Southwest Journal April 6–19 2017 by The Southwest Journal

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April 6–19, 2017 Vol. 28, No. 7 southwestjournal.com

MAKING CHANGE Adding up the costs and benefits of a higher minimum wage

WORKERS SPEAK OUT ON THE MINIMUM WAGE Views on a wage hike from those paid at or near the minimum wage PAGE A10

WHAT $15 COULD MEAN FOR YOUTH WORKERS

Those who employ youth workers and interns say higher wages could mean fewer jobs PAGE A13

A LOOK BEFORE MINNEAPOLIS’ LEAP

Restaurants test out a $15 minimum wage for all — with mixed results PAGE A16

THE FIGHT FOR $15 ACROSS THE COUNTRY

From Los Angeles to Baltimore, insights from the wage debates in other cities PAGE A18

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False bike lane rumor spreads on Eat Street Mailed with fake signatures, letters spread confusion and misinformation about plans for the avenue By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

False claims about the city’s plans for bicycle lanes on Eat Street spread in March through anonymous mailings that, in some cases, included fake typed signatures. The letters claim City Council Member Lisa Bender “plans to abolish Eat Street” through a plan to add protected bicycle lanes and remove parking. The Minneapolis Bicycle Master Plan does not call for protected bicycle lanes on Eat Street, a multiblock segment of Nicollet Avenue known for its multicultural restaurant scene, and Bender made attempts to dispel the rumors, which began spreading on social media. A version of the letter received March 24 by the Southwest Journal was unsigned and included no return address. But other versions included typed signatures indicating they were sent by Ricardo McCurley, executive director of the Whittier Alliance neighborhood organization, and Tammy Wong, owner of Rainbow Chinese. Both denied they were the source of the letter. Wong said she hadn’t heard about the letters until she was contacted by a reporter. Citizens for a Loring Park Community Coordinator Jana Metge said she received the version of the letter that appeared to come from Wong. It was read into the minutes during a CLPC committee meeting. That’s where Nicollet Diner owner Sam Turner said he saw it. Both Turner and Metge posted about the letter on Facebook. The spread of the accusations online

prompted a rebuttal from Bender. “I guess I will take it as a compliment that people put a lot of effort into making up things to disagree with me about,” Bender wrote in a Facebook post. “… I’m disappointed that someone made up and distributed a flyer with this false info that seems to be spreading instead of dying down.” The first-term City Council member is up for re-election in 2017 and faces a challenge from independent candidate Scott Fine. In an interview, Bender said she found the episode “disappointing” — especially the implication that the city would plan a bike lane project without public participation. “It really undermines the relationship between the city and the community,” she said. “It’s not so much about me, per se, but more about how does the community feel about decisions the city is making.” McCurley said he first saw the letter in mid-March ago when it arrived, unsigned, in a yellow envelope with no return address that had been mailed to the Whittier Alliance office. After checking to make sure the information in the letter was false, he dismissed the letter as a joke, he said. The next day, McCurley received a phone call from Erica Christ of Eat Street restaurant Black Forest Inn. Christ, who also chairs the Whittier Alliance board of directors, received a version of the letter with McCurley’s name on it. “We were kind of taking it seriously then,”

It really undermines the relationship between the city and the community. It’s not so much about me, per se, but more about how does the community feel about decisions the city is making. — Lisa Bender, city council member

he said, adding that he spoke with Bender’s Ward 10 office and again confirmed there were no plans for protected bicycle lanes on Eat Street. Another copy of the letter arrived around March 21 at the Whittier Alliance’s office. At that point, office staffers contacted Fifth Precinct crime prevention specialist Chelsea Adams, who relayed the organization’s concerns to the Minneapolis City Attorney’s office. “We were concerned that somebody was impersonating us, and what was that going to do,” McCurley said. “They said, unless there’s money lost, it’s really a civil issue that somebody is impersonating you. And

we didn’t feel the need to dispute it until it became a thing.” He said the organization began tracking the rumor’s spread on social media after the owner of Christos Greek restaurant on Eat Street received a version of the letter in late March and contacted the Whittier Alliance offices. “We talked about posting something yesterday (on social media) and decided to hold off because it seemed like it was dying down, and then we noticed this Tammy Wong thing,” he said on March 28, as the rumors — and skeptical reactions to them — spread on Facebook and Twitter. McCurley said members of his staff “were torn about how to respond” to the obviously false rumors, noting there are “chronic rabble-rousers in the neighborhood.” “But the anonymity of it made it not fit anyone that has historically done things like this,” he added. Speculating about the letter-writer’s motivation, McCurley said the neighborhood’s business owners have recently shared concerns about plans for protected bicycle lanes on 26th and 28th streets, which both intersect with the Eat Street segment of Nicollet Avenue. “While those will have an impact on parking in the area, they’re not Nicollet,” he said. “They’re not going to ruin Eat Street, and no one feels like they will.”

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Aside from pipes and art pieces, the shop sells glassware like beer tap handles, wine toppers and glass cubes. When the gallery opened in December (offering the biggest discounts to the first few in line) people started lining up at 6 a.m. before the shop opened at 11 a.m. The line to enter remained two hours long into the evening. Nearly all initial glass-blowing classes sold out immediately. Students can make marbles, pendants and wine glasses at introductory, intermediate or one-on-one advanced classes. Guests can also rent torch time by the hour or the month. A dedicated air exchange and exhaust system handles the fumes. The shop uses borosilicate glass, which is a poor conductor of heat that allows people to turn the glass as they’re blowing it. “We’re really able to make an inaccessible art form accessible to people,” Wilken-Simon said. “It’s a huge investment to get the proper ventilation, tools and kilns.” He said they don’t use imported glass to avoid businesses that allegedly employ children or provide inadequate ventilation. Legacy Glassworks is hosting an opening reception for Therd, with special guests Cha, Repo and Groe on Saturday, April 8.

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HENNEPIN AVENUE

Hennepin Theatre Trust names new leader The Hennepin Theatre Trust has named Mark Nerenhausen as its next president and CEO. Nerenhausen is the second leader of the downtown-based arts nonprofit, which owns and operates the Orpheum, State and Pantages theaters on Hennepin Avenue. Tom Hoch, its founder and first president and CEO, stepped down last fall and is now a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis. Nerenhausen comes to the trust as a founding director and professor of the Janklow Arts Leadership Program at Syracuse University in New York. Prior to that, he served as the president and CEO of AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas, a $354-million arts nonprofit that cultivates art in North Texas. Nerenhausen also led Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Performing Arts Center Authority, which manages six performing arts venues, for more than a decade. Ann Simonds, who has acted as interim president and CEO since February, said in a statement that Nerenhausen brings a flair for “innovation, partnership and excellence.” “Mark joins the trust with an impressive record of success that spans the performing arts, fundraising, education and cultural development,” she said. The trust’s next leader arrives at a time when the organization is relocating from City Center and building out a new headquarters in the former Solera building at 900 Hennepin Ave. “We feel truly energized by Mark and this moment for the Trust, and we’re excited to have him with us as we realize the possibilities of our new home at 900 Hennepin,” Simonds said. Nerenhausen started the job on April 3. He and his wife will move to the Twin Cities this summer following the academic year at Syracuse University where, in addition to his administrative duties, Nerenhausen teaches a seminar in the spring. Before the move, he will commute between Minnesota and New York. “Hennepin Theatre Trust has established itself as an imaginative and entrepreneurial arts organization that is helping to drive cultural and economic vitality through the arts in Minnesota,” Nerenhausen said. “I’m incredibly honored to add to that strong legacy and team up with the board, staff and community members to bring their passion and energy for the Trust to life.” For Nerenhausen, a Wisconsin native, the move is a chance to get back home, or “at least much, much closer to home,” he said. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in Russian and East European Studies and a master’s degree in business in arts administration from the University of Wisconsin-

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Hennepin County sheriff says feds owe him an apology Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said his department was owed an apology after it appeared on a federal list of “non-cooperative jurisdictions” called out for their lack of coordination with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March. Hennepin County appeared on the first of what are expected to be weekly reports from the Department of Homeland Security highlighting those jurisdictions nationally that fail to comply with federal requests to detain immigrants in custody until they can be handed over to ICE. The reports are mandated by an executive order President Donald Trump signed in January. Although the report did not list the individuals by name, Stanek said it referred to two men born in Mexico who were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department and who, upon their Feb. 3 release from Hennepin County Jail, were taken directly into custody by ICE agents. Joined by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, Stanek called a March 23 press conference “to clear up some inaccurate and misleading information,” he said. Stanek displayed still images from jail security camera footage that he said documented the transfer of custody to two ICE agents inside the jail’s sally port. “As I’ve said many times, there is no sanctuary for criminals anywhere in Hennepin County,” Stanek said. “Secondly, the Hennepin County Sheriff ’s Office fully cooperates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and all of our federal law enforcement partners to the full extent of the law. And then third, our agency respects and protects the constitutional rights of all the people we interact with.” Freeman said Hennepin County used to comply with ICE requests to hold undocumented immigrants for up to 48 hours after their scheduled release from jail. The county halted that practice in 2014. “What’s the problem with that? Most of us came to this country to be free and independent, and you can’t hold somebody on a bureaucrat’s statement that they’d like them held,” Freeman said.

“To be fair, we all make mistakes,” Freeman said. “ICE made a big one here, and I think the sheriff is owed an apology.” Stanek said representatives of local immigrant communities contacted his office after the release of the report earlier in the week. They were concerned that they had heard one thing about the handling of immigrants in custody from his office and another from the feds. Stanek explained that ICE learns about immigrants in detention at the jail through the FBI. Everyone who enters the jail is fingerprinted and photographed at the time of booking, information that is collected by the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The FBI has access to a database maintained by the BCA and can choose to share the information with ICE, Stanek said. He said deputies ask about country of origin but do not ask about immigration status during the booking procedure. “If they (ICE) want to talk to them upon release or transfer custody, they have to wait until the local charges are adjudicated. We don’t hold them any longer than that,” Stanek said, adding that the county regularly gives ICE 24 hours notice in advance of releasing inmates at the agency’s request. Stanek said his office “always” complies with requests for notification from ICE, but agents only show up at the time of release for about one-third of those requests. One of the two men who appeared in the DHS report was booked into Hennepin County Jail on probable cause for a weapons charge. The other was booked on probable cause for a fifth-degree narcotics charge. “I think it’s grossly unfair that the tell the public that two individuals who were in custody here at the Hennepin County Jail were released back out to the public without any type of cooperation and that these folks had a criminal background,” he said. “That is not the case.” Stanek said he had spoken with DHS officials at the state and federal level about the mix-up. “As of yet, though, they haven’t said ‘boo’ about it,” he said.

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City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden sponsored an ordinance that aims to end discrimination against federal housing voucher holders. File photo

Ordinance aims to end discrimination against Section 8 renters An ordinance prohibiting Minneapolis landlords from refusing to rent to low-income tenants with federal housing vouchers was approved March 24 by a unanimous City Council. City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden said the ordinance, first introduced two years ago, continued a “long tradition” in the state and city of shielding public assistance recipients from discrimination. Its passage does not mean landlords must rent to Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders, only that they must consider their applications as they would anyone else seeking an apartment. An amendment to the Minneapolis Civil Rights Ordinance, it takes effect May 1, 2018. “Now, we will no longer be permitted to have properties advertise ‘No section 8 may apply’ — something that has long been a tremendous barrier to what is really a relatively small group of individuals who are some of our most vulnerable residents trying to find housing in the marketplace and having tremendous, tremendous difficulty,” Glidden said. She said only about 200 Section 8 participants are looking for housing in Minneapolis each month, on average, but they face “stereotyping and blanket rejection” by landlords. More than 90 percent of voucher holders in Minneapolis are people of color, and the average household income of all voucher holders was $15,203. About 5,000 households are already using vouchers to pay for housing. The ordinance was co-sponsored by City Council members Abdi Warsame and Lisa Goodman. According to a city report, nearly 60 other jurisdictions nationwide have similar ordinances on the books. In Minneapolis, the city’s Civil Rights Department is charged with monitoring enforcement of the new rules. The council took nearly two hours of public testimony on the ordinance during

a joint committee hearing held the week prior to the vote. Several landlords, property managers and representatives of the multi-family housing industry urged council members to first make reforms to the Section 8 program as it is administered by the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority before acting on an ordinance. “This ordinance is not the solution to the problem you’re trying to solve,” said Cecil Smith, a Minneapolis landlord and incoming board chair of the Minnesota Multi Housing Association, a non-profit trade group. Smith argued that the council’s action seemed “hostile to business,” and that the city should first give the MPHA time to work with landlords. The organization had previously taken out a full-page advertisement in the Star Tribune warning that passage of the ordinance would add layers of bureaucracy and lead to “coastal rents,” pricing many out of the housing market. A statement released by the Minnesota Multi Housing Association after the March 24 vote described the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program as “broken.” The statement read, in part: “We support the program. We support reform. We call on the City Council to start being practical and actually make things better, not play politics with lives and businesses in the city.” The MPHA responded with its own statement posted to its website. The city agency has pledged to improve its working relationship with landlords through better communication and an updated inspections process. It has also proposed creation of a fund to incentivize local landlords to consider Section 8 voucher holders as tenants.

