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Making affordable mandatory Proposed inclusionary zoning policy comes into focus

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

New multi-family residential projects built anywhere in Minneapolis would be required to include some units priced below the market rate if the City Council acts on the recommendation of a national affordable housing organization this fall. That organization, Portland-based Grounded Solutions Network, was hired by the city to examine how Minneapolis

might implement inclusionary zoning and its potential effects on the city’s housing market. Two of the organization’s policy experts offered a preview of their findings to the City Council’s Policy and Housing Development Committee in August, and they are expected to release a more detailed report in early September.

Twenty percent of the units included in the Vicinity project, under construction downtown by Sherman Associates, will be priced affordable to people earning 60 percent of area median income. New residential projects citywide could be required to include a portion of affordable units if the City Council adopts an inclusive zoning ordinance. Photo by Dylan Thomas

SEE INCLUSIONARY ZONING / PAGE A16

State IDs MPS schools for achievement, support Ed. Department also released test scores Aug. 30

Plan for apartments on Edina Cleaners site advances

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

The Minnesota Department of Education will provide varying levels of support to several dozen schools in the Minneapolis district over the next three years to improve standardized test scores, English language proficiency and graduation and attendance rates. The department will offer coaching, training and networking opportunities to staff at those schools, with the goal of helping them improve student outcomes. It will also require them to assess their schools’ needs and develop a plan for improving student achievement. The efforts come as the department works toward ambitious proficiency and graduationrate goals that it set under a plan required by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. It used multiple data points, including achievement and progress on state reading, math and language-

proficiency tests and graduation rates, to identify schools that needed support under what it calls the North Star accountability system. The department also recognized over 500 schools across the state that were top performers in those areas, including 15 in the Minneapolis district. “North Star places equity at the heart of our work to help all schools serve students well,” Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius stated in an Aug. 30 press release. “It points us toward the schools that will benefit from intensive support and schools that are positioned to offer lessons about how to help others improve.” There were 48 MPS schools identified as needing support among 485 the education department identified on Aug. 30 under the new SEE ACCOUNTABILITY / PAGE A11

By Brian Lambert

While the battle cry was, “No more Red Cows!” the response from the Edina Planning Commission was more along the lines of, “Of course not, maybe, we think.” A 5-3 vote at the commission’s Aug. 29 meeting gave the long-gestating, much reimagined redevelopment of the Edina Cleaners site on the southwest corner of Sunnyside & France most, but not all, of the approval it needed for a City Council decision on Oct. 2. The latest iteration of the apartment project, led by developer Ted Carlson of Carlson Commercial, has been reduced first from 62 units to 52 and now to 45 units with a 26 percent

reduction in total size. In response to the small area plan developed by neighborhood residents, a debate that focused on both the height of the main building (once 62 feet, now 48 feet) and the increased density it will bring to the immediate area, Carlson and partner Nino Pedrelli are now aiming for fewer but more affluent tenants. Pedrelli said their intention is to provide two affordable units and “buy in” to two others, meaning they’ll pay approximately $270,000 into the fund the city requires of developers who choose not to meet the 10 percent SEE EDINA APARTMENTS / PAGE A16

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50TH & FRANCE

Moderna Kouzina When Ashii Vrohidis says she doesn’t cut corners at Moderna Kouzina, now open in the former Mozza Mia space, she really means it. Staff arrive at 8 a.m. to cook all day before the doors open at 4 p.m., preparing everything from scratch, including the stocks. “You will watch as barrels of chicken feet come through the door,” Vrohidis said. Onions sweat for an hour or more until they are sweet and tender and finally added to the sauce. “It makes everything elevated,” she said. “You can taste that it took one hour to roast that garlic.” Because many entrées take five-and-a-half hours to prepare, popular dishes can sell out in a night, such as the scallops served with scratchmade ravioli and lemon beurre blanc. The restaurant specializes in modern French cuisine with Spanish, Greek, Italian and other international influences. “We’ve lived everywhere, and I mean everywhere,” said Vrohidis, now a Linden Hills resident. Vrohidis is the sole owner of the business, and she drew from her background in design to personally design the restaurant space, all of its furnishings and all of its artwork. “You can do modern and still have warmth,” she said. “In a world of white, there is gray and beige.” Some of the contractors were puzzled by her attention to detail, she said. She embedded gold leaf into the wall behind the bar so that it glistens at night.

“It adds another essence you can’t see initially,” she said. A big open kitchen allows patrons to smell the aromas, see the smoke and fire and sample extra bites on slower nights. Seats have “hotel spacing,” Vrohidis said, so customers enjoy a bit more privacy. A chandelier above the bar is inspired by her favorite Japanese knife. The dark bathrooms feature a signature scent created for the restaurant. “You can have a luxurious experience while still five minutes away from home,” Vrohidis said. A “living wall” of greenery above the street entry aims to evoke the pergolas and cliffs of Northern Greece. Vrohidis left the floor as-is, complete with marks from past expansions and permanent wine spills. “That was obviously a good night for somebody,” she said. “… You can see in the floor the history of the entire building.” Vrohidis spent four months cleaning and reassembling a red snapper skeleton, sinking it in plaster for display at the restaurant. She initially wanted to showcase a massive fossil, but after seeing the price tag, decided to take on a project herself, choosing a fish with a dorsal bone reminiscent of the dinosaurs. In another art piece, she assembled the feathers of 14 birds into the form of a butterfly. “This exemplifies everything we do at the restaurant,” she said. “Create something new, and do something wonderful.”

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Eat Street Food, Music & Arts Festival Glam Doll Donuts will install a celebrity dunk tank on Eat Street Sept. 15, dunking musician Mark Mallman and others as part of the inaugural Eat Street Food, Music & Arts Festival. Nicollet Avenue will close to cars from 25th Street to 27th Street, with a stage going up near 25th and kids’ activities near 27th. “People are able to walk around and get an introduction to some restaurants they haven’t been into,” said Whittier Alliance Executive Director Kaley Brown, explaining that many shops will set up right outside their doors. The Bad Waitress will flip pancakes on the street. The Copper Hen and Pimento Jamaican Kitchen will expand sidewalk service. And the Icehouse, Eat Street Social and Black Forest Inn will host beverage gardens. Onstage performances starting at 1 p.m. include salsa group Malamanya, McNasty Brass Band, Madison McFerrin and headliner HALEY. b. Resale will curate a fashion show featuring DJ Keezy. Additional performers include the CAAM Chinese Dance Theater, the Somali Museum of Minnesota’s Dance Troupe and the traditional Aztec dance group Elohuayotl Mitotiani. The Eat Street brand marked a 20th anniversary last year, and the Hennepin History Museum will display a portion of its anniversary exhibit. A fun zone for kids will showcase the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s mobile Mia

art cart, which functions as an art studio on a bike trailer. Kids can also build with Snapology, try button and book-making with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and participate in other activities organized by the City of Lakes Waldorf School. Staff at the Whittier Alliance said the event would help bring exposure to neighborhood businesses, many of which are owned by immigrants and people of color. The event comes at a key time, Brown said, as the 26th Street bridge was closed this summer during 35W construction. “We know that a lot of people are hurting because of the construction closure,” Brown said. “Our hope is to remind people that we’re over here, and we have a lot to offer.” A grant from the city’s Great Streets Program is covering about half the cost of the event, and organizers hope to make it an annual draw. Depending on weather, city officials estimate attendance at 6,000 people or more. Additional vendors include Lu’s Sandwiches, Black Sheep Coal Fired Pizza, Caravelle Restaurant, Pancho Villa, GYST Fermentation Bar and SK Coffee, a business new to Whittier. The event runs 1 p.m.–9 p.m. Sponsors include Brave New Media, the Black Forest Inn, Icehouse MPLS, Zeus Jones, Green Garage, Lake Wine & Spirits, Electric Fetus, Marissa’s Bakery and The Bad Waitress Diner. For more information, visit eatstreetfest.com.

A view from Lagoon & Emerson of the proposed Planned Parenthood building. Rendering by bdh+young

LAGOON & EMERSON

Planned Parenthood clinic Planned Parenthood is proposing a new three-story clinic and office building on its current site at Lagoon & Emerson. The Uptown site sees 13,000 patients each year, and the new building aims to

meet the high demand for services. The building is designed with extra security in mind, secured by a gate after-hours. The site would hold 76 parking spaces above and below ground.

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38TH & NICOLLET

Finer Meats & Eats When Doug Meyer ripped down the window paper to reopen after a six-month renovation, a customer immediately came rushing in with thanks. “That’s what makes it worth it,” Meyer said. Finer Meat Co. recently handed off the storefront to another generation. Now called Finer Meats & Eats, Meyer is running the shop with the help of his brother Brian Knopik while their parents, Tim and Mary Knopik, begin retirement. “It will always be dad’s store,” said Meyer, who said he hope his kids also join the business someday. “The legacy of the family and the community will keep on going,” he said.

The renovation involves new flooring, ceiling, lighting and eight additional feet of counter space. Tim’s father purchased the meat market on Nicollet in the early 1960s, and the shop still holds an old cash register and scales. Finer Meats’ top seller is Delmonico steaks, which Meyer described as a flavorful cut between ribeye and chuck. Other meats include smoked turkey legs, hot Hawaiian brats, ghost pepper cheddar beef sticks, chicken wings, pigs’ feet, Texas ribs and beef brisket. The bacon and jerky are still curing and will return to the shelves in a couple of weeks. The Finer Meats food truck continues operating as well, serving barbecue, burgers and sandwiches.

Reopened and renovated, the Finer butcher shop has passed to the next generation. Pictured are Finer Meats & Eats owner Doug Meyer (r) and Brian Knopik. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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David Hussman David Hussman, owner of Studio 2 at 46th & Bryant, guitarist in the ’80s metal band Slave Raider and founder of the local tech company DevJam, died Aug. 18 at age 56. Faced with terminal lung cancer, he said in a mid-August tweet that he’ll “try to go out as he came in. Naked and folksy.” At Studio 2, Hussman hosted hack-athons, jam sessions and other community events. He worked with clients ranging from Disney to Boston Scientific, CaringBridge and Harley-Davison. “Let’s build stuff that makes the world a better place,” he said in an interview on the Behavioral Grooves podcast in May. “It doesn’t have to be the coolest thing. But you know, the things that make someone’s life

easier, makes someone smile. That’s what I want to be involved in.” He told the Developer on Fire podcast he initially thought his cancer diagnosis was wrong — he had too much to do. “When someone tells you you have an incurable disease, you start very much taking stock in like: What am I doing? How much significance does it have?” he said. He sold DevJam to focus on new fulfilling projects. He brainstormed with staff at Leonardo’s Basement on how to get kids excited to learn technology, thinking about crash courses in JavaScript. DevJam shares a sample of Hussman’s work, and his reading list, at devjam.com/ honoring-david-hussman.

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A federal board on Aug. 22 gave the Metropolitan CouncilÂ the go-ahead to take ownership of two segments of railroad corridorÂ that are critical to its completion of the $1.9 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit project. The Surface Transportation Board will allow Met Council to take ownership of the Bass Lake Spur and Kenilworth Corridor, two key pieces of the planned 14.5-mile light rail connection between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie. The boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision also cleared the way for the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority to take onÂ the role of common carrier, meaning it will be responsible for maintaining the freight rail service that already operates in both railroad corridors. Hennepin County Board Member Peter McLaughlin, who chairs the rail authority, described the decisionÂ as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;huge step,â&#x20AC;? but said he could not comment on the specifics of the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling until it had been reviewed by the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I know is we needed a decision, and then we got one,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now we can sort through things and move forward.â&#x20AC;? The boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision allows Met Council and the railroad authority to complete a deal announced this spring. Met Council plans to purchase the 6.8-mile Bass Lake Spur from Canadian Pacific Railway for up to $27.45 million while at the same time taking over ownership of the Kenilworth Corridor, worth an estimated $66 million, from the rail authority. The plan came together afterÂ a breakdown in negotiations between Met Council and Twin Cities and Western Railroad, a freight hauler that operates on both segments of track. Met Council had originally proposed for the Glencoe-based shortline railroad to become the common carrier along both the

Bass Lake Spur and the Kenilworth Corridor, but the two sides could not come to terms, disagreeing on, among other things, how TC&W would be compensated for any losses due to light rail construction and operation. TC&W urged the Surface Transportation Board to reject Met Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan, andÂ in April it filed a lawsuit against the agency in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. The two sides met in mediation this summer, and in July TC&W and its shippers wrote to the board to withdraw their objections. TC&W also dropped its lawsuit. The Surface Transportation Board ruling is a sign of progress for the long-planned extension of the Metro Green Line, but many hurdles remain for the project. Those include an environmental lawsuit filed by a Minneapolis citizens group and uncertainty over whether and when the Federal Transit Administration will award the SWLRT project a grant expected to cover just less than half the total cost of the project. As the project budget has expanded, members of the Hennepin County Board have signaled rising concern over the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial commitment to the project. Met Council is seeking a letter of no prejudice from the FTA that would let it begin construction activities even before the grant is awarded. A spokesperson said the agency resubmitted â&#x20AC;&#x153;a stronger applicationâ&#x20AC;? for the letter Aug. 29 after winning the favorable Surface Transportation Board ruling. There was more good news for the project in August. The FTA completed its risk review of the project, a mandatory step before the awarding of a full-funding grant agreement. The agency also agreed to allow Met Council to reduce the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contingency fund, holding back another increase to the budget.

