Southwest Journal Jan. 9-23

January 9–23, 2020 Vol. 31, No. 1 southwestjournal.com

INSIDE AN OLD NEW NAME

A learning curve for givewhatyou-can cafe

East Calhoun neighborhood now just ‘ECCO’ A2

DOG STATUE

A posthumous honor for Settergren’s pooch A5

‘People aren’t getting that they belong here,’ nonprofit restaurant’s founder says

SAFER STREETS

It’s action time for plan to eliminate traffic deaths A6

PLASTIC BAGS

Provision Community Restaurant chef Heather Maby cooks up a family-size portion of red pepper and green bean couscous.

Photo by Zac Farber

By Zac Farber

Inside Minneapolis’ first give-what-you-can community cafe, a handful of guests are sitting down for a family-style meal of red pepper couscous, garlicky spuds, balsamic brussels sprouts, onion vinaigrette salad and warm olive bread from Rustica Bakery.

The cozy 30-seat dining room is decorated with brightly colored walls, potted plants and a hodgepodge of chairs, tables, plates and glassware. Aside from a rug and a couple of lamps, everything in the room has been donated. Taking in the atmosphere, one of the guests remarks: “I’m surprised they’re not playing Gordon Lightfoot.”

SEE PROVISION / PAGE A15

Apartment rises and people move on

By Nate Gotlieb

In the summer of 2015, residents of Linden Hills and surrounding communities sent scores of comments to Ward 13 City Council Member Linea Palmisano and city planners about a proposed four-story, 56-foot mixeduse apartment building at the old Famous Dave’s site in the heart of the 43rd & Upton commercial district.

Residents, many of whom expressed opposition to the project, said they feared it would ruin the character of the neighborhood, that the proposed building design didn’t fit with the area and that it would tower over nearby buildings.

“The proposed development is too big for the location and would destroy the rare and much-loved atmosphere of downtown Linden Hills,” Hannah Pepin wrote.

The apartment project had its particularities — notably the fact that a previous development fight on the site had led to the creation of a small area plan that called for building heights of no more than 42 feet on the site. But many of the concerns raised by Linden Hills residents echo those expressed by other homeowners and businesspeople as new apartment buildings sprout up across Minneapolis and leaders in City Hall push to increase housing density in every corner of the city.

While proposals for new apartment buildings are routinely debated and resisted, less attention has been paid to how those buildings actually impact their neighborhoods once they are in the ground.

SEE APARTMENT / PAGE A10

East Harriet woman’s petition signed by 470,000 A12

PARK BOARD LEADERSHIP

Marching for 103 Minnesotans who died while homeless

By Michelle Bruch

Jono Cowgill elected board’s new president A13

X-RAYS AND RADIUM

A look inside the Bakken Museum’s vault B1

Temperatures were below freezing the night of the Homeless Memorial March on Dec. 19, but Robert “Bobby” Schmit said it wouldn’t be too cold to sleep outside. When it’s 20 or 30 below zero, he said, that’s when it becomes dangerous.

Marching with a sleeping bag by his side, Schmit carried a sign in honor of his friend John, whom he described as a Vietnam veteran who slept at Peavey Plaza for more than a decade and died earlier this year of cancer. He said John routinely sat outside Caribou Coffee on Nicollet Mall with a sign that stated: “It is what it is.”

“Nobody deserves to die without being acknowledged, or somebody shedding a tear,” said Jeanne Worm, a longtime marcher.

SEE HOMELESS / PAGE A14

Marchers walked two miles from Downtown to Plymouth Congregational Church to honor the homeless lost in 2019.

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New neighborhood name echoes past East Calhoun picks ‘ECCO’ as its new name

By Andrew Hazzard/ ahazzard@swjournal.com

The East Calhoun neighborhood has a new name. Kind of.

Residents of the neighborhood have voted to change the name of the East Calhoun Community Organization (ECCO) to ECCO, its former acronym stripped of the words it used to represent.

The neighborhood is the latest organization to remove Calhoun from its name since local officials redubbed Lake Calhoun to its Dakota title Bde Maka Ska as part of a movement in Minneapolis to disassociate from the 19th-century Southern politician John C. Calhoun, a proponent of slavery and the Indian Removal Act. ECCO’s decision came after three neighborhood-wide votes over the course of 2019: the first asking residents if they wanted to change the name, the second a ranked-choice

vote asking residents to narrow down a list of ten potential names and the third asking their preference between two final options, ECCO and East Bde Maka Ska. In the end, ECCO won out with 52.6% of the 502 votes, according to a report released by a committee charged with reviewing the neighborhood name.

While “Calhoun” was removed from the name, the new title isn’t the change some in the neighborhood were hoping for. If someone new came and asked what the neighborhood was called, the background would still need to be explained, said Ryan Brown, who sat on the name review committee.

“To me, personally, ECCO echoes East Calhoun,” Brown said.

Throughout the process, the neighborhood

After a year and three separate votes, the East Calhoun Community Organization voted to change its name to ECCO, its longtime acronym stripped of the words it represented.

Photo by Nate Gotlieb

organization worked to get the highest possible turnout. In the final ballot, 20.4% of the neighborhood’s total population voted (though only adults were allowed to vote), higher than the participation rate for most neighborhood organization actions across the city. When neighboring Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) rebranded as South Uptown in 2018, about 9% of residents voted. Brown hopes other neighborhood boards across the city will use their example to get more voter participation in their actions.

“The thing that I am most proud of is the level of engagement we were able to get,” Brown said.

The organization spent $5,600 sending out postcard notices, flyers and other communication efforts about the vote. The name review committee logged about 600 volunteer hours over 2019. The group said it was proud of getting 502 votes. Only two voters cast their ballot in-person, with 71% voting online and 28% of voters mailing in postcards.

“I think they created a very strong process and followed it,” said ECCO board president Dane Stimart.

He said he was impressed by the perspectives shared at three community-wide meetings discussing the name. Although the new name is very similar to the old one, Stimart believes most residents are looking to move on to other issues. The outreach efforts of the name committee resulted in more residents learning about the work of the neighborhood

East Calhoun community members shared their opinions on changing the neighborhood’s name during a May meeting.

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board, Stimart said, and could provide a model to get more engagement on future initiatives.

What the future holds for any rebranding or new signage to reflect the name change is currently unclear, Stimart said. The neighborhood organization will look to appoint a new committee to figure out those next steps in February.

The Minnesota Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case determining whether the Department of Natural Resources had proper authority to rename Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska without legislative approval. Local governing bodies and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names previously approved the name change.

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By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com

UPTOWN

Andy’s Diner opens at Lake & Humboldt Co-owners Miguel Gatica and Frank Chase opened Andy’s Diner at Lake & Humboldt in late December.

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A new diner is now serving breakfast, burgers and more in Uptown.

Andy’s Diner, a new restaurant from the team behind Andy’s Garage in Midtown Global Market, opened in late December in the former Bruegger’s Bagels space at Lake & Humboldt.

The inside has the unmistakable feel of an old-school diner, with tin panels, glossy red chairs and classic-style signs listing products and prices. Customers order at the counter and can watch the short-order cooks work in the kitchen.

“It just makes me feel good when I come in here,” said co-owner Frank Chase, who launched Andy’s Diner in partnership with his

Andy’s Diner is focusing on fast, made-toorder breakfasts, burgers and sandwiches.

longtime kitchen manager Miguel Gatica.

The menu screams classic diner, too, with a variety of burgers and sandwiches served with homemade potato chips or fresh-cut fries.

Milkshakes are available, as are take-home orders of broasted chicken.

Breakfast starts at 7 a.m. and is served all day, with several cheap, simple options like eggs and toast for under $4, as well as more substantial offerings like scrambles, omelets and pancakes. Classic Mexican options like huevos rancheros, chilaquiles and breakfast tacos are also available.

Everything is cooked to order, and Andy’s makes their own sauces and salsa, Chase said.

“We’re not messing around with frozen things,” he said.

His favorite burger? The diablo burger, which comes with habanero mayonnaise and jalapeno bacon and is hot without being overwhelming, Chase said.

It took the team about two and a half months to get the space how they wanted it. The biggest challenge was removing the massive Bruegger’s bagel oven, which took Gatica and Chase multiple days to move and required knocking down a wall.

So far, Chase said, reception has been good as people have slowly trickled into the restaurant. Most customers so far have been neighborhood residents walking by, though the diner does have a small parking lot in the back.

“We hope people will come and hang out,” Chase said.

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Red’s Savoy shutters Uptown pizzeria After a decade on Hennepin Avenue, Red’s Savoy has closed its location in the Wedge.

A sign posted on the door of the restaurant at 24th & Hennepin announced the restaurant had permanently closed.

Red’s Savoy opened its Hennepin Avenue location in the spring of 2009. The Minnesota-based pizza chain is down to one Minneapolis location, in Northeast.

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54TH & LYNDALE

Microblade and tattoo shop comes to Windom MSP Microblading Collective and Peregrine Tattoo are open under the same roof at 5451 Lyndale Ave. S., making it a center for needle-based body art in Southwest Minneapolis.

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A new studio in Windom is a destination for all needle-based aesthetics.

