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Minneapolis hockey produces Division I recruit as program ascends

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Minneapolis has produced hockey standouts dating back to the early 1900s, including multiple college players and several who have gone onto the NHL. The city appears ready to add another to that list: Jake Hale of Southwest High School. Hale committed to University of Minnesota-Duluth in September, becoming the first Minneapolis player to do commit to a Division I school

Countdown to Minneapolis’ Super Bowl begins A Minneapolis delegation picks up tips from Super Bowl hosts in Houston By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

For many of the people who help make the City of Minneapolis run, the most significant play of this year’s Super Bowl didn’t occur

5 Southwest High School sophomore Jake Hale committed to University of Minnesota-Duluth this past fall and is part of a resurgent Minneapolis boys’ varsity hockey team. Photo courtesy Mike Lieb

since current Minneapolis coach, Joe Dziedzic, signed with Minnesota in 1990. The tenth-grade forward led the Minneapolis boys’ varsity team this year in scoring and assists as of Feb. 3. “It’s pretty special,” Hale said of his commitment after a practice last month. “It’s pretty humbling.” Hale is part of a Minneapolis hockey team that has undergone a change

during any of the four quarters the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons spent battling inside NRG Stadium in Houston. It came the day after, during Monday’s postgame news conference, when Houston handed-off the game ball to Minneapolis, starting the countdown to Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium on Feb. 4, 2018. “Even though it may be a year away, for us it seems like a week, because it’s going to go so quickly,” said Minneapolis City Coordinator Spencer Cronk, who heads a multi-department SEE SUPER BOWL / PAGE A2

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LESS TENSION OVER TEARDOWNS Wrecking continues — at a slower pace and under new guidelines

By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Martha Hewett and Linda Varvel know a thing or two about teardowns. The houses immediately north and south of them were torn down and rebuilt, one before the 2014 moratorium and one after. Hewett said the difference between the two houses is like “night and day.” “It’s been a really different experience for us, both in terms of the actual house itself and in terms of the process,” said Hewett, a resident of the 5100 block of Vincent Avenue. Before the moratorium, they initially didn’t know who the developer next door was. They said a truck dumped trusses in their yard, and workers moved their planters to store materials. The house appeared to loom over them,

with first-floor windows high above their own. After the moratorium and the regulations that followed, the scale of the second house under construction feels smaller, they said. There has been respectful communication with the developer, and they have a better idea of their rights. They’ve posted No Trespassing signs so each subcontractor has clear knowledge of the property line. “You feel like you know who’s doing this and you know what’s going on,” Hewett said. Nearly three years after the month-long moratorium on teardowns, 2016 wrecking permits for single-family homes in Linden Hills and Fulton have declined about 45 percent SEE TEARDOWNS / PAGE A10

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U.S. Bank Stadium operators will increase capacity to 70,000 for the Super Bowl, as required by the NFL. File photo FROM SUPER BOWL / PAGE A1

steering committee focused on preparing the city to host one of the biggest sporting events in the world. The game — and the 10-day celebration around it — is expected to draw an estimated 1 million visitors to Minneapolis, Cronk said. The city sent about 20 people to Houston, roughly half of them sworn employees from the police, fire and emergency management departments. That group was part of a much larger Twin Cities delegation that included about two-dozen members of the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee, five people from the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and six Meet Minneapolis employees. “Once the game ends in Houston, the attention turns to us,” said Michael Howard, director of communications for the host committee.

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Howard said the host committee, set up as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is tasked organizing many of the events during the week-and-ahalf lead-up to the big game. Those include the NFL Experience, an interactive attraction featuring games and other activities, and Super Bowl Live, an annual fan festival. The host committee is also in charge of recruiting the estimated 10,000 volunteers it takes to pull off those and other events.

‘Smaller footprint’ When Minneapolis hosts the Super Bowl, both the game and many of the festivities around it will take place in a compact area downtown. That’s a change from Houston, where the game was played in a stadium about eight miles away from the city center. When San Francisco hosted the previous year’s Super Bowl 50, the

game was actually played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, nearly an hour’s drive away. “It’s going to be all in a smaller footprint, which we’re excited about,” Cronk said. “I think it’s going to allow people to walk around and have a great downtown experience.” Commander Scott Gerlicher of the Minneapolis Police Department spent part of his time in Houston shadowing local law enforcement and getting a look at the behind-the-scenes security operation. After hours, Gerlicher mingled with tourists on a walk through Houston’s 12-acre Discovery Green park, host site of that city’s Super Bowl Live event, to get a fan’s perspective on security. “This is really more valuable than just about any training I’ve been to,” he said of the firstperson experience. Gerlicher noted one big difference between the two host cities: Houston has nearly 5,000 officers on its police force, while MPD employs closer to 900, meaning Minneapolis will rely on mutual aid agreements with surrounding cities “to muster up enough law enforcement personnel.” Members of the St. Paul and Bloomington police departments and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office joined him in Houston. Gerlicher said the department only has a “tentative budget” developed for the Super Bowl and wasn’t ready to release an estimate — “but as you might imagine, it’s pretty expensive,” he added. Cronk said the city expects to budget in the “couple-million-dollar range” for the Super Bowl and doesn’t yet have an estimate of how much it might take in from sales tax revenue on tourist spending in bars and restaurants. He said San Francisco spent about $5 million when it hosted.

Bold North There’s another, more obvious difference between the hosts of Super Bowl LI and Super Bowl LII: the climate. “We’re a cold city and we’re leaning into that,”

It’s going to be all in a smaller footprint, which we’re excited about. I think it’s going to allow people to walk around and have a great downtown experience. — Spencer Cronk, Minneapolis city coordinator

Cronk said. “We’re calling this the ‘Bold North,’ and we really want to have visitors and our residents … take advantage and really embrace the cold weather and the snow.” Kristen Montag of Meet Minneapolis, the city’s convention and visitor’s bureau, said the Super Bowl is “probably the biggest opportunity we could have to get our destination out to the world.” During her visit to Houston, Montag and her Meet Minneapolis coworkers were picking up tips on “how we can enhance the visitor experience” when Minneapolis hosts, she said. As for the stadium itself, Michele KelmHelgen, chair of the MSFA, said it’s “by and large” ready for the game. “We were during construction having detailed conversations with the NFL all along,” Kelm-Helgen said. U.S. Bank Stadium normally seats 66,800, but the MSFA will bring capacity up to 70,000 for the big game. MSFA is already making security upgrades after two Dakota Access Pipeline protesters managed to sneak climbing equipment into the stadium, scramble up a truss to unfurl a large banner during a Vikings-Bears game on New Years Day.

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

The soft open is underway at Utepils Brewing Co., with the grand opening slated for Feb. 18. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Utepils Brewing Co. With the hefeweizen on tap and an old piece of the Fruen Mill refashioned into a bonfire pit, Utepils is ready to open the doors for its grand opening Feb. 18. Utepils is prepared for big business, opening with the state’s sixth-largest brewhouse out of Minnesota’s 120-plus breweries. When optimized, the brewhouse could brew up to six batches of beer per day. Seventy-nine pilings reaching 105 feet into the ground support the immense weight of the two-story tanks above. “We’re trying to avoid the pitfalls of a lot of small startups,” said Dan Justesen, president of Utepils Brewing Co. “We decided to go big. With this engine, we can keep adding capacity and never be overwhelmed.” They have created the Alt 1848, which is a Dusseldorf-style brown ale; a Kölsch-style brew; a signature Pilsner featuring Czechgrown barley and hops (after sampling it off the fermenters, Justesen promises it will be “amazing”); an IPA featuring hops directly imported from the U.S. and Europe; and a hefeweizen that Justesen described as “light, bright, fresh and should be drank young.” “You can’t get beer like this here from very many places,” he said. “The best is from Germany, and it has a long shipping process.” The brewery is relying on energy-efficient equipment built by Esau & Hueber in Bavaria as well as tanks built in Bavaria by the threegeneration family business Gresser Manf. The brewing process is automated, allowing brewmaster Eric Harper to control the technology from a bank of computers. Spring water comes from the old wells used for 50 years by the Glenwood-Inglewood bottling plant. The water is available for sampling upon entry from a repurposed European “lauter grant” — the spigots were historically used by brewers to gauge runoff quality — now used for filling water bottles and rinsing steins. The concept was modeled after Europe’s public water fountains, and it’s located near a recreation of Regensburg’s city clock tower in Germany. Artist Sean Gray, who designs poster art for bands, created wall murals for each of the beers. The copper top of an old brewing kettle from Dusseldorf shines over the bar, another homage to brewing history. “My wife wanted one,” Justesen said. “It took me 14 years, but I got it.” The brewery raised $1.2 million in equity crowdfunding, and all of the core staff members are part owners. “It’s nice knowing this is your baby too,” said Kelsey Bomgaars, the taproom manager.

Dan Justesen, president of Utepils Brewing Co. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Bomgaars said she’s tried to create a warm and cozy feel, bringing greenery inside and plants to each of the tables. There will be food trucks onsite, but the brewery welcomes people to bring their own food, or even order a pizza delivery. “There are 14 ball fields within a half mile,” Justesen said. “We’re going to be their bar.” Nonalcoholic options include a Blackeye cold press on tap, a root beer by Vine Park Brewing Co. in St. Paul, Prohibition kombucha on tap and Tree Fort sodas. Full renovation of the 11,000-square-foot beer garden, with views of the creek, will come in future years after the property owners build a berm to prevent flooding from Bassett Creek. They’re envisioning space for hammocks and picnics on a patio that will quadruple the size of the taproom. The meaning of the Norwegian word Utepils (pronounced ooh-ta-pilz), is the first beer enjoyed in the sunshine in the spring. “There are certain things that are true now that were true 200 years ago,” Justesen said. “People like to hang out with friends and drink great beer.”

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SHE SHE | wallpaper installation Two local designers are seeing wallpaper make a comeback, and they’ve started a business handpainting custom installations. Friends Kate Worum and Jennifer Jorgensen collaborate with clients on original designs. “I sift through wallpaper all day long, and sometimes I don’t find exactly what I have in mind,” Jorgensen said. “I like the idea of it being an original. … Then you have an original piece of art at the same time.” Worum works in design for Target Corp. Her illustrations cover the wall of venues like Urban Bean, and her framed art prints will arrive at

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A Council committee voted Jan. 31 to sell a city-owned vacant lot at 3329 Nicollet Ave. to Pocket Properties LLC for the development of 12 residences. Pocket Properties is one of two developers seeking to buy the site. Developer Randy Hobbs proposed a 34-unit, fourand-a-half-story apartment building, while Pocket Properties proposed a mix of 12 apartments and townhomes spread between two three-story buildings. In recommending Pocket Properties’ proposal, city staff said the plan was more complete and financially feasible. The plan doesn’t require the city to rezone for more density, while Hobbs’ plan would require upzoning to R-5 from R-4. The Pocket Properties project would feature ground-floor workshop spaces with glass doors facing a central courtyard. The insulated workshop spaces could be used as garages or live/ work studios. The three-bedroom, three-bath townhouses would rent for an average of $2,300 per month, and the studio and one-bedroom apartments would average $1,200 per month. “It fits well with the scale of the existing architecture of the block and offers its own off street parking. The development team is more experienced and the project timeline is more complete,” states a city staff report. “… The neighborhood reviewed both proposals and favors the lower density and larger family rental units as proposed by Pocket Properties, LLC.” The city of Minneapolis acquired the foreclosed site in 2012 and demolished a vacant triplex.

City staff is recommending the sale of 3329 Nicollet Ave. for the pictured development by Pocket Properties. Image by William Wells, Architect

Pocket Properties would purchase the land for $56,200 to build a $2.4-million project, and has secured a commitment for construction loan financing. Hobbs would build an $8.6-million project, and secured a bank’s letter of interest. Most of Hobbs’ project would consist of one-bedroom units with rents up to $1,200 per month, with a handful of two-bedroom units up to $1,400 per month. Lyndale residents heard the development pitches in July, and voted 20-11 in favor of the Pocket Properties proposal.