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Council exploring ‘renters’ bill of rights’ With rising rents and low vacancy rates putting many renters in peril of losing their housing, the Minneapolis City Council will soon consider adopting a package of tenant protections. What some are calling a “renters’ bill of rights” was the subject of an Aug. 13 assembly at North Minneapolis’ Farview Park hosted by City Council President Lisa Bender and Council Member Jeremiah Ellison that drew about 50 people. It’s mean to protect renters not just in a time of scarce housing but also to address longstanding issues with evictions and poorly maintained properties. Considered for inclusion in the renters’ bill of rights are a cap on security deposits and application fees; allowing tenants to make some repairs themselves and deduct the cost from their rent; requiring landlords to give “just cause” for evictions; relocation benefits for displaced tenants; restricting how deeply landlords can dig into the background of potential tenants, including prior eviction records; and giving tenants the right to end their lease in certain situations. “Our goal is to engage with renters and create a floor for how we think renters should be treated in this city,” Bender said. Ellison said there appeared to be enough support among his colleagues to pass something, but exactly what is included in the final ordinance isn’t set in stone. As of late August, city legal staff were still reviewing the limits of the city’s authority under state law. He said a specific proposal could reach the council as soon as October, although he acknowledged that timeline was “ambitious.” The goal is to potentially include support for the renters’ bill of rights in the 2019 budget, set for a council vote in December. The housing market is also creating a sense of urgency. Real estate brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap’s August report on the multifamily housing market pegged the metro area’s vacancy rate at 2.7 percent. Experts say a balanced market has a vacancy rate of about 5 percent. Jennifer Arnold, director of local renter advocacy group Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia (United Renters for Justice), said the “power

imbalance” between landlords and tenants is made worse by a tight market. Landlords can be slow to make repairs and quick to evict when they have a waiting list for their apartments. Shannon Jones, executive director of Hope Community, a local housing nonprofit, said in this market landlords are able to “cherry pick” tenants. They’re less likely to take Section 8 subsidized housing vouchers from low-income families and more likely to eliminate potential tenants based on a background check. “It’s a lot more difficult for people who have barriers to housing,” Jones said. Minneapolis recently revoked the licenses of landlords Steve Frenz and Mahmood Khan, high-profile cases that drew attention to the substandard living conditions endured by some renters. Both faced accusations of failing to complete long-overdue maintenance, among numerous other complaints. Jones said the Frenz and Kahn stories were “prime examples” of why tenants require more protection. While Hope Community doesn’t track the number of people coming to them for help, Jones said there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that it’s an especially tough time to live in Minneapolis as a low-income person. She described the “heartbreaking” experience of telling a family living out of their vehicle that the fastest way to find housing was to go to a homeless shelter. “There’s an uptick. I can’t quantify it, but I know the level of people who are coming to me about housing (is rising),” she said. Arnold said Inquilinxs Unidxs was primarily focused on repairs when the group first organized four years ago. Now, she said, the top concern of the renters who seek their help is increasing rents. And while more housing advocates are talking about the idea in Minneapolis, rent control is not among the items being considered for the renters’ bill of rights. State law currently prohibits cities from imposing rent control, but Emmanuel Ortiz, an organizer with Hope Community, said city leaders should be advocating to change that. “The long journey toward rent control I think has begun,” Ortiz said.

County targets conduct of federal immigration agents Responding to concerns about the conduct of federal immigration agents, Hennepin County Board members in August took a step toward developing a policy that would outline how they may operate on county property. A resolution authored by commissioners Jan Callison and Peter McLaughlin would direct staff to report back by mid-November with a policy that could potentially include a requirement for federal agents to give notice of their presence to county staff. It could also outline the process for federal agents to identify themselves and set “general expectations for their conduct” around members of the public and others, Callison said.

She said the policy was not seeking a ban on federal immigration authorities. McLaughlin noted many police departments declined to question people about their immigration status because it can discourage residents from reporting crimes or cooperating as witnesses. He said the county was in a similar situation. “We do a lot of incredibly important work on our property, and I think it’s important that we assure people who are trying to access services or access justice or access their elected officials on our properties that there’s no chilling effect based on the presence of immigration enforcement officials,” McLaughlin said.

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Freaky fertile fall song harvest

ummer brought a crazy bounty of local music releases, but in all my years of semicovering and keeping the beat beat in this beat-crazy burg, I can’t remember a more fertile time for independent tunes than the bumper crop being harvested this fall. I’m here for it, but before we dig into the music and music parties, any time I get a chance to share this quote from the Los Angeles Times’ David Ackert, I take it: “Singers and musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they’ll never work again. “Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. With every note, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment. With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of a normal life — the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. Why? Because the musicians and singers are willing to give their entire lives to a moment — to that melody, that lyric, that chord, or that interpretation that will stir the audience’s soul. “Singers and musicians are beings who have tasted life’s nectar in the crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another’s heart. In that instant, they were as close to magic, God, and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes.” Can’t tell the local mystics without a program, so dig if you will the latest bumper crop of homegrown discs: Genital Panic featuring Tina Schlieske, ‘Pussygrabber EP’ soundcloud.com/tina-schlieske

The leader of Tina and the B-Side Movement brought the house down at the Lady Parts Justice bash at the Cedar earlier this summer with a fierce reading of James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s World.” Turns out that was just a taste of the similarly ferocious Genital Panic: The title track, along with of-the-moment songs “Misogyny Is Coming To Get Me” and “Lick My Impeachment” sound like classic punk rock anthems that have only just recently been unearthed. Obviously recorded fast and with great urgency, this EP is a funny, angry, smart and rockin’ tonic for the troops, and here’s hoping the pogo-worthy “Pussygrabber” lights up the resistance airwaves from sea to shining sea. (Release party Saturday, Sept. 8 at First Avenue with Holly Hansen and American Housewife) Brass Lassie, ‘Brass Lassie’ brasslassie.com

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Fiddles, flutes, tin whistles, drums and a full horn section power Irish-Scottish music heroine Laura MacKenzie’s magnificent new 10-member group, which takes the basics of

traditional music and blows them up into bigband nirvana. Seriously mesmerizing, and wildly danceable. (CD release party Saturday, Sept. 8 at North Garden Theater in St. Paul) M French, ‘Sweet Love’ mfrenchmusic.com

I love this dude. Truly a gentle man, French has a James Taylor-by-way-of-Michael Johnson way with a lyric and melody, and it’s easy to hear that his songs come the very heart of a very thoughtful soul who struggles in matters of the heart but shines on always and keeps killing it with kindness. (Release party Oct. 20 at Aster Café with Julia Christi Ann) Kari Arnett, ‘When the Dust Settles’ itunes.apple.com/us/album/when-the-dustsettles/1410568468?i=1410568782

This holy-smokes country-folk debut is highlighted by some classic-sounding country-blues tunes and Arnett’s force-of-natural-woman vocals. “Only a Woman,” inspired by the lack of female songwriters on music festival bills, is a should-be country radio hit, and “Tired of This Town” is the perfect theme song for anyone who’s ever felt the need to shake up the scenery and soul. (Release party Sept. 20 at the Cedar Cultural Center with Mary Bue and Becky Kapell) Martin Devaney, ‘Plaid on Plaid’ martindevaney.com

Fitting that the album title nods to Bob, as the unofficial mayor of St. Paul uncorks a rock and soul beauty that evokes classic Dylan and Byrds-y pop. Fueled by some of Devaney’s best songs and vocal performances of his career and Tom Herbers’ warm and expansive production, “Plaid On Plaid” is highlighted by catchy croon-alongers “When You Were Young” and “About My Girl” and the wistful “Getting Cold.” (Release party Dec. 1 at the Turf Club) Annie Fitzgerald, ‘You and Me and The Sun’ anniefitzgerald.com

If you’re lucky like me, you’ve heard Fitzgerald’s delicate voice hush up a room with a single sweet song — like she did at the State Fair with Patty Griffin’s “Heavenly Day” and as she does on this pretty meditation on hope, optimism and summery salvation. Along with Dan Israel’s “You’re Free,” I played the hell out of this while staring at the Crazy Mountains of Montana a few weeks ago, and I felt damn lucky to be alive. Vicky Emerson-Wallace, ‘Steady Heart’ vickyemerson.com

The co-leader of The Home Fires and one of the hardest-gigging songwriters in town unveils her latest batch of self-produced tunes, directly inspired by the #metoo movement and how these mad macro times affect one woman’s micro heart. (Release party Nov. 2 at the Hook and Ladder Theater with Mother Banjo and Haley Rydell)

Bev, ‘Static Elastic’ bevband.bandcamp.com

Led by singer-songwriter Niki Beverly, Bev comes alive with sonic swirls and moody moonshine music and lyrics, highlighted by such inner ruminations as “Burn,” “Disaster of Messes” and “The Truth.” All in all, perfect indie rock headphone music for a rainy autumn night. (Release party Sept. 22 at Mortimer’s with Rank Strangers and Otto’s Chemical Lounge) Paul Metsa & Willie Walker, ‘Ain’t Gonna Whistle Dixie Anymore’ itunes.apple.com/album/id1412975480

Leave it to a couple of Midwestern bluesmen (with a lot of help from Sounds of Blackness) to deliver an anti-racism anthem that artfully takes on the late stages of the fading white supremacy like a couple of preachers leading a New Orleans funeral march. This one’s for you, white power punks and all who fly the Confederate Flag in 2018: “Bury that song in the land of cotton/deep in the Delta mud long to be forgotten.” (irockthecause.org/aint-gonnawhistle-dixie-anymore-paul-me) Julia Christi Ann, ‘Before You Go’ soundcloud.com/julia_christiann/before-you-go/ s-F8G53

An absolutely stunning voice on a single that promises much more to come from this wise old soul singer on her full album release in January. (Release party Sept. 27 at Icehouse with Hemma and Fathom Lane, who are celebrating the release of their new single, “Laurelee.”) Doug Collins and The Receptionists, ‘Good Sad News’ dougcollinsmusic.com

Fresh off his triumphant release party at the Turf Club, Collins makes like his heroes on what sounds like a mini-country-pop classic, thanks in no small part to the production chops of Rob Genadek, an unassuming recording genius in a town full of ’em. By no means some retro-rocker or vintage-white dude-come-lately, Collins is a songwriter/rocker/man out of time whose lived-in and poetic songs evoke the glory days of AM radio country-pop-rock, and this 10-song long-player is his most fully-realized collection of songs to date. Guante & Big Cats, ‘War Balloons’ guante.info

Guante brings all his chops as a poet, rapper, activist, scholar and teacher to this EP, as he and his crew come with intensity and topicality on super-smart ruminations like “Dog People” and “Gifted Youngsters” (featuring Lydia Liza), “Fortunate Sun” (featuring Tony The Scribe) and the brilliant trio of “Fight Or Flight,” “Bumbling Shithead Fascists” and “You Say ‘Millionaire’ Like It’s A Good Thing.” (Release party Sept. 21 at the Whole Music Club at the University of Minnesota) SEE WALSH / PAGE A10

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Dateline Minneapolis

By Steve Brandt

No, the bulldozers aren’t coming for your house

’ve been late to jump into the debate over potential land-use changes triggered by the proposed Minneapolis 2040 update to the comprehensive plan, now undergoing revision, mainly because of a mind full of mixed feelings. Here’s where I’ve come down. I regard zoning as one of the guarantees the city makes to homeowners when they invest in property. A zoning classification offers relative certainty that an investment won’t be undermined by, say, a rendering plant or an asphalt-mixing facility moving in next door. Zoning predictability promotes neighborhoods where property owners invest in improvements. But the heart of the controversy over the 2040 plan isn’t factories next to houses. It’s multi-unit residences next to houses. And in that context, I keep coming back to the 3900 block of Pleasant Avenue, where we’ve lived for 42 years this month. We bought our house because it had character and we could afford it. When we sit on our open porch, we look across the street at a 1922 brick fourplex. Two doors down, there’s a ten-unit apartment. And several doors beyond that, there’s a duplex. Otherwise, our block, developed largely before the adoption of modern zoning law, consists of single-family homes. They vary too. One neighbor’s house has an attic big enough to hold a square dance. Another resembles a shotgun-style house.