MSP Microblading Collective and Peregrine Tattoo are now open under one roof at 54th & Lyndale. The store is the result of a partnership between cosmetic tattoo artist Alice Berman and traditional tattoo artist Matt “Poohki” Ward.

The two met 15 years ago, when Ward tattooed Berman, and remained close friends. When Berman transitioned from traditional cosmetics to microblading, or cosmetic tattooing, they began working together again at the Blackend Tattoo Atelier and began looking for their own place.

Microblading, or cosmetic tattooing, has become much more common as its techniques and technologies have improved in recent years, Berman said. The semi-permanent tattoo process uses fine, hair-like strokes with a blade composed of microscopic needles linearly aligned to mimic the pattern of the feature being amplified. The technique can be used to create semi-permanent eyeliner, lip blush and, most commonly, eyebrows.

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The technique is growing in popularity, and Berman now has two apprentices learning from her at the shop.

MSP Microblading Collective and Peregrine Tattoo is the only combination spot for microblading and tattooing in Minneapolis, Berman said, and the shop has a fair amount of crossover customers.

Ward has been a Minneapolis-based tattoo artist for over 20 years and is well known in the community for his work featuring feathers, trees and animals, Berman said.

The two found their space, a former car garage at 5451 Lyndale Ave. S., in late August and spent about two and a half months building it out. The building is split evenly between tattoo and microblading spaces with a dividing wall down the middle.

Berman lives in Armatage, and Ward is just south on Lyndale in Richfield, making the location convenient for both. They opened their doors in November.

“It’s been going really well,” Berman said.

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LINDEN HILLS

Neighbors plan statue of hardware store dog When customers entered Settergren’s Ace Hardware in Linden Hills, they were always greeted by the same familiar furry face.

Jager, a large munsterlander who served as the shop dog at Settergren’s, died in late August, just shy of 13 years old. Now a group of neighbors is raising funds to build a commemorative bronze statue of Jager outside the shop at 43rd & Upton, one that will immortalize his friendly presence in the neighborhood. A GoFundMe page (tinyurl. com/jagerstatue) launched in November is attempting to raise $9,000 to finance the statue.

“Everybody loved him, and he loved them back,” Settergren’s store manager Joe Young said.

Jager was originally the dog of store owner Mark Settergren, and spent the early years of his life patrolling the aisles of the Settergren’s store at 54th & Penn. When Settergren’s opened its Linden Hills location in 2011, Jager joined the opening staff. He spent much of his later life living and working with Young. He could be found greeting customers there daily, though he took vacations during hunting season, spending weekends pointing and retrieving birds.

“He’d wait at the register and paw your leg,” recalled Ingrid Soderberg, a Fulton resident and longtime shopper at Settergren’s.

Such was Soderberg’s affection for Jager that in the months after he passed, she approached Young and Mark Settergren with her hope to commission a statue of Jager outside the store.

For Soderberg the idea for the statue extends beyond honoring Jager to celebrating love for dogs and the memory of all past pets.

“It’s important to me and the community,” Soderberg said.

She spent weeks researching bronze sculptors and ultimately hired Michelle Recke, who created the sculpture of the Edina Police K-9 at Edina City Hall.

The Linden Hills Neighborhood Council has committed to funding the final $1,000 of the $10,000 statue if the first $9,000 can be raised. Soderberg said she approached the

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Jager, longtime shop dog at Settergen’s Hardware in Linden Hills, photographed with his grandson and protege Jurgen.

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organization to help spread the word on the project and to lend it some legitimacy.

Jager was known for his kind, calm demeanor and his affection for children. One kid who donated money for the statue told Young that Jager was the reason he no longer feared dogs.

“It’s really kind of cool,” Young said.

In May 2019, KARE 11 aired a segment dubbing Jager the “unofficial mayor of Linden Hills.”

Even without the statue, Jager’s presence lives on in the neighborhood. People liked him so much they would buy puppies from litters he sired, and Young said there are a few of those dogs around Linden Hills.

Jager’s grandson Jurgen has taken over as the shop’s dog. Jurgen spent time getting to know the store with his grandpa before Jager passed away.

“It’s amazing what Jager taught that dog in a few months,” Young said.

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LYNLAKE

Hickory n’ Hops shutters in under a year Less than a year after taking over the Lyndale Tap House space, Hickory n’ Hops announced it was shutting down at the close of 2019.

The restaurant called itself a modern-day smokehouse, with a menu full of smoked barbecue meats and vegetarian options.

It hosted a wide range of themed nights throughout the week, from salsa dancing to trivia.

Owners Rupinder Singh and Douglas Tiggs bought the former Lyndale Tap House at 2397 Lyndale Ave. S. in January 2019 and relaunched as Hickory n’ Hops in March.

But it wasn’t until August that the restaurant added new signage.

On Dec. 24, the restaurant announced on its Facebook page it would be closed for

Christmas Eve and Christmas, which was followed by an announcement the closure would last through Jan. 2. But on Dec. 30, it was announced Hickory n’ Hops would not be returning.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Hickory n’ Hops will not be reopening after this holiday break,” the restaurant posted on Facebook. “We gave it our best effort, but we were simply not able to move past a couple challenges.”

Hickory n’ Hops did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

Hickory n’ Hops Where: 2937 Lyndale Ave. S. Info: hickorynhops.com

Hickory n’ Hops, a bar and smokehouse at 29th & Lyndale, closed at the end of 2019 after less than a year in business.

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Vision Zero, a nationwide movement to eliminate street deaths and severe injuries, was adopted in Minneapolis in 2017. In December, the City Council approved an action plan aimed at making the city a safer place to walk, bike and drive that will be carried out from 2020-22.

“We know that a smart plan is only as good as the implementation,” said Ethan Fawley, Minneapolis’ Vision Zero coordinator.

This year will serve as a buildup time for Vision Zero, Fawley said, with more major actions coming in 2021 and 2022. But already in 2020 there are improvements the city will be looking to make to streets known to be dangerous.

In Minneapolis, just 9% of streets host nearly 70% of the crashes, according to studies the city conducted in 2017 and 2018. In Southwest Minneapolis, those high-injury streets include Excelsior Boulevard, Franklin Avenue, Hennepin Avenue South, West Lake Street, Lyndale Avenue South and Nicollet Avenue.

Many of those hazardous streets are controlled by Hennepin County, and while the county and state have been involved in Vision Zero, ironing out how new safety infrastructure will be installed and who will pay for it will be a priority in 2020.

“All of those are things we’re looking to sort out,” he said.

Fawley said the city is “very interested” in working with the county to make safety improvements to Lyndale Avenue South, a high-injury street that has been a focal point for safe streets activists after a pedestrian was struck and killed crossing it in October.

County Board President Marion Greene announced county public works will be installing centerline delineators along Lyndale at 25th and 27th streets to restrict left turns in January. Bollard bump-outs will also be installed on the north side of the 27th & Lyndale intersection to narrow the street in an attempt to calm traffic and shorten crossing distance for pedestrians.

Greene said she would be pushing to get Lyndale onto the county’s capital improvement program schedule. Right now, there are no plans to reconstruct or repave Lyndale.

City-controlled Hennepin Avenue South is scheduled to be reconstructed between Douglas Avenue and Lake Street in 2023, which creates an opportunity to build in safer infrastructure.

But Fawley said Vision Zero staff are looking at making temporary changes to that stretch of

Small, low-cost safety infrastructure additions, like this new sign marking a one-way northbound stretch of Blaisdell Avenue, are examples of work people can expect to see as the Vision Zero action plan is implemented. The sign was installed this fall after neighbors voiced concerns.

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Hennepin in the short term, too.

Low-cost infrastructure changes like bollard bump-outs at known trouble intersections are moves the public works department has been making for the past five years and are expected to increase under the action plan.

To track progress, the city plans this spring to release updated crash data through 2019, which will serve as the baseline for progress assessments that will be released every six months under Vision Zero.

One big change that could come soon is lowering the speed limits on city streets, one of the highest-profile changes coming in the plan. Fawley said his department’s staff started working on a speed analysis once the state law was changed in May to allow cities to set their own speed limits and is nearing the completion of their study. They plan to bring new recommendations to the City Council this year.

Currently, most city streets have 30 mph speed limits. At that speed a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle has a 40% chance of death or serious injury, according to Vision Zero data. The chance of death or severe injury drops to 13% at 20 mph. The action plan identifies five dangerous driver behaviors that contribute to deadly crashes: distracted driving, driving under the influence, red light running, speeding and unsafe turning.

While most people know they shouldn’t do most of those actions, many don’t think about speeding as dangerous.

“That’s going to be a really big focus in 2020,” Fawley said.

Safe street activists crossed Lyndale Avenue at 29th Street on a cold November evening to draw attention to unsafe conditions on the county road.

The city’s Vision Zero staff are working with Hennepin County to implement changes on the street.

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Q: Energy disclosure ordinance takes effect

My wife found the house of her dreams, but the garage is too small for my man cave. What should I do?

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

A city ordinance requiring one- and twofamily homeowners to collect certain energy efficiency data before listing their homes for sale takes effect Jan. 15.

