July 25–August 7, 2019 Vol. 30, No. 15 southwestjournal.com
INSIDE TOY STORE
A new place to play in Linden Hills A3
DEDICATED BUS LANES
Apartments filling their available parking spots
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Hennepin Avenue to get lanes just for buses A10
ART CHAT
An interview with the Walker’s new director A12 Story and photo by Nate Gotlieb
WEIRD AND LINE-Y
Minneapolis artist Reggie LeFlore talked to passersby July 13 in front of a newly finished self-portrait on a wall behind The Herkimer in LynLake. About 20 feet away, artist Nell Triggs spraypainted bumblebees and flower petals onto another wall of the building as she wrapped up
a mural she called “Love Me Not.” Meanwhile, four other artists put the finishing touches onto murals further down the alley. The six artists were among 35 participating in the second-annual LynLake Street Art Series, hosted by the LynLake Business Association. SEE LYNLAKE STREET ART / PAGE A19
Minneapolis artist Reggie LeFlore poses in front of a self-portrait he created July 13 as part of the second-annual LynLake Street Art Series.
In July, the Minneapolis Planning Commission approved a 146-unit apartment building with 92 parking spaces at 26th & Blaisdell. These types of developments with low parking-to-unit ratios have become commonplace since the city changed its minimum parking requirements in 2015. Before, each new building had to provide at least one spot. Now projects near high-frequency transit corridors with fewer than 50 units have zero parking requirements and buildings larger than 50 units need to include one spot for every two units. Currently, Minneapolis does not keep data on parking utilization rate at apartment buildings, according to planning manager Jason Wittenberg, who said the city would like to better understand how residential parking spaces are being used. But as the city plans for a future with fewer cars and more density, newer apartment buildings constructed in Southwest before and after the requirements report their parking spaces are still in high demand. Regardless of the amount of parking, newer developments are confident they are offering attractive living situations to residents. Bryan Walters, the co-founder of Yellow Tree Development, said his firm is very comfortable constructing new residential buildings with fewer spots than units. SEE PARKING / PAGE A18
The intricate illustrations of a LynLake artist B1
Flood risk on the rise as rainstorms gain intensity
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Flooding unsurprising at 22nd & Lyndale but rainfall is getting heavier in Twin Cities By Zac Farber
Inside a tight-knit Lynnhurst community B5
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As motorists drove home from work along Lyndale Avenue on July 16, a summer storm dumped more than 2 inches of rain in a single hour onto a small neighborhood that’s been identified as one of the most flood-prone areas in all of Southwest Minneapolis. With the low-lying corner of 22nd & Lyndale suddenly turned into a thigh-high pond, the staff of Hum’s Liquors ventured out into the street and used their hands to pull wood and other debris from the city’s storm drains. In the shop’s basement, waterlogged cardboard boxes fell apart and two cases of wine dropped and shattered. Across the street, at the Wedge Co-op, at least five employees’ cars were damaged and one was totaled. Meanwhile, at the Red Dragon Restaurant and Lounge, patrons sat at the bar, nursing their drinks and pulling their feet up as the carpet disappeared below a couple inches of water. “It has flooded here for as long as I can remember,” said Pat Chan, who has bartended at the Red SEE FLOOD RISK / PAGE A14
Hum’s Liquors owner Hanh Van donned yellow rain gear and rallied his staff to clear debris from storm drains by hand after the corner of 22nd & Lyndale flooded on July 16. Photo by Jason Grote
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Brady Schmidt stands in his new store, Pinwheels and Play Toys, which opened July 10 in Linden Hills. Photos by Andrew Hazzard
LINDEN HILLS
New toy store takes over Creative Kidstuff space The toy store void in Linden Hills didn’t last for long. Pinwheels and Play Toys, a new independent shop, opened July 10 in the former Creative Kidstuff space at 43rd & Upton, offering a wide range of toys, board games and sports play products. “It’s meant to be a toy store,” Brady Schmidt, the shop’s owner, said of the space. Schmidt, 32, has been working in retail for years and has always had a passion for toys. He initially wanted to be a teacher, then fell in love with retail and landed a job as a sales representative for Ty, the company behind Beanie Babies. (Schmidt said his personal Beanie Babies collection is quite impressive.) He finds working in the toy industry helps combine his passions. “You can teach kids through toys,” he said. The day Pinwheels and Play opened, Schmidt said, people started wandering in, many asking if it was still Creative Kidstuff. After more than
30 years of a toy store on the corner, people seemed happy that the new shop continued a tradition of play. “They’re excited to see it,” he said. Pinwheels and Play sells all the toy classics and is up to date on newer products, too. The store features brands like Waboba, which makes balls that bounce on water; Pocket Disc, which makes handwoven knit frisbees, hackysacks and bocce sets; and HeartSong, manufacturer of a giant inflatable bowling set. Established favorites like Lego and, of course, Ty Beanie Babies and Beanie Boos, are also available. “It’s really my passion to find toys people haven’t seen before,” Schmidt said. Pinwheels and Play is open Wednesdays through Sundays. Pinwheels and Play Toys Where: 4313 Upton Ave. S. Info: facebook.com/ PinwheelsandPlayToys
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Smile Orthodontics is now open at Lake & Lyndale. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
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Famous Dave’s shutters Calhoun Square location After more than 20 years in Calhoun Square, Famous Dave’s closed its Uptown location the week of July 8. “After weighing our options, we made the decision to relocate our Calhoun Square restaurant,” the company said in a statement. “It has been a pleasure to serve our guests in Uptown at this restaurant, and we’re excited to find the next location to continue that service. Our Famous Dave’s team members will all have positions available at a nearby Famous Dave’s during the transition.” The Uptown Famous Dave’s opened in 1996. The company, which has corporate offices based in Minnetonka, now has 10 locations
in Minnesota. The Uptown location stopped hosting live music earlier this year. “We remain committed to evolving the concept and are still planning to explore options related to counter service and delivery as previously stated and will be there to welcome guests at all of our Famous Dave’s restaurants across the Twin Cities,” the company said in a statement. Calhoun Square itself has been on the market since March. Famous Dave’s Where: 3001 Hennepin Ave. Info: famousdaves.com
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54TH & LYNDALE
New CBD shop coming to Kenny A new CBD shop is on its way to 54th & Lyndale. CBD Health and Wellness, a store co-owned by couple Andrea Carpenter and Michael Itman, plans to open in early September on Lyndale Avenue in between Starbucks and Kowalski’s Market. The store will specialize in organically grown, non-chemically extracted CBD products. CBD, or cannabidiol, is a compound found in cannabis. Unlike the psychoactive ingredient THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, CBD does not give users a high. But proponents of CBD, a budding industry in Southwest, say it gives users relief from a wide range of ailments such as chronic pain, inflammation, arthritis, migraines and epileptic seizures. “We’ve seen people use the product and have success and that got us curious,” Itman said. One of those people is Carpenter, who said she has experienced chronic pain for several years. “It has allowed me to get a good night’s sleep,” she said. At CBD Health and Wellness, they will start with six brands of CBD, all of which are derived from hemp grown in the United States and are tested by third-party labs. They plan to place QR codes on packaging that will allow users to track every product to its origin. “We’re really picky,” Itman said. “We really have done the footwork.” Although CBD is increasingly available at co-ops, head shops and tobacco stores, Carpenter and Itman believe having a physical space with educated staff can help people get the most out of the product, which is still relatively new in the Midwest. “We think it’s important to have a brick and mortar for this product,” Carpenter said. The store will include other wellness elements and experiences in what they’re dubbing the
Andrea Carpenter and Michael Itman are opening their new business, CBD Health and Wellness, at 54th & Lyndale in early September. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
“HW Lounge,” such as CBD-oil chair massages and aromatherapy. They want the room to combine CBD products with spa elements. Their products won’t be limited to human consumption. They plan to have a line of petfriendly CBD, which they say can help animals with anxiety and joint pain. Carpenter and Itman said they found a receptive audience at Open Streets Lyndale. They found the building, which has been vacant for about seven years, on Craigslist. “The neighborhood was very welcoming,” Carpenter said. They hope to open multiple metro locations. CBD Health and Wellness Where: 5349 Lyndale Ave. S. Info: HWLounge.com
50TH & FRANCE
prAna shuts Southwest location After nearly seven years at 50th & France, yoga and active-lifestyle clothier prAna is closing its lone Minnesota location. The store closed July 20, according to prAna staff. “It’s been wonderful having our store on iconic 50th & France, but it’s time for us to be moving on,” a note on the store’s website read. Company representatives told the Southwest Journal the store’s lease was ending and prAna is looking for a new location in the Twin Cities.