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or the past few years, creativity has been all the rage — the study of it, the reverence for it, the widespread encouragement of it. Chalk it up to the idea that we’re living through a time when original thought in politics, pop culture and mainstream and social media is at a low point, but no matter what accounts for the current creativity movement, it’s clear that the world is crying out for every last one of us to innovate our way out of civilization’s various messes. Yep, creativity is hot. So much so that “creatives” is now a professional designation, referring to that elite group of folks who make things out of thin, rarified air. But the truth is, everyone reading this is creative — as hearing specialist, surgeon and saxophone player Charles Limb puts it in the latest “The Mad Science of Creativity” special issue of Scientific American magazine, which includes instructive feature stories like “So You Want To Be A Genius,” “The Serious Need for Imaginative Play,” “How Cities Fire The Imagination” and “Why Creative People Often Seem Weird.” “While I think creativity is amazing, I don’t put it on a pedestal,” Limb tells writer Alicia Anstead. “I view it as a very normal biological process that some people are able to take to extremely profound levels but that fundamentally is a basic requirement of human realization and how we advance. It infiltrates every aspect of human life. I don’t know that there’s an attribute that is more responsible for how we’ve evolved as a species than creativity.” But focused creativity, the kind for which we use all the tools in our toolbox to make something out of nothing, is another matter. Every other hour, a new book or story on creativity in music, art, marketing, advertising, business or home life comes over the transom, and I devour every one I come across, looking for philosophical gems, inspiration and tips. Most of the stories focus on the necessity of getting quiet and getting away from the routine of the rat race so as to listen to what’s inside. I couldn’t agree more. Exercise, mediate, motivate. Got it. Then what? What about when you’ve created something and you’re about to present your gift to the world with your tried-and-true “What have I got to lose?” leap into the show biz circus? What about all those creativity-buzzkilling trolls that live to say, “You stink. Why do you even try? Stop it. Go away.” At that point, what you need is a pal like Peter Himmelman, who’s been there and back and will throw his arm around your shoulder and let you know that everything’s cool; it’s all part of the process. “It’s an interesting evolutionary quirk that even though we are hardwired to abhor failure, we rarely get important information from our successes,” Himmelman writes in his new book, “Let Me Out: Unlock Your Creative Mind and

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Bring Your Ideas To Life.” “It’s the times we’ve come up short of our expectations that give us what is arguably our most important life lessons: Failure won’t kill us. Trusting this on a visceral level allows us to create the way we did when we were kids.” Himmelman knows what he’s talking about. Around these parts, he’s best known as the 57-year-old founder of the popular Minneapolis band Sussman Lawrence (and one-time guitarist with reggae-roots heroes Shangoya). He’s now a Los Angeles-based author, musician, visual artist, Emmy- and Grammy-nominated television music composer and founder of his creativity-enhancing communications company Big Muse. “Let Me Out” is a thoughtful, funny and deep-thinking foray into one man’s journey with creativity. “Part of what happens to us is, as we live, we experience more and more judgment, and for some people, that just shuts them down,” said Himmelman recently by phone from his home in Los Angeles. “We never get rid of the voice, and in the book I give that judgmental voice in our heads the name of MARV, or ‘Majorly Afraid of Revealing Vulnerability.’ The primitive brain alerts us to dangerous threats, a killer animal, but what happens is it doesn’t make the distinction between someone not liking our album and a raging puma. That’s the work that we have to do. “The mortal aspect is if we make a record, or if we’re afraid of making that record, if we don’t take action on it, this MARV character is telling us that if we fail, we’ll be ashamed, which is true. Or, partially true. There’s nothing he says that isn’t somewhat partially true.” Himmelman illustrates his concepts via various sources, through a variety of very funny and touching stories about his days as a budding rock star in St. Louis Park and via wise words inspired by his Jewish faith. Likewise, the creativity exercises that pepper “Let Me Out” are warm and instructive, regularly

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returning to the idea that the solution for overcoming fear is to take action — no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. That is, Just Do It. Practice your creation — alone or with others. Book studio time. Write a song. Play a gig. Paint a painting. Make love, food, a poster, a “to do” list. Anything that keeps the MARV voice at bay. “One piece of advice is to take one miniature step toward your goal,” said Himmelman, who performs a solo homecoming show at the Dakota Bar and Grill May 23. “For example, a huge goal of mine has been to fly an airplane, and right before my book came out I wanted to test the veracity of my book so I’d know my whole book wasn’t just bull----. “So I did one small step. And just to show you how small … I walked toward my chair in my office with a certain amount of intention. That was my first step. That’s all I did. And from there, I sat. I got some flight times, I got a guy on the phone, all within two minutes, and within two months time I was flying a Cessna 172 Skyhawk over the San Fernando Valley.” That spark of creativity is essential to moving forward. For the lot of us, Himmelman explains why: “The best thing about being involved in the arts or some sort of creative endeavor is that it adds life to our life. It adds richness and depth,” he said. “I don’t want to bring up politics, but I think we’ve come to a place where people have just been run ragged and polarized and everyone’s angry, and one benefit of doing this is that when you’re really engaged in creating a thing of beauty or some kind of meaning, you become less angry, you become a more generous person, and God knows we need a few more of them.” Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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By Cedar Imboden Phillips

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April 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I. The “hostess house” shown in this photograph was a replica erected in downtown Minneapolis as part of a wartime liberty bond drive. The real houses were designed by the YWCA to provide a suitable place for women visiting or living in wartime military camps. In the United States, these houses allowed women to visit their husbands or loved ones before the soldier left for the battlefields. The real houses provided beds, a cafeteria and a nursery. This replica gave Minnesotans an opportunity to learn more about the wartime work of the YWCA. Cedar Imboden Phillips is executive director of the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or (612) 870-1329.

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MAKING CHANGE

Speaking out on the minimum wage Many who earn minimum wage — or close to it — have joined the debate about the future of pay in Minneapolis By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@ southwestjournal.com

Workers have already been an influential force in the minimum wage debate in Minneapolis, organizing to help place a minimum wage charter amendment on the ballot last fall, and

Arradondo, 51, said she’s spent “pretty much (her) entire life” in the restaurant industry, starting at age 19. She would be opposed to a minimum wage increase if it didn’t include a carve-out for tipped workers. “I think, first of all, a place like the hotel could probably absorb it, but a smaller place like Ike’s, they’re going to be in trouble, because that’s a massive payroll increase,” she said. “I do think it would be nice to have an increase for nontipped employees, but if it’s across the board and everyone has a huge increase, I think the possible consequences — of course we don’t know what will happen — but they could be worse than just leaving it where it’s at.” Arradondo predicted those consequences could include “a significant number” of restau-

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they have been increasingly active as city staff prepare a draft ordinance for the City Council. Among those who earn the minimum wage — or close to it — there are a variety of views

on how the city should move forward. Whether or not a local minimum wage ordinance should include a carve-out for tipped employees — typically called a “tip penalty” or a “tip

credit” — has provoked strong reactions on either side. Some of those workers recently shared their stories with the Journals.

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rants closing, and many career servers and bartenders leaving for jobs in St. Paul or the suburbs. She’d be one of them. “I wouldn’t do this for $15 an hour,” Arradondo said. “Years ago, there used to be a sub-minimum (wage) for tipped employees, and I would say overall in those days I made a lot more money,” she said. “Employers weren’t concerned with overtime, because your pay wasn’t significant enough to matter, and you were able to have one job because you could work overtime. A lot of places let that slide. “Now, it’s absolutely nobody gets overtime, so you need to piece together two jobs sometimes if you want to make a decent living.”

Devora began advocating for a tip credit (also known as a tip penalty) through Service Industry Staff for Change because, she said, she views the issue as “life or death” for her 20-year career in the restaurant industry. “I have a special-needs child. Most of those costs are out-of-pocket,” Devora said. “At the end of the day, it just isn’t feasible. We won’t be able to live on $15 an hour. “I was a paralegal in conjunction with those first 10 years I was in those industry. This is a better fit for me. That’s why I left corporate America. I will have to go back and try to figure out how to work a desk job while being a special-needs parent.” Devora, who began her career at restaurants in Manhattan and Philadelphia, said Minneapolis

doesn’t have the economic base to support servers who earn $15 an hour. “It isn’t on par with Manhattan, it’s not on par with San Francisco or Napa Valley or even Miami. And those are huge markets for the food and beverage industry, but they’re also supported by the economic structure of the community,” she said. “We just don’t have that here.” But Devora was adamant that her non-tipped coworkers deserved a higher wage. “We’re all pushing for back-of-house and the wait assists and the barista down the street to make that $15 an hour,” she said. “I don’t need that. I’m doing just fine.”

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Tapia, who was born in Mexico, offered his thoughts on a higher minimum wage through an interpreter at Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL). He has also been active in various campaigns through CTUL, including efforts to raise Minneapolis’ minimum wage. “Working the overnight shift is really hard for us folks who have to work that shift,” Tapia said. “I think we deserve to make more money. I think we deserve to have our wages raised to $15 an hour. “On a more personal note, if I was making $15 an hour I would be able to help my family a lot more. I have family in Mexico and a son who is sick with an illness, and having more money would help me help them more.” Tapia came to the U.S. alone, leaving behind

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his wife and children. He sends back at least half of every paycheck and sometimes more, supporting eight people on his earnings. “What happens is, when my son gets ill in Mexico, that’s typically when I have to send more money, and I don’t have the money. So, what happens is that I borrow money from my friends, and then a paycheck I get when rent is not due, I pay them back. And then it happens again, and it’s just a cycle,” he said. “My friends borrow money as well. We’re all struggling. So, it’s just this cycle where we’re all borrowing money to make ends meet.” “If I was making $15 an hour, I could probably break out of this cycle and I’d have enough money.”

SANDRA LOVE-JONES Lives: Minneapolis Works: Unemployed; recently employed as a cashier at Broadway Liquor, about 25 hours a week Earns: $10.00 an hour at her most recent job, plus tips that totaled up to $20 per shift

Love-Jones, 26, said she has worked a series of minimum-wage jobs in retail, movie theaters and sports stadium concessions. Her

low and inconsistent earnings have made progress toward a degree at Minneapolis Community and Technical College slow going.

Being employed both as a server and as a part-time organizer advocating for a minimum wage increase without a carve-out for tipped employees has occasionally put Thomas in an awkward position. In March, her restaurant signed on to the Pathway to $15 campaign, a restaurant industry effort to include what is alternately known as a “tip credit” or “tip penalty” in any local minimum wage ordinance. “We’ve talked about it and had some difficult moments — just because it’s my other job,” she said. “I don’t really organize (at Spoonriver), I just talk about my political views sometimes.” Many expect the minimum wage ordinance presented to the City Council later this year to include a phase-in of higher wages, probably over a period of years. But Thomas said other servers often assume restaurants would instantly be

required to hike the pay of all their employees. “I agree, yes, if it was next day it would be very bad for a lot of businesses out there,” she said. Thomas, 25, said she is “comfortable” on her current earnings. “Random things happen, and I had some savings — a little bit — and something happened, and all that went away. That’s expected, but if I had more money I would have more savings,” she said. “I can’t imagine those people who work at industry jobs who make less money in tips than me. They’re looking at two full-time jobs just to earn the same.”

“I didn’t have enough for nothing,” she said. “I pay $952 for rent in North Minneapolis. I’m bringing home $600 a paycheck, so I’m living check to check. It’s a struggle, an everyday struggle — trying to figure out if I’m going to have enough for my phone bill, not knowing if I’m going to have enough for my electricity bill. I can’t pay my phone bill and my internet bill; it’s one or the other.” Love-Jones said living on minimum wage is stressful. She has missed out on betterpaying jobs in the suburbs because she can’t afford a vehicle. “The places that are trying to hire me are

not on the bus line. Simple stuff like that,” she said. “I don’t make enough to purchase a vehicle and pay for car insurance and gas so I can get a job.” Love-Jones said, in her experience, a minimum wage that is not enough to live on makes people desperate, leading some to crime. “We sell drugs, or instead of paying for the clothes we need for our kids or ourselves we have to go out and steal them, because we can’t really afford them,” she said. “Low minimum wage forces crime. It forces us to fight among each other to survive instead of live.”

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MAKING CHANGE

$15 an hour could mean Welcome Home. fewer jobs for youth Some businesses, leaders advocate tiered wage structure By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

Jon Olson said he enjoyed hiring young people and working with them at his Dairy Queen in North Minneapolis, which he owned for more than 20 years. He said it would have been hard to imagine paying his youngest employees $15 an hour, the minimum wage advocates are pushing for as city staff develop a proposal expected to reach the City Council later this spring. Olson, a Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board commissioner, mostly hired kids who were 16 years old but would hire some as young as 14. It was difficult to expect a kid that young to be “a really solid, productive employee,” he said. “Part of the deal was teaching these young folks,” he said. “When you’re paying 15 an hour, you have an expectation that they’ll be able to do pretty much everything (you’ve) asked.” Across Minneapolis, employers say a $15 minimum wage would limit their ability to hire teenagers and provide them with the valuable experience that comes with holding a job. Some say the $15 minimum wage would force them to cut back on hiring teenagers, and some are advocating for a tiered-wage system that would allow them to pay youth workers a smaller wage. Dick Henke, owner of The Malt Shop in Lynnhurst, said he wasn’t sure how many positions his restaurant would be able to maintain if it had to start youth workers at $15. Restaurants are one of the big industries that provide high school kids with their first jobs, he said, calling it something that’s “an important part of what we do.” “If we had to pay $15 for kids that are learning their first job in their life, I’m not sure we’d be able to keep doing that,” he said. “… If the city follows through, it’s going to be very challenging for sure.”

Good market for teens The minimum wage discussion is happening in a robust job market, one in which teen labor force participation is picking up, said Oriane Casale, assistant director of the Labor Market Information Office at the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. Casale said teen labor force participation is back up to 50 percent in Minnesota, although the number appears to be slightly lower in Minneapolis, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. She said the statewide minimum wage increase does not seem to have had an overall impact on employers’ willingness to hire. Minnesota increased its minimum wage from $6.15 an hour in 2014 to $9.50 an hour and $7.75 an hour for youth this past year, a rate that will adjust with inflation beginning in 2018. Casale said the stakes are a little bit different in Minneapolis, however, because employers can move. In Seattle, which instituted a $15 minimum wage in 2015, the immediate impact has been a major increase in youth unemployment, according to Danielle Grant, CEO of Achieve Minneapolis, which runs the Step-Up Achieve internship program. Grant said she thinks a $15 minimum wage would have a negative impact on professional-internship programs such as Step-Up Achieve, adding that her organization would have a difficult time getting students to do professional-level internships if fast food restaurants paid more. Step-Up Achieve serves as a workforce talentdevelopment system, Director Jeremiah Brown said, something that is crucial to businesses and to having a “thriving and dynamic Twin Cities area.” A lot of employers value the opportunity to

mentor, Brown said, and businesses also love that the young people are diverse and bring fresh perspectives. Plus, Step-Up interns are prepared to get real work done. “They’re kind of a low-cost solution for businesses to really advance big projects,” he said. “Our young people are skilled enough and prepared enough to contribute every summer.”

