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A symbol of unity T-shirts designed by a Southwest man and his son strike a chord in trying times

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

Earlier this year, Bob Wolk called up Mateen Ali, a founding member of the Northwest Islamic Community Center in Plymouth and the center’s Sunday school teacher. Wolk said he had something to show him. Ali said they “hit it off right away” on the phone, and he invited Wolk to visit him at the

center. Wolk arrived toting a couple of boxes filled with T-shirts, each printed with an eyecatchingly bold but simple design: a cross, a crescent and a Star of David — the symbols of Christianity, Islam and Judaism — and the words “We are one nation” in red, white and blue. “They’re really well designed,” Ali said. “I

bought four or five on the spot.” “Boom! On the spot,” Wolk recalled. And it’s gone just like that again and again. “I love them,” said Sarah Abe, the general manager of Daybreak Press Global Bookshop on the University of Minnesota campus,

Bob Wolk holds one of the T-shirts he designed with his son, Seth. Sales benefit local nonprofit Building Blocks of Islam. Photo by Dylan Thomas

SEE T-SHIRTS / PAGE A11

City Council mulls increasing use of renewable energy

Youth housing project finds skeptics and supporters

Council to vote on purchasing more through Xcel Energy program

Four-story Lowry Hill building would include 15 supportive housing units for youth

By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@southwestjournal.com

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The Minneapolis City Council is considering a proposal that would double its purchase of electricity from renewable sources. The council may increase the city’s participation in Xcel Energy’s Renewable Connect program, which provides customers with locally sourced wind and solar energy without them needing to invest in equipment. The council approved an initial contract for the city’s participation in the program in June. Approval of a second contract would mean that about three-quarters of the electricity

Lowry Hill neighbors pressed for details Tuesday on the financing, operations and demographics of Peris Housing, a youth housing project proposed for the former Bradstreet site at 1930 Hennepin Ave. An architect for the John and Denise Graves Foundation presented a design for 41 units of affordable housing in a four-story building that includes commercial space and aims to blend with the scale and aesthetic of its neigh-

purchased by city government would come from renewable sources by the end of the year. The proposal comes as the city looks for ways to reduce citywide greenhouse gas emissions, the largest source of which is the burning of fossil fuels. Mayor Betsy Hodges in August proposed to help fund these efforts by increasing the franchise fee charged to utilities for their use of public land. Renewable energy creates little to no carbon dioxide and air pollution emissions SEE RENEWABLE / PAGE A12

bors. Fifteen permanent supportive housing units would target youth in Hennepin County’s extended foster care program earning below 30 percent of area median income. The remaining apartments would rent to tenants with income levels of about $30,000– $35,000, with rents of about $800 per month for a studio. Foundation staff said they would engage the renters to serve as mentors SEE YOUTH HOUSING / PAGE A19

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Super Bowl Countdown By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

Wanted: 10,000 Super Bowl volunteers Host committee needs thousands to join the Super Bowl welcome wagon

Former Minnesota Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway is forming a different team to represent the state. On the field, the recently retired player wore the number 52 and he continues to do so as the captain of Crew 52, a team of volunteers who will serve as the welcome wagon for football fans and ticketholders flocking to downtown Minneapolis for Super Bowl LII next February. The Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee will interview thousands and thousands of people in a newly opened volunteer headquarters in City Center to form the 10,000-strong Crew 52. “Crew 52 needs people who are bold, friendly and can help make memories for a lifetime for our guests,” Greenway says in an orientation video for volunteer hopefuls. The committee, a privately funded organization that works with the NFL, needs volunteers to support its mission of hosting a “safe and successful” Super Bowl, an event that is far more than one football game. Communications Director Michael Howard said the Super Bowl has developed in recent years to become a “massive, interactive” phenomenon that’s isn’t simply focused on ticketholders. For Minneapolis, this will mean hosting a 10-day Super Bowl LIVE festival downtown that will be free and open for average football fans and residents. The committee hasn’t yet

disclosed the location for the indoor and outdoor event, which will feature concerts, photo opportunities and concessions ahead of the big game. “The host committee really is trying to make this — and it is — an opportunity for Minnesotans and people in the region to make their own Super Bowl memory,” he said. To throw the football fest, the committee will need volunteers to direct fans and Super Bowl attendees, offer advice on local restaurants and bars and assist at Super Bowl LIVE. While volunteers won’t actually be at the Super Bowl game itself, Howard said, they will see the Super Bowl action from locations throughout the Twin Cities — around downtown, light rail stations and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Howard estimates the committee will interview about 14,000-15,000 people at the downtown Crew 52 headquarters over the course of the year. Still, Howard said they’re confident they will hit the goal. Interest in volunteering has been “overwhelming,” he said. More than 9,000 people signed up to volunteer in the first two days when registration opened in March. Volunteers have hailed from more than 100 cities across the state, Howard added. “It fits within our spirit of Minnesota pride,” he said, “They’re excited to step up.”

Former Vikings player Chad Greenway is the Crew 52 captain. Submitted photo

Committee officials hope to make the event a uniquely “Bold North” experience. It’s not often a northern city gets to host the Super Bowl. Since it started in the 1960s, the Super Bowl has only come to the Midwest a few times: Indianapolis in 2012, Detroit in 2006 and Minneapolis in 1992. Howard said this gives the city a chance to do something different, such as hosting outdoor events during a Minnesota winter. “We’re going to be leaning into that. We want folks to go outside. If it snows a little bit, that’d be great. We want people to experience Minnesota,” he said. The game will look a lot different than the last Super Bowl game in Texas earlier this year. In embracing the cold conditions the

committee will outfit volunteers with uniforms consisting of a jacket, polo, hat and other gear. “It will have layers — more layers than they needed in Houston,” he said. Potential volunteers will need to pass a background check and be at least 18 years old. The committee asks volunteers to sign up for three shifts throughout the festival. Applicants will go through a roughly 25-minute interview at the Crew 52 headquarters. The people giving the interviews are volunteers themselves. Many have human resources and volunteer coordination experience, Howard said. “Mainly we want people who are outgoing, have a smile on their face and have no trouble going up to folks on the street and pointing them in the right direction,” Howard said. The facility, located on Nicollet Mall in the former Sports Authority space in City Center, will transform into an operations center closer to the Super Bowl. Volunteers will return there early next year to check-in and get their shifts. If the estimated 1 million Super Bowl visitors have a good time, committee officials say the Twin Cities are set to benefit from hosting the big game on Feb. 4, 2018. “If we do it right, those guests and those businesses will come back, time and again,” says Maureen Bausch, the committee’s CEO, in a volunteer orientation video.

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By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@southwestjournal.com

Darryl Sellers, a customer of several years at Peter Pan Dry Cleaners, said he’s sorry to see the business go. Photo by Michelle Bruch

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Peter Pan Dry Cleaners Peter Pan Dry Cleaners closes this month after operating for decades on the corner of 38th & Grand. The building changed hands in late July, and the new owner said he’s investing in the building and changing the mix of tenants to include a coffeehouse or eatery on the corner. Peter Pan owner Mary Poutinen said the new rent would be too expensive for her, and she’s not interested in a proposal to operate a smaller store that would send clothing elsewhere for cleaning. “I wasn’t about to stay in business if I didn’t have the corner,” she said. Poutinen said she will consider the prospect of a new location after she moves out. “It’s possible. But I really want to greet the customers and thank them for their patronage over the years and to do the work until [Sept. 2],” she said. Tyler Avestini, the new building owner, said he’s implementing market-rate rents to cover the cost of the building upkeep. “That building is over 100 years old. It’s falling apart,” he said. Peter Pan’s current rent for the 4,000-square-foot space isn’t adequate to offset the building’s taxes, insurance and repairs, Avestini said. He said he’s fi xed a downspout to prevent water damage and next he wants to replace wood siding and install a more efficient heating and cooling system. Avestini said he plans to subdivide Peter Pan’s storefront into smaller spaces. He’s interested in a coffeehouse or eatery for the corner, and he’s talking to potential tenants like UP Coffee and FireBox Deli. He said he previously considered a franchise like Subway. “To open up a restaurant is really difficult. It takes a lot of money, it takes a lot of effort, and it takes two or three years for it to build up. … But when you have a franchise, automatically you open the door, people start coming in,” he said. But his other tenants convinced him the neighborhood would prefer a smaller “ma and pa” operation, and Avestini said he’s fine with that — he already hosts Mykonos Coffee & Grill in another of his North

Minneapolis buildings. “If I find somebody that can open up a nice restaurant over there or a coffee shop, why not?” he said. “As long as they can afford to pay the rent, something like that would be fine.” In addition to a café, Avestini said he expects the building to hold a T-Mobile dealer, vintage clothing store, hair salon, tailor and dry store. (He owns Avestopolis Cleaners in North Minneapolis.) The toy store Kinoko Kids recently opened at 314 W. 38th St. The owner of Peter Pan Dry Cleaners said Sally Swadden founded the store in the 1930s. Poutinen said she always wondered if The Walt Disney Company would come around and take issue with the dry cleaner’s name and the Peter Pan cartoon on the sign. “I thought, boy, can she really call it Peter Pan?” Poutinen said. Her fears were alleviated when Disney filmed The Mighty Ducks movie in Minnesota. Peter Pan cleaned jerseys for the shoot, and no one said a word about the name. “I stopped worrying about Disney,” she said. Poutinen started out as a “counter girl” working part-time. The former owners treated her like family, she said, and suggested that she take over the business. Poutinen said she also considered buying the building long ago, but decided against taking on a mortgage at her age. The former owner never adopted perchloroethylene, which the Environmental Protection Agency later deemed a likely human carcinogen and Minneapolis banned in new machine installations. “She wouldn’t switch, because she was afraid and she had a good instinct,” Poutinen said. Instead the dry cleaner uses a hydrocarbon cleaning system and has received city recognition for green business practices. Randy Loyd said he’s pressed clothing at Peter Pan for at least 25 years. “I’m retired, and I still come over and press just to help her out,” he said. “It’s been here a long time. It’s a fixture. I hate to see it go. … But you know, everything changes.”

