway! Lutefisk is dried cod soaked in lye. Here in Minnesota, lutefisk is strongly associated with the region’s Scandinavian immigrant heritage. This can be clearly seen through the story of Minneapolis’ Olsen Fish Co., founded in 1910 by a pair of Norwegian immigrants. For most of its history, Olsen’s was located on 5th Street in the North Loop, but in 1998 it moved to its current location near Broadway & 2nd. The employee in this undated photograph is preparing lutefisk; in the background are barrels of the finished product, many destined for shipment to the region’s many community lutefisk dinners.

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.

Image from the Hennepin History Museum’s collection.

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Jeremy Mathison (second from left) with Sarah, Tom and Megan at Broken Clock Brewing’s new tap room. Photo by Brian Lambert No kids, we have not yet reached “peak beer.” The golden age of suds brewing and imbibing is not cresting yet. The boom is still going strong enough that the 600-plus-member Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative up on California Street in Northeast’s arts district has opened its own taproom, with an official grand opening scheduled for Nov. 9. After a year-and-a-half in the brewing and wholesale business, team Broken Clock has taken over a warehouse lease and expanded with a 6,000-square-foot taproom located at 3134 California St. NE, the better to serve fans of its — count ’em — 20 beers (at least). Standard brews include Community Kolsch, a clean, crisp, delicately balanced beer with very subtle fruit and hop character, inspired by Will Hubbard, member No. 3; and Lavender Uprising, an intensely hoppy, fairly strong India pale ale infused with dried organic lavender flowers, inspired by Jeremy Mathison, member No. 1. Seasonal brews include Constitution Cream Ale (light, crisp and mildly malty with a smooth mouthfeel and very low bitterness), Nordic Night (chocolate and spice aroma with strong dark chocolate and toffee flavors intermingled with spices, including nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cinnamon); and Red Coats, a New Englandstyle IPA (hazy and juicy with the aroma of a hopped-up IPA but without the harshness, it’s loaded with hops featuring citrus and tropical fruit flavors, and a blood orange infusion lends a tart, citrusy bite). The above-mentioned Mathison, also the brewery’s co-creator and operations manager — voted into the job of doing all the really fun bookwork — seems to like making a point of Broken Clock’s bona fide 308A tax standing as a 100 percent ownedby-members operation, with each member having an equal vote. (So, you may wonder, do a couple beers help the group agreement process?) “A 308B can have up to 85 percent equity partners with only 15 percent members. But we are a 308A, which means everyone involved is member. One-hundred percent,” he said. “And that means people

from Rochester to Duluth, as well as the Twin Cities.” Broken Clock, which moved its operations into the old 56 Brewing plant, is the second cooperative brewery in Northeast after Fair State Brewing. And yes, you too can become a member with full voting privileges and other perks. Contact Mathison or drop in to find out how. The new taproom, designed in part by members also tied into the area’s arts community and largely renovated by member labor — after hiring out the code-precision stuff like electrical — was a team effort. “I’d say members did 75 percent of the work on the room,” Mathison said. The taproom phenomenon is familiar to pretty much everyone who has ever hoisted a cold one, and Broken Clock is honoring the basic traditions, some of which are of course controlled by city statutes. There will be regular music and, as you might expect, constant food truck service. “Some of the members own trucks, so they’ll be around quite a bit,” Mathison said. Expect to see Little G’s Mobile Pizzeria out front quite frequently serving wood-fired 10-inch pizzas, baked pasta and more. They’ll be joined by a rotating cast of vendors connected via the Broken Clock network. Mathison and crew are planning a steady flow of events to keep the crowds coming in and entertained, as with other popular taprooms. The co-op plans to tap member labor again next spring to add a 3,000-square-foot outdoor deck and beer garden on the north side of the taproom. “We really want this whole space to be family friendly,” Mathison said. The design includes a dedicated kids space. Solo, unattached hipsters alone do not sustain a large taproom, no matter how robust the beer culture. So, “the beer thing” still has a way to go before it peaks? “We sure think so,” Mathison said. “I read that the Twin Cities is something like 10th nationally in terms of beer consumption, but only 16th for capacity. What that says to us is there’s still a pretty big range between demand and supply. We think we’ll be fine.”

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Downtown residents, especially those on the north end living close to the river, have a new venue not only for basic dog care, but doggy socializing. City Paws Pet Club, what co-owner Dan Kerkinni describes as “your one-stop shop” for just about everything Fido-related, opened its doors Oct. 2 at 300 S. Second St. In addition to the more or less usual dog care goods and services — pet merchandise, doggie day care, a dog “hotel” for boarding the family beast and a spa where either Kerkinni’s staff or you yourself can bathe your dog — City Paws has ambitions to create a series of events designed to encourage socializing among both animals and their owners. “More or less usual” might be understating City Paws level of amenities. The doggie hotel rooms come equipped with soothing, research-tested pooch music, as well as TV screens with calming videos and individual cameras for owners to check on their furry pals online while they’re away. Kerkinni is confident enough in the City Paws business plan, created with his wife, Sitania, that the couple is already scouting the Uptown area for a second parlor. “The pet care industry has grown remarkably over the last couple decades,” Dan said. “I believe it was something in the range of $17 billion–$19 billion in 2000. That’s all pet goods and services. To where it’s now something like $70 billion today. “We see a lot of growth there. And down around this neighborhood, it’s like dog central. Everywhere you look people have dogs.”

The Kerkinnis have even left room in their bright and spacious downtown location for a full-time veterinarian. He said their original plan was to bring a vet in as they opened, but the doggie doc they had in mind was older and decided he wasn’t interested in the kind of full-time commitment they were looking for. That said, among City Paws’ staff of 18 are the equivalent of dog nurses, capable of detecting basic maladies and recommending further treatment. Also on the “next step” agenda: a coffee shop for owners. Dan made the career shift to dog care after years in corporate finance, working for IBM, Calloway and Supervalu along the way. Sitania had a career in early childhood development out in Chanhassen. The combination of talents, some fatigue with the corporate environment and, it goes without saying, an affinity for dogs, led them to the City Paws concept. A full-tilt City Paws grand opening is still in the works, and Kerkinni said he expects to announce a date soon, along with a calendar of events created to bring owners and their pets together. “Socialization” is mentioned frequently on City Paws’ website, and it refers specifically to dogs who can be dropped off, perhaps by downtown workers, and allowed to play with other dogs for several hours. But like the human social nexus of dog parks, where neighbors meet and catch up on the news of the area, Dan said they very much want to provide a venue for events and services that foster communitybuilding among the hundreds of new residents living in the north end of downtown.