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Grand Café The owners of Grand Café are turning over the restaurant to new, yet-to-be-announced owners. “After 10 years, it was time to take on another chapter,” said Mary Hunter. Hunter said she and her husband Dan are glad to pass on the café’s legacy to someone who will keep it running. Their last day is Feb. 5, after which the café will close until March for renovations. Grand Café’s staff — and the brunch — will remain, Mary said. “The baker oven is the heart and soul of this space since the late ’40s, and it will continue to be that,” she said. Mary said she and Dan haven’t decided their next move. Although they’re selling the business, they will continue to own the building. The couple worked as private chefs before opening the restaurant. Mary previously worked as a waitress at Bakery on Grand. “I had fallen in love with the space,” she said. “We got word that they were done and the building was up for sale. … It took a leap of

faith, and we jumped in.” Mary said the past decade has been an adventure, and she compared the experience to a fastmoving “train that never crashed.” “That doesn’t happen unless you have the support of the community and the staff and the people that enjoy what we created,” she said. “You don’t do it alone.” Grand Café is transitioning to new ownership at 38th & Grand. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Minnesota Honey Company is leaving its Xerxes Avenue storefront, but the honey will remain on shelves down the street at Vinaigrette. Vinaigrette will carry the shop’s best-selling honey varieties, some of it whipped and some of it infused with natural flavors. The most popular is the meadow wildflower, which is raw and unfiltered. Honey extracted from the hive is stored and left to crystallize, so the finished product comes with bits of pollen and beeswax. Some customers seek the raw honey as an

immunity booster, owner Deb Flanders said. She said others use honey as a sugar substitute for their kids, to avoid sugar highs and crashes. “It’s important for many of us to eat more natural sugar,” she said. The shop’s last day is Feb. 18, and the owners are offering sales to clear out the merchandise. Minnesota Honey Company will continue operating its wholesale business and online store at mnhoney.net.

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The Stevens Square boutique Flutter Bridal Boutique is reopening in Marcy-Holmes’ Riverplace building on Main Street. Owner Kolby Kipp Fahlsing has relocated the boutique from the carriage house of the Semple Mansion in the Stevens Square neighborhood to a slightly larger space along the historic riverfront, a popular destination for wedding parties. Store manager Laura Rudolph said the new home puts Flutter in proximity to some of the city’s most in-demand wedding venues and gives the boutique a large storefront in the office complex, which is seeing renovations from owner Sentinel Real Estate Corp. With the

Mattie’s on Main space still vacant next door, Flutter will also be able to bring activity to the area, she added. “Our hope is that we bolster business around here,” Rudolph said. Flutter will have a similar setup in the new space with several sitting rooms, bridal suites and a bridesmaid area. The primarily special-order boutique carries wedding dress designers such as Aria, Ivy & Aster, Heidi Elnora and more. The shop also offers bridesmaid dresses. Flutter, at 43 Main St. SE, is open by appointment only.

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Bill at Capitol would block sick time and wage ordinances Supporters of the city’s new safe and sick time ordinance pushed back against bills introduced at the state Legislature that attempt to block the new rules from taking effect this summer. The bills, proposing a Uniform State Labor Standards Act, also raised concerns among those who want to see Minneapolis enact a higher minimum wage. Introduced in the House by Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, the proposed act would preempt local governments’ authority to set standards for earned safe and sick time, minimum wages or other employment benefits, explicitly placing that power in the hands of the state. Garofalo didn’t respond to a request for comment, but Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, the chief author of an identical proposal in the Senate, said the bills aim to prevent a “patchwork of inconsistent labor standards,” which he argued would “create confusion and a huge burden for businesses and small businesses in particular.” “It would be extremely difficult for us to keep track of different rules and regulation in different cities and counties throughout the state,” said Miller, the CFO of Miller Scrap, a family-owned scrap metal and recycling business. Daniel Swenson-Klatt, the owner of Butter Bakery Cafe in the Kingfield neighborhood and a supporter of the earned safe and sick time ordinance, said that patchwork already exists. Swenson-Klatt described complaints about new burdens and complexity as a “front” for business owners who don’t want to see their costs rise due to the new rules. He said bills designed to target locally approved ordinances were a “challenge to a democratic process” that, in Minneapolis, included a series of city-organized focus groups and listening sessions with both workers and employers. “I know that there were folks in both Minneapolis and St. Paul who felt like we worked really hard to be listening, to bring in as many different voices (as possible),” Swenson-Klatt said. “There were compromises made. There were people who (said) this could have gone further.” Miller denied that the bills specifically targeted the earned safe and sick time ordinances already approved in the state’s two largest cities or the potential city minimum wage ordinance now under discussion in Minneapolis. He noted that

similar bills have already passed in more than 20 states, including several that border Minnesota. Critics have linked many of those bills to ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that works for the passage of conservativeleaning bills. The House version of the preemption bill advanced Feb. 2 through the House Job Growth and Energy Affordability Policy and Finance Committee on a party-line vote, with no DFLers in support. A hearing was scheduled in the House Government Operations and Election Policy Committee as this issue went to press. The companion bill in the Senate got through its first committee hearing Feb. 6. Minneapolis’ earned sick and safe time ordinance requires employers to offer at least one hour of sick and safe time for every 30 hours worked, up to 48 hours per year. The ordinance applies to workers who spend at least 80 hours per year on the clock in Minneapolis, even if their employer is based outside city limits. The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in October seeking an injunction that would prevent the ordinance from taking effect. It also asked a judge to find the ordinance unlawful. In January, a Hennepin County District Court judge denied the Chamber’s request for an injunction. But Mel Dickstein also raised questions about the legality of imposing the rules on non-Minneapolis employers, and agreed to pause enforcement against businesses located outside the city until after a hearing. On Jan. 27, the Chamber appealed the portions of Dickstein’s ruling that allowed the ordinance to stand. St. Paul adopted its own version of a sick and safe time ordinance that is set to go into effect July 1, the same day as Minneapolis’ ordinance. Last summer, the Duluth City Council established a task force to draft recommendations on an earned safe and sick time ordinance for that city. Swenson-Klatt said cities are stepping in where the state has failed to act. “If you’re going to take this away from Minneapolis and St. Paul, you need to talk about this on the state level, then,” he said. “They haven’t been willing to do that.”

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A sign outside of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fourth Precinct was covered in banners and signs during an 18-day protest prompted by the death of Jamar Clark. File photo

Scarsella found guilty in protest shooting A Hennepin County jury returned guilty verdicts on all 12 charges faced by a Lakeville man who opened fire on a Minneapolis Black Lives Matter protest in 2015, injuring five men. Allen Lawrence Scarsella, 24, of Lakeville, will now face sentencing on the 11 felony assault charges and one felony riot charge stemming from the Nov. 23, 2015 shooting outside of the Fourth Precinct, the site of a weeks-long protest in response to the officerinvolved death of Jamar Clark. Clark was shot during a struggle with two officers, and a protest against police violence targeting African-Americans turned into a weeks-long encampment outside the North Minneapolis precinct building. Scarsella has already been in custody for 14 months, since his arrest shortly after the incident. Scarsella drove to the protest with three other men, and jurors were shown videos the group recorded both before and after the shooting in which he used racist language. Scarsella is white, and all five of his victims were black.

“As I said at the time we charged Mr. Scarsella and his companions, the racist language he used in the videos and on social media is just not acceptable and the actions he took as a result of those racist beliefs were heinous. The jury obviously saw it the same way,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a statement released by his office. The Minneapolis NAACP announced in a statement it was “pleased that the jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts.” “Our imperfect judicial system, in this instance, produced the correct verdict,” the statement continued. “Scarsella harbored racial animus in his heart and planned to harm black protesters that night.” Freeman pledged to “seek the stiffest possible sentence” for Scarsella. Sentencing is currently scheduled for March 10. Still facing felony riot charges related to the incident are Joseph Martin Backman, 28, of Eagan; Nathan Wayne Gustavsson, 22, of Hermantown; and Daniel Thomas Macey, 27, of Pine City.

Hennepin Avenue reconstruction Hennepin Avenue is slated for reconstruction between 36th Street and Lake Street in 2018. The project includes full removal of the existing street, new pavement, curb and gutter, some sidewalks, signals, signage, streetscape improvements, boulevard trees and some pedestrian lighting. The current sidewalk does not meet the minimum width requirement for Minneapolis. In addition to widening the sidewalk, city staff are considering curb extensions to shorten pedestrian crossings. A new bikeway

on Hennepin would connect to the existing bikeway on 36th Street. The $9.2-million project would be funded through bonds, special assessments and municipal state aid. City staff are planning an open house in early March to share concept alternatives for the street. To view project materials, sign up for updates or provide input, visit minneapolismn.gov/cip/hennepin-uptown. —Michelle Bruch

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Escape from Trump Island

he weekend after Donald Trump was elected president and protests erupted around the globe, I went into soul survival mode, scanning my bookshelves and movie and music libraries for anything that might provide context, the aerial view, hope, wisdom and something like learned escape. As the Muslim ban and everything that came before it and after proves, Trump is the worst of us: a fake thug, capitalist pig and tool of evil with no discernible inner life or spirituality. To distance myself from the ape, I cracked Krista Tippet’s “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living” and Thomas Moore’s “Care Of The Soul,” both of which provide guidance for going deep and navigating the shallow world. More than anything, I’ve found gold in nightly readings of 1992’s “The Way To Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello,” throughout which the Jesuit priest wisely questions authority and the reality we’re fed: “Attempt to understand the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion, self-glorification. They are not natural, they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and to make you controllable. These feelings do not produce the nourishment and happiness that is produced when one contemplates nature or enjoys the company of one’s friends or one’s work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement — and emptiness. “And take a look at the people around you. Is there a single one of them who has not become addicted to these worldly feelings? A single one who is not controlled by them, hungers for them, spends every minute of his/her waking life consciously or unconsciously seeking them? When you see this you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul. For they live empty, soulless lives.” Thankfully, De Mello provides an answer to the “Is that all there is?” question that’s been nagging our collective consciousness during Trump’s rise, as does “Across The Universe,” Julie Taymor’s reliably entertaining re-telling of the turbulent ’60s via Beatles music. I dialed it up immediately after Trump’s victory for a thoughtful blast, hankering to see the film’s most poignant scene, when the jealous protagonist, Jude, invades the anti-war resistance’s offices and sings “Revolution.” It’s the struggle we all find ourselves in at the moment: An artist in the making, Jude knows that by joining a revolution or protest is the same kind

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of groupthink that creates “sides” and tamps down the soul itself, so he goes his own way. As an artist and a creator of original ideas, he’s committed to changing the world, but on his own time and in his own way, and he’s skeptical of power and leaders of any kind. It’s a nod to Timothy Leary’s “Turn on, tune in, drop out” philosophy from 1966 that says the human animal has many ways to react to the world around it and create change, and not all of it has to do with marching in the streets. A little too obviously, next up was “V for Vendetta,” whose dystopian world of fake news, authoritarian government and the enduring strength of the human spirit versus the Matrix is more than a little instructive during the Trumpocalypse. Chancellor Adam Sutler is a good cartoon version of Trump, preaching fear and law and order, while the anti-hero V is a good no-surrender role model who reminds, “People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.” Finally, 2017’s most popular box office draw, “La La Land,” is a much-needed reminder that all is not lost. Pure Hollywood escapism to be sure, but it’s also proof positive that sheer beauty can burst forth even in times of stultifying ugliness. The mere idea of falling in love, or of people going after their artistic dreams, is the sort of soul nourishment that’s eroding under Trump, much like the new regime’s coming cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and forthcoming war on net neutrality puts a chill on imagination itself. But life is more than about making money or

proving yourself to an unappreciative boss. Which is why it’s important to keep in mind that our spirits and souls are capable of generating real beauty and originality, not merely surviving or reacting to the day’s headlines. I loved every so-called snowflake moment “La La Land” provides, especially the scene in which Mia (Emma Stone) gets a callback for a movie audition and, in the face of her own self-doubt and an industry that maintains she’s not good enough, cuts loose and sings her ode to “the dreamers.” It’s an anthem worth holding close as we all follow our dreams, most of which feel momentarily dimmed by the idiocracy we’re living through, and belittled by the powers that be, but I for one won’t stop singing the chorus:

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Moments in Minneapolis

By Cedar Imboden Phillips

Minneapolis Arena, Lowry Hill East, 1939

he Minneapolis Arena, located on Lake Street between Dupont and Emerson avenues where the Cub grocery store now stands, was once a top entertainment destination for visitors from across the Twin Cities and even the state. It was in this large, cold arena that the famous Shipstad and Johnson Ice Follies got its start. Each year, the company returned home to perform for the home crowd. Here, the Ice Follies cast performs in 1939. The Minneapolis Arena was demolished in 1966. Cedar Imboden Phillips is executive director of the Hennepin History Museum. For more information about the museum and its offerings visit hennepinhistory.org.