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Staff at Club Jäger have quit after news broke that the owner supported the 2016 Senate run of David Duke, a white nationalist and former KKK leader. Regulars, DJs and local groups blasted the owner of Club Jäger following a story published by City Pages that detailed Julius DeRoma’s donation to Duke’s campaign to represent Louisiana in Congress. According to public records filed with the Federal Exchange Commission, DeRoma donated $500 to Duke’s Senate bid. DeRoma could not be reached for comment. In an interview with WCCO, DeRoma said the donation was “basically free speech” that had been “blown up beyond what it should be.” An employee told The Journal that Aug. 31 was the staff ’s last night. Current and former employees of Club Jäger had previously distanced themselves from the bar’s owner. “The staff and I are sick about this. This is not who we are or what we believe in,” said Ryan Crossland, the bar’s general manager, in a public Facebook post before staff quit. Drea Kinston, a former bartender at the bar, said DeRoma wasn’t ever at the bar, which she described as an “amazing place to work.” “I do not condone and am staunchly opposed to his vile actions and his ideologies. The staff at Jäger is a beautiful, diverse group of amazing individuals. None of us knew about Julius’ efforts to advance the works of hate…,” she wrote on Facebook. “My heart breaks for our displaced staff and entertainers and for the loss of what was created and maintained.” Jake Rudh, the DJ behind the popular Transmission dance nights, said that he will no longer host the weekly event at the North Loop bar. “I refuse to stay at a venue where the owner supports the likes of David Duke and his messages of hate,” he wrote on Facebook. “Bigotry, hate, violence, and racism has no place at Transmission or anywhere on this planet.” The 90s Preservation Society canceled its parties at the venue. Instead, it directed fans

to support a GoFundMe created to support the bar’s staff. Rep. Keith Ellison said in a statement that people should raise their voices against “haters like Duke, but also to the financiers of his hate.” “Minneapolis prides itself on its diversity and willingness to accept all people — no matter their race and religion. The views of David Duke, the KKK, and white supremacists everywhere are at complete odds with our Constitution and Minnesota values,” he said. DeRoma is a real estate developer and owns several buildings in Minneapolis, including the home of Huge Theater. In a statement, the LynLake improv theater, which is in its third year of a 10-year lease, said it was not aware of its landlord’s donation. The group has worked with other theaters around the country to develop student guidelines “to make sure our classes and stage are inclusive and free of threat or intimidation of any kind.” “From our first days we have worked to build an inclusive community and to illuminate the path from student to stage so we could share this art form we love,” its board of directors said in a statement. “For these reasons and more, we would like to formally tell Nazis and the KKK that they can [expletive] straight off.” DeRoma is also the landlord of Uptown’s Buffalo Exchange. The vintage and used clothing store said in a statement that the business is “not aligned with him or his views.” “Buffalo Exchange is a family-owned business committed to celebrating diversity and individuality through inclusion and fashion. We stand against discrimination and hate in every way,” it said. DeRoma owns the building home to Legacy Glassworks, and a shop statement said owners, residents and staff “denounce racism and bias in any form. We will continue to foster an inclusive work and community environment.” Club Jäger, built in 1906, is one of the city’s oldest continuously operated bars. DeRoma bought it in 2004. — Eric Best

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Thomas Schuch performs “Einstein: A Stage Portrait” Sept. 8-Oct. 1 at The Matchbox Theater, now open in a new Tangletown space. Submitted photo

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Teqen Zéa-Aida said he learned the Loring Park building were he rents an apartment and until recently operated a gallery was slated to be demolished for a mixed-use development this winter in a sit-down meeting with his City Council member, Ward 7’s Lisa Goodman. It was that meeting that set Zéa-Aida on a path to challenge Goodman, a 20-year incumbent, in November. A newcomer to electoral politics, the gallerist and businessman was still forming his policy positions in the weeks after filing to run, but he said he would bring a “pragmatic” and “expressionist-modernist” approach to the office, along with a focus on gentrification, rising rents, diversity and equity. “We all thank (Goodman) for her service, but I think many people, not just in Ward 7 but across the city, know that it is time for change,” he said. Reached for comment, Goodman said she welcomed a discussion of the issues and her record in the campaign. Zéa-Aida, 41, moved to the Stevens Square neighborhood in 1994, two weeks after graduating high school in Forest Lake and just three years before Goodman won her first City Council election. He co-founded modeling agency Vision Management Group in 1996, and his gallery, City Wide Artists, hosted its inaugural exhibition in 2015. He’ll face off against fellow DFLers Goodman and Janne Flisrand this fall. Flisrand challenged the incumbent for the party’s endorsement in April, but neither reached the 60-percent threshold of support from ward convention delegates. Also running is Republican-endorsed candidate Joe Kovacs. In an August interview, Zéa-Aida described himself as the “quintessential Minneapolitan,” someone with deep ties to the city’s art, fashion and philanthropy communities and a long-time resident’s knowledge of its inner-city neighborhoods. But when he showed up at a DFL caucus earlier this year, Zéa-Aida didn’t see many of his neighbors. “I was the only African-descended male in the room. I believe I was the only Latino in the room,” he said. “That shocked me completely because … on 15th & Nicollet, I see a very diverse community.” Zéa-Aida said he would bring a renter’s perspective to the debate over rising property values, rising rents and gentrification. Flisrand has also made affordable housing a top priority, and Goodman authored the ordinance that created the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The 15th & Nicollet building where ZéaAida lives is scheduled to be demolished and replaced by mixed-use project featuring 184 units of affordable housing from developer Dominium. He said he was “OK with sacrificing” his current home and workspace for much needed workforce housing, but questioned how affordable rents pegged to 60 percent of area median income would truly be and predicted that the development would drive up rents in nearby buildings.

Gallerist and businessman Teqen Zéa-Aida is challenging Ward 7 incumbent Lisa Goodman. Submitted photo

Ward 7 stretches from the city’s western border, just beyond Cedar Lake, into downtown, and its representative serves a diverse constituency. The median household incomes of its neighborhoods range from less than 60 percent to more than double the citywide median household income. Zéa-Aida said he was best positioned to “bridge the precincts of Ward 7.” “I have friends who live in public housing, and I have friends who live in some of the finest homes on Lake of the Isles,” he said. Zéa-Aida said he would work to improve the livability of neighborhoods in and near downtown by encouraging bodegas to carry a wider array of products and expanding the zones where food trucks and carts are allowed to operate. He said downtown crime had “exploded,” and advocated a “holistic” approach to public safety, one that promotes equity, engagement and access to jobs and housing in addition to targeting crime. He said he would have worked harder to retain Macy’s on Nicollet Mall and described the ongoing reconstruction of the downtown retail corridor as “a disaster.” Zéa-Aida said his “activist instincts” are balanced by a “centrist, if not a little bit conservative” political sensibility. He said he was “disappointed” in the process that led the City Council in July to adopt a $15 minimum wage ordinance. Higher wages will be phased-in over seven years, and after that the minimum pay rate for Minneapolis workers will be pegged to inflation. Zéa-Aida predicted the policy could end up “backfiring,” and if it does, immigrants and people of color will be the ones hurt the most. He said a better solution would have involved more collaboration with business owners and been coupled with policies to encourage diversity and inclusion at places of work. “I do not pretend to have the answers,” he said. “What I am saying is I am more than willing — dare I say committed — to exploring the nuance and a creative path toward finding new policy that will benefit all of Minneapolis’ residents, not just a group over here and not just a group over there.”

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Decision to charge in Damond case expected this year Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman said he expects to make a decision before the end of the year on whether or not to charge the Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed a woman in the Fulton neighborhood July 15. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the shooting of Justine Damond by Officer Mohamed Noor and has not yet turned its findings over to the county attorney’s office. According to the BCA, Noor responded with another officer to a 911 call placed by Damond, who was reporting a possible assault, and shot her through the squad car window shortly after arriving on the scene near 51st & Washburn. Usually between four and six months elapse between the time of an officer-involved shooting and the decision on whether or not to charge the officer with a crime, Freeman wrote in the Aug. 28 edition of his office newsletter. “We have received some emails and phone calls from members of the community demanding that we charge the officer immediately and ascribing all kind of nefarious reasons

as to why we haven’t done so,” Freeman wrote in the newsletter. “The truth is, we are following the same procedure we have with the three previous officer-involved shootings.” That means the case won’t be handed over to a grand jury, a practice Freeman halted following the November 2015 shooting death of 24-yearold Jamar Clark by Minneapolis police. Instead, Freeman and several of his office’s senior prosecutors plan to review the BCA investigation and make a charging decision. As Freeman described it in his newsletter, the change “allowed for more transparency and accountability regarding the decision” to charge or not. “I fully expect a decision in this case before the end of 2017,” Freeman wrote. Damond, a native of Australia, was also known as Justine Ruszczyk but had started using the last name of her Minneapolis fiancé, Don Damond. The two were to be married in Hawaii in August.

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By Jim Walsh

U2 versus the White Walkers

he last time I needed a U2 live fix as badly as I need a U2 live fix this dark time around was in the hours, days and months after 9/11. At the time I was a young dad with two little curious kids in my heart and on my mind, trying to stay optimistic in troubled times, so it’s no wonder I found myself regularly weeping along to the state of the world and listening to and writing about U2’s super soulful classic, “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” with a fire that still burns in me today — and most certainly will be lit again the night of Sept. 8, when U2 lands in downtown Minneapolis. Nowadays I’m an old dad with two big curious kids in my heart and on my mind, and I admit that I cringe a little when I confess to needing a concert by a dinosaur rock band at my age. But the truth is as much I’ve learned in life, as alternately confident and confused I can feel at any given time, this year has brought me to my knees yet again. The toxicity of politics and media and hate and war has done a number on me for sure, and despite all the good in my life and the great natural joy to be found in the world, I have never felt more unsure of my/your/our future. Times are bleak, onward. I do my best to keep my chin up and carry on and count my blessings. I play the “Thanks, I needed that” and ignorance is bliss games, even though I more often than not feel adrift in this gloomy, stupid world. Survival mode has kicked in and taught me to, as I float amidst the flotsam and jetsam of despair, grab onto whatever hopeful piece of driftwood that happens by, and, so, lo and behold Friday night, for a few hours under the big corporate top, this clueless man will hang his hat and hopes on four Irish kids to salve if not save the hole in his American soul. Yes, I need U2 right now because wizards are real, and, like the movie says, I see dead people, and because, like U2’s Bono says in concert, a wee bit too above-it-all for my liking, that he “sees a bitter division in the United States” (no s---, shaman). He’s right, of course, and at a truly bizarre time when the daily doses of mean people sucking and the collapse of the American federal government can torpedo any power of positive thinking, and although most of my preferred live music miracles these days happen in much smaller settings, I am looking forward to the bigness of it all at USBS, and to the sheer force of what can happen when thousands raise their voices in song and lift our collective soul up

They see the whole of the moon: U2 brings its Irish weapons of mass inspiration to downtown Minneapolis Sept. 8. Photo by Jim Walsh

against the bad vibes happening all around us. Starting with, as U2’s “Joshua Tree” tour has been this year, a massive lyrics-on-the-big-screen sing-a-long to the Pogues’ timeless ballad “Rainy Night In Soho” and/or the Waterboys’ underappreciated lifesaver “The Whole Of The Moon,” as good a song about love and loss and healing as has ever come down the magic mountain. After which drummer Larry Mullen Jr. takes the stage by himself and launches into the drum solo that jumpstarts “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and Bono poses the unanswerable questions, “How long must this go on/How long have we sung this song?” I’ve got shivers just watching it on Youtube right now, and there’s more where that came from, and surely bigger and even more connective ones to be had in the flesh. Pretty sure I could walk out of the big bank stadium after that and feel like I’d gotten my money’s worth, but from everything I’ve read — from Chris Riemenschneider’s raves in the Strib and tons of good reports from tour stops in Chicago, Vancouver, Dublin,\ and more — I should and will stick around. Why do I need U2 now? Because they’re built big and for these times, the same times that birthed the similarly epic “Game Of Thrones,” whose undead armies of ancient frozen zombies known as the White Walkers serve as a metaphor for any and all of this modern epoch’s enemies of positivity and possibility that we encounter every day. U2

is massive and anthemic that way, and it’s easy to visualize the Edge’s mammoth guitar riff and the band’s monster hooks rising up as an aural wall of goodness to do battle against the likes of the White Walkers and their zombie dragon’s flames of evil (aka Trump, Pence, et al). All of which is to say that, even though arena rock can be plodding and pompous and Bono’s stage patter never explicitly expresses the anger and hopelessness in America over Trump’s presidency — ignoring, presumably, the political gutter in favor of the higher ground (the music) — U2 has the power to lift spirits like few other big bands can. And, if you give yourself up to their sonic baptism, they can remind a body and soul that freedom here on earth is possible and make heretics believe in gods in godforsaken times. So, bring it. Bring it all: The giant HD screen with its psychedelics and political poetry. “The Joshua Tree,” U2’s 1987 AOR classic about America, played in its entirety, and the big pay-off of “Vertigo,” “Elevation,” “Beautiful Day” and more. The goal is elevation, and as such I’m gonna get my Irish on in downtown Minneapolis with a loud, liberating tribal experience that combats the likes of the White Walkers, the White House, Nazis, racism, misogyny and hopelessness itself and lets me know that even though winter is coming, so is spring. Jim Walsh lives and grew up in South Minneapolis. He can be reached at jimwalsh086@gmail.com

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hood in particular. The neighborhood organization said police data show 17 robberies of people in Stevens Square-Loring Heights from January to July of this year, compared to 10 reports in the same period last year.