The City Council approved the law last year as part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Homeowners can fulfill the requirements of the ordinance in one of two ways: either by having a Truth In Sale of Housing (TISH) inspector collect the data during the mandatory pre-listing evaluation or by getting an energy audit from Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy’s Home Energy Squad program.

It does not require homeowners or homebuyers make any infrastructure upgrades, but the hope is that they may choose to do so after getting the additional information.

In either case, the inspector will need to evaluate a home’s windows, heating system and attic and wall insulation and compile the data into an “energy score.” City officials have said the score, which will be a number between 0 and 100, indicates the efficiency of a house. More efficient houses will have higher scores.

The inspector will also prepare a report detailing the improvements a homeowner or homebuyer could make, how much those improvements typically cost and how much could be saved annually by making them.

To measure wall insulation levels, inspectors will have to drill a two-inch hole in a wall in the home, unless it was built after 1980. The ordinance stipulates that the hole should be in a discreet location and should be plugged after the evaluation.

Either audit option could cost homeowners money. The traditional TISH inspection costs around $200, according to Mike Andrejka of A to Z Home Inspection LLC,

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who said he plans to charge about $50 more for collecting the efficiency information.

Home Energy Squad visits are either $70 or $100, though city sustainability head Kim Havey said they’re available for no cost for people with incomes below the area median.

Havey also said the city has 0% financing available for energy improvements.

According to the city’s 2013 Climate Action Plan, residential properties are responsible for about 20% of emissions in Minneapolis. Much of the city’s housing stock was built before 1960, according to the nonprofit Center for Energy and Environment, and about 70% of the city’s homes do not have adequate insulation, a key feature for increasing efficiency.

The Climate Action Plan calls for 75% of houses to undergo energy retrofits by 2025.

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A man was shot at Bryn Mawr Park on Dec. 29 and is in stable condition, according to a Park Board spokeswoman.

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Man shot at Bryn Mawr Park A man was shot Dec. 29 in Bryn Mawr Park.

He is in stable condition.

At 8:45 p.m., police responded to an attempted robbery and shooting, according to Park Board spokeswoman Dawn Sommers. The man was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center from a home on the 400 block of Queen

Avenue, about a mile away from the park.

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A few of my favorite things in 2019

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ave heart” and “keep heart” were my mantras of the year, for by now I know that the purpose of life is to gather heartful things and hold them close, like family and friends and music and books and movies and life itself.

“We’re only here for a minute,” said the late, great writer Brian Doyle to fellow writer David James Duncan in a recently published book of Doyle’s essays, “One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder.” “We’re here for a little window.

And to use that time to catch and share shards of light and laughter and grace seems to me the great story.”

New York Times columnist Timothy Egan referenced that Doyle quote in his column, “There Is Light in This Dark Season,” about keeping the faith in humanity and ourselves during the Trump impeachment, and the spirit of those words — much like Billy Bragg’s song “I Keep Faith” — is what kept me going in 2019.

Among many other profound and personal experiences I’ll keep to myself for the moment, these are some of the shards of light, laughter and grace that helped me keep my faith, lifted my heart and made me want to share: • Sharon Von Etten. Her album “Remind Me Tomorrow” was on repeat-play, with her truth-telling voice keeping me company so much of the year, and she proved to be as captivating a stage presence as I’ve ever witnessed — which I had the pleasure of doing twice this year, at stunning shows at First Avenue and Lincoln Hall in Chicago.

• Peter Perrett, “Humanworld.” Is there a more remarkable comeback than the leader of the Only Ones over the last few years? Amazing to hear that timeless voice singing about these times, be it on this urgent epic, or Perrett’s brilliant 2017 album “How The West Was Won,” or the increasingly regular live reincarnations of his solo band and a revamped Only Ones. Long one of my singer/rocker/songwriter heroes; long may he rock.

• The Waterboys, Varsity Theater, Sept. 28.

My favorite live show of the year came courtesy of this exhilarating and ferocious band, which led to repeated listens to the new songs of head Waterboy Mike Scott, who, like Peter Perrett above, has been writing tunes like his life depends on it.

• Billie Eilish, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” This was the year I rediscovered the immersive world of my headphones — not earbuds — and this pure, from-the-heart-guts-and-soul masterpiece was my main addiction of the year (along with Sneaker Pimps radio on Spotify and the deep dark beautiful rabbit hole that is Cleaners From Venus).

• Martin Keller and Greg Helgeson, “Hijinks and Hearsay: Scenester Stories from

Minnesota’s Pop Life.” I felt like I was going through the scrapbooks of my old friend and fellow scribe Keller, listening to music and him telling stories about the heyday of alt-journalism and the nascent Minnesota music scene, all chronicled with worldweary context, wide-eyed romanticism and lyrical prose.

• Bruce Springsteen, “Western Stars.” Last summer I listened to the Boss’ audiobook memoir on a solo road trip to and back from Montana. The desert, hot springs, mountains and western skyline were the perfect backdrop for all those stories about America, creativity and rock ‘n’ roll, and this lush, timeless classic feels like it was Made In Montana. Thanks for riding shotgun, Bruce.

• Better Oblivion Community Center, “Dylan Thomas.” How many million times did I love this tune over the last 12 months? Let Spotify count the ways.

• Mark Engebretson, “Jay’s Longhorn.” This incredible documentary, lovingly and expertly put together by first-time filmmaker Engebretson, chronicles the foundations of the Minneapolis scene that lives and rocks in the here and now. Bonus: The release parties/celebrations at the Parkway Theater, highlighted by performances from Flamingo, Curtiss A, the Hypstrz and the Suicide Commandos, were nothing short of timewarping shots in the arm.

• Wilco, Palace Theater, Nov. 24. A sprawling, epic, intimate, beautiful gala, all powered by the light of Jeff Tweedy’s huge heart.

• Joe Henry, “The Gospel According To Water.”

Speaking of lights and huge hearts, this gorgeous and graceful batch of tunes was my late-night go-to fix for wisdom and warmth.

• Billy Bragg barnstorms Minneapolis. He read from his great new book, “Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World,” at Magers & Quinn; ripped it up on “Tupelo Honey” with St. Dominic’s Trio at the Driftwood; rocked a “Teenage Kicks” session on The Current; and played the most unforgettable three-night stand in the history of the Fine Line Music Cafe. All the while, he engaged fans like friends and provided rays of hope like only Uncle Bill can. More, please.

• Bob Dylan, Mankato Civic Center, Oct. 24.

A few songs into the set he did “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” and by the end of the night I couldn’t help but think that this was it, Dylan’s greatest Minnesota show ever, his finest live concert achievement to date, with the best touring band on the planet and revamped songs that demanded listening and no singalongs. “Gotta serve somebody,” he sang near the end, and so he did — us, him, music itself.

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• “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” Give this dude a citizenship medal, already. I’m tired of thespian Stephen and singing/musical theater-fawning Stephen, but his monologues holding Trump’s feet to the fire and his journalist/interviewer skills more often than not made me feel sane amidst the insanity.

• Steve Earle & The Dukes/Jason Isbell/ Amanda Shires/Josh Ritter/The Mastersons, The Town Hall, New York City, Dec. 17. Hard to recall a better night of songwriters on one stage, all delivering modern classics of their own penning, all harmonizing in a hopeful and joyous noise, with one of the best coming from the Mastersons, whose “No Time For Love Songs” speaks to the artist’s plight during dystopian times. Then again…

Happy new year! Love and good tidings to all.

For my first column of 2020, I want to tell you, my dear “My Minneapolis” reader, how much I genuinely appreciate this columnist-reader bond we share. It’s something I’ve been drawn to since reading columnists as a young newspaper reader, so I’ll end this one on a note of gratitude to you — for reading to the end of this column today and all these years. It remains an honor to be part of your day and I’ll continue to work hard to fill this page with good stories.

Tenacious in 2020, baby. Let’s do this. Cheers…

Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis.

He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com.

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In with the old, in with the new Inclusionary zoning, preserving old housing key to affordability strategy

By Andrew Hazzard /ahazzard@swjournal.com

Minneapolis officials want 2020 to be a landmark year for housing affordability, with new zoning codes allowing more types of housing in more places paired with ordinances requiring new developments to incorporate low-cost units. While much of the focus citywide has been on shaping the future of housing with the Minneapolis 2040 Plan, maintaining the existing stock of low-cost housing is key to accomplishing affordability.

“Land use policy is necessary but not sufficient to ensuring affordability,” said Andrea Brennan, Minneapolis’ director of housing policy and development.

The city is employing seven strategies to promote affordability, Brennan said: Increasing supply, investing in new affordable housing, preserving existing affordable housing, improving access to homeownership, supporting renters, preventing homelessness and maximizing the sale of public land.

“We’re really attacking our affordability problem from a lot of different angles,” City Council President Lisa Bender said.

Inclusionary Zoning

Bender led the initiative for inclusionary zoning, an ordinance requiring any new development with more than 20 units to make a percentage of dwellings affordable, which the City Council approved in December. With the 2040 Plan allowing for more developments, she saw inclusionary zoning as a necessary tool to ensure lower-income residents wouldn’t be left out of the growth.

