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WEDGE IN LINE FOR LONG-AWAITED REZONING
Plan focuses density at neighborhood’s edges
By Dylan Thomas dthomas@southwestjournal.com
The land underlying this 1960s apartment building at 26th & Bryant in Lowry Hill East is zoned R6. A planned rezoning would prevent the two-and-ahalf-story walkup from being replaced by a building as tall as six stories. Photo by Dylan Thomas
Pokemon Go is an urban-centric game.
A proposed rezoning of Lowry Hill East would erase the remaining patches of the city’s highestdensity residential zoning district from the neighborhood’s interior. Those scattered areas of R6 zoning are a decades-old source of consternation in the neighborhood better known as The Wedge, fueling fears that existing homes could be replaced by out-of-scale condo or apartment buildings whenever market conditions are right. R6 zoning allows for building heights of up to 84 feet, or six stories, without the need for a conditional use permit. “No one has ever built a building of that size (in the Wedge’s interior), but it’s caused stress and tension in the neighborhood for decades,” said Ward 10 City Council Member Lisa Bender, who lives in The Wedge and introduced the amendment to the city’s zoning code in July. There are four small islands of R6 zoning in the neighborhood between 24th and 28th streets that would be downzoned to R4 under the plan. Larger swaths of R6 exist north of 24th Street and within a block or two of Hennepin Avenue on the neighborhood’s west side, and the rezoning plan for those areas includes some R5 — which like R6 is considered a “high-density” SEE REZONING / PAGE A13
City Council blocks $15 minimum wage ballot measure An alternative plan establishing a new city minimum wage ordinance moves ahead
The surprising urban geography of Pokemon Go By Bill Lindeke
You see them chasing digital dreams, shadows of their childhood. Young people ambling slowly with faces pressed to their phones, clumps plotting on benches. It’s Pokemon Go, the new game!
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While expressing strong support for increasing wages in the city, the City Council voted Aug. 5 to block a proposed charter amendment from the ballot this fall that would let voters decide to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. Council members cited an advisory legal opinion from City Attorney Susan Segal arguing that the proposal is not a “proper subject” for the city’s charter since it doesn’t allow for ordinances via citizen petitions. The initial vote on the ballot measure
came during an emotionally charged meeting in City Council chambers Aug. 3 that drew a packed crowd supportive of increasing the city’s minimum wage. Protesters chanted throughout the meeting and interrupted proceedings over the lunch hour, prompting the Council to take a short recess. Some carried signs reading: “Don’t let City Hall steal your vote!” The vote on blocking the measure from the ballot was 10-2. Council Members Cam SEE MINIMUM WAGE / PAGE A14
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Barton principal will remain in place Minneapolis Public Schools reaffirmed a decision to retain the Barton Open School principal in his current position, despite the calls of some parents for his removal after a popular teacher was put on leave in March. In July, veteran teacher Flory Sommers described the administrative leave she served last school year as “retaliation” by first-year Principal Jonas Beugen. But in a letter to families posted on the school’s website Aug. 1, Chief of School Michael Thomas indicated district administrators share responsibility for an episode that has divided the school community. “I believe the current discord that exists at Barton is the result of many factors that will need to be mediated and healed, but most specifically a systemic issue of central office administrative
procedures and practices that created significant disruption to the learning community,” Thomas wrote in the letter. “This is not something I take lightly and I will ensure the accountability for such conditions will be addressed in a manner to not allow this to occur in the future for any school.” Sommers, a union steward, said she was placed on leave after she challenged the principal’s decision to alter the job description of a colleague, with the effect of eliminating the position of one of just a few teachers of color at Barton. Her attorney, Gregg Corwin, said Sommers was improperly pressured to share details from private conversations with coworkers, adding that the district violated her free speech rights by telling her she could have no contact with other
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teachers, students or their parents during her leave. Sommers filed a union grievance and in May submitted a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Corwin said the complaint was passed on to the Office of Civil Rights. Both Beugen and a district spokesperson said they could not provide a full response to Sommers’ claims without her permission to share personnel data considered private under state law. Asked to grant that permission for a recent news story, Sommers and her attorney declined. Sommers went public with her story at the July 12 Board of Education meeting. During the meeting’s public comment period, several
students and parents questioned Beugen’s ability to lead the school. Another group of Barton parents then launched an online petition calling for the dispute to be resolved in mediation. Thomas’ letter commits the district to maintaining open lines of communication with Barton families. “Together we will create an ongoing dialogue to ensure you feel fully informed and your voice is heard,” he wrote. “This will start with regular updates, meetings, and listening sessions.” Beugen became Barton’s third principal in three years when he was assigned to the school in the summer of 2015.
Meet the superintendent There are six upcoming opportunities to meet new Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff. The district scheduled the community receptions for Graff just before and after the start of the 2016–2017 school year on Aug. 29. Those dates include: • Aug. 17: 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. at Elliot Park
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• Sept. 10: 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m. at Davis Service Center, 1250 W. Broadway Ave., during Open Streets Broadway
• Sept. 7: 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. at Brian Coyle Center, 420 15th Ave. S.
• Sept. 18: noon–2 p.m. at a location yet to be determined during Open Streets Nicollet.
• Sept. 10: 9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. at Turtle Bread,
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Johan Podlewski, co-founder of the new coffee and tea bar Wesley Andrews on East 26th Street. Photo by Michelle Bruch
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Wesley Andrews A new independent coffee and tea bar is taking shape at the former Joe’s Chicken Shack building at 109 E. 26th St. The shop Wesley Andrews aims to open by Oct. 1. The concept came out of a gathering at Golden Leaf Tobacco, where a group of friends shared cigars, played poker and had great conversation. Johan Podlewski and Jared Thompson (with middle names Andrew and Wesley) decided they should start a business based on relationships, with drinks served as “conversation complements.” “Our business isn’t based on a product, it’s based on relationships,” said Podlewski, who works in cyber security at UnitedHealth Group. “We’re training workers and staff to encourage conversation.” The relationships extend to the producers as well. Every bag of coffee will come with a postcard that tells the story of its farmer. They include Don Cesar Urena, a second-generation
farmer in the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica; and Two Cousins Espresso, based at the Santa Ines Brazilian family farm. Podlewski said Tieguanyin tea by Master Qi Quan in China retains the stem, something rarely seen, which adds a smooth sweetness to the tea after steeping for 12 hours. “They’re the most beautiful teas I’ve ever seen,” he said. The owners are designing a shop with a large bar, wood floors, preserved brick walls, counter seating by the window, and a limited amount of food that’s made to pair with specific beverages — an orange zest pastry with espresso, for example. Previews of the coffee have been available at the Whittier Farmers Market on Saturdays, where they trade coffee for honey and sell beans they’ve roasted at The Beat Coffeehouse. For more information, visit wesleyandrews.cc.
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Hell Bent Fitness is expanding to take on the former Tower Games footprint two doors down at 4807 Nicollet Ave. The expansion provides more gym space for kids. Jill Loesch is a Minneapolis parent and elementary educator who founded the studio with her husband Jason. She said that as kids develop and build muscle memory, it’s important they understand how their bodies work and how to use correct form. It’s particularly important for kids who participate in sports year-round, she said. “They’re not getting the proper conditioning,” she said. “Kids are having many more injuries that you typically see in adults.” Hell Bent instructors don’t focus on being the fastest. Instead, they focus on pushing to the end and setting personal challenges. With kids
facing busy schedules and many responsibilities, Loesch wants to make sure kids have fun and can handle pressure of not being the best. “So much in life is really 90 percent mental,” Loesch said. “What are we doing to help build mental capacity, especially in young kids?” In the fall, Loesch and former Vikings cheerleader Annalisa Strohschein will offer a six-week class combining dance and fitness. Another trainer will teach Olympic lifting to small groups of kids. And for adult women, a six-week Little Black Dress project offers unlimited class access and special sessions covering grocery lists and recipes. “At the end of the program, we go out in a little black dress and celebrate,” Loesch said. For more information, visit hellbentfitness.com.
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Trattoria Tosca has closed “after 10 good years in the Linden Hills neighborhood,” the restaurant announced on its website. “We do not anticipate that it will reopen. Thank you for [your] patronage.” Café Levain is also closing at 48th & Chicago after 14 years. Gift certificates from both restaurants can be redeemed for food, merchandise or cash at Turtle Bread. In a 2015 Minneapolis Farmers Market podcast, owner Harvey McLain said he worked as a teacher in Hopkins before entering law school and practicing busi-
ness law for many years. He said when his wife died in 1991, they had 13-month-old and five-year-old children, and he couldn’t continue his extensive business travel. “I looked around for something else to do … there was a growing renaissance in artisan bread at the time, so I figured I could try it,” he said in the interview. His 1993 Turtle Bread venture in Linden Hills expanded to include other locations and restaurants. Trattoria Tosca was named for McLain’s favorite opera.
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Uptown VFW Renovations are finished at the Uptown VFW, which now boasts the largest sidewalk patio in the city at 90 feet. While the old bar area is still intact, there is an additional street-facing bar and a large room for performances. “We can fit 400 people in there,” said Post 246 Commander Dominic Anspach. In addition to the long-running karaoke, meat raffle and Bingo nights, the VFW has started hosting wrestling events, dance parties and live music. A bags league and other yard games will start indoors this winter. The VFW now opens at 11 a.m. for lunch,
offering $10 weekday specials for any menu item and a beer. The following is a rundown of other new events in the expanded space: • A free comedy show, featuring nationally touring comics, is the third Tuesday of the month • DJ Hotpants performs on the third Friday of every month • Live music is every Friday and Saturday, including monthly performances by the band Casual Confusion
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Poppy currently shares space with SHU Global Footwear, which is based in St. Paul. It’s owned by Stephanie Green, a fourth-generation shoe store owner. (The family tells stories of using X-ray machines to perfect a shoe’s fit.) “I believe that shoes can look good and feel good and be good for your feet,” Green said. She carries TOMS; Cydwoq shoes handmade in California; and NAOT, a peacepromoting brand based in Israel where shoes are jointly made by Israelis and Palestinians. Poppy is open Monday thru Friday from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Freese has noticed that buying habits have changed over time. The 70s and 80s were “absolutely fabulous,” while 2008 was “devastating,” she said. While winter holiday merchandise remains popular, summer holidays and Halloween have become less busy. Freese has always required her buyers to work on the sales floor incognito. Longtime buyer Peggy Merrill (Freese provided shelf space for her craft rings when she was a little girl) said she chooses eccentric, fun merchandise that match Freese’s museumquality taste. Merchandise marked as a Bibelot “classic” has been around for decades, such as the Boards by Joel (a second-generation business that uses scrap wood from Minnesota), origami peace cranes, and Thymes fragrances. Freese said the French name Bibelot refers to a “most precious object.” “Somehow, Bibelot is something that touches people,” she said. “…It has been a very precious experience to many people, especially those that grew up in it.” Bibelot is marking the anniversary with weekly gift card drawings and a storewide sale Sept. 16-18.
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finishes, with larger-than-average outdoor spaces and balconies. Rents start at $2,500 per month and top out at $10,000 per month, with average units at 1,200-1,300 square feet. A community presentation on the plan for the corner pocket park is Tuesday, Aug. 16 from 6:30-8 p.m. at Linden Hills Park. A landscape architect will present project drawings for the rebuilt park on the corner.
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Ilhan Omar on track to be first Somali-American legislator in nation Ilhan Omar won the DFL primary election for the state House 60B seat Aug. 9, defeating longtime legislator Phyllis Kahn and putting her on a path to become the first Somali-American legislator in the country. The district, which includes Nicollet Island, the U of M area and Cedar Riverside, leans heavily DFL. The Republican Omar candidate for the seat is Abdimalik Askar. The DFL primary voter breakdown for the seat was 40.97 percent for Omar, 29.62 percent for Noor and 29.41 percent for Kahn. Omar has worked as director of the Women Organizing Women Network, which advocates for East African women to get involved in the political process. “We are uniting the diverse voices of our district — long term residents, East African immigrants and students. I will make sure their voices are heard at the Capitol,” she said. “I look forward to winning the general election in November
and then co-governing and advancing the shared progressive values of our district when the legislative session begins after the first of the year.” Kahn was first elected to the Legislature in 1972. She has pointed to the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act and her record on the environment, gender equity and funding for parks and trails, among other things, as key accomplishments. Noor is executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota. He lost to Kahn in a primary race in 2014 for the 60B seat. Former Mayor R.T. Rybak, an Omar supporter, wrote the following on his Facebook page after the primary results came in: “A country at a crossroads on immigration should see the shining example of Ilhan Omar who tonight becomes the 1st Somali state rep in the USA. From a refugee camp to the state Capitol with intelligence and insight. This is a wonderful story to tell as Americans and a great source of pride for the state of Minnesota’s open arms.”