Collective punishment Julene Lind, owner of Nicollet Ace Hardware, said she always thought it was her responsibility to hire youth. They have a real job at her store and are a real part of her team, she said. Lind has hired as many as four high school kids for the summer but isn’t hiring any this year because of her the assumption there will be a proposed ordinance requiring her to pay youth $15 an hour. She said there’s no way to hire someone that has zero skills and pay them $15 an hour. “They have no idea how a business works,” Lind said of the city. “They can’t just go after fast food, so they punished all of us. … We’re not in the same pool.” At the North Minneapolis nonprofit Cookie Cart, which provides high school students with a job and training in areas such as fiscal literacy and leadership, a $1 increase in minimum wage would cost about $32,000, according to Executive Director Matt Halley. He said a lot of the teenagers who work for the organization don’t even know they can go to a bank to cash a check. The organization has a lot of kids who are helping out with their families’ basic needs, but Halley said they encourage kids to buy things for themselves, too. Halley said minimum wage is just one piece of Minneapolis’ economic disparities. He said it’s really hard for a young person in North Minneapolis to get to a place that is hiring. “If the jobs aren’t available, if their parents are working really hard and are barely able to make ends meet, the whole prospects for them being able to go to college are really small,” he said. At the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, which hires youth for seasonal and parttime jobs, a $15 minimum wage would mean $3.3 million in increased costs in 2018, according to Superintendent Jayne Miller. Miller said it’s difficult to pull out the impact that would have on youth, since the Park Board hires them for a variety of positions. She said her organization will continue to talk to the Mayor and City Council about how it would cover the expenses. Miller said the Park Board is very supportive of people making a living wage but noted that many jobs are seasonal and “high school” jobs by nature. She said she worries high school kids would get shut out of jobs with a $15 minimum wage. Joe Sipprell, general manager of Uptown Diner, said his jobs for teens don’t require a lot of hours; the teens mainly work at peak times, such as weekends, when he needs hosts and bussing help. He said the jobs are a great way for young people to learn responsibility, adding that they get to make a few bucks, the servers tip them out and they get an employee meal. He said he pays them $8 an hour and $9.50 when they turn 18. Sipprell said it would be hard to put an adult in those sorts of jobs. He said he assumes there would be some sort of youth waiver for the $15 minimum wage; otherwise it would be hard for him to want teens to stick around after their 18th birthday, he said. SEE YOUTH WORKERS / PAGE A17

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REMODELING SHOWCASE

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laine Eschenbacher and Michael Welch knew they had to do something about the second floor of their Bryn Mawr home. Even though the master suite occupied the entire upstairs, it didn’t seem spacious. The 1948 house had undergone a 1980s remodel that left its master suite with odd ceiling angles, unusable areas, and a dark and maddeningly designed bathroom. Jutting out into the center of the space, it had the essentials, but the shower was positioned so deeply beneath one of those angled ceiling lines that it was difficult to use. That remodel also left a small, open area just beyond the bathroom that served no purpose at all. A long closet in the hallway leading from a sitting area to the bedroom — a possible perk — had a door at either end, but was too shallow. “You’d kind of shimmy yourself down the wall to get what was in there,” Welsh explained. When Eschenbacher, Welch and their two sons moved into the house in 2009, they knew that a remodel was in order, whether they were going to stay or put it on the market. The couple had done other remodeling jobs, but they knew someone special would have to tackle this one. It was so tricky that a neighbor who had remodeled their kitchen was relieved when the job went to someone else. They interviewed four contractors, including three that offered design-build

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services, and chose Bluestem Construction of St. Louis Park to redesign and remodel the space. “We met (Bluestem owner) Timothy (Ferraro) first, and we felt like Bluestem understood the project and our goals best,” Eschenbacher said. Where she and Welch saw a frustrating layout with lots of complex and intersecting angles, Bluestem design specialist Tamatha Miller saw possibilities. First, however, Miller needed to know what the couple wanted and didn’t want. She assigned the couple the task of browsing Houzz.com and making two folders to share with her. One would have design ideas, furnishings, hardware and light fixtures that they

liked. The other they were to fill with stuff they couldn’t stand. The exercise became a running joke. Eschenbacher and Welch would browse Houzz late at night and fill their folders with photos and amusing comments. Miller would come to work in the morning, open the folders and laugh. “They get the award for the funniest clients I’ve ever worked for,” Miller said. “They made me laugh many, many times.” What Miller gleaned from those files were the repeating colors, shapes and styles that the couple liked — clean lines and design that was unique but not flamboyant, in keeping with the character of the house. That included retaining most

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of the recessed shelving built into the walls, and adding some in the bathroom. Miller drew up three concepts. The winning design included a spacious sitting room at the top of the stairs, with a built-in bench and a new wall that separates the area from the bedroom through a pocket door. Miller’s design also replaced the single, shallow closet with his-and-hers walk-in closets that face each other across the hall that leads to the bedroom. The bedroom itself remained largely intact. The bathroom was another story. The new design removed the wall that had created the unused space and reunited a pair of adjacent, original windows inside the expanded bath. Miller also designed a storage area, retaining a set of built-in shelves and a glass-block window, and separating it from the rest of the bath with a pair of doors. “The central innovation that Tamatha had was to move the shower out of the corner it was in altogether, and everything else fell away from there,” Welch said. “The main part of figuring out the design was figuring out the tall-man shower,” Miller added. The new shower is at least twice the size of the old, with a combination of larger and smaller tiles in contrasting patterns. A shallow niche, with one angled side to mirror the ceiling and the other upstairs angles accommodates soap and shampoo. The shower also has a bench and a pan bottom rather than a tile surround. The pan holds a recessed drain that the couple wanted to accent with a teak cover. The ones they found commercially were too expensive, so Eschenbacher’s father used his woodworking skills to build them one. Miller carried the niche theme to the medicine cabinets, designing cut-outs that extend slightly to the side and below each cabinet, offering a unique look and some extra shelf space for everyday items and decorative tchotchkes. The couple found a double vanity through the Signature Hardware website, and Miller helped them source counter material made of compressed, resin-infused, recycled paper.

From start to finish, the project took two months, wrapping up just before Thanksgiving 2016. Eschenbacher and Welch enjoyed the experience, from working with a designer to seeing the progress when they came home after work each day. “It’s fun to work with a good design and good people,” Welch said.

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MAKING CHANGE

A look before Minneapolis’ leap Several restaurants have adopted the $15 minimum wage, with mixed results By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Ahead of the potential minimum wage hike to $15, a few Minneapolis restaurants have already tried paying $15 or more. Two venues said they are making it work, although it’s not easy. A third abandoned the experiment and shifted to lower server wages with tips. Another stopped tips and raised pay to $15 in April. At Byte on First Avenue, everyone makes $15, pools the tip money and trains to do everything from bartending and prepping food to waiting tables and washing dishes. The owners said they needed to adapt their entire business model to support the wage. “I took inspiration from a taco stand,” said co-owner Travis Shaw. At a taco cart, Shaw said, one person can easily make food for many people. The food is cheap, but flavorful. Setting $15 as the goal, they reverse-engineered the Byte menu to make the math work, using cost-effective pork shoulder in the bahn mi, chicken thighs in the taco salad and fried paneer curds in the vegetarian curry wrap. They’re trying to keep the menu affordable and aiming to sell a high volume of scratch fast food and beer. But it’s still not easy, Shaw said. “When payroll comes around, it’s hard. It’s a lot,” he said. “It makes me nervous half the time. We’re barely keeping our heads above water.”

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Aiming for a livable wage Common Roots Café has paid staff $11.40, above the minimum wage, since 2007. On April 3 they announced a shift to $15 with no tipping. Common Roots increased prices 15 percent to make the change. “We believe it is our responsibility as a business to guarantee fair wages, and that shouldn’t depend on the generosity of our customers,” the café said in a Facebook post. “… We believe it’s imperative that all staff, regardless of whether they serve our customers, prepare your food or wash your dishes, get equitable compensation for their work. Tipping makes this very challenging.” GYST Fermentation Bar also pays its staffers $15 and stopped accepting tips last fall, acting on the principle that the culture of tipping is SEE MIXED RESULTS / PAGE A17

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Although lower wages would give Byte more breathing room with the bills, Shaw said that’s not what they wanted to do. And three-and-ahalf weeks in, he said they’re starting to hit the numbers they need. Shaw said that including tips (tips are pooled and paid out by the week) staff wages are consistently over $19 an hour, approaching wages comparable to a unionized hotel. One staffer can even help care for her parents, he said. “We’re an independent restaurant without corporate backing. I think it’s a big deal,” Shaw said. Upton 43 in Linden Hills tried a no-tipping policy for three-and-a-half months. The restaurant started all staff and servers at $17 or more, aiming to eliminate a fight for prime shifts and create more of a family environment. “Overall they would be making more money long-term and consistently,” said spokesman Josef Harris. But Harris said the experiment didn’t work. Labor costs were too high, and dishes that were

$20 crept closer to $30 to cover costs. “Some people had sticker shock,” he said. “… Until diners start to value the food just as high as the experience and understand everything that goes into bringing them that food, I don’t think we’ll be able to get there.” He said it was an interesting test of patron psychology. People didn’t seem to have a problem spending more with an additional tip, but they balked at higher menu prices, even if the total cost was a wash. People wanted some control over the total bill, Harris said. “We kind of found ourselves pricing ourselves way out of the market,” he said. “It really affected our margin if we wanted to stay competitive.” Harris said he thinks restaurants will have a hard time staffing at $15 an hour. It’s already challenging to find the perfect balance of food costs, labor and profit, he said. “Anything that shakes that, once you find that balance, it’s really hard to find that balance again,” he said. “Once restaurants start losing money, they lose a lot of money really quickly. … With $15 an hour, we would see a lot of restaurants close trying to meet that mandate.” A city-commissioned study found a higher minimum wage is likely to have the greatest impact on the operating costs of restaurants, with smaller restaurants more sensitive to the change. The restaurant industry is the group with the most minimum wage earners in the Minneapolis area. Any wage hike may not be immediate. Last year’s campaign to place a minimum wage question on the ballot proposed a $15 wage phased in over several years and at different speeds for small and large employers.

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Gyst Fermentation Bar owner Mel Guse (center) takes a shift at the restaurant, which pays employees $15 an hour. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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outdated and that all jobs deserve a livable wage. They increased menu prices about 15–20 percent. For patrons who insist on leaving a tip, they’re donating the money to Appetite For Change, a community organization based in North Minneapolis. After the shift to no tipping, they felt the impact of increased payroll taxes and smaller check prices. Nevertheless, the owners said it was the right thing to do. They’ve worked for $9–$12 at spots like France 44, Whole Foods and the Bi-Rite Market in San Francisco. “It’s not livable at all,” Ky said. Mel said she’s seen restaurants where servers make $300 a night while the kitchen staff makes $9-$11 an hour. And Ky has worked in traditional salaried positions as well. “It gives us some interesting perspective,” Ky said. “I worked hard at my [salaried] job, but not nearly as hard as I worked in the food industry. I want this industry to be valued for what it is.” Good food is costly, she said. “You have to pay the farmers, who work hard and long hours to grow food,” she said.

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Worth $15 an hour? Nicholas Rocque, an 11th-grader at The FAIR School, works for Delaware North, which supplies food and support services to Target Field. He usually works on the weekends in the school year and said he works every day once the summer hits, usually from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. Rocque helps his dad with paying bills and pays his own phone bill. He also spends money on studio time for his music, buying equipment for himself and trying to buy plane tickets to go to shows in other states.

Mark Lowman (l) and Travis Shaw know what it’s like to work at restaurants for low pay, so they committed to paying employees $15 at Byte, now open on First Avenue. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Forced to change A couple of doors down at Little Tijuana, Deborah Dickson was surprised to learn GYST was paying people $15. Dickson and business partner Steve Wagner are tired of city regulation, and the minimum wage under consideration is no exception. A sign in the window states: “Mpls City Council and their policies don’t support small business!”

Dickson said the statewide minimum wage hike that went into effect nine months ago prompted them to cut three people from the kitchen, and now the owners are working seven days a week, 80–100 hours apiece. If the minimum wage increases again, Dickson said they may have to cut hours and staff further. “I’m working all day from open until close, until 2:00 (a.m.),” Wagner said. “I sleep back

Rocque, who makes about $12.30 an hour, said a minimum-wage increase wouldn’t mean that much to him, though he’d be worried about taxes increasing. He said he understands a $15 minimum wage would help people “in the sense of getting a more stable living situation. “But at the same time,” he added, “I don’t think a lot of people deserve it, at least at my job.” FAIR School 11th-grader Elizabeth Holcomb also worked for Delaware North, cooking burgers at baseball games. She said her family is pretty secure with money but she knows a lot of people aren’t and that raising the minimum wage could really help. Shaunassey Johnson, also an 11th-grader at

FAIR School, said she thinks a $15 minimum wage would be really helpful. Johnson lives with her mom and grandma and works at a Caribou Coffee downtown. She said that with a $15 minimum wage, she could start giving money to her mom, save some and “do more with my money than I can do right now.” Alexis Flynn, an 11th-grader at Armstrong High School in Robbinsdale who works at Cookie Cart, said she fees like work ethic would go down with a $15 minimum wage. She said she hasn’t furthered her education to the point where she should be getting $15 an hour, adding that she feels her current wage, $10.50, is reasonable for what she does.

here. … In three years I haven’t had a day off.” He ticked off the restaurant’s expenses, including the mortgage, payroll, property tax, insurance, food, liquor and electric bill. “Everybody has the misconception that we get to keep all the money we take in,” he said. Dickson said she doesn’t think patrons will come to Minneapolis to hunt for parking spaces and pay higher prices for meals. Customers have already commented on past price increases, she said. Shaw at Byte said he has mixed feelings about the proposed minimum wage hike. The $15 wage is difficult for Byte, even though the entire business model was built around higher wages. And a crappy-paying job is better than no job, he said. “We’ve been really on the fence on it,” Shaw said. “Some people would just have to rework the entire system. This will break people unless they completely change their system to something more fast-casual.” He said his heart goes out to other restaurants, and anticipates that a change would likely be chaotic. “We’re trying to build this model and show it can be done,” he said.

“If we’re getting paid right off the bat $15 an hour, what would college do for you?” she asked. Olson, the Park Board commissioner and former Dairy Queen owner, said he hopes there’s a way to protect employment opportunities for young people. He said he’s happy that conversations are taking place and that people on all sides are trying to figure out fair and equitable solutions. But it’s going to take time, he said, and it’s going to mean stretching resources. “We have to find a balance, too, rather than just saying, ‘we’re going to raise your taxes,’ ” he said. “If we’re just turning around and taxing people more, it doesn’t help them.”