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The Dunwoody College of Technology has opened a $10 million renovation to help prepare the 104-year-old school to address the state’s 21st century problems. A new student learning commons and library are the first pieces of an approximately $50 million makeover of Dunwoody’s campus in the Lowry Hill neighborhood, just outside downtown Minneapolis. President Rich Wagner said the project, the result of donations from alumni, philanthropists and local businesses, will help address a local skills gap in engineering, construction and other fields and ensure Minnesota students don’t have to travel out of state to learn these skills. “There are a lot of Minnesota companies (that ask us), ‘We need engineers, so how can we help?’ They are willing to line up and step up,” he said. The non-profit private college recently turned a 1924 gym into collaborative space for students to hang out, roughly 16 offices for admissions staff and a flexible classroom for classes or events. The school built out a new library within the gym’s brick walls. Dunwoody discovered several students in the 1950s and ’60s found their way up the gym’s catwalks and wrote their names on the interior brick wall, relics that remain in the new facility. Wisconsin- and North Carolina-based Credo Campus Planning & Architecture kept them exposed in the firm’s design, which Wagner said emphasizes the building’s engineering through exposed trusses and ductwork.

“It’s kind of our brand,” he said. Future work will include building out a student center, an entrance area at the south end of the school’s main building and space for the Dunwoody’s new School of Engineering, a growing department that is seeing more four-year programs and more students. Wagner said they’ve raised about $44 million so far. He expects Dunwoody will begin construction on the next phase next year and complete work in the spring of 2020. The school’s first class of electrical engineering students started this year and other four-year programs like software engineering and mechanical engineering will have their first graduates in the next couple years. In total, Dunwoody offers 45 programs across engineering, architecture, design and construction. The renovations come at a time when the school’s graduates are in high demand. Wagner said that for every Dunwoody graduate there are another eight unfilled positions in in-demand industries like construction and engineering. Not only do companies need skilled workers, he said, but they also need managers and people with specialized skills. “While that’s good for our students, it’s bad for Minnesota,” he said. The renovation will create infrastructure for a growing campus that’s becoming less of a commuter campus and is bringing in a more diverse student body. Dunwoody enrollment is up 15 percent from 2015.

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When you open a store with a name like The Cat and the Cobra, you have to be prepared for the questions. “What does that mean? Who’s the cat? Who’s the cobra? Is that a video game thing?” Eric Swenson laughs. “You know I don’t even know,” he said. “It just kind of came up when my girlfriend and I were kicking around names for the place. One day we just hit on The Cat and the Cobra and said, ‘Hey, that’s good. Let’s go with that.’” (There was a Les Savy Fav album by the same name.) Well, alrighty then. At least “cat” and “cobra” are actual real words, unlike “Accenture” or some other entirely invented, research-tested brand name. Not that Swenson, 34, and girlfriend Casey Henricksen, 23, are posing any great threat to the world’s corporate titans. Their new store opened its doors Oct. 6 at 1842 Central Ave. NE, in-between Maya Cuisine and Ely’s Hair Salon in a space previously occupied by florist Bloom and Buttercup. “And before that there was a psychic reader in here for a few years,” says Swenson. “I’m not sure what happened to that one.” What he knows for sure is that The Cat and the Cobra is “an entirely new business,” certainly for Henricksen and him, and one that intends to carve out a pretty specific niche in the not exactly underserved vintage clothing and accessories marketplace. After years selling construction signage for big name companies and “traveling all over the place,” Swenson had had enough. “I knew I didn’t want to work for the man anymore,” he said. What he decided was he wanted to work for himself. After asking himself what he most enjoyed and what he was good at, he said, “I realized I had kind of a knack for hunting for things. “As a hobby I had been involved in rebuilding old Harley-Davidson motorcycles, which meant a lot of time making contacts around the country for old parts — or parts, I should say — to get older bikes back running. In traveling around for my old job I met a lot of people who loved everything about the Harley culture, which besides the bikes themselves means old T-shirts, denim and leather jackets and all the other stuff that comes with Harley. Which is a lot.” So the small-ish store on Central — 800–1,000 square feet — is pretty significantly devoted to used and vintage HarleyDavidson related gear, with an emphasis on

a lot of funky, well-aged T-shirts, weathered enough to make every semi-retired dentist look like a bona fide ornery bandito on his ride to Sturgis. Or the mall. The collection of nicely worn boots is pretty impressive, too. Swenson said one of his contacts was a wife cleaning out her deceased husband’s truly Imelda Marcos-like collection of dozens of high quality leather boots (size 10–10 1⁄2, if you need to know). “It wasn’t just the Harley thing, which I really enjoy — and really is huge in terms of the amount of gear and accessories the company has put out over the years — it was also the idea that almost all this stuff is American-made,” he said. “That’s been a big part of their brand, at least until recently, and I kind of like that, and so do a lot of other people. So it’s kind of something we sell, American-made. It’s kind of a lost art.” While many people have had the experience of either cleaning out their own closets or the closet of a parent who has passed away, then hauling the “vintage” gear around town to one of the many used-clothing stores, Swenson is quick to emphasize that funky old dresses, blouses and dad’s not-so-hipanymore white loafers are not what The Cat and the Cobra is looking for. “We’re really trying to focus on the unisex thing, because that’s kind of what Harley has done,” Swenson said. “I mean, my girlfriend likes to wear a lot of the same clothes I do. They’re comfortable and sturdy. “So if somebody comes in with something unique, we may buy it. But we’re really trying to avoid being your typical antique store.” He said the shop’s “real focus is on cool old Harley T-shirts,” the flow of which is directly related to all the contacts Swenson has made while out hunting for parts. Not that’s he’s revealing exactly from whom or where. “Yeah, that’s kind of my secret,” he said. “All those contacts is how this place remains unique, I hope.” And in case you’re wondering, HarleyDavidson is cool with this sort of thing. The Harley accessory aftermarket, if you will — stuff that fans have handed down, traded or sold — is so enormous no company could keep up with it or try to claw back a slice of the profits. “It’s like buying a car from Ford,” Swenson said. “Once you buy it, it’s yours, and you can do whatever you want with it. “But you will get the cease-and-desist letter if you start printing new stuff with Harley’s logo on it. That’s a no-no.”