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Moments in Minneapolis

By Cedar Imboden Phillips

Back to school circa 1890

id you know that the commercial core of Uptown was once home to an elementary school? Calhoun School, shown here circa 1890, was located on Girard Avenue between Lake and 31st streets. The school opened in 1887 with 200 students and six teachers. Enrollment continued to climb for many years, and the school was expanded twice to add capacity. By the 1960s the local student population had started to decline, and the school eventually shut its doors. The castle-like building was demolished in 1975, and the site eventually became part of the Calhoun Square redevelopment. Cedar Imboden Phillips serves as the executive director for the Hennepin History Museum. Learn more about the museum and its offerings at hennepinhistory.org or 870-1329.

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Streetscape

By Ethan Fawley

Ramping up pedestrian safety efforts The Bike Beat is now Streetscape. Each month we’ll be covering topics related to walking, biking and streets in Minneapolis. Streetscape is written by the staff of Our Streets Minneapolis, formerly the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition, which works for a city where biking, walking and rolling are easy and comfortable for everyone. You can read more about our work at ourstreetsmpls.org.

ast November, Barbara Mahigel was killed trying to cross Nicollet Avenue at 43rd Street on her way to a restaurant to celebrate her 52nd wedding anniversary. The driver who killed her fled the scene and still has not been identified, despite pleas from Barbara’s son Mike Mahigel and a $5,000 reward for information. Since then, Yasin Hussein Dualeh was killed crossing Hennepin Avenue in Downtown and 3-year-old Hamza Mohoumed Abdillahi was killed as he ran across his residential street in Phillips. Unfortunately, these tragedies are not really isolated incidents. A person is hit and injured walking about every 36 hours in Minneapolis and an average of about 5 people are killed walking each year in the city. For years, there has not been much focus on changing that. But now, in response to these and other tragedies, the city is starting to ramp up efforts to make streets safer for people walking. At 43rd & Nicollet, Council Member Elizabeth Glidden had already been working with the Kingfield neighborhood, residents and

The intersection of 43rd & Nicollet. Submitted photo

public works staff on potential improvements before November. Quick (and inexpensive) measures were put in place within weeks of Barbara Mahigel’s death. Minneapolis Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Matthew Dyrdahl said Public Works is committed to proactive pedestrian safety improvements. The department has requested $600,000 per year for an intersection and crossing improvements program. The program would install safety improvements to “simplify intersection crossings, reduce street crossing distances, make pedestrians more visible, and slow turning

vehicle movements,” according to a statement issued by the Capital Long-range Improvement Committee. The program could fund more permanent improvements at 43rd & Nicollet and address other problem intersections. To support this pedestrian safety program, Our Streets Minneapolis and partners are collecting postcards of support from Minneapolis residents that will be delivered to Mayor Hodges and City Council members. You can sign online at ourstreetsmpls.org/voice_your_ support_for_safer_crossings. The City is also finishing a pedestrian safety study to be able to best identify problem spots for improvements. That study is expected to be released soon. Also this spring, Minneapolis Public Works announced that they were installing more visible crosswalks at more than 3,000 marked crosswalks in the city. The crosswalks are national best practice and have been shown elsewhere to improve visibility and reduce crashes. The flurry of activity around pedestrian safety comes after the Minneapolis City Council adopted a complete streets policy last year. The policy states “Minneapolis is committed to rebalancing its transportation network by clearly prioritizing walking, taking transit, and biking over driving motorized vehicles, in a manner that provides for acceptable levels of service for all modes.” “I’m proud of the changes the city of Minneapolis has made in recent years to better priori-

tize pedestrians, but we have so much farther to go and there is so much more we can do,” City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden said. “Pressure from organized neighbors, along with new public works thinking and political will, will create the change we need.” It is a shift for public works to be prioritizing people walking, but they are clearly taking meaningful steps to do that. We hope that work continues to expand and that it will mean fewer tragedies in the future and city where everyone can be comfortable and safe walking.

Open Streets Lyndale sets a record Open Streets Lyndale 2017 was expanded this year to cover nearly 4 miles, from 22nd Street to 54th Street, with the support of the Kenny, Lynnhurst, Tangletown and Windom neighborhood organizations. And people came out in droves to have fun biking, walking and playing in the car-free street — a record 45,000 people! The Lake + Minnehaha Open Streets event drew an estimated 19,000 people, making it the third-largest Open Streets ever. Thousands also came out for each of the Downtown, Northeast and Franklin events. Thanks to all the partners who make them great. The summer Open Streets schedule finishes up with West Broadway on Sept. 9 and Nicollet Avenue on Sept. 24. Find more details at openstreetsmpls.org.

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In addition to selling them himself, Lynnhurst resident Bob Wolk has T-shirts stocked at Daybreak Press Global Bookshop. Photo by Dylan Thomas

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which carries the T-shirts. Abe wasn’t sure how many the store had sold, but said they’re a “popular” item. “Sometimes, with interfaith designs, they can go a little wonky,” she said, but this one was “clear and balanced.” Wolk and his wife, Deborah, wore the T-shirts to a rally in support of a Bloomington mosque that was firebombed in early August, and they ended up sitting next to a woman in the same T-shirt, which she’d purchased from Wolk over the Fourth of July. “He’s just been peddling it like an old Jewish peddler,” Deborah Wolk said. “... Any place he goes, if the audience seems to be the right kind of audience and he won’t offend anybody, he seems to do pretty well.” The T-shirt — released in one style for men and two for women — has gone through three printings. They sell for $20 apiece, a third of which goes to charity, and in late August Wolk was preparing to hand over his first check for more than $750 to Building Blocks of Islam. The money will support the Columbia Heights nonprofit’s food shelf program and a fund for new arrivals. Wolk, 80, who lives just south of Minnehaha Creek in the Lynnhurst neighborhood, is an avid gardener and volunteer currently serving on the board of Metro Blooms, a nonprofit that promotes rain gardens. Troubled by a recent surge in anti-Muslim bias incidents — which, according to the FBI and Council on American Islamic Relations, rose in 2015 to levels not seen since the months after 9/11

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— Wolk decided he had to do something. “I’m just one guy and I can’t do that much, but at least I can do something,” he said. The idea came to him this winter on a walk around Southdale, where he gets in his daily steps. Wolk enlisted his son Seth, a graphic designer, to come up with a logo, and he brought the image to a handful of neighborhood “focus groups,” including his book club. “They all liked it — even the Unitarians,” he quipped. Wolk is a member of Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Minnetonka, which is how he connected with Ali. The synagogue reached out to the Northwest Islamic Community Center after the presidential election, which coincided with a spike in both anti-Muslim and antiSemitic incidents. Ali said a member of Adath Jeshurun came by one Sunday with flowers. “(After the election) was kind of a low point in our community,” Ali said. “A lot of the kids, they didn’t know what was going on. So that was a nice gesture.” Earlier this year, when bomb threats were being called into Jewish community centers across the U.S. and Canada — including one in St. Louis Park and another in St. Paul — Northwest Islamic Community Center joined with more than 20 other Twin Cities Islamic organizations to take out a half-page ad in the Star Tribune expressing their solidarity and condemning “cowardly acts of hate.” Ali, who gave the T-shirts he purchased from Wolk to members of his family, said its message is a reminder not only of the origin shared by the three Abrahamic faiths but of our common humanity. “I have two kids,” he said. “Especially with my younger daughter, she said, ‘Wow, this is a good T-shirt.’ She’s proud to wear it.” “It just makes me feel good that there are people out there who are not (just) going to talk, they are going to do something,” Ali added. “That, to me, makes me feel good. I have faith in humanity.”

Fire displaces Whittier residents The Minneapolis Fire Department reported only minor injuries in an Aug. 30 fire at an apartment building at the 2400 block of 1st Avenue South. Officials determined a charcoal grill left unattended caused the fire. Nightingale staff said the restaurant will accept donations through Sept. 8 for 10 adults who lost homes and most of their belongings in the fire. The restaurant at 2551 Lyndale Ave. S. accepts donations that include clothing, furniture and household items. — Michelle Bruch

Nightingale restaurant is accepting donations to benefit residents displaced by an Aug. 30 fire at the 2400 block of 1st Avenue South. Photo courtesy of Twin Cities Fire Wire

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Arradondo names executive team

The Convention Center is entirely powered by renewable electricity thanks to an Xcel Energy program called Renewable Connect. File photo

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and has less impact on water and the environment than fossil fuels. Sources of renewable energy include wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric and biomass. In Minnesota, state law requires utilities to provide 25 percent of their electrical generation from renewable sources by 2025. Minneapolis’ Climate Action Plan, approved in 2013, calls for generating 10 percent of the city’s electricity from local and renewable sources by 2025. Already about 38.7 percent of the approximately 102 million kilowatt-hours of electricity used by city government is from renewable sources. That includes about 17.8 million kilowatt-hours from the first Renewable Connect contract. The city would need approval from the state Public Utilities Commission to increase its participation in the program, but city energy manager Brian Millberg appeared confident that would happen.

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Renewable Connect customers a 3-cent fee per kilowatt-hour in lieu of the fuel charge it typically imposes. The alternative fee could cost the city 6 to 12 percent more for the electricity, depending on the price of fuel, according to Millberg. The city would potentially pay for that with an increase in the franchise fee, which Hodges has proposed increasing 0.5 percent in 2018. The move would bring in an additional $2.6 million in revenue, she wrote in her budget message. Revenue from the fee increase would go into the city’s general fund and wouldn’t be tied to any program or service, according to Eric Fought, the mayor’s communications director. However, Millberg said $500,000 of that would go toward the second Renewable Connect contract. The fee could also go toward programs that help with other climate change efforts, such as increasing participation in energysavings programs, according to John Farrell, a member of the city’s Energy Vision Advisory Committee. The funds could also go toward multi-family residential energyefficiency programs and to the city’s Green Business Cost Share Program, Farrell said. That program funds businesses willing

to invest in cleaner, greener or more efficient technologies.