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MAKING CHANGE

The fight for $15 across the country Wage campaigns, successful or not, have already played out in other cities Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

As Minneapolis officials prepare their minimum wage ordinance, leaders in other cities across the country are dealing with the effects of a $15 minimum wage on their own turf. From New York to Los Angeles, local movements for raising wages have played out in several major cities in recent years. Kshama Sawant has been a champion for the $15 minimum wage movement in Seattle and is “optimistic” about the campaign in Minneapolis. The Seattle City Council member was elected in 2013 with a mission to make Seattle one of the first major cities to adopt the higher wage. The campaign for a $15 minimum wage in Seattle began similarly to the one in Minneapolis, where activists tried to place a charter amendment on the November 2016 ballot but were blocked. A question made it onto the ballot in 2013 in SeaTac, a town just outside Seattle where the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is located, and it passed — but only by a tiny margin of less than 100 votes. Sawant, a member of the Socialist Alternative party, said workers and activists were able to leverage that to create a larger movement to make a higher minimum wage a “rallying cry” in the metro, even if it wasn’t popular then with city leaders. “It was clear that [$15 minimum wage] was starting to capture the imaginations of low-wage workers, especially young low-

wage workers, nationwide,” said Sawant, who is serving her second four-year term representing parts of downtown and eastern Seattle. “We had to build a movement strong enough such that is was made real to every council member that if they voted ‘no’ that it was under their own peril.” Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance gives businesses between two and seven years before ramping up to $15. Smaller employers with tipped employees or those that pay medical benefits have the most time under the law. Researchers have already begun measuring the impacts of wage reform in Seattle. In a study by University of Washington, researchers found that 18 months after the minimum wage ordinance went into effect there wasn’t a significant increase in business failures. Low-wage workers earned more, though much of that can be due to a strong local economy, the researchers found. Sawant, who has rallied for minimum wage reform in Minneapolis, is “very optimistic” about the campaign in the Twin Cities. The fact that mayoral candidates have to have a stated position on the $15 minimum wage is “an important victory” already, she added. Campaigns to raise the minimum wage to $15 haven’t all been successful. Despite a push from its mayor for a higher minimum wage, it’s unclear if Baltimore will see a successful fight for a higher wage of its own. In March, Baltimore Mayor Catherine

Pugh vetoed an ordinance that would’ve raised the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, saying that it wouldn’t be best for the city as it faces a deficit and a school budget shortfall. She emphasized that, on the state level, Maryland will raise the minimum wage throughout the state to $9.25 this July and $10.10 next July. “I believe it is in the best interest of the city that we follow the state,” Pugh told reporters at a press conference in March. “What I am doing is making sure that Baltimore City is not the hole in the donut.” Pugh’s remarks echo a previous stance on the issue from Mayor Betsy Hodges, who, before her views shifted on a $15 minimum wage last December, was opposed to a go-italone approach where the city raised its wage independent of the state or region. Hodges was unable to be reached for comment for this story. Organizers advocating minimum wage reform say there’s value in metro areas moving ahead alone: It can push states to act. Rusty Hicks, an organizer in Los Angeles’ movement around a $15 minimum wage, said Los Angeles was a “tipping point” for the rest of the state to adopt a higher minimum wage. Last year, California lawmakers passed a law setting a mandatory minimum of $15 an hour by 2022 after several large cities in the state, including San Francisco, passed their wage ordinances. The minimum wage campaign in Los Angeles really started on Labor Day in 2014,

when Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed a $13.25 hourly wage by 2017. Hicks and other organizers pushed for the higher wage, and the law was signed in a matter of nine months. Hicks said one of their biggest hurdles of the campaign was a stereotyped view of lowwage workers, many of whom are unable to afford the city’s high rents and other costs of living. “We found early on that people thought that workers were young, uneducated and they were lazy,” said Hicks, the executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, which represents roughly 800,000 workers across 300 unions. The city’s law acknowledges that perception, saying that few minimum wage earners are teens and that people of all education backgrounds would benefit from the increase. In Los Angeles, an estimated four in five people affected by the increase are workers of color. “If you want to stimulate the economy, put money in the pockets of everyday workers who will buy goods and services in their community,” Hicks said. While the federation doesn’t have data on how Los Angeles has fared under the rising minimum wage, Hicks said the people who thought that businesses would close and people would be out of work — that the “sky was going to fall” — had it wrong. “The sky is still in the sky,” he said.

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District to host thirdannual Junior Iron Chef Middle schoolers, grab your aprons. Minneapolis Public Schools is hosting its third-annual Junior Iron Chef Competition on May 8. The event will feature four teams, each comprised of two middle schoolers and one local chef, who will cook a meal for a panel of judges. The winning dish could find itself on the MPS lunch menu during the 2017–2018 school year. The event aims to promote the district’s commitment to scratch cooking and to engage students and families in the fun of cooking, said Kate Seybold, Farm to School Coordinator for MPS. MPS is going through the process of reinstalling full kitchens in all of its schools, Seybold said. Schools previously received packaged food from the district’s central kitchen. Now, 33 schools have kitchens where they can do their own scratch cooking. The district is integrating more fresh and local fruits and vegetables into schools through the Farm to School program, Seybold said. It no longer serves foods with highfructose corn syrup, artificial coloring dyes and trans fats.

“We look for really clean labels with no additives in them,” Seybold said. Every month, the district serves an entirely locally sourced meal, typically on the first Thursday. In April, the district will serve the winning recipe from last year’s Junior Iron Chef Competition — barbeque chicken drumsticks with a dirty grain blend and gingered radish salad. At the competition, students and chefs will have one hour to plan and cook a culinary creation. They will have access to a pantry, and the district will announce a few required ingredients the day of the competition. “The hope is that it’s a well-rounded meal that we can then serve in our lunchrooms,” Seybold said. The event is open to MPS students in sixth through eighth grades. Visit nutritionservices. mpls.k12.mn.us/junior_iron_chef_competition for more information and to apply to participate. Applications are due April 14.

Kenny Community School fifthgraders and glee club members perform March 27 at Minneapolis Public Schools’ 23rd-annual Viva City Fine Arts Festival. Photo by Nate Gotlieb

Viva City goes to the Guthrie Nearly 1,000 Minneapolis Public Schools students took to the Guthrie Theater stages March 27 as part of the district’s annual celebration of performing arts. The 23rd-annual Viva City Fine Arts Festival featured choirs, bands, dance teams, orchestras and theater troupes from about 25 Minneapolis schools. This year was the first time the district held the event at the Guthrie. Nora Schull, district program facilitator for the MPS Arts team, said the event was possible because of the work of the teachers

who organized the students. She said her department works to ensure every student has a chance to access the arts. “Until you have that experience or that opportunity, you might not know that’s what you’re passionate about,” Schull said. MPS guarantees every student a professional arts experience at every grade level, though the content may vary from school to school. Visit mpsarts.org to learn more about the district’s arts program.

District nearing selection on literacy curriculum Minneapolis Public Schools is nearing decision time on a new district-wide pre-K–5 literacy curriculum. A steering committee will make a recommendation on a new curriculum this month to Superintendent Ed Graff and Chief of Schools Michael Thomas, and district leaders will bring the recommendation to the School Board on May 9. School Board approval would wrap up the yearlong selection process. The district would implement the curriculum in the fall. Literacy curriculums typically last eight to 10 years, according to Carey Seeley, director of elementary education for the district’s Department of Teaching & Learning. She said the district is looking at a cost of $10 million–$12 million for the curriculum

over the time the district uses it. As part of the selection process, the district has hosted two literacy curriculum fairs and has field-tested three finalists at 12 schools. The steering committee is planning on gathering feedback from literacy experts at an April 10 event and will also be gathering feedback from teachers who were part of the fieldtesting. MPS currently uses Pearson Education’s “Good Habits Great Readers” as its literacy curriculum, but that curriculum does not meet Minnesota’s English language arts standards. The curriculum does not have the required 50-50 split of fiction and nonfiction, and the text complexity is “far below” what’s required

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Elliot Park to host environmental event, start Green Team Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc. will host an event this month to promote healthy lifestyle habits and environmentally friendly activities. The organization’s Elliot Park Earth Fest will take place 4 p.m.–7 p.m. in the park at 1000 E. 14th St. The event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by Nice Ride Minnesota and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The event will mark the official start of the Elliot Park Green Team, a project aimed at getting people together to take care of the neighborhood. People have been concerned about

garbage in the neighborhood through the years, EPNI Executive Director Lynn Regnier said, so the neighborhood applied for a grant from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to start a green team. Earth Fest will be an opportunity for folks to sign up to adopt a block and pledge to pick up garbage a minimum of twice a month, she said. EPNI will be getting bags from the city and will be purchasing “grabbers” to help pick stuff up, she said. The organization will be counting the number of bags it picks up throughout the year.

“What we’re hoping is we can build on this and that the community can get involved in other events as well,” Regnier said. The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization will be at the April 20 event and will have a station for people to make their own cleaning products. More than 30 organizations will be in attendance, and activities will include bracelet making, a bike rodeo for kids and an outdoor hug-a-tree photo booth. Email info@elliotpark.org for more information.

Great River Coalition will host a 5K run/walk on Earth Day April 22, to draw attention to the plight of pollinators. The race will begin and end at Boom Island Park, and participants will run along the Mississippi River. The coalition hopes to draw attention to the fact that “we’re also in a declining situation” without bees and pollinators, said Diane Hofstede, president of the coalition’s board of directors. “We want to focus starting in our own backyard,” Hofstede said. Bees pollinate everything from fruits and vegetables to nuts and flowers, according to the University of Minnesota’s Bee Lab. More than one-third of the world’s crop species depend on bee pollination, an ecological service valued at $20 billion annually in North America, according to the lab. However, the number of managed honeybee hives has decreased by 50 percent since the 1950s, according to the lab. A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report found that parasites and pathogens clearly have harmed some managed pollinator species. Hofstede said the coalition is working on policies to ensure the creation of pollinator habitat. It’s also educating the public on the value of un-mowed lawns, which “create sustenance for pollinators,” she said. She pointed to the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board’s new Ecological System Plan as a chance to improve habitat for pollinators in the city. The coalition is hosting a river cleanup after the race. It’s encouraging people to dress up in bee colors for the event, and Hofstede said there will be a contest to judge the bestlooking bee. There will also be a beehive and native flowers available for purchase. Visit register.chronotrack.com/r/27570 to register.

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The Park Board reopened West River Parkway last fall after mudslides blocked the busy thoroughfare. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

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The federal government is asking the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to repay more than $5.3 million in disaster relief grants for not following all federal procurement standards when it awarded contracts for the work. In a recently released audit the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General said the board did not follow all federal standards when contracting out work after storms in mid-2014 damaged parkland along West River Parkway, which was closed for more than two years. The Park Board received $8.4 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds, $5.1 million of which the board spent without following all guidelines, the audit found. The board awarded nine contracts, including one for $1.3 million to repair the failed sloped above West River Parkway, without full and open competition for the work, according to the audit. Without advertising for proposals, the audit says, there’s no guarantee that small, minority-owned or woman-owned businesses had an opportunity to bid, per federal regulation. The report also says the board awarded $1.4 million across eight contracts without performing a cost analysis, a step intended to decrease the risk of unreasonable costs and errors. The Park Board said in a statement that it is working with FEMA officials to determine an appropriate course of action following the audit.

“The final report details that federal procurement standards were not fully followed. However, the Park Board did follow the City of Minneapolis’ procurement procedures, including oversight and approval by the City of Minneapolis’ Office of Civil Rights, which ensured that small and underutilized businesses were given the opportunity to bid on the project,” the statement said. In a letter responding to the audit, Superintendent Jayne Miller said the slope failure required the Park Board to move quickly to protect the University of Minnesota Medical CenterFairview facility that overlooks West River Parkway. While the board failed in respect to some federal requirements, Miller wrote, it didn’t compromise the slope restoration. “Important in this entire process from the [Park Board] perspective is that, as an agency, we responded to a unique and significant event following a major storm. It was not an everyday occurrence, but our need to take immediate action required us to rely on our standard processes and on guidance provided by the State of Minnesota,” she wrote. The audit found fault with the state’s response as well, saying that it should have done more to ensure the Park Board was following federal standards. The Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General has requested the state to assist the board in spending $2.5 million in remaining disaster work funds according to the standards.

Downtown East residents out for a movie night could soon pack a bottle of wine when picnicking in the park. City Council Member Jacob Frey is proposing an ordinance that would allow park visitors to consume their own beer and wine in the Downtown East Commons park during designated events. Frey, whose ward includes the Downtown East neighborhood, said under the ordinance visitors likely would be allowed to drink beer and wine only at events like a regular movie night. Such an event series is still in the works but could begin this spring or summer, he added. The ordinance, first proposed last year, would likely only affect the park’s eastern block closer to U.S. Bank Stadium. Frey said the law wouldn’t affect the Minnesota Vikings’ use of the Commons for game-day events. The ordinance would diverge from other park rules that bar booze that isn’t served at park concessions, permitted events or restaurants like Sea Salt Eatery or Tin Fish. The Commons isn’t yet home to two proposed structures that could house concessions or a restaurant, in addition to park offices, storage and restrooms, though the park does host food trucks during warmer months. The ordinance would not affect alcohol consumption in other parks where BYOB is illegal. A public hearing on the ordinance is planned for April 18 at 1:30 p.m.

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Fire hits salon at Kingfield home No one was hurt in a fire March 22 at 4041 Harriet Ave., and the housecat safely weathered the fire in the basement. But the damage was significant enough to shut down James Stanton’s Organic Hair Salon while the house is repaired. Stanton said he left the house for about 40 minutes that Saturday afternoon to run an errand. “My daughter called me and says, ‘Dad, the house is on fire.’ I went home as fast as I could,” he said. “I was just in total shock.” He said the house was built in 1914, and a fire investigator pointed to what may be faulty wiring as the cause. Assistant Fire Chief Bryan Tyner said the official cause is not yet undetermined, and the fire appeared to originate on the front porch. Stanton said he’s lived in the house for 31 years and raised his children there. He ran Uptown Haircutters at 28th & Hennepin until 1982, and he’s operated a salon out of

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the house for about six years. Stanton said he started using nontoxic organic hair care products in 2003, and he’s since been swamped with business, with clients traveling from North Dakota and Wisconsin. “It was a real gift for me that came along. In my 60s, I became popular,” he said. “People were just so desperate for natural stuff.” He’s considering taking a temporary spot at Sola Salon Studios in Edina. “When you’re a hairdresser, you’re always a hairdresser,” he said. “I’ve had people coming to me for 45 years.” His daughter created a GoFundMe campaign that has raised more than $10,000 at gofundme.com/sos-save-dads-house. Stanton said he’s amazed at the support, and said it will help him pay the mortgage while the house is repaired. “It’s just so wild how your life can change,” he said. “You just have to move on and make the best of it.”

focused on the Memorial Day to Labor Day timeframe, this initiative will run through November, said Minneapolis Downtown Council President and CEO Steve Cramer. A key piece is the addition of more Minneapolis Police beat officers to Hennepin Avenue; during morning and evening commute times, either an officer or a Downtown Improvement District ambassador will be stationed on the west side of the avenue on each block between 5th and 10th streets, Cramer said. The plan also calls for more active outreach to the downtown homeless community and youth, programming that will make the street more active and inviting and a push to address downtown livability issues through legislation. A bill at the Capitol would allow Minneapolis police to keep criminal defendants away from areas where they have repeatedly broken the law.