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Government

Volume 49, Issue 22 Publisher Janis Hall jhall@journalmpls.com Co-Publisher & Sales Manager Terry Gahan tgahan@journalmpls.com General Manager Zoe Gahan zgahan@journalmpls.com Editor Dylan Thomas 612-436-4391 dthomas@journalmpls.com @DThomasJournals Staﬀ Writers Michelle Bruch mbruch@journalmpls.com @MichelleBruch Nate Gotlieb ngotlieb@journalmpls.com @NateGotlieb

CIVIC BEAT

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Oﬃcials cheer Crown Hydro decision News that Xcel Energy took steps in October to cut off planning for a proposed hydropower facility at St. Anthony Falls was cheered by elected officials who represent the Minneapolis riverfront area. Crown Hydro had since 1991 been pushing a plan to harness the falls to generate electricity. It was an industrial vision for a riverfront that has been revitalized with new parkland and housing. In October, Xcel issued a notice of termination to Crown Hydro that would cut off funding from a 2002 grant. Xcel’s decision followed the Minnesota Public Utilities Commissions’ decision earlier in the month to withdraw the remaining $3.5 million in funds from what had been a $5 million grant to Crown Hydro. Both the city and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, which plans to significantly

expand riverfront parkland, opposed the Crown Hydro project. “In the 25 years since hydropower on the Mississippi River was first contemplated, the Minneapolis central riverfront has been transformed into a home of dynamic and growing neighborhoods, recreational activities and entertainment. The actions of the PUC and Xcel ensure this revitalization will continue, with the St. Anthony Falls as its heart and soul,” Mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement. City Council Member Steve Fletcher, who represents downtown’s Ward 3, also praised the decision, as did state Sens. Kari Dziedzic and Bobby Joe Champion, who in a joint statement issued Oct. 22 said the project “no longer makes fiscal sense.” Dziedzic and Champion represent Minneapolis districts on either side of the Mississippi River.

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Public hearings set for 2040 plan The city has scheduled two public hearings on Minneapolis 2040, its once-a-decade update to the comprehensive plan. The comprehensive plan guides land use and development, and the city is required by law to update the plan every 10 years. Minneapolis 2040 aims to lay the groundwork for what its authors describe as “equitable growth” over the next two decades, when Minneapolis’ population is projected to grow to 465,000 from 416,000. Published online in the form of an interactive website in March, the plan reflects 14 goals adopted by the City Council, which include promoting growth, adding living wage jobs and affordable housing and maintaining a sustainable and diverse local economy. The City Council is expected to vote on the plan in December before submitting it to the Metropolitan Council. The land use changes outlined in the plan will be set in ordinance when the city updates its zoning code in 2019. After nearly 10,000 comments were submitted over the summer, city planners revised Minneapolis 2040 and released an updated version in September. It stepped back from one of the most controversial aspects of the plan, which would have opened almost all neighborhoods to fourplex development, instead recommending triplexes the size of single-family homes be allowed in most neighborhoods. The revised plan also lowered the recommended increase in allowable building heights along some transit corridors where the city aims to encourage denser development. A similar change was made to the recommended building height limits in the transition areas between some busy streets and the surrounding residential neighborhoods. The first public hearing was Oct. 29 during the regular Planning Commission meeting. The City Council hosts a second public hearing 4:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in room 317 at City Hall.

Work on navigation center underway Work on a temporary navigation center that will allow for the relocation of people living in a large encampment near Franklin & Hiawatha got underway in October. The City Council on Oct. 16 approved $1.5 million for development of the navigation center, planned for a 1.25-acre site near the Franklin Avenue Metro Blue Line light rail station. Less than two weeks earlier, the Council declared an emergency, allowing it to move more quickly through the steps required to move and shelter the dozens of people at the encampment. Modeled on similar facilities in cities like Seattle and San Francisco, the navigation center is meant to guide those experiencing homelessness into temporary shelter or supportive housing. It will be located on land owned by Red

Lake Nation, which intends to develop the site into affordable housing next year, and the city. Demolition of existing buildings on the site began less than a week after the council approved funding for the navigation center. Speaking to the Housing Policy and Development Committee on Oct. 24, City Coordinator Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde said placement of families and individuals living at the encampment was “happening rapidly” even as work on the navigation center continued. Rivera-Vandermyde said 18 families had been placed in shelters and another three families in supportive housing. Supportive housing beds for 17 individual adults had been secured. Several dozen others either had applications in for housing or were on wait lists.

Rivera-Vandermyde said the population of the camp, which had grown to several hundred people over the summer, had held steady in recent weeks. The city was set to accept a $150,000 donation from the Pohlad Family Foundation that will be used to pay for a navigation center project manager. Recruited for the job was Margaret King, who previously worked as director of housing programs at Seattle’s Downtown Emergency Service Center. If her contract is approved, King is expected to coordinate the efforts of a partnership that includes the city, state and Hennepin County as well as Red Lake Nation, Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors and Minneapolis nonprofits that work with the homeless.

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Dateline Minneapolis / By Steve Brandt

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

any of us get through our lives with no more contact with the criminal justice system than a traffic ticket. Such was my experience until two incidents six months apart brought me closer to our system for crime and punishment. In one case I was the victim. In the other I was the perp. Neither case was particularly consequential, the sort of drama from which TV crime shows are fabricated. But each deepened my understanding of the system. Take first my unexpected mutation from a generally law-abiding citizen to the status of the accused. It was a sunny July day. I was running a few errands on my bike. A block or two ahead on Blaisdell Avenue a sedan had snaked into the bike lane that’s delineated by white plastic posts, white paint and no-parking signs. It was sort of a trigger for me. For the last 18 months of my career as a reporter based in downtown Minneapolis, after the Strib moved from its own building into a rented office tower, I commuted mostly by bike. Previously, I’d been two-wheeling the eightmile roundtrip to work once or twice a week during the warmer weather. But distaste for paying downtown parking rates turned me into a bike commuter on all but the iciest days. Frequently, I’d encounter vehicles blocking the bike lanes along Park and Portland, Blaisdell or First avenues. There were postal vans, school buses, taxis, contractor

trucks and more. It’s against state law to park or even stop in a bike lane, and I’d grown quite righteous about defending cyclists’ hard-won space. Maybe too righteous. I’d commonly slap a fender or rap it with my knuckle as I passed to protest having to swerve into the traffic lane. As I approached the latest offender on Blaisdell, I saw a passenger get out but the driver remained. And sat there. So I thought nothing of rapping on his fender as I passed. A block layer, the driver passed me, rolled down his window, and asked me to pull over until he could check for damage. So confident was I that my mere knuckle couldn’t have damaged sheet metal that I humored him. To my surprise, there was a dent maybe the size of a dime on his fender. He began talking of compensation. I pointed out that he was in my space on a block in which three no-parking signs were posted and that there was space to park legally on the other side of the street. He called a cop, pointed out the dent, which I didn’t deny causing, and I was soon the recipient of a ticket for criminal damage to property in the fourth degree. I quickly looked up the statute, and began devising possible defenses. Fourth-degree criminal damage requires intent to cause damage. My intent had been not to damage but to warn as I passed. I debated whether to fight the ticket. Hiring a lawyer would be expensive, but self-representation had a