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Linden Hills, which holds these side-by-side projects at the 4200 block of Washburn Avenue, sees most of the teardown and large-scale remodeling activity in Southwest Minneapolis. Photo by Michelle Bruch FROM TEARDOWNS / PAGE A1

from a peak in 2013, according to data provided by the city. The Linden Hills neighborhood continues to see the most wrecking and remodeling activity in Southwest Minneapolis by far, according to city data. New design guidelines following the moratorium set a maximum house height and require attached garages and high-reaching basements to count toward the maximum building bulk. A new construction management agreement set guidelines related to issues like noise, working hours, debris, idling vehicles, groundwater and erosion. “The sheer level of activity is a challenge, from just people absorbing that amount of

construction in a residential area,” said Council Member Linea Palmisano, who sought the moratorium and worked on the new regulations. “That’s just a lot to deal with.” Palmisano said it’s a good sign that her office is fielding fewer complaints, despite the high level of construction. “From my perspective, it’s going a lot better,” she said. “It’s largely not involving our police and not involving our Fire Department.” Urban construction is challenging for everyone, said Dick Kotoski of Lee Homes, who worked on the aforementioned Vincent Avenue teardown prior to the moratorium. He said workers comply with building code. “I know this builder and other builders try to be as considerate as they can,” he said.

He said the city’s new requirements, such as additional shoring during excavation, has increased project costs $5,000-$10,000. Loren Schirber, owner of Castle Building & Remodeling, said he’s been frustrated by rules that now count attached garages toward maximum building bulk, and said it’s caused him to lose projects. “If people want to take up their whole backyard with a garage, so what?” he said. “It doesn’t change the street appeal.” Schirber said he’s seeing more requests for large projects. Homeowners are staying in place and improving their houses, he said, particularly given the current market challenge of finding and bidding on a new home. And even though remodeling prices have increased up to

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27 percent in the past year-and-a-half, due to the rising cost of labor and materials, demand remains steady, he said. Jane Kohnen, president of the Fulton Neighborhood Association, said developers seem to be asking for fewer variances from building code. Fulton started the BLEND Awards in 2007 to recognize houses that blend new construction into the neighborhood fabric. And Linden Hills organized the neighborhood’s first Little Homes Tour last summer as an appreciation for homes with well-designed small footprints. Kohnen said the initiative has made an impact on some builders, while others continue to build maximum-allowable size houses. She said regulations that came out of the moratorium have made a positive impact. “There are still complaints about building requirements and enforcement on how things are being built, but it’s certainly better than it was,” she said. Denis Houle, president of the Armatage Neighborhood Association, said teardowns don’t seem to be the burning issue they once were. “I’m not hearing as much about the issue as I was in the past,” he said. For those living next door to a teardown, however, the issue can continue to loom large. Fulton resident Joan Chartier said the empty home next door at 5040 Xerxes Ave. S. is entering its third year of construction. She nearly hit a nail gun cartridge with her lawn mower, and she’s seen months go by without a soul on the site. She said that while city staff have been responsive to her concerns, she wishes the city could compel the developer to finally complete construction on this house before focusing on other jobs. DM Wallace did not respond for comment. Chartier has lived in her house for 23 years, and she said her house would probably be considered a teardown as well. “It’s too small for most people these days. They want these huge homes,” she said. Armatage resident Ryan Egan is watching a

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nearby teardown at 5440 Cumberland Rd. He said his block has mostly been untouched by teardowns until now, and he fears the neighborhood will someday become out of reach for first-time homebuyers. The Cumberland house sold last summer for $205,404, according to Zillow, and it’s now a 3,600-square-foot house listed by Dream Homes Inc. for $849,900. “The house that was there obviously needed work,” he said. “But it didn’t need to be three times as big with three times the cost. … You’re pricing out a lot of people.” Egan said he’s been frustrated by construction debris in the yard and disrespectful workers. “The neighbors will be great people, but it’s a difficult process to get there,” he said. Kaleab Girma of Dream Homes said neighbors of the Armatage project have been confrontational from the beginning. He said the wind can carry debris into neighbors’ yards, but his crews work to clean it up. “Some neighbors just don’t like the idea of teardowns,” he said. When choosing a house to redevelop, Girma said he looks for small homes in disrepair with few bedrooms. He said homebuyers want to live in the city with open floor plans and at least three bedrooms, and they aren’t seeking large yards. “There is more value in the land than there is in the home,” he said. “Some neighbors look at it as a negative. … They’re not looking at the gain in property value they’re going to realize down the line.” At 2624 W. 44th St. in Linden Hills, the asking price for a single-family house is $895,000. A website devoted to the sale doesn’t show any photographs of the house, but does note that the site’s zoning allows up to four stories in height. On a recent weekday, a man who drove past the house told this reporter he was looking for the real estate agent. If he could make the house livable for a few years and the house next door went up for sale, he said, the combined lots would probably generate a lot of interest. The property owner declined to comment. “This typifies where the rubber meets the

road in Linden Hills,” said Walter Pitt, chair of the Linden Hills Neighborhood Council Zoning Committee. “The value of the lot far [exceeds] the value of the home.” Next door at 2620 W. 44th St., the city’s Heritage Preservation Commission is considering an application this month to demolish a house deemed a “historic resource.” The house is notable as the prior residence of writer Brenda Ueland, according to a city staff report, who is often cited as the first female reporter at the Minneapolis Tribune. Ueland went on to write for magazines including the Saturday Evening Post, publish books including “If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit,” and advocate for women’s rights on behalf of factory girls and prostitutes. She lived at the house from 1954 until her death in 1985.

A historical consultant working on behalf of the applicant said there are better ways to honor historical significance, as the home contains no office or study directly linked to her significant works. The consultant suggested a Brenda Ueland Reading Room at the Linden Hills Library. The applicant did not immediately respond for comment. Pitt said he sees a bit of natural selection happening in the neighborhood, particularly where homes stand on large lots. “Old houses which may be junky are destined to come down,” he said. “Even ones that are nicer and more historic, as the price goes up for the lot, then those are destined to come down.” Pitt said he’s learned that the question of how to grow is not black and white. “Do you keep it, do you get rid of it, how do

you balance these things?” he said. Hewett said teardowns have changed the character of her Vincent Avenue block, which started as mostly one-and-a-half story bungalows. She’s seen four complete teardowns, one scheduled to start any day, and one rehabbed second floor. But she said it’s good to see families who can afford larger homes choose to live in the city and send their kids to city schools. “When we first came to this neighborhood, when a family got a little bit bigger, they would move out because the bungalows weren’t big enough,” she said. “…It’s never going to be a treat to have a house torn down and rebuilt next to you. I think it’s a good compromise between the interests of new people who want to move in to the neighborhood and have a bigger house, and the interests of people who are already here.”

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A protest in response to President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugees marched through downtown Minneapolis Jan. 31. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

TRUMP’S TARGETING OF IMMIGRANTS PROMPTS LOCAL RESPONSE Local leaders plan to push back against executive orders on immigration By Dylan Thomas and Nate Gotlieb

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Southwest student up for national arts honor Southwest High School senior Grace Abbott has been nominated to become a 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Abbott is one of 60 nominees for the honor, which goes to 20 students who exemplify

academic and artistic excellence. Students were nominated by the National YoungArts Foundation and will be selected by the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars. The arts scholars will join more than 140

other U.S. Presidential Scholars in June in Washington D.C. for a national recognition program and will present their work at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Abbott, who has taken Advanced Placement

and International Baccalaureate art classes, will attend the Parsons School of Design in New York City next fall.

District hosts annual eighth-grade STEM expo Frisbee-shooting robots, electricity machines and mechanical arms greeted students Feb. 2 at the annual Minneapolis Public Schools STEM & Career Exploration Expo. More than 2,150 eighth-graders were registered to participate in the sixth-annual event, which exposed kids to companies such as Best Buy and Boston Scientific as well as career fields such as health care, information technology and agriculture. The goal was to help kids connect what they’re learning in school to potential careers, said Sara Etzel, director of Career and Technical Education and Science, Technology Engineering and Math at MPS. “We’re trying to plant seeds with our students about what the possibilities are that may not be represented in their normal communities, neighborhoods or families,” Etzel said. “We want to make that connection early and then hopefully through hands-on activities, they will see those connections and kind of get the itch.” The fair is part of MPS’ career-planning process for students. In middle school, the district has students think about potential careers and make academic plans based on career paths. Ninth- and 10th-graders take inventories and surveys that encourage them to think about how their interests and personalities intersect with the work world. Eleventh- and 12th-graders begin forming and executing a plan that includes career and college searches and applications. To prepare for the career fair, eighth-graders learned about the state’s career wheel, which

Bruce Peterson of the Minnesota Energy Center shows Folwell eighth-grader Olivia Miller a device used to assess solar capacity at the STEM & Career Exploration Expo on Feb. 2. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

breaks careers down into six fields. Students were encouraged to visit exhibits that aligned with those fields. They were given a worksheet with different questions to ask exhibitors, in order to learn more. Folwell eighth-grader Olivia Miller said a career survey indicated she might be suited for the arts, video technology, business, communications or agriculture. She plays in the school orchestra and said she likes the idea of doing something in the arts or video technology. Eighth-grader Zavion Thompson said he’s interested in information technology, some-

thing for which the survey he’d be well suited. Etzel said she hoped that each student in attendance could have one “aha moment” at the fair. She said another goal was to give students tangible hands-on activities as well as opportunities to see the tools used in the different STEM fields. MPS’ Career and Technology Education department serves more than 3,000 high school students annually. The department has offerings in everything from radio broadcasting to robotics, engineering, health care and food science.

Etzel said the department is working to create a district-wide campus for career and technology education, one where students can take classes in their interest area, even if it’s outside their own high school. While she’d love for students to be interested in STEM, the CTE classes can help students realize what they’re not interested in, too, something that could provide them direction in college. Plus, the classes help students develop skills in problem solving, teamwork and communication, skills that help in any career. Employers appeared to appreciate the efforts. Jessica Damm of Hennepin County Human Resources came to the event with members of the county surveyor’s office. Members of the office brought a 3-D point scanner with them, explaining to kids how the device can create a 3-D model of something like a bridge or a historical sign. “Kids know about things like doctor or lawyer but they don’t necessarily know about other careers,” Damm said. “Events like this are a great way to showcase careers that they haven’t thought about that could be a perfect fit for them.” Steven Yates, director of program management for Boston Scientific, said his company feels it’s important to invest in the future of the industry. He said the company wants more people thinking about STEM and feeling supported when they show interest. “The hope here of anyone is just one or two people click on what we’re showing them,” he said. “It’s a huge kick to see what people are talking about and what kids get excited about.”

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School recycling grant application open until Feb. 28 Hennepin County is offering grants for public and private schools to start or improve recycling, organics recycling or waste-reduction programs. The county’s school recycling grants can fund projects such as on-site composting programs, milk-carton recycling in cafeterias and purchasing compostable food ware. It also can provide stipends for teachers to start and lead environmental clubs, water bottle filler retrofits and the hauling of organics. Schools and districts can receive $50,000, said Hennepin County Recycling Technician Kira Berglund, though that amount would be more likely for a school district than individual building. Schools that apply for more than $25,000 need to provide a 25 percent match. The county has funded at least a part of every applicant the last couple years, Berglund said. It’s had grants available since 2002 and grants specifically for schools since 2012. Nearly 80 percent of school waste is recyclable or compostable, according to the county. A 2010 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency report found that

schools generate about one-half pound of waste per capita per day. Minneapolis Public Schools has received grants the past three years for organics recycling at Bancroft, Broadway, Lyndale, Washburn, Edison, Roosevelt, South and Hmong International Academy. The district has organics recycling at 33 buildings. According to MPS, the cost of hauling organics is $15 per ton versus about $42 a ton for trash. The district also said that organics are exempt from the county solid waste fee and state solid waste tax. Hennepin County will award up to $200,000 in school grants this year. In addition, it has a businessgrants program for businesses that want to start or improve their recycling, organics or waste-reduction programs. School-recycling grant applications are due at 4 p.m. on Feb. 28. Visit hennepin.us/schoolrecycling to learn more and apply. Business-recycling grant applications are due Feb. 15. Visit hennepin.us/businessrecycling to learn more.

City offers programs to help pollinators The Minneapolis Health Department is offering two programs to provide pollinator friendly trees in the city. The Conservation of Minneapolis Bees Program has residents help with the instillation, weeding and watering of pollinatorfriendly patches and trees. Each patch includes seven to 10 native neonicotinoid-free plants. The Pollinator Patch Program has residents help determine how much pollinator habitat exists in the city. They take a 10-question quiz to help assess the habitat around them, and each person who takes the quiz will receive half a flat of native pollinator friendly plants, free signage and a certificate. About one-third of food and drink produced in the U.S. depends on pollinators, which in total produce more than $20 billion in domestic products, according to the city. They are threatened, however, by loss and fragmentation of habitat, disease, parasites, pesticides and more. Contact the city at beefriendly@minneapolismn.gov if you are interested in hosting a pollinator patch or a pollinator-friendly tree.