City leaders launched a new effort to ensure Hennepin Avenue downtown is safe and inviting during daytime hours on April 1. The initiative aims to address issues like public intoxication and catcalling “that are unpleasant, unwelcoming and leave people feeling unsafe,” Mayor Betsy Hodges said during a March 30 launch event. Crafted with the participation of police and the downtown business community, the new plan is separate from efforts already underway to address latenight violence, public intoxication and other issues that crop up before and after downtown bar close. “Crime is down downtown, but knowing that these behaviors come in the context of an overall decrease in crime downtown, including violent crime, doesn’t make these behaviors less of a concern,” Hodges said. While in the past similar plans have

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Decades in prison await two defendants in Kingfield murder A Hennepin County District Court Judge sentenced two people to more than 30 years in prison for their roles in a 2015 night of robbery and the shooting death of a Kingfield resident. Albert George McIntosh, the man who prosecutors said shot resident Julio Mozo-Cuate, was sentenced to more than 38 years in prison. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office

said Michelle Lee Koester brought five people together to commit robbery on Oct. 18, 2015, telling them in a text they would need a gun. She was sentenced to 32 years in prison. The judge heard statements from MozoCuate’s mother, brother, two daughters and wife. “One day everyone was happy and then suddenly he was gone forever. He can’t see

everything good I have done, from dancing to getting my first job,” his daughter said in a statement. “I feel a great loneliness … a terrible yearning to hug him again,” said his brother. McIntosh was previously acquitted of charges that he shot and killed Sarah Wierstad the same evening during another robbery and burglary in

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Top-notch location, amenities come standard at The Lakes Residences — for those willing to pay By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

ew rental properties in the Twin Cities can compete with the amenities and finishes at The Lakes Residences. Arguably none can compete with the location. For about $2,300–$14,600 a month, residents get a building with views of Lake Calhoun, Lake of the Isles and the Downtown skyline and amenities such as black walnut hardwood floors, coffered ceilings and floor-toceiling windows in each unit. The eight-floor, 90-unit building, located at 2622 W. Lake St. in the Cedar-Isles-

Dean neighborhood, also features an outdoor pool, an outdoor terrace with an unobstructed view of Lake Calhoun, on-site maintenance staff and a concierge. “The amount of thought and detail that went into developing this asset, I think they’ve crossed every T and dotted every I,” said Robby Mailatyar, senior director of real estate for Greystar, the firm that owns and developed the building. “It’s that next level of living in this city.” The Lakes opened this past October and was 55-percent leased as of March 30, Mailatyar said. He said

he expects the property to be leased up this summer. “For 90 units, we’re on track,” Mailatyar said. He said the property is generating interest from people from all demographics and locations. People are looking for the flexibility that renting provides, he said, and The Lakes offers that with a luxury product. He said the spacious floor plans differentiate The Lakes from other apartment buildings. The units are 1,628 square feet on average and go to nearly 4,000 square feet in the penthouses. SEE THE LAKE RESIDENCES / PAGE B7

An entrance into luxury: The first floor at The Lakes Residences has a business center, conference room and concierge desk. Photos courtesy of Greystar

Kitchens at The Lakes Residences come standard with quartz countertops, Shaker-style cabinetry and stainless steel appliances.

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New life for La Belle Vie space The Kenwood’s Don Saunders is cooking up private dining rooms and a neighborhood lounge 510 Lounge & Private Dining will feature new design and color touches from owner Don Saunders.

Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

hen La Belle Vie, the state’s top fine dining institution for nearly two decades, closed in 2015, many were dumbfounded. Don Saunders, however, had an idea. What Saunders, the chef and owner behind The Kenwood, didn’t have was the time and

Don Saunders and his team are keeping much of 510 Groveland intact but plan some modern renovations. Submitted photos

energy to open a full-service restaurant. Saunders rented out a private dining room in the celebrated restaurant when he got married and dropped by the lounge several times over the years. So when a resident group with the 510 Groveland building approached Saunders about taking over the space, he knew exactly what to do, and 510 Lounge & Private Dining was born. “It popped in my head — not that I would go after the space, but whoever did — that it would be really smart to do private dining only in the formal dining room and keep the lounge,” he said. “It’s funny how it all came about because I had that thought instantaneously.” The private-dining establishment will do much of what The Kenwood, a seasonal, European-minded restaurant in the eponymous neighborhood, can’t. Saunders said he gets many requests from wedding parties and others looking to rent out the entire restaurant, but he can rarely risk turning away regulars. The Kenwood also doesn’t have a full bar or lounge, but the space under La Belle Vie had a reputation with locals. So while 510’s dining room will be private, the lounge will be open for shareable plates and cocktails. “People really talk about the lounge space being really missed. People just die over the space,” he said.

The space, once home to 510 Restaurant before it was La Belle Vie, will see more modern touches as 510 Lounge & Private Dining. While they won’t touch the crown molding or terrazzo floors, Saunders said, they are, for example, painting the walls a monochromatic gray. “When you go into a space with the reputation La Belle Vie had, you want to make it your own. We’re definitely adding quite a bit of color and pattern,” he said. The space’s two dining rooms will seat about 64 and 48 for a total of 112 people. Under 510, the lounge will fit a bit more than La Belle Vie with seating for about 65. In the private dining rooms the menu will be seasonal and flexible, Saunders said. Parties will have the option of tasting menus with five to nine courses, platters and more. The lounge’s menu focuses on small, shareable dishes. It will have five sections, including caviar, oysters, cheese, charcuterie and another for other items like steamed mussels, grilled sardines and white bean hummus. Saunders has brought on DJ Keenan as head chef and Meg Alm as chef de cuisine. Knowing that the two previous restaurants in the space garnered accolades, Saunders said he hopes the quality of service and the food will be at the same level of his predecessors.

“I just look at that as something to carry on basically. It’s a challenge, but one that I certainly welcome,” he said. The full bar at 510 will expand on the wine and beer program at The Kenwood. While Saunders will only be conceptually involved in the cocktail program — he hasn’t had a drink in several years, he said — it will include a few signature seasonal cocktails from the mind of general manager Peter Beard, as well as classic drinks. “We want to be the place that makes the best old-school old-fashioned [and] the best oldschool sidecar,” he said. “Hopefully this place will be a complement to what we’re doing at The Kenwood.” While it was “crickets for weeks” following Saunders’ announcement that we was going to take over the 510 Groveland space last fall, there are been an influx of attention recently, he said. Saunders has already received several inquiries to book the space, from weddings — from rehearsal dinners to receptions — to wine groups. Readers can make reservations with Aaron Dahl, private dining coordinator, at privatedining@510mpls.com. Saunders said he expects to open 510 Lounge & Private Dining by this July.

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Since moving to Minneapolis in 2010, the American Craft Council has reinvented itself

American Craft Council staff members in their booth at an American Craft Show. Submitted photos

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

hen the American Craft Council fled the high rents of Manhattan for lower cost, art-friendly Northeast Minneapolis in 2010, in the throes of the Great Recession, it was the start of a reinvention for the organization, which was then almost 70 years old. Not one member of the New York City staff came along for the ride, so when the ACC opened its new headquarters in the Grain Belt Brew House, an historic yellow-brick building at the foot of the Broadway Avenue Bridge, the second-floor offices were soon filled with 18 new employees from the Twin Cities business, nonprofit, media and arts communities. “When we all came from our different backgrounds,” recalled Pamela Diamond, an entrepreneur who became ACC’s director of marketing and communications, “the first thing we all did (was say), ‘We have a 70-year-old startup, here. Let’s have fun.” ACC is currently celebrating 75 years since its founding, and in March, as staff prepared for the annual American Craft Show in St. Paul

When we all came from our different backgrounds, the first thing we all did (was say), ‘We have a 70-year-old startup, here. Let’s have fun.’ — Pamela Diamond, ACC’s director of marketing and communications

American Craft Council moved into the Grain Belt Brew House in 2010.

— returning to RiverCentre April 7–9, with an April 6 preview party — they also reflected on what has changed since the move to Minneapolis. It’s been almost seven years since they “hit the reset button,” as Executive Director Chris Amundsen put it. Amundsen said the cost savings realized in the move allowed the organization to reinvest in its programming and take on “the graying of the field,” one of the major challenges then faced by ACC. “The artists are getting older, the audience is getting older,” he said. “How do you start to reinvigorate that? Because craft is very central to many people’s lives, and the lifestyle of craft really does talk to many different age groups and many different cultures across our country.” At that time, the world of craft was already undergoing a significant shift. Websites like Etsy helped artists reach new audiences online, while at the same time “craft” became a marketing buzzword. National pizza chains were suddenly touting their “artisan” pies, and heritage clothing brands were on their way

from boutiques to department stores. Craft was entering a renaissance. It was in this environment that Monica Moses, formerly the Star Tribune’s executive director of product innovation, took over as editor in chief of American Craft. The bimonthly magazine had been, under some of its previous editors, a bit snooty; it was the kind of publication that would drop a reference to the 19th-century art critic John Ruskin without any explanation, Moses said. “It was kind of an insider’s magazine, I think, and I’m this compulsive populist, so I wanted to open it up to the world,” she said. It worked. Circulation among subscribers and ACC members jumped 25 percent three or four years into Moses’ tenure, and American Craft has twice taken home the award for the best nonprofit magazine in its category the national Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards competition. At the same time, ACC’s new Minneapolis crew set out to refresh the American Craft Shows, which each year attract an estimated 45,000 shoppers and browsers to temporary marketplaces in San Francisco, Atlanta, Baltimore (the big one) and St. Paul. In an attempt to draw in new and younger audiences, they introduced new programming to make the shows “more experiential,” as Diamond put it. First came Make Room, a program that invites local interior designers in each of the four cities to create room vignettes that incorporate craft show goods, helping visitors to imagine the home decor objects in a modern home setting. Home decor was a segment of the craft shows that had tapered off over the years, in part because the wares are difficult and often costly to transport. As artists making decorative objects sat out, the shows tipped in favor of jewelry and wearable fashion. But the introduction of Make Room helped the shows to regain their equilibrium, Diamond said. This year, the Make Room program at the St. Paul ACC show includes several Minneapolis designers, each decorating their space with a specific decade in mind: Ashley Schultzetenberg (the ’90s), Victoria Sass (the ’70s) and the team of Aimee Lagos and Christiana Coop (taking on the 2010s). Joining them are Neal Kielar and John Mehus of MidModMen Studio in St. Paul who, playing to their strengths, have chosen the ’60s for their design inspiration. Another new program introduced since the organization’s move to Minneapolis, Hip Pop, was intended to give emerging artists an easy way to test out the craft shows before hopping onto the ACC circuit full time. Hip Hop gives those new-to-ACC artists — often young, but not always — a lower-cost entry into the shows,

where they share a booth with other emerging craftspeople and learn the ropes of selling to craft show customers. “It helps these artists get in front of an established audience that knows what they’re looking at and build a market,” Diamond said. “And it’s teaching you not only to know how to make a beautiful object. You need to figure out how to merchandize it, you need to talk to people, you need to be on social media a couple of times a day, you need to be putting your marketing materials together.” Many early Hip Pop participants, including Minneapolis jewelry maker Betty Jaeger, have since graduated into their own spaces at the craft show in St. Paul and even travel to the other shows on the ACC circuit. Other American Craft Show programs introduced in recent years include Style Slam, which invites local stylists to work with the jewelry and clothing sold on the exhibition floor, and Let’s Make, ACC’s name for the maker-led experiential learning stations that give showgoers a feel for the skill and labor that go into craft. Diamond said people who understand craft means quality and authenticity are more likely to consider it an investment — something worth displaying in their homes, or wearing on a finger, for a long time. “I think American craft has really just started to reestablish itself,” Amundson said. “People are starting to understand what craft is. It’s not Popsicle sticks and glitter glue. It is something that is fine art.”

Hand-blown glass art by Minnesota artist Fred Kaemmer, an American Craft Council member.

IF YOU GO: What: American Craft Show in St. Paul When: April 7–9. Preview party is 6 p.m.–9 p.m. April 6. Where: St. Paul RiverCentre, 174 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul Info: One-day passes are $11. Tickets to the preview party start at $75 in advance or $85 at the door. craftcouncil.org

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The high-flying

DUDLEY RIGGS In a new memoir, the Brave New Workshop founder writes about his life before improv

Essentially, the memoir is trying to explain what I was doing before I came here. All the people I know are familiar with the work I was doing at Brave New Workshop, but they never had any idea how I happened to show up here. — Dudley Riggs

Dudley Riggs, 85, still shows up for just about every opening night at his namesake sketch and improv theater, founded in 1958. Submitted photo

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

est known in Minneapolis as the founder of the Brave New Workshop, Dudley Riggs’ show-business career actually began decades before he opened the long-running sketch and improv comedy theater in 1958. By age 8, Riggs had already performed on the vaudeville stage and under the circus big top, making his debut as a toddler carted around the ring by a miniature horse. Part of a multigenerational circus family, he would eventually join his parents — the aerialist duo Riggs and Riggs — on the trapeze. Riggs lived through three eventful decades before opening Dudley Riggs’ Cafe Espresso in Minneapolis, organizing in that space the early improv performances that would evolve into Brave New Workshop. It’s that first, long chapter of his life the Riggs covers in his new memoir, “Flying Funny: My Life Without a Net.”

Riggs, 85, recently sat down for a conversation about his new book in the East Town condominium he shares with his wife, Pauline Boss, an author, therapist and University of Minnesota professor emeritus. This interview has been edited and condensed.

Southwest Journal: You were born into a circus family and you traveled the world as a performer. You’ve led this incredibly interesting life. People must have been telling you for years to write a memoir; how and when did you decide to do it? Riggs: I supposed in a way I’ve been blocked

for quite a while. The stories, I would keep bringing them up. I was almost embarrassed by the idea that people would say, “Oh, you’re

writing a book, are you going to include this?” And it became quite large. There was more book there than I was contemplating. Fortunately, Ron Hubbard wrote a history of the Brave New Workshop (published in

Riggs’ new University of Minnesota Press memoir covers his life before the Brave New Workshop.

2015) and (Riggs’ collaborator, the late journalist and comedy writer) Irv Letofsky wrote a history of one phase of it. And I thought, well now, they’ve covered a lot of ground that had been sort of holding me up. Essentially, the memoir is trying to explain what I was doing before I came here. All the people I know are familiar with the work I was doing at Brave New Workshop, but they never had any idea how I happened to show up here.

There’s this amazing scene in the book where you’re in New York City for the 1939 World’s Fair and you watch your dad perform a handstand on the edge of the Empire State Building — then the tallest building in the world — in front of a group of newspaper photographers. When did you realize your childhood was unusual? It took quite a while. In fact, maybe only in later age have I given that much thought. It seemed to me that what we were doing was the family business. I’ve often said, if I had been born on the farm I probably would’ve been helping with the milking. That was our reason to exist, to be able to entertain the public and to do that in a particular family tradition that was pretty well set by the time I came along.

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A holiday card showing Riggs’ juggling mirror act. Photo courtesy of Dudley Riggs

University, Mankato). The idea wasn’t very well formed yet, but I did make some effort to expand the idea. I pulled some of my fellow students into it and discovered for the most part they didn’t want anything to do with that idea. They were too busy memorizing lines and designing sets and so forth. Initially, I think, people said it’s a crazy idea, let’s get on with rehearsal. So, after pushing that for a while I encountered some people who were very open to it. Then it started to grow. It started to cook. Riggs’ parents in a promotional photo that had to be plucked from the mud after a tornado destroyed the family home. Photo courtesy Dudley Riggs

You grew out of your family’s trapeze act essentially because you were too tall. Would your life have been different if you were shorter? I suspect so, or I would have had to choose a different specialty. For a few years I was really trying to find the niche within the circus that I wanted to be in. Our family, we always kept trying to add another offering, another act that we could sell to the agents. There were some I never succeeded in getting (into the circus). I had the thought that a flying act (set) to classical music should have a theme and that we could tell a story with that. That was pretty much scorned by management. They were all pretty much based on the idea of a segmented, revue-type format, and

they weren’t very open to something that might have more continuity to it.