100 percent renewable? The second Renewable Connect contract coincides with the release of a city report that details the steps Minneapolis would need to take to obtain all its energy from renewable sources within five years. The report says the city would need to increase its participation in Xcel’s renewable energy programs and install more solar installations on city-owned land. The report also found that the technology exists today to reduce the city’s electricity consumption 15 percent by 2022. The city’s Climate Action Plan calls for reducing energy use 17 percent by 2025. City Council Member Cam Gordon said there’s growing interest in seeing how city operations could be powered exclusively by renewable electricity. Gordon said he’s hopeful the second Renewable Connect contract would encourage Xcel and the PUC to provide more renewable energy. The City Council was scheduled to vote on increasing city participation in the program on Sept. 7.

New Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced the members of his executive leadership team in August. Arradondo, who served as assistant chief to Janeé Harteau before her resignation in July, has selected Mike Kjos to fill his former role as the department’s no. 2. Kjos most recently served as deputy chief of the department’s Patrol Bureau and previously led both the 4th and 1st precincts as inspector. Art Knight will serve as deputy chief and Arradondo’s chief of staff. Knight most recently served as a 4th Precinct lieutenant while leading the department’s Procedural Justice Team. As deputy chief of investigations, Erick Fors will oversee all of the department’s investigative units. Fors most recently led one of those units, the Violent Crimes Investigations Division, and previously served in the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th precincts. Named deputy chief of professional standards was Henry Halvorson, who as a lieutenant was a supervisor in the 1st Precinct and the department’s Internal Affairs Unit. Halvorson previously worked as a patrol officer in the 2nd and 3rd precincts and as an investigator in the Public Housing, Sex Crimes and Internal Affairs units. Other appointments announced by the department included Bruce Folkens as commander of the Juvenile Division and Travis Glampe as commander of the Technology and Support Services Division. Later, Arradondo named Melissa Chiodo commander of the Internal Affairs Division, Jason Case commander of the Violent Crimes Investigations Division, Troy Schoenberger commander of the Special Crimes Investigations Division and Todd Sauvageau commander of the Leadership & Organizational Development Division. Arradondo was sworn in as chief Aug. 22. His appointment by Mayor Betsy Hodges won unanimous support from the City Council. — Dylan Thomas

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News

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Armatage, Lyndale recognized as schools of excellence A pair of Southwest schools has completed a program that has schools reflect on their strengths and identify areas for improvement. Armatage Montessori School and Lyndale Community School completed the Minnesota School of Excellence program in August. The grades pre-K–5 schools in the Minneapolis district were two of eight to complete it this year. The School of Excellence program has schools assess themselves on six national standards, including use of data, quality instruction and community engagement. The school communities complete a self-study, analyze the results and develop a plan to build on their strengths and address areas of improvement. They continuously assess ongoing results from

implementing the plan. Schools that receive validation have had datadriven conversations about a high-quality learning experience and have plans to make it a reality, program chair Sam Richardson said in a release. In an interview, Richardson said that the certification honors and validates schools that take the time to engage in the process. He added that Armatage and Lyndale were exceptional at how they embraced diversity and made efforts to include families that represented many backgrounds. “It was clear from their self-study reflection and work that they understand how student learning is really an individual process and that instruction needs to be differentiated for all learners,” he said.

The release noted that Armatage fosters a community of learners through collaboration by teachers, support staff and administrators. The staff meets every four weeks in teams to look at student achievement levels, essential learning needs and strategies for implementation. Other staff teams meet every four weeks to share best practices and assess the alignment of the K–5 curriculum, instruction and Montessori materials. Teachers also meet individually with administration and curriculum specialists to discuss standardized test data. In the release, Armatage Principal Joan Franks said the School of Excellence process showed that the differentiation inherent in the Montessori process is a strength of the school. Differentiation

is the idea of accommodating instruction and assessment for individual student needs. Lyndale Principal Mark Stauduhar said in a release that the process has challenged the school to look at its traditions, policies, practices and procedures. It’s also allowed the school to highlight its good work, he said. The Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association administers the School of Excellence program. Validation lasts for seven years. Multiple Minneapolis schools have received the honor in the past few years, including Hiawatha, Howe, Kenny and Lake Harriet community schools.

Southwest to honor five distinguished alumni

Southwest names new assistant principals

The Southwest High School Foundation will honor five alumni with its distinguished alumni award on Sept. 9. Among the honorees will be Lizz Winstead, a member of the Class of 1979 and co-founder of “The Daily Show.” Winstead has since founded the nonprofit Lady Parts Justice, which aims to educate people on misinformation spread by crisis pregnancy centers, which aim to stop women from getting abortions. Also being honored are: the late John Hetland (1948), a nationally recognized law professor and expert on California

Southwest High School interim principal Karen Wells on Sept. 1 announced the hiring of Shaun Flandrick and Lacy Ray Cannon as assistant principals. Flandrick has 26 years of teaching and leadership experience, including time as a principal, athletic director, instructional facilitator, teacher on special assignment and physical education teacher at Southwest. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Concordia University and his principal license from Saint Mary’s University. Cannon has worked as a principal designee, equity specialist, principal and reserve teacher. He was named principal of Parnassus Preparatory

secured transactions law; Iric Nathanson (1957), a local historian, author and city development expert; Tom Neiman (1965), the founder of the Southwest Community Education Program and Southwest Super Summer Program; and Gene Winstead (1968), the Mayor of Bloomington and an owner of Ike’s restaurant chain. The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 9 in the Commons at Southwest High School, 3414 W. 47th St. The event is free and open to the public.

School in Maple Grove in 2013. Cannon earned his bachelor’s degree from York College, a master’s from Saint Mary’s University and his principal license from the University of Minnesota. Their hires come about a month after the departure of longtime principal Bill Smith and assistant principals Sue Mortensen and Brian Nutter, moves that sparked surprise and disappointment. They’ll join second-year assistant principal Tara FitzGerald in the school’s administration. District leaders will be working with the Southwest community to hire a new principal for the 2018–2019 school year.

Public Works gearing up for bicyclist, pedestrian counts The Minneapolis Public Works department is gearing up to conduct its annual bicyclist and pedestrian counts, set for between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Sept. 12-14.

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Hennepin County to begin second zero-waste challenge About 50 households in Hennepin County will begin a challenge this month to reduce waste and create new habits around it. The households will develop waste-reduction plans and commit to making lifestyle changes as part of their participation in the county’s second zero-waste challenge, which starts Sept. 11. Changes could range from starting organics recycling to developing new shopping habits. The eight-month challenge comes as Hennepin County continues working toward the state-mandated goal of recycling 75 percent of waste by 2030. The county recycled about 51 percent of all waste in 2016. The challenge is an effort to explore the barriers that households face in diverting and reducing waste, county environmentalist

Carolyn Collopy said in a video. The county hopes to use those lessons to develop future waste-reduction programs, she said. Challenge participants will receive coaching from county staff and will be required to attend waste-reduction workshops. They will also be required to track the waste their households generate for four weeks at the beginning and end of challenge. About 35 households participated in the first zero-waste challenge, which ended in August. Those households decreased their waste by about 20 percent and recycled or composted 62 percent of their waste, according to the county. About half of the households started composting. Collopy said the county had each household in that challenge start by implementing three

to five strategies for waste reduction. She said people found the workshops and their interactions with staff helpful in reducing waste. Participant Monica Strelnieks said she wasn’t doing a lot when it came to diverting and reducing waste before the challenge. Now she’s made changes that include making her own laundry soap and using a more environmentally friendly cat litter. Strelnieks, an Uptown resident, said the most notable thing she learned from the challenge was how much recyclable material doesn’t actually get recycled. She suggested that consumers be more aware when shopping and make conscious decisions about buying items with less packaging. Participant William Harrison started organics recycling at his East Harriet apart-

ment during the challenge. He said he liked the workshops the county offered, noting one specific to children and waste reduction. Collopy wrote in an email that it’s a bit too soon to say how the county will use the information it gleans from the challenges. She wrote that she expects the larger trends to inform the county’s messaging as it works with more households. She added that the waste-diversion aspect of the challenge has been easier for people than the waste-reduction aspect. “That goes counter to our societal norms that have been pushing consumption and convenience/disposable goods as a means to making our lives easier,” she wrote. Visit hennepin.us/zerowastechallenge to learn more about the program.

little difference in air pollution levels between ZIP codes in the Twin Cities. However, it noted that ZIP codes with larger populations of people of color, American Indians and residents living in poverty are more vulnerable to air pollution. As part of the project, the MPCA will operate a network of up to 50 air quality-monitoring sensors. It will look to see if there are significant differences in pollutant concentrations between ZIP codes and if the technology is suitable for measuring small differences in air quality.

The agency plans on asking for public input on locations for the sensors. It says that the idea location would be on easily accessible street poles 10 to 15 feet above ground and with minimal tree cover or obstruction. The MPCA will host a series of open houses to talk about the project and seek input on sensor locations, including one from 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at Farview Recreation Center, 621 29th Ave. N. Visit pca.state.mn.us/air/ assessing-urban-air-quality-project to learn more.

MPCA to monitor urban air quality The Minneapolis Pollution Control Agency will begin a project in January to gain a better understanding of urban air quality. The agency will place air quality sensors in every ZIP code in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The goal is to get a better picture of how air pollution varies across urban areas, the agency said in a news release. “This project will help us answer the question we often get asked, ‘What’s in my neighborhood?’” MPCA Assistant Commissioner David

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New sculpture added to Gold Medal Park A fourth sculpture from the Walker Art Center has come to Gold Medal Park. The downtown park recently welcomed “Nautilus” on its west side near the Guthrie Theater. It joins three other sculptures from the Walker’s collection that are on loan at the park. “Nautilus” artist Charlies Ginnever took inspiration from the marine mollusk in building the spiraling steel structure. The 1976 piece consists of six flat parallelograms that have been welded together at regularly increasing intervals to create a complex, origami-like design. Through various times of day and the changing seasons, light will alter the work’s visual effects. The other works at Gold Medal Park include “Prophecy of the Ancients” (1988) by Brower Hatcher, “Molecule” (1977–1983) by Mark di

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The “Nautilus” sculpture features several steel sheets that come together to form its curved appearance. Submitted photo

Suvero and “Ordovician Pore” (1989). The Walker began loaning pieces out in 2015 ahead of its campus renovation and the

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board invites residents to get a firsthand experience of the city’s bike paths and trails. The Minneapolis Bike Tour returns for its 11th year to take cyclists around 16 miles or 32 miles of parkways that are closed to motorized traffic. The all-ages bike tour spans much of the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway System, which features approximately 51 miles of biking trails. The ride will kick off at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17 at Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley St. NE. The two route choices will both finish at the Northeast Minneapolis park. Each route will feature refreshments and bike mechanics along the way. After the tour, riders can stay at the park to enjoy live music, beer from Utepils Brewing, local fare and shopping opportunities thanks to exhibitor booths. Pre-registration ends Sept. 10. Cyclists will be able to register until the day of the ride. For more information on the tour or to register, visit minneapolisbiketour.com.