steep learning curve, and I was cognizant of the adage that he who represents himself has a fool for a client. I had months to mull my plea as the case dragged on through four pretrial hearings at which my matter kept getting postponed and postponed. Finally, the city prosecutor offered to drop the charge if I paid claimed restitution of $235, based on a body shop’s estimate. I balked a little because there was no evidence that the driver had actually repaired what the police report described as a ding, just as he hadn’t repaired several previous dents. But ultimately I paid up since the charge was dropped. Appearing in court four times allowed time for observation. First, such slow-moving justice has consequences. I’m a retired guy, but imagine the economic penalty to a worker to have to take time off four different mornings. Second, it’s one thing to read studies of racial bias in the justice system. It’s another to show up and find yourself the only white defendant in a courtroom of black and brown faces. The experience came close to adding me to the one in four Americans with something besides a traffic ticket as a criminal record. And as the group We Are All Criminals (weareallcriminals.org) reminds us, four in four Americans have done something defined by the law as criminal, the difference being who among us got caught. When a candidate for county attorney emerged this year to challenge the current prosecutor with strategies to instill more racial justice in the system, I knew which campaign I’d sign up for. I had just disposed of my case when weeks later I found myself on the other side of the law as a victim. After an eye exam one morning, I showed up at the gym for my usual weight room workout. Walking past the weight rack,

another lifter and I bumped slightly against each other. He said nothing, so I moved on. A few minutes later, I had just parked myself at a weight machine when a blow seemingly out of nowhere landed on my cheek, the sucker punch sending my glasses flying. I looked up and the same guy stood in front of me, saying nothing when I asked incredulously what that was for. With the help of another exerciser, I found the remains of my shattered frames. By that time, staff told me that the perpetrator had also struck a much younger guy, likely breaking his nose. The Y staff was great, immediately banning the offender and summoning police. Both of us pressed charges. His was third-degree assault because of the broken bone, while mine was a mere fifth degree since the blow left no visible mark. I mainly wanted restitution for the glasses. It turns out that, between my medical insurance and the state crime victim compensation fund, I’ve been made whole without restitution. But the man who struck us was committed as mentally ill after evaluations and was sent to a mental hospital for a competency restoration program. At this point, my hope is that the gentleman gets the help he needs rather than seeing him punished. But this brings up a larger issue in the criminal justice system, where at least one-third of those populating the jail are there for allegations stemming from their mental health issues: Adequate treatment programs might prove much more cost-effective than jail time. Meanwhile, my wife extracted a promise that so far I’ve kept — no more banging on illegally parked cars.

Steve Brandt retired from a 40-year career at the Star Tribune in 2016. He lives in Southwest Minneapolis.

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Glyphosate banned in parks By Sheila Regan

Park Board approves Graco deal The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted to accept a $3 million donation for a new park in Northeast Minneapolis along the Mississippi River, and they plan to name it after the donor. The move at the Oct. 17 Park Board meeting settles a legal dispute with Graco Inc., a local corporation that makes industrial pumps and sprays, with whom the board has been fighting with for three years. Park Board President Brad Bourn described the gift as “the single largest donation from a philanthropic donor in the modern history of the parks.” The future Graco Park, located northeast of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge, will be part of Above the Falls Regional Park and overlook Hall’s Island, which the Park Board is currently restoring. The park won’t be developed until 2022, but that’s 10 years earlier than the neighborhood would be getting a new park without the donation. “When Graco and the Minneapolis Park Board looked at the totality of the situation, we realized that our goals are much more in line than they are divided, and we came together and put together an impressive compromise,” Bourn said. As part of the deal, Graco plans to drop a lawsuit over an easement sought

by the Park Board. Needed to complete a riverfront trail, Graco will grant the easement to the Park Board for free. The Park Board plans to sell a 2.2-acre portion of the larger 11-acre site — formerly home to the Scherer Brother Lumber Co. — to Graco for $1.1 million, which both parties agreed was its fair-market value. Graco plans to develop the site. A number of Graco employees showed up to the Park Board meeting to speak in favor of the new park and new name, but there were a few detractors. Alexis Penney, who lives near the park, was against granting the company the naming rights. “I’m down with public-private partnerships, but land grabs and privatization of public land needs to be looked at extremely critically, particularly on this project,” Penney said. According to Commissioner Chris Meyer, Graco originally wanted to have their logo on the sign for the park. “That was a deal-breaker for us,” Meyer said. “That would have indicated that it belonged to them instead of to the public, so that will not be on there.” Instead, the sign will indicate the park is part of the Above the Falls Regional Park, with the name of the park below it, and will contain MPRB logo.

Friends of the Wild Flower Garden called for exceptions to a Park Board moratorium on the use of glyphosate. Photo by Sheila Regan The Park Board voted Oct. 17 to put a moratorium on the herbicide glyphosate, a product first brought to market by Monsanto in 1974 under the name Roundup. The moratorium goes into effect Jan. 1. Glyphosate was found to be “probably carcinogenic in humans” by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2015, although other health regulatory bodies in Canada, Europe, Australia and the U.S., including the Environmental Protection Agency, have not backed up IARC’s findings. Meanwhile, it has been linked to declining bee populations, according to one study published by scientists at the University of Texas in Austin, last August. The moratorium comes in opposition to the desires of the Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, a non-profit group that supports Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary. Kathleen A. Connelly, director of the support organization for the park, said the group had called for certain exceptions for the ban.

“This would include killing buckthorn that has grown too large to be removed without disturbing environmentally sensitive areas, as well as clearing areas of poison ivy where volunteers would be working in the woods,” Connelly wrote in an email, adding that the group does not speak for MPRB. For the majority of the Park Board commissioners, however, there was no room for exceptions. “This is poison,” said At-large Commissioner Londel French. “Why do we need all these tests and stuff to realize whether the poison is good or bad? … Let’s just get rid of it.” The park board is setting up a 15-member technical and community advisory committee to research glyphosate alternatives, as well as alternatives to other toxic pesticides used throughout the park system, with their first report due on April 3. The committee will include nine community members nominated by the board (one by each commissioner) and six technical experts nominated by Assistant Superintendent of Environmental Stewardship Jeremy Barrick.