“I don’t think any of us believe just solving the supply problem is enough,” Bender said.

The inclusionary zoning ordinance is designed to make sure that new housing will include affordable units. All new developments with more than 20 units are required to make either 8% of dwellings affordable to households earning 60% or less of the Area Median Income (AMI) or 4% of units priced for households earning 30% of the AMI or less. If they receive city financial help, projects are required to make 20% of units affordable to households at 50% of the AMI or less.

We’re really attacking our affordability problem from a lot of different angles.

— Lisa Bender, Minneapolis City Council president

A building on the 2700 block of Humboldt Avenue is participating in the 4D Housing Program. The landlord received an energy-efficiency grant that paid for 90% of a new boiler and insulation for the building as part of the program. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

Some developers have said they won’t build in Minneapolis under inclusionary zoning, arguing the policy’s economics won’t work. “The gap between the amount of cost the 60% AMI rent can support and the cost of developing the market rate apartment is between $150,000 and $200,000 per unit,” Kelly Doran of Doran Companies wrote in a Star Tribune op-ed.

“Thus, if a developer decides to build a 100-unit market rate apartment building in Minneapolis, the developer is in essence agreeing to pay an affordable housing tax of between $1.2 million and $1.6 million.”

But Bender said she hasn’t noticed any decrease in developers contacting her office interested in Ward 10 sites.

“I’m still hearing plans for housing, but we’ll see,” she said.

Developers who don’t want to include low-cost units in new projects can avoid the ordinance by paying a fee to the city or by preserving or producing affordable housing nearby.

“I think that’s important when we start to talk about preservation,” Bender said.

community schools. That would mean that only children living near those schools could attend.

Who lives in these neighborhoods?

Mostly middle-class white people. How does this plan address the educational gap and provide for more diversity? I don’t understand how this plan could have a positive outcome for students. We must ask ourselves: Who benefits from these changes? Who might be harmed by them?

The elimination of Anwatin’s and Windom’s dual-immersion programs would be an incredible loss to Latino families at a time when so many Latino people in our country are persecuted, undervalued and maligned just for being

who they are. Dual-language programs strengthen learning in all of our students, not just native Spanish speakers. They open up a whole world of opportunities for their students. I have seen evidence of this throughout the years, and it makes me feel proud to be a part of this school district and a resident of this beautiful city.

MPS has many talented and truly dedicated teachers and staff who go above and beyond what is expected of them to support their students. Year after year I am amazed at all the good work that goes on every day in our public schools. These people quietly and consistently make a huge difference in the lives of their students. There is not a lot of recognition for them, and many of

Preservation

New developments can often replace older, cheaper dwellings, which is why city officials are working to preserve what is known as naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH): generally older homes, duplexes and apartment buildings that have lower rents without Section 8 vouchers or other subsidies. One third of low-income renters in Minneapolis receive no housing subsidy, Brennan said.

City staff are currently studying a renter’s-right-to-purchase ordinance that would allow tenants to collectively make a bid on residential buildings put up for sale, but an existing preservation program, which takes a different approach by offering incentives to landlords, is having early success.

The 4D Affordable Housing Incentive Program, launched in 2018, is a key and growing component to preserving afford-

able housing in Minneapolis. The program gives landlords a property tax break for keeping their rents affordable for at least 10 years. The more units of a building are enrolled, the greater the discount, up to a 40% savings on a property tax bill if all units are included, according to Minneapolis housing stability specialist Dean Porter-Nelson. Those property owners also have access to energy-efficiency grants, which can save them money on immediate upgrades and down the road in lower utility costs. One Southwest landlord had 90% of costs covered to install a new boiler and insulation at their property on the 2700 block of Humboldt Avenue.

“The benefit of having an energy-efficiency grant on your property can be very significant,” Porter-Nelson said.

Average rental rates within the 4D program are about 20% lower than 60% AMI rents, with a median one-bedroom rate of $845 per month. Participating landlords are required SEE AFFORDABLE HOUSING / PAGE A15

Voices

Dual-immersion programs As a lifelong resident of Southwest Minneapolis and a 30-year employee of the Minneapolis Public Schools, I read with great interest the article titled “Demagnetizing Southwest schools” on the cover of the Dec. 26 issue.

The district is considering the removal of magnet school programs throughout Southwest. Their plan would turn Anwatin, Armatage, Barton and Windom into

them could earn much more in the private sector. But they do the work because of the students. These kids are our future, and the lifeblood of our city.

Are we taking their needs into consideration as we look ahead?

I hope that in the coming months the district will make an honest effort to listen to all community members (including Minneapolis residents and families of school-age children) and hear what they have to say about the proposed changes to our schools.

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In Linden Hills, the building on the Famous Dave’s site, Linden43, has been open for over two years. People young and old live in its 29 one- and two-bedroom units.

Bremer Bank, Copilot Dog Outfitters and Mint Orthodontics make their home in its first floor. While there may still be hard feelings over the long process that took place over the site, most business owners and residents of the area have moved on.

Tim Galligan, who lived on the 3900 block of Thomas Avenue in 2015, was one of the Linden Hills residents who opposed it. “It seems that when a developer is involved, politics plays a bigger role,” he wrote to Palmisano in 2015. “I do not see density as a condition for getting a variance but it seems to be a hidden agenda.”

In an October interview, he said he thinks the site looks better now that it has the building on it. “I think [the building] is pretty appropriate for the neighborhood,” he said. “It seems to fit.”

Galligan said his bigger problem is with the development process. “[The city] gives you a forum to vent, but you feel like you’re not heard,” he said.

Worries about ‘charm’

Linden43 opened in August 2017, two years after receiving city approval.

It was the third project proposed for the site, which is zoned as a C1 “Neighborhood Commercial District.” Development in C1 districts can be three stories or 42 feet by right, though the City Council has discretion to increase height, with conditions.

(The Minneapolis 2040 Plan, which takes effect this year, allows development of up to four stories on the site.)

The first project planned for the site, formally proposed by Linden Hills resident Mark Dwyer in 2011, was a five-story, 40-unit condo building with commercial space. Dozens of Linden Hills residents and business owners opposed the plans, citing concerns such as parking and the area losing its “charm.”

“The sheer magnitude of the proposed Linden Corner development would forever destroy the character and the scale of what many of us, including this developer, refer to as the ‘village,’” Clancey’s Meats & Fish owner Kristin Tombers wrote in a February 2012 Southwest Journal op-ed. (Tombers declined to comment for this story.)

Some residents and business owners organized and appealed a February 2012 Planning Commission approval of the project. The next month, the City Council nixed the plans and placed a moratorium on large-scale development in Linden Hills to allow for the creation of a small-area plan, which is intended to serve as a guide for development in the neighborhood.

The plan, approved in December 2013, calls for building heights that reflect the “adjacent architectural context” and are shorter than what the zoning code allows.

But before the plan was approved, in October 2012, Dwyer received approval for a three-story condo building on the site that didn’t require a conditional-use permit for the building height. In July 2014, he asked for and received a conditional-use permit to add an extra story to the building.

In February 2015, developer Clark Gassen purchased the site from Dwyer and pitched plans for the current four-story building that sits there today.

Dwyer and Gassen declined to comment for this story.

Friendly neighborhood

The three homeowners who live closest to Linden43 said it hasn’t had that much of an impact on them. Some Linden Hills residents had written in comments to Palmisano and city staffers that they worried about the building shadowing those homes.

“The details make a difference,” said Jason Krause, who manages his family’s liquor store in South Minneapolis and owns the home closest to the site. He said living next to the development has been fine and that construction was less disruptive than he thought it would be.

He and neighbors Judy Myers and Jeff Mellas said simply having a building on the property has given them more privacy. When the site was empty, people could see into their yards from the Linden Hills business district.

Mellas, who lived in New York before moving into Linden Hills in July 2014, said the building is attractive and “doesn’t create any noise that wasn’t there already.”

“The apartment building hasn’t really decreased any standard of living,” he said.

Bill Geddes, who owns a house abutting France Avenue, was one of the few local residents to write in support of the variance in 2015.

Today, he said he thinks the building looks great. “I haven’t noticed any issues with increased traffic,” he said. “I think overall it’s been nothing but good.”

He said he thinks there are a lot of positives to allowing higher-density housing, including that it allows for economic diversity within neighborhoods.

Still, concerns over parking remain, especially for businesses in the node.

Paul Beach, an employee of Coffee and Tea Limited along 43rd Street, said parking in the area is a “nightmare.” Steve Arnold, owner of the Great Harvest Bakery franchise in the node, said parking is crucial to the success of the area’s local businesses.

Palmisano, who represents Linden Hills and supported the project in 2015, said she no longer hears concerns about the building but does hear concerns about parking in the area.

She said she’s glad there’s something on the corner rather than an empty restaurant space and that she doesn’t think the building has affected the area’s character.

Anders Culver rents a one-bedroom apartment on the third floor of Linden43. The 29-year-old software engineer, who has lived in different neighborhoods of South Minneapolis over the past 4-5 years, said he didn’t hear too much about the prolonged fight over the building’s approval until after he moved in.