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Poster show beneﬁts Minneapolis parks Through LoveMplsParks.org, Minneapolis residents have been able to represent their favorite parks with T-shirts and more. Now the parksfocused retailer wants locals to cover their walls. LoveMplsParks will throw a poster show this month at Lakes & Legends Brewing Co. in Loring Park. The show, the second from the website, will feature more than three dozen posters from local artists depicting all that Minneapolis parks have to offer. Dan Woychick, the designer and organizer

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he upstairs bathroom in Domenica Di Piazza’s and Sarah Gaskill’s 1923 home was about as cramped as it could be. The pedestal sink, toilet and tub were crammed into one side of the small, square room. It had a nice-sized, builtin linen closet behind the door, two windows and a radiator against the outside wall. That was it. Di Piazza and Gaskill plan to age in place and wanted a walk-in shower. That meant expanding the bathroom and adding some amenities they’d wanted for some time. Maintaining the style and character of the space was important, too. The couple interviewed three contractors before choosing House Lift Remodeler, which had expanded and remodeled their kitchen five years before. This was the first full-bathroom remodel for Di Piazza and Gaskill. Once they decided where to put the toilet, tub, shower and vanity, they had an even more daunting task — choosing tile for the walls and floor, styles of vanity and sink, counter material, window style and placement, plumbing fixtures, light fixtures, drawer pulls, etc. To respond to just those kinds of needs, House Lift provides a folder that lists suppliers for all of the above. The company will even send someone out shopping with clients, or bring in a design consultant to help them decide. “It just gives people a starting point,” said House Lift owner and president Randy Korn. “We’ll do whatever we need to spark people to find their style.”

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“It was very helpful,” said Gaskill. “We didn’t know where to start with lights and plumbing fixtures.” The couple decided to expand the bathroom toward the backyard by six feet. Their original plan to put the toilet in a far corner would have added $800 to the cost, so they opted to keep it closer to the door and add a linen closet in that far corner. They selected a double-sink vanity with a marble-look Corian counter and lots of storage. “Because we had such a small pedestal sink for so many years, our dream was this vanity with drawers for storage space,” Di Piazza said.

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during those meetings, on a schedule.” The couple appreciated House Lift’s attention to detail, cleanliness, punctuality and responsiveness. And they love their new bathroom, especially the shower. “You had to turn sideways when you opened the door to walk between the corner of the wall and the sink,” Larson said of the original bathroom. “It was a pretty amazing transformation.”

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Thefts running high at summer’s end Year-to-date crime statistics in Southwest Minneapolis’ 5th Precinct show an increase in nearly every category, with the exception of robbery. The statistics include a significant increase in theft from vehicles, which is up 71.7 percent from last year at this time, totaling 733 incidents as of Aug. 28. 5th Precinct Insp. Kathy Waite said the numbers look high after two years of very low crime. “When you come up against really low years, you’re bound to circle back around to more crime occurring in the area. It’s a cycle, with it going up and down,” Waite said. “… As is the case in most precincts, the property crime really drives the vast majority of our numbers.” Thefts occur rapidly, so police rely on the public for help preventing the crime, she said. She said residents should remember

that even low-value items can look attractive to passersby — one suspect in another precinct grabbed a breast pump near an open window, thinking it was a laptop. Suspects near the lakes also notice when drivers arrive and visibly place valuables in a trunk, she said. Garage door openers should either be concealed from view or brought inside a home, she added. Waite said people should go beyond social media posts and always file police reports, so officers know how to deploy resources. Regarding bike theft, Waite said thieves can penetrate any lock. She recommended the advice of Crime Prevention Analyst Luther Krueger: “Buy a really cheap bike and a really expensive lock.” Much of the theft from vehicles occurs along main street corridors, she said. Other

issues surround late-night business districts. “I always worry about people that are leaving the bars late at night walking home alone or walking a distance to a vehicle, oftentimes looking at their cell phones, not paying attention to their surroundings, sometimes under the influence of alcohol,” Waite said. She said police have seen a string of thefts from underground garages, and bicycles inside garages should always be locked up. Waite said police have turned several recent cases over to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, including a fatal hit-andrun at 26th & Blaisdell in April, a June homicide under the Interstate-394 bridge near Linden Avenue West and Dunwoody Boulevard and an April shooting at the 3000 block of Lyndale Avenue. Police continue to investigate July 1 shoot-

ings at Lagoon & Humboldt and the 3100 block of Hennepin, as well as the June death of a gunshot victim at 32nd & Blaisdell. “In all of these situations, they don’t appear to be random in nature,” Waite said of the shootings. “… I don’t believe that the general public is at risk.” Arrests in the 5th Precinct are up yearto-date in most crime categories, with the exception of robbery and burglary. One recent arrest yielded charges for more than a dozen burglaries, Waite said, many of them in underground garages. The arrest has made an impact on East Isles, Lowry Hill and East Calhoun neighborhoods where the suspect was active, she said. “You take one person off the street, and it has a huge impact in dropping crime,” she said.

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Survey asks about community concerns The Kingfield, Lyndale, Bryant and Central neighborhood organizations are teaming up to find the most important issues facing their neighborhoods ahead of local elections in November. The neighborhoods plan to host a mayoral forum this fall, and they’re door-knocking

and posting an online survey to help generate questions. The neighborhoods plan to use the feedback to create a “community values statement” later this month. “Turnout in municipal elections is often low,” states the Kingfield Neighborhood Association. “By doing this work we hope

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I-35W project work commences The Minnesota Department of Transportation has launched four years of work to reconstruct Interstate 35W from 46th St. to Interstate 94. The Franklin Avenue bridge over I-35W is scheduled to close Sept. 18. and remain

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BY DYLAN THOMAS

AIA MINNESOTA’S ANNUAL TOUR OFFERS A GLIMPSE INTO ARCHITECT-DESIGNED HOMES

IA Minnesota’s tour of architect-designed new and remodeled homes returns this month for its 10th year, and of the 17 stops on this year’s self-guided tour, seven are in Southwest Minneapolis. Founded in 1892, Minnesota’s professional association for architects has nearly 2,300 members statewide. Its annual tour of metro-area homes highlights both the talent to be found in local firms and the architects’ ability to collaborate with homeowners and realize their visions. Here’s a sneak peak into five of the Minneapolis homes on this year’s tour, scheduled for Sept. 16–17. SEE AIA HOME TOUR / PAGE B8

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Gadget Guy

By Paul Burnstein

A software solution for child Internet safety

have never heard a client say, “I am happy that my child has complete access to the Internet. I don’t need to be aware of what they’re watching.” That’s because it simply isn’t true. Parents want to protect their children and ensure they’re safe while using the Internet. And appropriate levels of access differ across age ranges. For a while now, I have been using Qustodio, a great parental control software, for creating a safe Internet experience for my own children and setting it up for clients’ use as well. I have played around with quite a few different applications, and Qustodio is by far my favorite. For me, it is about balancing both time limits and content safety, meaning the applications and services that are allowed to be used on their devices. But for others, it can be more about cutting off Internet access at certain hours — so that kids are not up all night on their phones, tablets or laptops — or being aware of the device usage and sites visited. Additionally, it can limit all sorts of access to the web and allow for tracking the use of their devices. The software is fantastic. It has a web portal for parental control and it is installed as a background program, or app, on the kids’ devices. Once installed, parents can set up rules for time limits and specified hourly cutoffs, limit the type of online sites viewed and track social media, text and call info, even if it is deleted. Qustodio is available for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Fire (Amazon) devices. It is free to install and use on

Once installed, Qustodio automatically filters inappropriate content and offers simple tools to manage kids’ screen time and monitor or block apps. Photos courtesy Qustodio

one device, but for multiple devices there are annual fees — which most people will accept, as one generally wants to track a laptop as well as a phone, for example. When installing the application, you have the option to choose if it is a child’s or parent’s

As a parent, you can supervise your kids’ online activity and set the level of protection you wish from your own device.

device, meaning a tracked device or tracking device. You can also set it up so that it is not viewable on the child’s devices if you want to be stealthy about it. Note that regardless, kids cannot remove it from their devices or disable it without the password. For my young girls, I turn oﬀ nearly all Internet access and only allow YouTube Kids, Netflix,

Google Play Movies and Amazon Videos — plus games, which generally do not require Internet access. For parents with older children who want the Internet on, you can restrict types of sites like pornography, gambling, etc., and also see thumbnails of the sites that are visited. It is pretty impressive to see the actual sites visited. There are hardware devices out there as well, like Circle with Disney, which control access to your wireless router and therefore can cut oﬀ Internet based on rules and times you set up. However, you do not get the granular detail of devices usage with Circle, such as seeing which websites were accessed, nor does it work away from your home network unless you pay for an additional service through them. I much prefer the software control instead of the hardware control, as I have found Circle to be a bit cumbersome to set up and begin using. You can use it to completely cut oﬀ Internet at any time like a quick kill switch, which can be great when chores need to be completed before the Internet is turned back on. Whichever route you choose to go, it is important to be responsible with children’s online usage. Having open conversations and sharing the basic dos and don’ts of their use is an important step in raising kids that are savvy and safe with online use. Paul Burnstein is a tech handyman. As the founder of Gadget Guy MN, Paul helps personal and business clients optimize their use of technology. He can be found through gadgetguymn.com or via email at paul@gadgetguymn.com.

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Mill City Cooks

Recipes and food news from the Mill City Farmers Market

Supporting farmers in times of need

f you’ve ever walked through the Mill City Farmers Market on a Saturday morning, you may notice there is something that distinguishes it from other shopping experiences. Not only do over 120 local farmers and artisans transform the historic train shed overlooking the mighty Mississippi into a bustling marketplace, but they also create a community. Farmers educate shoppers about this year’s sweet corn harvest (it will be going late into September) and the Alaskan fishing season (sockeye goals were met!). Local artisans explain their crafts through weaving demonstrations, small-batch sauerkraut samples, bees buzzing in a tableside beehive and even a sourdough starter on display, bubbling away in the morning heat. You will also see neighbors gather to support healthy foods and local farmers. One way they do this is through the Mill City Farmers Market’s Organic Field Grant, which started in 2013 as a way for our community to support their farmers in times of crop loss, structural damage and other forms of hardship. It has since grown into a program that not only offers hardship support but also funds small farmers and food makers working to improve sustainability in their businesses. Since 2013, the Mill City Farmers Market has awarded almost $67,000 to grantees. The grant program is funded through donations at the market’s annual fundraiser, the Harvest Social, coming up on Sunday, Sept. 10. The event includes farm-to-table dinner sourced from the market’s vendors, live music, a silent auction and a passionate live auction and Fund-A-Need that directly supports the market’s grant program. Moses Momanyi, a Mill City Farmers Market farmer and grant recipient, will be speaking at the upcoming Harvest Social about the impact the grants have had on his farm.