Recycling guides mailed to customers

City honored with solar, energy awards

Minneapolis mailed recycling guides to its recycling customers earlier this month. The guides include information on all city solid-waste and recycling services as well as how to get rid of excess household garbage, construction and demolition debris, how to dispose of hazardous waste and resources to reduce waste. The guide also includes information on what customers can and can’t recycle through the solid-waste and recycling services, and it shows pickup dates through March 2018. Minneapolis solid-waste and recycling

Minneapolis has received an award for its leadership in advancing solar energy and another for encouraging energy efficiency, conservation and renewable-energy generation. The city earned a national SolSmart Gold designation, which signals its openness for solar business and work attracting solarindustry advancement. It also earned an achievement award as part of Minnesota’s Clean Energy Community Awards program. SolSmart is a program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Cities and counties earn the designation by taking steps to save money for businesses that

customers recycled over 500 tons more of paper products, plastic and glass and metal food and beverage containers in 2016 than in 2015. The city collected 29,500 tons of recyclables last year, and residents who participated in the organics program diverted more than 3,300 tons of compostable materials. Customers can sign up for organics for no extra cost at minneapolismn.gov/ organics or by calling 311. You can sign up at minneapolismn.gov/solid-waste to get email reminders before every recycling day.

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Park Board bolsters neighborhood park rehabilitation

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With new funding the board will infuse $25 million into rehab projects over the next six years

Park commissioners recently announced a dramatic expansion of the board’s rehabilitation work thanks to new funding from a plan to better maintain neighborhood parks over the next two decades. Beginning this year, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will ramp up investments for neighborhood park repairs with plans to spend $25 million — up from the previously allocated $4 million — over the next six years. The money will come from the 20-Year Neighborhood Park Plan, an agreement with the city that will raise $11 million annually over the next two decades to repair park assets like playgrounds and recreation centers. By bolstering rehab projects, the Park Board hopes to address a decades-long backlog of gaps in maintenance funding and save money in the future by addressing repairs before they become critical. “We have been a very reactive workforce for a while. This is for the first time opening that window, opening that door to preventing these things from happening,” said Linden Weiswerda, a park management analyst with the board. The board is now determining the first parks it will rehab. Over the past couple years the board has taken an inventory of all of its assets — wading pools, ball fields and more — to assess what needs replacing and when. Assets with a “critical need” — something that could fail tomorrow, Weiswerda said — like a roof in danger of falling apart, and those with a “high need” or visible damage with the potential of deteriorating, will be given priority over cosmetic repairs, or a “low need.” “These projects range widely in their scale and complexity,” said Superintendent Jayne Miller in a statement. “So we look at factors like timing, cost estimates, racial and economic

Repairing cracks at a Harrison Park court would be considered a “low need” under the Park Board’s rehabilitation program. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

equity and project efficiencies. We also factor in the possibility of storms or other unexpected damage that can shift priorities.” What has been determined so far is how much funding will generally be allocated to certain repairs, though the board says they will have to be flexible in addressing emergency repairs and other unexpected work. Over the next six years, for example, the Park Board will invest $4.6 million into ADA and accessibility improvements — the largest category — $4.3 million into repairing roofs, nearly $3 million to enhance park lighting and another $3 million to maintain recreation centers. Other categories include rehabilitating sidewalks, operations facilities, park heating and cooling systems and synthetic turf. This month the board will announce what neighborhood parks will see ADA and accessibility improvements. Rehab projects in other

categories will be announced throughout the year as they’re finalized. While the boost to maintenance is dramatic, Miller told commissioners that it will still be five to 10 years before the board will see a decline in rehabilitation investments. At that point the Park Board will be able to put more money into creating new amenities in neighborhood parks. “This is 2017. We knew in 2000 that we already had a funding gap. So we’re already looking at a 20-year gap and backlog of investments that we need to have made into our assets,” she said. “While we’re going to do a lot of work this year, it’s only going to be a dent in that backlog.” More information about the 20-Year Neighborhood Park Plan is available at minneapolisparks.org/npp20.

The City of Minneapolis and Park Board have selected a team of local companies to lead the development of one of the city’s biggest new park projects. In January both the City Council and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board confirmed Bloomington-based United Properties to lead the group responsible for the overhaul of the nearly 50-acre Upper Harbor Terminal site in North Minneapolis, located just north of Lowry Avenue North along the river’s west bank. Thor Development and First Avenue Productions, two local firms, are also part of the team. The team released a preliminary proposal for the site late last year that included up to 1,000 units of housing, a 10,000-person amphitheater and 18 acres of parkland, in addition to office, retail and other pieces. City staff will now negotiate an exclusive rights agreement with all three parties regarding the city-owned site, once a shipping terminal. “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for North Minneapolis with much yet to be done, so the community should and will continue to be fully involved in what happens at Upper Harbor. I look forward to the day when the residents of North Minneapolis have full access to the beautiful riverfront, world-class amenities and the many economic opportunities that this redevelopment has the potential for,” said Mayor Betsy Hodges in a statement. City Council President Barb Johnson, whose ward includes the site, said the team has provided an “exciting vision” for the Upper Harbor Terminal area. “I look forward to the opportunities this project will bring for North Minneapolis,” she said.

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Park Board seeks feedback on 25-year draft plan for lakes A 25-year draft plan for lakes Harriet and Calhoun, or Bde Maka Ska, is posted online, offering strategies to improve the trails and honor the area’s Dakota history. Most of $2.5 million in funding in 2017 is slated for trail resurfacing and trail access. Out of 5 million annual visitors to the Chain of Lakes (up to 10,000 on a summer day), an estimated 80 percent come for the trails. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is seeking feedback on the plan through March 4. Recommendations include the following: • Convert lower East Harriet Parkway (Lower Road) to a two-way bike trail. Traffic would move uphill onto an existing parallel parkway. “The CAC (Community Advisory Committee) and many from the local community want less vehicular traffic on parkways,” states the draft plan. “They object to the use of the parkways as commuting corridors.” A pilot study could conduct traffic counts before full implementation. • Develop a circulator bus route or shuttle around the lakes, in lieu of adding parking lots. • Decongest the northeast area of Lake Calhoun. • Add a semi-circular pier behind the Lake Harriet Band Shell to allow visitors to sit along the shore and put their feet in the water, without blocking walkers and cyclists passing through. The pier could incorporate

stormwater infrastructure to capture pollutants entering the lake. • Add a wide promenade through the green space at northwest Calhoun to provide a connection from the trails to the West Lake commercial area and Midtown Greenway. • Improve the safety of crossings at heavily traveled roads, including Excelsior Boulevard, Lake Street and Richfield Road • Provide more space for pedestrians on Lake Street between Thomas Avenue and East Calhoun Parkway. • Maintain and improve water quality. Lake Calhoun has high water quality, but Lake Harriet’s water quality slipped a bit in 2016. Steps in the 1990s to install wetlands and grit chambers helped remove sediment and trash, and alum treatments help reduce the dissolved phosphorous that creates algae blooms. • Remove the bike trail under the Lake Street bridge, replacing it with a trail crossing on the west side of East Calhoun Parkway. • A long-term idea to bridge the heavy traffic on Lake Street is to depress the roadway between Thomas Avenue and the channel and build a wide green roof or “lid” holding trees and trails. The CAC said it did not want this “exciting idea to be relegated to the shelves,” according to the draft plan.

This rendering shows a hypothetical green “lid” over West Lake Street connecting Lake Bde Maka Ska (Calhoun) to Lake of the Isles. A new boat launch and dock is pictured at left. Image courtesy of Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

An illustration depicts a proposed conversion of lower East Harriet Parkway (Lower Road) into a bike and pedestrian corridor. Image courtesy of Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Many cyclists advocated for two-way bike paths, but the CAC decided against that recommendation. A two-way conversion was deemed dangerous during crowded peak periods, and a wider trail would result in the loss or damage of several hundred trees. Some segments of the trail are recommended as two-way paths, however, including the aforementioned Lower Road and a new two-way trail along the eastern edge of William Berry to improve access to 36th Street. The first round of improvements would begin this spring. Public meetings this month are discussing public art to honor the Dakota people who lived near the shore of Lake Calhoun. Park Board and city officials recently started meeting with descendants of Mahpiya Wicasta (Cloud Man) to collect stories that will inform the artist’s work. The next public meeting is 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Feb. 27at the Minneapolis American Indian Center auditorium, 1530 E. Franklin Ave. According to the draft master plan, archaeological evidence shows that Native Americans lived near the Chain of Lakes for thousands of years. The Dakota people referred to Lake Calhoun and its white sand beaches as Bde Maka Ska, or Lake White Earth. As European settlers arrived, game became more scarce. Cloud Man successfully grew crops for a decade on the east side of the lake at Heyata Otunwe, or the Village to the Side (roughly between 34th Street, Fremont Avenue, Lake-

wood Cemetery and the lake). He relocated to present-day Bloomington to find better protection from the Ojibwe. Following the Dakota War of 1862, Cloud Man and 1,700 other Dakota people were imprisoned at Fort Snelling, where he and many others died. “Dakota returning to the Chain of Lakes area have expressed that they do not feel welcome in the park because there is little recognition or expression of their history,” states the draft master plan. “The only acknowledgement of Native American history or of the Dakota inhabiting the area within the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes Regional Park is a small plaque on a boulder on the south side of Lake Calhoun/ Bde Maka Ska near a cedar tree. The very name Lake Calhoun is particularly onerous to Native Americans because John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, drafted the treaties that removed indigenous peoples from their homelands and set up the Bureau of Indian Affairs as part of the War Department.” The CAC supports the official and legal restoration of the name Bde Maka Ska. To view the draft master plan, visit minneapolisparks.org/park_care__improvements/ park_projects/current_projects/calhounharriet_master_plan__improvements. The online survey is available at surveymonkey.com/r/CalhounBdeMakaSkaHarrietMasterPlan.

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The matchmakers who help Minneapolitans fi d love In an age of online dating local matchmakers still work their magic Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

hen singles in Minneapolis want to find love they could download an app or ask a friend, or they could turn to someone like Amy Rolando. For the past two decades Rolando has attended plenty of weddings where the bride or groom wasn’t a friend or a family member, but a client. She’s the founder of downtown Minneapolis-based relationship agency Pairings Group and a professional matchmaker, someone who works a database of singles, their own personal networks and even family to find connections for her clients. “Our clients have full lives — friends, a great job, their kids — but nothing can replace an intimate relationship, and that’s what really drives it,” she said. “There is nothing more important in this world than relationships. There just isn’t.” Rolando got her start in matchmaking in her 20s. A TV news meteorologist by trade, she didn’t get into the relationship-making industry until she launched a dating service in the ’90s after seeing a dearth of approachable options out there. “It was unbelievable what was out there at the time. I didn’t realize how big a need there was until I launched it,” Rolando said. About 20 years later Rolando has honed in her services to true-to-form matchmaking where she and her business partner Denys Crea act much like private detectives, searching for the right someone for only eight or so clients each year. Through the high-end service, clients retain the duo, usually for about a year, to attend events, find singles and vet promising people on their behalf. It’s only after they interview a potential match the client goes on a date. “Anybody can get a date. It’s about vetting the right people and the last thing I want to do is put somebody in front of you and you’re sitting there like ‘Are you kidding me?’” she said. The process is similar for April Davis, the owner of LUMA!, a St. Louis Park-based matchmaking company that employs about five

matchmakers. Not only do they comb through contacts and their own free singles registry — Davis has an online pool of 20,000 people around the country — they vet clients as well. Usually clients tend to be professionals in their 30s to 60s who don’t want to waste time on date after date, or they may not want to put themselves out there on dating websites. Many have been divorced — about half of her clients are, Davis said — and many see it as an investment. “[They’re] people who are busy. A lot of times they’re successful. And picky. They don’t want to waste their time with just anyone,” she said. The business involves a lot of coaching, and several matchmakers are also certified life coaches or have experience in giving relationship advice. Kailen Rosenberg, CEO and founder of Love Architects and a relationship expert who’s worked with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, coaches clients to find the right person. She recently launched the Lodge, a private social club at the Calhoun Beach Club where she hosts a boot camp for singles, custom mixers for clients and other events.