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The caregiver’s dance Anna Marie Shogren puts art and healing in conversation

By Sheila Regan

A dance piece inspired by choreographer Anna Marie Shogren’s work as a personal care attendant was performed at the Minneapolis Central Library during Northern Spark in June. Submitted photo

Like many artists and creative professionals, dancer and choreographer Anna Marie Shogren has a day job. Over the years, she’s had an assortment of work experiences as a caregiver. For a long time she was a personal care assistant, and she has also worked with kids who have special needs and older adults with dementia or other cognitive or physical restrictions. For the last few years, Shogren has taught therapy-based movement classes in a variety of senior living situations. She spent a lot of time helping people

move, such as assisting the transition into a chair or bed. And she thought a lot about how much problem solving goes into being able to physically move through space with another person. “So many of the skills have really been supported by my training in dance,” Shogren said. “That’s why I paired these two communities.” Over the past year, she has been investigating the notion of caregiving through her dance practice. “At first I was trying to get at that quality

of movement in my own body,” she said. “(Then) I thought about wanting to put dancers in the position of the healthcare workers and allowing audience being the ones cared for.” In January, Shogren invited a live audience to a participatory dance piece. “Professionals,” an hour-long film documenting the event, records the dancers approaching the audience one by one. In the vocabulary of a healthcare practitioner, they demonstrate the “correct” way to move someone, placing audience members in a tableau. Moving someone “correctly” is supposed to be the safest for the lifter and the person being lifted. “There are leverage techniques for a lot of various abilities and body types,” Shogren said. But in some cases, moving someone correctly isn’t so black and white. “Life is so varied and different and messy,” she said. “In so many situations, moving someone the correct way is not going to work.” The person might be bigger than the caregiver, or they may have had a stroke, making one side of their body more weighted than the other. Shogren is curious about ways in which improvisation might be the safest course of action. After making the film, Shogren decided to switch roles, allowing the audience to

“play” the caregivers and move the dancers according to precise verbal instructions. She presented that version first at the 9X22 dance series at the Bryant-Lake Bowl and then again last summer at Minneapolis Central Library for the Northern Spark Festival. Now, Shogren is taking her project to the Weisman Art Museum as part a residency program that partners the University of Minnesota’s medical school with the museum. Shogren is working closely with nursing students and educators at the Center for Aging Science and Care Innovation in the University’s School of Nursing to explore the connections between dance and caregiving. Through the residency, Shogren has access to nursing students, faculty nurses and nurses-in-training so that she can learn about the process of training nurses and generate ideas, according to Kristine Talley, CASCI’s Director. “I think Anna has some really innovative ideas about the interaction between caregivers and older adults who need assistance,” Talley said. “Her ideas are fresh and exciting.” The hope, according to Talley, is “to create some kind of activity that can be used between caregivers and the people they are helping, to help them connect more on a human level.” Ultimately, Shogren will create a dance that can be used as a morning ritual, before SEE DANCER CAREGIVER / PAGE 13

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The Expo (phase II) With phase one of The Expo already well under construction on the old General Mills site in the St. Anthony Main area, developer Kelly Doran has presented Marcy-Holmes neighborhood residents with plans for the final 6.5 acres of land he purchased in 2017. The plan calls for 850 residential units with approximately 100 of them aﬀordable. Whatever the city approves, Doran has promised the neighborhood creation of an on-site road between University Avenue Southeast and 2nd Street Southeast, something many in the area have been asking for. Phase One is a 372-unit luxury apartment complex, featuring a 26-story tower. That project is expected to open in 2020.

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Peris Hill* What had been the Bradstreet Craftshouse, one of Minneapolis’ first craft cocktail bars, may soon be giving way to a 41-unit apartment complex for young adults — as young as 18 — leaving foster care. The project by Graves Hospitality and the St. Paul-based Landon Group is spearheaded by Bill Graves, president of the John and Denise Graves Foundation. Jim Graves owned

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Central Police Office Minneapolis has granted a variance “to reduce the minimum loading [dock] requirement from 3 large spaces to 0 spaces” to facilitate construction of the city’s new 12-story, 377,000-square-foot administrative building. According to a city statement, “The project will consolidate a significant portion of City of Minneapolis full-time employees in a variety of city departments including the primary public service center for Community Planning and Economic Development as well as permitting and customer service for a variety of city services. The building will serve as the central office for the Minneapolis Police Department.” The site was occupied by a 26-year-old, ninestory, 962-stall parking garage. The new city office building will be complete by summer 2020, according to the city.

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Hyde Development will conclude another brick-and-timber commercial renovation in the fourth quarter according to company founder and partner Paul Hyde. The finished building, purchased from the YMCA, will oﬀer 30,000 square feet of space adaptable to pretty much any type of oﬃce, artistic or retail use. Hyde said the brick-and-timber look is both “consistent with the neighborhood” and similar to other projects they’ve finished in Uptown and the North Loop. The building, currently undergoing demolition work, has 85 spaces of surface parking, making it attractive for a taproom, Hyde said, adding: “We could do the whole thing for one tenant, but we think it’s better with three or four.”

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Egypt beneath the waves By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com

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Underwater archeologist Franck Goddio led excavations of ThonisHeracleion and Canopus oﬀ the coast of Egypt, bringing artifacts such as this statue of the god Osiris (right) to the surface for the first time in over a millennium. Submitted photos

For more than a millennium, the ancient Egyptian cities Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus were hidden beneath the blue-green waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Ancient texts testified to their existence, and artifacts uncovered by archeologists hinted that they were located somewhere in the silty delta lands near the mouth of the Nile River. But it wasn’t until the late 1990s, when a sonar survey of the Bay of Abukir turned up tantalizing anomalies several miles off the Egyptian coastline, that archeologists knew they had to search beneath the waves. Treasures from both cities appear in “Egypt’s Sunken Cities” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, an exhibition that captures the thrill of archeological discovery and gives visitors a glimpse into a cosmopolitan society on the shores of the Mediterranean. It highlights the work of French underwater archeolo-

journalmpls.com / November 1–14, 2018 13 gist Franck Goddio, who led the excavations at Thonis-Heracleion, once a bustling hub of Mediterranean trade, and Canopus, a nearby center for religious pilgrimage. What exactly happened to the cities isn’t known, but they likely sank due to the natural subsidence of the delta region, a process sped along by natural disasters, including earthquakes, floods and tsunamis. Greeks began settling along the Egyptian coast in the 7th century B.C.E., and a line of Greek-descended rulers, known as the Ptolemaic dynasty, came to rule Egypt. An exhibition of more than 250 objects, including three monumental sculptures and elements from a hidden ritual that conferred power and legitimacy to the pharaohs, “Egypt’s Sunken Cities” tells the fascinating story of how the aesthetics and beliefs of two ancient cultures became entwined.