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A Mill City Farmers Market grant program benefitted farmers Moses and Lonah Momanyi. Submitted photo

In 2016, Moses and his wife Lonah received a grant to implement an irrigation system on their new, 20-acre certified organic vegetable farm in Cambridge. The irrigation allowed them to increase the quantity and quality of produce they bring to market every Saturday. A few months later, they also applied for a hardship grant for crop loss due to flooding, ironically. Heavy rains destroyed over

$10,000 worth of crops in their fields. While Moses and many other farmers have crop insurance for such events, it rarely covers the full value of the crop. Support from our generous market community makes a huge difference to farms and families in times like these. You can support the Mill City Farmers Market’s grant program and charitable fund by attending the Harvest Social benefit

Sept. 10 in the historic Mill City Museum train shed. Purchase your tickets and learn more at millcityfarmersmarket.org/ support/benefit/. For more information and a summary of past Mill City Farmers Market Organic Field Grant awardees, visit millcityfarmersmarket.org/learn/farmer-grants/. — Jenny Heck

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Recipe from Mill City Farmers Market 2016 Harvest Social Ingredients 10 cups pureed watermelon, about 1 medium watermelon, rind and seeds removed 2 stalks lemongrass, roughly chopped 3 cups water 1 cup mirin 4 Tablespoons minced ginger 2 Tablespoons sesame oil 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar Salt and pepper to taste 1 Tablespoon Tabasco 1 cup chopped mint

Method Simmer the lemongrass in the water for 20 minutes. Puree in a blender for 2 minutes, and then strain. Add the lemongrass liquid to the watermelon puree. Rinse the blender and puree the ginger with the mirin. Add to the mixture directly to the watermelon, and stir in remaining ingredients. Chill for at least 6 hours. Check for seasoning just before serving, and garnish with the chopped mint. BY

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Dining alliance

Coalition burger

BY CARLA WALDEMAR

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oalition is a word more commonly found in the political reportage of a newspaper than in the dining column, but it’s the (less-than-memorable) name of a restaurant that deserves to be front-of-mind. It occupies the former Pearson’s space in the 50th & France enclave, now showcasing a comfy setting of white-licked barn board walls under a canopy of foam-sheathed pipes that oversee bar seating, generous booths and a second room where daylight reigns. Nice makeover. The title, it turns out, honors the area’s butchers, bakers and kimchi makers who contribute to a menu that reads well and delivers even better. Plates arrive camera-ready and sized to feed a block party. (Heed my warning, or you, too, will wonder how to fit all those doggie bags into the trunk.) Starters ($11–$16) mostly involve astute

partnering of products rather than recipes. We ordered the burrata composition, compiled of warm ciabatta slices ready to receive frilly fronds of sweet prosciutto, airy dollops of burrata cheese, deeply sweet fig jam and a counterpunch of sharp arugula. Bravo. (Or order the smoked fish board, sweet-pea bruschetta, etc.) A quartet of salads ($7–$13) beckons, each easily serving two ravenous or four polite diners. Ours, the height-of-summer combo of straw-

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berries and watermelon, gained piquancy from dollops of creamy goat cheese and a shower of almonds, all united via perky mint vinaigrette. On to the mains, ranging from a $14 burger to $37 rib eye. I rarely order chicken when dining out because it’s a staple of my home kitchen, but breaking my rule provided the bonanza of the evening: a supremely juicy bird lavished with pozole broth uniting other Mexican acolytes, including hominy, supple avocado and a shower of queso fresco cheese, plus ruddy slices of robust, well-seasoned sausage and a solo tortilla. Well done. So was our second choice, an XXL pork steak, juicy and full-flavored, plated with wild mushrooms, slender strands of pickled onions and a cornbread-like square of fried cheddar polenta — another winner. We’d also ordered sides of vegetables, which

proved unnecessary but — never mind — addictive: mounds of charred Brussels sprouts tossed with grilled grapes and hazelnuts, all brushed with honey, elevating today’s veggie darling with those spot-on additions. Same for the tureen of crispy cauliflower buds, accented by sesame, green onion and a hit of sweet chili — another meal in itself. Which explains why we failed to leave room for desserts. They’re made in-house, agreed our fine server, who declaimed a list of molten chocolate, bread pudding, crème brûlée and more: the usual suspects but perhaps better in this kitchen’s capable hands. Expect interesting cocktails and a short list of familiar wines BTG, plus a bonus in this neighborhood: a parking lot, in which I’m tempted to reserve a permanent space. Only drawback: It’s very, very loud inside.

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By Alexandra Cortes

The market as a city

armers markets often remind me of little cities. These cities may be built and disassembled on a daily basis, but behind the scenes, there’s much at play in keeping the blueprints together. In a higher-functioning farmers market or city, it can be difficult to identify the various players involved in its success. Vendors come to mind right away; you couldn’t have a farmers market without farmers or products available for sale. Farmers wouldn’t have a reason to come to market without customers to sell to either. It’s necessary to have dedicated market-goers who come out ready to shop, rain or shine. But a third, often-overlooked piece of the equation is board members and volunteers. What do our board members and volunteers do? A bit of everything, honestly. Back in 2011, when I first started with Neighborhood Roots as one of two seasonal staff, our board members were the market organization. Board members issued vendor applications and ordered market supplies such as tents and chairs. Our volunteer treasurer had market mail delivered to his house. The good news is we’ve evolved quite a bit since then. We have two year-round staff members and hire on a third, seasonal position every year. All three staff members can and regularly do squeeze into our singledorm-sized office (and permanent mailing address) in the Center for Performing Arts

Shoppers gather at the farmers market. Submitted photo

building on 38th & Pleasant. While staﬀ now implements the bulk of our daily market operations and our board isn’t nearly the hands-on working board that it was years ago, the truth remains that, for a community-generated and communityserving organization such as ours, it’s essential to have more than three (staﬀ ) people provide input and assistance on many matters. It takes

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a network of helping hands to provide the skills, time and expertise to make our farmers market cities run. On a market day, this means that we rely on volunteers help out with market setup and teardown. Setting up six-plus tents and carrying 60-plus chairs across a parking lot simply isn’t very much fun if you only have two out of three staﬀ members on hand to do it. (Lo and behold, our staﬀ members even get vacations sometimes!) Add in a couple of volunteers and a chance to catch up on someone’s week, recent travels or farmers market-sourced meals, however, and it not only takes less time but it’s rather enjoyable, too. Away from the markets, our Operations Committee volunteers support market operations at a single market. We have distinct committees for Kingfield, Fulton and Nokomis. These folks meet monthly and help steer the events lineup at each individual market as well as recommend outreach tactics specific to their neighborhoods. Over the wintertime, they give input on our vendor selection process and changes they’d like to see for the upcoming season. Most involved of all remain our board members, who stay in the loop on matters related to our three markets and work to further the Neighborhood Roots organization as a whole. Each board member serves on a committee — some on operations alongside

non-board members, others on our Executive Committee or our Marketing/Development Committee. They support our fundraising & fundraising events, provide input on our budget and strategic planning and help out in other areas big and small, as needed. Want to get involved? Our board elections are coming up this fall and we’d like to hear from you, whether as a potential board member or to try out a one-time volunteer shift. I think you’d find that there are some things we do well and other areas we need to strengthen, and we can with your support. In particular, we recognize that the composition of our board and volunteers needs to better reflect the racial, cultural and economic diversity of our South Minneapolis community in order for the farmers market cities that we build to be truly welcoming spaces for all. We welcome interest from people of color and those that share this vision of an inclusive community. Please get in touch at alex@neighborhoodrootsmn.org. Nokomis is open through the end of September, Kingfield and Fulton through the end of October. There’s still plenty of time meet new neighbors and fellow farmers market enthusiasts and enjoy the freshest of local food while you do. Alexandra Cortes is the executive director of Neighborhood Roots. She has been growing with the markets since 2011.

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In performance

Joe Sinness on desire and partnering as performance By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com

oe Sinness’ solo exhibition of new colored-pencil drawings and sculpture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art opens with “Theme,” a panoramic recreation of a scene from the 1980 William Friedkin film “Cruising.” Sinness chooses the moment when the hunt for a serial killer targeting gay men in the New York City club scene leads Al Pacino’s character, an undercover police detective, into a crowded basement leather bar. There are vertical seams in the drawing that show where Sinness — working in a softened version of his photorealistic style, so that the drawing mimics the texture of 35mm film — has spliced together still images from the camera’s panning shot of the bar’s patrons, who are nearly all dressed in cop drag. Unlike the large-scale portraits Sinness has also created for the show, where his themes of gay desire and the rituals of partnering are transmitted through a direct gaze into the

viewer’s eyes, “Theme” keeps the film’s fourth wall firmly in place. The drawing is mounted above a trough-style urinal with a 1970s-era ring-tab Miller Lite can resting on its ledge, Sinness’ cheeky invitation to “step right up.” It is at first a paradoxical-seeming introduction to the rest of the show. “Cruising,” with the lurid suggestion that its killer was driven by suppressed homosexuality, was seen at the time as yet another Hollywood exploitation of gay stereotypes, and was met with protests by gay rights groups upon its release. But maybe there is no paradox; the movie got a very diﬀerent reception when it was rereleased on DVD a decade ago, and modern audiences may appreciate its time-capsule quality, the way it preserves a glimpse of a particular gay subculture on the precipice of the AIDS epidemic. Sinness said he drew “Theme” from screengrabs of the “Cruising” DVD, assembling up to 75 diﬀerent images of its dozens of enthu-

siastically intertwined extras, reallife clubgoers recruited for the film. He compresses those fragments of time into one tableau. In the main exhibition space, there are sculptural objects scattered around the room like stage props — a shrub next to a man’s naked buttocks, a butterfly imprinted with two men kissing — that abstractly reference the environments where cruising men seek one another. “There’s a performative element to finding a sexual partner. That’s straight or gay or whatever. But I’m just curious how that’s

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adapted with gay coding over the years, and how we come to find love and find each other,” Sinness said. “That has changed from the movie ‘Cruising,’ which depicts a very specific kind of performance — cop drag on that one specific night — to selfie culture and applications like Tinder (and) Grindr.” There are hints of selfie culture in Sinness’ remarkable portraits, drawn from photographs of models. The pervasiveness of social media has taught everyone how to pose just so, and Sinness’ models regard the camera with unguarded assurance. They are performing, but Sinness is alert to the vulnerability in their performance, posing his models against dramatic backdrops borrowed from classic Hollywood musicals, including, in one case, a sky that blazes coral pink instead of blue. Sinness described the various influences that coalesce in “The Flowers” as “like a fantasy of (the) experience of visual culture that I’ve had.” In addition to film and selfies, he draws on sources as disparate as the lowresolution video of amateur internet porn and medieval engravings. The latter shows up in “James,” a full-length nude whose subject looks directly at the viewer over his shoulder while holding an awkward contrapposto pose. “In grad school I was really interested in depictions of homosexuals in medieval manuscripts, like (illustrations for) Dante’s Inferno, and the way they would depict homosexuals holding their bodies. It’s a sort of like akimbo, the ‘queer pose’ — it’s sort of a little off,” he said. “... There was a lot of emphasis with the poses of the people I was taking photographs of to make them seem queer, because they are.” Sinness shows off his virtuoso draftsmanship in a small drawing inspired by Henri Matisse’s late-career paper cutouts. What appear to be cut-paper fronds arranged on colored paper are all just trompe l’oeil effects created by Sinness’ pencil. These fronds show up in other drawings, too, including “James,” and Sinness uses them like a burlesque dancer’s feather. They can conceal or reveal. Sinness said he purposely pulls back from the most extreme version of photorealism, which can veer into almost mechanical reproduction. Sinness prefers his images to retain some evidence of human effort and the warmth behind it. “I guess I do want people to know that they’re drawings, because part of my showing of love and adoration for these performers is just time,” he said. “If you can show the amount of time that’s in any craft, it’s always about love.”