The extra density of our multi-family neighbors means we have 15 more households on our block. That sometimes means we need to park a few houses down the street if our alley parking spot holds the other car. But that’s the only drawback that comes to mind. The landlords of the two apartment buildings on our block manage them well. One even lets me garden in the margins of the backyard. The fourplex provided a playmate for the girl next door. The caretaker of the bigger apartment solicited my landscaping advice. Moreover, inflation has pushed our property to tenfold the price we paid for it. If my

rental neighbors are holding down our property values, which I doubt, I’m all for that when I look at our property tax statement. And those apartments are helping to keep my taxes lower. The fourplex pays twice the property tax bill we pay. The 10-unit building pays well over quadruple our bill. I think about that experience when opponents of the 2040 plan hyperventilate about the idea of taller buildings along busier streets or allowing fourplexes into blocks dominated by single-family homes. They could talk to my neighbors who bought a single-family house sitting between the two apartments.

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Fourplexes may unnerve some people. But so can an unwelcome monster-sized single-family house that pops up next door to shade your yard. Or the turnover of the house next door. That happened to us after 25 years; it turned out just fine when a pleasant educator moved in. The single-family six-room rentals that a real estate developer plopped down more than a decade ago in North Minneapolis were far more deleterious for the neighbors than the seven fourplexes on a bus route a block from us. If the goal of increasing density with fourplexes is affordability, an affordability requirement for one or more units could be built into the zoning permission. If it’s simply density, one way to calm the neighbors would be to require an owner-occupant. If there’s fear of six-story housing among those on the blocks adjoining, require that units be stepped to maintain solar access. Those blocks likely already have spillover parking from stores or offices. But can we stop the fear-hyping about bulldozing neighborhoods? No one can bulldoze your home unless you decide to sell it. The same is true of your neighbors’ properties. If you decide to sell, and if maintaining the character of the block is important enough that you’re willing to cut the pool of potential buyers, add a deed restriction that requires that the property remain in single-family use. Otherwise, welcome your new neighbors. And don’t forget to invite them to the block party.

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Public Safety Update By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

City ﬁles underage drinking charges in fatal crash The city attorney’s office filed underage drinking and driving charges against a Delano resident who struck and killed a woman Feb. 1 near 54th & Penn. The state accident report said Carl Louis Schaefbauer, age 20 at the time of the crash, was driving a Toyota RAV4 southbound on Penn Avenue at 8:24 p.m. when he struck Debra Ann Skolos, 47, who was crossing in the middle of the block with no crosswalk. Skolos was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center, and she died at 9:33 p.m. of her injuries. Schaefbauer’s blood alcohol content at the time of the crash was .033, according to Minneapolis police. A BAC of .03 equates to about one or two drinks for a man, according to Stanford University. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office

declined to charge Schaefbauer, determining there was no evidence he met any of the elements for a felony charge of criminal vehicular homicide. Those factors would include a BAC higher than .08, negligent driving or leaving the scene of the accident. The city attorney’s office filed a misdemeanor charge on Aug. 22. According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, a citation for underage drinking and driving with a BAC less than .08 can cost $700 and/or 90 days in jail, result in lost driving privileges for 30 days, and remain on a person’s record for 15 years. Skolos graduated from Jefferson High School and Bethel University, according to her obituary. She was described as an adventurous woman who loved music, cats and international travel.

Whittier man charged in Uptown shooting A 24-year-old Whittier resident is charged with assault and fleeing police in a shooting Aug. 18 at Lagoon & Humboldt. The criminal complaint said officers ran toward gunshots at 1:35 a.m. and discovered a man shot in the leg and chest. Several men were trying to prevent the driver of a silver SUV from leaving, according to court documents, and when officers confronted Jesse F. Brown, he reportedly drove away. Officers chased Brown in a squad car as he allegedly ran red lights and reached speeds of 80 miles per hour on Lake Street. Brown reportedly crashed near Lake & Excelsior, where he allegedly fought with officers, broke free and fled on foot. Officers said they deployed a Taser to apprehend Brown. Brown is currently in custody. He told police he could not remember shooting the victim. The victim remained hospitalized as charges were filed. The victim told police he was out with friends Aug. 18 and a conversa-

tion with some women turned into an argument. Brown intervened and shot him, the victim said. Retracing the vehicle’s route, officers said they recovered a handgun with several spent rounds and one live round. A hearing in the case, which is paired with an outstanding domestic assault case, is scheduled for Sept. 19. Brown previously pleaded guilty to a January 2017 charge of financial transaction card fraud. In that case, Brown was accused of attempting to purchase cigarettes in Washington County using a “clone card” which contained Brown’s name, a fictitious account number and a magnetic strip linked to another person’s account. That victim told officials his account had been hacked and he closed the account. The card was declined and flagged as possibly stolen at the store. Litigation in the case is ongoing.

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Terry Hughes, ‘The Other Side’ terryhughesmusic.com

Ben Cook-Feltz, ‘BCF’ bencookfeltz.com

Singer, songwriter, keyboard wizard and hardworking sideman Cook-Feltz could be the middle brother of Ben Folds and Dylan Hicks, and his past outings suggest more heartbreak, romance and lush power-pop craft to come on “BCF.” (Release party Sept. 23 at Icehouse with Sarah Morris) Niles, ‘To Remain’ icehousempls.com/events/2018/9/21/niles-release

Hip-hop and poetry slam vet Niles has made a name for himself as a teacher and nonprofit organizer, and his latest, “To Remain,” is bolstered by an all-star cast that includes Jayanthi Kyle, Joe Davis, Aleesha Clomon, Dahlia Jones, Carolyne Naomi and Traiveon Dunlap. (Release party Sept. 21 at Icehouse with Vie Boheme, Calvin The Second and David “TC” Ellis)

At a time when the trend for songwriters is to release singles, EPs and one-off tracks, Hughes has crafted an actual album. Southwest Journal publisher Hughes’ third release in five years, “The Other Side” is a refreshing and uneasy slice of the times, coming from a writer who has obviously been paying attention — and reacting — to the tumultuous here and now with songs like “D.E.A,” “Dangerous Man,” “Viewer Discretion Advised,” “The End Of Wonder” and “Invisible Man.” Highly recommend to all worshippers of the holy trinity of Joe Jackson/Elvis Costello/Brian Wilson. (Release show Sept. 29 at Studio 2 Café) Preston Gunderson, ‘Wake Up’ prestongunderson.com

Already a recording veteran at the ripe old age of 28, Gunderson is a robust singer and a songwriter who sounds like he’s just coming into his SEE WALSH / PAGE A11

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system. Some were identified because of low performance of a single student group on the statewide standardized tests. Others were identified because of graduation rates for single student groups or the student body as a whole. The education department plans on providing the most support to the lowest-performing schools that receive federal Title I funding that also have the lowest attendance and academic growth rates. It also plans on prioritizing support to any high school with a graduation rate below 67 percent, whether that is schoolwide or for a single student group. In addition, the department plans to provide support to other low-performing schools and those with underperforming student groups. The Minneapolis district had 20 schools identified as needing “comprehensive” support and another 17 identified as needing “targeted” support. They included all of the district’s comprehensive high schools, all of which had at least one student group under the 67 percent threshold for four-year graduation rates. In a press release, the district pointed toward its focus on four core priorities of equity, literacy, social-emotional learning and student-support systems as an integral part of its response to the North Star system. The district said the state data are another tool it could use to focus on meeting students’ individual needs.

Iteration of ESEA Michael Diedrich, a policy specialist with the education department, said the department hopes the new system helps it make best use of the federal funding it receives under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The state

receives about $250 million annually under the law, he said. ESSA is the latest iteration of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which President Lyndon Johnson signed into law in 1965. Congress reauthorized the law in 2001 as the No Child Left Behind Act, requiring states to label schools based on students’ performance on standardized tests. The new education law looks beyond test data to offer a more comprehensive understanding of what’s happening in schools, according to the state education department. Still, officials cautioned that the North Star system does not provide a complete look at a school’s successes or failures. Cassellius noted in the release that the department plans to collect additional data over the next several years, including measures of career and college readiness and school climate.

North Star places equity at the heart of our work to help all schools serve students well. It points us toward the schools that will benefit from intensive support and schools that are positioned to offer lessons about how to help others improve. — Brenda Cassellius, Minnesota education commissioner

“This will give us a better picture of school quality than what current data are able to provide,” she said.

Test data released The education department also on Aug. 30 released the statewide standardized test data for 2018, as it typically does toward the end of the summer. A greater proportion of MPS students tested were proficient on the statewide reading test in 2018 than in 2017, according to the data, though math proficiency decreased slightly. Just more than 43.5 percent of MPS students tested in math were proficient in 2018, compared to 44.1 percent in 2017, according to the data. In reading, 46.4 percent of MPS students tested were deemed proficient, compared to 44.6 percent in 2017. Statewide, 60.4 percent of students tested in reading in 2018 were deemed proficient, as were 57.7 percent of students tested in math. The state tests students in reading in math each year in grades 3–8 and also in 10th grade for reading and 11th grade for math. Eric Moore, chief of accountability, innovation and research for MPS, said in a press release that the district has not seen the trends it would like to see. But he said the district is hoping to change its trajectory over time by continuing to implement its four core priorities and using information from the North Star system. The state also released data on participation in the standardized tests. Just over 90 percent of MPS students expected to be tested in math were tested in 2018, according to the education department, compared to 97.7 percent of students statewide. The participation rate dropped to 45.6 percent among 11th-graders in MPS, compared to 91.2 percent among 11th-graders statewide.

FROM WALSH / PAGE A10

own on this forthcoming collection of personal ballads and rockers. Easily some of the year’s best love songs this side of Mason Jennings’ “Songs From When We Met.” Bye Bye Banshee, ‘Deathfolk Magic’ byebyebanshee.com

This new vehicle for Minneapolis songwriter Jezebel Jones is an ancient-sounding shot of swampy blues (“If I Die In My Dreams”) and witchy folk-rock (“Skull Rattles”) that makes for an extremely haunting trip into the afterlife via song. (Release party Oct. 4 at Bryant-Lake Bowl) Tiny Deaths, ‘Magic’ tinydeaths.com

Brooklyn- and Minneapolis-based Tiny Deaths singer Claire de Lune is nothing short of hypnotic on the moodswinging duo’s three previous releases, making like Bjork and Nick Cave’s little sister, all of which promise more beautiful brooding things to come with this full-length album. (Release party Oct. 4 at Icehouse with Gully Boys and DJ Sarah White) Johnny Rey and The Reaction, ‘This Modern Age’ discogs.com/Johnny-Rey-And-The-Reaction-This-ModernAge/release/12352790

The co-founder of the late, great Minneapolis dance-rockpop pioneers Flamingo is on fire on this five-song EP, cutting through with Clash-like topicality and the sort of from-theheart raw rock ’n’ roll that always sounds fresh: ripping band, savvy songwriter and great grooves throughout. Mother Banjo, ‘Eyes On The Sky’ motherbanjo.com

The heroine of the Minnesota Music Coalition, host of KFAI’s weekly must-hear “Womenfolk” show and ace Americana singer-songwriter returns with more banjo-bred goodness. (Release party Nov. 2 at the Hook and Ladder Theater with Vicki Emerson-Wallace and Haley Rydell)

Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com.