Egypt’s Sunken Cities When: Through April 14 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. Cost: $20 Info: artsmia.org The Greek and Egyptian cultures blended on Egypt’s ancient coastline. No object exemplifies that blending more beautifully than a lifesize statue of Arsinoe II (above left), a queen in the Greek-descended line of Ptolemaic rulers. Submitted images

FROM DANCER CAREGIVER / PAGE 8

The participatory dance piece involves audience members in movements inspired by caregiving. Submitted photo a stretch activity or even as a one-on-one activity. “I’m thinking about dance as a community ritual,” she said. “It’s a micro-dose of dance for the whole community.” As part of the residency, Shogren and her partners are researching how dance can benefit both seniors and their caregivers. “Everyone in the School of Nursing is concerned about benefitting senior communities, which is very much part of my focus as well,” she said. “But I’m also interested in taking care of people doing the work and taking care of the whole surrounding community, … even people in business office.” “It’s exciting for me to see her process as an artist,” said Talley, noting it’s vastly different from her process as a researcher.

Still, she added, “Innovation takes people from lots of disciplines to help come up with new innovative ideas.” So far, Shogren has conducted two workshops inside the museum where participants take part in Shogren’s explorations into the physical relationship between a caregiver and the person for whom they are providing care. At one of these workshops, Marcus Young, a movement artist himself, participated in the experiment. Shogren explained that they would each take turns being the caregiver, with the other person moving as if they had some difficulty or physical struggle. “I channeled my grandmother,” Young said, describing his turn as the person receiving care.

Without speaking, they negotiated the space around them, providing assistance as they moved each other from standing to sitting. Afterwards, they discussed the experience, talking about ways that, when they were doing the exercise, they assessed, problemsolved, provided comfort and checked in with the other person without ever using words. Shogren will host two more workshops at the Weisman, on Nov. 2 and 9, where visitors can come and try out the improvised movement. On Nov. 28, the Weisman will host a discussion between Shogren, Talley and Jean Wyman, the University’s Cora Meidl Siehl Chair in Nursing Research and a member of the Center for Aging Science and Care Innovation faculty.

Dance Like a Nurse, Nurse Like a Dancer When: 12:20 p.m.–1:50 p.m. Nov. 2 and 9 Where: Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Rd. Cost: Free Info: wam.umn.edu

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Citations increasing The fine for parking in a bicycle lane is $25, but few Minneapolis drivers ever paid that fine before 2016. Charges for parking or stopping in a bicycle lane were filed just seven times in all of 2015. By the following year, the total jumped to 376. In 2017, it was 586 cases. Charges for stopping or parking in a bicycle lane had been filed 500 times in 2018 as of Aug. 31. The Minneapolis Traffic Control Unit is a division of Regulatory Services. The city did not provide an official from the department for an interview, instead responding with an emailed statement. “Traffic Control has made efforts to increase enforcement so bicycle lanes are kept clear, including adding some technology so that 311 complaints get more quickly to agents in the field when there are problems reported. Delivery vehicles found blocking bike lanes are ticketed,” the statement read. In response to additional questions, another email from the department stated that Traffic Control was ticketing vehicles stopped or parked in bicycle lanes in 2015 and earlier, “but they were cited for a more general illegal stopping infraction that didn’t specify bike lanes,” which may explain why court records showed so few citations in 2015. Minneapolis Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Matthew Dyrdahl said blocked bicycle lanes may not be the top concern he hears from cyclists, but the complaints do reach him, particularly via social media. “And, obviously, I ride my bike a lot and I see bike lanes blocked,” he said, adding that he’s taken note of some problem areas, including the Seven Corners district just east of downtown.

Feeling unsafe Like many experienced cyclists, Dyrdahl is confident enough on his bike to simply ride around illegally parked vehicles. But he knows not everyone is, and as Minneapolis shifts its practices and policies to encourage more people to bike, blocked lanes could be an impediment. “When someone is parked in a bike lane, it’s high stress,” he said. “It doesn’t feel good.” Asked whether blocked bicycle lanes are a safety issue, Dyrdahl replied: “It is a safety issue if people feel it is” In August, a truck driver in New York City was charged with driving while intoxicated and other crimes when he struck and killed an Australian tourist on a bicycle. According to news reports, the cyclist was hit after she swerved to avoid a van in an on-street bicycle lane. MidwestOne Bank DTJ 110118 V3.indd 1

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Most bicycle-versus-car crashes in Minneapolis happen at intersections, and being struck from behind is a serious but relatively infrequent type of crash for cyclists, said Nick Mason, deputy director of the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota and a member of Minneapolis’ Bicycle Advisory Committee. But even the perception that blocked lanes are unsafe can impact a person’s willingness to bike, he added. “This is also one of the reasons why we want to build a network that works for all riders,” Mason said.

Raising awareness Since March, the Twitter account @tcblockedlanes has posted photographs of cars in bicycle lanes and crosswalks mostly in and around downtown, sometimes several times a day. The account’s co-creator, Alyssa Kohn, said she envisioned @tcblockedlanes as a “community account,” a way to crowdsource data about lane blocking and possibly identify problem areas. She encourages other users to tweet pictures of blocked lanes and tag their posts “#tcblockedlanes.” There are similar Twitter accounts posting blocked-bike lane photos in cities from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, and even some with a narrower focus on frequent offenders, like @FedExInBikeLane. “It’s very average for me to open 20 things a day” from other Twitter users, Kohn said. She also wants cyclists to report blocked lanes by calling 311 — as people have done 1,137 times since 2015, according city records — and she asks them to post the outcome of their calls online. Before she started @tcblockedlanes, Kohn said she would often hear friends complain that “nothing happens” when they call 311 to report illegally parked vehicles. She didn’t believe them until she started tracking the results of her own 311 calls, including multiple reports on a truck that repeatedly blocked her sister’s bike route to school at the University of Minnesota. It finally moved, she said, only after she used @tcblockedlanes in March to tweet at Mayor Jacob Frey and Ward 2 Council Member Cam Gordon. “I don’t trust everything that I put through 311 anymore,” she said. “I’ve seen with my own eyes that nothing has happened when they say it has.” Mason confirmed that he, too, had “definitely seen more than one example” of 311 reporting a problem was resolved when it wasn’t. Kohn said any part she can play in making Twin Cities streets safer is also her way of dealing with loss. A friend was struck and killed in a crosswalk while jogging on a Mississippi River parkway last year. “It’s kind of therapeutic to me to hope to make it visible and make change,” she said.

journalmpls.com / November 1–14, 2018 15 FROM UPPERCUTS BARBER / PAGE 1 “Probably the No. 1 thing I heard was concerns about displacement of businesses because of development, because of rising rents, because of the lack of ownership of buildings,” said Heather Worthington, the city’s director of long-range planning. “And it’s a real concern in the business community right now.” Consequently, she said the issue was elevated to become part of the city’s antidisplacement work. A revised draft of Minneapolis 2040 adds small business retention as a priority. New policy ideas would help displaced shops relocate within new development, add affordable commercial space to new development, support longer-term leases and give advance notice of property sales.