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“Success for me is … when [a client has] that major tear-jerking ‘aha’ moment when they’ve finally met their true self and get who they are, and because of us they are empowered,” Rosenberg said. Matchmaking services are a great deal more expensive than free apps or paid memberships for online dating sites. Packages range from a couple thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars to retain experienced local matchmakers, though many, like Rolando, offer cheaper “wingman” or dating re-entry services as well. But matchmaking companies say they save clients time and heartache while finding success in about four in five clients. “Over the last 20 years people have really embraced that online dating option, but you’re spending a lot of time and effort and not getting a lot of results. People are starting to realize the value of a matchmaker,” said Courtney Smallbeck, the director of marketing in the Minneapolis office of It’s Just Lunch, a dating service with more than 150 locations worldwide. Davis said the difference is in what you pay for. With matchmakers you get professionals

to coach you through the vulnerable act of finding love. “You don’t have to have millions of dollars, but you have to recognize the value of what we do and that it’s going to cost you money,” she said. “Our goal is to go to your wedding. We’re in the business of making love [and] making babies.”

shared details such as age or career. As Rolando said, “friends only go so far.”

at Macy’s.” Don’t play the blame game. Rosenberg tells her clients to talk about their role in past relationships instead of what the other person did, and clients often give her a deerin-the-headlights look. “I don’t want to hear anything about your ex. What did you learn about you and what do we need to improve about you so that you don’t do it again?” she said. Don’t always listen to your friends. While friends want to match up other friends, they rarely go beyond simple

What do matchmakers suggest when getting back into dating? Tweak your clothes and hair. Davis said she connects clients with a hairstylist and does some of her own shopping for clients. It’s Just Lunch also employs an in-house stylist. “You’re not going to ‘Cinderella’ anyone, but just a 10-percent change, those minor tweaks, can have a significant impact,” she said. “I’ve spent a lot of time

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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CREATIVE ARTS IN MINNEAPOLIS ASTONISHES. Estimated at over $4.5 billion in sales, or eight times that of Minneapolis’ sports sector according to the 2015 Creative Vitality Index (CVI), an economic measure used by the city, it has earned our region a lofty place as a national creative mecca. ¶ Behind such stunning statistics toil humans whose creativity and innovation fuel this so-called creative class, dubbed by author Richard Florida. Frequently laboring for the sheer love of their craft, many visual and performing artists, directors, inventors and innovators produce from an inner creative core more likely fueled by passion than personal gain. These makers are marked by an almost holy drive to create – and when their artistry and intent collide, it often yields something extraordinary in its wake.

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“As I incorporated these icons into my work,” she continues, “I found the need to add a ‘human’ to tell my story and decided to use the image of a paper doll dress. A paper doll is a human form but not a recognizable human and is representative of the ability to change identities, like clothes — a perfect symbol for me.” Indeed, the symbolism of Gutierrez-Bolger’s paper doll dresses takes on an unwanted urgency in our newly dystopian political climate where immigrants not only struggle with selfidentity but also face new and worse threats. Though crafted from her own fiercely personal Cuban refugee chronicle, GutierrezBolger’s oeuvre addresses the universality and power of art to communicate the dislocation suffered by those forced to flee their homelands.

From island to tundra — refugees from tyranny Creativity often follows a circuitous course, like that traveled by refugees. Gutierrez-Bolger’s journey from immigrant to artist traces such a tale. While Florida is the U.S. state most identified with the Cuban exodus from Castro’s repressive regime, Minnesota experienced its

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brothers were sent to an uncle in Miami. Barely escaping Havana, Gutierrez-Bolger and her mother were issued one of the very last official visas granted in May of 1962. Years later, as a 17-year-old, GutierrezBolger joined her sister Mary in Minnesota.

Business, love, leadership, art Gutierrez-Bolger’s hyphenated identity is as integral to her creative saga as is her epic journey from island to tundra. For most immigrants a top priority is securing economic means. After moving in with her sister, Gutierrez-Bolger attended Hennepin Technical Centers (now Hennepin Technical College), took a short hiatus in Colorado and returned to Minnesota to find a career. “I answered an ad for a receptionist at Bolger Printing that read, in part, ‘exciting career in the graphic arts,’ which felt tailormade for me,” she muses. “I was very surprised when I was hired because there were many applicants. It wasn’t until years later that I discovered I was hired because I was Cuban and the company was looking to add diversity to their workforce.”

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Starting out as a receptionist, she soon learned enough about printing to be promoted to assistant production manager in the publishing division. A quick learner, she concentrated on typography and page make-up (which, for readers too young to know, was called “keylining” and entailed producing galleys that were waxed and attached to single- and double-page boards, then reproduced in camera to negatives and eventually made in to printing plates). Gaining critical experience and expertise in these labor-intensive processes greatly influenced her early artwork, in which she repurposed old-fashioned printing plates as canvases for her painted and collaged works, incorporating existing artifacts on the plates into each piece. Taking night classes at the University of Minnesota in supervisory and management skills, she soon was rising through Bolger’s ranks, taking on more management responsibilities. Before long, she was appointed operations manager in charge of all the prepress departments: design, electronic prepress and IT, eventually “introducing first ever Macintoshes and scanners to the operation.” In tech parlance, Gutierrez-Bolger was an early digital adapter. About that hyphen: Cupid’s bow had pierced her heart from her first glimpse of dik Bolger, one of the three sons who ran the company alongside their parents. “During my first interview I saw my future husband, dik, standing in the back of the room and thought that he looked hot,” she teasingly recollects. “All I can say is that it was love at first sight. We were married within ten months of our first date!” As a legendarily family-run printing enterprise, their relationship was effortlessly incorporated into the Bolger day-to-day. No eyebrows raised, no rules broken. Another celebrated advantage of working at Bolger was mentorship by her motherin-law, Genevieve Bolger, a legend in her own right. One of Minnesota’s early female industry leaders, daughter of a prominent Minnesota family, Gen, as she was known to all of those privileged enough to orbit in her sphere, was direct and dynamic, with a fabled civic ethic — serving on numerous boards, leading countless committees, chairing endless fundraisers and mentoring many. Under her watchful eye, her young daughter-in-law and protégée joined plum industry boards, applying her own indefatigable work ethic to each new organization and task. “I was fortunate to be a founding member of the Twin Cities Desktop Publishing Association and was on the board of Typographer’s International Association (TIA), based in New Jersey, for three years before we renamed it International Digital Imaging Association (IDIA), serving as President — only the second woman president in its 75-year history!” Gutierrez-Bolger recalls. The printing industry was morphing at lightning speed as it moved from film to digital composition, and as the independent typesetting houses that were the basis of these organizations dissolved, the industry boards consolidated. By 1995, Gutierrez-Bolger took on the civic nonprofit realm, joining the board of Twin Cities-based WomenVenture, where she served for six years, infusing the organization with boundless creative opportunities and critical new connections. Around this time, a long-awaited miracle blessed the Gutierrez-Bolger household. For years she and husband dik had tried to have a family. With the birth of their adored daughter, Mariel, Gutierrez-Bolger grew restlessness working in the graphics field. Happily, dik encouraged her to return to one of her first loves — art. “I have always considered myself an artist and have drawn since we came to the United States,” she relates. “My family all drew as a form of entertainment since we had so little. The five kids used to compete with each other to see who could draw the best, but it was agreed that my mom and dad were the best. I still have some of the drawings that they did in

Detail from a piece by Gutierrez-Bolger. Photo by Susan Schaefer

the ’60s in Florida and have begun to incorporate them into my work.” In the late ’90s, Gutierrez-Bolger began training with Sally Brown, herself a Twin Cities’ art celebrity and founding member of Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota (WARM). It was then she claims, “I found my adult art self.” As a member of the early warehouse art denizens, Gutierrez-Bolger intensified her art training and participation, taking classes at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and the University of Minnesota and joining a weekly artists’ co-op concentrating on Life Drawing at the Traffic Zone, where, she states, “I developed my skills and really trained my eye.” For 11 years, they held yearly shows in local galleries including the Traffic Zone, and with the support of the small group of artist friends in the co-op, she said, “I was able to begin feeling that I had my own voice and that I had a story to tell, my story.” At one point, Gutierrez-Bolger moved her studio into Northeast, where she helped establish “The Rain Collective” — a group of 15 artists who all worked in Northeast. It is well known in the Twin Cities creative class arts circles that such communities provide opportunities to learn from and have the support of other artists, which in the visual arts include calls for art in local shows, one of which was in Art-A-Whirl, the largest open studio tour in the United States, hosted by the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA).

Guiding the arts into economic vitality Gutierrez-Bolger is perhaps best known statewide for her indelible impact on NEMAA, where, during her tenure as board president, her seasoned business skills helped the organization to better realize its own identity and craft longer term strategic goals. The Northeast Minneapolis scene was booming, with the organization NEMAA at its core, and before long the renowned sculptor Nick Legeros spotted Gutierrez-Bolger’s leadership and business talents, recruiting her to NEMAA’s board. She accepted with the intention of giving back to the artist community that had served her well. Her tenure there is widely heralded.

A paper doll is a human form but not a recognizable human and is representative of the ability to change identities, like clothes — a perfect symbol for me. — Carmen Gutierrez-Bolger, artist

Stepping into the presidency a bit early at the request of then-president artist Susan Wagner, Gutierrez-Bolger stamped the organization with her business savvy. “We balanced non-artist members with artist members, we changed the ratio of revenue streams to diversify, we grew membership and we started regular monthly communications with the membership,” she explains. “Additionally, we were able to make our executive director, Ale Pelinka, a first fulltime employee!” Pelinka has earned a top-notch arts administration reputation, now serving as Bloomington’s director of placemaking and community engagement. One of the initiatives of which GutierrezBolger is most proud of is three-year strategic plan devised in conjunction with MAP for Nonprofits that is still being followed. In fact, in 2014 USA Today recognized the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District as the best arts district in America. In an online poll, readers, American travelers and arts patrons selected the thriving Northeast Minneapolis Arts District no. 1 over districts in Boston, Baltimore, Dallas and other cities. “It was an honor to be in the position to represent such a vibrant and hard-working group of artists,” concludes Gutierrez-Bolger.

Full circle As a young person trying to fit in, GutierrezBolger had wanted to distance herself from her culture, as most young immigrants do. However, when she had her own child she

started wanting to know more about her family’s history and culture. “I realized that I was lost to a world that should have been mine,” she admits. In the late 1990s, Gutierrez-Bolger co-produced a feature-length documentary about her family’s story, and, in 2000, she returned to Havana with her mom and sister. “That trip was a turning point for my work. I visited the houses that our family lived in and spent time with relatives I had never met. While there, I became painfully aware that I was not really Cuban. Every time I saw the Cuban flag, I felt something inside of me wince. My entire sense of self, my entire identity was in question. My whole childhood and sense of home had been ripped out by the fact that Fidel had imprisoned my dad and my family had fled,” she concedes. Since that trip, Gutierrez-Bolger has been making work that is highly specific to her Cuban identity, using family and found objects and certain colors that are characteristically Latino. Her work has been extensively shown throughout the state, including acceptance into the coveted Minnesota State Fair art exhibition and a recent juried exhibition at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts entitled “Raíces y Sueños: the Artistry of Cuba.” Now, joining those Mylar Memory Dresses, striking black paper ones she refers to as Mourning Dresses appear in her work. From some deep subconscious pool, well after she began working on these dark paper doll images, she flashed back to how she and her mother, who passed away in 2012, had spent hours buying fabric to make her clothes. Each new creation surfaces a forgotten memory for the artist who abandoned the tropics for the tundra, with a stunning universality to which every viewer can relate.

FIND HER WORK Please email ahead at cargubol@ comcast.net if you’d like to visit her studio, Casket Arts Building, 681 17th Ave NE, #200, Minneapolis, MN 55413 or check her website for information.