The California-based retailer specializes in clothes for yoga, climbing and swimming made from sustainable materials and processes. It opened its only Minnesota location in 2012. The brand also has stores in California, Colorado and Oregon. prAna Where: 3926 W. 50th St. Info: prana.com
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A proposal has been approved to tear down a duplex and two single-family homes along West 31st Street near the St. Louis Park border to make way for an apartment building with 49 units and nearly as many parking spaces. With 45 parking spaces proposed on two levels, the city told the developer that the building is “quite a bit overparked,” according to Pete Keely, founder of Collage Architects. Even so, city staff recommended greenlighting the building and on July 22 the Planning Commission approved the project without comment on its consent agenda. Commission President Sam Rockwell said that while he would have preferred fewer parking spaces in such a walkable neighborhood, the proposal was “an appropriate project for the site in terms of scale and use.” Members of the West Calhoun Neighborhood Council laughed off reservations about the building’s nearly 1-to-1 parking-tounit ratio during a July 2 meeting. “The younger professional demographic is a little more likely to have a car and need a car,” Board member Richard Logan said. The six-story building will rise at 3818–26 W. 31st St. in an apartmentheavy corner of the city wedged between West Lake Street and the Cedar Lake Trail. “Bus service and future light rail access are excellent,” the developer’s project description reads. Plans call for a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom units. Most of the units will be between 650 and 950 square feet and monthly rents in the building will be set around $2 per square foot. Leanna Stefaniak, general counsel for St. Paul-based At Home Apartments, said amenities have been kept to a minimum to hold down rents. Residents will have access to a small patio and rooftop deck and be able to use the pool and sauna at Lakewood Isles — another At Home Apartments property a block to the east. About half the units will have balconies. “It’s trying to offer new construction and amenities at the lower side of market-rate,” Keely said. The duplex and two houses marked for
demolition are now vacant, but rents ranged from $975–$1,295 per month. “I don’t want to say they were an eyesore, but they were tired properties,” Stefaniak said. The site is currently zoned to allow sixstory buildings. Under the 2040 plan, still to be approved by the Metropolitan Council, it would be zoned Transit 10, allowing buildings up to 10 stories high. The site has a 15-foot grade differential, which means that the building will appear as six stories high from the rear alley on its north side, where an entrance will lead to the lower level of parking. The building will appear to be five stories from West 31st Street. An entrance from that side will lead to an upper level of parking. The building will have a total of 27 bike stalls. The Planning Commission approved the site plan and three variances, including a set back from 16 feet to six feet on the side of the building facing a dead-end stretch of France Avenue that is currently without sidewalks.
The site has a 15-foot grade differential, meaning the building will appear as six stories high from the north side but just five from the south.
Keely said city staff told him they had tentative plans to build a pedestrian connection over the Cedar Lake Trail near France Avenue. A number of options for bridging the trail were analyzed by city staff in a 2016 West Lake Multimodal Study, but city spokesperson Sarah McKenzie said the public works department currently has no plans for a pedestrian connection in the area and a bridge is not likely to be explored further until after the Green Line LRT extension opens. Members of the West Calhoun Neighborhood Council said they appreciated the addition of more apartments at the location but asked that care be taken to minimize the number of mature trees cut down. “I’m concerned about the loss of green space and greenery,” Board member Victoria Hoshal said.
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An 18-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint in Linden Hills over two pairs of valuable shoes on July 19, police say. Two suspects stole two pairs of shoes worth about $2,550 from the victim while wielding an automatic handgun, according to a Minneapolis police report. The robbery occurred near 38th & Chowen at around 6:30 p.m. The victim knew both suspects involved in the robbery, according to the report. The suspects were reportedly driving a black Saturn sedan. The case remains under investigation, according to MPD spokesperson Sgt. Darcy Horn. A relative of the victim told the Southwest Journal the robbery took place in what was set up as a high-end clothing purchase. Fifth Precinct Inspector Amelia Huffman said people arranging online sales transactions in Southwest are welcome to come to the 5th Precinct parking lot at Lake & Nicollet to make exchanges. If not near law enforcement, she advises meeting in public, well-lit spaces for those transactions.
“There’s certainly the possibility of robbery or theft cases when people meet up for a buyand-sell,” she said. What makes this case different is that the victim knew the suspects. “It’s certainly a unique set of circumstances here,” Huffman said. The victim’s relative posted about the incident on Nextdoor, prompting two other commenters to write that they would “take care” of the suspects if their identities were made available. MPD does not have access to Nextdoor, Huffman said. Although police take threat reports seriously, such reports are typically made between people who know each other, she said, not based on online comments. There was one other aggravated robbery reported in Southwest on July 19, according to MPD’s crime map. That incident took place near 55th & Oliver in Fulton. It is unknown if there is any connection between the incidents at this time.
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Whittier residents told developer Steve Hornig they prefer he build an apartment building with a “big house concept” (left) than one with a more modern aesthetic (right) on a mostly vacant lot at 2520 Grand Ave. S. Submitted images
A small affordable apartment building could be coming to a mostly vacant lot at 2520 Grand Ave. S. in Whittier. Developer Steve Hornig is asking the community for input on whether he should build a six-unit apartment with three levels of one-bedrooms or if he should go with a 10-unit building with two levels of 500-square-foot studios. The one-bedroom plan would come with about four parking spots, while the studio option would have a bike room and fewer parking spaces. “I’m flexible about which road to go,” Hornig told the Whittier Alliance’s housing committee on July 16. He said he intends to make the building entirely affordable to households making less than 60% of the area median income, meaning rents would be $1,050 per month for studios or $1,125 for one-bedrooms. This makes the property eligible for property tax reductions under the city’s 4D Affordable Housing Incentive Program. Hornig said he is also undecided about whether the building should take on a modern
flat-roof aesthetic with metal panels and lap siding or if he should use a “big house concept” with a hip roof and a front porch. Whittier residents at the July 16 meeting did not express a clear preference for either the six- or 10-unit option, but they voted 14–0 in favor of the big house concept. A small garage would be demolished to make way for the proposed apartment, which would rise on what architect William Wells called a “really big curb cut.” The 2520 Grand plot is currently used as a driveway for two three-level apartment buildings Hornig owns directly to the north. The parking lot for those buildings would still be accessible via another driveway. The site is currently zoned R2, a low-density two-family district. But under the Minneapolis 2040 zoning plan, yet to be approved by the Metropolitan Council, the site would allow for three-story buildings. City staff have been supportive of the “very preliminary” proposal, Wells said, and Hornig plans to present a formal plan to the city in October. Sylvestre SWJ 072519 6.indd 1
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Lake Harriet and Jim’s bike on a perfect summer day. Photo by Jim Walsh
geese stopped and reversed course, following the dog and stopping about 30 yards from the beach, where I witnessed one of the most unforgettable singing performances of my life. A single goose came to the fore of the gaggle and proceeded to honk loudly in the direction of the now oblivious dog and beach, and hell if that goose didn’t stop for 15 minutes. The beach emptied out, and I alone watched that goose honk — and honk hard, and angrily, and alone, and into the void, and, well, I could relate and I told him so as I jumped back on my bike. I landed at the bandshell for a hibiscus punch, then parked my bike on the small dock off main beach and the Rose Gardens. I took in the sailboats and pre-sunset and noticed a swimmer about 30 yards out, heading towards the dock, where his t-shirt and tennis shoes awaited his return. I moved to the back of the dock and turned my back just for a second as the guy approached the dock. I wanted to give him privacy as he hoisted himself up, and I was just thinking I should offer the dude my hand, as muscles can be raw after a long swim, when — splash! — the guy knocked my bike into the lake. “Oh, [bleep], man! I’m so sorry!” he yelled. “All good,” I said/hoped, as I grabbed the back tire and he grabbed the front. We dropped it, and almost lost it to a couple of strong waves, and he apologized again and again. “No worries,” I said. We pulled my bike out of
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Award a ‘great surprise’ to Anthony principal Mai Chang Vue named top middle school principal in Hennepin County region By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com
Mai Chang Vue has spent over 15 years working in education, including the past five-plus as principal at Anthony Middle School in Kenny. In June, she earned arguably the most prestigious award of her career to date. Vue was named Middle School Principal of the Year for Hennepin County and the surrounding cities by the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals. She said the award came as a “great surprise,” attributing it to Anthony’s students, staff and families. She’s now eligible to earn the statewide Middle School Principal of the Year award, which the association will bestow in early 2020. Vue was born in 1982 in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand and came to the U.S. with her family when she was 3 years old, emigrating to La Crosse, Wisconsin. Her career has included teaching high school art in La Crosse and working as principal at a St. Paul charter school, among other jobs. Vue spoke with the Southwest Journal about her path into an education career and her job at Anthony. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
How did you get on the path to becoming a principal? Just growing up being the oldest and English being a language barrier for my parents, I always felt like I was a teacher. I was always teaching my siblings and my parents and those around me, and I did a lot of tutoring. After high school, you’re supposed to choose
Anthony Middle School principal Mai Chang Vue (bottom left, in the Green Bay Packers jersey) smiles with students and staff on jersey day. Submitted photo
a career, and I’m like, “Oh, I’m really good at this. I enjoy helping people.” So that’s how I got into teaching. And then in teaching, just kind of learning more of the ropes and observing the principals I worked with, I realized, “Hey, if I’m going to further my education, what else can I do to make a bigger impact?” So I decided to go into administration.
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who nominated you for the award, wrote that you use data to evaluate learning. How do you use data to inform your work? It means really taking a look at students as a whole child. I look to see: Where are our deficits? What can we do differently to make change, whether it’s change to improve the school or change to improve our students? I think the qualitative piece is most important for me. For example, if I take a look at a student, I’m not just looking at the student’s
test scores. I’m really learning more about the student, getting to know the student, talking to the parents and teachers to really try to support the student. I know that test scores and all of that seems to be at the forefront of everything, but at the end of the day, I really believe that we need to take a look at the student as the whole child.