Moving on The owner of Ryan’s Pub moved back to Belfast, Castellan said. (The owner could not be reached for comment.) Red Eye Theater will spend the next year finding a new space, although co-founder Steve Busa said affordable spaces are hard to come by. Salsa a la Salsa continues to operate daily at the Midtown Global Market, stating on its website that “Change is always a good thing and with it comes new opportunities.” Market Bar-BQue is opening a new location at 220 Lowry Ave. NE, and the owner is considering a satellite location in the new development. Asian Taste closed, and the owner could not be reached for comment. First Choice Child Care is down to one location in the Phillips neighborhood, and it’s building a second in North Minneapolis. Operator Nasro Abshir said that when the daycare closed, some of their families lost jobs because they couldn’t find alternate child care. She said the block encompassed successful businesses owned by women, immigrants and people of color, groups that city officials often say they support.

“We all want Minneapolis to improve, but it seems like in order for that to happen, we have to leave,” she said. A portion of nearby Stevens Square gentrified between 2000 and 2015, while Loring Park did not gentrify, according to the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban & Regional Affairs (CURA), which documented Stevens Square increases in median home value and residents with bachelor’s degrees. Gentrification is associated with both business retention and business disruption, according to research by Rachel Meltzer published in 2016 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her study of New York City found that displacement is not more common in gentrifying neighborhoods, but when it happens, spaces sit empty longer, and they’re more likely to attract chains. South Minneapolis residents interviewed for the CURA study repeatedly expressed a fear of “Uptowning” their neighborhoods, exchanging small, eclectic stores for bigger chains. The Uptown trade area’s average rent is nearly $2 more per square foot than the citywide average, according to a 2016 Perkins + Will retail study, and its concentration of 160 fullservice restaurants is second only to downtown.

Developing retail The developer of 1400 Nicollet, Nick Walton, said he’s trying to set rents for both housing and retail as low as possible. Most apartment rents would be $1,100–$1,850 per month, he said. Commercial rents would be $18.50 per square foot net, he said, with generous tenant improvement allowances to help build out the spaces. Walton said those rates are more than or close to what the businesses paid before, but it’s half the typical market rate for space in a new project. The worst outcome would be empty retail space, he said.

Monell Castellan (left) is negotiating to open a barber school in the block’s new development. Photo by Michelle Bruch

“You have to be able to charge enough in the housing above to help offset the rent in the retail below,” he said. Walton said it’s great urban design to include retail, but it’s difficult to do based on pricing, location and available retailers. The new project couldn’t accommodate the size of the former daycare or theater. He said the largest and best tenant he’s ever signed was Target in Uptown, but there aren’t many tenants like it. “It’s much simpler to have housing units than it is to have retail,” he said.

The city’s role In approving the development project last summer, planning commissioners said there was nothing they could do for the businesses. “We don’t look at affordability. We don’t look at displacement, and that’s missing,” said Council Member Jeremy Schroeder (Ward 11). “If the city is serious about its equity goals,

we need to make sure that’s applied in absolutely every single part.” Planning Commissioner Alissa Luepke-Pier encouraged residents to talk to policymakers about the issue. Citizens for a Loring Park Community offered Neighborhood Revitalization Program funding to help bring businesses back to 1400 Nicollet. “We believe these small businesses that helped revitalize Eat Street deserve better than to be excluded from this development,” wrote Gary Simpson, board president. Lowry Hill resident Janne Flisrand, who often speaks in favor of more housing and density, told the city that displacing business owners of color would exacerbate the city’s racial disparities. The new project should duplicate the block’s retail square footage and offer first options to existing businesses at comparable rents, she said.

‘Pushed out’ Castellan said he unsuccessfully lobbied his neighbors to buy their pieces of the property around nine years ago. “Look what happened. We got pushed out,” he said. On the Nicollet Avenue sidewalk, Castellan talked with Brian Moore, one of the barbers temporarily out of work. Now Moore is home with the kids while his wife goes back to work, and he’s headed to school in preparation for barber school licensing. “[Castellan is] one of those business people who is accepting of everybody and gave everybody a chance,” he said. “This was the chance I needed. … He gave me the opportunity to work and to eat. He helped me build my life in Minnesota.” He and Castellan greeted customers like Gary Gass and joked with MPD officers Steve Kingdon and Greg Kosch. “Did you buy the block?” asked one passerby. “Not yet,” Castellan said.

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Soo Visual Arts Center opens two new exhibitions this month, with opening reception celebrations happening on the same night. Sophia Heyman’s “Without Us,” challenges traditional approaches to American landscape painting by imagining nature without the lens of conquest or refuge from humans. Meanwhile, Alex M. Petersen’s “In the Future We’ll All Be Fun,” explores gender, technology and post-humanism through graphite drawings and acrylic paintings.

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Election Day It may not be a presidential election year, but there are still plenty of races at the local and national level to weigh in on that will have real impact on your daily life. So don’t forget to vote — and then reward yourself for you citizenship by attending an Election Day event.

Kingfield’s Election Day Polling Party 2018 The Kingfield Neighborhood Association will have three tents set up in Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park during voting hours, with hot coﬀee and snacks from the Lowbrow, Butter Bakery Cafe, Sun Street Breads and Victor’s 1959 Cafe. Afterwards, head to Harriet’s Inn, 4000 Lyndale Ave. S., to watch the returns. When: 7 a.m.–8 p.m. Where: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 4055 Nicollet Ave. Cost: Free Info: kingfield.org

Election watch party at Hopcat Head downtown to watch the returns of this year’s elections, where your purchase of Fulton Beer will benefit League of Women Voters. When: 11 a.m.–11 p.m. Where: HopCat, 435 Nicollet Mall Cost: Free (purchase necessary to get free “crack fries”) Info: Hopcat.com

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Table stakes By Carla Waldemar