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uring last year’s NBA championship run, Golden State Warriors shooting savant Stephen Curry began augmenting his training, massage and diet routine with an alternative body recovery method: Floating in a sensory-deprivation tank filled with 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt. “It’s an opportunity to just relax and get away from all the stress on court and in life but it obviously has medical benefits with the salt,” Curry said in an interview with ESPN, who accompanied the NBA’s reigning MVP and his teammate, Harrison Barnes, to their float center of choice, the Reboot Float Spa in San Francisco. “I have a very clear head when it’s done, and it shows in the days after floating. It gives me a nice boost of focus and perspective. The more I do it, the more I get from it.” ESPN credits the Warriors’ success to “floating, the practice du jour of the wellness world,” and they’re not alone. Invented in 1954 by John C. Lilly as a fast track to meditation that simultaneously decompresses the spine and releases tension in muscles as the salt’s magnesium sulfate absorbs into the body, floating has made its way to a storefront on 43rd & Bryant. Opened in April, Float Foundation (floatfoundation.net) is tucked into a busy intersection whose noisy neighbors include Clara Barton Open School, the Golf Hospital, Piccolo restaurant, two hair salons, and the steady hum of cars, buses, airplanes and one of the busiest bike paths in the city. But Float Foundation provides respite from a noisy world, and I speak from experience. I took in my first float recently, and I’m here to echo Curry’s hosannas for the healing. My 60-minute float (an introductory 60-minute float at Float Foundation costs $49 and an introductory 90-minute float is $59) provided me with the perfect meditation environment (the only sound is your breath and your fading mind chatter) and made my
biking and basketball muscles feel almost new again. Bikes? Buses? For all I knew I was on the moon, or bobbing on the ocean, and as I write this, my mind feels sharper. I can’t wait to float again, and again. “Ninety-nine percent of people come out and say it’s amazing, and I remember that’s how I felt the first time I did it, and I wanted to share that feeling,” said Float Foundation owner T.J. Stalzer, whose day job is with Fabcon Precast, a wall panel manufacturer in Minneapolis. “Every float is different. I work a lot on the computer so I have a lot of neck and shoulder stuff going on, and the first time I got out of the tank I felt rejuvenated and the everyday aches and pains were gone and I felt relief and less anxiety. I just felt clearer, sharper, a little bit more connected, and a different sort of awareness that was really pretty profound. “The more you do it, it becomes more of a practice. It’s just like meditating. If you get in a routine with your practice, you get into that zone. I try to do it once a week, sometimes twice.” Why? “Physically, it lowers cortisol (the stress hormone) levels and adrenal levels in your blood,” he said. “Cortisol is stress so it’s physically taking stress out of your system. It physically and mentally refreshes you. Magnesium is essential for over 300 enzyme functions in the body, so it’s central for energy creation and all sorts of stuff, so you just get out of the tank feeling better because everybody’s deficient in magnesium. “So you’re absorbing that, your body’s doing good things with it, and you just get out feeling great. The aches and pains pretty much go away. I’ve had people who’ve had back surgery and they couldn’t put on their own socks, and they leave here and they can put on their socks again or they can walk without a cane, and they just rave about how much of a better quality of life they can have through a non-narcotic
type of a treatment.” Float Foundation isn’t the only floating game in town, but Stalzer takes pride in the spaciousness of the floating rooms, as opposed to his competitors’ more coffin-like pods. The rooms are big and private and come with showers and all the other amenities of a spa. “I looked around and saw that most of what’s available are the smaller tanks, or pods, which there are a lot of preconceived fears around, with the claustrophobia,” said Stalzer, an Iowa native who studied business at Iowa State and received his master’s degree in business from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. “So my goal was to bring it to a wider demographic of people and try to combat some of those fears with a different approach. My rooms have glass doors and all of that that really open it up and make it seem a little less claustrophobic and a little bit more appealing. “This is trending really well, the market conditions were right, and it’s something I really believe in. There are a lot of things you could make money on, but you’ve got to feel good about it, too, and this fits that. I feel like I could make a successful business out of this and bring a benefit to people. “It’s kind of having a resurgence. There was a time when it was peaking, and during the AIDS epidemic people were scared of [baths in] public spaces, but now people are remembering that there are so many great benefits. Now that we’ve learned more about HIV, there’s a lot less fear around public spaces and there’s also procedures around sanitation and cleaning that are followed. “There’s somewhere around 450 float centers around the United States, and our business has been growing steadily since April. July was our best month. The way things are trending, I feel really good about where we’re going.”
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Changes at the Southwest Journal This is the last edition of the Southwest Journal I will edit in my 10-year tenure here. I am moving on to start a new job with the City of Minneapolis’ Communications Department. Dylan Thomas, who has long served as our assistant editor, is taking the reins of the newspaper as the new editor. I am confident he will do an awesome job with both the Southwest Journal and the Journal. I have loved this job so much and put out well over 500 newspapers during my time as editor. Thanks so much to all of our readers and the many amazing people in the community who have shared
their stories with me over the years. I will be forever grateful to our publishers Janis Hall and Terry Gahan for giving me this opportunity. I am also thrilled to be joining the city at a time of so much transformational change. My time at the Journals has given me a chance to learn so much about Minneapolis — a city I love very much. I have had the opportunity to cover so many important events in the recent history of our city, including the tragic I-35W bridge collapse in 2007, the crowded 2013 mayoral race and the recent protests over the police shooting deaths of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile. We have also published many special in-depth projects that have examined critical issues in Minneapolis, including reports on gun violence, youth homelessness and rail safety. I am very proud of our work on those stories.
It takes a strong and committed team to put out the Journals, and I have been honored to work with so many talented people, including our publishers, a design team led by Dana Croatt, a stellar sales crew, admin staff, our veteran distribution manager Marlo Johnson, our outstanding reporting team (Dylan Thomas, Michelle Bruch and Eric Best), and a long list of fabulous contributing writers and columnists who add a mix of unique voices to the paper. I have also worked with dozens of young journalists over the years who have contributed their time and talents as interns. My life has been so enriched by my time here. Thank you for all your support and for reading us! — Sarah McKenzie
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Hennepin Theatre Trust plans new home The Hennepin Theatre Trust is looking to get closer to its historic theaters by making the former Solera building its permanent home. The nonprofit, which owns the Orpheum, Pantages and State theaters on Hennepin Avenue, has filed plans to buy and renovate the three-story building at the corner of 9th & Hennepin to create new offices and event spaces. The 31,000-square-foot building has sat vacant since the Spanish restaurant closed in January 2015 after a decade in business. The nonprofit plans to use the main floor to serve donors and subscribers, and to expand the lobby and lounge in the adjacent Orpheum Theatre, according to plans submitted to the City
Council’s Community Development & Regulatory Services Committee. The second floor would house its offices and the third floor would have theatrical arts and education uses. The Trust plans to use the building’s rooftop as an outdoor lounge and classroom. The Trust currently has offices in City Center where it also operates the approximately 300-seat New Century Theatre. The Trust is looking for a $2.8 million loan and a $250,000 grant from the city for the approximately $3.3 million project, which would include $2.3 million to acquire the building and $1 million for planning and renovation costs. It also plans to use $250,000 of its own funding.
The City Council approved the loan and grant Aug. 5. The nonprofit plans to raise $5 million over the next decade as part of a capital campaign, with a “major component” coming from the naming rights for the first-floor donor lounge. A spokesman said they anticipate fundraising and design work to begin as early as September. Tom Hoch, the Trust’s president and CEO, told council members that the project will give them room to expand and will increase property values in the area. It’s also an ideal location for the organization, Hoch said, because of their projects to activate Hennepin Avenue, including storefront art
initiative Made Here, its WeDo cultural district and works like the Bob Dylan mural from artist Eduardo Kobra. “This is going to give us a great hub for doing that,” he said. Council Member John Quincy (Ward 11) said the loan has little risk due to the city’s strong partnership with the nonprofit, which has owned the theaters for over a decade. “I think from a financial point of view it’s commons sense for the city to take care of some of our greatest assets,” he said. — Eric Best
New city hiring goals aim to increase diversity The City Council has signed off on new hiring goals for the city aimed at diversifying the city’s workforce to ensure employees reflect the demographics of Minneapolis. The goals include having people of color make up 41 percent of new hires and women 45 percent of new employees by 2022. City staff have also been tasked with creating a website to track progress on the hiring goals. Currently the city’s workforce is 26 percent people of color and 29 percent women, according to a recent presentation to the City Council’s Committee of the Whole.
Overall, the city’s workforce includes 3,936 people. Deb Krueger, a recruiting manager at the city, said increases in hiring of people of color and women in recent years have been offset by turnover. “In analyzing workforce data and trends for the last six years, it clearly indicates that strategies need to focus on both hiring and retention, as hiring alone is not the single solution for increasing the representation of people of color and females in our workforce,” she said. Patience Ferguson, the city’s human resources
director, said it will be important for the city to track data to ensure it’s making progress. “Data is very important to be able to drive decision making regarding our enterprise workforce,” she said. “… We believe that in order to reach these very ambitious, yet aspirational goals, it’s going to take a multifaceted approach.” The Human Resources Department has also reviewed job descriptions to eliminate artificial barriers for applicants and developed strategic plans for targeted recruitment. The department has also rolled out additional training for hiring managers, including one on
unconscious bias in the hiring process. Ferguson said the city is also working on improving the “onboarding” process for new employees and plans to develop a mentoring program to improve retention. The City Council also recently voted to amend the City Charter to eliminate the Rule of 3, which required the city to hire applicants that scored the highest on a hiring test. It’s been an obstacle to hiring more diverse employees. — Sarah McKenzie
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But I can tell you about the world of PoGo, how and why the Pokemon are where they are. The Pokestops are not spread evenly through the city. Instead they center in certain places, hang out in neighborhoods. There’s no grand conspiracy, but there are some logics at work that can help make sense of the world of Pokemon Go. But first, an admission. I have only played Pokemon Go for a hot minute, but I spent six months or so playing its predecessor, Ingress. Partly this was in preparation for an article I was working on about the connection between walking and mobile technology, and partly this was because the game is fun and addictive. But the map of “Pokestops” and Pokemon gyms” is based almost completely on the Ingress map of “portals.” As with Ingress portals, Pokestops are not evenly distributed. Here are some patterns that emerge.
1. Pokestops are walkable The first rule of thumb forPokestops is that they require walkability. There are far more Pokestops in areas with sidewalks and a street grid than in the curving suburban culs-de-sac. That means that downtowns, college campuses, and main streets have tons of Pokestops. For example, Lake Street or Hennepin Avenue are Pokemon hot beds, as is the entire downtown Minneapolis area. The University of Minnesota is chock full of Pokestops, offering one of the densest clusters in the entire metro. The Uptown area: Lake, Hennepin, and Lyndale are Pokestop hotbeds.
The city’s parks and neighborhoods are hotbeds for Pokestops. Submitted photos
2. Pokestops depend on placemaking Ingress portals (aka Pokestops) were originally intended to be based on public art or public buildings. For example, just about every piece of art in the Walker sculpture garden is a Pokestop. Eventually, as players added portals into the database, they expanded to include things like local businesses, interesting architecture, and parks. In fact, Pokestops can be found at just about anything that is NOT a plain residential building. (This is why the State Fairgrounds, where everything is a “landmark”
a church a block away, a little free library, the empty yoga studio, another little free library, the empty coffee shop, the Catholic church plus the Catholic church school and the church rectory (for a total of three Pokestops on the same block), etc. Eventually you get down to Harriet Island, full of Pokestops, or the businesses along Cesar Chavez Street, a bunch of other parks, etc. The equation: place equals Pokemon, which is another reason why homogenous neighborhoods in the suburbs are largely Pokemon deserts.
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3. Pokestops reflect the tastes of educated white men The final rule-of-thumb is that Ingress appealed to tech nerds and gamers, who are overwhelmingly whiter, younger, wealthier, and better-educated than the population as a whole. These people tend to live and work in certain areas, and so the Ingress portals (aka Pokestops) are going to reflect their tastes and movement patterns — thus the focus on downtowns, tech areas, universities, brewery-proximate neighborhoods, etc. And there’s surely a reverse tendency of areas with less frequent tech yuppie types, such as neighborhoods with a lot of poverty, to be neglected. That said, if you actually look at the geographic map and spread of Ingress
portals (aka Pokestops), they cover the globe and there are Pokestops just about everywhere, from the Aleutian Islands to Nimrod, Minn. (Population 69). Still, I think the urban Pokemon geography might surprise most people. There was a recent article that criticized the geography of Pokemon Go, claiming that the Pokestops avoid neighborhoods of color. The article used a map of Detroit to show how Pokestops were clustered on the North side of Eight Mile Road. I don’t know Detroit very well, but I do know Minneapolis, and I’d say that, if anything, Pokemon tend to avoid boring white suburban sprawl. Pokemon favor walkability and placemaking so much that it outweighs any wealthy white male bias. What’s more, thanks to years of Ingress
WHERE TO GO Minnesota Parent magazine (Southwest Journal’s sister publication) asked their readers last month to name some of their favorite Twin Cities pokestops. Heres what they had to say: “I heard Como is full of Pikachus!” “Downtown St. Paul and the Mall of America have a ton of Pokestops!” “We were delighted with how many were around CHS Field when we went to the Saints game last night! Coming from the suburbs with very few, it felt like a bonanza of blue pokestops, and we had fun reading all the plaques on the cultural markers they corresponded with. Mears Park was very active also!” “Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.”
players scouring most city neighborhoods, the coverage of portals is fairly thorough. The result? If anything, Pokemon Go has a reverse income and race disparity. It turns out that Pokemon are urban creatures who love diversity, sidewalks, and mixed-use neighborhoods. They don’t really shy away from poor “inner city” areas. Instead, they thrive on placemaking, and they flee from white suburban sprawl. You’ll never catch a Pokemon in a gated community.
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Here’s the takeaway. Like pedal pubs and segways, Pokemon Go can be a convenient scapegoat for cultural criticism. The millennial phone zombies walking around Victory Memorial Drive on Minneapolis’ northern border are easy fodder for anyone who doesn’t know what a Porygon is, or thinks kids today bury their faces in their screens like so many ostriches. While many of those critiques are perfectly valid, it’s also safe to say that more people have spent time on the wide weird empty “green space” boulevards of Victory Memorial Drive in the past two weeks than in the previous year put together. The game legitimately encourages people to walk around and explore urban spaces. Bill Lindeke is an urban geographer. This story first appeared at Streets.mn.
“The Macalester/St. Thomas area is dense with stops, and is not only a safe area, but beautiful, too — close to the river if you want to hike.” “Handke Center in Elk River. We’ve got a battle gym!” “The State Fairgrounds have a ton of stops!”
You can play while walking. Pay attention to busy streets, but wherever Pokestops are clustered, being on foot is the key. You can play from a bike. This is probably the best way of covering a lot of Pokemon ground in a short time. You can play from a train. The Green Line stops are just long enough to grab a Pokemon, if there is one. Buses, too. You can play on a skateboard. I’m just guessing here. Unicycles seem ideal. If you played PoGo on a pogo stick, that would be pretty cool. My Death Star fantasy? I’d love to see Pokemon Go pedal pubs. (Bwahahaha!) They go slowly enough, people could focus on their phones, and you could still be mobile, hopping from gym to gym waging war.