You write about the various influences that shaped your version of improvisatory theater: a story game your family played on the road, the Freudian concept of “free association,” jazz and the kind of ad lib survival tactics that stage performers use to control an unruly audience. How did these various ideas begin to coalesce with you? I started floating the idea of free-association performing, I started talking that up, when I was first in college in Mankato (at Mankato State Teachers College, now Minnesota State

You were one of several people who, in the middle of the last century, pioneered this type of performance. Today, we have Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City, Brave New Workshop and many others. There’s more than one improvisatory theater company in Minneapolis alone. Could you ever have imagined that? No, I was quite surprised. Well, I shouldn’t say I was surprised. I could sort of tell that was the direction it was going. It’s the same way when a certain strain of music gets going, it starts expanding. Early on, I met Bernie Sahlins of Second City. At that point I had been running for about five years in Minneapolis, and he came to town to see our show. We were sitting around talking: maybe we should do a convention of improv theater. And so, we were thinking, who’s on the list? At that point it was The Committee in San

Francisco, Second City, a troupe in New York and us. Four groups do not a convention make.

Your book’s foreword was written by Al Franken, one of many talented performers whose lives intersected at some point with Dudley Riggs’ Brave New Workshop. You’re in your eighth decade of life, and I wonder if you think about your legacy at this point? I’ve been quite pleased by how strong the theater is continuing. Not everybody leaves the theater and looks back fondly. This is working and continuing. That has created a legacy, if you will. The first 250 shows are all over in the library and are available for anyone who wants to ever research the material. (Acquired in 2012 by the University of Minnesota, the Brave New Workshop materials are in the school’s Performing Arts Archive.) I had kept it around for years thinking I was going to go through that. They’ve done a lot of things (at the Brave New Workshop) in recent times I had always sort of hoped to do. They’ve improved on it, but they’ve kept the structure, and that I feel good about. I can go to the openings and feel good about where it’s at and remember I don’t have to do payroll.

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Kenwood and Cedar-Isles-Dean

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KENWOOD AND CEDAR-ISLES-DEAN Both Cedar-Isles-Dean and its neighbor to the northeast, Kenwood, are largely residential neighborhoods on the northern end of Minneapolis’ Chain of Lakes. Water influences the shape of both neighborhoods, which are hemmedin by Cedar Lake, Lake Calhoun and Lake of the Isles. Neighborhood streets curve following the contours of the nearby shorelines. Although the shoreline is technically parkland, Cedar-Isles-Dean is home to the handful of private residences in Minneapolis with lawns that stretch to the lakeshore. The lakes are what draw many visitors to the neighborhoods. The channel connecting Cedar Lake to Lake of the Isles forms part of the border between the two, and both neighborhoods boast popular beaches on Cedar Lake. The Kenilworth Corridor, identified as the future home of Southwest Light Rail, currently holds both a freight rail line and popular bicycle and pedestrian paths. Cedar Lake Trail isn’t just for recreation; it’s a major non-motorized commuter corridor, making it possible to pedal from the western suburbs to a job in downtown Minneapolis or vice versa. Cedar-Isles-Dean is home to tiny Park Siding Park, a name chosen in the mid-1920s when the property was a spur off of the nearby railroad line, otherwise known as a siding. Around that time, as the Park Board was paving nearby parkways and boulevards, the site was used to store road-building equipment. A renovation in 1997, partially funded by the Cedar-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association, won the 1.36-acre park a design award from the Committee on Urban Environment, a city board dissolved in 2008. While Kenwood has a small commercial district — featuring The Kenwood, Birchbark Books, ARTrageous Advenutres and other businesses — CedarIsles-Dean’s major shopping draw is the Calhoun Village Shopping Center, with a Barnes & Noble and Rustica Bakery outlet, among other shops.

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Boundaries: Cedar-Isles-Dean is bounded by Lake Street on the south, France Avenue on the west and Knox Avenue on the East. The northern border starts at West 24th Street, continues east to the railroad corridor, drops down to the Cedar-Isles Channel and there turns east again, meeting the eastern border in the middle of Lake of the Isles. Kenwood’s borders touch Cedar Lake on the west, Lake of the Isles on the east and the canal that runs between them on the south. The neighborhood’s territory runs north along Kenwood Parkway up to Morgan Avenue South. Demographics: Cedar-Isles-Dean had a population of 2,984 in 2015, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures compiled by Minnesota Compass. The Kenwood neighborhood’s population was 1,512. The median household income in 2015 was $118,750 for both neighborhoods.

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Get involved: The Cedar-Isles-Dean Neighborhood Association meets at 6 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the Jones-Harrison Residence, 3700 Cedar Lake Ave. The Kenwood Isles Area Association meets 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. on the first Monday of each month (except for August) at the Kenwood Recreation Center, 2101 W. Franklin Ave. —Dylan Thomas

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“You can’t find that anywhere from a leasing standpoint,” Mailatyar said. Mailatyar said this type of luxury apartment is a new product type nationally. Greystar is starting to replicate it in other places, he said, noting similar models in Austin, Texas, and Denver. He said everything at The Lakes was completed to the highest level and that Greystar wanted to create a “wow factor” with the building. “We make experiences at this asset,” he said. “From the move-in experience to maintenance coming in to work on something, we’re going beyond the expectation of that resident.” Average rent at the building is $4,800, Mailatyar said. One-bedroom apartments start at $2,260 a month and two-bedroom apartments start at $3,990 a month, according to The Lakes' website. The five penthouse units, which have two bedrooms apiece, range from $9,349 to $14,603 a month. Two are available, according to the website. The penthouses come with a separate wet bar area, fireplaces, a full-size study with built-in shelving, a separate water-closet area in the master baths and more. Community amenities include a guest suite and a resident clubroom with a kitchen as well as grills on the rooftop terrace, a fitness center and a petgrooming dog spa. Mary Bujold, president of Maxfield Research & Consulting, said that in the Twin Cities, only a few units in Downtown Minneapolis rent for more than units at The Lakes, and those are usually penthouse units. Bujold said a building such as The Lakes is probably weighted a little more heavily to empty nesters and people in middle age. “A lot of the features in the units are things you would find in a single-family home — a nice single-family home I should say,” she said. She said she is seeing more people 55 and

We make experiences at this asset. From the move-in experience to maintenance coming in to work on something, we’re going beyond the expectation of that resident. — Robby Mailatyar, senior director of real estate for Greystar

Neighborhood Spotlight. Kenwood and Cedar-Isles-Dean

The kitchens at The Lakes feature chef islands or peninsulas with extended surfaces to accommodate counter seating. Other features include pendant light fixtures, floor-to-ceiling windows and recessed lighting. Photos courtesy of Greystar

older deciding they don’t want to own homes anymore. People want to travel more, she said, and they don’t want to deal with the upkeep and maintenance of a single-family home. “When they’re not working, they want more leisure time and more flexibility,” she said. “... When you own a home and want to go somewhere for two or three months, you have to find someone to take care of it.” Every place in the Twin Cities has a pretty low vacancy rate, Bujold said, but Southwest Minneapolis is “very low” at 1.8 percent, according to fourth quarter 2016 data. She said The Lakes’ 55-percent leasing rate was very good. Gina Dingman, president of NAI Everest, a commercial real estate firm, said The Lakes has arguably the nicest amenities in Minneapolis. “You really couldn’t ask for much more in an apartment building,” she said. “It’s not surprising that it’s leasing up well.” She said she expects there will be more of these boutique-luxury buildings built in Minneapolis. The Twin Cities market has seen more units than normal come online in the past few years, Dingman said. The metro averaged about 1,200 units delivered a year from 2000

to 2012 but has averaged 3,000–5,000 units a year since. The metro-wide vacancy rate has stayed at 3 percent or below despite the increased construction, she said.

“I think that we’re seeing continued strength in the number of units that can be absorbed,” Dingman said. “The renter pool is just deeper than most people thought it was.”

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Neighborhood Spotlight. Kenwood and Cedar-Isles-Dean

Pia Phillips (l) and Abbie Nelson, the teenage co-founders of PAB’S PACKS, plan to give away 1,500 backpacks to chronically ill children this year. Submitted photo

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KENWOOD NONPROFIT PACKS COMFORT FOR CHRONICALLY ILL YOUTH By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Pia Phillips was 14 years old when she first underwent chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2014. Pia remembers sitting in a Children’s Hospital room surrounded by four blankets, 10 stuffed animals and five coloring books. She decided to take a walk, and noticed another young cancer patient across the hall. “The room was dark, he looked my age and had no one there,” she said. Pia found a basket and filled it with an extra blanket, a stuffed owl and a coloring book, and asked a nurse to deliver it to the boy. “She said he just glowed up,” she said. Pia and her best friend, Abbie Nelson, are now giving away blankets and other comfort items on a larger scale. As part of PAB’S PACKS (P is for Pia, AB is for Abbie) they distributed 1,000 backpacks last year at children’s hospitals and camps for chronically ill children. Under a new partnership with Love Your Melon, they plan to give away 1,500 backpacks in 2017. Both Kenwood residents, Pia and Abbie have been best friends since age four. Both understand what it’s like to be a kid in a hospital. Abbie was diagnosed in 2013 with Type I diabetes at age 13. The following year, Pia was diagnosed at age 14 with Stage

We had moments where we felt lonely. And we had moments where we were nervous and scared and didn’t know what was going to happen next. I think everyone goes through that no matter if they have support or not. … We wanted to help kids realize that they’re not alone. — Abbie Nelson, co-founder of PAB’S PACKS

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“We had moments where we felt lonely, and we had moments where we were nervous and scared and didn’t know what was going to happen next,” Abbie said. “I think everyone goes through that no matter if they have support or not. … We wanted to help kids realize that they’re not alone.” Abbie’s mom, Martha Dayton, said that for many children with lengthy hospital stays, parents must work throughout the hospitalization to cover the health care costs. “I think that’s part of what they were noticing too, is during the day these kids are all by themselves,” Dayton said. The girls stuff backpacks with heartshaped stress balls (a favorite of Pia’s), lip balm, lotion, blankets and a stuffed penguin called Pabby that’s available to young siblings as well. They also include a notebook — Abbie always kept a notebook with questions for her doctor. During packing events, kids and workers write notes to the children. “They’re really fun to open when you’re sitting in a hospital room,” Abbie said. She said they’re taking the program a step further by providing an avenue for chronically ill teens to support each other. Five kids ages 11–18 who previously received

backpacks help distribute the packs. “A lot of times, we’re the first [chronically ill] kid that they’ve met,” she said. Backpack recipient Natalie Tryon loved her pack so much she started “Blessings for the Blank,” which gives blankets, games, pajamas and Barbies to kids at Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines. She provided gifts for 600 kids last year and plans to reach more than 1,000 this year. Abbie will live with diabetes the rest of her life, but she said PAB’S PACKS helped her find good in the experience. “To realize that two teenage girls can do it together is super fun too,” she said. Pia is in remission and said she’s feeling great. “A lot of people say the kids probably feel so amazing after they get a pack, but in reality we benefit just as much,” she said. “After a handout — I can’t even describe it. You feel so good with yourself, just happy, filled up with happiness.” Visit pabspacks.org for more information, or find the PAB'S PACKS on Instagram: @pabspacks.

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From around the world to a theater near you The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival returns this month with a focus on diversity in international filmmaking By Jahna Peloquin

or 36 years running, the MinneapolisSt. Paul International Film Festival has brought the best new cinema in the world to Minnesota’s doorstep. More than 70 countries are represented in this

year’s lineup of independent and international films curated by the MSP Film Society, with offerings spanning Oscar submissions to sleeper hits. This year’s festival emphasizes diversity, spotlighting a wide range of LGBTQ films, films by

Opening Night Presentation: “The Lost City of Z” This American action-adventure film is inspired by the true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett and his attempts to find an ancient lost city in the Amazon before disappearing on an expedition. Based on David Grann’s novel of the same name, the acclaimed film features some major marquee names, including Charlie Hunnam as Fawcett, Sienna Miller as his wife Nina and Robert Pattinson as fellow explorer Henry Costin. Director James Gray will be present for the screening, which will be followed by an opening night party at Jefe Urban Hacienda.

Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE When: Thursday, April 13 at 7:20 p.m. Cost: $60 for film and party ($45 for MSP Film Society members)

“Black Cinema: Under the Skin” Funded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “Black Cinema: Under the Skin” is a special selection of new films by black and African filmmakers that explores black culture and experience. The collection of seven feature films and four short films includes the crime thriller “Wùlu,” the acclaimed debut film by MalianFrench director Daouda Coulibaly and “Whose Streets?”, a documentary made in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s killing by St. Louis police and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE and Capri Theater, 2027 W. Broadway Ave. When: Various times Cost: $13 general admission, $6 early bird, $11 MSP Film Society members, $8 kids and students

women filmmakers, black cinema and documentaries highlighting global shifts in populations, politics, identity and social change. The 2017 festival runs April 13–29, with screenings at St. Anthony Main Theatre,

Uptown Theatre and the Capri Theater in Minneapolis and Metropolitan State University’s Film Space in St. Paul. For more on the festival’s films, go to mspfilm.org/mspiff.

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A new addition to this year’s MSPIFF lineup is an exhibition of nine virtual and augmented reality projects. While primarily associated with gaming, this new technology has recently been utilized by artists and filmmakers to create participatory cinematic experiences, with subjects ranging from a 360-degree interactive dance experience set to David Bowie’s song “Heroes” to the chance to virtually walk a plank 80 stories above the ground.

This series aimed at moviegoers of all ages includes seven feature films and a program of short films culled from around the world, including France, Germany, South Korea, Vietnam and the Netherlands. A highlight is “Kojo,” a short documentary about 12-year-old jazz drummer Kojo Odu Roney, winner of the “Most Remarkable Young Person on Screen” at the 2016 Harlem International Film Festival.

Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE When: Friday, April 21, 5 p.m.–7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23, 1 p.m.–9 p.m.; Monday, April 24, 4 p.m.–9 p.m.; Tuesday, April 25, 4 p.m.–8 p.m. Cost: Free

Minnesota Cinematic Arts Award: Sarah Pillsbury Oscar-winning producer Sarah Pillsbury is being honored with MSPIFF’s first Minnesota Cinematic Arts Award for her contributions in film. The Minnesota-born filmmaker will be on hand for screenings of her films “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “River’s Edge” and “And the Band Played On,” as well as for a panel discussion in which she’ll discuss her career beginnings, current endeavors and the importance of film today.