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Attainable We

By Mikki Morrissette

The Insularity Complex

mong all the news coming out of the White House, a story that most caught my attention was an article in Elle magazine. Yes, the magazine about fashion celebrity friendships, with a recent story about mushroom as the next trend color. It was a wonderfully researched article by Bryce Covert about why having a child will bankrupt you. She wrote that in 28 states and Washington D.C., “sending an infant to daycare costs more than sending an 18-yearold to public college. The cost for families with a working mother rose 70 percent between 1985 and 2012.” She notes that in 1971 the idea of accessible, affordable childcare in the United States died at the hands of a family values movement that prompted President Nixon to veto a bill that would have committed “the vast moral authority of the National Government to the side of communal approaches to child rearing,” in fear of “family-weakening implications.” It wasn’t always that way, Covert wrote. When men were shipped off to World War II, and mothers were required to work, the Lanham Act enabled communities to build and staff a network of childcare centers for people of all income levels: it was roughly $10 a day in today’s dollars, for 12 hours of care, throughout the U.S., with qualified teachers trained by local universities in childhood education and a child-to-teacher ratio of 10-to-1. Earnings, employment, college degrees and other economic and educational

standards were measurably higher for those kids in later years. The program was ended by President Truman after the war ended. In my view, the concept that rears its illogical head in so many areas — childcare being one — is that we are a nation of individuals who do things best on our own; for example, where one man and one woman raise a perfect family without help. That it is more acceptable for individual families to be decimated by cancer or mental illness and go bankrupt paying for healthcare than it is to share the cost of preventive care and hospitalization. That our one country doesn’t need other countries for trade and borders are meaningful ways to segregate human beings — kind of like rooting for different football teams is a useful way to establish identity. With “to each his own” as the motto, does that mean we should all be home-schooling our children, filling the potholes on our streets and reverting to self-diagnosis and medicinal herbs to treat ourselves? In reality, not even our own bodies are structured as independent entities. And I’m not talking about the predilection of certain men to feel they have the right to touch and legislate women’s bodies without permission. Even our cells are communities of smaller things, transforming continuously — no individual “owns” them. Bacteria, pheromones, sweat and breath are all methods of transfer. Nothing about the makeup of our foundation

In my view, the concept that rears its illogical head in so many areas — childcare being one — is that we are a nation of individuals who do things best on our own.

is permanently “me,” but, rather, is part of the “we.” Everything we are, and everything around us, is a constellation of bits moving together as one. We create separation in the mind. And, as we are often reminded, the brain often doesn’t know what it’s seeing or talking about, let alone where one thing supposedly “ends” and another begins. (For a fun explanation of this visit the Brain Games website, braingames. nationalgeographic.com.) Even ants seem to have a smarter instinct for how to build and sustain communities than humans do. As one researcher noted, the behavior of an ant community resembles the organization of neurons into a functioning brain. “Each neuron is relatively dumb, but if you take billions of neurons, they interact in a way that we have only scratched the surface

of understanding,” said Bert Hölldobler, an evolutionary biologist. As I wrote last month, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli put it this way: At its deepest level, the building blocks of everything — matter — is not a “thing” but a way of “vibrating, something very different from what we thought.” The groups that gather to protest policies and individual peculiarities of thought are vibrating. Those who encourage our children to grow strong in villages are aware of vibration. Healthcare that takes care of its community members at greatest need is about vibration. Rape survivor Sarah Super told me: “What is actually healing people from atrocities is the most simple nurturing. The kind mother, the voice that sings to the baby, the loving attachment of a child, the rhythm of singing as a community, the movement of yoga or dance, the resilience of the human spirit when we move in synchronicity with others.” That’s vibration. That’s the power of community over insular thinking. Mikki Morrissette is the author of “Attainable We” — a forthcoming book and website in progress — about the science of what connects us.

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Focus

ART

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Alexa Horochowski harnesses the power of the vortex in her new drawings

Alexa Horochowski used eight 24-inch barrel fans to create the work in “Vortex Drawings,” now on display at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Submitted photo

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

omewhere out in the vastness of the northern Pacific Ocean floats one of the great and terrible wonders of the Anthropocene: the Pacific Trash Vortex. Also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it’s an ocean within the ocean, a drifting debris field that covers the swells like a threadbare carpet. Corralled miles offshore by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, an endless ocean current that circles clockwise between California and Japan, the garbage patch is thick in some places like a mat of invasive seaweed, but because it’s largely made of plastic — plastic that floats and never biodegrades, just breaking down by the action of sun and waves into smaller and smaller and, eventually, microscopic bits — it’s mostly invisible to the naked eye. When Alexa Horochowski set out to harness the power of the vortex for her art, purchasing eight 24-inch barrel fans from Fleet Farm and setting them up in a circle on the third floor of the Soap Factory, the Pacific Trash Vortex

was one of the things she had in mind. The vortex, be it whirlpool or hurricane, is nature at its most powerful and uncontrollable, and in the Pacific, those natural forces intersect with some of humanity’s tragic flaws: the insatiability that drives over-consumption and the shortsightedness that allows us to pollute out of sight and out of mind. We have our own trash vortices, here, far from the oceans: the little dust devils that gather up leaves and litter for a carnival ride across an empty parking lot. Horochowski made a video of one of these, a three-way dance between plant matter and styrofoam and an empty Doritos bag. She was still figuring out just what, exactly, she was doing with those fans up on the third floor of the Soap Factory — a video, maybe, or an installation, she thought — when Cole Rogers, Highpoint Center for Printmaking’s artistic director and master printer, began talking with her about a residency. Dozens of

Horochowski mixed and matched materials to achieve a variety of effects. Submitted photo

What am I going to do with the vortex? Maybe I can make it draw. — Alexa Horochowski, artist

visiting artists, including Jim Hodges and Julie Mehretu, have collaborated with Rogers on prints that are published through Highpoint Editions, but this would be no usual collaboration (not least because it did not, technically, produce prints). “What am I going to do with the vortex?” Horochowski remembered thinking at the time. “Maybe I can make it draw.” The nine massive drawings on paper and Tyvek currently on display at Highpoint are the results of that hunch. They are the made not by the artist’s hand, but by the interaction of Horochowski’s artificial vortex and materials chosen by her for a certain trashiness, in the sense that you could easily picture them skittering across an empty parking lot: aluminum cans, plastic bottles, packing peanuts and Styrofoam cups. By coating them in graphite, linseed oil, turpentine and other inky substances, they would “draw” on a bed sheet-sized sheet of paper or Tyvek laid on the floor in the middle of the vortex. “I first started with aluminum cans, because I liked the clinking sound they made,” Horochowski said. When she turned on the fans, they “scurried” across the room like animals, she said — an illusion of agency that mimicked, for Horochowski, the way materials produced for our benefit can so easily escape our control, wreaking environmental havoc in ways we could not have imagined, like those nearly invisible micro-beads of plastic leaking chemicals into the ocean.

Horochowski’s star performers turned out to be the Styrofoam cups, which would roll and turn on end and catch the wind, creating interrupted arcs and spirals. Coated in white pigment and set loose on a sheet of Tyvek coated in black ground, the cups produce a drawing with an almost Pollockian tension between order and randomness. Swarms of packing peanuts make diffuse, cloud-like impressions. A mist of fine red dots — left by packing peanuts tossed in a mixture of chalk, cochineal dye and linseed oil — hovers just off-center in one drawing; to Horochowski, it looked like a spray of gore staining the Tyvek. She said she wanted the finished pieces to reflect the process that created them, so imperfections are left uncovered. There’s a tiny paw print on one drawing, left by a cat. By relinquishing some of her control over the drawing process, Horochowski allowed herself to be surprised by the results. A Styrofoam cup, released for just a brief spin in the vortex, uncannily draws a spiral across one sheet of paper, and out of the randomness seems to appear a glimpse of the golden ratio that explains the naturally occurring spiral shapes of seashells, fern fronds and hurricanes. Regarding that piece on the gallery wall, Horochowski posed a question: “Who’s in charge here?”

IF YOU GO: What: Vortex Drawings When: Through March 25 Where: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, 912 W. Lake St. Info: highpointprintmaking.org

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Armatage

Armatage essentials NEIGHBORHOOD SPOTLIGHT: EAST HARRIET

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Located six blocks south of Lake Harriet, the Armatage neighborhood is bounded on its south and west sides by the borders of Richfield and Edina, respectively. In fact, Armatage was once on the other side of one of those borders. The area between 54th and 62nd streets was part of Richfield until it was annexed by Minneapolis in the 1920s. The neighborhood didn’t yet resemble the Armatage of today. Most of the neighborhood’s housing stock was developed in the post-World War II boom years. According to the city, only about 5 percent of existing dwellings predate the war, while the vast majority of homes were developed between 1949 and 1969. The neighborhood, like the school and park at its center, is named for Maude Armatage, who joined the Park Board in 1921 and was the first woman to serve as a commissioner. The owners of Cafe Maude borrowed her name when they opened their popular bistro, noted for its creative cocktails, in 2007. Cafe Maude is just one of several notable restaurants in the largely residential neighborhood. Others include Pizzeria Lola and its neighbor on Xerxes Avenue South, Cavé Vin, as well as Red Wagon Pizza Company, located across Penn Avenue South from Cafe Maude. NEIGHBORHOOD RUNDOWN

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Boundaries: Armatage is located in the southwestern corner of the city. It meets the city limits at Highway 62 on its southern border and Xerxes Avenue South on its western border. The neighborhood stretches east to Logan Avenue South and north to West 54th Street.

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Demographics: The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau put Armatage’s population at 4,695 residents in 2014, about one-fifth of them under age 18, according to Minnesota Compass. Median household income in 2014 was $95,667.

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Get involved: The Armatage Neighborhood Association formed in 1991, and its board meets on the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the Armatage Recreation Center, 2500 W. 57th St. — Dylan Thomas

Statue coming to Armatage school courtyard Old friends are coming to the Armatage Montessori School courtyard, and they will likely be there for a while. The school will be installing the life-size bronze statue “Old Friends,” created by a Colorado-based sculptor, over spring break. The statue portrays an older man allowing birds to land on his arms and head. It’s about 7-feet tall and weighs several hundred pounds. “It’s just this amazing, beautiful bronze

statue,” Armatage Principal Joan Franks said. The statue was donated by Armatage grandparent Cathy Rebuffoni and transported to the school by the moving company of Armatage parent Susan Wirth. Rebuffoni said she hopes the students will draw inspiration from the statue. “It’s just beautiful, and hopefully kids will kind of relate to it,” she said. — Nate Gotlieb Armatage Montessori School will be installing a life-size version of the statue “Old Friends” this spring in its courtyard. Photo courtesy Lundeen Sculpture

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Armatage

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Adam Klugherz at Cafe Maude, where the bartenders create an original cocktail everyday. Photos by Sarah Karnas

The challenge of creating daily cocktail specials inspires Cafe Maude’s bartending corps By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

very day for the past three-and-a-half years, the bartenders at Cafe Maude have begun their shifts by creating an original cocktail. When Mary Tyler Moore died, they made a drink in memoriam with Old Grand-Dad 100, Yellow Chartreuse, Punt e Mes, lemon juice and whiskey barrel-aged bitters. “I read somewhere that she liked to drink Rittenhouse,” Manager Todd Staberg said. The day of the Women’s March, they made a pink drink called The Protest with gin, honey, cranberry, lemon juice and lemon bitters topped with sparkling water. The $5 happy hour drinks have earned a following. Staberg said some people call in advance to learn the day’s cocktail. “It caught on, that’s definitely for sure,” he said. “Chemistry is happening behind the bar.” “It used to be the scariest thing in the world,” said Lindsay Forslin. Forslin said it’s become easier over time, particularly after bar manager David Christensen made a rule that each day’s cocktail should incorporate an ingredient the bartenders had never used before. “I’ve officially touched every bottle in this bar,” she said. After hours spent dreaming up new drinks, Forslin said she now encourages patrons to order something original on the spot. “Let me just create something for you,” she said.

Bar Manager David Christensen (l) pictured with staff members Tammy Barnes and Adam Klugherz.

“If it were up to me, we wouldn’t even have a menu,” Christensen said. To create a custom cocktail, Christensen starts by asking a few questions. Do you prefer spirit forward? Would you like a stirred Manhattan-style drink or something more citrusy and sweet? What flavors do you dislike? A notebook behind the bar logs all of the old cocktail recipes, with contributions from fellow bartenders Adam Klugherz and Luz Sather. And So It Begins — created the day after Thanksgiving — was designed to taste like Christmas in a glass, with bourbon, Becherovka, cinnamon and Jerry Thomas Bitters. French Ambition on May 11, 2015 was made with aquavit, maraschino, green chartreuse, lemon, applewood smoked mint and butterscotch cotton candy. The staff draw inspiration from inside jokes, obscure holidays and regular customers. “The names are my favorite part,” Forslin said. There was Here’s Your Damn Pumpkin Drink made in October 2015, Hermey’s Misfit Punch made last December, the Air Conditioner last June and the Long Distance Call in July. And they’ve made Rum Bieber, 30th Century Man, The Bitching Hour, All the Best People are Nutty, Problem Solved and The Alex P. Keaton. A few of the cocktails have found a permanent place on the menu, such as Wise in the Ways of Science, which Staberg decided was so beautiful it needed to stay. Other drinks like the Dave and Dana and the Canfield cocktail were created for some of the restaurant’s regulars. “We made that up for [Canfield] one day and he liked it,” Staberg said. Maude has many regulars; Forslin was housesitting for one of them last month. The most loyal of the regulars might visit several times a week and hang out as long as 2 p.m.–9:30 p.m. If they show up after closing time, staff have been known to welcome them inside. “They’re a big deal around these parts,” Forslin said. Two of Maude’s cocktails have been on the menu since opening day 10 years ago: The Tomgirl Named Maude and the Natasha (Natasha’s Rocky and Bullwinkle cocktail counterpart, Boris, has long since dropped off the menu).

The following is Forslin’s spontaneous recipe for Hey, Listen! created on a recent weekday: one-and-a-half ounces of Lazzaroni Amaretto, an ounce of vodka, a half ounce of orange juice, a half ounce of lemon juice and a quarter ounce of simple syrup, finished with Bent Paddle Black Ale. “If you sell two it’s a good day, and if you sell 40, it’s a really good day,” she said.