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SOUTHWEST HIGH GRAD COMPETES AT OLYMPIC TRIALS By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com
Southwest High School graduate Jamie Cheever raced in the Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. in July. Cheever, who can run a five-minute mile pace, competed in the 3,000-meter Steeplechase. Although her race time didn’t take her to the Olympics, she’s earned cheers from local friends and family who helped support her training. Cheever typically kept parttime jobs to make ends meet while running professionally, and instead relied on savings and a GoFundMe drive this year to focus on training. She overcame chronic heel pain and trained to match her personal record after surgery on a labral tear in her hip. “Even though I’m not an Olympian, I am so thankful I was able to go after my dreams,” she said in an email. “I had a hard time believing my high school coach, Ben Zhao, when he told me I had the ability to run well at the college and professional level. Running at a city school was wonderful for many reasons, but one of them was that I didn’t get caught up in a lot of the problems that can plague high school over-achievers such as eating disorder and over-training, partly because I didn’t even understand they existed.” On Southwest High School’s website, the first sentence of Zhao’s Cross Country coaching philosophy is: “Winning is not the most important goal.”
Zhao also teaches art and ceramics. He said in an interview that he’s not a typical coach, because he’s careful not to burn out young athletes. “Everything in life is a process,” he said. “I help people realize their life is a piece of artwork. That’s why I’m an art teacher.” Jamie said that throughout her athletic journey, she’s most proud that she’s given it her all without cheating. “Unfortunately, cheating through drugs or under-eating is too prevalent at the professional level (under-eating is common in all levels), and I am so grateful I was taught and mentored to have a holistic mind, body, spirit approach to running that has helped me to approach running in a healthy way,” she said. Cheever’s dad, Michael, said it’s been fun to see many of Jamie’s Gopher teammates compete in Eugene. Former Gophers Ben Blankenship and South High School graduate Hassan Mead made the Olympic team. In 2014, Mead set a personal-best time of 13:02.80 in the 5,000-meter, according to Team USA, and ranked No. 10 all-time in the U.S. at that distance. Now that the trials are over, alcohol and sugar can re-enter Jamie’s diet after a 10-month hiatus. She’s currently spending the summer racing and traveling in Europe. Michael said Jamie is engaged and plans to return to Minnesota for grad school to finish
Jamie Cheever trains at the University of Washington (left) and at the Southwest High School weight room while home for the winter holidays. Submitted photos
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A long time coming The Wedge rezoning has been a long time coming, and not everyone is satisfied now that it’s finally here. A plan to rezone the neighborhood in the early 2000s fell apart when a Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association taskforce and city staff each forwarded their own plans. That rezoning study was tabled indefinitely in 2004. LHENA members revived the rezoning effort in 2013 when, as the effects of the recession faded, redevelopment pressure on the neighborhood rose. A turning point for neighborhood activists was the demolition of a boarding house at 2320 Colfax Ave. S. that some considered
An island of high-density R6 zoning east of Mueller Park includes two apartment buildings and a single-family home. It would be downzoned to mediumdensity R4 under a city proposal. Photo by Dylan Thomas
BE HEARD Public comment periods for two Uptown-area rezoning studies open Aug. 15. For more information on the Lowry Hill East Rezoning Study, go to: ci.minneapolis. mn.us/cped/projects/HennepinLyndaleLakeNicolletPOrezoning For more information on the Hennepin Lyndale Nicollet Lake Pedestrian Oriented Overlay Study, go to: minneapolismn.gov/cped/projects/ LowryHillEastRezoningStudy
historic for its connections to master builder T.P. Healy. The Lander Group’s four-story, 42-unit Motiv Apartments opened on that site earlier this year. In preparation for the rezoning study, the city’s department of Community Planning and Economic Development first undertook a detailed examination of 325 Wedge properties. The goal was to get a better understanding of how the density and built environment of the neighborhood changed over time, said Principal City Planner Brian Schaffer. Schaffer’s research uncovered “little to no redevelopment” in the Wedge between about 1974 and very recently. But the Wedge does have more areas with R6 zoning than other neighborhoods that ring downtown — remnants of the mid-century urban renewal period, when city plans targeted the neighborhood for high-density
residential development. Now city policies call for such high-density development to be focused on transportation corridors like the three that form the Wedge’s borders: Hennepin and Lyndale avenues and Lake Street. Schaffer said the current rezoning proposal would bring the Wedge’s zoning in-line with those policies, but some neighborhood residents remained skeptical. “The R4 (zoning) is so similar to the R6 it doesn’t make much of a difference,” said Sara Romanishan, a LHENA board member. Tim Dray, who chairs the LHENA Zoning and Planning Committee, said despite “the appearance of a concession from the city,” the rezoning plan wouldn’t stop developers from requesting relief from height restrictions. “The last few years we’ve seen CPED hand out variances like paper towels,” Dray said. “You need
one? You got it.” But Schaffer said there is a “big difference” between R6 and R4: In R4, which the city considers a medium-density zoning district, the city places a limit on the number of dwelling units per building, and that cap is based on the square-footage of the building’s lot. Those same restrictions don’t apply in high-density R6, allowing for taller buildings with more units.
“In sync” The Planning Commission Committee of the Whole reviewed the zoning proposal Aug. 4. A 45-day public comment period begins Aug. 15, and the Planning Commission is tentatively scheduled to host a public hearing on the proposal Nov. 1. On a similar timeline is a separate but related rezoning project that would consolidate two existing pedestrian overlay districts and establish new design standards for developments along the major transportation corridors that form the Wedge’s borders. Bender said the two rezoning proposals would work “in sync.” The Wedge rezoning proposal would push more intense, high-density redevelopment to the edges of the neighborhood. There, in the new pedestrian overlay district, new developments will have to abide by proposed design standards that discourage surface parking lots and single-story buildings in favor of two- to four-story buildings. Introduced by Bender and her Ward 7 colleague, City Council Member Lisa Goodman, the proposal was made in response to two recent developments in the Uptown area: a Wells Fargo on West Lake Street in East Calhoun and a Walgreens in East Isles, just across Hennepin Avenue from the Wedge. Bender described them as “single-story, suburban-style” developments in areas where city policies call for taller, more pedestrian-oriented buildings.
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Gordon (Ward 2) and Alondra Cano (Ward 9) voted no, arguing the city’s residents should have the opportunity to vote on the issue. City Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 10) was absent due to a funeral. Council Members Jacob Frey (Ward 3), Lisa Bender (Ward 10) and Abdi Warsame (Ward 6) brought forward an alternative measure that would get the ball rolling on establishing an ordinance raising the wage that would be voted on by the Council in 2017. The full Council affirmed the Committee of the Whole’s vote on Aug. 5. The staff direction directs the City Coordinator’s office to recommend a minimum wage policy after reviewing policies from other cities and working with stakeholders for Council consideration by the second quarter of 2017. A plan for community engagement is due to the Council by Oct. 5, 2016. “I support an increased minimum wage,” Frey said. “But I support taking the reins, showing leadership as an elected, and doing it the right way by conducting engagement, drafting a policy, and hammering out microdetails to pass a policy that helps people and is functional.” Warsame said the Council should take an approach similar to the way the city crafted the paid sick time ordinance. A work group made up of a variety of stakeholders made recommendations to the Council for the policy, which requires employers with at least six workers in Minneapolis to provide up to 48 hours of paid sick time annually. The ordinance goes into effect July 1, 2017. “We recognize the urgency of this issue and have taken an historic step towards enacting a municipal minimum wage in Minneapolis,” Warsame said. “Important issues start with collaboration and this one is no different.” The Council also voted not allow a proposed charter amendment requiring police officers to carry professional liability insurance on the ballot, concurring with a legal opinion from Segal arguing the proposal conflicts with state law. Both campaigns — the $15 for Minneapolis coalition and the group pushing officers to carry professional liability insurance — have pledged legal action to get the proposals on the ballot in November. 15 Now Minnesota, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change and Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) announced it had filed a lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court on Aug. 8, asking the court to order the city to put the measure on
the ballot in November. The group has assembled a legal team that includes the National Employment Law Project and local attorneys. Mike Griffin, a field director for NOC, was critical of the staff direction offered by Frey, Bender and Warsame for failing to mention $15 and lacking urgency. The coalition delivered nearly 20,000 signatures to City Hall for the petition seeking to put the measure on the ballot. As proposed, it would establish a $15 minimum wage in the city by 2020 for employers with 500 or more employees and by 2022 for employers with fewer than 500 workers. Organizers estimate the increase would impact 113,500 workers in the city. Steven Suffridge, a member of CTUL and a long-time fast food worker, pleaded with Council members to take action before they took the vote. “I don’t know much about government or how the government works but I know that we need this money,” he said. “We have to constantly find ways to make ends meet. We
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don’t get a chance to have the full opportunity that we deserve to be fully independent when we are not making enough money to survive. City Council members don’t have to worry about that kind of stuff like myself, my co-workers, and so many other people in Minneapolis.”
Supporters of the proposed charter amendments have pledged legal action to get the measures on the ballot in the fall.
A challenging vote Council members who voted to block the proposed charter amendments faced a barrage of boos and hostile words when they explained how they came to their decision on the issue. City Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden (Ward 8) called the proposed $15 minimum wage charter amendment issue one of the most difficult she’s faced during her Council tenure. She said she faced a conflict between her “head and heart” on the issue, noting she strongly supports raising the minimum wage, but the vote ultimately was about whether it’s legal to use the charter as a vehicle to accomplish that goal — not the merits of increasing wages. Glidden also credited community organizers with getting more Council members on board with establishing a city minimum wage. “This is a huge turnaround for some of my council colleagues — who until recently were
Workers in our city deserve a living wage, and I am committed to working with my colleagues, our business community and workers to pass a city minimum wage in 2017. — Lisa Bender, Ward 10 council member
not open to a city minimum wage — and it is due to the voice and pressure of the community,” she wrote on her Facebook page. “Community voice will be important as — public and private, worker and business — as we work together to develop a minimum wage ordinance. I will spend my energy to get the job done, as I know a majority of my constituents demand.” Bender said it would have been the “politically easy” vote to allow the ballot measure, but ultimately not the right way to move ahead. She said she has been in “awe” of the organizing work on the issue and wants to work with the coalition to raise the wage through the city ordinance process in a similar way to her efforts on the paid sick time ordinance. “Workers in our city deserve a living wage,
and I am committed to working with my colleagues, our business community and workers to pass a city minimum wage in 2017,” Bender said. “I have been an early and strong supporter of a city minimum wage. I know that a majority of my constituents are in favor of raising wages as more and more families struggle to make ends meet.” Meanwhile, Cano and Gordon argued that the Council shouldn’t block voters from having their say. Cano noted that the state’s minimum wage — even with the recent increases that took effect Aug. 1 for large and small employers — falls below the federal poverty level. She also pointed out that one in four Minneapolis residents are in poverty. “How many Council members can make a living, feed their children and send them to
school on that wage?” she asked. Minnesota’s large employers must pay workers at least $9.50 an hour and small employers must pay at least $7.75 an hour. Gordon said whatever happens, there will be legal action and ultimately a judge will determine the legality of amending the charter to raise the wage. “My job is to air on the side of fairness and democracy and put it out there [for voters],” he said. The City Council is expected to review a minimum wage study in September that examines the impact of raising the wage in Minneapolis and increasing it regionally in Hennepin and Ramsey counties. It will look at raising the wage to $12 and $15 — both phased in over a five-year period.
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One of the Good Chair Project chairs near Lake of the Isles. Photo by Sarah McKenzie
Chairs for the greater good By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@southwestjournal.com
“Sit. Breathe. Contemplate. Meditate.” In our hectic, digital-centric lives, we don’t often see messages like this in the course of our day. New benches around Lake of the Isles and in Currie Park in South Minneapolis are inscribed with these words and similar messages as part of The Minneapolis Good Chair Project — the brainchild of Mark Addicks, who recently retired from General Mills after serving as chief marketing officer. The goal is to encourage people to take time to sit, relax and get a chance to meet new people. Addicks noticed how movable chairs at St. Olaf and rocking chairs in airports across the country changed people’s behavior and humanized spaces, encouraging people to take time for conversations and contemplation. “We have beautiful parks, but my own behavior with the parks was my work behavior,” he said, noting he’d get home, change and head for a walk around the lake without slowing down to absorb all the beauty around him. He got the idea to create special chairs for the parks, collaborating with the Park Board and custom furniture designer Willie Willette. There are 30 white oak chairs around Lake of the Isles and in Currie Park. The chairs have enough space for two to sit comfortably. “I think the encouragement to stop, relax and think is something that’s been greatly forgotten,” Willette said. “People are always working when they are going around the lake — they are either on the phone, walking really quickly, running or pushing their baby cart.” He also pointed out that it can be challenging to get Minnesotans to stop, sit and interact with strangers. “If you make people feel like they’re comfortable, maybe they will act like they are, too,” he said. “And the benches are comfortable.” So far, Addicks has contributed funding for them. The chairs will be stored over the winter and return next summer. There are plans for a Kickstarter campaign to help raise money for additional chairs to be
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placed at parks next summer. Addicks plans to use social media to encourage people to meet up at the chairs for events like book club meetings. He also would like to find volunteers to help with the project. Park Board President Anita Tabb said people have shown great appreciation for the benches, especially in Currie Park. “It’s really fun when an idea comes from the community and it turns out we can work together and do something that serves the community well,” she said.
(Left) Willie Willette and Mark Addicks (right) carry a chair near Lake of the Isles. Submitted photo
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KAYAK-SHARING PILOT PROJECT COMING TO THE RIVER By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@southwestjournal.com
A new kayak-sharing pilot program similar to the Nice Ride bike-sharing program is coming to the Mississippi riverfront later this summer. As part of the Mississippi Paddle Share program, people will be able to rent kayaks from stations located at North Mississippi Regional Park (near the Kroening Interpretive Center) or the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization Stormwater Park and Learning Center, 2522 Marshall St. NE. Kayaks must be returned to stations at Boom Island near Nice Ride bike stations, which will allow people to bike back to their kayak trip starting point. A kayak ride from the North Mississippi Regional Park to Boom Island is about 4 miles. Pending final approvals, the goal is to launch the program the end of August. Partners involved in the project include the National Park Service’s nonprofit charitable partner Mississippi Park Connection, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the Mississippi Watershed Organization. It’s the first paddle share program on the Mississippi and the first of its kind in a national park. Susan Overson, the National Park Service Paddle Share project manager, said the goal is to connect more people to the river and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area — a 72-mile corridor that runs through the Twin Cities. “The National Park Service is thrilled to work with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, Mississippi Park Connection, and many other partners, to bring this innovative paddle share program to the Twin Cities,” she said. The pilot project will continue through the fall. If successful, Overson said the goal is to expand it to other sections of the river. To rent a kayak, users need to go online at paddleshare.org, select a rental time, watch a safety video, sign a waiver and pay for the reservation. A four-hour rental is $30 and a full-day rental is $60. Users must be at least 18.