What does your job look like on a day-to-day basis? I try to be in the classroom as much as possible. Sometimes that’s not possible when you’re in meetings or you’re meeting with parents or there’s some operational issues you have to deal with. … I do try to support the teachers as best I can by providing them with feedback or just being there. Sometimes just being there helps. But my day-to-day, it varies every day, whether it’s in the classroom, at the district headquarters, in a meeting or with a parent. It could even be mopping the hallway or picking up trash. It’s whatever I need to do to ensure that the school is running smoothly and that students are engaged, feeling safe and enjoy being in school. What are the challenging parts of your job? Seeing that a student is struggling hurts me — or if they’re not getting the services or the tools that they need. We try to be as creative as we can to ensure that they have what they SEE VUE / PAGE A14
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Two busy corridors in Southwest Minneapolis will receive dedicated bus lanes this year, the city and Metro Transit announced July 16. Designated bus lanes will be permanently installed on Hennepin Avenue from Franklin Avenue to Lake Street in late August, according to city officials. A pilot bus lane will be implemented along Nicollet Avenue, also from Franklin Avenue to Lake Street, for a short period in the fall. The Hennepin Avenue curbside bus lane will not displace current vehicle traffic, but will be implemented by not allowing parking along portions of the street during rush hour. The bus lanes will be in effect during peak hours of weekday mornings and evenings. Buses represent 3% of the vehicles on Hennepin Avenue but carry 49% of the people who commute on the street during morning rush hour, according to senior transportation planner Becca Hughes. In the afternoon rush, buses are 2% percent of the vehicles and carry 45% of commuters. “That’s why we started with Hennepin,” Hughes said. The coming lanes will be painted on Hennepin Avenue northbound from Lake Street to the Uptown Transit Station and from 25th Street to Franklin Avenue. Southbound, a painted curbside bus lane will be implemented from 25th Street to the Uptown Transit Station. The northbound lanes will be in effect from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on weekdays; the southbound lane will be enforced from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Currently about 20% of Route 6 buses on Hennepin Avenue meet their scheduled northbound six-minute run time from Uptown Transit Center to Franklin Avenue during morning rush hour, Hughes said. About 33% make their scheduled southbound seven-minute run time in the same stretch. The lanes come a year after a three-day bus lane pilot on Hennepin Avenue in May 2018. During the pilot, northbound Route 6 buses ran two minutes faster on average between Uptown Transit Center and Franklin Avenue in the morning and southbound buses ran about 30 seconds faster in the afternoon. About 75% of pilot riders surveyed found the bus lanes improved the experience and 63% said such lanes would make them use transit more. “Perception is a lot when it comes to transit,” Hughes said. Hennepin Avenue between Douglas Avenue and Lake Street is scheduled to be
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redone in 2023. The street is also slated to be a major thoroughfare for the future E Line Bus Rapid Transit. On Nicollet Avenue, the city and Metro Transit are developing a pilot bus-dedicated lane likely to be tested this fall for two or three weeks between Franklin Avenue and Lake Street. “This is going to be sort of a tricky and challenging corridor,” Hughes said. A permanent bus-dedicated lane will also be implemented on Chicago Avenue from East 28th Street to the Chicago/Lake Transit Center. Public Works director Robin Hutcheson said Metro Transit approached the city about bus dedicated lanes because they have had issues with reliability on certain routes in the city. Corridors were selected based on ridership level and routes that struggled to meet on-time performance markers, city officials said. Areas that have fewer households with cars or that abut low-income areas were targeted. Planners hope the dedicated lanes will make the bus a more enticing option. “We need to figure out ways to make transit more attractive to people in the city,” Hughes said, citing a decline in local bus route ridership. Funding for the bus lanes comes from a grant Minneapolis received from the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge.
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Heavier fencing has been erected along the Kenilworth trail in anticipation of shifting freight tracks ahead of fall tunnel construction. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
itan Council. Freight tracks in the corridor will be shifted before tunnel work begins. Larger fencing has been erected in that stretch of the corridor. As of July 15, the Cedar Lake Trail in Minneapolis has been closed between Van White Boulevard and Royalston Avenue. Those commuting from the west side of the city into Downtown are detoured to Kenwood Parkway through Vineland Place and Loring Park. Glenwood Avenue is now closed from Lyndale Avenue North to 11th Street North; the closure will last two years, according to the Met Council. Burnham Road is currently closed in a short stretch between Cedar Lake Parkway and Park Lane. The closure is expected to last about a month, and two-way traffic is open on the Burnham Bridge. Salvage work on the Works Progress Administration wall on the Kenilworth Channel is slated to begin the week of July 22 and take about four months to complete. The channel itself will close later this summer.
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Boarding-care home on list of poor performers Southside Care Center in Lowry Hill East named a candidate for federal oversight program By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@swjournal.com
A 17-bed Lowry Hill East boarding-care home was on a list of poor-performing nursing facilities that a pair of U.S. senators released in early June. Southside Care Center was one of 11 Minnesota facilities and nearly 480 nationwide on the list, released by Pennsylvania Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey. All the identified facilities were either participants in or deemed candidates for the federal Special Focus Facility Program, as part of which facilities face additional scrutiny and penalties if they don’t improve. Southside Care Center was named a candidate for the program because of its poor performance on its three most recent health inspections, conducted between May 2017 and October 2018 by the Minnesota Department of Health. The facility had one of the 10 worst scores out of 375 Minnesota nursing facilities over the last three inspection cycles, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data. State inspectors found 48 deficiencies during their three inspections of the Southside Care Center, according to CMS. That was over twice the number found at the average Minnesota facility during those cycles. Most of the 48 deficiencies caused “minimal” harm but had the potential to cause actual harm, according to inspectors. Three of the deficiencies put at least one resident in immediate jeopardy of harm. That included a deficiency, cited during a May 2017 inspection, of failing to protect a resident from physical abuse. In that case, the resident sustained physical abuse on multiple occasions from two other residents, one of whom was her roommate, inspectors reported. They said there was no evidence the facility had investigated the resident-on-resident abuses nor that they had been reported to the state agency. They also said there was no evidence the facility implemented interventions to keep the resident safe from physical abuse. That same resident also told inspectors that a housekeeper sexually assaulted her and threatened her life, an allegation she had not previously reported to facility staff. The Minnesota Department of Health investigated the allega-
Southside Care Center at 2644 Aldrich Ave. S. was on a federal list of poor-performing nursing facilities released in June. Photo by Zac Farber
tion further and found nothing to substantiate it, a spokesman said. All three “immediate jeopardy” deficiencies occurred when the home was owned by Marcy Kronfeld. The home was sold in summer 2018 to a company called Bridges MN, and inspections under the new ownership have found no severe deficiencies. Blake Elliott, founder of Bridges MN, said he wouldn’t elaborate on why the facility had “the problems they had.” Southside Care Center had 12 deficiencies during its one inspection so far under Bridges MN ownership. All but one caused “minimal” harm but had the potential to cause actual harm, inspectors reported. The other had the potential to cause minimal harm, inspectors said. The deficiencies included everything from failing to effectively respond to resident council grievances on food preference to failing to ensure the dining room and a partial bathroom were in good repair. Elliott said his company was able to correct them “within days.” With regard to food preference, he said that his company wants to listen to residents as much as possible but that not everyone is going to be happy all the time. Bridges MN has brought on a nursing home administrator at Southside with “a lot of experience,” Elliott said. It’s also added a consultant to help with the nursing department.
A push for ‘greater transparency’ Sen. Casey said in a press release that he and Toomey asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to release the Special Focus Facility candidate list to provide “greater transparency to individuals and families.” He and Toomey released the list on June 3 after CMS decided not to, the release said. The 80-plus participants in the program had already been publicly known, but the approximately 400 candidates had not been. “While the vast majority of nursing homes provide high-quality care, there are some that are consistently failing to meet objective standards of adequacy,” Toomey said in the statement. “To date, CMS has arbitrarily excluded from public disclosure a subset of these underperforming nursing homes. Moving forward, I hope CMS will give the public this particular list, as well as all relevant information about nursing home quality.” CMS posted an updated candidate list in early July. Sean Burke, public policy director of the Minnesota Elder Justice Center, said being a Special Focus Facility Program candidate is a big deal because it means a facility is worrisome enough to merit heightened scrutiny. He said the surveys CMS uses to determine candidates don’t take into account individual complaints that have been made or bigger-picture data like staffing patterns over a series of weeks. Southside Care Center is not eligible to participate in the Special Focus Facility Program, despite being listed as a candidate. That’s because the program is not open to boarding-care facilities, a CMS spokeswoman said. (The state’s boarding-care homes have less stringent licensure requirements than other Minnesota facilities.)
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to understand their relationships and responsibilities to their communities and to see that how we go about what we do has to change. I think the big takeaway from that particular experience, which has been talked about at length, is that we need to be in better dialogue with our communities. Not just the Native community but all kinds of audiences and communities, both I think to be responsive and meet them where they are while also leading the conversation. The Walker, I think, is not unique in sort of misstepping but also learning about what kind of role we can play. But I also think because of that controversy, we’re a little further ahead than other institutions. Not to say that we don’t have a lot of work to do. We have a ton of work to do.