He frequents local restaurants like Zumbro Cafe and the (now closed) Rose Street Patisserie and said he’s never been made to feel unwelcome in the neighborhood because he lives in Linden43.

“I’ve never really noticed any hostile neighbors,” he said. “If we told people we lived in Linden43, they didn’t turn their noses up at us or anything.”

The 2015 controversy over an apartment building at 43rd & Upton has long since subsided, though area business owners still have concerns about parking in the business district.

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By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com

East Harriet woman’s bag petition has 470,000 signatures An East Harriet woman’s online petition asking Target to stop using plastic checkout bags has garnered over 470,000 signatures.

Theresa Carter posted the petition on Change.org in early 2019. She said it quickly received a few thousand signatures before it “took off ” in March, when a dead whale washed ashore in the Philippines with nearly 90 pounds of plastic in its stomach.

The petition reached 200,000 signatures by April and nearly 400,000 by October. It had over 455,000 on Dec. 26, when Carter, flanked

by TV cameras, delivered it to Target’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters.

She now hopes to reach 500,000 signatures.

“It continues to grow, and it’s still a live petition until they make their decision,” she said.

Target, which has over 1,800 stores, has not responded directly to the petition. In a statement, spokeswoman Danielle Schuman highlighted the retailer’s efforts to reduce plastic waste, which have included using plastic bags made with 40% recycled content and a commitment to recycling plastic garment hangers.

Carter, a mom and former patent attorney, said she focused her petition on Target because it’s based in Minneapolis and because she frequently shops there.

She said she’s concerned about all plastic pollution but has focused on plastic bags because “if people can’t see [them] as a problem, it’s hard to see plastics throughout the store as a problem.”

Plastic bags have a large carbon footprint, pollute waterways and break down into tiny toxic bits that stay in the environment for long periods, Carter said. Studies have found large amounts of “microplastics” in rain, snow and air samples around the world.

A November presentation from the Minneapolis Health Department, which helped pass the ordinance requiring Minneapolis retailers to charge 5 cents per bag, said that Minnesotans throw away 87,000 tons of plastic bags each year.

The presentation also said that less than 5% of plastic bags are recycled and that recycling facilities spend four to six hours a day removing plastic bags from equipment.

“We’re in a crisis of trash,” said Minneapolis

East Harriet resident Theresa Carter (front-right) delivers petitions on Dec. 26 to Target’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters asking the retailer to ban plastic checkout bags. Photo by Andrew Hazzard

Climate Action executive director Kyle Samejima, who testified in favor of the city ordinance. “Plastic bags are one portion of that.”

Bag bans have been effective in curbing use, Carter wrote in the petition. She wrote that the 5-cent incentive Target currently offers to people who bring bags into their stores doesn’t meaningfully curb bag consumption.

She said in a January interview that she’s not sure when Target will act on her petition.

Jiao Luo, a professor in the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management who specializes in corporate responsibility, said Carter’s petition is unusual in that it has generated widespread attention.

She said petitions don’t typically drive

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Carter, who has been in touch with Target’s former head of corporate responsibility and its communications director, said she’s hopeful her petition will lead to change.

“I’m excited to see their response,” she said.

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By Andrew Hazzard / ahazzard@swjournal.com

Jono Cowgill elected Park Board president The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will have a new leadership team in 2020 after commissioners elected a new president and vice president on Jan. 2.

Jono Cowgill, who represents Downtown and the northern portion of Southwest Minneapolis, was elected Park Board president for 2020, with at-large commisJono Cowgill sioner LaTrisha Vetaw chosen as vice president.

“I look forward to seeing what we can all do together,” Cowgill said, stating his desire to unify the board to focus on improving the

parks and serving vulnerable residents.

Cowgill was nominated for the presidency

by Vetaw and won with five votes and none opposed, though commissioners Londel French, AK Hassan and Kale Severson abstained from voting. Former Board president Brad Bourn was absent.

French had nominated Vetaw for president, but she declined to run. Vetaw was unanimously voted vice president of the board, taking over the role from Hassan.

Cowgill said his top priorities will be continuing to invest in programming and employment for city youth and making the parks a front line in Minneapolis’ efforts to combat climate change. He called the city’s December declaration of a climate emergency a “north star” that should prompt the MPRB

to do all it can to improve the environment of Minneapolis.

He takes the presidency following the passage of a $126 million budget for the MPRB and will lead the Park Board as it works to design a new pavilion at Bde Maka Ska and continues to make improvements to parkland alongside the Mississippi River. The Park Board will also vote on master plans for Southwest neighborhood parks, Minnehaha Regional Park and Parks for All, a comprehensive plan guiding MPRB policy for the next decade.

Cowgill represents several Southwest Minneapolis neighborhoods, including Bryn Mawr, Cedar-Isles-Dean, East Isles, ECCO, Kenwood, Lowry Hill, Lowry Hill East, Stevens Square and Whittier. He is in the middle of his first term on the Park Board.

Bourn, who had served as board president the past two years, announced he would not seek a leadership role at the end of 2019. In 2018, Bourn was voted president over Vetaw with commissioners Meg Forney and Steffanie Musich supporting Vetaw. All three female commissioners supported Cowgill this year.

Commissioner Chris Meyer will serve as the Park Board appointee to the Minneapolis Planning Commission through 2021.

With Cowgill and Vetaw taking leadership positions on the board, power has largely shifted to a group of new commissioners elected in 2017.

Deputy Superintendent Jennifer Ringold was reappointed as board secretary and Brian Rice was reappointed as the legal counsel for the Park Board.

Parade Stadium to host Hockey Day Minnesota Parade Park in Lowry Hill will play host to the 14th Annual Hockey Day Minnesota from Jan. 16-18, bringing thousands of hockey fans from across the state to attend outdoor games in Minneapolis.

Parade Stadium will be frozen over to create a rink where high school and college games and an NHL alumni game will be played.

Minneapolis Public Schools’ boys’ and

girls’ hockey teams will both be playing in the event, a celebration of hockey culture hosted by the Minnesota Wild that traditionally features outdoor games. The weekend will be capped off with the Wild playing the Dallas Stars at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

The Minneapolis girls’ team will kick off the event against Academy of Holy Angels at 6 p.m. on Jan. 16, followed by the Blake girls

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The NHL Alumni Game will be played at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 17 and feature several former Minnesota Wild and North Stars players, plus Minnesotans who went on the NHL, including Mike Modano, Wes Walz and Ryan Carter.

The Minneapolis boys’ team will play Warroad at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 18, followed by the Blake boys vs. Blaine at 1 p.m. The

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Every year, advocates for the homeless collect name submissions, contact the medical examiner’s office and monitor news reports in an attempt to honor all the homeless who died that year. They worry about who they might be missing.

And every year, people ask if many died outside in the cold, said Robert Hofmann, Simpson shelter program manager.

“The answer is that there are names of people on this list tonight who froze to death and who died under a bridge or in a homeless shelter. But there are many more who died from the same everyday causes that afflict anybody who struggles with poverty and trauma and generational racism,” he said. “One thing that we know for sure is that homelessness has contributed to the deaths of everybody that we’re going to remember tonight.”

They remembered 103 homeless individuals who died in 2019 — the highest number reported since at least 2006 — along with 69 formerly homeless and 18 advocates, including Patricia Yellow Hammer, 42, of Minneapolis; Rodney Dixon, 49, of Minneapolis; an unidentified woman from St. Paul and a “baby boy” from Hennepin County.

The marchers gathered at the Hennepin County Government Center Plaza and walked a two-mile route to Plymouth Congregational Church, where they read aloud each name and lit candles for the deceased.

The late Jo Ann “JoJo” Johnson (pictured in the Southwest Journal in 2018) had been fighting cancer harder than anyone realized, Hofmann said. Age 60, she had been housed the last six months of her life and reconciled with her daughter. Before she died, she told her daughter about a treehouse her grandfather had built while the family was “dirt poor” in rural Alabama.

Her daughter recently visited the longabandoned property to find the treehouse still standing. She plans to scatter Johnson’s ashes there among climbing plants, so Johnson can climb the treehouse again.

The late David Francis, 68, once ranked among the most frequent shelter users in Hennepin County over the course of 30 or more years, according to Simpson staff.

As part of the “Top 51,” a pilot program to house single adults with the longest shelter stays, he was among the first to move into Higher Ground at 165 Glenwood Ave. N. when the apartments opened in 2012. Matthew Ayres, Simpson’s volunteer engagement and partnerships manager, remembered feeling startled to run into Francis shopping at Cub Foods in Uptown.

“You build the right housing and people will move into it,” he said.

December’s march marked the 35th anniversary of the memorial service. It started in 1984 when a frequent guest of the Simpson Men’s Shelter, Eric, a quiet

Jesse Wiley (pictured) read aloud the names of 103 homeless, 69 formerly homeless and 18 advocates who died in 2019, with a candle lit for each person. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Vietnam War veteran, was discovered beaten to death near the railroad tracks.

Simpson United Methodist gathered to honor his life and those of others who had died that year. Inspired by the service, the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless suggested a larger annual event, honoring as many people as possible.