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An illustration of one of the kayak-sharing stations. Submitted image
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Once paid, the users will get a code that will unlock equipment at the stations — the kayak, paddles and life jacket. The program is designed for people with experience paddling. Beginners are encouraged to go out with guides before trying the paddle share program. In the case of bad weather and unsafe river conditions, the stations will be shut down. Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller said it’s “another indication of building momentum” along the city’s upper riverfront. “We’re fortunate to have so many innovative organizations and generous partners working toward opening up the Mississippi River to new generations of park users,” she said. The costs of the pilot project are being covered by a $175,000 grant from the National Park Service’s Transportation Program and a $40,000 grant from REI. Doug Snyder, executive director of the
What: A kayak-sharing pilot project expected to launch late August. Stations are located at North Mississippi Regional Park (near the Kroening Interpretive Center) and the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization Stormwater Park and Learning Center, 2522 Marshall St. NE. Return stations are at Boom Island. How it works: Users reserve a kayak online ($30 for a half-day; $60 for a full-day) Website: paddleshare.org
Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, said he hopes people get a chance to experience the river in a new way. “The MWMO is excited about the chance to participate in this pilot program, to get people on the river and to have them discover the incredible natural resource they have in the heart of an urban area,” he said.
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MPD updates use-of-force policy The Minneapolis Police Department has updated its use-of-force policy to make de-escalation a core approach in how officers respond to volatile and potentially violent encounters on the job. MPD leaders and Mayor Betsy Hodges outlined the changes at a news conference at City Hall on Aug. 8. In addition to emphasizing de-escalation, the changes include making “sanctity of life” a cornerstone of the-use-of-force policy, holding officers responsible for intervening in situations where another officer is inappropriately applying use of force, and requiring officers to report instances of misconduct to their supervisor. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau said the policy changes follow recommendations from President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing released in May. The changes also come as MPD leaders are working on restoring trust with the community following the high-profile police shooting deaths of Jamar Clark in North Minneapolis and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights.
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Harteau also said the department faces challenges at a time when heated rhetoric has become the norm. “We are inundated with extreme thinking, which is adding to the volatility and creative divisiveness at levels frankly we’ve never seen,” she said. “I have no doubt that change is needed and it must happen now.” Commander Troy Schoenberger said 32 new recruits at the Minneapolis Police Academy will be the first to receive new comprehensive training in de-escalation. The rest of the department will undergo the training by the end of they year. The goal is to get officers to slow down when faced with highly charged situations. Hodges highlighted many other reforms underway within the MPD, including the new body camera program, implicit bias training, prioritizing a diverse police force and an early intervention system designed to detect problem behaviors among officers. — Sarah McKenzie
Margaret Breen, a recent graduate of Southwest High School, was among the state’s 99 delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia July 25–28. She was one of the 47 delegates who supported Bernie Sanders. The remainder of the state’s 42 delegates supported Hillary Clinton, who clinched the presidential nomination to become the first woman in U.S. history to be nominated for president by a major party. Breen, who will attend Macalester College in St. Paul in the fall, said meeting Sanders was a major highlight for her at the convention. “I’ve been looking forward to being able to vote ever since I was 10 and watched Obama give his acceptance speech in ‘08 but I really couldn’t have imagined getting so involved in any campaign until I learned about Bernie,” she said. For now, she plans to help out with local campaigns. “In the next few years when I’m still in school I plan on doing everything I can to getting radically progressive candidates into office on the state and local level. I might run for office one day, but I think I like the behind the scenes work a little better,” she said. State Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-61A) and Florkime Paye also served as delegates for Sanders, but have since pledged support
for Clinton. Paye, a Liberian American, was elected a delegate at her precinct caucus in Loring Park and then made it all the way to her Congressional District Convention where she was elected as a delegate for the national convention. She said she has been inspired to run for office and attended a workshop at the convention that provided some tips for launching campaigns. “This election is really invigorating for people who haven’t been part of the political process,” Paye said. “As Americans, one of the biggest things we can do is just vote. It’s so simple, but it’s symbolic.” It was also Hornstein’s first trip to a Democratic convention. “For me it really took Bernie Sanders,” he said. “I thought he was a pretty special candidate.” Hornstein endorsed Clinton after Sanders and Congressman Keith Ellison announced their support for her candidacy. “I came back from this convention even more energized with an even greater sense of urgency to make sure in our legislative district we turn out every Democratic vote we possibly can,” he said. “We can’t take any vote, any district or any state for granted this year. It’s so volatile.” — S.M.
Janitors secure payments from wage theft settlement Retail janitors involved in a class action wage theft lawsuit against a vendor for Macy’s and Herberger’s stores received settlement payments July 29. Leticia Zuniga, one of the lawsuit plaintiffs and a Illinois-based Capital Building Services Group (CBSG) employee who cleans Herberger’s stores in the Twin Cities, credited the organizing efforts of Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) with achieving justice for workers. She’s a member of the Minneapolisbased workers advocacy group. “Getting this check today means that by organizing together we were able to win back what Capital had stolen from us,” Zuniga said in
a statement released by CTUL. “Wage theft had been going on for a long time and neither the stores nor the public knew. By standing up for our rights together and speaking out, workers made justice a reality.” Representatives of CBSG could not be reached for comment. Earlier this year, the non-union janitors reached a settlement with Capital for $425,000 in back wages and damages. The settlement impacts about 600 workers. The settlement also ensures that employees will get paystubs. Through organizing efforts with CTUL, retail janitors have secured more than $1 million in settlements in the past three years for workers
who have been wage theft victims. In addition to Macy’s and Herberger’s stores, the cases involve janitors who have worked at Kohl’s, Sears and Best Buy, among other local retailers. CTUL plans to keep campaigning this fall during the busy back-to-school sales season, highlighting efforts to encourage retailers to adopt a responsible contractor policy. “I will continue to organize and fight for my rights because Capital still needs to be a more responsible company,” Zuniga said. “We need materials and protective gear, we deserve to earn a living wage, and we want a fair path to forming a union so workers have a voice on the job. I know other retail janitors who are strug-
gling with similar problems so we will continue fighting until we improve standards in the whole industry.” Zuniga and her husband Abraham Quevedo travelled to Washington, D.C., earlier this year to share their challenges with wage theft with lawmakers. The Journals’ recently featured an interview with them for a special project on wage theft called “Shortchanged.” — S.M.
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A NEW TAKE ON COFFEE
Scenes from Blackeye Roasting’s new skyway cafe. Submitted photos
By Loren Green
Coffee just got craftier. It’s always been an artisan drink with nuanced roasts and specialty cocktails, but as Blackeye Roasting Co. opens a new retail store in the skyway at 330 2nd Ave. S., it’s turning the focus toward cocktails and draft pours instead of the traditional steaming hot mugs. The new coffee shop features 10 tap lines and a menu of cocktails, all non-alcoholic. “The vision is to merge the specialty bar and cocktail concept with third wave coffee,” says founder Matt McGinn. While Blackeye serves espresso and other hot coffees, cold beverages will comprise just as much of the menu, year round, he says. Draft coffee concoctions and the brand’s already in market Nitro Cold Brew are faster than waiting for a specialty drink to be made, he says, and cold coffee is a low calorie drink with its own unique fans. “It’s going to draw the traditional coffee shop customers,” McGinn says, but the ambience is modeled after the popular taprooms of craft beer. Customers can relax with a laptop or tablet, but also grab a quick drink to-go. The draft lines, high top bar seating, and cocktail snifters give a bar aesthetic but it’s completely alcohol-free. “It changes the feel of a traditional mom and pop shop to a more youth-focused and streamlined environment,” says McGinn, with that emphasis on efficiency highlighted in the
skyway location. It’s not just a different atmosphere, but a different coffee menu. Blackeye is primarily a beverage company. Their Nitro Cold Brew is already available in cans at local grocers and convenience stores, and can be found on tap at 26 metro locations. It’s nitrogentated, meaning the drink is thick and velvety and, consequently, comes off as more smooth and less bitter than non-nitro coffees. Guinness Irish stout is a popular example of the unique effect nitrogen has on a beverage experience. Fans can purchase the cold press offerings in 64-ounce growlers to bring home. Blackeye’s skyway café opened July 26, following the July 13 opening of their first retail location at 3740 Chicago Ave. S. in the Powderhorn neighborhood. Both shops share a similar design, with subway tile, minimal but intentional industrial-tinges, and a clean and stainless veneer. While Powderhorn features 30 seats, the skyway is at 18. “It’s going to cater to those who work in and near the space,” says McGinn. “Then, on the weekends, hopefully those that frequent the skyway location because it’s near work will visit our Chicago Avenue location because it’s near their home.” Besides Nitro Cold Brew, Blackeye serves a nitro tea on draft and has a variety of cocktails that feature the ingredients. Prohibition
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Kombucha is available and they’re developing further tea concepts with Verdant. The cocktails cover a range of bitter coffees to sweet and creamy options, with and without lactose, most often with a strong dose of caffeine. Bad Larry has a White Russian creaminess, made with nitro cold brew, chocolate milk, and a custom vanilla-lavender syrup, while The Lunchador mixes their signature cold brew with a house horchata. Options are alternatively bitter and earthy, creamy, or sweet and distinct. All the cocktails were created by McGinn and Kevin Begazo. Blackeye is foremost a beverage producer and views the shops as a showcase for their products. “Our primary focus is our packaged cold brew and kegged cold brew,” McGinn says. Compared to other coffee companies, Blackeye’s path has been “upside down,” he says, in that they started with the nitro beverage concept at his previous coffee shop, St. Paul’s Quixotic in Highland Park (he has since sold his ownership share). Blackeye then expanded distribution and purchased a roaster in St. Louis Park, all prior to the cafes. “This is usually done
BLACKEYE ROASTING CO. Where: Skyway café, 30 2nd Ave. S.; and Powderhorn location, 3740 Chicago Ave. S. What: A specialty coffee cocktail bar Website: blackeyeroasting.co
in reverse order,” he admits. “But it’s worked well for us.” Blackeye Skyway Café is another step as the company eyes larger markets and their canned products reach more stores. With industry giant Starbucks investing heavily in a canned nitro line this summer, McGinn says, consumer awareness will increase and help their own locally-made brand. Originally Skyway Café was planned to be the first retail location, but delays in buildout led to the Chicago Avenue store opening first.
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Hennepin County’s challenge: One year, zero waste Hennepin County is seeking up to 50 households willing to commit one full year to its Zero Waste Challenge. The challenge is this: Record how much waste your household produces every week for a year and, with the support and advice of county experts, try to recycle or compost as much of it as possible. Participants earn a $350 stipend if they make it a full 12 months, and in exchange the county gets deeper insight into the everyday challenges and triumphs of dealing with household waste. “We’re calling it a challenge, but really it’s a study,” Carolyn Collopy, the county’s senior environmentalist, said. The county has its own challenge to meet, but on a slightly longer timeline. By 2030, the
state wants to see the county’s waste diversion rate hit 75 percent, meaning three-quarters of all waste is diverted away from the landfill or incinerator and into recycling or compost. As of 2015, the diversion rate was 46 percent, according to the county’s April 2016 Recycling Progress Report. Fortythree percent of waste was recycled (up from about 41 percent in 2014) and just 3 percent was composted (a rate unchanged from the previous year). Collopy said one way to boost the countywide diversion rate is by identifying the barriers individual households face in their own waste-reduction efforts. That’s where the challenge comes in. The Zero Waste Challenge runs Sept. 15,
2016–Sept. 15, 2017. Each participant agrees to attend one of five introductory workshops scheduled in September, plus three more waste-reduction workshops over the course of the year. Participating households will get a free scale to weigh their trash, recycling and compost each week, plus a variety of recycling and composting supplies. They’ll also receive visits from a county expert who will coach them in waste-reduction strategies. Collopy said the stipend is meant to reimburse each household for a year’s worth of solid waste and recycling fees. To fill out an online application before the Aug. 26 deadline, go to hennepin.us/zerowastechallenge.
It’s Choose to Reuse season The 2016 Choose to Reuse coupon book offering discounts at local “reuse retailers” was available as of Aug. 1. Hennepin County partners with local retailers on the annual promotion, which encourages shoppers to reuse whenever
possible instead of buying new as a wastereduction strategy. The more than 50 participating businesses are places that offer rentals or repairs or deal in used goods. The deals offered in the coupon book are good through Oct. 31.
Go online to hennepin.us/choosetoreuse to order a copy of the Choose to Reuse coupon book in either print or app form. Choose to Reuse coupon books are also available at participating retailers, libraries and Three Rivers Park District sites.