If you sell two it’s a good day, and if you sell 40, it’s a really good day. — Lindsay Forslin, bartender

Bartenders at Cafe Maude keep a log of cocktail-of-the-day recipes.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Armatage

Five generations later, Wagner’s remains family business From left to right: Nola, Laura, Julie, Nolin, Eric and Nik Wagner are among the family members involved in Wagner Greenhouses. Photo courtesy Wagner Greenhouses

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

amily has been a central theme of Wagner Greenhouses over the past 116 years. There’s every reason to believe that will continue into the future. CEO Nola Wagner works alongside her sons Ron and Scott and grandkids Laura, Nik, Julie and Eric. The grandkids are the fifth generation of the family to be involved in the business, which has added garden centers in Hugo and Bloomington over the past 15 years. “We think it’s pretty amazing to be the fifth

generation of family members in the business,” Laura said. “There are not many businesses around today that have made it to the fifth generation.” That’s not to say the family members are together all the time. Laura works in marketing and Nik as an assistant production coordinator for the wholesale team. Julie manages the Minneapolis store and says she rarely sees her siblings. Wagner began in 1901 when German immigrant August Cornelius started

producing greenhouse and field vegetables in Minneapolis. The original greenhouse covered 4,000 square feet and supported tomato production, but Cornelius expanded to include cucumbers, lettuce, watercress, radishes and tomatoes. The business took the name Wagner because of J. Emil Wagner, who joined the company and married Cornelius’ daughter, Johanna. The Wagner’s son, Rich, and his wife, Nola, introduced flowers to the business in 1957, starting with geraniums.

The couple incorporated the business in 1967 and began focusing on floral production. Nola said geraniums are still a favorite of many customers. The company usually picks new items to sell every year and has a trial garden to evaluate potential new offerings. Vegetable gardens have been popular the past couple years, Nola said, as families have begun growing some of their own food. She said the greenhouse business is unique in that it’s so seasonal, noting that

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May is in particular a busy time. Nola said finding seasonal employees is a big challenge, something the company tries to alleviate by hiring Mexican workers on temporary agriculture visas. Nola said it’s hard to find reliable seasonal workers locally because of low unemployment. The jobs they have require specialized work, and with local temporary workers, they are constantly training. The foreign visa workers allow for more community, as they can stay for an entire season. Wagner also sponsors foreign agriculture students through the University of Minnesota, who come to learn aspects of the greenhouse horticulture business. The company has two students coming this semester — one from Brazil and another from the Netherlands. The company is busy preparing its wholesale plants now and has hired about 50 extra workers to help with the process of seeding, germinating and transplanting the young plants. Those seasonal workers supplement the about 65 full-time employees. The wholesale business is the biggest part of Wagner’s revenue, with the company ship-

We think it’s pretty amazing to be the fifth generation of family members in the business. There are not many businesses around today that have made it to the fifth generation. — Laura Wagner

ping young plants across the country. Wagner has 4-and-a-half acres of production space in Minneapolis and another 3-and-a-half acres for young and finished plants in Hugo. The company plants and germinates its seeds in large germination chambers, where they remain anywhere from one to 21 days before being moved to the greenhouse. Wagner uses a computer system to regulate plant growth.

Nola said she expects to see more refined production and new processes in coming years, along with new cuttings and seed varieties. “You just have to keep up with the styles and what the public wants and develop more efficient means of production,” she said. Wagner will continue to host a community-supported agriculture pickup site at its Bloomington greenhouse this year and will also host an Untiedt’s vegetable stand at its Minneapolis location. The company has remained involved in the community over the years, distributing gift certificates to schools and churches and hosting fundraisers. It also donates plants to universities across the Midwest for research and supports Shriners Hospitals for Children. Wagner’s Bloomington and Hugo garden centers are closed until spring, but the Minneapolis location is open. In March, customers can come in and pick out a patio pot or a hanging basket that Wagner will care for until Mother’s Day. Visit wagnergreenhouses.com for more information.

Wagner’s Timeline 1901

Founder August Cornelius begins producing greenhouse and field vegetables in Minneapolis.

1931

Cornelius’ daughter, Johanna, marries J. Emil Wagner, and the couple takes over the greenhouse.

1957

The Wagner’s son, Rich, and his wife, Nola, introduce flowers to the business, starting with geraniums.

1967

Rich and Nola incorporate the business. The company operates a full-scale garden center by this point with geraniums and bedding plants.

2002

Wagner opens a seasonal garden center in Hugo to go along with a 250,000 square-foot growing range there.

2013 An aerial shot of Wagner’s Minneapolis location, which includes a garden center. Photo courtesy Wagner Greenhouses

A view inside one of Wagner’s three garden centers. Photo courtesy Wagner Greenhouses

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Groovin’ in the grove By Carla Waldemar

Cool kids filled the tables. Was this a convention of the Social Influencers of the city? Actually, it’s the new dining room of Walker Art Center, so the answer, probably, is yes. (Except that somehow I sneaked under the invisible velvet rope.) Esker Grove, the Walker’s new, glass-lined and street-side restaurant, is a fine fit for the forward-looking art museum. Here, the décor is the clientele, lookin’ good under soft pin spots illuminating an otherwise-bare sea of tables. No romantic alcoves for privacy, but that’s not the point. You’re here, scrunched next to your neighbor, to see and be seen appreciating the food — for the eats fit the building’s ethos. It’s delivered — praise be — by a well-trained corps of friendly servers clad in jeans. Trust their recommendations. We did, deferring to their “Well, maybe not. But why don’t you try the …” hints. Glad we listened. That heads-up started with the chestnut soup, star of the starters ($9–$11). It’s a velvety cream of chestnuts, rich and subtly sweet, poured tableside over an ivory nugget of bone

marrow and dollop of dark mustard, upon which float a pair of Brussels sprouts leaves. Don’t offer to share. Next, a bright still life composed of sweet and pearly scallops slices, served in crudo form (aka raw), set upon a tingle of watercress and drizzle of nicely pungent black garlic essence, then piqued with the sweet-tart bite of pomegranate seeds. And then — waiter’s choice, and a good one — a collage of poached spears of salsify, bearing a vegetal sweetness, contrasted with a punch of grapefruit, a schmear of that Nordic spreading cheese (also sweet) called gjetost and a lick-your-plate brown butter hollandaise. (Or choose the pork terrine, bounteous house salad, etc.) The tightly curated list of entrees ($19–$32) leads off with cauliflower. Yup, that’s it: a gorgeous, photo-ready head, festooned with onion lace (don’t ask me how), resting upon a puddle of preserved mushrooms. We shared this dish (you’ve got to) and still left with a doggie portion. Worth $21? I’m not convinced. But you’ll notice that the theme to this menu, created by chef Doug Flicker, ex-patron of Piccolo, is veggies. (And that’s true for menus nationwide this year.) Suitably, the next option is parsnips ($19, un-tasted). Protein makes an appearance in the remaining entrees:

clams, lamb shoulder, capon, a NY strip (okay, okay) and our choice: spit-roasted sturgeon. The meaty fish came with alsoroasted heart of palm, a sunshiny burst of caramelized lemon, hint of heat from harissa and — huh? — ash. It’s tasty, all right, but not breathtaking. Which brings us to dessert ($9), which is breathtaking — at least, if you drink the Kool-Aid and order the also veggieforward parsnip cheesecake. It’s a muffin-sized circlet paired with another of bourbon ice cream and sided with candied pear. For those less crazy, other sweets include a Pavlova, almond cake and chocolate. Beer and wine offerings are more familiar and affordable. But take a look at the list of cocktails, too. Each one comes in two styles: traditional and Walker. (The formula is similar but ingredients differ.) Fun! As is the whole experience.

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

COFFEE-SPICED SALMON Serves 2 INGREDIENTS

1 teaspoon fresh coffee grounds from Café Palmira ½ teaspoon chipotle powder ½ teaspoon cocoa powder ¼ teaspoon grated orange zest ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon paprika 12 ounces wild-caught Alaskan salmon 2-3 cups seasonal vegetables, optional side dish METHOD Carlos Palacio serves a customer from his Mill City Market booth. Submitted photo

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Mix all of the spices together and rub 1 ½ teaspoons of the spice mix into the flesh

side the salmon. Leftover spice rub can be stored in a small jar or other air-tight container. Let the rub sit for 30 minutes up to 24 hours in the refrigerator. Bake the salmon skin side down at 375 degrees (or grill on medium-high heat) for 10–15 minutes, depending on its thickness. Serve the salmon with seasonal roasted vegetables. In winter, we suggest a combination of chopped potatoes, onions, beets and carrots tossed in oil, salt and pepper and roasted at 375 degrees for about 45 minutes or until tender.

The story of Café Palmira and a recipe for cooking with coffee

or the past four generations, Carlos Palacio’s family has been growing and harvesting coffee in Huehuetenango, Guatemala — a region renowned for growing some of the world’s finest Arabica coffee. In 2000 and 2001, coffee prices crashed because of issues in the larger supply chain. This had an enormous impact on the livelihoods of coffee farmers throughout Guatemala. Many farmers began selling their land in order to support their families. Despite the hardship, the Palacios family continued to grow and harvest coffee, even though the prices declined significantly. Around this time, Carlos met his wife Katie when she, originally from Minnesota, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala. She spent a significant amount of time working on the Palacio’s coffee farm and talking with the family about trying to export the coffee directly to the United States instead of using a “middle-man” export company. In 2004, Katie and Carlos first started selling coffee, bringing it to the United States

in their suitcases and selling the coffee to friends and family. Everyone loved the coffee, and, in 2007, Katie and Carlos started their small business, Café Palmira. They began selling Café Palmira coffee at farmers markets in Minneapolis and St. Paul,

including the Mill City Farmers Market. The green beans of Café Palmira are now shipped directly from Guatemala to Minnesota and roasted to perfection weekly by UP Coffee Roasters in Minneapolis. Café Palmira is not certified fair trade, but you can still feel great about purchasing Café Palmira, as it comes directly from the Palacios family farm, eliminating the middle-man. Café Palmira is handpicked and shadegrown at approximately 1,500 meters, ideal conditions for producing the best coffee, according to traditional Mayan traditions.

Shade-grown coffee creates more biodiversity and bird habitat with less need for chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This practice prevents deforestation and does not disturb existing wildlife. Carlos spends his winters with his family, working on the farm in Guatemala, but the coffee beans are available at the Mill City Farmers Market’s indoor winter markets. The next indoor winter market is on 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Feb. 11 inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St. — Jenny Heck

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A one-stop shop for local brides Historic Semple Mansion hosts a Feb. 19 wedding event featuring 25 vendors

Semple Mansion is a wedding venue and home to a number of businesses catering to couples planning their weddings. Photo by Janelle Elise Photography By Jahna Peloquin

hile Minneapolis is home to several historic wedding venues, Semple Mansion is the only one to feature wedding vendors under the same roof. The mansion, built in 1899 by hardware wholesaler Frank Semple, is now home to a number of hair and makeup artist studios, as well as a Prohibition-themed barbershop, a photography studio and a wedding officiant who also offers décor rentals and styling services. On Feb. 19, the mansion opens its Italian Renaissance–inspired doors to welcome 25 of its preferred vendors for its annual wedding event, offering brides- and groomsto-be the opportunity to meet local photographers, a bridal gown designer, a tuxedo rental company, caterers, florists, hair and makeup artists, DJs and event planners, making it a one-stop shop for wedding planning needs. Following decades of disrepair, the mansion was purchased in 2004 by husbandand-wife entrepreneurs Kristi and Zev Oman, who painstakingly restored the home’s frescoed ceilings, hardwood floors with marble inlays, three original marble fireplaces, balus-

trade entry porch with Ionic columns and its ballroom, said to be the largest original residential ballroom in Minnesota. The building also boasts Swarovski crystal chandeliers, original woodwork and an original Tiffany stained glass window. The building, which has been home to everything from the Franklin National Bank to African American Family Services over the years, was reborn as a wedding venue in 2006 when it hosted its first ceremony. Executive Director Katherine Hendrickson, who does all of the mansion’s bookings, event planning and tours, said the mansion now hosts more than 100 weddings a year. Wedding ceremonies are typically held in the mansion’s grand foyer, which features ornate ironwork doors and a hand-carved stone and marble fireplace. Dinners and receptions are often held in the mansion’s crown jewel, its Grand Palladian Ballroom, which boasts domed ceilings and restored Fresco paintings. Other rooms include a wine tasting room and cellar, a billiards room (which serves as the groom and groomsmen room), a bridal suite and a reception area dubbed the “Copper Lounge.”