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Ubah Jama, the widow of Hussein Samatar, cuts the ribbon with council members Steve Fletcher and Abdi Warsame, Mayor Jacob Frey and her children by her side. Photo by Eric Best

Samatar Crossing is a testament to late local Somali leader, city officials say

By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

The City of Minneapolis has repurposed a former highway ramp to forge a new connection between downtown and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood for pedestrians and cyclists. The $1.9 million project is named in honor of Hussein Samatar, a former Minneapolis School Board member who became the state’s first Somali-American to hold elected office in 2010. Samatar Crossing officially opened in late August, five years to the month since Samatar died due to complications from leukemia in 2013. “Hussein loved this community. He was passionate about uplifting people and connecting

communities,” said Ubah Jama, Samatar’s widow, at a ceremony with city officials. “I believe this space will bring people together and inspire us to keep connecting with one another.” Utilizing the former 5th Street ramp, the crossing stretches approximately 1,850 feet over Interstate 35W to connect either side of 5th Street between 11th Avenue South to the west and 15th Avenue South to the east. On the west side, the path empties out behind U.S. Bank Stadium in the Elliot Park neighborhood and, on the east side, it connects to the CedarRiverside light rail station and Currie Park.

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City officials credit the project for connecting two areas that have been historically separated by the highway. Council Member Steve Fletcher, whose Ward 3 include downtown, said he only lives a few blocks away, but now the borders between Elliot Park and Cedar-Riverside “just got a lot narrower.” “It felt like a whole different place, and now it’s a very easy walk,” he said. Mayor Jacob Frey praised the project’s importance in welcoming immigrants into the city’s urban core. “This is saying to our Somali population, to

our new American population, ‘Yes, you are part of this city, and we want you here,’” he said. Council Member Abdi Warsame, who represents the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood on the City Council, said the connection is a testament to Samatar’s legacy. “Hussein worked all his life to connect people and to bridge communities,” he said. “He was an inspiration to many in the city of Minneapolis.” The crossing was first conceived under former Mayor R.T. Rybak as a vehicle connection as well, but Public Works Director Robin Hutcheson said they decided against it. In that way, the project preserves the “social pieces” of the neighborhood by not bringing in more traffic and cars, she added. An additional round of work will bring in public art and landscaping to Samatar Crossing. The city is looking for a few artists to create memorable artwork. Hutcheson said planners asked themselves: “How could we make it a place in addition to a new connection?”. The City of Minneapolis relied exclusively on public staff to design, plan and build the path instead of contractors. The city covered the approximately $1.9 million price tag. The crossing, which features bike paths and sidewalks that are at times separated, runs parallel to the Hiawatha Trail along the Blue Line. The two trails don’t directly connect. Lisa Middag used Samatar Crossing to bike to her office downtown a few times in the week after it opened. She said she prefers the connection over Hiawatha because it better integrates with traffic on the downtown side and it doesn’t cross light rail tracks. It will be a nicer entrance into the urban core for people coming from the University of Minnesota and Cedar-Riverside, she added. “This is a lower stress pathway into downtown, and, especially if you’re going to the southern part of downtown, then you’re not as far north,” she said. South Minneapolis residents Rex Anderson and Ed Loch went to check out the pedestrian SEE SAMATAR CROSSING / PAGE A13

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New city loan program has big plans for small-scale rental housing

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City oﬃcials look to expand community ownership of small-scale buildings

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City officials are optimistic about a new city loan program aimed at preserving small-scale affordable housing, despite some concerns about the program’s impact on low-income residents and communities of color. The efforts are part of the city’s larger plan to preserve naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH), or rental units in the private market that are affordable without government subsidies, many of which are at risk of increasing prices. Under the Small and Medium Multifamily Loan Program, the city will partner with local development organizations to acquire and preserve up to 300 units of NOAH in small-scale housing projects, or buildings that have between two and 49 units. City Council members approved $1.9 million for the first year of the three-year pilot program at a Housing and Development Committee meeting on Aug. 22. The recent housing boom — particularly low vacancy rates in Minneapolis — has threatened to price many NOAH units out of affordability. City officials hope the program will not only protect affordable rental units but also increase community control of housing. “We see this as a strategy to support more expanded community ownership opportunities,” said Andrea Brennan, the city’s director of housing policy and development. She said the city wants to “help develop the capacity of neighborhood residents and smaller organizations to get into the business of operating smaller-scale NOAH, responsibility.” NOAH must have at least 20 percent of units affordable to households with incomes below 60 percent of the area median income. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development calculates 60 percent of area median income for the Twin Cities metro as about $56,000 for a family of four. In Minneapolis, over 50 percent of renter households fall under this category, according to a 2018 report by Minnesota Housing Partnership (MHP). With average rent in Minneapolis increasing 17 percent over the past seven years, the report notes, “average rent is moving out of reach for these families” citywide. Developers who buy unsubsidized affordable rental units typically prefer larger buildings because there are more fiscally viable to renovate and operate. However, “the NOAH stock in the city of Minneapolis tends to be in smaller buildings,” Brennan said. The city, working with the Land Bank Twin Cities, will help renovate smaller buildings, making projects more affordable for community-based developers, Brennan

said, or bundling several buildings together to sell to larger companies. The strategy is based in part on the MPH report, Brennan said. The city’s loan program is targeted at older properties, many in need of repair, which make up over 88 percent of NOAH units, according to the report. Despite ambitious goals for the loan program, several council members expressed concerns about its impact on residents, especially low-income residents and communities of color. “We got some pretty pointed criticism from community members,” said Council Member Jeremiah Ellison (Ward 5), at the housing meeting. “If the city is going to have a goal and a principle of supporting communities of color and investing in communities of color, then we should be explicit about that goal.” Ellison directed staff in the Office of Community Planning and Economic Development to engage organizations of color to receive feedback on the program’s implementation and “expand community-based ownerships, particularly among neighborhood residents and community-based organizations led by people of color.” Staff will return to the housing committee next year with recommended changes. Although supportive of the policy in general, Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins (Ward 8) said she is concerned about the possibility of gentrification and new development that won’t serve local residents. “I want to ensure we are not displacing people who currently live in those communities,” she said. “The improvements that are brought to bear in those communities [should] actually benefit people who have long been challenged in those communities.” Many small family vacant properties — those likely to fit the loan program — are in North Minneapolis and communities of color, Jenkins said. “Our policies, while they are very wellintended, we recognize that sometimes they have some unintended consequences that really do more harm than good in our communities,” Jenkins said in support of the staff direction at the housing committee. Brennan said the staff direction reinforces the program’s goal of increasing community ownership, in whatever form that comes. Although there’s no “silver bullet” solution to preserve affordable housing, Brennan said, “There’s a lot of flexibility in this program to ensure that properties are owned and operated by organizations that care about the community, care about the quality of housing (and) care about the residents that living in the housing.”

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modate this space a lot better,” he said. Jama cut the ribbon, officially opening Samatar Crossing, during an Aug. 23 ceremony with her children by her side. She said Samatar was known to say, “We are SomaliAmericans, and we are here to stay.” “Although we grieve and miss him dearly, yet we are thankful for the memories and legacy he has left behind. His positive energy, dedication and sense of helping others were remarkable,” she said.

path because it’s close to the light rail, which makes it easier to get back home on the Blue Line. At first Samatar Crossing seemed redundant, Anderson said, but he thinks it will help with game days at U.S. Bank Stadium and with the increasing number of cyclists coming to and from downtown. “You’re trying to fit a very large amount of people into a small space, and this will accom-

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A Doctors Without Borders exhibition headed to Minneapolis seeks to shed light on the experience of the planet’s growing population of refugees, what organizers describe as a global crisis. Using a mix of virtual reality technology, live demonstrations with volunteers and a 10,000-square-foot installation, “Forced From Home” is designed as an immersion into the lives of displaced people across the globe. The nationally touring installation from Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), will take over a block of downtown’s Commons park near U.S. Bank Stadium Sept. 9–16. More than a decade ago, the international medical humanitarian organization put on a similar exhibition when the world’s displaced population totaled 33 million. Since then, that number has risen to 68.5 million, including 25.4 million refugees, but MSF organizers say statistics alone don’t tell the complete story. “We hear the statistics almost ad nauseum,” Communications Director Michael Goldfarb said. “We really felt like it was imperative to put faces to these numbers, to draw emotional connections — a relatable connection — between visitor and refugee.” MSF volunteers, including many who have worked with refugees, walk participants through what they’ve witnessed out in the field. Participants get to experience the living conditions and transportation of displaced people. Some pieces are taken directly from the field. Assisted by virtual reality headsets, viewers watch several 360-degree videos inside a dome structure that detail people’s journeys from Honduras, Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, Tanzania and Bangladesh. Participants get their own identification card and have just a few minutes to choose what items to take with them in order to simulate their own displacement. The experience is free and takes about an hour. Joseph Keenan, a lung and intensive care doctor with the University of Minnesota Medical Center, has been on several Doctors Without Borders tours, which have brought him to South

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Blogger sues elected official after business filings Carol Becker had ﬁled to claim name Wedge Live

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

A Lowry Hill East blogger has sued the Minneapolis elected official who filed to conduct business under the name of his blog and corresponding social media accounts. John Edwards says Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation President Carol Becker used false and misleading trademark and business registrations to violate his rights, according to a lawsuit filed Aug. 23 in Hennepin County District Court. He asks for a declaration that he owns the Wedge Live brand under which he has blogged, tweeted and created YouTube videos over the past four years. He also asks that Becker be prohibited from filing any registrations for it or using any marks that are confusingly similar to it. In a statement on his website, wedgelive. com, Edwards said he believes that Becker made the filings in an effort to shut down his platform and steal the identity by which the community has come to know him. He said he believes something similar will happen again and that he will do everything in his power to defend himself. “I will not leave myself vulnerable to a person, or group of people, with the money and motivation to engage in an unlawful effort to shut down the platform I’ve spent more than four years building,” he wrote. Becker did not return an email from the Southwest Journal seeking comment on the lawsuit.

In interviews, Edwards said he didn’t know who Becker was until she sued thenMayor Betsy Hodges last fall in an effort to get her to produce a complete budget proposal, a move he considered frivolous. He subsequently decided to run what he described as a “half-serious, half-joke” write-in campaign for the Board of Estimate and Taxation, though he didn’t come close to winning. This spring, Edwards and Becker were on opposite sides of the debate over Minneapolis’ draft comprehensive plan, Minneapolis 2040. At one point, Becker wrote an online post in response to one of Edwards’ blog posts in an attempt to refute claims Edwards made in support of the draft plan. Becker filed the applications for the Wedge Live brand the day after the publiccomment period for Minneapolis 2040 ended. In interviews, she maintained that she did so because she wanted to start a podcast under the name to talk about “wedge issues,” and she denied that Edwards had exclusive ownership of the brand. “Just because someone else thought of it doesn’t mean you can’t have multiple groups using those words,” she told the Southwest Journal. Becker withdrew the applications after unflattering media coverage of her actions, in what she said was an opportunity to Edwards

to “do what he needs to do to become legal.” She alleged, without evidence, that Edwards is being paid to advocate for a pro-developer agenda. She also charged that he should file “legal paperwork,” potentially including registering as a nonprofit, filing with the Campaign Finance Board or registering as a lobbyist. “Would Mr. Edward’s (sic) world be different if those who were funding him had to come out into the daylight?” she wrote on the Minneapolis’ issues forum last month. Edwards, an independent graphic designer, accepts donations for his work, which readers support through the online platform Patreon. He also has an online

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store out of which he sells Wedge Livebranded merchandise. But Edwards said that all content published on Wedge Live or his own social media accounts are his own ideas, opinions and artistic visions. Further, he said he has never been paid to post anything in service to a specific viewpoint and that Wedge Live is not his primary source of income. Becker’s claim that the name Wedge Live is “legally available” does not appear to hold up, a University of Minnesota law professor told the Southwest Journal last month. William McGeveran, who teaches trademark law at the university, said the actual use of the name is what creates trademark rights and not filing registration. Also, Becker’s charge that a blogger such as Edwards should have to file as a lobbyist appears dubious. David Schultz, a professor in the Hamline University Department of Political Science, said that blogging is in general a protected political activity under the First Amendment. He said someone would only have to register as a lobbyist if they attempted to influence government action and were paid specifically to do so. “If a blogger is simply blogging and receives donations or compensation for that, that is not lobbying, even if part of what that person is doing is advocating others take official action to do something,” he wrote in an email.

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The council could vote on an interim version of an inclusionary zoning policy as soon as November while city staff spend another year hammering out the details of the ordinance. “My goal with this policy has been to create one more tool that we have as a city to get affordable units,” said City Council President Lisa Bender, who first introduced an inclusionary zoning ordinance in January 2016, during her first term representing renter-heavy Ward 10. “I don’t think anyone should pretend, and I don’t want to pretend, that this is the overall solution to our affordability problem.”