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By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com
The Loppet Foundation is planning a 14,000-squarefoot adventure and welcome center in Theodore Wirth Park. Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Winter sports center for Theodore Wirth moves forward After months of planning, Park Board commissioners have given preliminary approval for a proposed winter sports and outdoor recreation center at Theodore Wirth Regional Park. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s Administration & Finance Committee approved several agreements with the Loppet Foundation to allow the nonprofit to build and operate a new multipurpose building and then donate it back to the board. The full board is expected to vote on the project later this month. The board approved schematic designs for the 14,000-square-foot building last summer that would serve as an epicenter for cross-country skiers, mountain bikers, snowboarders and par 3 golfers to buy and rent equipment, use locker rooms and refuel at a café. The building, which the Loppet is calling The Trailhead, would replace a small golf clubhouse and occupy the site of the course’s last two holes. Beyond the recreation center, the proposed project would add about four miles of mountain bike event trails with a learning area and untangle ski trails from the 18-hole golf
course in order to reduce conflicts. The board also plans to build a 30-stall and a 100-stall parking lot, according to previous plans. The cost to build the center and related utility services are roughly $5.3 million, of which the Loppet has raised more than $3.8 million so far. The foundation is proposing to recognize donors by naming features of the center via plaques and trail map listings. So far, the foundation has identified the building’s 300-square-foot conference room, an overlook and trail segments for naming opportunities. The Loppet intends to host the Masters World Cup cross-country skiing event at the center in January or February of 2018. It would require an expansion of the park’s ski loop to 12.5 kilometers, four more than it is now, which the board is considering making permanent. The event, estimated to bring in about 1,200 athletes, has never been held in a major city in North America. For the board’s part of the project, it intends to use reserves from its Enterprise Fund and state and Metropolitan Council bonds for funding. The Park Board had looked to the Legislature for 2017 regional
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parks funding for site work, but lawmakers haven’t appropriated the money. The board expects to award a contract for construction of site improvements in early September and wrap up that work by next spring, if not by the end of the year. As part of its agreements, the Loppet would be the center’s primary operator and programmer, and would take on maintenance of mountain bike and ski trails. The foundation would pay rent equal to 18 percent of its net income annually on top of a lump sum of $6,500, which would increase $1,000 every ten years of the lease. To cover long-term maintenance, Assistant Superintend Michael Schroeder said the foundation would pay $20,000 a year in preparation for when they have to repair or replace the facility down the line. It would also provide operating staff for the par-3 course, which would be headquartered in the building. Despite the additional support, Superintended Jayne Miller said the 10 maintenance staff and parkkeepers at Wirth would be assigned other tasks during the winter. She even plans to add a staff person in the 2017 budget.
The board says the project would deliver programming above and beyond what either entity could provide by itself. “I think we need to take this chance, just like we needed to take the chance at Tin Fish, the chance at Sea Salt [Eatery] to give us a chance to get the Park Board operating efficiently in a way the taxpayers get the best bang for their buck,” said Commissioner Liz Wielinski (District 1). President John Erwin lauded the foundation for its donation. “You singlehandedly have added a great new asset to the Minneapolis park system,” he said. If the board approves the agreements at its Aug. 17 meeting, the Loppet anticipates beginning construction later this month with a completion of the building in early 2017. “The public-private partnership between the Loppet Foundation and the MPRB leverages our respective strengths and creates opportunities for area residents to get outside and active in the heart of the city,” said John Munger, the foundation’s executive director, in a statement. “We are excited to see The Trailhead come to fruition.”
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Dedication for new mural at Lyndale Community School set for Aug. 25 Lyndale Community School will dedicate its new mural during the school’s back-to-school/ open house on Aug. 25. The school at 312 W. 34th St. collaborated with the Lyndale Neighborhood Association and muralist Great McLain on the Lyndale Mural Project, which was funded by a Minnesota State Arts board grant. Ideas for the mural started with a booth at Nicollet Open Streets the fall of 2015. Children and adults were asked to write responses to the following questions: What do you like about
your neighborhood, and what would make your neighborhood more awesome? In December 2015, McLain had a week-long residency at the school to brainstorm mural ideas with students during their art classes. She also visited the Somali Museum for inspiration. In the spring, students helped paint the mural and people in the neighborhood pitched in during community painting parties. To learn more about the mural project, go to lyndalemuralproject.wordpress.com.
Council Member Palmisano hosting conversation about walking, biking in the city City Council Member Linea Palmisano (Ward 13) is holding a community conversation about walking and biking in Minneapolis on Aug. 16, 6–7 p.m., at St. Thomas Church, 2914 W. 44th St.
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Lowry Hill East (Wedge): Board meets 3rd Wednesday monthly at Jefferson Elementary School, 1200 W. 26th St.
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Lyndale Neighborhood Association (LNA): General membership meetings are on the 4th Monday monthly at Painter Park, 34th & Lyndale. Lynnhurst Neighborhood Association (LYNAS): Board meets 1st Tuesday monthly at 6 p.m. at Lynnhurst Community Center, 50th & West Minnehaha Parkway. Stevens Square Community Organization (SSCO): Board meets 3rd Thursday monthly at the Loring-Nicollet Community Center, 1925 Nicollet Ave. S. Tangletown Neighborhood Association (TNA): Board meets 3rd Monday monthly at Fuller Park, 4800 Grand Ave. West Calhoun Neighborhood Council: Board meets 2nd Tuesday monthly at 6 p.m. at The Bakken, 3537 Zenith Ave. S. Whittier Alliance: Board meets 4th Thursday monthly at the Whittier Recreation Center, 425 W. 26 St. Windom Community Council: Board meets 2nd Thursday monthly at Windom Community Center, 5821 Wentworth Ave.
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Support flows in for shot Dulono’s Pizza delivery driver The community has raised more than $19,000 in support of Andrew Gryskiewicz, who was shot in an apparent attempted robbery July 23. Dulono’s Pizza held a benefit for Gryskiewicz in early August to celebrate his release from Hennepin County Medical Center. Dulono’s owner Jared Gruett said Gryskiewicz made a final delivery at 3:30 a.m. when he was shot “in what appears to be an attempted robbery and/or car jacking.” The Star Tribune reported he was shot near 31st & Park. Officers were alerted by a concerned passerby, Gruett said, and police discovered Gryskiewicz bleeding and unconscious in his car.
“Heroic and gifted surgeons repaired the hole in his heart and have given him the chance to fight for his life,” Gruett said in a web post. Within days of the attack, Dulono’s reported that Gryskiewicz was able to breathe on his own and speak. “He is not out of the woods yet but he appears to be on the right track,” Gruett posted at the time. “Andrew and his family are blown away and very thankful for the thoughts, prayers and generous donations. Thank you for your awesome display of humanity.” The Andrew Gryskiewicz Recovery Fund is available at gofundme.com/2g2ukz8.
Windom Safety Workshop for kids is Aug. 16 The Windom Community Council is hosting a safety workshop on Tuesday, Aug. 16 called “Home Alone,” tailored for children ages eight and older. The session will cover basic home safety for
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At one end of the Minneapolis Institute of Art this summer, you have three galleries filled with a billionaire’s trove of landscape paintings, extravagant postcards from Venice, the Grand Canyon and the gardens at Giverny. It promises bedazzlement, and Monet, Turner, Klimt and the gang deliver. Step into the alcove-like Cargill Gallery at the other end of old Mia, across the lobby from the museum’s café, and all of that will suddenly seem miles away. The show inside is an anti-spectacle of smudgy drawings, tiny handmade books and scrappy string and cardboard constructions made by a self-taught artist who rarely traveled, who could not communicate in speech or writing and whose reputation, in his lifetime, barely registered beyond his home state of Idaho. But “James Castle: The Experience of Every Day” is, like the life of the artist himself, subtly extraordinary. With his resourcefulness, relentless productivity and unschooled virtuosity, Castle is as compelling as any of those globetrotting paint slingers down the hall. With only glancing exposure to the wider world of art, Castle produced work that uncannily paralleled contemporary developments in modernism. And his excursions into geometric abstraction and collage are just two aspects of a lifelong artistic practice grounded in observational drawing. SEE CASTLE / PAGE B34
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A JOURNAL COMMITMENT TO HIGHLIGHTING GREAT COMMUNITY CAUSES
People for Parks
Youngsters at Minneapolis Safety Camp receive bicycle helmets courtesy of People for Parks, a nonprofit dedicated to improving and enhancing Minneapolis parks, on Aug. 1 at Theodore Wirth Park. The organization supplied 200 helmets for campers. Photo by Nate Gotlieb
People for Parks is a leader in advocating for the city’s parks
Improving parks through activism People for Parks began in 1977 in an effort to fight the Dutch elm disease that was ravaging Minneapolis’ elm trees. The nonprofit has since grown into an organization that has funded more than $2 million in projects across the city, from the picnic shelter and benches at Lake Harriet to Arbor Day celebrations, cross country ski trails and sports equipment. The organization relies on donors and fundraisers such as its paver sales and 5K run to support its efforts. It provides about $40,000 funding each year for projects, serving as a fiscal agent for community groups and helping park directors respond to more immediate needs for equipment and supplies. “Somebody who needs art supplies now, it’s going to be next year before they get the art supplies through the normal channels,” treasurer Jay Halvorson said. “We can provide that flexibility.” People for Parks started in response to the Dutch elm epidemic that killed 30,000 of the city’s elm trees in 1977. The city partially funded the removal of the dead trees and planting of new ones, but it needed more for the effort. Some corporations were willing to help but were prohibited from donating directly to a government entity. Contact That led to the creation of the organization, first known as the Minneapolis Park Foundation. Corporations and 612-927-2750 their foundations donated more than $40,000 in the first two years, helping the Park Board plant more than 100,000 new trees from 1977 to 1982. Website In 1979, People for Parks expanded to fund and sponsor recreational programs across the city. Its early projects peopleforparks.net included creating lighted cross-country ski trails at Theodore Wirth Park, recreation programs at Stewart Park and funding the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. Year Founded The organization was also a major force behind the improvements at the Lake Harriet Bandshell, raising money for 1977 benches, the permeable pavers, the sound system wiring and maintenance. It raised about $800,000 to keep the Pops Orchestra playing until the orchestra established its own fundraising organization in 2002. People for Parks also purchased for $50,000 a portable stage that can move to festivals across the city. In addition, the organization has been involved in countless horticulture projects in Minneapolis, from daffodil plantings, to buckthorn removal and Arbor Day. Since a less active period in the early 2000s, People for Parks has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to projects across the city, such as rebuilding tennis courts, installing outdoor chess tables and swimming scholarships. The organization more recently collaborated on an effort to build a universal access playground at the Wabun Picnic Area near Minnehaha Falls. The playground provides easy usage for people with limited mobility, from children to caregivers. It has wheelchair access to its highest platforms and kids with disabilities a place to interact with other kids in an active setting. “A dad in a wheelchair can be on the equipment with an able bodied child, so it kind of works all different ways,” Halvorson said. This past year, People for Parks began funding swimming scholarships in the city, providing lessons to more than 240 kids. It also donated bike helmets for more than 180 kids attending safety camp this summer and replaced basketball courts at several parks. “We’ve been able to jump in and replace those when they need to be because otherwise, they get unusable,” Halvorson said. Halvorson is part of an active board that meets monthly and decides which projects to fund. The organization includes people from across the city and this past spring hired a new executive director, Chriss Joyce. Joyce said the organization is working on developing its systems and has moved its paver and bench sales online. The organization is having a new fundraising event this year, a poster sale on Oct. 13, in addition to its annual 5K on Sept. 11.
By the numbers
$2 million
Approximate amount People for Parks has donated to projects for Minneapolis parks since 1977.
240
Number of swimming scholarships the organization has funded over the past two years.
$40,000
Amount in funding the organization provides annually to projects in the city.
100,000
Elm trees the organization helped plant from 1977 to 1982 after Dutch elm disease killed thousands of trees.
$800,000 Amount People for Parks raised for the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra to keep it solvent through 2002 until it established its own fundraising organization.
What you can do Join the People for Parks board. The organization is looking for more members. Attend an upcoming event, such as its Sept. 11 walk/ run and Oct. 13 poster sale. Volunteer on one of People for Parks’ committees, join the park stewards program or purchase a bench or paver.
About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Nate Gotlieb is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live
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Currying favor
A sampling of dishes at the Curry Diva. Submitted photos
By Carla Waldemar
RESTAURANT REVIEW/ I knew her when. And, turns out, I still do. We recently reconnected at a pop-up dinner hosted in Our Kitchen, the daytime diner where Heather Jansz now concocts the fab food of her native Sri Lanka twice weekly in her guise as the Curry Diva. Or call her the grande dame of curry. She’s earned the title. Heather’s been winning converts to that tasty style of cooking for 40 years, starting ’way back when in a quasi-speakeasy setting (knock three times), where her cred
among avid foodies grew by word of mouth. She and her partner later moved the Sri Lanka Curry House to a bigger Uptown location, where those macho chest-beaters who ordered it hot (or worse: hotter) usually required a phone call to the paramedics. Then, she segued to her Curry Leaf deli in St. Paul. Thanks to a sweet arrangement with the owner of Our Kitchen, she’s back in South Minneapolis, offering multi-course, familystyle feasts by reservation at the 16-seat diner Wednesday and Saturday evenings (two seat-
ings: 6:30 and 7:45). She hangs a couple of saris over the window, dims the lights, and then, with the help of a couple of assistants, orchestrates the moves aside the griddle (above which breakfast cereals stand ready for the morning trade). While she’s readying the platters, start with (optional extra) a mountain of crispy, almost translucent, utterly irresistible pappadum, abetted by a nutty-flavored hummus chutney while you’re chatting with your neighbors on
the adjoining counter stools. Then the dishes start to multiply. In no particular order, you’re soon surrounded by various bowls of what’s on hand tonight, starting with a fluff y mound of tender, longgrained rice stained yellow with turmeric and dotted with green peas. On one side, a heap of stewed veggies—zucchini, etc.—and on the other, a mini-mountain of golden lentils, long-simmered with Heather’s favored spices, including curry leaf and turmeric. Beef stew wafts its comforting aroma from its own bowl, in which chunks of meat meet carrots and potatoes in a blend of cinnamon, cloves and coriander. Another bowl holds tender cuts of chicken in a sauce enriched with her garam masala spice blend. Ramekins on the side offer sambals for DIY sprinkling and taste-tweaking: one, finely-chopped coconut pumped up with chilies for those who crave a little heat, and the other a sweet, thick gingercraisin chutney. A pair of salads add crunch and cool: first, a mélange of cabbage and tomato; then a harvest’s worth of crunchy finely-chopped kale dressed in tahini, ready to cleanse that dancing palate. Or summon an order (optional extra) of coconut roti, a chewy “pancake” fresh off the griddle, cut into wedges and ready to share. Those who care to purchase a beverage may choose from juices like soursop, passion fruit and basil, or chai tea. Heather has designed her menu, she says, to activate “all the taste senses: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent. I cook to satisfy my soul.” Mine, too. And my pocketbook. Tab for the meal (gasp!) $18 (cash only).