Where: Screenings at St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE; discussion at A-Mill Artist Lofts, 315 Main St. SE When: Screenings at various times; discussion is Saturday, April 22 at 3 p.m. Cost: $13 general admission, $11 MSP Film Society members, $8 kids and students for screenings; free discussion

Where: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE When: Various times Cost: $13 general admission, $11 MSP Film Society members, $8 kids and students

“The Gateway Bug” screening and banquet By 2050, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has warned, current global food production needs to double in order to sustain the growing world population. This documentary offers a unique solution to the coming crisis: Eat crickets. The film’s stars, including celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern, and its filmmakers will preside over the film’s Minnesota premiere, followed by a four-course insect-tasting event paired with wine at Gyst Fermentation Bar.

Where: Screening at St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main St. SE; dinner at Gyst Fermentation Bar, 25 E. 26th St. When: Saturday, April 22 with 5 p.m. screening, 8 p.m. dinner Cost: $13 general admission, $11 MSP Film Society members, $8 kids and students for screening only; $55 for film and dinner

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Creative Class

By Susan Schaefer

Walls

Bridges

— opening the creative process

The Third Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River. Photo by Susan Schaefer

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.

alls are much in the news ever since the Big Cheeto bagged his latest real estate conquest at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The Big Orange One has diverted focus onto a wall of drastic exclusion — a wall as a barrier. Of course, walls aren’t intrinsically bad. They have been fundamental structures offering support and protection since humans first figured out how to construct abodes outside of caves. Bridges, however, always connote connections. Of the two structures, they own the better rep. Creative Class’ March column examined the art of bringing down walls and building bridges to essential arts funding that has earned our region a lofty place as a national creative mecca. Such bridge building has been accomplished through the unique cooperation between legislators and lobbyists working together with grassroots artist activists in our state. April seems a perfect time to explore the walls and bridges of creativity itself.

Walls and creativity Wall idioms are often used in reference to the creative process, as in “to hit a wall” or to feel “walled in,” both signaling blocks and barriers to the free flow of inspiration and ideation. Another wall argot touches on everyday individuals being “walled out” of the creative process — as if creativity is gift of birth or a DNA-imbued trait. The world-renowned Hungarian author and distinguished professor, with the tongue-twisting name of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (Mee-hahal-yee Chick-sent-mee-hahal-yee), is a creative thinker who has gained recognition for addressing “the psychology of discovery and invention.” Well before I came across his internationally acclaimed 1990 bible on creativity, “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,” I had biand dissected his mind-smacking 1994 tome, “The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium.” His works stay fresh, vital and are a worthwhile read for anyone seeking a better understanding of innovation. Csíkszentmihályi describes the spark that I call the “almost holy drive to create” in the recurring preface to this column as “flow,” meaning to be “completely involved in an activity for its own sake.” He asserts certain individuals do indeed possess authentic autotelic personalities —“performing acts because

they are intrinsically rewarding, rather than to achieve external goals.” And yes, these are some of the artists whose efforts stoke our infamous Creative Vitality Index. According to Csíkszentmihályi, when such creators are immersed in this peak moment, “The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one … [their] whole being is involved,” and they use their skills to the utmost. This flow, this trajectory towards creation, is a component in almost each author, photographer, painter, dancer, sculpture, director, actor and other member of the creative class. But is the creative class an exclusive club? Is creativity limited to individuals with a certain psychological temperament? Is there an actual creative personality? Is it possible for anyone to flex innovative muscles? And what happens to artists in fields that require high creative output when the imaginative consciousness grinds to halt or hits a wall? Let’s take the latter question first: What is a wall in creative process? Csíkszentmihályi identifies that wall, that blockage, as a fundamental part of the entire process. He insists it’s necessary, that by breaking the wall artists pass through a stage he calls arousal, a sexually charged term that comes just before that peak experience of flow. Csíkszentmihályi designed an elegant “flow model” with components lined up along an axis where one edge represents “challenge” and the intersecting side “skill.” To achieve true creative flow, a balance must be struck between a high level of challenge and skill. But, even highly skilled creatives encounter worry and anxiety that can cause a block. Breaking these barriers allows flow. Like many sister creatives, I frequently hit walls and seek ways to unplug — ways to spark my imagination anew. For me a few techniques work. Photography allows a different type of creative chemistry to percolate for me than writing does. The verbal and visual storytelling gel nicely — one informing the other releasing my creative juices.

Crossing bridges Another flow exercise I engage in is merging meditation, photography and walking. A few years back I took a workshop at Philadelphia’s Shambhala Center in the healing art of Miksang

Photography. Miksang is a Tibetan word meaning “good eye” and represents a form of photography practice based on the dharma art teachings where the eye is synchronized with the contemplative mind. This intentional harmony provides powerful inspiration. To this essential centering practice I’ve added a signature element — I seek the many bridges, monumental and hidden, that dot my chosen walking trail along the Mississippi River. Combining the meditative state with walking, crossing, observing then photographing bridges frees my inspirational being. Even on a merciless day this custom lifts the mists. Another bridge worth crossing is immersion in learning. Workshops and classes have many benefits, from honing and brushing up old talents to learning and developing new ones to sharing peer experiences, maybe even forging a new creative community. Individual tutoring and classroom and retreat explorations can shake out the cobwebs formed by the sometimes too solitary nature of creation. Crossing this bridge begets new ideas and stimulates imagination. Best of all, it’s open to everyone. I’m a lifelong student. I take classes at the Loft, am a registered continuing education student in the University of Minnesota’s Fine Art Department and just last weekend I steeped myself in a workshop with a national treasure, the poet, essayist, novelist and writing coach, Deena Metzger, who was in town to launch her new book, “A Rain of Night Birds,” at a reading event hosted by Kenwood’s Birchbark Books. In a world where the small and the independent are rapidly fading, both Metzger and Birchbark are fiercely and lovingly independent, offering creative outlets for works that often escape the commercially dominant world of corporate writing and corporate chain stores. Birchbark is one of many metro locations that offer opportunities to learn and grow. Membership in the creative class is not at all exclusionary. Almost anyone can learn a creative skill. All you need to do is cross that bridge.

BE BRAVE, BE BOLD — HELP EXPAND THE CREATIVE CLASS Our metro area is blessed with learning opportunities. Spring is the perfect time of renewal and new beginnings. Here is a partial list to start your journey: College Of Continuing Education, University of Minnesota, cce.umn.edu Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Continuing Education, minneapolis.edu MCAD Continuing Education, mcad.edu The Art Academy, theartacademy.net Edina Art Center, edinamn.gov Minneapolis Photo Center, mplsphotocenter.com Independent Filmmaker Project, ifpn.org National Camera Exchange, natcam.com Fired Up Studios, firedupstudios.com Northern Clay Center, northernclaycenter.org The Loft Literary Center, loft.org Center for Writing, writing.umn.edu The Minneapolis Writers Workshop, mnwriters.org Minnesota Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, minnesotascbwi.org The Guthrie Theater, guthrietheater. org/education/_adults Brave New Workshop, bravenewworkshop.com/ studentunion/ Harmony Theatre Company and School, harmonytheatre.org Minneapolis Performing Arts Center, mplspac.com MacPhail Center for Music, macphail.org Schmitt Music Company, schmittmusic.com McNally Smith College of Music, mcnallysmith.edu

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

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Ghee: One trend you don’t want to miss

uinoa, spirulina, kombucha — with all the super foods and food fads floating around these days, you may or may not have noticed ghee on the shelves. Ghee (rhymes with “we”) is a type of clarified butter and is not a fad, but rather a food with ancient roots in Indian, South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine (to name a few). Ghee is made by simmering butter, removing the solid impurities that are a natural part of the cream and then saving the resulting liquid fat. Ghee has a nutty and buttery flavor and is commonly used the same way as oils in sauces, curries and other forms of cooking. It has a high smoke point, so it is ideal for searing meat and fish, too. Ghee also boasts several health benefits.

It has lower levels of lactose than butter, making it more easily digestible for people with dairy sensitivities. It also contains high levels of vitamins A and D and butyric acid, which are said to aid immune health and inflammation. Additionally, ghee is often seen as an ingredient in many indigenous medical traditions. If you’re looking for a local brand of ghee, you’ll find it at Gorkha Palace. Gorkha Palace is Minneapolis’ premier Nepali, Indian and Tibetan restaurant located in the heart of Northeast and named after an ancient historic palace that sits atop a hill in Nepal. In addition to momo dumplings, seasonal curries, mango lassi and flavorful chutneys, they sell their house-made ghee at the Mill City Farmers Market. Gorkha Palace owner Rashmi Bhattachan

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grew up in the mountainous city of Pokhara, Nepal. Bhattachan is passionate about farmto-table cooking and loves to share the culinary delights that she learned from her grandmothers with the community. Rashmi continuously supports the Mill City Farmers Market’s tradition of promoting local farms, organic and fresh high-quality ingredients. In fact, Rashmi opened her

minutes. Next, add the tomatoes and cook for 2 minutes. Add one cup of water. Cook for ten minutes on medium low heat, stirring frequently. Add the mushrooms and continue cooking on medium low heat for another ten minutes. Add more spices and salt if desired. Serve over rice with chopped cilantro and green onions to garnish. Go to strongertogether.coop/recipes/ simple-beans for simple instructions for cooking dry beans from our friends at Co+op!

restaurant after receiving encouragement from Mill City Farmers Market patrons who enjoyed her products so much. You can buy ghee from Gorkha Palace at the Mill City Farmers Market’s indoor markets on April 8 and 22. The market is open 10 a.m.–1 p.m. inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St. — Jenny Heck

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W TER IS LIFE Local and international efforts recognize the life-sustaining importance of water By Mikki Morrissette

After retiring as CEO of the educational non-profit AchieveMpls, Pam Costain unexpectedly started off her free time visiting her home state of North Dakota several times during the fall and winter. Costain felt compelled to be part of the Nativeled struggle at Standing Rock to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline under the Missouri River. In mid-March, she was in Washington, D.C., as one of 5,000 marchers at the Native Nations March, chanting the Lakota phrase “mní wičhóni” — “water is life” — which has become a national protest anthem for water protectors throughout the Costain country. Costain missed being with her husband, children and grandchildren, but the long-time activist — who started out organizing as a student decades ago alongside then-future Sen. Paul Wellstone — said the availability of clean water as a resource will be something we’re fighting about soon, “because we’re not paying attention to protecting what we have had.” The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, also known as DAPL, began as a simple prayer camp. It became bigger as appeals to the corporation and state authorities were ignored and the violence of law enforcement escalated, Costain said. “All over the world, people are claiming the right to clean water and air,” she said. “Standing Rock gave people a way to express their concerns.” The effort hasn’t prevented the corporate pipeline from moving forward under the current Administration, but Standing Rock won in an unexpected way: by bringing attention to critical issues. “We never know what our action will mean,” Costain said. “Sometimes nothing. Sometimes everything.”

Giving legal rights to nature As Costain was marching with thousands in D.C., the government of New Zealand was recognizing the ancestral connection of the indigenous Maori people to the water. “Personhood” status was given to the Whanganui River, giving the river “all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” A New Zealand spokesperson said: “We can trace our genealogy to the origins of the universe. Rather than us being masters of the natural world, we are part of it. We want to live like that as our starting point. And that is not an anti-development, or anti-economic use of the river, but to begin with the view that it is a living being, and then consider its future from that central belief.” Other countries view the natural world from a similar perspective. The government of Bolivia passed laws for the “Law of the Rights of Mother Earth.” The Ecuadorian constitution recognizes the rights of nature with “respect for its existence.” Gwen Westerman, a Minnesota State University, Mankato professor and artist of Dakota ancestry, is the co-author of a book about Minnesota’s Native heritage. “For Dakota people, everything is related. Humans, animals, plants, stones, the earth, especially water,” Westerman said. “What we do to the water, we do to ourselves. That is why the people who are Water Protectors are so important right now, because they are speaking for the rivers and oceans. “Human beings are about two-thirds water, so why shouldn’t a river be declared a living thing as well? It has a life cycle, it creates life, it supports life, every other life on the planet depends upon it. Our ancestral DNA, our cell memory, carries the story of the earth and all its elements. When humans forget that, we can see the results all around us — pollution, destruction, desecration of the earth.”

Minnehaha Creek Watershed District — which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary — to help prevent floods and protect the quality of lakes, streams, and wetlands. Since then, local residents have voluntarily trained to become Master Water Stewards to help educate community members about how to reduce pollutants from stormwater runoff and allow more water to soak into the ground. Connie Pepin of Linden Hills, is one of them. “Minneapolis will have more precipitations and more heavy rain events that will challenge, and perhaps overwhelm, our current infrastructure that manages storm water,” Pepin said. High-maintenance lawns are harming water quality, she added. Pepin said she wished the city and parks system provided stronger education and incentives to reduce pollutants.

Smarter use of resources A March panel discussion at the University of Minnesota, “Achieving Sustainability in Minnesota and the World: A Science-Policy Dialogue,” featured five experts speaking about the work being done to protect water and other resources. One of the speakers was Janez Potocnik of Slovenia, co-chair of the International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), who offered this data: • We will soon need twice as much urbanized area to accommodate growing city populations; in China alone, more concrete was poured between 2011 and 2013 than in the entire U.S. during the 20th century. • The projected population in 2050 is 9.7 billion, an increase in one generation of 2.5 billion — with a doubling in the number of middle-income consumers.

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• Our inequity and waste is increasing, not even including climate change threats: 800 million are hungry, yet one-third of the food we produce is thrown away.

In 1966, a group of local residents demanded action after historic flooding, and created the

• The World Health Organization reports that air pollution kills about 7 million in a year,

with its links to heart disease and cancer. A UNEP Resource Efficiency report (resourcepanel.org) indicates that a key solution to the issues of growing population, carbon emissions, resource depletion and climate change disruptions is responsible consumption — plus smarter product design. “Everything in the economic model needs to change,” Potocnik said. For example, management bonuses should be tied to meeting long-term sustainability goals, not short-term gains. St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman spoke as a member of a consortium of those protecting the lives and work tied to the Mississippi River — a drinking water source for more than 50 cities. Coleman and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges also are part of the 638 global cities signed on to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy. The lack of national conversation in the U.S. about the challenges we face is depressing, Coleman said. He was talking about these same issues as a student at the University decades ago. But he sees hope in advancements being made because of improved product design. Energy efficient light bulbs, for example, show large-scale payback in months, not years. Minnesota Department of Health representative Tannie Eshenaur spoke about her work in state water issues. Groundwater studies reveal arsenic and radon issues. Dogs have been dying from toxic algae blooms, which will increase with warming temperatures and more intense rains. The unregulated contaminants beyond the reach of the Safe Drinking Water Act make public health vulnerable because of pesticides, personal care products and pharmaceutical. Minnesota continues to be proactive in regulating and monitoring water supply. Still, Eshenaur warned that the state’s water delivery system infrastructure is aging, with $7.4 billion needed for upgrading within 20 years. “That’s scary,” she said. Minnesotans have a strong ethic about its water, she added — and it’s time to get stronger.