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affordable quota. The Planning Commission voted down a motion to require Carlson meet the quota — four units — leaving that too for the council to decide in October. But in recent weeks the debate has turned more on the idea of a 3,700-square-foot restaurant envisioned as the primary ground floor tenant, how truck deliveries would be handled and where patrons would park. In an email, area resident Laura Plaetzer said, “… unfortunately there is still a garage door on Sunnyside Road for cars to cross a sidewalk and go in and out of. This, in my opinion, should have been removed as it creates a dangerous situation for so many of the people who use Sunnyside to bike and walk. They also want a variance to have a restaurant that they do not have the appropriate number of available parking spaces which seems like a non-starter. We don’t deserve to be the next ‘Red Cow’ neighborhood without any neighborhood parking. Also, daily there will be a large number of restaurant food delivery trucks, linen trucks, bread, meat, fish, alcohol being delivered. … Obviously, this area needs to be developed, but not by sacrificing the way of life existing neighborhoods and the many people who use and enjoy Sunnyside Road.” Another resident, who asked her name not be used, sent off letters to Edina Council members reminding them of the city’s code requiring one parking space for every three restaurant seats. She argues that Carlson’s current plan, which includes one space for every bedroom for residents, plus

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40 for the public and seven on the street in front of the building, “doesn’t come close to meeting parking needs for a popular restaurant, like what we see with Red Cow.” She calculates a 48 percent parking deficit. The Red Cow restaurant at 50th & Drew in Minneapolis regularly has patrons parking in front of residences both north and south on Drew Avenue South. Inspecting sketch plans Carlson and Pedrelli put up for an outdoors open house at the Edina Cleaners site prior to the Planning Commission meeting, another resident, Jim Reistad, said, “There just isn’t enough parking. Obviously the solution is some kind of district parking [like the ramps around 50th & France], but that’s not happening anytime soon.” Edina Community Development Director Cary Teague concurred with the math on one space for every three restaurant seats, plus parking for every employee on a maximum shift. But he said Carlson has the option of applying to the commission for a variance, which he has not done as of yet. For his part, Carlson said, “No one wants a Red Cow situation.” But he believes his current plan supplies adequate parking for all possible facets of the project. He noted that Red Cow is a 4,500-square-foot restaurant with only 10 parking stalls on its property. “It’s apples and oranges,” he said. Assuming the council approves the plan in October, Carlson said demolition could take place sometime this winter with full construction beginning in March 2019. One caveat, also to be addressed by the council, is his desire to seek tax-increment financing (TIF) to bury power lines along the west side of France Avenue and provide other “public enhancements.” The latest design also includes a public pocket park off Sunnyside Road. He said he’s uncertain of the total cost of that work, but claims the property is currently producing only $50,000 in annual tax revenue to the city, a number that will escalate to $500,000 for the finished complex. Also, the idea of a restaurant tenant with two 1,800-square-foot spaces for retail is still just that, an idea. Carlson said he’s willing to adjust the size of the restaurant if necessary. “I believe these problems can be addressed. They all seem very solvable,” said Commissioner Jerry Strauss at the Aug. 29 meeting. To that, Commissioner Ian Nemerov added his belief in “the value of a popular restaurant.” Fellow Commissioner Susan Lee expressed her disappointment in the design, which she said lacked “the charm of the neighborhood” and that street parking was “detrimental” to that neighborhood feel.

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Still, Bender said she expected inclusionary zoning, also referred to as inclusionary housing, to play an important role in helping the city to achieve the housing goals proposed in Minneapolis 2040, the 10-year update to the city’s comprehensive plan. The plan anticipates Minneapolis’ population continuing to grow from 416,000 residents today to 465,000 in 2040. City Council members will also hear about alternatives to a new inclusionary zoning ordinance from groups like Building Minneapolis Together, a coalition of local for-profit and nonprofit developers that includes Steve Minn, a former City Council member who is now vice president and chief financial officer for Lupe Development. The group is pitching a menu of alternatives, including an “inclusionary development investment fund” that would generate income through a new tax-increment financing district. New affordable projects would apply to tap the fund, which would be administered by the city’s Community Planning and Economic Development Department. Minn said a mandatory inclusionary zoning policy was “nothing but a tax on development” and warned it could lower profits enough to scare away the outside investors who fund new housing projects. “That is a recipe for killing the goose that is laying the golden eggs here in Minneapolis,” Minn said.

Minneapolis is attempting to strike a balance, requiring some affordable housing with every project, but keeping the requirements low enough that the policy won’t drive away developers. The inclusionary zoning ordinance being written by city staff is expected to copy the model proposed by Grounded Solutions Network. It recommended a citywide program that offers developers two alternatives: 10 percent of a multifamily residential project’s units priced at a rate affordable to households earning 60 percent of the area median income or 20 percent of the units priced affordable to households earning 50 percent of area median income, with a city subsidy available on an as-needed basis. Bender said a tax-increment financing district was the likely source of the city subsidy, although that remained an open question. The proposal expands on an existing inclusionary housing policy that has been on the books in Minneapolis for 15 years. It at first applied only to developments of 10 or more units that received financial assistance from the city, but the definition of financial assistance was expanded to include pass-through funding. The policy was expanded again to apply to any project of 10 or more units built on city-owned land. It may take another year to work out the details of the new inclusionary zoning ordinance — and a lot is expected to change in that time with the adoption of a new comprehensive plan. Members of the Policy and Housing Development Committee directed city staff to develop an interim ordinance that would require an affordable component from any project that seeks to go significantly bigger or denser than is allowed by right.

Risk and reward

Learning from mistakes

Hundreds of cities and counties across the country have attempted to use inclusionary zoning policies to balance growth with affordability and respond to the community-altering effects of gentrification. “Inclusionary housing is one of the few policy tools available to address racial disparities by creating and retaining mixed-income neighborhoods throughout a city as communities change,” said Stephanie Reyes, a specialist in state and local housing policy at Grounded Solutions Network. Because they make new development more expensive, inclusionary zoning policies also come with some risk for the cities that choose to adopt them. An inclusionary zoning policy can limit new development, constraining the housing supply and making a housing crunch — like the one Minneapolis is currently experiencing — even worse. Or it might encourage developers to skip emerging markets that need new affordable housing to focus on more expensive projects in the established markets that can demand the highest rents. “Any inclusionary zoning policy involves some risk that projects that are feasible to build without the inclusionary zoning requirements … may become not feasible with the combination of affordable requirements and incentives offered in your program,” Reyes cautioned. Curt Gunsbury of Solhem Companies,

Bender said some cities struggled with managing the period between when an inclusionary zoning policy is adopted and when it goes into effect. She noted that Portland saw a surge of applications for new development after that city adopted inclusionary zoning but before the new rules came into play. That was followed by a slowdown in new applications, similar the scenario that played out after Chicago adopted its version of the policy in 2016. With the interim ordinance, Minneapolis elected officials hope to avoid a similar situation. “We have the benefit of learning from the experience of so many cities who have done this before us,” Bender said. Gunsbury predicted the interim ordinance would have an immediate effect on most new residential developments. It could, he said, encourage developers like him to shift their work to St. Paul or the suburbs, at least for a while. Minn warned that even the interim policy would “have the immediate effect of curtailing any project that is not closed and funded.” In addition to an inclusionary development investment fund, Building Minneapolis Together is recommending that the city identify lower-cost publicly owned land for affordable housing developments. The group also suggests reducing fees and expanding the tax credits available to affordable housing developers.

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which has developed residential properties in Uptown, LynLake, Northeast and the North Loop, described himself as “agnostic” on the policy. Gunsbury said “the intentions are wonderful,” but he’s wary of unintended consequences. “Minneapolis needs housing, right? So, taking away potential future supply may not be a good match for increasing affordability,” he said.

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Partnership helps prevent flooding along Minnehaha Creek A partnership between the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and the National Weather Service is helping to prevent flooding along the 22-mile creek, which flows from Lake Minnetonka through Southwest Minneapolis and into the Mississippi River. The watershed district receives detailed precipitation forecasts and predictions of inflow and water levels on Lake Minnetonka from the weather service forecast office in Chanhassen. It uses the information to determine how much water to discharge out of Gray’s Bay Dam, which connects the lake to the creek. That in turn helps prevent flooding along the creek as it meanders from Minnetonka through Hopkins, St. Louis Park, Edina and Minneapolis. The partnership began after the flooding of 2014, which caused over $1 million in damage along the six main streams in the watershed. Gray’s Bay Dam was submerged underwater, and water flowed into Minnehaha Creek at record levels. “We weren’t able to control anything,” said Tiffany Schaufler, project and land manager for the watershed district. Schaufler said the interagency partnership may or may not have made a difference when it came to the 2014 flooding. But she said the district wanted to take some of the lessons it learned and refine its dam-management process. Four pieces of information go into dam management, according to Schaufler, including lake levels, the month of the year, the creek

capacity and rain forecasts. The first three variables are known, she said, but the moving variable is always the forecast. “What the weather service has allowed us to do is really refine a very specific forecast for Lake Minnetonka,” she said. The weather service provides the watershed district with seven-day forecasts broken down into six-hour increments. The district releases more water from lake a few days before large forecasted rain events and slows the discharge a couple days before the rain. That allows the additional water to pass through the creek, ensuring that the creek doesn’t flood. “Any change takes about two days for it to make its way through 22 miles down to Minnehaha Falls,” Schaufler said. Schaufler said the partnership was helpful during the snowstorm this past April, when about 16 inches of snow fell during a four-day span. The district knew the lake levels were on the higher end of what they should be in the spring, she said, and knew of the incoming precipitation, because of the weather service information. It applied for a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources permit to aerate, or pass air through, the dam, thereby clearing ice and allowing water to pass through before the spring snow melt and rainfall. Schaufler noted another piece in the partnership, which comes in the form of additional data from Hennepin County Emergency Management. The department has developed what it

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Search for next park superintendent moves to next steps The application period for what Park Board President Brad Bourn calls the “best job in the country” closed at the end of August. That position would be the next superintendent of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, a post the board would like to fill this fall when interim Superintendent Mary Merrill’s contract is up. Bourn, who is leading the search with consultant kpCompanies, said they’ve seen qualified applicants. “For a parks and rec professional or for anybody that has comparable experience who wants to enter this profession, it’s the best job in the country,” he said. The job description — a combination of what’s spelled out in the city charter, institutional memory and recent board practices — is rather unique. The next superintendent will have to lead an approximately $110 million

organization with more than 500 full-time employees, its own police department and control of 15 percent of the city’s land mass. Before she resigned in February, former Superintendent Jayne Miller helped broker a deal with the City Council to better fund neighborhood parks over the next two decades. Implementing the 20-Year Neighborhood Park Plan is a high priority for the nine-member board, whose six new members are still settling into their positions. The minimum qualifications of the job call for 8–10 years of executive management or community organization experience and a bachelor’s degree in parks and recreation, public administration or program management. A master’s degree is preferred. Bourn said the next superintendent doesn’t necessarily have to be a current head of a parks department or similar organization.

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ourdan Anderson knew when she bought her Southwest Minneapolis home that she wanted to remodel it. She also knew exactly what she wanted from that remodel. Anderson’s 1920s bungalow had two first-floor bedrooms, one bath, a galley kitchen and narrow stairs to a low-ceilinged attic. Anderson decided to add a second floor with three bedrooms and two full baths. She wanted a larger kitchen, an office and a mudroom. She also wanted a neighborhood contractor and hired House Lift Remodeler to do the job. The original kitchen wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t welldesigned. The countertop along one wall jutted out across about a quarter of the sliding glass door — the only door that led to the back yard and garage. So, in addition to building up, House Lift expanded that side of the house by three feet to provide for a more spacious kitchen. The company also removed a hall closet and a five-foot archway that separated the living and dining rooms, leaving

The new kitchen features a generous, granite-topped island of walnut-stained, custom cabinets; fully accessible French doors; dove-white wall cabinets and a white subway tile backsplash.

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the kitchen open to those rooms as well. The new kitchen has a generous, granite-topped island of walnut-stained, custom cabinets; fully accessible French doors; dove-white wall cabinets and a white subway tile backsplash. The larger of the two first-floor bedrooms was converted to an office. House Lift removed a closet from that room and replaced the standard-sized doorway with French doors that open to the dining room. In the area occupied by the smaller bedroom, the builder created a mudroom with a closet, adding an exterior door for better access to the garage.