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Grand for you By Carla Waldemar
RESTAURANT REVIEW/ OK, marketing wizards, answer me this: Does the crossroads corner of West 43rd & Upton—home of Tilia, Upton 43, Naviya, Zumbro and Sebastian Joe’s—need yet-another eatery? Surely not. Yet the team behind the new Kata clearly lacked a corps of MBAs armed with graphs and stats proclaiming “Are you crazy?” Be glad they didn’t get the memo. The new kid on the block adds another bright light to Linden Hills’ culinary cache, and here’s why. But first, let’s get this confession out of the way: I didn’t expect to like—let
alone, love—a kitchen attached to a fitness boutique that trumpets “good for you” eats. Yes, they’re organic, they’re locally sourced, but this is no penitential cell of boring grains and gritty greens. Although the dining room is (cheerfully) bland and basic, the food decidedly is not. And pretty, too! Summoning a glass of wine—mine, Gruner Veltliner, my companion’s, Chardonnay—from an all-organic-and-sustainable list, we studied the menu, dithering between starters such as pulled pork or burger sliders, flat breads, and well-curated
cheeses, we chose the smoked crayfish cheesecake ($10). The cut was huge, the texture light as a quiver, and the taste addictive. It’s a variation on that Deep South delicacy called pimento cheese, into which, here, Louisiana-style sweet smoked crayfish essence penetrates. It’s served with cracked wheat bread and TLC. Next, from the soup/salad section (gazpacho to panzanella, feta-tomato to beets and walnuts, all around $10), we divided an enormous plate of sweet, seasonal tomatoes, clouds of whipped
burrata cheese, and creamy logs of roasted eggplant, making themselves at home on a rustic mound of oil-dressed kale. Perfect. Skipping the burgers, BLTs and other sandwiches and quartet of rice bowls, we next shared one of the kitchen’s four entrees ($15-$19): sea bass, polenta, brisket, and blackened short ribs. Those off-the-bone short ribs, thinly sliced and peony-pink, overlapped a mound of sautéed wild mushrooms, all scented with truffle oil and brightened with a greens-and-tomato garnish. Well done. No room for dessert, my partner wept. But someone’s gotta do the dirty work. Manfully (or, more to the point, womanfully) I stepped up to the plate of strawberry shortcake, built upon a still-warm, flaky mega-biscuit loaded with sweet berries and sweet (too sweet) whipped cream. Other choices ($6), all house-made, include cakes ranging from carrot to chocolate mouse (sic, and I asked no questions) and chocolate truffle. There’s a lovely breakfast menu, too, making me wish I’d brought my sleeping bag.
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Ichiban Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar closes on Nicollet Ichiban Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar is closing after nearly four decades. The Japanese restaurant, located on the southern end of Nicollet Mall, confirmed news of the closing on Facebook. “[I]t’s been an incredible 36 years of business, and for that we’re very, very grateful to the Twin Cities community,” the announcement said. Ichiban’s last day was July 30. It did not specify why the restaurant is closing. Ichiban is the mall’s third longstanding restaurant to close since work began on the $50 million overhaul of a 12-block stretch of
Nicollet, though it’s unclear if construction was a factor. D’Amico Partners closed Masa, an upscale Mexican restaurant last fall, after nearly a decade and Vincent Francoual, chef and owner of the former Vincent A Restaurant, closed his French eatery at the end of 2015 after 14 years. The latter was replaced with Coffee & Bagels, a co-branded concept from Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Bagels. — Eric Best
Lu’s, a popular eatery in Whittier, has opened a second spot in Northeast. File photo
Lu’s Sandwiches expands to Northeast Lu’s Sandwiches is the first of a wave of Whittier-based restaurants to open in a growing corner of Northeast Minneapolis. The sandwich shop, known for its banh mi sandwiches, has opened a new location in the Red 20 Apartments in the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood. Along with Glam Doll Donuts and The Bad Waitress, Lu’s Sandwiches is one of several businesses from the Whittier neighborhood that are planning second locations in the area north of Central & Hennepin. Glam Doll will be opening down the block in the same building as
Lu’s Sandwiches, and The Bad Waitress will be opening a couple blocks away in the upcoming 700 Central apartment complex. Co-owner Quang Pham told The Journal earlier this year that the new, roughly 50-seat restaurant at 10 6th St. NE will be a higher-end version offering beer and wine. It hosted a grand opening on July 8. Lu’s Sandwiches has been serving banh mi sandwiches made with fresh baguettes, vermicelli noodle bowls and bubble tea at Nicollet & 26th for the past four years. — Eric Best
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Ask Dr. Rachel
By Rachel Allyn
Perplexed by friends’ obsession with marriage Q
I have noticed many women my age (mid 20s) are obsessed about getting married. It seems they are hyper-focused on this goal so much that they’re missing out on actually being present in their relationship or focusing on taking their time to be with a person who is right for them. I don’t understand their impatience or know what to tell them when they vent to me. How do you suggest I talk with my friends about this, given I can’t relate to their urgency?
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he institution of marriage is evolving, however, in the Midwest there is still a norm to get married and have children at a younger age compared to other regions of the country. You are at a different stage in life than your friends and probably have less traditional views on the timing or necessity of marriage. Your friends confound you on this matter because your interests are focused on living in the here-and-now whereas their interests are future-oriented. I imagine you are also concerned they will settle for Mr./ Ms. Right Now versus Mr./Ms. Right. Your friends are grasping for something. Whether it’s to have the Hollywood fantasy of love that lasts forever, societal permission to start a family, live in accordance with their religious doctrine, feel a sense of security, have lasting companionship, or all of the above. Whatever the reason, you don’t enjoy being a bystander as they distract from savoring the present moment, lack gratitude for their current experience, and foolishly rush into a huge commitment. I doubt their obsession is working in their favor; let’s face it, most people who start dating someone do not find desperation very attractive in a prospective mate. Recognize what is fueling your friends as a way to help you let go of judgment towards them. In a nutshell, humans have an existential fear of being alone. Not the kind of alone where we’re sitting at a restaurant waiting for our date to arrive and they’re 20
minutes late — although that is bothersome — but the kind that resides in our subconscious and is always focused on primal needs of survival. For some uncoupled individuals, not being settled down and “chosen” by someone becomes equated with being less worthy and makes them questions their sense of belonging (even though they may have other non-romanic sources of love in their life). Our beliefs about how our life is supposed to look and the timeline we’re supposed to stick to can vary greatly; not having a serious partner in one’s 20s can mean freedom for some and trigger anxiety for others. Let me normalize how you feel. Just because they might be intent on a fast track to marriage does not mean there’s anything wrong with
you for not. I’ve definitely seen clients come to therapy to recover from taking the plunge too young before they truly knew themselves. Marriages that start before the age of 29 and end quickly have been called “starter marriages” and have the highest divorce rate for both men and women. This is a solid argument for people taking their sweet time before getting hitched. We need to respect those who follow their own path with regard to relationships. Traditional or conventional relationships are not for everyone. Recognize your own timing for when, who, how and if you decide to be coupled. Knowing whether marriage is right for you comes from knowing your own self, and most individuals in their mid 20s are still figuring that out.
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How can you be in conversation with your friends around these issues? Offer support by listening to them and being a compassionate witness to their yearnings, but beyond that it’s not your responsibility to convince them otherwise. Their drive for marriage at this age is deeply rooted in their childhood and attachment needs. Your job is to be authentic and model a life that is true to your own self, one full of meaning, purpose, and pleasure, and this is absolutely possible whether you are married, single, divorced, polyamorous or some other culturally constructed label in between. Dr. Rachel Allyn is a licensed psychologist in private practice. Send questions to Rachel@DrRachelAllyn.com.
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MINNESOTA NICE-OISE SALAD Recipe by market chef Jenny Breen INGREDIENTS
1 bunch garlic scapes 1 red onion, thickly sliced 8 ounces smoked trout or salmon from Star Prairie Trout Farm 6 medium potatoes, quartered 1 large tomato or a handful of cherry tomatoes 4 eggs, soft boiled 1 cup pickled vegetables from Martha’s Joy 1/2 to 1 pound salad greens, spinach and/or arugula 1/4 cup basil leaves, chopped 1/2 pound green beans in summer or 1 bunch asparagus in spring Olive oil salt and pepper
6 local ingredients that make the iconic French Niçoise Salad our own
Marinade: 1/4 cup maple syrup 1/4 cup prepared mustard 6 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup lemon juice salt and pepper
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lthough the view from our cabins and patios may not be the beautiful French Rivera, we can still delight in the flavors of a classic Niçoise Salad with local ingredients from our very own “North Coast.”
1. Salad greens: While a traditional Niçoise
Salad can be served with or without a bed of greens, take advantage of our local farmers’ ability to grow fresh greens year-round with heated greenhouses in winter and shade cloth in the heat of summer. Experiment with a mixture of beautiful heirloom lettuces, spinach and arugula. Including romaine lettuce will add a sturdy texture to the salad.
2. Smoked trout: Smoked trout, with its
sweet and rustic flavor is a perfect Midwestern substitute for fresh tuna. Buy local fish directly from producers and fishers to ensure quality and sustainability. Northern Waters Smokehaus, Star Prairie Trout Farm, and Wild Run
Salmon are three trusted fish vendors at the Mill City Farmers Market. 3. Potatoes, tomatoes, green beans, and more! In the heat of summer, there are plenty
of local vegetables to choose for this salad. Depending on the time of year consider substituting locally grown asparagus for green beans or adding sweet corn and chopped peppers! Vegetables can be grilled tender or served raw for a more authentic Niçoise salad. 4. Eggs — boiled, poached, or heck—even fried (this is the Midwest, after all)! Eggs
are not only a staple to this French salad but also to our mayonnaise-loving grandmothers. Enjoy the beautiful deep-yellow yolks of local eggs, which can be picked up from several of the farmers at the Mill City Farmers Market.
5. Pickled vegetables: Even though the hot,
olive groves, adding artisan pickled vegetables, like baby cucumbers, radishes, or spicy Brussels sprouts, to a Niçoise salad is arguably even better than the original! Try one of the many varieties of pickles from Martha’s Joy at the Mill City Farmers Market. 6. Maple syrup: This last one may seem a little odd, but as one of the only places that produces maple syrup in the world, why not enjoy this natural sweetener in as many ways as possible. The vinaigrette recipe below uses maple syrup, and is delicious on all kinds of salads or directly on raw or cooked vegetables. Stick to buying maple syrup directly from local producers like Horner’s Corner at the Mill City Farmers Market. Cheap supermarket imitations are made from corn syrup and usually contain zero percent maple syrup.
DIRECTIONS Brush vegetables with olive oil, salt and pepper and grill until nicely charred, Potatoes will take the longest (15 minutes). Set aside to cool. If using smoked trout or salmon, debone the fillet carefully, being sure to remove all the tiny bones. Remove skin and crumble with hands. If you are choosing to use fresh fish, brush fish with oil, salt and pepper and grill over high flame-about 8 minutes per side. It should be thoroughly cooked, but not overcooked and tough. Set aside to cool. To prepare salad, place greens on plate, arrange vegetables on top of greens, sprinkle with toppings and pour dressing on top. Alternately, dress greens before plating, then pour lightly over vegetables.
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Ask the Nurse Practitioner
By Michelle Napral
What’s making the bottom of my foot hurt? Q
I have a wincing pain that shoots through the bottom of one of my feet when I get out of bed in the morning. It’s tolerable, but I have a halfmarathon coming up in two months. What should I do?
Runners are at increased risk for developing heel and foot pain. One of the most common causes of foot pain in adults is called plantar fasciitis. A band of tissue called the plantar fascia connects the heel bone to the toes. The plantar fascia supports the foot bones in an arched position. When there is pain in the bottom of the foot or heel, it may be due to the plantar fascia being inflamed, irritated or swollen. Plantar fasciitis is typically caused by poor foot mechanics. For example, if the foot flattens too much, the fascia may overstretch and swell, or if the foot flattens too little, the fascia may ache from being pulled too tight. It occurs when the tissue tears or pulls away from the bone, or when swelling causes the tiny fibers to fray. Common symptoms include pain under the heel and sole of the foot. The pain is worse in the morning when you first get out of bed and improves with walking. The pain may return when you get up after being seated for an extended period of time. The pain may be sharp, like a knife sticking in the bottom of your foot, or it may feel like a dull ache. Plantar fasciitis can develop gradually or suddenly. It usually affects one foot at a time, but occasionally it occurs in both feet.
Wear sturdy shoes with good arch and heel support and shock absorbency. Also, tight lower leg muscles or Achilles tendon can contribute to heel pain. First thing in the morning and before being active, stretch the bottom of your feet by gently flexing your ankle so the foot moves toward your knee. Other factors that can contribute to plantar fasciitis include arthritis, diabetes, obesity, recent weight gain, flat feet or having high arches. What if nothing helps?
What might you be doing to exacerbate this?
If this sounds familiar, consider ways to both reduce the pain and address the underlying condition. Your top priority: avoid activities that cause the pain. Standing for long periods of time, running, walking, tennis and other weight-bearing sports can put stress on the
heels and tear the tissue. Ice your heel for 20 minutes up to four times a day. Take pain medication that reduces inflammation, such as Ibuprofen. Shoes with poor cushioning, high heels or poor arch support can add to your risk. Wearing thin, flat sandals or flip flops this time of year is tempting, but may exacerbate the problem.
Our active patients are often frustrated to hear that it may take up to nine months of reduced activity before their plantar fasciitis goes away. It’s best to take care of the problem fully so that it is less likely to reoccur. If your symptoms do not improve, see your provider to confirm a diagnosis and discuss what other treatments are appropriate. There is no test for plantar fasciitis, but we can tell if you have it by learning your symptoms, doing an exam and possibly ordering a radiology test if the diagnosis is unclear. We may recommend shoe inserts (off the shelf or custom), night splints, taping the foot to help provide support. In rare cases, surgery may be needed. Talk to you provider today if you have unrelieved foot and heel pain. Michelle Napral is a nurse practitioner at the University of Minnesota Health Nurse Practitioners Clinic, 3rd Street & Chicago. Send questions to nursnews@umn.edu.