Mary Ceruti takes stock
How do you maintain that balance and connection to the local community when you’re trying to be an international art institution? Getting to know Minneapolis and the Twin Cities, I’ve found people here quite openminded. Of course, there are local concerns and local issues, but I think that they’re also interested in what’s happening around the world. I think when we are thinking about what work we’re choosing from around the world, we have to think about what aspect of that work is going to resonate with the local audience. What has resonance here? If there’s some really amazing artist collective working in Southeast Asia, what is it about that is going to connect to something that is happening in this community?
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ix months into her role as executive director of the Walker Art Center, Mary Ceruti is still focused on learning. Following 20 years at the helm of SculptureCenter in New York, the Cleveland native has been getting to know a new region, a new art community and a large staff. Ceruti assumed leadership of the museum this January after a yearlong search during which the Walker had no executive director and several vacant leadership positions. Now she’s ready to make her mark. The Southwest Journal sat down with Ceruti in July. The following interview has been edited for clarity and length.
You were at the SculptureCenter for 20 years. What’s it been like adjusting to a new role and a new city these last six months? I would say I still feel very new here and I’m still learning a lot. It’s been exciting and invigorating to have a whole new context to be thinking about. I’m learning everyday both about this community and how this institution works, what people’s strengths are, what our audiences are interested in. I still feel very much at the beginning of that learning curve.
Coming from the SculptureCenter and having the Sculpture Garden here, what’s your overall impression of the Sculpture Garden? Do you have visions of different types of sculptures you’d like to bring to the park? The Sculpture Garden is an appealing aspect of this institution. I think it’s a huge asset. It’s a way of putting our art out there. Having collections spill outside of the building, it creates sort of a zone that is the Walker collection and reflective of the kind of work the Walker collects and is interested in but is also super accessible. We’ve just opened this new commission [“Shadow Spirits at the Crossroads” by Seitu Jones and Ta-coumba Aiken] and I think that’s a really interesting example because the way it uses the pathways is different and it’s in many ways more narrative. They’re anti-monuments, you might say. They are referencing historical figures and honoring them in a way a monument would, but they’re much more gentle and I would say participatory because you can discover them as you wander through the park. They kind of emerge as you experience the garden.
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Currently there is no artistic director at the Walker. Is that a position you’re looking to hire for? I am in a search right now for that position. Exactly what that title will be and what the responsibilities will be is still a little bit in flux. The search is for a position called the chief curator and deputy director of curatorial affairs. That person will be a very close partner to me in defining the artistic direction and vision for the Walker as well as helping manage the curatorial staff and being quite hands-on in making sure the curators are in direct conversations with each other. I think there’s the artistic vision side and then there’s more of a management side. My background is as a visual arts curator, so I have ideas about what that vision looks like. The key is finding a person who aligns with that and has their own ideas that can really push me in doing the best in my role.
Do you think free Thursday nights and free first Saturdays are a good way to expose a new audience to the Walker? Is that a valuable thing that you guys want to continue doing? Absolutely. We need to lower the barriers for people to engage with the art. So free Thursday nights, free first Saturdays are super important. Right now, I think it’s 73% of our audience comes for free, between those nights, various programs and school events. Does that make you interested in lowering admission costs or having more of those days? It’s an active discussion, I would say. I think there’s interest for sure in pursuing a free admission policy. The trick is trying to figure out how to financially make it work. Even though it’s only a little more than a quarter of our audience that’s paying, that still adds up to a significant chunk of money that we have to find elsewhere. If there’s a donor out there who would like to endow that, that would be great. I would like nothing more than to make this museum free all the time.
As someone who came in the wake of controversy around the Scaffold exhibit, were there any takeaway lessons for you? I think that the Walker leadership was very upfront about how much learning happened in the wake of that, which to me is really exciting. It’s important for museums, and all institutions,
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East Isles dentist’s nonprofit brings a smile Ready Set Smile gives free dental care to low-income kids
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Dr. Adele Della Torre sang the alphabet song as she cleaned preschoolers’ teeth. “You can sing the alphabet song twice! That’ll be two minutes of brushing your teeth,” she told a 4-year-old preschool student cheerfully on July 17 at the Center of Excellence Preschool and Learning Center in South Minneapolis. Della Torre is the founder of Ready Set Smile (RSS), a nonprofit that has provided Minneapolis kids from low-income families with preventive dental care and education for nearly six years. “Children are so much more likely to miss school, to miss their education because of pain from their teeth,” she said. “If they’re in pain, they can’t focus.” Since 2013, RSS has provided services to more than 1,500 students at 23 different Minneapolis schools, including Jefferson Community School and Stonebridge World School. According to RSS, 85% of children served by the program are eligible for free and reduced lunch.
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Dr. Adele Della Torre cleans a 4-year-old boy’s teeth with the help of community health worker Yndra Aguilar on July 17 at the Center of Excellence Preschool and Learning Center in Phillips West. Photo by Alex Smith
“Most of these kids don’t have access to dental care,” executive director Jody McCardle said. Della Torre has been working as a general dentist in the East Isles neighborhood since 1989, when she opened her practice, ADT Dental, near 22nd & Hennepin. Starting in 2002, Della Torre and her staff would give students from Jefferson Community School free dental care a couple days a year in coordination with the American Dental Association’s Give Kids a Smile program. But after the recession hit in 2008, Della Torre noticed a desperate need for more resources and services among the students. “The needs of the kids we were seeing was just devastating, it was really shocking,” Della
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to 443 and the water level at Hiawatha Avenue rose by a foot. During the July 20 thunderstorm, the creek’s flow spiked to 339 and water at Hiawatha rose by 10 inches. The high-water mark on the Upper Chain of Lakes increased 4 inches during the July 15 rainstorm, according to the Park Board. Lake of the Isles, Cedar Lake and Bde Maka Ska have been about 1.5–2 feet above their ordinary high-water level throughout July. In 2017, the Metropolitan Council debuted an online tool (tinyurl.com/flood-map-screening) that uses state LiDAR elevation data to map which areas may be most at risk for flooding. Showing up blue on the map: the 22nd & Lyndale neighborhood that once housed Lake Blaisdell, the southwest quadrant of South Uptown, the part of Lyndale immediately below the Lake Street Kmart, the streets north of Linden Hills Park and the corner
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What are the more rewarding or satisfying parts of the job? There’s so many different things that I feel happy about. When I go to Southwest High School or I’m in the neighborhood, and I see students that have already graduated from middle school — that’s really rewarding for me. Just learning what they’re up to and how much the teachers
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You and your team had to make budget cuts for the coming year, in part because of a recent change to the way the district distributes federal Title I dollars. How did you go about that process? We knew with the Title I cut [about $225,000 of a $5.4 million budget] that we couldn’t lose our support staff. They’re just as important as teachers. They’re kind of the glue that holds everybody together, and so we wanted to ensure that we had them.
Last year with the budget, there was funding for extended time that was taken away and then last minute put back into our budget. We used that funding for our core classes to make them smaller class sizes, to prepare ourselves in case we were going to lose funding, which we did. We still are able to retain our programming. At the same time, we made sure we’re not going to be cutting a whole department or a whole section, because we still had to meet [International Baccalaureate] requirements. It was tough, but we had to shuffle things around, be very creative with our master schedule as far as class offerings. So we were able to make it work, even though we won’t have that Title I funding.
of Windom near the Interstate 35W and Highway 62 interchange. The flood map’s only input is elevation but “nine times out of 10 the topography’s not going to lie in terms of where the water is going to gather,” Wojchik said. “During actual events we check Twitter to see where the flood is occurring, and it is happening in the places the map says it will.” During the July 16 storm, Lowry Hill East resident Brendan Ireland was biking down onto the Midtown Greenway from Park Avenue — an area that shows up dark blue on the Met Council map — and saw another biker crash into the flooded trail. “He hit head first and created quite a splash,” Ireland said. Ahead of storms, Minneapolis public works preemptively clears catch basins in low-lying areas, but city spokesperson Sarah McKenzie said the department couldn’t predict “an unusual event” like the rainstorm that battered Whittier and the Wedge. A vacuum truck was dispatched to 22nd & Lyndale on July 17 to suck out mulch from sewer drains. In a time of “chronic flooding,” Wojchik said he hopes Met Council’s flood map can be used by cities to predict areas of public health risk and preemptively reroute Metro Transit buses during heavy rains. Already, the Met Council has used the tool to prioritize which manholes should be sealed first and to determine how localized flooding may impact mold in Section 8 housing. Wojchik said flooding can be combated in cities by adding rain gardens, by enhancing stormwater infrastructure in low-elevation areas and by increasing participation in volunteer drain armies like Minneapolis’ Adopt-A-Drain program. The city asks residents to call 311 when they see flooding. “This is an issue that’s going to continue,” Wojchik said.
Is there anything else you’d want to say about the award or the school? We’ve got a really passionate and hardworking group of staff members who just go above and beyond to ensure that students’ needs are met. We all kind of do that at Anthony. Everybody’s just collaborative. The families are just simply amazing. There’s a wonderful PTA that I enjoy working with as well. We have students from different cultures and all walks of life, and I think that’s just something we celebrate and continue to celebrate at Anthony.