House Lift widened the stairs to the second floor, which holds a laundry room in addition to the two new bedrooms and a master suite. The addition also has plenty of storage space, including dual closets that flank the hallway from the master bedroom to the bath. That second-floor laundry room wasn’t in the plans, but when Anderson learned that installing the dryer vent would be easy during the mechanicals stage of construction, she was in. “If you asked me what the one best decision was, it’s this,” Anderson said, motioning to the washer and dryer.

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Before the remodel, Anderson’s house featured two bedrooms on the lower level and a low-ceilinged attic.

She also loves the master bath. Anderson knew she wanted a claw-foot tub, a double vanity and a glass-walled shower, a linen closet and a separate WC. Not many homes in Southwest have such generously sized bathrooms. In her last house, the bathroom was too small to accommodate a bathtub. Anderson is busy painting some of the woodwork and getting the house ready for the fall Remodelers Showcase, scheduled for Sept. 28-30 by BATC-Housing First Minne-

House Lift Remodeler added a second floor with three bedrooms and two full baths. The addition allowed space for a larger kitchen, an office and a mudroom. A second-floor laundry room wasn’t originally in the plans, but it has become Anderson’s favorite feature.

sota. It will be House Lift’s only entry, according to owner and president Randy Korn. He credited Anderson for knowing exactly what she wanted in the remodel, which expanded the bungalow from 1,100 to 2,300 square feet. Construction began immediately after she closed on the house in December 2015 and wrapped up in August 2016. “It’s so much easier when you do it all at once and get it done,” Korn said.

Anderson said she enjoys picking out hardware, plumbing fixtures, finishes and lighting. “The reason I did the remodel is that I like my life to function extremely seamlessly and efficiently,” she added. “I like to come in and work with people and make sure that I have a spot for everything that I need, and it’s great, especially the kitchen. It’s so much better.” “I really was just like, ‘I want these things in these rooms and I want this layout,’” she added. “And they made everything happen.”

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Dockless bike sharing coming to Minneapolis this month The operator of the Nice Ride Minnesota bike-share system will roll out a fleet of 1,500 dockless bike-share bikes this month in Minneapolis. Brooklyn-based Motivate will place the new blue bikes in designated parking zones on streets, plazas, sidewalks and parking lots around Minneapolis. Users will be able to unlock the bikes using the Nice Ride Minnesota smartphone app and return them to any open spot in the designated parking areas. The rollout of the new system will come about two months after Motivate took over operation of Nice Ride from its namesake nonprofit. Nice Ride Minnesota had operated the Nice Ride system for eight years before seeking a private company to transition the system from a dock-based model to a dockless one. It chose Motivate this past winter after a competitive bid process. Under Motivate, the new Nice Ride system will include a mix of traditional docking stations and dockless bikes. Motivate hopes to install as many as 200 designated parking areas this year, according to its master plan. It plans to add an additional 1,500 dockless bikes to the Minneapolis fleet in 2019 and another 1,500 in the years 2020 and 2021, if usage targets are met. Bill Dossett, executive director of Nice Ride Minnesota, said the new dockless bikes are designed for 10,000 trips, adding that they are the same bikes used in systems in New York City and San Francisco. Each bike will be returned to a permitted spot, he said, noting that Motivate will paint new spots starting the first week of September.

Other cities have instituted dockless bikeshare programs, but Minneapolis will be the first to take a permitted approach, Dossett said. The new system will cost less to operate than the system of docked bikes, he added. Motivate is also conducting a pilot of 150 e-bikes, Dossett said, though he didn’t know the exact timeline for that project. He highlighted the partnership between Nice Ride Minnesota, the City of Minneapolis and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, which will continue to act as the title sponsor of the system. Also in the past month, Nice Ride launched a new smartphone app, which automatically updated for users who already had the old Nice Ride app on their phones. The app allows users to map out rides to any destination in the Twin Cities, and it shows the closest docking station to their destination. It contains upgrades such as a plan-a-ride feature that will deliver bike directions directly within the app. It also allows users to create a personal rider profile, access their ride history and sync the app with Apple Health. Nice Ride has also lowered the pride of single rides to $2 from $3 when purchased at a kiosk and to $1 when purchased through the app. The system has also lowered usage fees to $2 per half hour. Nice Ride is accepting suggestions for new parking zones for the dockless bikes. Visit niceride-newparkingzonesplanning.org/ request-a-location.html to suggest a spot.

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Painter Joe Burns at his Fulton studio with a portrait of Victor, an immigrant and Uptown resident. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Painter creates a portrait of immigration from Fulton studio Based out of a studio above his garage, Joe Burns’ first portrait series involved 47 portraits of all his neighbors in Fulton. (There is no better way to get acquainted with your neighbors, he said.) Then he traveled to the Bakken oil fields at a time when oil was selling for $110 a barrel, painting the landscape and the workers. Burns’ new exhibition, opening Sept. 6 at the Capella Tower, focuses on portraits of local immigrants, from his neighbor Kassah Trebe to state Rep. Ilhan Omar. Burns decided to create “FACING AMERICA: An Exhibition of Immigrant Portraits” in response to negative national rhetoric about immigrants. “For me, this land is built on immigration. The story of America is immigrants,” he said.

Each portrait is joined by the immigrant’s personal story. “I chose to be in part of Facing America to show everyone the normality of immigrants such as myself,” writes Zeinab Ahmed Omar. Omar was a teenager during the 1991 Somali Civil War and fled the country. She works as a second grade teacher in St. Paul and previously worked with Somali students at Southwest High School. “I want everyone to know that we too strive to survive,” she writes. The paintings go on display Sept. 6 at the Capella Tower’s second-floor east lobby at 225 S. 6th St. The show runs through Oct. 31, open 9 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays For more information, visit joetburns.com.

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Fed hosts ‘Hamilton’ contest for students The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is holding a student contest in honor of the musical “Hamilton” coming to town, with the prize being two tickets to a performance of the show. The bank is asking interested high school and college students to submit short posts containing their best ideas for improving the economy through Sept. 25. The winner will receive two tickets to the Oct. 4 show of “Hamilton” and will be offered a paid bank internship. “Hamilton” tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, a close aide to George Washington who eventually became America’s first treasury secretary. Hamilton championed a strong central government, creating a national bank that was the precursor to today’s Federal Reserve System. He died in an 1804 dual with Vice President Aaron Burr. “The Minneapolis Fed is a direct product of Hamilton’s vision,” Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said in a statement. “While it isn’t show biz, the work we do here is in service to our community.” The contest is part of a campaign by the Minneapolis Fed to educate students and

the public about Hamilton’s contributions to the U.S. financial system. The bank is also expanding its free public tour program to include a limited-run exhibit showcasing Hamilton’s contributions to the system. It also has created a website where people can learn more about Hamilton’s life and impact. The student contest is open to high school and college students in the Federal Reserve’s Ninth District, which includes Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. To enter, students should follow @ MinneapolisFed on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram; and create a public post in 200 words or less with ideas for improving the economy (posts can include photos and videos less than 60 seconds long). Students should tag @MinneapolisFed and #Hamilton4All in their posts. Visit minneapolisfed.org/publications/ special-studies/hamilton to learn more. “Hamilton” is showing at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Minneapolis now through Oct. 7. Visit hennepintheatretrust.org to learn more.

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Fall Poetry Shelley wrote that “THERE IS A HARMONY IN AUTUMN.” He didn’t live where fall is a crazy shoulder season — where we shrug off summer and hunker down for what comes next. Local poets submitted a dazzling array of verse this time, some of it funny, much of it strange, even haunting. You’ll find poems about old guys and wise ladies, birds and cats and zebras, storytelling dolls, teaching lessons and classical moments — both those you read about in books and those you feel in your bones. Enjoy! — Doug Wilhide is the poet laureate of Linden Hills and poetry editor of the Southwest Journal

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THE PERFECT SOLUTION FOR A HOME’S RAINWATER PROBLEM MN Nice Gardens & Landscapes creates a beautiful rain garden

ennie Page had a water problem. Runoff from rain and neighbors’ sprinkler systems pooled next to and under the deck of her home and infiltrated the basement. Drain tiles she’d had installed were no match for the water that ran downhill to her property. At times, it was up to Page’s knees. The ground beneath her deck was green and mildewed, and the mosquitoes attracted by the standing water made enjoying the deck impossible. Page figured she’d hire someone to re-grade the ground around her home. Before doing that, the Farmington resident contacted city officials, who said they were mulling installing a rain garden on public property uphill from Page’s home. Then a local contractor told her about MN Nice Gardens & Landscapes, a Farmington company that specializes in rain gardens. MN Nice over-excavated the ground next to Page’s deck and home and built it back up with a sand/compost/black

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dirt mix to allow for better water infiltration, according to company co-owner Corey Anhalt. The company also built up the soil at the corner of the deck nearest the hill, edging the mound with steel to divert the water until it could enter the garden without going under the deck. At the base of the garden, MN Nice installed a 3-by-3-foot dry well that’s covered with filter fabric and drainage rocks to catch the rest of the runoff, enabling it to infiltrate the soil within about 24 hours, Anhalt explained. The system also helps filter out fertilizer that flows downhill from neighboring properties, and keeps it out of the Vermillion River watershed, he added. The rain garden also captures rainwater from Page’s roof. “A lot of cities are actually looking at capturing runoff and using it as greywater irrigation because it minimizes the amount of fertilizer input,” Anhalt added. Most rain gardens don’t run alongside homes or incorporate dry wells, but “you have to incorporate multiple practices to get things to perform the way that you need them to,” he said. Moving the water off a property may not be the best solution or even be possible. Getting the water to go where the homeowner wants is just one benefit of a rain garden. Page had planted a pair of dogwood trees at the far end of the 30-by-8-foot garden five years earlier, not realizing that they thrive in wet soil. The landscaping company added water-loving Indian grass along the side of the deck for privacy, serviceberry and chokeberry bushes, and colorful perennials — rudbeckia, gaillardia, liatris, anise hyssop and Joe Pye weed — for color throughout the summer and autumn. The plants are also pollinator-friendly, especially the anise hyssop, according to Anhalt. “If you’re looking to attract pollinators and bees specifically, the anise hyssop, the minute you bring it onto any site, the bees show up,” he said. “It flowers from like the middle to end of May to late July or the middle of August. It’s a pretty long flower.”

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How do you say hallelujah in Spanish? Bienvenidos will have to do. I’m thrilled (to put it mildly) that the debut of Northeast’s Popol Vuh was worth the wait. It’s not only the best Mexican restaurant in the metro, it’s a top contender for best of this year’s arrivals overall. It’s the fine-dining partner of its newly opened next door cousin, the casual Centro — sharing a warehouse-type building’s exposed brick, cement floor, industrial beams and a mingled respect for Mexico’s illustrious culinary heritage with a chef-driven spirit of invention — here celebrating open-flame grilling in sight of patrons sitting at the bar. This is the kind of food you expect in a hoity-toity, white-tablecloth setting, but with none of the above. Dinner consists of a fourcourse tasting menu ($45), with road maps of ingredients detailed by well-versed servers, an engaged and engaging crew indeed. You pay for four generous courses, but wait: The kitchen can’t be held to that constraint. The minute you’re seated, a complimentary drink arrives, like nothing I’ve tasted before but delivering a compelling flavor I won’t forget. Called a Salty Sangrita, it’s green and herbal,

building from an initial wallop of salt that fades into a burn from chilies that mellows out into pure enjoyment. Think tomatillos, poblanos, cilantro, celery and — um — fish sauce. Then a bread basket appears with twin butters, one from Hope Creamery and the other a spread rich with huitlacoche, that fungus that grows on cobs of corn. Deeply delicious. Next, an addictive scoop of elote. This take-off based on Mexican street food involves roasted corn kernels mingling with chewy wheat berries and guajillo peppers, bound by mayo and dusted with white cheese. I could eat it forever. Finally, time for the menu’s first course: a salad of juicy jicama and beet (red and yellow) matchsticks tossed with shallots, pepitas for their savory, seedy crunch and strands of pickled onions. They’re melded by a house-made goat ricotta, smooth as cream and accented with a touch of honey. Course two: sope de salpicon. In this case, the salpicon — tiny bits of stuff — is raw, tender, flavorful Angus beef tossed with heirloom tomatoes, tomatillos, purple radish fans, lime and a whole lot more. The third course calls on that flaming grill to sauté a fillet of sea bass, joined on the plate by

what our server called “arroz cremosa,” which surely must translate to “dining heaven.” The mélange stars rich, savory wild mushrooms punctuated by corn and melded with a creamy foam. Grill time again. This round, it sears a sweet and juicy slice of lamb loin accompanied by a trio of beans — haricots verts, gigante and fava — along with mizuna and red shio (I had to ask: a leafy green) and mole de caderas. There’s an ambitious cocktail menu, too (plus wine and beer, natch). I sipped a bourbonbased Morelos Sour finished off with worm salt — just because I could — while my companion summoned the pisco-based Chicha Morada garnished with popcorn and pineapple. Turn over that list and you’ll discover a trio of desserts ($8–$9): Mexican mousse (chiles added), arroz con leches with coconut rice and more, and our choice, corn and honey panna cotta. Its (too) solid custardy base is weak on flavor and textural interest. Count on the strawberries and spears of cornhusk for that. Or don’t bother with dessert, because here’s a tip: As you summon your bill, some tasty little pecan muﬃns appear, sided with a limpid dollop of crème fraiche and a pansy blossom. Will I be back? How about, like, tomorrow?