Last spring Simpson Housing Services accepted a gift of the Simpson United Methodist Church property at 2740 1st Ave. S., where Simpson operates a shelter in the basement. The nonprofit is beginning conceptual designs for a new window-filled 24/7 shelter space, where guests would access services for physical, mental and chemical health. Shelter development is expected to take place over the next two or three years, with no gaps in shelter service.

Cause of death

The total number of people experiencing homelessness in Hennepin County has decreased by 19% since 2014, driven by a decrease in the number of families who are homeless, according to the county. But the number of people sleeping outside without shelter has significantly increased, with more single adults staying in encampments, riding public transportation or spending nights in cars.

Homelessness is associated with a mortality rate four to nine times higher than the rate for people with homes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-

tion. Living homeless is associated with greater risk of infectious and chronic illness, issues with mental health and substance use and becoming a victim of violence.

“Homelessness and health are interconnected: with poor health being both a cause and result of homelessness,” states the Minnesota Department of Health in a 2019 report on housing.

For about 15 years, John Petroskas has volunteered to assemble a list of the homeless who have died. “I just live in fear of not getting every name,” he said.

In 2019, the average age of death for people still homeless was roughly 43, he said. By contrast, the average age of death for the formerly homeless who moved into housing was 50, he said.

“That gap has been really persistent through the years,” he said. “I think that’s evidence that housing can save lives or extend the length of a person’s life.”

While he doesn’t know the cause of death in all cases, the most common cause of death this year was overdose, he said. He received reports, some unverified, that overdoses killed 26 homeless and 15 formerly homeless people.

“That’s definitely an increase over years past,” he said, noting that about 10 fatal overdoses occurred in 2015.

Many homeless deaths were caused by illness and disease, he said, and other frequent unexpected causes of death in 2019 included homicide, suicide, drowning and being struck by vehicles.

“Opiates have really swept through our community. There have been so many accidental overdoses,” Hofmann said.

He sees the single biggest risk factor as people using street drugs alone, without knowing the potency of what they’re using.

He said advocates talk a lot about harm reduction and ways to reduce isolation.

“Find ways to bring people in rather than push them out,” he said.

Dignity in life and death

“I want to recognize the grief in this room, and the energy that it takes, and what happens when a group of people is continually subjected to loss,” said Cypress Budenosky, speaking at the memorial service. “These deaths were preventable. … They don’t just deserve a place to die in peace; I want them to have a place to go and relax and live instead.”

Hofmann said participants often talk about the meaning behind the march: Everyone deserves some dignity in death.

“I want you to take that spirit with you when you interact with folks that are still struggling. We don’t filter out anybody on this list, no matter what struggles may have led to their mortality. Likewise, don’t filter out who you choose to wrap yourselves around in life because of what their struggles may be,” Hofmann told the marchers.

“They are all members of our community in life and in death.”

The 36th Homeless Memorial March and Service is scheduled for Dec. 17, 2020.

HOW TO HELP • Prepare and serve a meal in a shelter • Advocate for affordable housing • Donate money or supplies to support an organization that serves the homeless community • Ask a legislator to invest in individuals who experience homelessness and efforts to end homelessness • Extend a smile to people on the street March participant Amy Hedberg volunteers at the Simpson shelter. “It changes your perspective when you can sit down and have a conversation with someone,” she says. Photo by Michelle Bruch

In 2019, the average age of death for people still homeless was roughly 43.

Photo courtesy of Caroline Yang Photography

Source: Minnesota Homeless Memorial March & Service

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Open since October at Lake & Harriet, Provision Community Restaurant offers eight seatings per week. Provision’s three paid chefs create new menus each day and work with volunteer cooks to turn donated ingredients — mostly vegetables and grains — into an enticing feast.

Provision’s goal, founder Anna Wienke said this past summer, was to create a space where everyone is welcome and money is not discussed — a place that welcomes people equally whether they have low income, no income or high income. Her idea was to create community, combat isolation and provide flavorful, nutritious, reliable meals in a county where about 1 in 10 people are considered food insecure.

Yet the restaurant’s first few months have brought unexpected challenges. “People aren’t getting that they belong here,” Wienke said. “In saying that we want everybody here, seemingly nobody is sure that they belong here.”

Provision has found success in a number of ways. About 90% of the food served is donated, helping reduce waste. Guests’ ages and income and education levels closely parallel the overall demographics of Southwest Minneapolis, according to entry surveys. And the nonprofit is financially sound: Diners have been giving about $20 per meal on average and the restaurant’s $50 per plate monthly fundraising dinners have been selling steadily.

Friday night dinners and Saturday brunches routinely bring about 20 guests, but while other nights are more sparsely attended. “Wednesdays have been the slowest,” Wienke said. “Real slow, sometimes nobody.”

Photos and quotes in Provision’s hallway.

Even some of the restaurant’s donors aren’t coming to eat, she said, because they “don’t want to take a space from someone who needs food.”

While planning for the restaurant, Wienke assumed it would be “gangbusters” every night. Now she’s looking to change up Provision’s communication strategy and form more community partnerships.

While Provision’s staff have talked to homeless people at St. Stephen’s, distributed flyers at Project for Pride in Living and partnered with Little Brothers — Friends of the Elderly, Wienke said the restaurant’s late fall opening has made it difficult to get the word out on the street. Plus, she said, many shelters have check-in times around 7 p.m., which makes it difficult for those living in a shelter to attend the evening

Red pepper and green bean couscous.

meals starting at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

“People don’t have any frame of reference for a community cafe,” Wienke said.

“We are realizing that there is more effort that needs to take place for us to be where we want to be.” The nonprofit restaurant’s board is working to increase the racial diversity of diners, about 83% of whom have been white.

While Provision is a new concept to the Twin Cities, it’s following in the footsteps of nearly 50 other pay-what-you-can restaurants across the country guided by a model put forward by the nonprofit One World Everybody Eats. One cafe in Denver has been open for more than 13 years.

Maggie Kane launched a pay-what-youcan restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina, in January 2018. A Place at the Table is open six to seven hours a day, six days per week and staff get the word out by posting relentlessly on social media, reaching out to social service organizations and speaking at corporate events. In 2019, the cafe served over 3,600 meals per month — more than a quarter given free to people who couldn’t afford them.

Kane said most successful pay-what-youcan cafes have hours similar to traditional restaurants, and fixed seating times could be limiting Provision’s appeal.

“People don’t necessarily put it in their calendar,” she said. “People say, ‘Oh, let’s get a coffee, where should we go?’ And if you’re not open the Tuesday they want to get a coffee, they’re going to forget about it.”

Sitting down and talking

Provision founder Anna Wienke sets down a plate of garlicky roasted potatoes at a recent dinner.

Photos by Zac Farber

As Provision staff evolve their concept, Wienke is concentrating on the small moments of connection that she’s watched happen between the restaurant’s hundreds of paying and nonpaying guests. “I was concerned people were going to sit down and not know what to talk about,” she said. “For the most part everybody just sits down and starts talking, and it builds.”

A liberal couple had a peaceful and illuminating discussion with a conservative Vietnam veteran. A regular found solace in a hearty meal and a little company after packing up the home of a friend who had

owners considering enrolling in the program.

Dan Largen, operations manager for Mint Properties, told the group signing up for 4D was a no-brainer. Mint Properties, which owns a large portfolio of rental housing in Stevens Square and Whittier, signed up 55 units across three buildings for the program, which brought the company $32,000 in property tax savings in 2019. He said the company will look to enroll more units in the future.

Largen said the company realized their rents typically met 4D standards for affordability already, and the company had the same maximum rent increase as the program requires, 6% annually.

“If you have stuff in this neighborhood,

most likely you’re a good fit,” Largen told the gathered property owners.

Owners of NOAH housing are often under pressure from developers to sell, Brennan said, so the city wanted to incentivize them to keep their properties. Landlords entering the 4D program are required to make a 10-year commitment. Some property owners at the Whittier meeting said they were nervous to make a decadelong commitment, but Bender is concerned that might not be long enough.

Median rents in Minneapolis decreased from 2018 to 2019, according to a Housing Link report, and more affordable units became available. The median rate of a two-bedroom unit fell from $1,765 in 2018

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to cap rent increases for existing tenants at 6% annually.

In the first year, 770 units with 1,062 bedrooms were enrolled in the 4D program. More than 100 of those units were preserved in Ward 10, according to program data.

“This is one of the most successful ways we are preserving existing affordable housing,” Bender said.

Whittier has had more than 60 units enrolled, and the neighborhood has taken notice. The Whittier Alliance hosted a 4D informational session for landlords in December, attended by about 15 property

A quilt assembled by Provision’s supporters.

died. A woman dined at Provision on Thanksgiving Day, the anniversary of her mother’s death, telling a staff member, “I just don’t have it in me to cook, but I wanted my daughter to have a proper Thanksgiving, and I’m so glad that you’re here.”

A meal at Provision can contain many moments of freewheeling, digressive conversation. During a recent Thursday dinner, guests bonded over their love of the doughy olive bread, and their nearly two-hour chat touched on the history of Minnesota malls, Daniel Craig’s performance in “Knives Out,” Australian white nationalism and the origin of the Wedge’s nickname — the neighborhood, one diner explained, is shaped “like a wedge of cheese.”

