Saturday, May 19, 2012
Harriet Brasserie won their liquor license this week, clearing the way for dinner service.
Linden Hills' newest restaurant, Harriet Brasserie, is but a babe in arms, but already the positive reviews are starting to roll in. So far, they've only just secured a beer and wine license, so dinner service is still off the table—pardon the pun—for a little while longer. The Twin Cities Daily Planet's Jerremy Iggers: I ordered the crawfish and grits ($13), a impossible rich concoction of crawdad tails, andouille, avocado, sliced radish and red pepper, accompanied by a creamy cheddar cheese grits. "Tucker," writing on Urban Spoon: The menu was very enticing and different from what I have seen around Minneapolis. You can see the collision of the owners' international backgrounds in every aspect of the dishes. I had the crab benedict which…
Temporary site up and running.
After a rogue coder going by the nom d'internet "HellFire" defaced the front page of the Downtown Journal earlier this week, Southwest Minneapolis residents have been at a loss when looking for stories from its sister publication, the Southwest Journal. Both websites have been temporarilly taken offline while Minnesota Premier Publications staff repair whatever internal damage the attack caused, and disarm any thing the hacker left behind. Well, wait no more! Friday afternoon, Sarah McKenzie, editor of both publications, told Patch over Twitter that for the time being, you can still find all her reporters' fine work at a temporary Wordpress site.
Friday, May 18, 2012
We're renowned for our tight neighborhoods. But sometimes, those connections are longer-distance than we think.
On a quiet corner in Tangletown sit two quintessential Minneapolis neighborhood shops. Despite their status as local favorites, you'd never guess that both owners have a 1,500-mile commute to work. Lisa Gilroyed of Artsy Digs lives in California with her husband. When she's not working a full-time job in California and raising two kids, she surfs between New York wholesalers, Los Angeles flea markets, and Minnesota barn sales to find the art, "shabby chic" furniture, and assorted decorative odds and ends that fill her popular store, like old back-light eye charts or a pair of vintage water skis. Neither that nor her limited hours—one multi-day sale per month—have stopped the neighborhood from embracing her. "We'll be here in the evening, …
Zinia Folk Arts opens today.
At long last, you can finally get skeletons dressed as mariachi players without having to travel to Mexico! Zinia Folk Arts is opening at the corner of 50th and Bryant, across the street from Patina, George and the Dragon, and The Malt Shop. That may sound trite or sarcastic, but we mean every word of it—as we wrote back in March, owner Anne Damon regularly traverses Mexico, searching for curious, interesting, and funky pieces of folk art to bring back to Minneapolis. And these are no ordinary pieces of folk art. Many of the artists she buys from have their work in major Mexican museums. When we interviewed her just as her plans for her Lynnhurst shop were starting to gel, she told us about one such meeting: On her last (trip), she found…
Police pulled over the driver on Grand Avenue early Saturday morning.
A St. Paul cab driver was cited for possession of marijuana while driving through the Lyndale neighborhood a little after 1 a.m. Saturday morning. Police officers were driving northbound on Grand Avenue toward 31st Street when a Blue and White cab pulled in front of them and they smelled, according to the police report, “an extremely strong odor of freshly burnt marijuana coming from the taxi.” When they pulled over the man, a licensed Minneapolis and St. Paul cab driver, he acknowledged that he had smoked marijuana while on service. He turned over to police a wooden box full of weed and a used pipe. Police told him he couldn’t pick up any more fares for the evening, and he was released.
80 former priests took to the stage to attack the Catholic Church's opposition to same-sex marriage.
The bishops of Minnesota may have barred their priests from speaking publicly against a proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage in this state, but that didn't stop a group of former priests from taking to the stage at the Lake Harriet bandshell yesterday to speak out. "We encourage Minnesotans to base their vote on the principles of justice and love," read a statement passed out at the event and emailed to reporters afterwards. "The proposed amendment, in violation of those principals, would deprive an individual of his or her right to marry the person he or she loves." The 80 ex-priests who signed the statement ranged from men who quit within three years of joining the priesthood to others who had served as long as 48 years. Most …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
County Board Chair Mike Opat delivered the 2012 address today in Plymouth.
Hennepin County Board Chair Mike Opat gave the State of the County address today at the Plymouth Creek Center in Plymouth. The TwinWest Chamber of Commerce hosted the event. A State of the County address hasn't been given since 2009. The reason? "There have been no speeches because given the state of the economy and federal and state budgets there wasn’t much I could say that was interesting enough to warrant an event like this," Opat said. "Like the rest of public-sector America…we have been hunkered down and focused on the basics." During his speech, Opat touched on changes to several areas of the County, that were also highlighted in a county press release: Budget/Finances "The State of Hennepin County is one of flat budgets and …
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There are about 400 dog bite victims a year in Minneapolis.
The evening of May 8, after an 11-year-old Kenny girl was mauled by her pet pit bull, the girl’s father released the dog to Minneapolis Animal Care and Control with the understanding that it would be euthanized. Within 24 hours, the pit bull was dead, its body taken to the University of Minnesota, where it tested negatively for rabies. But regardless of who—parents, child, dog—were at fault in the incident, if anyone was, just how many dogs bite humans in Minneapolis? In 2011, there were more than 400 victims of dog bites within the city of Minneapolis’s borders, 87 of which were classified as “serious,” meaning the dog was either put down or its owner was forced to sterilize their animal and purchase $300,000 in insurance against any …
Neighborhood will pay nearly $840,000
Road repair. It's one of the less sexy aspects of municipal governance. And Southwest Minneapolis neighborhoods will be seeing a lot of it. In fact, the city will be paving or repairing over 70 miles—about the distance from downtown Minneapolis to Menomonie, Wisconsin—of roadway this year. However, most of that is concentrated in scores of side streets, rather than high-visibility items like the Nicollet reconstruction project. Wednesday morning, the Minneapolis City Council approved the next step in a project that would revamp around half the streets in Armatage. Armatage's roads haven't been paved since the early 1980s, according to the city. In that time, they've racked up a $1.1 million repair bill. While residents will pay a little …
Opponents of the marriage amendment say their support is growing, but documentary about Maine could offer cautionary tale.
For opponents of the ballot question that would write a ban on same-sex marriages into Minnesota's constitution, many parts of a new documentary are disturbingly familiar, even if they claim momentum is swinging towards their cause. A cold, northern state with a history of liberal politics. A strong effort from LGBT activists and their allies. A large infusion of cash from the Catholic Church that may have tipped the balance in favor of religious conservatives. Only, Question 1 doesn't tell the story of Minnesota's marriage amendment battle, but Maine's, where the LGBT community suffered a stinging defeat two years ago. The documentary, showing at the Mall of America, offers hints of what could go wrong for LGBT supporters in Minnesota, …
James Sanna
11:17 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
To clarify, he was ticketed and let go. If you're interested, here's a story we did a while back on how the county treats its drug offenders. We didn't quite get down to the level of the guy smoking a joint in his car, but it gives a flavor of the county's philosophical approach: http://southwestminneapolis.patch.com/articles/why-some-drug-crimes-don-t-lead-to-prison more ›