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By Mira Klein
More herbs, less kale at MLK Park Donation Garden There was a time last year when Jessie Weiss was eating a lot of kale: kale soups, kale salads, kale grain bowls. The kale inundation wasn’t a bad thing, per se. But to Weiss, it was certainly memorable. Weiss’ kale was grown, in part, at the MLK Park Donation Garden. The garden is a partnership between the Aliveness Project, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association, the Park Board and Hennepin County Master Gardeners. The goal of the project is twofold: to provide a space for neighbors to gain gardening skills and to grow produce for the Aliveness Project meal program, which supplies high quality, nutritious meals to people living with HIV. Since 2005 Weiss has been a member of the Aliveness Project. While the organization is based in Kingfield, it supports more than 2,000 members across Minnesota through wellness services ranging from medical case management to integrative therapy to nutritional advising. But sharing food is a cornerstone of its work. As Executive Director Matt Toburen explained, the Aliveness Project started as a potluck community in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS crisis and HIV stigmatization. It began as an informal gathering where HIV-positive folks would come together over meals to build community and mutual support. Now, more than 30 years later, the Aliveness Project is home to an industrial kitchen, a cafeteria-style dining space, and a grocery storelike food pantry, all an extension of the project’s original food-based model of building healthy and fulfilling lives for those with HIV. The Aliveness Project provides lunch and
dinner throughout the week, serving an estimated 150 people daily in its building at 38th & Nicollet. Weiss attends the communal lunches every day. “It’s restaurant-quality food,” he said. “We are very blessed to have this in the neighborhood.” To call these meals “restaurant-quality” is no exaggeration. Food Services Manager Kris Krekelberg is a former chef at The Local, a welltrafficked eatery in Downtown Minneapolis. Now at the Aliveness Project, Krekelberg designs meals and runs a kitchen staffed with cooks and volunteers. Meal preparation is drastically different from Krekelberg’s experience in a more traditional kitchen because he is never quite sure what ingredients he has to work with. With a majority of the food coming through donations, Krekelberg and other kitchen staff plan meals on a day-by-day basis. However, when it comes to ingredients from the Donation Garden, it’s not all a mystery. The Aliveness Project and Donation Garden volunteers have been working to establish better communication about what foods are needed and what can be expected. Before the planting season started, the garden reached out to Laura Hutchinson, the nutrition and wellness program director of the Aliveness Project, to ask what kinds of foods they were looking to use. Hutchinson responded, “Basically anything that’s not leafy greens, because we get so many.” As she explained, leafy greens are a popular donation because they are easy to grow and brown easily, so restaurants and grocery stores can’t keep them for long. Hence, all those kale-based meals.
And so the Donation Garden planned out their planting strategy accordingly. At the request of Krekelberg they started growing more herbs, ingredients that are donated lessfrequently and tend to be more expensive to purchase. In the future, Hutchinson added, she would love to incorporate more member feedback about the produce they would like to see available. Donation Garden volunteers also adapted their food delivery methods. Rather than dropping off massive bags of produce straight from the soil, volunteers started bringing the food prewashed and separated, saving time and energy during morning meal preparation for Krekelberg and other kitchen staff. In addition to herbs, this year the Donation Garden has been growing a variety of produce from zucchini and cucumbers to tomatoes and string beans. They still grow kale, but less than they used to. Mollie Dean is the Hennepin County Master Gardener who supports the Donation Garden. For over 12 years now, Dean has been teaching gardening skills to interested residents around Southwest Minneapolis. She has been with the MLK Park Donation Garden since it got off the ground in 2016. As the Southwest Journal reported during the Donation Garden’s inaugural season, the garden was initially envisioned as a place to engage Aliveness Project members in the gardening and harvesting process. But as Toburen explained, “We just couldn’t get a consistent enough showing.” Dean concurred. “We let that piece go,” she said.
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Still, Dean said, neighborhood volunteers have remained committed to a relationship between the garden and the Aliveness Project. They’ve just had to adjust the conditions. Rather than asking Aliveness Project members and staff to participate in day-to-day Donation Garden care, the garden has built a core of dedicated neighborhood volunteers. “Every year I wonder, ‘Oh gosh is it going to work this year?’” Dean said. “But you trust the seeds, you trust the plants.” It also helps that the gardeners themselves have grown their skills significantly, diversifying their produce knowledge and deepening their understanding of the soil. Together, the Donation Garden and the Aliveness Project are brainstorming ways to increase integration of their programs. Hutchinson said this could mean bringing in more garden volunteers to serve and share meals with Aliveness Project members. And it could also involve hosting cooking classes at the project incorporating garden-harvested foods. Hutchinson and Toburen are committed to building awareness of the Donation Garden among their membership base, but members like Weiss already appreciate its presence. “I like that it’s in the neighborhood, I like that it’s close,” he said. If you want to volunteer with the Aliveness Project, contact Volunteer Services through their website at aliveness.org. The Donation Garden hosts gardening nights every Tuesday evening at 5:30pm throughout the summer. You can find more information on the MLK Park Donation Garden Facebook page or at kingfield.org.
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Long road to consensus on Southwest parks plan At a July 11 meeting, the community advisory committee (CAC) for the Southwest Service Area Master Plan was hoping to reach consensus on the balance between pickleball and tennis facilities, the distribution of basketball courts and the designs for nine neighborhood parks. But after two hours, the group had only decided officially on the design of Mueller Park and formed a subcommittee on The Parade Park, which will require additional meetings to reach a consensus that will then have to be approved by the larger CAC. Reaching agreement on the Southwest Parks Plan has been a long process, with various interest groups and neighborhood organizations lobbying for their respective desires to be reflected in the final designs. Colleen O’Dell, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board project manager for the Southwest Parks Plan, said it has taken longer to work through plans in Southwest than in other quadrants of the city. There are 43 neighborhood parks in Southwest, and consensus has been reached on the proposed designs of 30 of them. The remaining 13 are some of the largest parks in Southwest: Armatage, Kenwood, Kenwood Parkway, Kenny, Lynnhurst, Linden Hills, Lyndale Farmstead, The Mall, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Pershing, The Parade, Washburn Fair Oaks and Waveland Triangle. Lynnhust Park is in the unique position of being included in both the Southwest plan and the Minnehaha Creek Regional Trail Master Plan. The Minnehaha CAC has reached consensus on a design for Lynnhurst, and the Southwest CAC was hoping to approve the
design July 11 but decided to delay the vote to give the public more time to comment. (The Minnehaha Master Plan has slowed to a temporary halt after public resistance to plans to close part of Minnehaha Parkway to cars led to a pause in CAC meetings while more traffic data is collected; the Minnehaha CAC did vote against proposed medians at Lyndale and Nicollet avenues, which will allow for mostly continued vehicle traffic on the street). The July 11 meeting included a debate over pickleball and tennis balance. Pickleball proponents called for larger investment in the game due to its popularity among seniors. One paddle-brandishing advocate called Minneapolis a “donut hole” for the game. Ultimately, the CAC voted to maintain existing tennis facilities at Kenny Park (even though plans called for pickleball) and to add a group of 6–8 dedicated pickleball courts at Kenwood Park. A larger debate on the distribution of halfand full-court basketball throughout Southwest still needs to be held. Efforts to find the right balance between athletic fields and diamonds have resulted in the creation of a subcommittee examining the issue at Armatage, Kenny, Linden Hills and Pershing parks. The group met once on July 15 and may need to meet again. Bike skill training elements, such as shorter mountain bike tracks and parks, had mostly been removed between initial concepts and preferred concept designs, but have been re-added by the CAC at Lyndale Farmstead Park and are being considered at MLK Park. After planners initially rejected requests to
The Parade Park, now with its own subcommittee, is among 13 parks still being debated in the Southwest Parks Plan. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
form a separate CAC for The Parade Park, the Southwest CAC voted to form a subcommittee for the park on July 11. “The Park Board has ignored our neighborhood and ignored our area, and I’m not going to stand for it,” said Craig Wilson, a board member of the Lowry Hill Neighborhood Association and a CAC member. With its premier athletic fields, indoor ice garden and connection to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, The Parade functions more as a regional park than a neighborhood park, Wilson said. O’Dell said the MPRB had planned other large neighborhood parks with regional attractions, like North Commons, without a separate CAC. The preferred design concept calls for a dome over the turf field, an additional rink and curling center to be added to the ice garden and a new parking garage. He asked to see any traffic studies
that have been conducted while voicing concerns that the increased amenities could lead to more vehicles in a busy area. Nikki Schlepp, a consultant with design firm SRF, said her agency had examined traffic impacts and agreed to bring a report on those impacts to the first subcommittee meeting, which has yet to be scheduled. The designs proposed in the Southwest Parks Plan will be implemented over the next 20 years, which is why planners tend to favor more general, mixed-use designs. The longterm nature of the plans means planners aim to maintain a balance between what residents say they want today, what the data tells them about the future of the city, other master plans within the MPRB and innovative park ideas from across the world, O’Dell said. Ultimately, CAC votes are just recommendations and Park Board commissioners can tweak the designs before making a final vote on the master plan, which will likely occur in the fall. When that vote happens will depend on how many more meetings the CAC will hold and when a public hearing on their final recommendations occurs. “There’s no prescribed schedule at which this has to continue,” O’Dell said. “We’re trying to see what the situation needs.” Three additional CAC meetings are currently scheduled for the Southwest Parks Plan, all taking place from 6–8 p.m.: July 25 at Pershing Recreation Center, 3523 W. 48th St.; Aug. 8 at Lynnhurst Recreation Center, 1345 W. Minnehaha Parkway; and Aug. 9 at Kenwood Community Center, 2101 W. Franklin Ave.