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es you should give up. The ball has been in his court. At this point, chances are he’s not going to return the serve. This is because he has ghosted you, leaving you feeling haunted. Urban Dictionary defines ghosting as “The act of suddenly ceasing all communication with someone. This is done in hopes that the ghostee will just ‘get the hint’ and leave the subject alone, as opposed to the subject simply telling them he/she is no longer interested.” The severing of communication occurs with no warning and no apparent justification. Ghosting comes about abruptly and without explanation, leaving a person befuddled as to why they were left behind. It leads people to question themselves: Why did they disappear? What did I do? Often people blame themselves in the absence of a better explanation. Most people would rather be

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Attainable We

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Intuition: Redefining boundaries of mind Don’t try to comprehend it with your mind. Your mind is very limited. Use your intuition.” — Madeline L’Engle

here do humans draw the line between having a conscious life and not? As author and former theoretical physicist Peter Russell has asked, if you were performing surgery on a dog, would you put it under anesthesia first? Would you kill a fish before slicing it open for dinner? Is it having biological function that makes us conscious life forms? Single-celled organisms eat, move, and are sensitive to vibration, light and heat — does that make them conscious beings? Looked at from a different perspective, Russell asks us to consider that animals might be more conscious than humans. Dogs, for example, hear higher frequencies of sound and have a sharper sense of smell. If a dog put its energy into compare-and-contrast exercises of the mind, it might consider humans inferior in the important ways of being aware. Author and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer stated in a 2016 episode of the radio show “On Being” that we underestimate plant life. She said plants have extraordinary capacities, like photosynthesis, that humans tend to dismiss because we don’t have that ability. Yet plants are “sensing their environment, responding to their environment in incredibly sophisticated ways. The science showing that plants have capacity to learn, to have memory — we’re at the edge of a wonderful revolution in really understanding the sentience of other beings.” We humans consider ourselves to be the brightest minds in the land because we have language that enables us to put thoughts into words, share collective experience as knowledge, articulate past and future, chatter inside our own heads, identify ourselves compared to others by gender, race, politics, clothing style, weight, education, cultural experience. We also have the capacity to consider

other life forms — including animals, nature and humans that don’t look like us — as “lesser beings.” Perhaps the chatter in our heads, about what is and is not relevant, limits our ability to be more aware.

The intuitive mind Intuition has been defined as learning how to see — quickly picking up cues or patterns that show you what to do. Firefighters, detectives, pilots and athletes can reach a peak of experience that enables them to intuit beyond average perception. In science, we peer into the sky with powerful telescopes and stare inside particles with intense microscopes. We see matter increasingly well. But the mysteries of entanglement, dark energy and invisible matter remind us there is more to the universe than visible matter. To “see more,” perhaps we need to “listen better.” Kimmerer put it this way: “We know a thing when we know it not only with our physical senses, with our intellect, but also when we engage our intuitive ways of knowing.” Albert Einstein put it another way: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” For those who delve into our 3-pound compilations of brain matter, the nature of consciousness continues to be a mystery. How do we access experiences of the past as collective and personal memory, find inspiration, feel emotion, acknowledge beauty? Cognitive philosopher Daniel Dennett, though a materialist, believes there is a spectrum of consciousness: between awake and asleep, alive and dead, soul or matter. To his list I might add a spectrum of consciousness that includes quantum to cosmic.

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Telling stories in a new way Humans believe in language to make sense of the world — and laws to impose order on it. In some parts of the world, humans see nature as an equal partner rather than a subject of dominion. New Zealand and India recently granted personhood status to rivers. The decision was made to elevate the “it” of nature to a being, in order to better protect it — beyond even insuring access to clean water for humans. As one spokesperson explained the New Zealand decision, “We can trace our genealogy to the origins of the universe. And therefore rather than us being masters of the natural world, we are part of it. We want to live like that as our starting point. And that is not an anti-development or anti-

economic use of the river, but to begin with the view that it is a living being, and then consider its future from that central belief.” In Bolivia and Ecuador and among Native Americans, there is a similar perspective. From insect to cosmos, we are finding different levels of conscious life. More than brain function and data collection and sensory interpretation, the story of how the universe evolves is beyond human control and comprehension — and it might be helpful when we dial down human arrogance to listen outside the lines. Mikki Morrissette is developing the Attainable We website and book to explore the science and story of what connects us.

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Waves of grain

he history of General Mills goes back to 1866, when Cadwallader Washburn first milled wheat on the Mississippi River’s west bank. Across the river, Pillsbury’s A Mill capped its first flour barrels in 1881. But even though those mills are no longer active, flour is still a

main ingredient in our lives. New bakeries keep opening, our bakers win national and international awards, local authors write books on how to bake artisan breads with ease and donuts are on the rise again. If your household is like mine, bread doesn’t stick around long. The boules and baguettes

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seem to disappear. I don’t remember having it around our house a lot when I was a child, but my nearby grandmother always had toast with her afternoon coffee. Her sisters always served toast too. We’d go visit Great Aunt Mildred near Lake Nokomis and she’d give us peanut butter toast. It melted

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slightly on the warm bread and was delicious! One day I was driving through Plymouth and saw a bakery outlet. They use to be all over the place, but there aren’t many left. I found three in the metro area and they all have a slightly different take on being an outlet store.

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Established as a bakery in 1995, this outlet store has been open for more than 20 years! How have I missed it?! Such deals! When restaurants or grocery stores have order changes or the bread didn’t exactly turn out how the baker wanted it to, it’s put on these shelves. None of us would be able to tell the difference. Wood bakers racks and glass cases are filled with their signature baguettes plus a variety of tempting loaves, boules and batards, including cranberry wild rice, multigrain and sourdough available in regular, soft, hard or 24-hour extra sour. A case of vegan breads carries many products made without milk, eggs or honey.

Jerry’s Enterprises is the umbrella organization that owns Jerry’s Foods in Edina along with several other Country Market, Rainbow and Cub stores. They believe in baking their own breads on-site in each store — even if it’s a franchise they own. Corporate-owned stores usually bake off-premises. That’s why some bakery departments vary from store to store. Most of the products in this thrift bakery, operated by Jerry’s, have expiration dates near or on the day they reach the outlet. Expect big savings on breads here, including a whole wall of three loaves for $1.75. There are plenty of sliced breads, baguettes, jalapeno focaccia and one that my great aunts never served — sauerkraut rye bread. They also carry cakes, pies, caramel rolls, muffins, hot crossed buns, cookies, donuts and a gluten-free section. Baked goods that don’t sell are donated to food shelves.

Pan-O-Gold bakes products under the brands Country Hearth, Village Hearth and their newer line, Artisan Hearth. Leaving the St. Cloud bakery very early in the morning, drivers bring truckloads of baked goods to this central distribution area. Then they’re delivered to schools, restaurants and grocery stores throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas. Vendors at both U.S. Bank and Target stadiums use buns from this bakery, as do local Arby’s and Burger King restaurants. The heavily discounted outlet store carries numerous varieties of sliced breads, bagels and a variety of Minnesota jams, honeys and specialty products. Another shopper in the store with me said she’d been buying bread there “for ages.”

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as US Internet, Comcast or CenturyLink. If you have a strong signal while connected via ethernet, then it is time to look at your router to see if you can fix the problem with the wireless signal that is being spread through your home. Next, power cycle your router. Unplug the power cord, wait 10 seconds and then plug it back in, giving it time to get back up and running. This generally solves temporary problems, but will not fix any bigger problems or long-term issues. If that doesn’t work, review the router’s placement. Routers can be placed under desks or behind other electronics like a TV, and if you have problems, shifting that placement can help. It may be that, for your setup, the router needs to be in plain view in order to maintain adequate coverage.

The construction of your home can be a factor here, and what may work in one home or even one room may not work in another room with a similar layout. The material of your walls matters; brick walls are typically not good for Wi-Fi signals. As I understand it, wireless signals are stronger going up than down. If you have ever tried to get into the administrative settings on your router (logging into your router), you can see that there are a lot of settings that you may have never heard of before. One of these settings is “channel.” The channel is not something you normally need to change, but there are ways to see if the same channel is being used by your neighbors and causing interference. If that is the case, you can look for a stronger channel and manually change it. Another way to improve Wi-Fi in your home is to use a powerline adapter, wireless extender or both. Powerline adapters are quite amazing. They connect between two units, the first one directly connected to your router and the second one connected to a device of your choice (i.e smart TV, streaming box, computer, etc.) via ethernet cable. Both powerline adapter units plug into your wall outlets and use your home’s circuitry to send the wireless signal as

though it were hardlined. It is a great way to get wireless to a smart TV or streaming box. If you have an older house with old wiring, the powerline adapter may not work as well. Both outlets you use should be on the same circuit for optimal performance, however I have seen them still work well regardless. Wireless extenders are another way of getting your signal to spread farther in your home. They just plug into an outlet and then take your existing signal and boost it. They create a new network name — “mynetwork_EXT,” for example, with the “EXT” for extender. You can keep them the same name as your existing network, but then your devices may be connecting to the weaker part of a network rather than the extender. Be on the lookout for the new, up-andcoming option of mesh networks, like Google Wi-Fi and the Netgear Orbi system. Supposedly mesh networks offer much better wireless speeds than range extenders and blanket an area in wireless to lose dead spots. Hopefully this will help with some basic troubleshooting that you can do to improve your home wireless network. Paul Burnstein is a Tech Handyman. As the founder of Gadget Guy MN, Paul helps personal and business clients optimize their use of technology. He can be found through gadgetguymn.com or via email at paul@gadgetguymn.com.

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Get Out Guide. By Jahna Peloquin

BACON AND BEER CLASSIC The Nicollet Island Pavilion will be the stage for a day of a great pairing: beer and bacon. Think about it — the salty, caramelized sweetness of bacon is the ideal counterpart for malty, effervescent brews. In addition to beer and bacon pairings, this event will feature two and a half hours of bacon-infused dishes from local restaurants, all-you-can-eat bacon strips, giant Jenga, a bacon-eating contest and unlimited craft beer and cider samples from local and regional breweries.

Where: Nicollet Island Pavilion, 40 Power St. Cost: $45 general admission, $55 VIP

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AMERICAN CRAFT SHOW Since 1987, the American Craft Show has been showcasing the best in American crafts in St. Paul. This year’s show celebrates the American Craft Council’s 75th anniversary with goods from more than 250 top contemporary jewelry, clothing, furniture and home décor artisans and designers from across the country. The show’s newest program, “Style Slam,” demonstrates how to incorporate handmade fashions into attendees’ wardrobes with tips and tricks from local stylists. Another recent addition to the show is “Hip Pop,” a juried showcase of emerging artisans, and “Let’s Make,” a series of interactive demonstrations offering show-goers a chance to learn what goes into creating a handicraft. Also returning is “Make Room: Modern Design meets Craft,” which challenges four local interior designers to create a decade-inspired room that showcases handcrafted home décor.

Where: St. Paul RiverCentre, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul When: 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Friday, April 7, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, April 8, and 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, April 9; preview party Thursday, April 6 from 6 p.m.–9 p.m. Cost: $11 for one-day pass; $85 for preview party Info: craftcouncil.org

“UNFLINCHING FACADES” Artists Carolina Borja and Jesse Matthew Petersen share an affinity for fragmentation, manipulation and challenging perception in their artworks. Borja, who was born in San Diego and is now based in Mexico City, incorporates elements of traditional Mexican crafts into her work, merging these practices into a more contemporary art aesthetic. Her art in “Unflinching Facades” utilizes traditional Mexican printing techniques and collage, along with layers of oil and acrylic, to illustrate the contrast of cultures and explore what lies beneath cultural traditions. Similarly, Petersen’s series of digital collages explore what lies beneath cultural traditions — in his case, the modern fashion industry. His works are composed of sculptural, amorphous shapes, derived from found imagery of garments from fashion magazines. By removing the human face from the images, Petersen questions what’s beneath the attraction to artifice.

Where: Soo Visual Arts Center, 2909 S. Bryant Ave. #101 When: April 8–May 20; opening reception Saturday, April 8 from 6 p.m.–9 p.m. Cost: Free Info: soovac.org

“WICKED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WITCHES OF OZ” Although “Wicked” debuted more than a decade ago, Broadway’s runaway hit of the new millennium is still a must-see. Based on Gregory Maguire’s dark, subversive novel of the same name with music by Stephen Schwarz of “Godspell” fame, “Wicked” tells the story of how the green-skinned witch Elphaba becomes known as the Wicked Witch of the West, long before Dorothy arrives in Oz. The narrative rests on a single premise: The story we thought we knew is actually better when viewed from the other side. The musical boasted sold-out runs during all four of its previous Minneapolis engagements, so grab your tickets now while you can.

Where: Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave. When: April 12–May 14 Cost: $53–$199 Info: 800-982-2787 or hennepintheatretrust.org

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EVENT SPOTLIGHT

National Poetry Month April marks National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. Established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, the annual event will touch down in the Twin Cities through a series of public readings, poetry slams and parties throughout the month.

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Minneapolis-based publisher Milkweed Editions, which has published more than 350 books of literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry since its founding in 1980, hosts an evening honoring National Poetry Month, featuring a reception with poetrythemed drinks and hors d’oeuvres, followed by readings from the finalists for this year’s Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry.

The locally owned bookseller hosts back-to-back evenings of poetry readings. On April 20, Minneapolis poet and Milkweed Editions co-founder Emilie Buchwald will read from her latest collection of poems, “The Moment’s Only Moment,” and St. Paul poet Margaret Hasse will read from her new poetry book, “Between Us.” On April 21, the store will host poets Lyle Daggett, Wang Ping and Morgan Grayce Willow as they read their contributions from new book, “Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance.”

Where: Open Book, 1011 S. Washington Ave. When: Thursday, April 13 at 5:30 p.m. (ticketed reception) and 7 p.m. (free reading) Cost: Reception: $25 general admission, $10 students, free for poets. Reading is free and open to the public Info: milkweed.org

Where: Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave. When: Thursday, April 20 at 7 p.m. and Friday, April 21 at 7 p.m. Cost: Free Info: magersandquinn.com

MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS Celebrate the best in local literature at the 29th-annual Minnesota Book Awards ceremony, which features emcee Tom Weber of MPR News, live music, complimentary wine and refreshments and an announcement of the award winners.

Where: InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront, 11 E. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul When: Saturday, April 8 from 6:30 p.m.–10 p.m. Cost: $40 Info: thefriends.org

“LONE STAR SPIRITS” Jungle Theater artistic director Sarah Rasmussen directs Josh Tobiessen’s newest comedy about a woman who finds herself stranded in a liquor store and troubled by a the ghosts of her past. (Tobiessen happens to be Rasmussen’s husband, a creative pairing that paid off when she directed his play, “Crashing the Party,” at Mixed Blood Theatre in 2012.) “Lone Star Spirits” premiered last June in New York City, earning a rave review from The New York Times, which called it “a rollicking good ghost story.” Expect well-drawn characters, strong performances by Jungle favorites Terry Hempleman and John Catron, and plenty of small-town charm.

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