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🥣 Soup for You! brings gourmet approach to free community meals
Paying a visit to the daily free community meal in downtown Longfellow, ahead of its annual fundraiser on Saturday.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange will stay closed until December
An update on the major reconstruction, which promises to make the complicated junction more palatable no matter how you traverse it.
🦐 First look: Lagniappe
A look at the upscale New Orleans-style restaurant opening in the Coliseum building tonight.
😎 The guy in the chair at the falls
Most non-winter days since he retired 12 years ago, Jerry Miller fires up his Harley-Davidson and rambles down the river road from his home in Seward to Minnehaha Park. Once there, he sets up his camp chair in the same shady spot between Sea Salt and the Falls, tunes his
🚲 Aboard the Husky Bike Train
Tagging along with the gang of intrepid pedalers who ride to school every day — rain, shine, sleet or snow.
🏃♀️ 5 neighborhood spots to watch the marathon
Longfellow's stretch of the river road offers some of the best spectating locales for the Twin Cities Marathon, which will draw 300,000 spectators and 8,000 runners on Sunday morning.
🎸 Cloudland rings in a year on Lake Street
It's been a year since Cloudland opened at 36th and Lake, no small feat for a small independent music venue. They're celebrating the milestone with a birthday party Saturday night.
🗓 Whatever Whenever: October events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
⚜️ First look: Du Nord Cocktail Room
A preview of the New Orleans-style cocktail room inside the Coliseum building, which opens tonight.
🏬 Development plans at former El Nuevo Rodeo move forward
A look at the planned "Viva" project, one of a wave of developments moving forward near 27th and Lake.
🎨 Anita White turns the sketchbook on herself
Anita White is one of 120 artists showing their work across the neighborhood this weekend, debuting an inward-looking book at the LoLA art crawl she helped launch.
⛪️ New owner planning community event center in former 41st Ave church
A look at plans for the 115-year-old building, which Thee House Uv Beth-el church put up for sale this summer.
🎨 Weekend paint-a-thon will complete transformation of 36th Ave Bridge
A unique partnership of students, artists, and neighbors have led the transformation.
🛏 What's up at Elsa's House of Sleep?
Tracing the fitful progress at the building that has sat vacant at 36th and Lake since 2019.
🚔 What we know about this morning's active shooter incident inside a Minnehaha Ave apartment building
A chaotic situation involving an active shooter inside an apartment building at 40th and Minnehaha Avenue ended with police shooting the suspect around 4:30 this morning.
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