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“We put the lowest amount of parking in we possibly can,” Walters said. Yellow Tree has multiple ongoing projects in Southwest, including two under construction on Nicollet Avenue in Steven’s Square and one at 29th & Bryant. It’s also the firm behind the newly approved building at 26th & Blaisdell, which will have more than 100 bike parking stalls, and the 67-unit building at 28th & Garfield, which will have 40 parking stalls and 40 bike parking spots. The Whit apartments at 22nd & Blaisdell, built in 2017 by Yellow Tree before being sold, has 47 parking spaces for 74 units and frequently has a waiting list for spots, according to property manager Taylor Luhmann. “Parking is a hot commodity in our building,” she said. In the years before the minimum parking requirements for residential development were implemented in 2015, several large apartment buildings were approved along the Midtown Greenway with more parking spots than units. Today, many of those buildings report their parking stock is still in high demand. Lime Apartments at 29th & Lyndale opened in 2014 along the Midtown Greenway with 171 units and 205 parking stalls. Today, 188 of those parking spaces are being used by residents, according to property manager Nick Seawell. At Track 29 apartments at 29th & Bryant, 97% of the 198 units are currently full and about 95% of the parking spots are used, according to Lincoln Property Company, which manages the building. Track 29 has a 1.2 parking spotto-unit ratio, giving it about 238 parking spaces. About 90% of residents are using parking spots, according to property management. The Be @ Calhoun Greenway building at 31st & Chowen has 185 apartments and 199 underground parking spots, 192 of which are in use, according to property manager Jason Phad. That building also shares an additional 80-space surface lot with the Calhoun Greenway buildings, which is mostly full, he said.
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About 95% of the roughly 240 parking spaces at the Track 29 apartments at 29th & Bryant are in use today. Photo by Andrew Hazzard
The Calhoun Greenway built a new 151-space parking garage last year for its 740 units to complement the 580 spots previously offered. Currently 91 of the 151 new spaces have been rented. Elan Uptown at 28th & Emerson has 399 residential garage spaces for 387 units, with each unit guaranteed one spot, according to leasing agent Brandon Winter. Very few residents opt not to use their spot, he said, though specific numbers were not available.
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The artists spray-painted murals onto 20 walls at 11 locations across the district, as people watched, took pictures and asked them questions. The goal of the event was to highlight the district’s “vibrant, modern art” and to “show the independent, local nature” of the area, said Josh Wilken-Simon, the owner of Legacy Glassworks Art Gallery and Tobacco Shop and the co-chair of the business association. “We definitely want to keep doing it and grow it, so it includes other kinds of street art,” fellow co-chair Morgan Luzier said. Wilken-Simon and Luzier planned the first event last year as a way to highlight the various businesses and art in the LynLake district, which spans portions of Lowry Hill East, Whittier, CARAG and Lyndale. The district developed as a commercial corridor in the late 1800s and is bordered by Franklin Avenue to the north, 36th Street to the south and Blaisdell and Dupont avenues to the east and west. It includes everything from a VFW post to a brewery, ice cream shop, workout studios and theaters. Luzier said she was pleased with the turnout of the street-art event, noting that several restaurants reported an uptick in business. The participating artists gave the event a positive review, she said, noting that they had free reign to paint what they wanted. Southwest resident Chad Zenk-Tills was among the dozens of people who came to see the artists at work. He said he’s been photographing graffiti for decades, adding that he loves and appreciates public art. “Every time I go on vacation, one of the main things l look for is public art,” he said. “It’s nice to have more on the home turf.” Groe, a St. Paul-based artist, spraypainted a mural onto the side of a building
A street artist who goes by Wundr puts the finishing touches on a new mural on the RightSource building, which used to house the nonprofit Intermedia Arts, during the Street Art Series. Photos by Nate Gotlieb
at the northwest corner of Lake & Lyndale. He said his mural, which featured dark colors and the words “Lyn Lake,” was meant to show the area as a place in transition. A block north, LeFlore, an Omaha, Nebraska, native, put the finishing touches on his self-portrait, which features him peering down the alley. He said the deciding factor in
Artist Nell Triggs paints a mural behind The Herkimer. Triggs called her piece “Love Me Not,” in reference to the pedalpicking game that has a similar name.
creating a self-portrait was that “there aren’t a lot of black folks in mural projects.” Triggs, meanwhile, worked on a mural she said was inspired by the pedal-picking game “He loves me … he loves me not.” Her 9-yearold nephew Jaxon stood nearby, handing out stickers to passersby and helping Triggs decide where to spray-paint the bumblebees. Other artists worked in tandem on a single wall, including Taylor Berman, a Wisconsinbased art teacher, print-maker and muralist. Berman and five other artists painted a large wall on the north side of the building that houses Big Watt Coffee, which can be seen from the Midtown Greenway. He said he thought the event was a good opportunity to paint during the nicer months of the year. One of his fellow artists, who goes by Ryoe, said he thought the event was a cool opportunity to legally paint in the community. Big Watt owner Jason Westplate said he thought the mural was “awesome,” noting that the building has been consistently targeted for graffiti in the past. He added that doing stuff with well-respected artists
could discourage illegal taggers. At Provision Community Restaurant near Lake & Harriet, three artists put their finishing touches on a new mural early in the afternoon. The nonprofit restaurant, which will open in August, held a mural dedication near the end of the event. David Smith, programs director of Provision, said events like the street-art series represent a great opportunity to build awareness. “We want to make this spot beautiful,” he said. Artists named Wunder and Biafra spent the day painting a new mural on part of the old Intermedia Arts building (now the RightSource building) on the 2900 block of Lyndale Avenue. Biafra estimated they scrapped 200 pounds of paint off the wall before starting their piece, which features various patterns and cartoon figures. The LynLake Business Association plans on hosting another street-art event next year. Luzier said the organization would love to be in touch with people interested in helping. People can reach the association at admin@lyn-lake.org.
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‘Weird and line-y’ LynLake artist Chuck Ungemach draws strange and intricate worlds By Zac Farber / zfarber@swjournal.com
In Chuck Ungemach’s fastidiously lined penand-ink drawings, bears, sloths, monkeys and blobby purple creatures are given comical costumes and placed in preposterous settings. Two dogs in hats drive a vintage car indoors. A capybara smokes a pipe while floating on a lake in a pink swim tube. A bionic cat, wearing a collar crammed with colorful toggles and buttons, lounges on the floor of a Victorian era solarium. Ungemach, who uses the moniker Chuck U, is best known for his work designing beer cans for Northeast’s Indeed Brewing Company. His design for the Midnight Ryder black ale (a mustachioed, monocled dandy riding a monocled grizzly bear) was declared one of the 10 “coolestlooking beers in America” by the website Thrillist. The LynLake resident will be the featured artist at this year’s Uptown Art Fair (Aug. 2–4) and he has designed a commemorative print for the festival that features a conveyor belt on which framed portraits are manufactured and then immediately destroyed. (The print will double as the label for a hibiscus-infused wheat ale that Indeed is brewing exclusively for the art fair.) Since his subject matter is composed largely of kooky absurdist non sequiturs, Ungemach said many of his fans assume he is something of an eccentric visionary. “People meet me and think I’m this person who does all these drugs and that I’m this Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter type,” he said. “I’m actually not a very whimsical person.” Ungemach is described by those who know him as quiet, kind, shy and professional. He draws slowly and methodically, focusing on the details of his craft. He likes giving his characters monocles because they add asymmetry and “differentiate the sides of a face.” When he was growing up in Columbia Heights, Ungemach became obsessed with a children’s television and book series called
Draw Squad. Commander Mark Kistler — a jolly, well-caffeinated man who wore a bandolier stocked with crayons instead of bullets — would give basic drawing lessons on topics like foreshortening, contouring and shading. “I remember being very intrigued by his instructions about how to draw buildings,” Ungemach said. “It was my first time learning how to make two dimensions become three dimensions with a set of lines.” Ungemach said his mature style of highly detailed two- and three-point perspective drawings is an evolution of his childhood passions for Dr. Seuss, M.C. Escher and the gritty Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics drawn by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, which he spent hours studying and tracing. Today, he describes himself as “a grown man who draws animals with robot parts, hairy worm things, and astronauts for a living” — a nerdy child’s dream job. “My work is an extremely refined version of stuff I was doing when I was a kid,” he said. “I just want it to look cool, to have some unexpected things.”
‘Hey, look at my portfolio’ As a teenager, Ungemach dabbled in graffiti because, he said, “it was an artsy way to be kind of a badass.” But after he was arrested for the second time, his mother, Sue, put her foot down. “She demanded I channel my art into something less criminal,” Ungemach said. In 2000, he enrolled in the graphic design program at the Art Institutes, where he first learned how to use a computer. “A lot of my peers were zooming around, checking their email, and I barely knew how to turn it off,” he said. He quit school in 2002 and soon landed a job at the Hollywood Video near Franklin & Hennepin, now the site of The Lowry.