A couple kisses on the Semple Mansion’s steps. Photo by Russell Heeter Photography

The Grand Palladian Ballroom. Photo by Eric Vest Photography

The mansion’s various bedrooms were transformed into studio spaces, which were rented out to wedding-related vendors. This has a clear benefit to the Semple Mansion staff, the vendors and the clients alike — vendors are more easily accessible, and both the vendors and venue are able offer a more streamlined experience to clients. Leslie Ann Johnson is a wedding officiant and décor stylist who rents a studio at Semple Mansion under her business, Positively Charmed Weddings and Décor. “When I’m working with clients who are having their wedding at Semple, there are a lot of added perks,” Johnson said. “As we’re creating their ceremony, we’re meeting in the space where they’ll be married, so it really comes full circle. Plus, it offers a private place for them to sign their marriage certificate.” Ashley Ronning enjoyed the benefits of having an on-site wedding officiant when she was married at Semple Mansion in 2016. “Leslie’s on-site office was a cozy, comfortable place where my fiancé and I felt like we could talk openly about our relationship,” Ronning said. “Plus, it was extremely

convenient having her on-site as we got to see our venue many times before our big day, which helped with planning and visualizing our space.” Ronning also took advantage of Johnson’s décor styling services. The couple wanted a “romantic, Gatsby look” for their wedding, so they rented gold chandelier candelabras and mercury glass votive candles to match the theme. “Prior to being engaged, I had my heart set on Semple Mansion,” Ronning said. “Even after touring four other venues, both my husband and I felt like Semple was the one.”

IF YOU GO: What: Semple Mansion wedding event When: Feb. 19, 4 p.m.–7 p.m. Where: Semple Mansion, 100 W. Franklin Ave. Info: semplemansion.com

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Ask the Nurse Practitioner

By Michelle Napral University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practioners Clinic

How do I manage Type 2 diabetes? Q

I am a 48-year old mom recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and am overwhelmed with managing my condition. I do not feel sick, but my blood sugar has remained high. My life is already so full and hectic. Can you help me prioritize what is most important?

eing diagnosed with diabetes is a life-changing event that causes many patients to feel overwhelmed and afraid. The first step is knowing and understanding your diagnosis, and to remember you are not alone. If you have questions or fears related to your diagnosis, talk to your health care provider to work through and process what you are going through. If you feel like there is too much to learn and manage, tell your primary provider what you are feeling. Your provider will connect you with resources, such as a diabetic educator, to empower you and teach what you need to know. Diabetes is increasingly common. In 2012, 9.3 percent of the population had diabetes, which is essentially a disorder that affects the way the body uses sugar. As nurse practitioners, we help many patients manage their diabetes and live full, healthy lives. We do so by educating our patients, coaching them on lifestyle changes and prescribing appropriate medications.

What exactly is diabetes? The cells in the body need sugar to function, and sugar is able to enter the cell with the help of a hormone called insulin. Diabetes occurs when there is an impairment with the insulin. Type 1 diabetes occurs when there is not enough insulin being produced. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body builds resistance to insulin and does not respond to it. Sugar builds up in the blood and is unable to enter the cells when the body does not respond to insulin or when there is not enough insulin. In the early stages, Type 2 diabetes usually causes no symptoms, so many people do not even realize they have elevated blood sugar. Over time, as sugar builds up in the blood, symptoms may include intense and increased thirst, blurry vision and the need to urinate often. Type 2 diabetes can be life threatening if not treated and can contribute toward heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, vision problems, infections and nerve pain in the hands and feet. Diabetes is treated with lifestyle changes, including an increase in exercise and a healthy diet. Sometimes lifestyle changes are not enough and medications are needed. While it is a chronic condition, diabetes can be very effectively managed with healthy changes in day-to-day habits and a medication regimen. People with diabetes can lead a full life, but this involves a lifelong management plan. If you are a smoker, the single most impor-

tant thing you can do first, if you are diagnosed with diabetes, is quit smoking for good. Smokers with diabetes have a greatly increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Start here. To stay as healthy as possible, it is important to control your ABCs. A stands for A1C (hemoglobin A1C), a blood test that shows your average blood sugar over the last few months. A well-controlled hemoglobin A1C means your sugars are stable. Poorly controlled sugar can cause kidney disease, nerve damage and various eye diseases that lead to vision loss or blindness and other health complications. B stands for blood pressure, and controlling your blood pressure decreases your risk for heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. C stands for cholesterol, a waxy substance found in your blood. Controlling you cholesterol decreases your risk for heart attack and stroke. People with diabetes are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke, so by keeping your ABCs under control, you will lower your risk for health complications. Exercise is beneficial for everyone, whether you have diabetes or not. Physical activity promotes cardiovascular improvement by lowering blood pressure, improving cholesterol and improving blood sugar, and it can lead to an overall sense of well-being. Aerobic exercises such as walking, cycling, swimming or rowing help increase the heart rate and will improve your health. Choose an exercise program that is enjoyable so that you

are motivated to stick with it over time. Exercise intensity should be gradually increased along with duration, and exercising 30 minutes a day most days of the week is recommended. To help manage your diabetes, a diet with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products is encouraged. A dietitian can help provide education on meal planning, snacks and carbohydrate counting. Carbohydrates impact your blood sugar, and balance, variety and moderation is encouraged with all foods. In general, high carbohydrate foods should be monitored, and, when given the option, choose whole grains such as brown rice over white rice, wheat pasta over white pasta and wheat bread over white bread. There are many health benefits to having a healthy diet and an active lifestyle even if your weight does not decrease. Medication can help control blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol if they are elevated, and nicotine replacement can help you successfully quit smoking. Talk with your health care provider to discuss your individual goals and options. Michelle Napral is a nurse practitioner at the University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practitioners Clinic, 3rd Street & Chicago. Send questions to nursnews@umn.edu.

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Get Out Guide. By Jahna Peloquin

ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL Italian film is b st known its iconic cinematic auteurs of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, such as Visconti, Fellini, Rossellini and Argento. But Italian cinema is alive and well, a point illustrated locally by the Italian Film Festival. Its ninth-annual edition features nine films — e ght of which are making their Minnesota premieres — spanning documentary, drama and comedy, plus a restored screening of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western classic, “Once Upon a Time in the West.”

Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE. Cost: $8–$10 screenings, $55–$65 opening night film and party, $95–$110 all-access pass

POLAR PLUNGE

LOUIS FAURER: NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS

Every year, thousands of hardy Minnesotans are challenged to take the plunge, literally, during the Polar Plunge. After raising a minimum of $75 for Special Olympics Minnesota, participants jump into the frigid waters of Minnesota lakes at various locations throughout the state. Upcoming plunges include Rochester (Feb. 11), Duluth (Feb. 18) and downtown Minneapolis (Feb. 9), where a pool will be dropped into U.S. Bank Plaza.

Along with Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and William Klein, Louis Faurer was a key member of the New York school of street photographers active from the 1930s to the 1950s. The group rejected traditional documentary styles of photography in favor of one that showcased a grittier, more naturalistic side of city life, captured on 35mm cameras. While his career later included stints at fashion magazines such as Vogue and Mademoiselle, his earlier work is at the center of Weinstein Gallery’s “Louis Faurer: New York Photographs,” an exhibition of selected works also available for sale from the commercial gallery.

Where: Various locations When: Various dates through March 18 Cost: Free to attend Info: plungemn.org

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Valentine Events

Valentine’s Day is about more than just flowers, chocolates and saying “I love you” — it also offers a great opportunity to experience art and culture in the Twin Cities. There’s plenty to do to put you in the mood for love, from an evening of art and opera to a Victorian poetry reading with a humorous twist.

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Opera is considered the language of love, so it’s the perfect pairing for Valentine’s Day. Experience opera at the unconventional setting of the Weisman Art Museum with an evening of Valentine’s duets from Out of the Box Opera. The local company will perform opera classics and musical theater hits within the intimate Davis Gallery, followed by complimentary hot drinks and treats.

History buffs and literary lovers alike will enjoy this 21st-century twist on turn-of-the-century poetry. Actors in 1890s-era garb will perform classic poems by Dickinson, Poe, Longfellow, Browning and more in the drawing room of the historic James J. Hill House. With topics spanning love, temperance, sports, war and James J. Hill himself, the evening promises ample romance, drama, history and wit.

The Minnesota Opera previews its upcoming production of William Bolcom’s new opera, “Dinner at Eight,” a comedy of manners full of romantic entanglements, with a special five-course dinner at Dakota Jazz Club. Admission includes dinner, tax, gratuity, live performances of selections from the opera and a Valentine’s gift. T e opera has its world premiere from March 11–19 at Orchestra Hall.

Where: Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Pkwy. When: Feb. 14 from 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Cost: $10–$40 Info: weisman.umn.edu

Where: James J. Hill House, 240 Summit Ave., St. Paul When: Feb. 14 from 7–8 p.m. Cost: $10–$12 Info: mnhs.org

Where: Dakota Jazz Club, 1010 Nicollet Mall When: Feb. 14 from 5 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Cost: $110 Info: dakotacooks.com

MERCE CUNNINGHAM: COMMON TIME The groundbreaking work of influential American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham is the center of “Merce Cunningham: Common Time,” the largest survey of the artist’s work yet mounted. The Walker Art Center–organized show includes a broad range of multi-disciplinary installations made up of moving images, stage décor, costumes and contextualizing works by many his collaborators, including Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and composer John Cage. Related events include a performance of two of Cunningham’s dance works performed by France’s acclaimed CCN-Ballet de Lorraine on Feb. 16 at Northrop.

Where: Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave. When: Feb. 8–July 30 Cost: $14 for adults, $12 for seniors, $9 for college students, $7 for active military, free for Walker members and on Thursday evenings Info: walkerart.org

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Ask Dr. Rachel

By Rachel Allyn

Am I asexual? Q

I believe I’m asexual. I’m a heterosexual woman in my thirties and while I enjoy being in a relationship, sex has never been the main focus for me. It’s not how I show or feel intimacy. I fear telling people this because our culture places so much emphasis on sex and I’m afraid I’ll be seen as abnormal. I also don’t know how to explain to people that just because I may be asexual, it doesn’t mean that I don’t want to date or have a partner. Is it okay to be asexual, or does it mean I have a sexual dysfunction? Should I just avoid relationships?

our libido is not necessarily an absolute. Sexuality and desire are fluid. Just because you’re not feeling sexual attraction in your relationships lately does not mean this is permanent. Similarly, those with a robust sexual appetite may find themselves in stretches with little or no desire. We all need to accept that sexual desire can ebb and flow during different stages in life. It can feel isolating and lonely to think you’re the only one experiencing an absence of sexual desire. And while it’s true that our culture places an emphasis on sex, this does not mean the majority of people are having satisfying sex. As they say, “it’s complicated.” You are not dysfunctional or abnormal, and nor are those who consistently crave physicality in relationships.

Ask yourself: over the course of my life, has sexual desire varied from person to person or from one developmental stage to the next? If you have never felt sexual desire of any kind toward someone, the label of asexual may fit. However, you state sex is not the main focus, suggesting that the flame of desire has existed, albeit a dim flicker in the background on occasion. That would be the experience of someone with low sex drive versus being asexual. There are other ways to build and maintain connection in relationships; intimacy can come in many forms. Look at the ways you can feel close to someone — in conversation, shared activities, values, emotional support and overall companionship to name a few. There are people looking for these very qualities in a relationship. Keep looking for the right mate … but don’t forget to first look within. Dive deeper into the reasons you are cut off from such intrinsic and potent energy. Your relationship with your own body is a big factor. Poor body image can be a strong precursor to low desire. Lack of connection to your physical self, your senses, and your intuition can make anyone feel cut off from their sexuality. Do you allow yourself to feel raw or vulnerable in other areas of your life? Do you allow yourself to feel pleasure? If not, start assigning yourself healthy pleasures in small doses. Exercise, meditation, music, creativity, cooking or being outdoors are just some ways to tap into your sensual self.

Sexual arousal can be a reflection of our physical vitality. Depression, chronic pain, obesity, and any compromising health conditions can dampen or eliminate libido. Prescription medications and certain drugs, particularly when overused, can certainly distort desire as well. Investigate if there are any physical health conditions that impact your hormones or vascular system. Your feelings are also a reflection of childhood influences. Simply being a female of your generation means there were gendered stereotypes with double standards about sex that you internalized. If you grew up with religious doctrines prohibiting sex or were raised with messages that sex was immoral unless under

particular conditions (such as between a man and woman married to each other) then you may need to practice dropping these old voices in your head. Let’s not reduce relationships down to a single physical act. Avoiding all relationships that could lead to sex is cowardly and will only add to your feelings of shame and isolation. Do not deprive yourself the opportunity to be adored and exchange emotional and energetic connection with someone. You will be able to find satisfying companionship if you remain open to emotional intimacy. Remember that companionate love is also powerful and fulfilling.

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