The olive bread loaf went quickly, and Lowry Hill East resident Kari Johnson asked Wienke to bring “a little more bread if you have some.”

“I don’t think you meant to say a little more bread,” chimed in Steve Kramer of St. Louis Park.

“I was being very Minnesotan,” Johnson said, smiling.

A minute later, Wienke returned with news that they’d run out of olive bread.

Instead, she gave Johnson a basket of spicy semolina — accompanied by a side of olives — and suggested she share some of the slices with her tablemates.

“That’s what being a good community member is,” Wienke said.

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“All of this stuff around preservation of affordable housing is us trying to participate in the housing market as a government entity, which we’re not really set up to do well,” Bender said. “But cities all over the country are trying to do this.”

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Unlocking the vault at the Bakken

AN EXPLORATION OF THE WEST CALHOUN MUSEUM’S COLLECTION Bakken curator Nick Williams holds up a bottle of radium water, which was once marketed as a wonder cure for modern life’s many ailments. Photo by Cole W. Williams

By Cole W. Williams

The lights turn on and off, row by row, every five minutes in the vault of the Bakken Museum in West Calhoun.

Polygraph machines, artificial hearts and Frankenstein pop culture memorabilia appear and disappear. The flickering lights help protect the artifacts in a storage facility kept at 66 degrees and 42% humidity to ensure long-lasting preservation.

Housed inside the Bakken Museum since 1976, the vault holding the museum’s permanent collection is locked and open to the public by appointment only.

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Visitors touring the vault are led behind a museum floor display and through an ornate wooden door to the entrance, which resembles the door of an antique bank safe. A cement capsule in the middle of the museum, the one-room vault is jam-packed with miscellany.

“The collection is quite narrow in focus, but deep,” said Adrian Fischer, a Bakken curator.

Inside the vault are nearly 11,000 books, about 2,500 artifacts dating to the 18th century and an assortment of electromedical ephemera.

“We want these collections to be used,” Fischer said. “Our mission is to foster conversations that inspire visitors.”

In one corner of the room stands a tall wooden box. At one time in history a patron at a local shoe store could put her feet and shoes inside this “Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope” and be exposed to 50kV of unshielded X-rays. The box could satisfactorily measure the patron’s shoe size, but at a now-obvious cost. In the 1940s, the side effects of radiation were poorly understood.

On a nearby shelf, a violet ray medical appliance, invented by Nikola Tesla, sits unassumingly in a box lined in purple velveteen.

Its manufacturers claimed it could cure acne and tuberculosis by pouring volts of electricity into the human body. It was found to be dangerous by the 1950s and swiftly dropped out of production amid lawsuits.

The collection’s focus is on science and medicine as it relates to electricity, magnetism and art.

Take for example Otto Schmitt’s wireframe models, which aimed to improve on the electrocardiograph by representing the rhythms of the heart in three dimensions.

Elsewhere in the vault is a fascinating text by the first-century physician Pedanius Dioscorides: a rare facsimile catalog of plants, animals and minerals compiled

A violet ray medical appliance, invented by Nikola Tesla, sits in a box lined in purple velveteen. Its manufacturers claimed it could cure acne and tuberculosis by pouring volts of electricity into the human body. It was found to be dangerous by the 1950s.

Photo courtesy of the Bakken Museum

while he traveled with the Roman army.

Spread open on a cart in one of the vault’s hallways is the Speculum Naturale, a book compiled in the 13th century by the Dominican friar Vincent de Beauvais — the first volume of his Speculum Maius (Great Mirror) tome, which he intended to

be a compendium of all knowledge of the Western world.

“It’s the oldest piece in our collection,” curator Nick Williams said. “There’s a particular power in old books, artifacts and art that helps connect people across time.”

Holding up a bottle of radium water,

Williams asked: “What was this a solution to? This is one of the questions we are trying to ask when we look at something. Radium quickly caught on as a miraculous panacea — a wonder cure for every ailment that modern life caused. People believed it could SEE BAKKEN / PAGE B4

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Electropsychometer, made around 1955

Electrolytic Phantom Torso, made 1951-55

Electrostatic toys became very popular starting in the 18th century.

After being connected to an electrostatic generator or being touched with a Leyden jar, these toys will move in some way until the charge is depleted.

This tightrope walker teeters from side to side as if it is balancing on a rope.

Radioclast, made 1935-44

In the 1950s, bioengineer Otto Schmitt set out to build a 3D electrocardiograph to better understand and visualize electrical pulses in the heart. In order to calibrate his prototype, he filled this torso with saltwater and inserted a makeshift “heart” to simulate a human body and adjust his new device. Photos by Cole W. Williams

Chiropractor Volney Mathison used his device, commonly known as an E-meter, to measure the “degree of psychic trauma” of his patients. The machine uses electricity to measure physiological responses of the body and relates them to supposed psychological conditions. In the 1950s, L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, began using it in his practice of Dianetics, and Scientology engineers created a modified version, which is still used today.

Electrostatic Tightrope Walker, made 1750-1850

After the newly invented radio started gaining popularity in the early 20th century, some people wondered whether its technology could be used for medical purposes.

Generally called Radionics devices, these machines were used to supposedly diagnose and cure over distances.

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permanently augment the body, giving it an endless supply of energy since radium seemed to defy the laws of thermodynamics.”

Fringe science is a cornerstone of the collection.

The goal is “not to point out the inaccurate beliefs people had or the flawed understanding of science at the time,” Williams said. “Instead, we use it to talk about how people at different times often latch onto discoveries that seem to solve the problems society faces.” “[We are] looking back to look forward, thinking, ‘Maybe in future generations, we can make use of these ideas,’” said Fischer, explaining the ethos that permeates the halls of the vault.

Earl E. Bakken, the museum’s namesake and the founder of Medtronic, began collecting early on in his career and originally housed his collection inside Medtronic’s headquarters. “Bakken encouraged Medtronic employees to make use of the resources,” Williams said.

Bakken, the inventor of the world’s first external, battery-powered pacemaker, drew inspiration from 1930s Frankenstein movies, which he watched at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights. He combined an interest in electricity and magnetism with an innate drive to heal people and restore life.

The legend of Frankenstein is central to the Bakken’s collection. Photo by Cole W. Williams

“Earl’s legacy is about curiosity and exploring with an open mind,” Williams said.

As the collection grew, Bakken searched for a new home to house and protect it. The Bakken Museum was founded as a nonprofit library and education center in 1975, and by 1981 the construction of the vault was complete.

A special spot in the world, the museum’s vault is available for students, artists and researchers alike to create their own historical alchemy out of artifacts that date to the mid 1700s and texts that date to the late 1200s.

In a culture seemingly fraught with waves of uncertainty and doubt, Bakken’s vault reminds us of a piece of advice he gave during a 2004 commencement address at the University of Hawaii: “Never give in to pessimism. Don’t know that you can’t fly, and you will soar like an eagle.”

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Otto Schmitt’s wire-frame models aimed to improve on the electrocardiograph by representing the rhythms of the heart in three dimensions.

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On the scene

By Erin McNeil

Margaritas and charming improv at Bryant-Lake Bowl

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uthor and performer Lorna Landvik returns to Bryant-Lake Bowl to reprise her wildly popular onewoman improv show, “Party in the Rec Room.”

If you haven’t read any of her books, check them out. “Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes): A Novel” just came out last year and tells the story of a small-town reporter known for her liberal notions.

Set in everyone’s mother’s “rec” room (a basement room, usually resplendent with wooden paneling and an eclectically stocked home bar), Landvik opens each performance by making margaritas on stage and handing them out to the audience. (Hot tip: If you want to get one, make sure you sit close to the stage or in one of the aisle seats!) Bryant-Lake Bowl’s gloriously broken-in theater, complete with drink rails, cabaret tables and wood paneling couldn’t be a more ideal place to see this show. Three blocks away, Reuter Walton Development’s six-story condos point toward the increased sterilization of Uptown, but you would never feel that in Bryant-Lake Bowl or its theater, which is lovingly lo-fi and intimate in a house-party type of way. Once drinks are in hands, Landvik announces that she has “friends” backstage clamoring to meet us, and away it goes!

As this is improv, the show will be different every night, and the ability to go back and revisit the show is absolutely part of its charm; I went on opening night, and there were very few of us who hadn’t attended one of her performances before. Landvik is a shrewd observer of human follies and kindness, making her characters ridiculous and lovable. Playing into Midwestern and Minnesotan tropes provides exactly what the audience wants. What butcher jokes and family complaints are to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” cracks about Iowans

Author and performer Lorna Landvik makes a margarita on stage at the start of her onewoman improv comedy show at BryantLake Bowl.

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and wildlife are to Landvik. My favorite character (and scarf!) of the evening came via an impressively puckered Melania Trump. I can’t promise you blue box mac and cheese, flirtatious nuns or Landvik lovingly teasing your date (as she did mine), but I can promise this show will be enjoyable.