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He considered becoming a rapper until he realized that his music — “angsty teenage stuff” — wasn’t very good. But he networked with local hip hop acts and got his first paid gigs designing flyers and album covers for bands like Sean Anonymous and the Unknown Prophets. When people affiliated with the Rhymesayers record label came into the Hollywood Video and rented a movie, Ungemach would waive their late fees in exchange for free albums. As he grew older, he kept working to perfect his art. “When I was young, I had a really drippy,
sloppy style,” he said, “and then I gradually started adding more and more lines and getting a lot more controlled and doing more dense linework. As I was adding lines, it kept on not feeling done until I had added more lines and more textures and more stippling.” By his late 20s, Ungemach was working at the Uptown Kinkos and determined to turn his drawings into a career. Ungemach made a sleek spiral-bound portfolio (“A benefit of working at Kinko’s was I was able to steal a lot of free prints”) and would carry SEE UNGEMACH / PAGE B4
Artist Chuck Ungemach poses next to a mural he made to promote Minnesota tourism at the 2018 Super Bowl. He says his work is “an extremely refined version of stuff I was doing when I was a kid.” Submitted image
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it with him wherever he went. “Whoever was on stage at First Ave, I’d go up to them and harass them afterwards: ‘Hey, look at my portfolio,’” he said. “I’d try to get work any way I could.” Eventually, things began to fall into place. He was asked to draw a few covers for Vita.mn. A music promoter he met at Kinkos invited him to do live painting at a music festival in Harmony Park. People started seeing his art around town and offering him work. “A bunch of small breaks added up into a large break,” Ungemach said. “It felt like I was pushing a rock uphill my entire 20s and around age 28, I felt like I didn’t have to push as hard.”
A beer career Ungemach started designing cans for Indeed in 2012, a year after the brewery launched. He ignored the brewery’s first email, but the co-founders tracked him down at the Nomad and persuaded him that they were a legitimate business and not “some basement brewer.” “Before Indeed, I wasn’t a huge beer guy,” Ungemach said. “I didn’t realize until a couple years in, how big beer culture was to people.”
Ungemach rarely gets to taste the beer before he starts drawing, which caused him consternation when he designed the Midnight Ryder and Day Tripper cans. “I was really worried they’d be gross,” he said. “Thankfully, they were amazing and everyone loved them.” He said he loves the freedom the brewery gives him to be creative. “They give me a rough vibe of what they’re looking for,” he said. “They’ll be like, ‘I don’t know, it’s called Strawberry Fields. Put strawberries on it?’ And that’s like all their direction.” For a 1990s-themed IPA that came out in September 2018, the brewery put together a mood board with funky letters, wavy patterns, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air logo and Fruit Stripe’s zebra-striped gum wrappers. Ungemach produced a pink-yellow-andturquoise design with palm trees, a skateboard and what he called a “Miami Vice-ish vibe.” Kelly Moritz, the brewery’s marketing director, said that “some of the most fun days of my work career have been getting a Chuck sketch in my inbox.” “The detail is mind-boggling when you start to zoom in and look at the amount of attention
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to detail that he puts into every piece,” she said. After years of struggling, Ungemach, 38, said he is delighted that his “weird and line-y” art has finally brought him financial security. When he decided in 2008 to quit his full-time job at Copycats Media, a CD and DVD duplication service, he couldn’t afford health insurance. “If I had to go to the doctor, I’d just not pay the bill,”
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he said. His credit was destroyed and he said he “accepted the reality that I’d be poor all the time.” “Within the last two to three years I have slowly gotten out of all those holes,” he said. “I’m not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but not being below zero has been pretty great.” As far as his illustrations go, he just hopes people will enjoy looking at them.
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A tight-knit community on Aldrich Avenue in Lynnhurst has held a block party every year since 1969. Photos by Christopher Shea
A history of camaraderie Lynnhurst residents celebrate 50 years of neighborliness By Christopher Shea
Block parties are a summer ritual for just about any community, and some neighbors in Lynnhurst have made this a staple of their block for generations, as residents of the 5000 block of Aldrich Avenue South have held a party to celebrate their neighborhood every year since 1969. The all-day affair was started with the help of resident Sharron Johnson, who knocked on doors and asked nearby grocery stores for donations. Now, there’s an email list for everyone on the block, which simplifies the logistics of setting up the yearly event. “It just seemed like the right thing to do,” Johnson said. Former block parties were known to have an Elvis impersonator, a snake and a papiermache elephant. This year’s love-themed party on July 13 had a more traditional approach, starting with a morning meditation session followed by a bike parade and a game of pickleball. “We have a fun, old-fashioned neighborhood,” resident Tom Helling said. “Lots of kids, lots of fun.” At one point, he said, there were 106 children on the block. The party’s activities are not limited to those currently living on the block, as many former block residents are invited to join in on the fun, with many showing
up to drink cocktails, to sing karaoke and, later in the night, to read love poems. Today, the block party is just one of many events the neighborhood holds. In the fall, there is Blocktoberfest, which features beer. Then there’s the wintertime “Wine Around the Block,” where the adults on the block can enjoy appetizers, desserts and wine. “Instead of whining about the winter, we wine around the block,” resident Sandy Puckett said. Mostly, the purpose of these events is to celebrate the tight-knit community the block has managed to sustain for the past five decades. “Sure we have the planes come overhead, but we have camaraderie,” Johnson said. One year, half the block was without electricity, and neighbors strung a series of extension cords across the street. In 2004, block resident Pia Sass was in Wisconsin practicing for the Iron Man triathlon and was severely injured by a passing vehicle. During the seven months she spent in rehab, neighbors took turns providing lunch and dinner every single day. “It’s the most embracing block you can imagine,” Puckett said.
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By Dr. Teresa Hershey & Dr. Olivia Mirodone
Parasites causing diarrhea in Minneapolis dogs
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og owners should know about two common intestinal parasites, hookworm and Giardia, that are prevalent in Southwest Minneapolis. Although both are treatable, these parasites can cause significant illness in pets.
Hookworm Hookworm disease is a terrible disease for both dogs and humans. It is zoonotic, meaning it can be spread from dogs to humans. Early in the disease, dogs may have no symptoms, but during this time they can be spreading thousands of hookworm eggs daily in their stool and contaminating the environment. Later in the disease, patients will develop diarrhea and weight loss. Hookworms are voracious bloodsuckers. They attach to the intestinal lining and release an anti-coagulant to stimulate bleeding. Hookworm disease can cause anemia, and puppies that are exposed to hookworm as neonates can become so anemic that they can die. Humans that are exposed to dog hookworm typically develop a skin rash. The migrating larvae leave red, itchy tracks under the surface of the skin. The primary way hookworm is transmitted is through the stool. Dogs with adult hookworms in their gastrointestinal tract will pass hookworm eggs in the stool. These eggs are not immediately infective. It takes 2–9 days for the eggs to hatch into infective larvae. Contaminated stool left in the environment can mix with the soil and turn it into a source of contamination. These larvae live for many months in the soil, even in winter.
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Minnesota has its own cold weather hookworm that can survive freezing temperatures. It takes a community effort to help control the spread of hookworm. You can do your part to control this disease by following these tips:
Hookworm disease is zoonotic, meaning it can be spread from dogs to humans.
• Pick up your dog’s stool and throw it away as soon as it is produced. • Keep your dog on a monthly parasite preventative, even in the winter. The monthly heartworm preventative you give your dog likely protects against hookworm, but it would be prudent to double check with your vet. • Keep your dog on a leash to stop him from eating soil that may be contaminated with hookworm larvae. • Wear gloves when gardening and shoes when walking outside. It doesn’t take long for microscopic hookworm larvae to penetrate the skin and cause disease. • Wash all fresh fruits and vegetables. Hookworm can also enter people through accidental ingestion of contaminated soil. • Have your veterinarian screen your dog’s stool on a regular basis for parasite eggs, even if he is not showing diarrhea or illness. Early in the disease, dogs are usually asymptomatic and during that time (sometimes months), they can be spreading disease and contaminating their environment. The Companion Animal Parasite Council recommends that all adult dogs have a routine fecal exam for parasites twice a year.
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Giardia Giardia are single-celled parasitic organisms that infect many types of animals around the world. Humans can become infected as well, but it is rare for canine Giardia to transmit to people. Organisms are passed into the environment through feces and once outside the body, they turn into hardy, tiny cysts that can survive for months. Once they are ingested by a new host (for example from contaminated water, or a dog licking her feet after walking in the grass) the shell dissolves and every cyst releases two infectious organisms. Once free from the cyst, Giardia “swim” around inside the host’s intestines until they find a good spot to attach and feed. Once there, they can move around in different parts of the intestines looking for different nutrients. It takes about five days to two weeks for the Giardia to be passed out into the stool of an
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infected pet and diarrhea can precede the shedding. Infection is more prevalent in places with high dog density, such as dog parks, kennels and daycare facilities. Symptoms of infection can include diarrhea (sometimes bloody), vomiting and loss of appetite. Testing has become more reliable and efficient with the development of a newer test called an Elisa SNAP test. This test takes minutes and can be done while you are at the clinic for the appointment. Because of the inconsistent shedding habits of the organism, repeat testing is sometimes necessary to detect it. As with prevention of all parasites, cleaning your yard of stools daily helps greatly in reducing contamination and re-infection. Freezing temperatures and direct sunlight kill the cysts, and so do diluted bleach solutions and other chemicals.