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By Dr. Teresa Hershey

Stories from the vet: milk fever

hen I first became a veterinarian, I worked in the country as a mixed animal practitioner. I frequently was called out to farms to treat dairy cows. Dairy cows begin producing milk after they have a calf. Calcium from the blood travels to the udder to produce milk. Sometimes, a problem occurs in which too much calcium travels to the udder and the rest of the body is deprived of calcium. Muscles need calcium in order to function, so a cow with low blood calcium will have muscles that aren’t working, and then she can’t stand up. This disease process is called milk fever. The solution is to give her calcium intravenously. The trick is to give the calcium slowly in the vein. If the calcium is given too quickly, it can be toxic to the heart. I got a call at about 10 p.m. at night from Melvin, one of my dairy farmer clients. Most

Because it was dark out, I could hear the bull before I could actually see him. He was snorting and pawing at the ground, and then I saw his form emerging in the shadows.

farmers milk their cows at about 5 a.m. and 5 p.m., but not Melvin. He was on a 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. milking schedule, which allowed him to sleep in. So whenever I got a late night phone call, I could bet it would be Melvin. He had a cow that was down in the field. She had recently had a calf, so I knew this would be a case of milk fever. Another thing about Melvin was that he still used bulls for breeding. Many farmers have moved away from this practice because bulls are inherently dangerous. Most modern farmers will artificially inseminate their cows now to get

them pregnant to avoid keeping a bull. I pulled up to the farm and Melvin and two of his six kids were with him. Sure enough, he had a cow that couldn’t stand up from milk fever. I gathered my supplies and began administering the antidote of IV calcium. Melvin was chatting about his herd and how the kids were doing in school when all of a sudden he yelled, “Here comes the bull!” and he and his two sons ran into the barn, leaving me out in the field with his cow and full liter of calcium that still needed to be administered. Because it was dark out, I could hear the

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2021 Harriet Ave. S. REMODEL Project team: Marc Sloot and Katie Leaf of SALA Architects

The subject of a feature story in the May 2017 Southwest Journal Home Guide, this Whittierneighborhood remodeling project updated a 1907 Victorian for the 21st century. Marc Sloot of SALA Architects said the project had two primary goals: to maximize the 110-year-old home’s energy efficiency without compromising its lived-in comfort and beauty. Sloot took a conservation-first approach, preserving historic details while still achieving net-zero efficiency, meaning the home produces at least as much energy as it consumes. “I really hope that a project like that inspires more people to take measures that can improve the performance of their home, their own home, and really be doing it with that mindset of not having to compromise the beauty and the comfort of the home,” he said.

4110 Upton Ave. S. REMODEL/ADDITION Project team: Mark Larson and Will Spencer of Rehkamp Larson Architects

Mark Larson of Rehkamp Larson Architects described this project as a “top-to-bottom” remodel, one that also involved removing an older addition from the front of the house and adding a new one to the back. “The house had a bunch of previous additions that were done ad hoc over the years,” Larson said, explaining the task they had in designing a cohesive space for the homeowners, a growing family. Collaborators included builder Welch Forsman Associates, landscape architect Ron Beining Associates and interior designer Brooke Voss Design.

Few spaces were left untouched during the remodel of the home, which Larson described as a foursquare or a modern farmhouse in style. One goal was to make the most of the daylight that enters the house, both through architecture and interior design, like the white floors that brighten the second story. Look closely and you might see where old blends with new. “There are some lines, purposeful lines, that show the evolution of the house,” Larson said.

5333 Drew Ave. S. NEW CONSTRUCTION Project team: Scott Newland of Newland Architecture, Inc.

Realizing a long-held dream, architect Scott Newland designed this home for himself and his wife. The couple moved in in mid-summer, and when Newland was reached by phone for an interview three weeks later they were still unpacking boxes. Longtime Southwest residents, the couple searched fruitlessly for an empty lot to build on before resorting to a teardown. But Newland said they salvaged and sold or reused as much as they could from the older house on their Fulton-neighborhood lot, incorporating a few pieces into the new home’s design — a distinctly Scandinavian look that Newland said blended modern and traditional elements to fit in with its surroundings. “It’s nice to have all the daylight we have because our old house was from the 1930s,” he said. “… Our cat loves it.” SEE AIA HOME TOUR / PAGE B9

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3213 E. Calhoun Pkwy NEW CONSTRUCTION Project team: Lars Peterssen, Gabriel Keller, Chad Healy and Ashley Peterson of Peterssen/Keller Architecture

Chad Healy of Peterssen/Keller Architecture said this project presented a conundrum that is not uncommon in the architecture business: The clients, a married couple with children, had differing visions for their new home on Lake Calhoun. “One of the two clients was leaning toward modern and the other was more traditional,” Healy said. While the amount of glass and metal in the completed project might imply that

the modernist won out, Healy said they balanced those elements with more traditional touches, like the horizontal muntins on the windows, and use of natural materials in the interior. “What really happened here is it became not a compromise but a way for all of us to work together to come to a house we were all happy with,” he said. Another challenge was the unusually deep and narrow lot. But the designers turned that to their advantage, too, adding a large terrace that separates the main house from the garage, which includes an accessory dwelling unit — one of the first constructed since they were made legal in Minneapolis.

IF YOU GO: AIA Minnesota Homes by Architects Tour Sept. 16–17 Advance tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at homesbyarchitects.org or in person at AIA Minnesota, located in International Market Square, 275 Market St., Suite 54. Tickets can also be purchased at any home on the tour at a price of $20 for the weekend or $10 for an individual home. Go to homesbyarchitects.org for more information.

2727 E. Lake of the Isles Pkwy REMODEL/ADDITION Project team: Christopher Strom of Christopher Strom Architects

When architect Chris Strom arrived on site for this remodel of a 1915 Tudor Revivalstyle home facing Lake of the Isles, he found a house “built like a tank,” heavy and substantial, with 10-inch-thick walls. That might have something to do with its history, Strom guessed. It was one of the early projects designed by Ellerbe & Co. (known as Ellerbe Becket after a 1987 merger), a firm better known for its work on corporate projects, including work for the Mayo Clinic and 3M. For the new homeowners, who relocated to Minneapolis from Seattle, Strom updated

the main living spaces on two floors — including a total kitchen redo — and converted the unfinished attic and basement into new living space. The home’s centuryplus history remained top-of-mind; Strom said the homeowners insisted “anything we added to it would look in character, so it would look like it had always been there.” That left room for some whimsical touches, including the English-style pub in the newly finished basement.

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“Prairie Tree” by Ned Kahn is one of several new pieces of art coming to Nicollet Mall.

Art returns to Nicollet Mall

— RETURNING AND NEW ARTWORKS ARE BEING INSTALLED AS A REJUVENATED NICOLLET MALL EMERGES — By Eric Best / ebest@southwestjournal.com

he saying goes that life is short, but art is long. For the art on Nicollet Mall, some pieces have lived several lives. Crews have begun installing new and old pieces on the mall, which is seeing a $50-million renovation that is set to be completed this fall. City officials say this genera-

tion of works — Nicollet Mall’s third — marks a shift in the types of public art on display in the heart of downtown Minneapolis. The street wasn’t always dotted with public art displays. The City of Minneapolis first commissioned art for the mall in the 1960s, bringing in pieces like the “Sculpture Clock.”

Decades later, sentiments have changed, and the latest generation further builds the city’s contemporary art collection. “People didn’t understand the value of it,” said Mary Altman, the city’s public arts administrator. “People now expect to see [art] in the public realm.”

Nicollet Mall has been closed for the past three years while the city reconstructs 12 blocks of the central thoroughfare. Photos by Annabelle Marcovici

The city has begun reinstalling six of its eight works on the mall that were removed in the fall of 2015. The first of more than 70 “Hail Minnesota” manhole covers from artist Kate Burke now dot the south end of the mall, which the city is reconstructing between Grant Street and Washington Avenue. “Shadows of Spirit,” a series of seven embedded shadows from artists Seitu Jones, Ta-coumba Aiken and poet Soyini Guyton, are back in their normal home between 12th and 13th streets. The “Sculpture Clock,” a 16-foot-tall clock tower that has sat next to Peavey Plaza since 1968, is set to be reinstalled later this month. The piece from artist Jack Nelson is one of the last vestiges of the mall’s 1960s design. The first large-scale artwork from the newest reconstruction project might seem familiar to Minnesota Twins fans. Sculptor Ned Kahn’s “Prairie Tree,” a metallic, tree-shaped sculpture at 11th & Nicollet, has similar leaf-like shingles to Kahn’s “The Wave,” a 60-foot-high wall of movable metal outside Target Field. Two new pieces will be installed later this year. The city is currently preparing the new Theater in the Round outside the Minneapolis Central Library on the mall’s north side for “Nimbus” by Tristan Al-Haddad, the largestscale piece in this round of new works. The 45-foot-wide sculpture, which will be built and SEE NICOLLET MALL ART / PAGE B11

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lit like a halo, is meant to appear like it is levitating over the library’s plaza. The final work is a series of suspended lanterns from Blessing Hancock over the “Light Walk,” a new feature designed by James Corner Field Operations with a trellis of tilted mirrors outside the IDS Center. The series of lanterns, set to be installed this October, will hang around the Light Walk and feature poetry and prose from local, emerging writers. Regina Flanagan, an artist and public arts administrator hired by the city to give a behindthe-scenes view of the art installations on Nicollet Mall, said the piece will reveal itself slowly over many encounters. Only some words are legible from a given angle, so people will experience it diﬀerently whether they’re just walking by or stopping to focus on certain phrases, she added. “You could pass that every day for years and see something new each time,” Flanagan said. “You’re not going to get it all in a glance. Rather, it will unveil itself over time.” At least two works will not return to the mall. The “Loon, Great Blue Heron and Grouse” sculpture outside the Young Quinlan building at 9th & Nicollet and the nearby decorated bus shelter glass from artist Philip Larson nearby won’t come back. Altman said they are looking to relocate the pieces in diﬀerent areas around the city.

The Nicollet Mall reconstruction will be substantially completed this fall, city officials say.