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Of course, doing one-person improv can be challenging. Depending on suggestions from the audience is always hit-or-miss (someone in my performance thought that “the Bahamas” was an acceptable answer for “Where would you like to go on a date?”), and the 15-45 seconds it takes Landvik to go backstage and garb herself in wigs, hats, amazing glasses or sketch-specific shoes often takes long enough to deflate the audience’s attention. But Landvik is a charmingly awkward and charismatic hostess, so once back on stage, she deftly regains the spotlight.

While she is perfectly capable of doing

her bits by herself (buttressed by a bit of tequila), my favorite parts of the evening involved the playful back-and-forth between her and her sound engineer as well as when she brought a member of the audience up onstage to do a scene with her. I came away from this show with the renewed desire to read her work and to see her in a group setting. Perhaps both are something to look forward to in 2020!

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Farmers markets move inside for the winter

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The Neighborhood Roots farmers markets are moving inside to the greenhouse at Bachman’s on Lyndale this winter.

Join vendors from Fulton, Kingfield and Nokomis farmers markets to stock up on produce, meats, cheese and eggs, along with breakfasts and lunches, packaged foods, canned goods and handmade crafts.

Spend your grocery dollars directly with our produce farmers to buy fresh greens, radishes, cabbage, mushrooms, winter squash, carrots, beets, potatoes, onions and other storage crops. Stock your freezer with pasture-raised pork, beef, chicken and lamb from Driftless Hills Farm, Johnson Family Pastures, Dancing the Land Farm and Braucher’s Sunshine Harvest Farm. And don’t forget to pick up eggs from Braucher’s and Brand Farms. Matt Oxford from Wild Run Salmon will have wild-caught Alaskan salmon. Visit Lovetree and Cosmic Wheel Creamery for farmstead cheese. For apples visit Havlicek’s Orchard, Mary Dirty Face Farm and Brand Farms. Pick up microgreens from Great Northern Microgreens, and purchase a grow kit so you can grow your own at home. Dancing the Land and Whetstone Farm will be bringing wool yarn from their flocks of sheep.

Stock your pantry with granola, lactofermented vegetables, honey, maple cream, fruit leathers, maple syrup, jams, pickles and sauerkraut.

An assortment of squashes at the Kingfield Farmers Market.

Eric Wilson and Sarah Ratermann Beahan from Big River Farms work the indoor market at Bachman’s on Nov. 16. Submitted photos

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Pick up a cup of coffee from Wildflyer Coffee, and don’t forget to buy beans from both Wildflyer and Cafe Palmira. Enjoy pastries and doughnuts (including vegan options) from Bakery Box and Sunstreet Breads, and choose from sweet and savory crepes from Oh Crepe and a surprise from Arie at Northern Fires Pizza (it won’t be pizza).

As far as handmade crafts, look for pottery, bird feeders, hand-knit goods and toys and accessories for dogs and cats.

Grab a drink from the bar, where all proceeds support Neighborhood Roots farmers markets, and enjoy music by Steve West and the Northern Stars and Matt Yetter.

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The healing power of herbal tea

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Herbal teas are also known as tisane, herbal infusions, botanical teas or simply “plant medicine,” as organic farmer and Mill City Farmers Market vendor Nancy Graden calls them.

Graden, owner of Red Clover Herbal Apothecary Farm, grows over 50 kinds of certified organic medicinal herbs on her five-acre farm in Amery, Wisconsin.

She strongly believes in the intelligence of plants and the part their gifts play in our health and well-being.

“I think there’s so much plant medicine that can be used to heal the Earth,” she said.

Graden, who grew up on a farm in southern Indiana, first became interested in herbalism over 30 years ago, when she was living in the Ozarks and was given a book on medicinal herbs of the region. Inspired, Graden began taking classes in herbalism, anatomy and physiology from the Australasian College of Health Sciences and the University of Minnesota. She

The Red Clover farm in Amery, Wisconsin, grows 50 kinds of organic medicinal herbs.

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ultimately earned a degree in Western clinical herbalism from Minneapolis Community and Technical College and established her herbal practice in 2009.

With this knowledge, Graden has been learning a plant remedy for everything and loves sharing her wisdom. Red Clover’s “Cold Season Tea Blend,” for example, takes its antimicrobial and pro-respiratory properties from a mix of peppermint, spearmint, marshmallow, mullein, anise hyssop, yarrow, elderflower and thyme.

Red Clover Herbal Apothecary’s products include direct-from-the-farm dried herbal teas, salves and balms (oils infused with botanicals mixed with beeswax to be applied to the skin), tinctures (alcohol and water infused with botanicals to be swallowed with a dropper), herb starter plants and more.

Graden and her crew of one to two parttime staffers not only grow and forage all the herbs that go into their products, but they also do all the processing in their on-farm commercial kitchen. Graden also makes it a point to teach monthly classes on herbalism to share her knowledge with the community.

HOW TO MAKE LOOSE-LEAF HERBAL TEA Bring water to a full boil, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit, for herbal tea (rather than anywhere from 150-200 degrees for caffeinated teas from the camellia sinensis plant). Using a teapot or loose-leaf tea steeper/ infuser and a ratio of 8 ounces water per 1 heaping teaspoon of tea, pour the hot water over the tea. Let it steep for 10 minutes covered. Strain or remove steeper/infuser and enjoy!

To learn more about herbalism and to stock your medicine cabinet, you can find Red Clover Herbal Apothecary at the Mill City Farmers Market’s winter markets on Feb. 1 and March 7. The markets run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. inside the Mill City Museum (704 S. 2nd St.), millcityfarmersmarket.org.

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Donated skates in a variety of youth and adult sizes will be available for use.

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PAINTINGS DO NOT BURN: ARTISTS AND THE RED ARMY Dr. Nonna Tarkhova will focus on the benefits, consequences and costs associated with the Red Army’s emergence as patron of the arts during the 1920s. The presentation will be in Russian with English translation.

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IS THIS A ROOM: REALITY WINNER VERBATIM TRANSCRIPTION By replicating, word by word, the FBI’s interrogation of Reality Winner, a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist, Tina Satter and Half Straddle demonstrate how military interrogation tactics, toxic masculinity and systemic marginalization resulted in her conviction for espionage.

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Bring friends and family for horse-drawn wagon rides, ice skating, music, sledding, roasting marshmallows, face painting and a medallion hunt.

When: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17 Where: Linden Hills Park, 3100 W. 43rd St. Cost: Free Info: apm.activecommunities.com/minneapolisparks

HIP-HOP AND HISTORY FOR TEENS In three sessions, children in grades 6-8 will explore the elements of hip-hop, learn how it is shared in different cultures worldwide and discover how its culture is embedded in our daily lives.

When: 2:30-4 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 11-25 Where: Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave. S. Cost: Free, but registration required Info: hclib.bibliocommons.com/events

‘JUST KIDS’ PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT Composed of nearly 200 objects partially curated by middle and high school students, this exhibition includes images of children and teens by both celebrated and emerging photographers, as well as photographic books and series created for and by young people.

When: Through June 14 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: artsmia.org

CHARLIE ROTH Minnesotan Charlie Roth has produced eight solo albums, including 2019’s “I’m the Smile,” in more than 40 years as an Americana/folk singer and guitarist.

When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22 Where: The Warming House, 4001 Bryant Ave. S. Cost: $5-$8 Info: thewarminghouse.net

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ZAMYA THEATER PROJECT: THAT REMINDS ME zAmya makes its Art Shanty Projects debut with a show created by people living with homelessness in collaboration with Twin Cities theater artists. Performing scenes, songs and spoken word, this troupe of performers, led by artistic director Maren Ward, will build awareness and share hope with Twin Cities audiences.

-7° ENTRY DANCETERIA When it gets a bit too cold, step into the -7° Entry Danceteria where things heat up with dance moves. An art shanty that doubles as a dance club, this is a must-visit shanty to check out during your trip.

LADY BEAR! It wouldn’t be the Art Shanty Projects without a friendly polar bear to bring cheer to all. Meet Lady Bear, a polar friend from up north who has made her way to Lake Harriet.

THE WORLD’S ONLY TINY ARTCAR PARADE ON ICE! It’s a remote control extravaganza when miniature art cars and art bikes get ready for a magical parade on the ice, all taking place on an ice road created by the ArtCar and ArtBike artists.

POLLINATOR SHANTY Sure it’s winter, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the buzzing pollinators that help keep nature alive. Artists team up with educators from the Minnesota Valley Wildlife Refuge for this immersive forest full of monarchs, butterflies and other critters.

THAKÁPSIČAPI (THEY PLAY LACROSSE) Learn how to play lacrosse, a game invented

by Native tribes. Twin Cities Native Lacrosse artists will have wooden lacrosse sticks on hand for this game of skill.

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Winter doesn’t have to be a downer when art, color and activity abound. After a year hiatus, the Art Shanty Projects return with all new artist-designed shanties, performances, games and lots of beauty on Lake Harriet. Dress warm, bring your camera and get ready to create some memories. Here are a few highlights we’re excited about this year.

When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Jan. 18-Feb. 9 Cost: Suggested donation $10-$20. No one is turned away.

Where: Lake Harriet, 4135 W. Lake Harriet Parkway Info: artshantyprojects.org

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