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If Your Walls Could Talk
Photos and text by Kathy Kullberg
A prolific female homebuilder Ella Pendergast built over a dozen homes in Southwest Minneapolis in the 1920s
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hen one thinks of Tangletown houses today, the first vision that comes to mind are the two imposing shingle-style residences built by Harry Wild Jones in the 1890s on Nicollet Avenue. Later in the mid 20th century, the iconic row of Lustron homes also captures your imagination. But few today have heard of one the most prolific buildercontractors of the district — a woman named Ellen “Ella” C. Pendergast. The years between 1925 and 1928 were a hubbub of activity in Washburn Park. More than 100 houses were constructed in those four years. In 1925 alone, the number was a staggering 43. The hillsides must have been thrumming like an anthill of workers — carpenters, masons, plasterers, electricians and plumbers — their myriad voices shouting in an anvil chorus of languages. The sounds of hammers and saws never slowed down until 1929. Shouting in their midst was Ella Pendergast. From 1918 to 1930, this mighty little woman not only owned the properties but was the general contractor of 16 homes, six of which were located in what is known formally as Washburn Park, more commonly called Tangletown. Adolph Thelander, a budding young graduate of the University of Minnesota’s school of engineering, designed the first three in 1925. Another young architect Ella hired in 1926 was Roland Wilcken. By the end of 1927, she partnered with her son John “Jack” Pendergast, who designed the remaining residences.
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Community Calendar. By Ed Dykhuizen
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GARDEN–ART–MUSIC In the morning, a self-guided tour will display gardens and local artists. Starting at 3:30 p.m., Tangletown Gardens and Wise Acre will be filled with Wise Acre street food, beverages and live music.
When: Saturday, July 27 Where: Tangletown Gardens, 5353 Nicollet Ave. Cost: Self-guided tour: $35 in advance/$40 at the door. Music festival: $5 entry for non-tourgoers. Info: tangletowngardens.com
GREENWAY GLOW ARTS FESTIVAL This annual festival features illuminated art, live performances, local food and craft beer. Everyone is invited to join the VIP Bike Ride to raise funds for the Greenway. Riders will get free food, drinks, ice cream, glowing lights and more.
When: 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday, July 27 Where: The length of the Midtown Greenway, including the Whittier neighborhood Cost: Free Info: go.midtowngreenway.org/glow
CELLULAR CINEMA 48 Cellular Cinema is the only regularly occurring event in Minneapolis or St. Paul that features short-form, experimental contemporary moving image art.
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 31 Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl and Theater, 810 W. Lake St. Cost: $6–$12, sliding scale Info: cellularcinema.org
VILLAGE WARDROBES: TRADITIONAL DRESS FROM WESTERN AND CENTRAL UKRAINE Dating from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, the folk dress on display gives a glimpse into Ukraine’s rich regional clothing traditions.
25TH ARTCAR+ARTBIKE PARADE The parade of decorated cars and bikes begins at 5 p.m. at Lake Harriet Rose Garden. There will be a post-parade party at House of Balls and fireworks at dusk.
When: Saturday, July 27 Where: Lake Harriet Cost: Free Info: artcarparade.com
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT People from the Whittier neighborhood and beyond are invited to share in activities and food for all ages.
When: 6 p.m.–8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 Where: Whittier Park Cost: Free Info: minneapolisparks.org
When: On view through Sunday, Nov. 3 Where: The Museum of Russian Art, 5500 Stevens Ave. S. Cost: Included in museum admission Info: tmora.org
HOT OFF THE PRESS: THE 35TH COOPERATIVE EXHIBITION This exhibition features 80 prints by 39 local members of Highpoint Center for Printmaking’s studio cooperative. The prints will be on view and available for purchase.
When: Through Saturday, Aug. 31 Where: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, 912 W. Lake St. Cost: Free Info: highpointprintmaking.org
KICKIN’ BACK AT KENNY SUMMER FESTIVAL DJ JU!CE will be spinning family-friendly tunes and there will be family events like the Hokey Pokey and a hula hoop contest, free kids’ activities, a classic car show and information tables from local businesses and community partners.
When: 5:30 p.m.–8 p.m. Thursday, July 25 Where: Kenny Park, 1328 W. 58th St. Cost: Donations of $5 per child are recommended Info: kennyneighborhood.org
MANUAL TRANSMISSION: ENTANGLEMENTS Entanglements looks at the layers of connections and networks that we live within and create for ourselves. Curated by artist Allison Ruby, Manual Transmission is Red Garage Studio’s summertime series of monthly exhibitions and participatory events.
When: Opening party 7 p.m. Friday, July 26; show runs July 26–Aug. 4 Where: Red Garage Studio, 3640 Garfield Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: redgaragestudio.com
8 CELLOS Join the Delphia Cello Quartet for a special performance of Heitor Villa Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1” with eight female cellists. The ensemble will also be playing octet renditions of some of Delphia’s original arrangements.
When: 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 Where: Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Ave. Cost: $10 advance, $12 at the door Info: icehousempls.com
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Get Out Guide.
UPTOWN ART FAIR
By Sheila Regan
POWDERHORN ART FAIR
LORING PARK ART FESTIVAL
New at the Powderhorn Art Fair this year is the first ever Wine Garden at the Fair, where visitors can peruse wines, cheeses and chocolates as sustenance for their day of art viewing and buying. Over 200 artists will be exhibiting at this year’s festival, showing off 20 different artistic disciplines. Young artists are part of the festival as well, taking part in a youth showcase now in its second year.
Loring Park offers the added beauty of ponds, trees, fountains and greenery to its line-up of 140 artists. Painters, sculptors, weavers, photographers and others are joined by musical groups such as the Americana-Rock band Zoë Says Go, the vocal group The Spots and The Stone Arch Jazz band. There are also ballroom dance lessons provided by Arthur Murray and activities by Improv Parenting, offering lots of creative activities for kids of all ages.
When: 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 Where: Powderhorn Park, 3400 15th Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: ppna.org/powderhorn-art-fair
When: 10 a.m.– 6 pm. Saturday, July 27; 10 a.m.– 5 p.m. Sunday, July 28 Where: Loring Park, 1382 Willow St. Cost: Free Info: loringparkfestival.com
Of all the summer art fairs in Minneapolis, the Uptown Art Fair is the biggest and the oldest, bringing in a whopping 350 artists to Hennepin Avenue and The Mall. Besides the exhibiting artists, there are 25 food vendors (including vegan options) and a beer garden run by Indeed Brewing Co., featuring the Uptown Art Fair Hibiscus Shenanigans Brew. Over at the Culinary Art Stage, watch chefs and artists put their mouth-watering culinary skills to the test, while Corner Coffee’s Latte Art Throwdown gives baristas the opportunity to share their creative talents.
When: 12 p.m.– 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2; 10 a.m.– 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3; 10 a.m.–5 pm. Sunday, Aug. 4 Where: Lake & Hennepin Cost: Free Info: uptownminneapolis.com/uptown-art-fair
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By Sarah Woutat
Preserving the market bounty
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t’s the middle of the market season and there is so much produce to choose from each week. Tomatoes are trickling in, beets and carrots are abundant, potatoes, cucumbers, cabbage and summer squash are here weekly, and the list goes on. Although it may seem early to think about preserving for the winter, there are a number of simple things you can do to lock in the flavor of some of your summer favorites. Here are a few tips: Basil: Put the leaves in a food processor with some olive oil and process until smooth. Then freeze in ice cube trays for a wonderful addition to pastas and sauces in the winter. Parsley: Put the leaves in a food processor and chop. Then fill ice cube trays halfway with parsley and just enough water to cover. Add to soups and sauces in the winter. Beans: Snap off ends and blanch in soft boiling water for three minutes, then immediately transfer to an ice water bath to stop the cooking. Drain and freeze in a zipper storage bag. Peppers: Chop to your preferred size and freeze in a zipper bag. Celery: Either trim stalks and freeze whole,
You can preserve basil in ice cube trays for a wonderful addition to pastas and sauces in the winter. Photo by Sarah Woutat
or chop finely and freeze for mirepoix. I use the whole stalks for soups in the winter. Eggplant: Cut into large chunks and toss with olive oil and salt. Roast at 450 degrees until browned. Let cool, then freeze on a cookie sheet (so they don’t stick together). Once frozen, place in a zipper bag in the freezer. To use, thaw and toss with pasta or rice, or warm in the oven as a side dish. Broccoli and cauliflower: Cut into bite-size pieces. Blanch in boiling water for three minutes and move immediately into an ice water bath to stop the cooking. Drain and freeze in zipper bags. Tomatoes: I freeze tomatoes whole, with skin and seeds on. Depending on the size of the tomato, you may want to cut it up. These can be made into sauce in the winter. Kale: Tear the leaves into pieces and stuff into a zipper bag in the freezer. Break off a chunk when you’re ready to use them. They’re lovely in soups or as a side. Make sure you ask your farmers if you can order large quantities of produce for preserving, including tomatoes for canning or cucumbers for pickling. And ask them how they preserve the harvest!
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