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y dad grew up on a farm. I knew that my whole life, but I have only recently come to appreciate what it means. Growing up, I knew that my grandparents were, in some vague way, “farmers.” My grandpa had an extensive garden, was retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and owned a piece of land larger than any I had ever seen. It was the farm where I ate my first mulberry and caught my first catfish. I was aware, without asking too many questions, that the vast expanse of land in southern Iowa was always in the background producing sweet corn and fish for me to eat. I had no sense of scale as a child, no sense of

It has struck me that I am the ﬁrst of at least three generations, on my dad’s side, not to grow up on a farm. I love the city. I love the people clustered close, I love the diversity and the hubbub and the city lights stretching into the distance on a dark night.

the work that went into each year’s harvest of fresh corn. When my dad would talk about growing up on a farm, I pictured that farm, centered around leisure and maintained by unseen hands (my grandparents rented out the land in their retirement and kept only a tiny part of the crop). By the time I was born, my father had lived in a city, or at least a large college town, for over a decade, and I came to know him only as a plant enthusiast. I was lucky enough to grow up with lots of berry bushes and a small vegetable garden, but there was no real connection made between that and a true-blue farming lifestyle. I came to view my dad’s “growing up on a farm” as a characteristic of one’s childhood similar to going camping a lot, or playing a sport with a moderate level of commitment. It was something you did, an interesting hobby or lifestyle but only a minor departure from anyone else’s daily urban experience. I ended up working in food as an adult and met a great many chefs and farmers. I learned a lot about food systems, about seasonality, about new ingredients and revived heirlooms and spent a couple of days dirtying my hands in a small organic field. I began to volunteer with the farmer’s market and signed up for a CSA. I was interested, moderately knowledgeable and, above all else, a voyeur. In 2017, my grandparents passed away within months of each other. As I drove

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to Iowa for the funerals, I thought about The Farm. I hadn’t been there in at least a decade. The last memory I could call up was catching bluegills at the age of 16 with my little cousins beside me learning to fish for the first time. I went through all the stages of grief not just for my grandparents but for the land itself: for the pond, for the mulberry tree, for the acres of corn stalks and the dilapidated silo. It was not until my grandma’s funeral that I really started to think about a different farm, and a different generation. My father has a dozen cousins, and every single one of them have the same memories of The Big House that their parents and grandparents lived in. This farm was 60 miles northeast of the one I knew, and the address listing doesn’t show up on Google Maps. That is the farm that my great-grandparents bought and cultivated as newly married first-generation immigrants, and The Big House is the house that my grandmother was born in. That was a true working farm. It still is today. In fact, my grandparents were buried in a tiny cemetery across the street from that farm. I could see the house in the distance while the hot summer wind blew across the tombstones and rustled the tall corn stalks. It has struck me that I am the first of at least three generations on my dad’s side not to grow up on a farm. I love the city. I love the people clustered close, I love the diversity

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and the hubbub and the city lights stretching into the distance on a dark night. But I feel a gulf, a void between my tidy house in the city and the farm — all of the farms of my family. My grandparent’s farm, The Farm of my childhood, was put up for auction after their deaths. There was a lovely video made, with expansive drone footage of the greenery and the pond, and I realized as I watched it how little I know. I realized how tenuous my connection to the land really was. The realtor described the land in words I didn’t understand: CSR2 average, tile drainage, Maxburg versus Sharpsburg silty clay loams. I felt embarrassed, in a way, to think that I had never really understood the true depth of what “grandpa’s farm” was. My dad grew up on a farm. And, in a way, I did too. But my farm experience was just a tiny slice, just a foggy window into the reality of an entire lifestyle. Every fish that I caught, every mulberry that I ate, every cob of sweet corn that I shucked, it was only one small thread in the complex web of farmers and farming traditions that nurtured me.

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essential that it be supplemented in their diet. Dogs are capable of making some taurine but not to the level that is needed for good heart health. Although a definitive answer has not been arrived at yet, it is thought that the diet being fed to the patients that developed DCM was low in taurine, which led to the development of their heart condition. DCM can be a genetic disease, but it is also known that it can be an acquired disease if a patient is fed a low-taurine diet. The vast majority of Stern’s patients improved when their diet was changed and they were supplemented with taurine. Cardiologists are still investigating these cases. If you are currently feeding a nonprescription grain-free diet with peas, lentils, other legume seeds or potatoes as main ingredients, veterinarians are recommending that you slowly transition your dog to a diet that is not marketed as grain-free. If your dog is acting ill — especially if your dog is lethargic, coughing or has a poor appetite — it should be evaluated by a veterinarian. DCM can be diagnosed with an x-ray in most cases. An echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart) likely will be recommended if the concern for heart disease is present. Blood taurine levels can be evaluated. But it should be noted that these levels are only meaningful if a blood level is measured before and after a diet change. Because of individual patient variation in blood taurine levels, a single reading does not provide enough information for veterinarians to interpret the results, and there were some atypical breeds that seemed to develop diet-associated DCM but had normal blood taurine levels. It should also be noted that this test is an expensive test to run, typically ranging $400–$500. If you have further questions about grainfree diets and heart disease, your veterinarian is the best source of information. Dr. Teresa Hershey is a veterinarian at Westgate Pet Clinic in Linden Hills. Email her your pet questions at drhershey@westgatepetclinicmn.com.

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Gadget Guy

By Paul Burnstein

Browsing in privacy

hat is a VPN? A virtual private network (VPN) is used to hide one’s Internet activity from the outside world. The VPN routes your data through a separate network that then connects you to your sites and keeps your information safe and secure in between you and your sites. While not all may offer it, the majority of VPNs that I looked at offered end-to-end encryption, ensuring your data is encrypted during all stages of transit, so that only you and your intended recipient can view the information exchanged. Only the VPN software itself can see what you are transmitting and receiving. (I should point out that information is encrypted from all third parties, including from your own Internet service provider.) VPNs mask your location and IP address, so that it appears you are somewhere you are not. This can be a different region, state or country. Usually the region of your masked IP address correlates to the location of the VPN server you’re using. Most VPNs offer a way for you to choose where your connection is coming from. When I use my VPN, for instance, I have it set to auto-choose the closest server, which ends up being Chicago for me. Because the VPN is creating another network on top of your current network, it slows browsing speeds down. This effects upload and download speeds, too. Every back and forth with data now has some additional processing necessary due to the additional network connections. You can play around with this in the location settings and see what areas may be faster than others, but just using the VPN will slow you down. I’ve read that it’s about a 50 percent reduction in speed on average, and some VPNs claim to be faster than others. There are several factors that can contribute to speed, including how close in location you are to the VPN server, the speed of the machines the server is running on and the speed of the end user’s Internet connection. Another reason to use a VPN is for the ability to mask your region. This could come in handy if you are traveling. Having your VPN say that you are in Europe instead of China could allow you access to services like Google, which otherwise might be blocked. China is particularly tricky because of the “great firewall of China” which is constantly changing to block different VPN services. In Canada, one benefit of using a VPN would be to access regionally locked videos on a streaming service like Netflix, since the

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selection of videos available in the U.S. is not the same as in Canada. While the “hacking” attacks that I usually see are from phishing scams — when someone unknowingly provides their site credentials (username and password) to a spoofed site — there are hackers out there who can get into your computers and steal personal information through insecure networks. When browsing on your smartphone or laptop, a VPN would provide safety and security in a situation where you are on an insecure network, such as your favorite coffee spot. This is not the same thing as being on your own personal home network, which should already have encryption. For business purposes, VPNs have been common for quite some time. It is easy to access your company’s internal network while traveling, when on their VPN. An IT department will usually install it for you and then, when logged on to the VPN, it will seamlessly appear that you are on your company’s internal network, as though you were working in your oﬃce. Do your research and know what you are getting into when picking a VPN provider. All are not created equal, and because they are so technical, it may be hard to know when they are or are not working properly. Look for a service that offers a free trial or at least a 30-day money back guarantee. Reading reviews and finding a reputable company should put you in safe hands with a proper VPN.

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door

The Rides of March

John O’Connor

Scott Schudy

I answer the door in my bathrobe. I am old. I am male. I am white. It’s possible that I’m a bit uptight. But as the salesmen start to probe, I try to listen patiently, As they begin to sell Myself to Me. I don’t want to miss the game. Mike and Gabe are coming over, And each of them is a nut-job football lover, And seeing it on replay isn’t the same – But the Christians on my doorstep are not leaving. They are chock full of facts about forgiving. Writings. Leaflets. Pamphlets. Texts. The wealth and weight of words leaves me perplexed. I am -- however briefly -- tempted to smite, But since they are not Satan, that’s not right. Murmuring something bland, I shut the door. Already I can hear the kickoff roar.

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Right Now Carrie Bassett

Things are pretty good—right now. I came through fine on my annual physical. (But I should lose five pounds.) I still bike with friends. (Though I go twenty miles nowadays, not thirty.) I can bring a basketful of clean wet clothes up from the basement and hang them on the line. (But sparrows splat out blobs of buckthorn poop on them — a permanent stain.) I paddle my kayak, even on a rocky river. (But it’s hard as heck getting out of the thing.) I spend a lot of time writing poems. (Why aren’t they any good? I can’t figure it.) I gather gorgeous bouquets from my garden, of phlox and hyssop and Susans, black-eyed and brown. (But the Japanese beetles have eaten up all the roses.) My sweetie thinks I’m pretty and attractive. (Well, he’s blinded by love.) My grandkids still kiss me and caress me. (They’re not teenagers yet.) So, things are fine right now. I’m not sick, and I’m not sad. Maybe my journey to the Other Side won’t be so bad after all. (I’m not looking forward to it.)

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Age Twelve Carolyn Light Bell

Boys came, snot-nosed and ragtag, for games of Capture the Flag in the back alley at summer twilight. We ran like mad, tipping over garbage cans and each other, to keep from getting caught. They were the brothers I never had. But one summer we felt a blush from a different kind of heat. They didn’t whistle at the window this time, but came straight to the back door and rang the bell. They came to see me. We went to the basement. They sat down. I sat down between them. One boy fiddled with a set of drumsticks left on the coffee table; the other ran his fingers along the edges of the oak-carved sofa behind me, gazed at me dreamily. I sat up straight, looked away, sensing secret pulsings. I grabbed the drummer’s sticks, smacked his fingers, dismissed both boys. I didn’t know the rules of this new game, but knew somehow I’d already lost.

Tonight, I’ll step onto my terrace and — if I should be so bold — strut my lines to the assembled. The ancients, with powers of verdant observation, had terraces, too. Those crumbled; but their words carried across the ages. My audience — again, should I screw up the courage — chatterers: chipmunks, squirrels, and, of course, neighbors, who, hunting and gathering dinner and data, will tilt an eyebrow at their partner, wonder if I’m quite right,

Imagine Caesar took the lift With Senators enclosing While many tried to cram inside As both the doors were closing. All dressed in togas going up, All prepped to go and brawl it, With music playing overhead (If music’s what you call it.) At just about the seventh floor When mayhem should have started It’s all just whispers back-and-forth With glances that get darted. Their gestures stop with grimaces For elbows don’t have space To pull the daggers from beneath And strike in any case. And as the lift hits double X (The Curia’s main floor) A panic causes Casca to Quite awkwardly implore. He psssst’s and coughs “Hey Brutus!” So that he would do the dares. But only sounds of music play ‘Cause Brutus took the stairs.