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Grows on trees
By Eric Braun
How to actually save more
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recent morning after a harsh storm, I came outside to find a huge branch had fallen out of a tree and into our
yard. By “huge branch,” I mean it was thicker than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s thigh and longer than a minivan. Somehow, we’d all slept through the massive snap and crash it surely made. (Those sounds must’ve blended in with all the lightning cracks.) Somehow, too, it had missed our roof and fence, all windows and all living things — including plants — and dropped harmlessly into the grass. It dug an annoying divot, and it forced me to spend time I didn’t want to spend cutting it up, but really, “dropped harmlessly” is the absolute best a guy can hope for in a situation like that.
What if? As I was hacking that log apart, my mind wandered to all the costs it could have entailed. What if it had crushed an eave and ripped off the gutter? What if it had smashed a car? What if the whole tree had come down and we had to have someone come out to remove it? Needless to say, these aren’t costs that anyone relishes — or anticipates. My wife and I understand the importance of savings, of course, even if we don’t actually
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save as much as we believe we should. According to the Pew Charitable Trusts’ “Survey of American Family Finances,” we’re like the majority of people in that regard. Most everyone agrees that families should keep a certain amount of “liquid” (easy-totap-into) savings on hand. And, in fact, most of those surveyed said they do have a savings cushion. But here’s the catch: There’s a difference between the amount of money people say they should save and the amount they do save. And the average amount of that difference is about $9,000. Experts say any family should have somewhere between three and eight months of salary in savings they can access in case of emergency. (This is a big range, but it all
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So what about your family? Do you have any savings you can rely on in case of an emergency like a job loss, a serious illness or even an unexpected car repair or appliance purchase? Hopefully you do. And hopefully the difference between your savings and a threeto-eight-month cushion is smaller than $9,000. But in case it’s not, here are a few tips for increasing your savings. • Have a separate savings account and keep it separate. The Pew Survey found that most people don’t think about their savings and checking accounts as purely distinct. Actually, half of the survey takers who said they had no savings actually did have one — they probably just thought of it as another bucket for spending money. They forgot it was a savings account. When you open a savings account and use that money only for emergencies or another intended purpose, guess what? You’re much more likely to actually have the money there when you need it.
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• Make your savings automatic. Let’s face it: If we leave it up to ourselves to remember to add money to our savings account, we’re going to get around to that around the time The Rock wins his next Academy Award. But setting up an automatic deposit into your checking account saves you from your own worst enemy (we all know who that is), and makes saving a sure thing. • Save at least a little more. Sure, that sounds like a no-brainer: To beef up your savings account, you need to save more! But simple or not, lots of us don’t do it. Financial experts say that every time you add even a few extra dollars to your weekly or monthly savings, you’re doing yourself two favors: You’re boosting your savings, but you’re also forcing yourself to get used to spending less. Which makes it easier to save more. Which makes it more likely that when you need money for an emergency, it will be there. Eric Braun is a Minneapolis dad of two boys and the co-author of the forthcoming book for young readers, “The Survival Guide for Money Smarts: Earn, Save, Spend, Give” (Free Spirit Publishing, September 2016). Send comments or questions to ebraun@mnparent.com.
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There are light switches, plug-in switches, sensors for windows, garage door sensors and switches, connected doorbells, and many more simple options make your home smarter.
master bedroom (a converted attic) cool and comfortable in the summer. While recently traveling, I used wireless switches in my home and set up an “Away” mode which turned lights on and off at designated times. Plus, I was able to turn on some of the window air conditioners remotely and begin cooling my house to ensure our home was comfortable when we returned. It was reassuring while away to look at the app and see that my lights were on at the times that I had pre-programmed. There are light switches, plug-in switches, sensors for windows, garage door sensors and switches, connected doorbells, and many more simple options make your home smarter. For the most part, these smart home integrations are easy modifications. Though, in some cases, it does take time and planning to get all devices connected and set up; you have to consider how you want to control your devices and if they will all be connected through a hub or not. If trying to setup your own system, be patient and have fun. 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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James Castle worked mainly with found materials, like the Graham Crackers box at left, which became the cover to one of his handmade books. Castle’s output also included drawings, collage and constructions, like the red jacket at bottom left. Submitted images
The white string doesn’t just bind the construction together; Castle uses it to draw strong diagonal lines across his abstracted design. A cluster of knots on its chest could represent the bird’s downy belly feathers. “It looks simple,” said Dennis Michael Jon, Mia’s associate curator of prints and drawings and author of the exhibition catalogue. “That’s the thing about his work: It looks offhand, simple, but it’s actually extremely sophisticated. And whimsical, at times.” In his handmade books, Castle often takes up a theme, like made-up letterforms or tiny portraits, and draws dozens of variations on that theme. He experiments with layout, isolating images in boxes and substituting wavy lines for text, inspired by the graphic design of the magazines and books he couldn’t properly read. Castle’s drawings of the farm best demonstrate his incredible powers as a draftsman. He taught himself — and mastered — both oneand two-point perspective, and his landscapes in particular have an immersive sense of three-
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The fifth of a Garden Valley, Idaho, farm family’s seven children, Castle was profoundly deaf from his birth in 1899. Despite spending his early teen years at the Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, Castle never learned to sign, read lips or text, speak or write. But from the age of six or seven, he produced art incessantly. Although much of his early work was lost — simply left behind when the family twice moved homes — thousands of pieces produced before his death in 1977 survive. Castle is able to transmute the humblest of found materials: flattened boxes and scrap paper become drawing surfaces, soot moistened with spit becomes ink. Those same basic materials, bound with knotted string and twine, are startlingly transformed in Castle’s constructions, like a small gray bird that has become a darling of the Mia exhibition. Layered scraps of soot-darkened paper evoke the unkempt plumage of a farmyard rooster.
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hen Bill Remmer left his home in Melvin, Iowa, in his mid-30s, to walk 230 miles to Minneapolis to find a better source of income for his growing family, his wife was understandably concerned. Yet with the kindness of strangers—primarily two women he met along the way—he was deposited around Nicollet and Grant Avenue, after walking only six of those miles, with suggestions about where to find housing and work. The year was 1950, and the neighborhood he was deposited in was rough, with lots of bars and open prostitution. “I knew none of that,” he says. But what he did know was hard work. His father, an immigrant from Germany, took him out of school at age 13 and set him to work on the farm. He was paid a penny for each bushel of corn he harvested. When he arrived in Minneapolis he had $10, which bought him 6-cent hamburgers at White Castle and nickel cups of coffee. He worked multiple odd jobs throughout his many years—church custodian, recycling metals, snow plowing, building management. He relocated his family, raising two boys and two girls with his wife Helen, who died in 1992. At the age of 99, he was still paid for custodial work—and crushing cans for recycling—at the Calhoun Shores apartment building near the lake, where he has lived since 1977. He visited family in northern Minnesota, but returned after one day. “The loneliest place I’ve ever been,” he says. He likes the sound of his neighbors talking outside his apartment and his long-term friends there. Remmer’s building was sold recently to new
owners. His rent went from $650 to $1,350. He and seven other long-term residents are moving. At 101 years old, Remmer is relocating to an apartment in Hopkins. In a 1.5-hour conversation, the only thing he repeated, three times, was that he wishes he could find the women, or their descendants, who helped him get safely to Minneapolis, find a place to stay, and secure work. Their kindness enabled him to create a new life. If he could find those women today, he said, he would give them a big check.
Displacing the core of community The following day, I had a 90-minute chat with School Board member Don Samuels, the former Minneapolis City Council member who finished third in the 35-candidate 2013 mayoral race. We talked about black lives, poverty, and the inability to “create a bigger plan for longterm sustainable change” because we’re afraid to speak up about ideas that don’t lead to successful outcomes. We distract ourselves with details, he said, rather than addressing our values as a society. This values conversation is at the heart of so many of the “Sustainable We” conversations I’ve been having. Where is the neighborliness in pushing out a 101-year-old man from his home of 40 years so rent can be raised in a building that already has tenants now paying $2,200 for a two-bedroom apartment?
Bill Remmer. Submitted photo
We also segregate along race lines, noted Samuels, who moved to the East Coast from Jamaica when he was 20 and relocated to Minneapolis in 1990. The Jordan neighborhood of North Minneapolis at that time was 65 percent white. After black families worked to rise out of poverty and moved across the “dividing line,” the white businesses and home-owners closed doors and moved away. Why can’t we “stop running away from low income and black people?” he asks. “Who said we shouldn’t cohabit the same space? Wasn’t the idea of America to develop a classless society? What happened to that ideal?” Instead we have black people shot and ticketed for “overstepping bounds” in driving through white neighborhoods. We have white families who do live near him in North Minneapolis—
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lovely homes with great square footage and location—asked by police “why do you live here?” With that vision of boundaries about areas of people and place of worth, Samuels wonders, what does service to the community look like? Samuels says we have a tendency to stick with the tip of the iceberg, without addressing the mass. “Where is the respectability in ignoring the needs of a 4-year-old child who has just witnessed a policeman kill a loved one for no reason. Deciding it is more important to handcuff her mother than to let her hold and comfort her little girl? It’s inhumane. Insulting to human life. Yet so routine that we aren’t even outraged about that.” It is not simply about police officers—or social workers or pastors or teachers or attorneys— who earn their keep in the community but tend not to live in the area they serve. It is about the fact that “we continue to grind people down,” Samuels says. “The greatest gift of America is to be a neighbor to each other. Can we just be American and be together?” Can we create a place where anyone—regardless of age, race, gender identity, religion—can walk into a city, be welcomed and find the footing they need to succeed? Mikki Morrissette is writing a book of essays. This is part of a continuing quest to find and tell the stories of how Minneapolis is attempting to create a stronger “Sustainable We” community.
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A spirited space City’s first woman-owned distillery launches in Northeast
By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com
About a year after Michelle Winchester planned to open Twin Spirits Distillery, the Northeast Minneapolis distillery and cocktail room is nearly ready. Winchester had signed the purchase agreement the home of her cocktail room and distillery during Art-A-Whirl 2015 with a plan to open in the fall. Then that season came and went, and various building updates to the previously boarded-up, 1920s-era building delayed the business into winter, and then spring. Now, with just a couple more weeks of construction, Twin Spirits Distillery, the city’s first solely womanowned distilleries, is finally set to serve some of its flagship spirits by the end of the season. “It was just unfathomable to me how long it took,” Winchester said. That’s not to say the one-woman distillery (with one part-time person) won’t see more construction down the line. The roughly 1,600-square-foot distillery and cocktail lounge, located at 2931 Central Ave. in the Audubon Park neighborhood, is just a part of what Winchester said could be a multibuilding complex with outdoor gardens. She also bought the neighboring 4,700-square-foot building at 2919 Central Ave. NE, which could house warehouse and event spaces. But in the meantime, Winchester is focusing
Michelle Winchester of Twin Spirits Distillery. Photos by Eric Best
on the liquor. Twin Spirits will have four flagship spirits — a vodka, a gin, a white rum and a rye whiskey — but Winchester, armed with her copper stills, is also getting creative with moonshine and infusions. Winchester bottled an earlier version of her sugar cane-based vodka in July, though she added that she’s still tinkering with the recipe. “It’s definitely a different vodka,” she said. “It’s sweet and smooth. It doesn’t have that burn going on.” Winchester also has a passion for moonshines, which she will have available only in the cocktail room. She plans to distill her Momma’s Moon-
shine, a specialty honey-flavored spirit she makes from an under-fermented mead, each month during the full moon, which can come at any time of day. “Right now I’m kind of hell-bent on doing it at that time,” she said. For gin, Winchester plans to produce unique infusions with shiitake and pheasant back mushrooms, which she said have different flavors akin to the duality behind her Twin Spirits brand. The first has an earthy or meaty flavor while the second tastes like citrus or even cucumber. “With the shiitake you know there’s a mushroom in that,” she said. “With the pheasant back you have no idea it’s a mushroom.” For Winchester, who has developed her skills through classes, tastings and trial and error over recent years, her own palate is her guide in crafting the spirits. “I’m not going to make something that I don’t like. How could I tell someone to taste it and enjoy it?” she said. Twin Spirits is slated to open around the end of August after Winchester has the bar, new flooring and other upgrades installed. Vodka and gin will be available when the cocktail room opens and the white rum should be ready in October or November, Winchester said. Twin Spirits will seat 26 inside and 16 outside.
Twin Spirits Distillery’s flagship M Vodka is one of its first bottled spirits.
Like its Northeast Minneapolis counterparts, the distillery will be home to food trucks, though Winchester is looking into partnerships with local restaurants. The area is now home to several micro-distilleries, such as Tattersall Distilling Co. in the Thorp Building, and Norseman Distillery and Wander North Distillery in the Mid-City Industrial neighborhood. Winchester said she welcomes the friendly competition. “I think we’re all bringing something different to the table. All of our spaces are very different,” she said. “It’s fun to see everything and see what other people are doing too.” For those who want an early peek inside, Winchester and her one part-time employee are selling 375ml bottles of the vodka and giving tours from 2-7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2-8 p.m. on Saturdays. One $15 bottle is available per person per day. For more information on Twin Spirits Distillery, visit twinspirits.us.