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. That’s the name of a legendary Sondheim musical, and it’s also what occurred when we tried for a rez at the (once again) newly opened downtown café formerly called The Forum. Maybe they could seat us sometime in 2019. Meanwhile, we learned of another downtown restaurant debut and scored a table there instead. The stylish, brand-new Elliot Park Hotel is home to Tavola — Italian for “table” — with plenty of those gleaming white marble-like surfaces ready to welcome hungry diners. Outfitted with wood flooring, lots of glass and soft gray touches, from upholstery to gauzy drapes, the room provides a pleasantly spare design statement. And note that it’s quiet enough for conversations (answering my readers’ most frequent question) — including those with chef Aaron

Uban, patrolling the room in his ball cap from Finnegans Brew Co., which adjoins the site. He’s a vet of kitchens including Heartland, Strip Club and the Italian number that occupied Calhoun Square following Figlio. Here, he’s got a wood-fired oven at his disposal, from which come camera-ready pizzas (untasted but ogled) and our starter, a trio of plump, bouncy shrimp, sweet and lightly smoky, lounging on a bed of caponata favoring tasty eggplant, tomato and olives, along with a side of deliciously corn-y polenta. Nice palette of contrasting textures, colors and tastes. A second starter (apps are $10–$17 and shareable), tortelli alla lastra, was built of beguilingly robust ravioli squares bundling bits of spinach and sauced with a walnut pesto — rich indeed, and a preview of coming attractions, or at least a style of saucing. Soups ($7–$10) range from tomato-basil to full-on panzanella, which sounds made for a Minnesota winter. (We got a preview of its main ingredient, thanks to the complimentary bread, the soup’s mainstay, brought forth at the start of the meal, along with a glug of easygoing and delicious olive oil.) Then, bring on the pasta (available in two sizes, $8–$12/$13–$19). The winner was the cinghiale pappardelle — wide, house-made, toothsome noodles robustly sauced with wild boar, mushrooms, bits of chicory, a touch of oregano and fennel pollen (the flavor of which got lost in the shuﬄe) along with Aleppo peppers, also hard to discern. Oh, and lemon. Heartwarming. The fettucine carbonara arrived topped with a runny egg yolk, begging to be pierced to sauce the dish (nice, authentic touch), along with peas (not so authentic, but who cares) and long-overcooked, rock-hard bits of guanciale, a porky stand-in for pancetta. You know you’re in for a rich, fatty dish when you order this favorite, but this kitchen’s version is over the top.

Tavola is located inside the Elliot Park Hotel. Submitted photo

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More boar in the risotto — buddying this time with oxtail, along with mussels. The shellfish proved fresh and carefully timed, yet one has to wonder: why? (Unless you’ve been to Portugal, where pork-and-mussels surf ’n’ turf combos rule.) The rice itself boasted abundant chewiness (bravo), along with dots of chicory and abbiocco. (What’s that, I had to ask. “Love,” our server decoded.) The popping noise that perhaps awakened hotel guests was our belt buckles bursting, yet we longed to sample the entrée called cognosco i meie polli. If a chef brags, “I know my chicken,” we’ll take him on! Actually, it’s delicious, from uber-crispy skin to the juicy meat it harbors, cozying a stuffing of ricotta and spinach. It’s plated with a savory walnut pesto and sweet tomato, along with wood-roasted fingerlings and parsnips, dry and overcooked. Good concept, but begs for more careful timing on those spuds. Next time, among the entrees ($21 for salmon to $42 for New York strip), it’ll be il macchina, the chef’s take on porchetta, served with lentils, kale and grilled lemon. Instead, we grabbed the dessert menu ($3 for gelato to $14 for Tuscan canucci: cookies to dip into

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Vin Santa, that sweet, syrupy dessert wine). We opted for a medley of mini-tarts: fig, lemon and custard. The fillings, and their variety, were fine, but the proportion wasn’t: We’re eating more dry, boring pastry shell than filling in these coin-size treats. Next time: affogato, that solution to the coffee or dessert question, where the answer is simply, “yes.” Tavola’s mostly-Italian selection of wines by bottle or glass is well suited to the menu; craft brews (including Finnegan’s stout), cocktails — traditional to unique — and shrubs on offer, too. We got in on the ground floor here, and what fun. I have the feeling that tweaks will be made to elevate the experience even more.

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Winter Market schedule 10 a.m.–1 p.m., inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St.

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What you’ll ﬁnd at the Mill City Winter Market:  Winter storage and greenhouse crops, including salad greens, herbs, mushrooms, onions, garlic, squash, carrots, potatoes, radishes and other root vegetables  Artisan cheeses, eggs, fish, meat, dried beans, pasta, fresh bread, kombucha, pickled vegetables, jam, salsa and more  Locally grown Christmas trees, spruce tops and other winter décor  Farm-to-table breakfast and lunch  Power of Produce kids’ veggie tasting club  Live acoustic music  Handmade gifts, body products, homeware, jewelry and more from local artists

Squash and cheese dip By Beth Jones We all love butternut squash, but why not try something new like one of the colorful varieties of winter squash available at Mill City’s winter farmers markets? This recipe calls for red kuri squash, a round, medium-sized, reddishorange squash with a sweet and nutty taste. Makes about 4 cups.

Squash and cheese dip is a delicious use of a winter vegetable. Submitted photo

Find the local ingredients you need to make a crowd-pleasing dip at the upcoming Winter Markets (see recipe). Intimidated by hacking up a big squash? Check out the Mill City Cooks table on Nov. 7

Ingredients 1 medium-large butternut, red kuri or other medium size sweet squash, washed and cut in half lengthwise, seeds scooped out 2 teaspoons plus 1 Tablespoon olive oil Salt and pepper, to taste 4 sprigs thyme 1 large yellow onion 1 cup grated Burr Oak or Fresiago cheese from Shepherd’s Way Farm 1⁄4 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1⁄4 cup cream (optional) Sliced carrots, radishes, beets, broccoli, other seasonal vegetables or fresh bread, for serving

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Method • Preheat the oven to 425. Rub each half of the squash, inside and out, with a teaspoon of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place cut-side down on a baking sheet on top of the thyme sprigs. Roast until a fork poked into the non-hollow end of the squash slides in easily, about 45 minutes. • While the squash is roasting, heat the extra tablespoon of olive oil in a medium saute pan. Cook the onions until caramelized and soft, and set aside. • When the squash has cooled, scoop out the ﬂesh and mash roughly with a fork. Add the cheese, the leaves from the roasted thyme sprigs, nutmeg and salt. Stir in the cream and caramelized onions. • Scoop into a shallow oven-safe ceramic or glass dish, top with more cheese and bake for 8–10 minutes. Serve with seasonal veggies or fresh bread for dipping.

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