In the Land of the Blind Steven Forrest

In the land of the blind, The one-eyed man is king. In the land of the squares, Cool is shaped like a ring. In the land where pairs plod, See triangles take wing. From the deepest black hole, Hear the universe sing, “To grasp the theory Explaining everything, And unravel this world, Just pull the right cosmic string.” At absolute zero There’s no motion or heat. The features of fractals Infinitely repeat. From order to chaos Entropy talks so sweet, On the border where Space/Time and Gravity meet, Dark Energy’s affair With Dark Matter’s discrete, So physicists now kneel At the Higg’s Boson’s small feet. Now what would we have been if Tectonic plates did not lift? Before we crawled from the sea How long and far did we drift? Why was it, love married hate Deep in the African Rift? Did we dream the Eternal Because life’s passage is swift? Is the last reach of each soul Where the dust of memories sift? Is the taut end of this string Our harshest curse or sweetest gift?

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She sits in sunshine. Over break she changed her name to Nahili. Nasra, after exploring an oak leaf, sees waves crashing along its edges. As she spoke her words gave me the spray and wind, along the Mogadishu shoreline. Maryam reminds me of my daughter with her laidback manner. Khadra is funny, and outspoken as my Italian cousins. This semester, most of my students are Somali women. Each student in a burqa, hijab, or headscarf, is a welcome presence. Early Saturday mornings I work to learn names. I live three miles from where I was born. For three and a half hours my world, their world, turns into our world. As the days pass, I learn to know each person. Class ends with a reflection: I ask each student to name our day. For the past three weeks, the same student wrote one word: Blessed.

against a dying tree or some other spot where bugs have sought to hide. There is no certainty to this chore, and she must abhor the hot head those bursts of rapping are thought to bring. Though it’s hard to know for certain how she feels, we see her pause to cool, or is she merely trying to fool the meal she is seeking into thinking she has gone? Insects may not even be where she’s stopped to find them. If so, on she’ll need fly to try another tree or fallen log or someone’s wooden shingles. All in all, she must perform a massive task for every nibble that she takes — and so her life does not appeal to one who can (and often does) simply microwave her meal.

You’ve Been Here Too Scott Lowery

Wind shifts the maple’s perforated shade. Tired out from mowing, I turn to find the day doing something simple at the end: a cold breath lifts from the cut grass, indigo pooling beneath the bushes. These are the days you’d like to store up. It’s my dad’s voice, loud and clear again, that never much liked wordlessness. My heart lurches against its cage, while the mower cools and ticks. Later, I’m still at it, hurrying bulbs into new holes like a nervous squirrel, the moon a gold coin. Come spring, maybe I’ll find the map again, here on this leaf: how it looks, as it dries, like the palm of my hand.

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For Buff Toni McNaron

one April Sunday afternoon you slide away to somewhere other, away from me and all my love loudest purr I ever knew stilled forever — I feel you brush me — bless me — silent, present, full of power ochre velvet fur ancient whorls along your sides sad eyes — wise eyes — no more looking into mine asking for release from me and all my wishes to preserve you like the light that pours through my window then slowly leaves the room, you slide away — the loudest purr I ever knew

The Pileated Woodpecker Laurie Lykken

Though beautifully adorned in feathers black, white and red, a woodpecker is a creature I would never want to be with all her insistent rapping, rapping, rapping

Zebra Dreams Doug Wilhide

The zebra pushing against my leg was stronger than I thought it would be -I could feel it’s rough skin and heat through my jeans -but I got on anyway and BAM! away we went, the zebra rushing and bucking and me holding on to its crazy striped hide up by the neck until it kicked up high and I fell off and then it made a dash for the fence and jumped up and almost over but caught one rear hoof just for a moment and that gave my boy and his best friend time to catch up and they dashed out from behind the garage and chased after the zebra -all flying legs and hair and laughter because they were all just colts together -and the zebra was leading them in wild and widening circles when I went into the house and sat down with an iced tea to think about parenting, storytelling and truth and that’s when the dog started jumping in the air like a hooked fish out of the water turning, twisting -- quite acrobatic really -but all he was trying to do was catch invisible bugs and he’d slam into the wall or the door until he finally thought he’d caught something and creep under the table to eat it which is when my daughter and her friends came in with the seltzer bottle squirting each other and everything else including me and, oh, what a strange thing: to feel the tiny bubbles popping over your skin and under your heart.

Made of earth Mouth opened wide Catching the breath of life Children hide Inside a singing mother Protecting her progeny Wrapped in an Anasazi blanket Children crawl on her shoulders Hang from her braids Appear and disappear like flowers in a field, alive, playful Yet made of clay and native plants Adorned in sacred mineral colors Reds and blues blended Polished and smoothed by stone Fired in a self-consuming kiln The womb of the ancient natives Giving birth again and again and again Singing into being the unseen spirits of the land

Rumi Said Marc Schillace

Rumi said, “Life says, Wake up, Wake up. Death says, Hurry up, Hurry up!” You say, “I’m awake, I had two cups of coffee and I gotta go!” Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is within you!” You say, “They’ve looked inside me and only saw polyps.” Mohamed said, “The Creator is nearer to you than the beating of your own heart.” You say, “I’m worried about my heart!” Buddha said, “Don’t just do something – Stand there!” You say, “I’m too busy to stop!” DaVinci said, “Most people are merely food bags.” You say, “I’m hungry, can we stop and eat.”

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MARK MALLMAN WITH JILLIAN RAE AND TABAH Mark Mallman can always be counted on to put on a lively, dance-able and entertaining show. No matter what kind of mood you’re in, you’ll end up on your feet with a smile on your face. Mallman and his band are joined by singer-songwriter and violin player Jillian Rae and Tabah.

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‘OF MILK AND MIRRORS’ AND ‘THE JOURNALIST’S CREED’

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s genre-creating novel, “Frankenstein,” which is something to celebrate. You can get your creature fix at Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a mini-exhibition of “Frankenstein”related artwork from around the world, thanks to collector David Barnhill and curator Stephen Rueff of SuperMonsterCity! It’s part of this year’s Faculty Biennale at MCAD.

Local playwright Jessica Huang puts her life on stage with two one-act plays. The ﬁrst, “Of Milk and Mirrors,” features Huang’s real-life marriage to local actor Ricardo Vasquez — in a fashion. In the play, her husband is transformed into seven different characters — including writer Jorge Luis Borges and philosopher Alexius Meinong. The second one-act, “The Journalist’s Creed: (Actual) Emails from a (Brief) Career in News,” is made up entirely of emails Huang sent and received during journalism school and as an early career journalist.

When: 6 p.m.–9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 Where: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2501 Stevens Ave. Cost: Free Info: supermonstercity.com

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‘CURIE ME AWAY’ From the creators of “Calculus: The Musical,” which took the Fringe Festival by storm back in 2006, comes a new musical based on the life of everyone’s favorite radioactivity researcher, Marie Curie. The show has been performed at the Smithsonian’s National Atomic Testing Museum and won “Best of Fest” at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. A nearly sold-out show was cancelled last April due to a blizzard, so they’re back, better than ever.

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MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

If you have an itch to travel right now but don’t have the means to escape Minnesota, never fear. A whole slew of cultural festivals highlighting the vibrant global cultures right here in the Twin Cities are taking place this month.

Forget Cinco de Mayo. The real Mexican Independence Day happens in September, and the place to be for the festivities is on Lake Street.

LEBANESE FESTIVAL Taste the delights of traditional Lebanese food and get a snapshot of Lebanese culture through dance, music and art.

When: Noon–7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16 Where: Lake & 2nd Cost: Free Info: facebook.com/FestivalenlaLake/

UKRAINIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL You know you want a beautifully embroidered vyshyvanka shirt, which you can purchase at this festival while watching traditional Ukrainian dance and musical groups.

When: 1 p.m.—6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 & Sunday, Sept. 16 Where: St. Maron’s Catholic Church, 602 University Ave. NE Cost: Free Info: stmaron.com

MINNEAPOLIS GREEK FESTIVAL | TASTE OF GREECE Blustering Baklava this is a great event. Make sure you catch a tour of the gorgeous iconography inside the historic St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church.

When: 1 p.m.—11:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 15 Where: Ukrainian American Community Center, 301 Main St. NE Cost: Free Info: uaccmn.org/festival/

When: Noon—10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 & Saturday, Sept. 8; noon—6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 Where: St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, 3450 Irving Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: mplsgreekfest.org

TASTE OF LIBERIA Liberian culture takes hold of the Food Building with Liberian and Afrobeat music and mouth-watering cuisine. Proceeds beneﬁt sickle cell research.

When: 2 p.m.—9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 Where: The Food Building, 1401 Marshall St. NE Cost: Free Info: tasteofliberia.com

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n Sunday, Sept. 9, the historic Mill City Farmers Market train shed will transform from a bustling grocery destination to an elegant benefit dinner. This annual fundraiser, the Harvest Social, takes place 4:30 p.m.–7 p.m. and is an opportunity for the market to raise money for its Charitable Fund. Founded in 2017, the Mill City Farmers Market Charitable Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that offers a robust grant program for local farmers and food makers, free public cooking classes and wellness programs and supports food access and community development throughout the region. The Harvest Social is not only a chance to contribute to the market’s programs and mission of “supporting a healthier community,” but also a chance to celebrate the fall harvest. Market chefs Jenny Breen, Nettie Colón of Red Hen Gastrolab and Beth Jones of the University of Minnesota Campus Club will be preparing an abundant dinner using seasonal produce and pasture-raised meat donated from the Mill City Farmers Market’s farmers. Highlights from this year’s menu include a trendy smashed cucumber appetizer, a signature Bootlegger Cocktail from Twin Spirits Distillery, an heirloom tomato and farmstead cheese platter, roasted

turkey with North African piri piri sauce (recipe below) and desserts from James Beard Award-nominated market vendor Salty Tart Bakery. Guests will also enjoy a panel discussion from recipients of the Mill City Farmers Market Charitable Fund’s Next Stage Grant program, which has granted over $90,000 and 50 grants to local farmers and food makers who are improving sustainable

farming and business practices or growing toward the next stage of their local food businesses. The panel will include Laura Frerichs of Loon Organics Farm, Joe Silberschmidt of You Betcha Kimchi, Mhonpaj and May Lee of Mhonpaj’s Garden and Emily Hanson of Whetson Farm. The night also includes live jazz music from Orange Mighty Trio and silent and live auctions featuring truly unique items such

as dinner with former Vice President Walter Mondale, an artisan noodle making class with the owners of Dumpling & Strand and a year’s worth of market breakfasts! Tickets for the Harvest Social on Sunday, Sept. 9 are $125. They can be purchased at the Saturday, Sept. 8 market or online at millcityfarmersmarket.org/support/benefit. — Jenny Heck

NETTIE COLÓN’S NORTH AFRICAN PIRI PIRI SAUCE Ingredients 2 Tablespoons Aleppo chili ﬂakes 1 Tablespoon cumin seed 1 Tablespoon coriander 1 Tablespoon smoked sweet paprika

⅓ cup lemon juice (about 2–3 lemons) ¼ cup red wine vinegar **1 cup fresh cilantro

1½ Tablespoons kosher salt 2 Tablespoons white sugar 1 red bell pepper, coarsely chopped 3 garlic cloves

Method For the sauce, mix chili flakes, cumin, coriander, smoked paprika, salt, sugar, red pepper and garlic in a food processor. Pulse until finely chopped, scraping the sides of the bowl. Combine lemon juice and vinegar together in a pouring cup and drizzle into the food processor while the machine is still running. The sauce is ready when all the ingredients combine together into a sauce. Keep sauce refrigerated for up to one week. When ready to use just take out of refrigerator a half-hour before using. **Save the cilantro for later to sprinkle atop the piri piri sauce when ready to serve. Piri piri sauce is excellent on roasted turkey or chicken with grilled seasonal vegetables.

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$469,000 5 4

16159 flagstaff ct s, rosemount, Mn | $225,000 3

140 crestview dr n, maplewood, mn | $450,000 3

$439,000

5015 portland ave s, MPLS, MN | $325,000 1

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$439,000

215 10th Ave S, #314 MPLS, MN 55415

301 w minnehaha pkwy, mpls mn 55419

$259,900

3 15264 WOOD DUCK TR NW, PRIOR LAKE, MN 55372

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