Flanagan, both an artist and landscape architect, described the latest generation of art — pieces from Kahn, Al-Haddad and Hancock — as “phenomenological,” meaning they are to be engaged directly by passersby, who build their own experiences. Unlike previous work installed on the mall — literal, “less cerebral” items like decorative manholes, benches and clocks, she said — this latest round of art will offer different experiences to downtown dwellers for years and years to come. “The current work is socially motivated because it will create exciting public places, places where people want to be,” Flanagan said. “It’s meant to bring people together to experience something and build their understanding with the work and each other.” Flanagan experienced this firsthand with “Prairie Tree.” One day she walked by the piece and a storm was coming. The gray clouds reflected in the IDS Center and the wind blew, she said, moving the shingles to one side and producing waves of “shiny, silvery” light. A moment later, and the wind blew another direction and the shingles moved, showing a dull side. Depending on the day, lighting and other factors, others will have different experiences. “That’s what makes it so intriguing. I couldn’t have anticipated [it],” she said. Altman said she sees a shift toward a different kind of art experience on the mall. New signature pieces will speak to a captivated audience of office workers and downtown commuters over their lifetimes. Unlike a museum where people go specifically for the art, Nicollet Mall will give people casual encounters with art during their day. “[It’s] an audience where many people see [Nicollet Mall] every day, and they see it every day for years and years,” she said. The city is acknowledging the longevity of its art collection with the latest commissions. Flanagan blogs about the pieces at nicolletmallart.org. Her writing will be archived at the Central Library after the mall is renovated. Her position is vital, she said, because the city didn’t archive previous generations of art. “Grasping the historical moment” is an important piece of the work, she added. “This is a rare opportunity. I haven’t seen other programs use this opportunity to give an inside look,” she said. Flanagan said she now sees different approaches and generations of art interwoven into the new mall. Hopefully, she said, there will be more works — and different opportunities to experience them — on the mall sooner rather than later. “I hope Nicollet Mall doesn’t have to wait 20 years for more public art,” Flanagan said.

Above: “Shadows of Spirit,” a series commissioned during the 1990s renovation of Nicollet Mall, depicts seven figures overlaid with poetry. Left: Dozens of decorative manhole covers have started coming back to Nicollet Mall.

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Installation view of Nairy Baghramian’s “Déformation Professionelle.” Photo by Timo Ohler

‘NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN: DÉFORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE’ For more than 20 years, Nairy Baghramian has created sculptures, photographic works and drawings that explore the relationship between architecture and the human body. The Iran-born artist, who lives and works in Berlin, draws on influences including dance, theater, design and fashion to produce unlikely juxtapositions in material and scale to question and challenge the very nature of sculpture. In “Déformation Professionnelle,” which is co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Belgium, offers a new approach to the traditional artist retrospective, presenting entirely new sculptures that reflect upon or alter her previous works created between 1999 and 2016. Her sterilized, amorphous structures, including “Egg Caul” and “Flat Spine,” demonstrate Baghramian’s intention to relate the museum’s structure to that of the human form, while “Peeper” uses walled-off space to limit the viewer’s vantage point. The exhibition illustrates the sculptor’s continuing evolution while offering a playful yet critical take on the artist survey.

When: Sept. 7–Feb. 4 Where: Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave.

Cost: $14 adults; $12 seniors; $7 military; $9 students; free for ages 0-18 Info: walkerart.org

“Friend Like Me.” Photo by Deen van Meer.

‘WOMEN WITH CAMERAS (SELF PORTRAIT)’ Before selfies, there were self-portraits. How women viewed themselves privately prior to the advent of social media is at the center of “Women with Cameras (Self Portrait),” a new exhibition by acclaimed New York-based conceptual photographer, Anne Collier. Through various means over an extended period of time, the artist collected snapshots of amateur, anonymous women dating from the 1970s to the early 2000s, taken on film cameras prior to the digital age. Instead of circulating online, these abandoned images were intended for a private audience. Presented altogether in a slideshow of 35mm slides, these relics of the pre-digital age evoke a deep sense of loneliness, melancholy and autonomy and illustrate photography’s relationship to memory, loss and self-representation.

When: Sept. 7–Dec. 17 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave. S. Cost: Free Info: artsmia.org

‘ALADDIN – THE MUSICAL’ From the producer of the box-office record-breaking musical “The Lion King” comes another Disney tale reimagined for the stage. Based on the 1992 animated film, “Aladdin – The Musical” features songs people will remember from the film, including “Friend Like Me” and “A Whole New World,” plus three songs originally written for the film and four new songs written by the original film’s composers, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. The musical’s book, written by one of the film’s lyricists, Chad Beguelin, is a fun and frenetic caper that offers unexpected emotional depth. While it’s not the production spectacle that was “The Lion King,” “Aladdin” is still an outsized, eye-popping show, complete with the requisite suspended magic carpet ride against a glittering backdrop of lights and a scene-stealing turn by Anthony Murphy as the Genie.

When: Sept. 15–Oct. 8 Where: Orpheum Theatre, 910 Hennepin Ave. Cost: $39–$179 Info: 800-982-2787 or hennepintheatretrust.org

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HERITAGE FESTIVALS Celebrate the flavors, the music and the cultures of Ukraine and Greece during a pair of annual heritage festivals in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Greek Festival (Sept. 8–10) offers authentic Greek fare, traditional Greek music and dance performances and goods for sale from Greek vendors. There will also be tours of the historic St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church, wine flights at a courtyard café, Greek food demonstrations and Greek dance instruction. The Twin Cities Ukrainian Heritage Festival (Sept. 17) celebrates the unique culture and traditions of the Eastern European country, including authentic food (like sausages from Minneapolis deli Kramarczuk’s, whose founders hail from Ukraine), live music and dance, a beer culture, games and craft vendors, a cultural exhibit and a silent auction.

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

TWIN CITIES UKRAINIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL: When: Sunday, Sept. 17 from noon–5 p.m. Where: Ukrainian Event Center, 301 Main St. NE. Cost: Free Info: uaccmn.org

FASHION WEEK MN

Every fall and spring, Fashion Week MN offers a snapshot of the Twin Cities’ diverse fashion community. This fall’s lineup features 18 events spanning panels with industry experts, runway fashion shows, intimate in-store events and artful exhibitions highlighting the diversity and sustainability of the Twin Cities fashion industry. (Disclosure: This column’s author is co-director and co-founder of the event.) Here are some highlights:

FLYOVER X FASHION WEEK MN

Presented in partnership with Iowabased fashion group Flyover, this day of panels offers perspectives from nearly 20 local influencers on topics that include sustainability, body positivity, queer style, ethnic and racial diversity and fashion’s relationship to politics.

When: Saturday, Sept. 9 from 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Where: W Minneapolis, 821 S. Marquette Ave., 2nd level Cost: $22

CULTURE PIECE MAGAZINE PRESENTS: HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Presented by stylish local publication, Culture Piece Magazine, this event takes inspiration from the Harlem Renaissance – a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement spanning the 1920s and mid-’30s that signified a new black identity – for a fashion show featuring an all-POC (people-of-color) group of producers, designers, stylists and models.

When: Saturday, Sept. 9 from 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Where: Le Méridien Chambers, 901 Hennepin Ave., basement level Cost: $20–$45

NORTHERN VOGUE

One of the most dynamic events on the lineup is sure to be this event, which features a 300-foot long, two-tier runway, full runway

MINNEAPOLIS MONARCH FESTIVAL The monarch butterfly population has declined 90 percent over the past 20 years, a worrying statistic that has prompted scientists, students and community groups around the country to action. The University of Minnesota’s Monarch Lab is bringing its volunteerraised monarchs to be tagged and released at this annual event on the shores of Lake Nokomis. Join fellow butterfly lovers for a day of art activities, games and Latin food, plus dance performances from Aztec dance group Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli and music from Salsa Del Soul, Charanga Tropical and the Brass Messengers. Festivities take place near the Nokomis Naturescape, four acres of gardens containing native Minnesota plants that provide a home to monarch butterflies and caterpillars.

When: Saturday, Sept. 9 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Where: Lake Nokomis, E. 49th St. & Woodlawn Blvd. Cost: Free Info: monarchfestival.org

collections by Minnesota fashion labels House of Gina Marie, GrasMark Menswear, Winsome Goods and Fantasme Collection, plus the opportunity to shop the looks and meet the designers following the show and tunes by DJ Dudley D, Prince’s former tour DJ.

summer 2018 line), vegan lipsticks and essential oils for sale from the Elixery, live fashion portraits by illustrator Claire Ward, and beverages and light hors d’oeuvres from Spoonriver.

When: Wednesday, Sept. 13 from 5 p.m.–9 p.m. Where: A-Mill Artist Lofts Gallery, 315 Main St. SE Cost: Free

When: Sunday, Sept. 10 from 6 p.m.– 10 p.m. (7 p.m. show) Where: W Minneapolis, 821 S. Marquette Ave. Cost: $20–$55; limited free, standing-room tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis

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Minneapolis-based milliner Celina Kane showcases her fall collection of high-end hats with a gallery-style photography exhibition, a pop-up trunk show featuring hats for sale from the current collection (plus the chance to pre-order pieces for her spring/

FASHION WEEK MN When: September 7–15 Info: fashionweekmn.com and eventbrite.com

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Gardening Q & A

ummer is winding down, which means it is once again time for my semi-annual roundup of some of the more unusual, or at least less-common, gardening questions I answered this season. Hopefully there’s something here that you’ll find interesting or helpful.

that the treatment process cannot remove, such as heavy metals, pathogens, pharmaceuticals and other toxic chemicals. Because of this, I steer clear of using it on or near edible plants. If you’re going to plant a straw bale, there are many other safe, organic fertilizers to choose from.

How do I save tomato seeds?

I want a red-blooming delphinium. Is there such a thing?

It’s easier than you might think. Scrape the pulp from a few of the same tomatoes into a jar with some water in it and stir. Put a lid on the jar and let it sit for a three or four days at room temperature, stirring a couple of times a day. You want seeds to drop to the bottom so add more water if you need to and continue to stir. Once there are many seeds on the bottom of the jar, skim off floating seeds and any mold, if you see some. Carefully pour out some of the water and add fresh water before skimming the top again. Once the container looks clean and there is little to nothing floating, pour off all of the water through a fine strainer and spread your seeds out to dry. I use a dinner plate, but you can also use screen or a cutting board, whatever works.

Happily, there are some varieties of red delphinium, and I would suggest ‘Red Caroline,’ which has coral-colored blooms that darken to red as they mature. Like most delphinium, they will do best if you stake them so they won’t topple over. Pollinators and hummingbirds love these flowers, and the plants are hardy to Zone 4, so they will survive our horrifying winters. While you might find these in garden centers, it’s probably easier to go online and order either seeds or plants.

Is garlic a good insect repellent?

Can I use Milorganite to condition straw bale gardens before planting? I’d say gardeners have to decide this for themselves. Here are the facts: Milorganite is a fertilizer made from treated sewer sludge from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The sludge, which comes in pellet

form and smells kind of gross, but not in the way you would think, is marketed as being great for trees, shrubs, lawns and home gardens. It is also a good deer and rabbit repellent. The problem is, while Milorganite is deemed safe for consumer use by the Environmental Protection Agency, testing has shown that it contains contaminants

Yes, it definitely can be. You can buy various types of garlic-based sprays and oils, or you can make your own by tossing two large cloves of garlic and four cups of water into a blender. Strain the mush through some cheesecloth once or twice and dilute what’s left with another cup of water. Test the garlic repellent on a plant or two that you don’t care about so much before spraying it widely, just to be sure you’re not causing any damage. Tests have shown that whiteflies, some types of beetles and aphids are all repelled by garlic, though be aware that your garden’s going to be a bit smelly for a few days. Check out Meleah’s blog, everydaygardener.com, for more gardening tips or to email her a question or comment.

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