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Bike Beat
By Annie Van Cleve
Exploring ways to make streets safer
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ave you been noticing parking spots converted into benches? How about basketball hoops in the middle of a residential street? If not, grab your bike and check out what’s happening in Minneapolis as more residents are getting involved in street design experiments. From pop-ups to parklets to a greenway demonstration project, here is an update about pilot projects taking place on city streets this summer. Volunteers from the Pedestrian Advisory Committee (PAC) and Minneapolis Pedestrian Alliance have come together to create a pop-up bump-out so the public can experience an improved approach to intersection design. The pop-up features curbs that extend out into the street and an attached crosswalk. The benefits of the design include shortening the amount of time pedestrians are in traffic, improving visibility for drivers, slowing cars and keeping cars from parking too close to the corner where they can impede sightlines for pedestrians. Volunteers displayed the pop-up at the Open Streets Downtown. “People kept asking me, ‘How do I get one of these in my neighborhood?’” said Shaina Brassard, who serves as co-chair of the PAC’s Programs & Policies Sub-Committee and has been involved in this project. Brassard said advocates like her have a vision of making Minneapolis the best city for walking in the U.S. “It’s not just about sidewalks either,” Brassard said. “How do we design our streets to slow cars down so crashes between cars and pedestrians are not fatal?” Brassard asked. Although the speed limit is 30 miles per hour in much of Minneapolis, Brassard said our streets are designed to make it easy and appealing to drive 45. Speed matters because it increases the chances that a crash will be fatal. In pedestrian-vehicle crashes where the car is traveling 20 miles per hour, there is a 5 percent chance the crash will be fatal to the pedestrian, at 30 miles per hour that odds increase to 37-45 percent and 40 miles per hour there’s an 83-85 percent chance the pedestrian will be killed. In 2015, there was one crash between a pedestrian and a motor vehicle every 38 hours on average in Minneapolis.
This diagram shows how bump-outs extend sidewalk space for pedestrians. The diagram was created for the 2016 pop-up bump-out by volunteers from the Minneapolis Pedestrian Alliance and Minneapolis Pedestrian Advisory Committee.
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On foot, people are vulnerable and Brassard said her group is using their pop-up to educate the public about concrete ways walking conditions could be improved. Try the pop-up bumpout at Open Streets Franklin on Sunday, Aug. 21 or West Broadway on Saturday, Sept. 10. Irving Avenue North is hosting a unique demonstration project from the 3000 to 3500 blocks. The North Minneapolis Greenway demonstration is meant to simulate how the streets connecting Jordan and Folwell Parks might function if they were redesigned to prioritize walking, biking, playing and gathering. The demonstration includes one block that is completely closed to motorized vehicles — with the exception of emergency vehicles — and other blocks that mix road users. These mixed segments include bump-outs — brightly-painted half-moons extending from the curb toward the center line and protected by planters placed on alternating sides of the street, encouraging slower driving by forcing cars to weave around them.
Inside the bump-outs or chicanes — as they are also called — are picnic tables, tetherball poles and other amenities inviting rest and play. The project was opened at the end of June and already some of the play equipment is getting worn out, according to neighborhood resident Will Lumpkins. “The kids were out there immediately,” said Lumpkins who has helped advocate for the project. As a father, he said he is excited about the greenway’s potential to connect libraries, parks and schools. Lumpkins thinks the greenway could help address some of the health disparities experienced by Northside residents. “The closer you live to green space, the more likely you are to use it,” he said. The project is a collaboration between residents, a technical advisory committee and the City of Minneapolis Departments of Health and Public Works. Over the course of the next year, residents will have the chance to try it out and see if this is a piece of infrastructure they want to make permanent.
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Parklets are another type of temporary projects out on the streets this summer. Parklets are on-street parking spaces that function like mini parks or public squares and feature amenities like benches, café tables and planters. These temporary installations are sponsored by local businesses and organizations and are open to the public so be sure to stop and take in the view next time you come across one. There is a second type of parklet, which is managed by a business seeking to provide an outdoor seating area for customers. The Loon Café unveiled one of these parklets — created in partnership with the Downtown Improvement District — during the Open Streets Downtown. By converting a street parking space into a pleasant seating area or a residential street into a greenway, neighborhood change-makers are hoping to positively influence the way streets function and are used. Ultimately, they are working to create streets that work for the people who work, live and play on them. Annie Van Cleve is a freelance writer, blogger and volunteer with the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition.
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Get Out Guide. By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com
CRAYFEST Crayfest is moving to a larger space this year for fans of crawfish, beer and live music. Smack Shack is once again putting on the fest with all its all-you-can-eat crawfish and all-you-can-drink beer. This year’s music lineup features Paul Mayasich (12-12:45 p.m.), Frogleg (1:15-2 p.m.), New Primitives (2:30-3:15 p.m.), Solid Gold (3:45-4:30 p.m.), The Suburbs (5-6:30 p.m.) and Wain & Friends (7-8 p.m.). The 21-plus event is located in the parking lot behind the North Loop restaurant at 3rd Street North and 7th Avenue North.
Where: Parking lot behind Smack Shack, 700 N. 3rd St. When: Aug. 20 from 12-8 p.m. Cost: $50 in advance, $60 at the door Info: smack-shack.com
SUMMER BEER DABBLER The Summer Beer Dabbler returns for its eighth year, bringing more than 100 breweries and 300 beers to the home of the St. Paul Saints. Beer aficionados can try unlimited samples from just about every brewery in town, from 2 Towns Ciderhouse to Wasatch Brewery. Beyond the brews, the Dabbler will feature performances from Nooky Jones (8-9 p.m.), K.Raydio (7-7:45 p.m.), Porno Wolves (6-6:45 p.m.) and Hipshaker (5-6 p.m.), not to mention an all-day silent disco and a fireworks show at 9 p.m. Concession stands from CHS Field will also be serving up ballpark fare.
Where: CHS Field, 360 N. Broadway St. When: Saturday, Aug. 20 from 5-9 p.m. Cost: $45 in advance, $55 at the door, $20 for designated drivers Info: beerdabbler.com
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TWIN CITIES POLISH FESTIVAL The Twin Cities Polish Festival returns to bring all things Polish to Main Street. This year’s celebrations feature two stages of polka music and traditional Polish folk dancers. The fest will also be home to exhibitions, including those from artists Liliana Chwistek and Dorota Wojcik, and has hosted the Minnesota State Amateur Polka Dance Championships and Chopin concerts. The free fest runs Friday, Aug. 12 from 5-10 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 13 from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 14 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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It may seem like light-years ago, but “Star Trek” has now been dazzling would-be space cadets for 50 years. Whether it was the latest “Beyond” movie or Gene Roddenberry’s “The Original Series,” the universe of Captain James Kirk and the final frontier have continued to captivate audiences and create the most diehard fans. For Trekkies, the 50 Year Mission Tour convention is taking over downtown’s Hyatt Regency hotel with appearances from the franchise’s biggest names — William Shatner included — along with parties, panels and more.
Where: Hyatt Regency, 1300 Nicollet Mall When: Aug. 12-14 Cost: $25-35 per day, VIP and packages available Info: creationent.com
IN CAHOOTS! BLOCK PARTY Kim Bartmann is throwing yet another summer block party, this time the third year of her craft beer collaboration festival, In Cahoots! A dozen Minnesota craft breweries, combined to form six teams, have come together to create collaborative brews to debut at Red Stag Supperclub. And the event has a musical lineup of local favorites, including psychedelic indie rock band Night Moves, theatrical Minneapolis legend Mark Mallman and Doomtree rapper Sims. Black Market Brass, Farewell Milwaukee and BradyScott are also on the entertainment bill. For food, the restaurant will offer brats, pulled pork sandwiches, fish tacos and more.
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CONCERTS AT U.S. BANK STADIUM Minneapolitans have had to watch U.S. Bank Stadium slowly take form for the past few years, and now it’s finally open. After a sold-out soccer game in early August, the new home of the Minnesota Vikings is set to see two wildly different back-to-back concerts — not to mention fans. Plus, it’ll get its national TV debut during week three of the Vikings’ pre-season with a Sunday, Aug. 28 game against the San Diego Chargers.
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Hardcore Metallica fans may look a little more like hardcore Minnesota Vikings fans than Luke Bryan’s listeners. The legendary thrash metal band — one of the genre’s founders — will take the football stadium as its first rock show and one of the band’s only shows of the year following their years on hiatus. Fellow California-born metal band Avenged Sevenfold and tour mate Volbeat — a Danish hard rock band — will open the currently sold-out show.
Luke Bryan, one of country music’s most popular figures today, will be U.S. Bank Stadium’s first concert — the stadium’s first big-ticket non-sporting event. The Georgiaborn singer-songwriter is touring on last year’s full-length release “Kill the Lights” — known for singles “Kick the Dust Up,” “Strip it Down” and “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day” — backed by Alabama-based group Little Big Town and “Mind Reader” singer Dustin Lynch.
Where: U.S. Bank Stadium, 401 Chicago Ave. / When: Saturday, Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. Cost: $49.50-$149.50 / Info: metallica.com/tour
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Stunning discounts at Rug Annex Given the Navabs’ international connections and direct importing, it made sense to devote part of American Rug Laundry’s space to the popular Rug Annex showroom. “People find incredible deals here,” says Far. “Which is as it should be! Everyone should have the pleasure of living with a beautiful rug. They’re part of our human heritage.” The Rug Annex offers everything from handcrafted, 100% wool orientals, karastans, kilims, dhurries, and tufted rugs to machine-made, synthetic fiber rugs and bound carpets. Both contemporary and traditional styles are available. Comments Sam: “There’s a lot of thought behind any rug you buy from us. It’s not just a floor covering.”
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At American Rug Laundry, multi-hued rugs mirror a colorful community. Caring neighbors at 42nd & East Lake You betcha –– American Rug Laundry has been part of the Minnesota business community since 1895. After moving from a first, early location, this historic company with the iconic red sign has continuously anchored the corner of East Lake Street and 42nd Avenue, providing employment to generations of Twin Citians, as well as rug cleaning and restoration to clients throughout the Upper Midwest. “We bought this company sixteen years ago,” explains co-owner Sam Navab, who also owns Navab Brothers Oriental Rug Company in St. Louis Park, in partnership with his brother Far. “We wanted to help our clients conserve their beloved rugs by providing complete services. At American Rug Laundry we do it all –– laundering, mending, reweaving, even total restoration. And you can find incredible prices on beautiful rugs at the Rug Annex.”
For the serious rug buyer or collector, Navab Brothers in St. Louis Park is a matchless resource. Far and Sam’s ongoing mission is to find rugs that, above all, show integrity through the use of authentic raw materials, unique design, and quality craftsmanship. Clients receive the thoughtful attention and consultation they need to select the ideal rug for their circumstances, and each purchase comes with free lifetime cleaning and courtesy repairs, as well as a lifetime trade policy. At any time after purchase, a client can exchange a rug for a different one of equal or greater value.
Serving community, at home and abroad Education and healthcare are causes that are especially close to the heart for Far and Sam. Their donations provide significant support for fundraising efforts at Minneapolis elementary schools, the Page Education Foundation, the Alliance Francaise, and the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Also, as a major retailer of handmade Afghan rugs, the Navab Brothers feel an obligation to help alleviate the plight of the people of Afghanistan, through membership in the Partnership for Education of Afghanistan’s Children.
Conserving a trusted brand name
The Navabs knew they were purchasing more than a factory back in 2000. They were taking charge of a regionally known and respected brand. Maintaining the family-owned and operated business meshed with their instincts as rug conservators. “American Rug Laundry is the oldest and largest rug cleaning and Oriental carpet repair facility in the Upper Midwest,” says Far. “People in our community have trusted this company for generations. Clients sometimes bring us the same rug to take care of that their grandparents brought in. We take a lot of pride in that.”
Tradition and technology happily coexist Although the American Rug Laundry brand was going strong, the building and factory were ready for a lift. The brickwork and roof required repairs, and given major advances in cleaning technology in recent decades, the factory equipment definitely needed updating. Thanks to the support of City of Minneapolis/Lake Street Council, which provides low-interest financing for Lake Street revitalization projects, Sam and Far were able to make the necessary upgrades. Now the building is solid, within and without; the eye-catching red sign shines brightly again; and clients are served by a happy blend of state-of-the-art equipment, environmentally sound cleaning techniques, and skilled expertise.
Master weavers, restorers, and artisans on site All rugs, from handmade Orientals to machine-made synthetics, are vulnerable to the ravages of time, temperature, soil, pets, and ordinary wear and tear. That’s why, in addition to people who are experts at laundering and drying, the American Rug Laundry team includes master weavers, dyers, and restorers, whose adroit repairs verge on the invisible. The company takes pride in sending every rug home refreshed and restored to new life.
It’s like sending your rug to a spa From the moment a rug is brought to American Rug Laundry, until the time it’s returned, the team guides it through a number of steps that ensure safety, as well as excellent cleaning. After discussing cleaning and repair options with the client and providing a detailed report, the rug receives an identification tag and is vacuumed and dusted to remove microorganisms. It’s then washed and cleaned using only natural cleansers and purified water, dried in temperature-controlled drying facilities, and if repair is needed, sent to the restoration experts. The rug is then paper-wrapped for delivery.
One team, all colors and creeds When you walk into American Rug Laundry, you may be struck by the diverse, lively atmosphere. Team members represent almost as many ethnic groups as the rugs they work with, and Sam and Far cultivate a family feeling in the workplace. Employees are united by their respect for the individuality of each rug and each owner, and all are fully trained to provide friendly, courteous, and caring service.
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Meet Sam and Far. As sons of a renowned Iranian poet, Sam and Far Navab did not grow up with the rug trade. They found their way to it. Or perhaps, by accident or “kismet,” the rug trade found them. Farzan “Far” Navab, came to the United States in 1976 as a student and graduated with a B.F.A. in filmmaking from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He worked at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in the early 1980s, then accepted Sam’s offer to join him in the rug trade in 1986. Far caught the “rug bug” from Sam and has been a rug enthusiast ever since. Saman “Sam” Navab came to America by a more circuitous route, studying political science and management, first at Cambridge University, then elsewhere in England and India. Eventually, he graduated with a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Stout. He has lived in Minnesota since 1977. Sam began his rug career in 1984 as manager of Taher Oriental Rugs at International Market Square and went into business with Far in 1988.
Join the community of “rug bugs.” Whether your beloved rug needs cleaning or repair, or you’re looking for a new addition to home or office, American Rug Laundry is the award-winning resource for everyone in the Twin Cities. Sam and Far invite you to stop by any time for advice, consultation, or to check out the new rugs in the Annex. By supporting this trusted East Lake Street business, you join the wider community of those who love and conserve great rugs, in Minnesota and throughout the Upper Midwest.