Longfellow Whatever is a reader-funded news project focused on the fine-grained details of life in the Longfellow communities of Minneapolis (Longfellow, Cooper, Howe, and Hiawatha).
Subscribers get frequent, brief updates delivered to their inbox in a tone somewhere between a local newspaper and dispatches from a plugged-in friend: How’s construction coming along on that new restaurant? What does that business in the tiny corner space actually do? What's the plan for that vacant building? Who's behind that iconic holiday lights display or landscaping oddity? How’s business lately at your favorite cafe, movie theater, grocer, or auto shop?
More about how it works: Frequently asked questions.
🙋 Frequently asked questions
More about this whole deal.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: November events calendar
Civic * Nov. 4: Election Day * Nov. 8: Hi-Lake Mural Celebration * Nov. 13: East Lake Street Clean Up * Nov. 22 @ Moon Palace: Hiawatha-Howe Elementary Book Drive For kids * Nov. 2 @ Hook and Ladder: The Amazing Larry Kahlow – A Family Friendly Magic Matinee * Nov. 4: MPS No School * Nov. 19 @ East Lake
🎃 Monthly miscellanea: October
Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
🦊 Getting to know the Longfellow foxes
The foxes have become neighborhood folk heroes. Here's what we actually know about them.
🎃 387 spooky yards
A near-exhaustive look at Longfellow's Halloween decor.
🍁 Mid-October rundown: American Rug Laundry is moving
Plus an election preview, the latest on Anishinabe and the Cooper School, construction updates, and much more.
⛔ Four traffic-slowing medians coming to previously excluded roads
Previewing four new traffic calming medians, and the (admittedly dry) bureaucratic details behind their approval.
🏠 The "Butterfly" house is for sale
A peek inside the midcentury gem designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, virtually untouched since it was built in 1960.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: October events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month, including more than a few spooky ones.
🎸 September rundown: Hook and Ladder Theater issues emergency fundraiser
Plus, upcoming candidate forums, a new tenant in a long-vacant Lake Street space, where to watch the marathon, a new Falls documentary, seasonal business closing dates, free beer brewed from the Community Hops garden, new plantings along the Greenway, fall color updates, and much more.
🎹 Cornbread Harris, 98, brings famed weekly gig to the Schooner
Cornbread didn't miss a beat after the closure of Palmer's forced him to move his weekly gig to Longfellow's own storied old dive bar.
☕️ Milkweed is closing
Milkweed will close October 5, ending a seven-year run for the coffee shop at 39th and Lake Street.
🍻 Longfellow happy hour rundown
A look at 16 happy hour deals in the neighborhood.
🧀 First look: Shepherd's Table
A sneak peek of the long-awaited neighborhood cheese shop and deli.
🚨 Eight wounded in Monday night shooting at 28th and Lake encampment
After months of contention between the city and building owner, crews began clearing the encampment Tuesday morning.
🌤️ Mid-September rundown
Details on this year's LoLa art crawl, encampment updates, neighborhood seed art, cheap breakfasts, a new gallery, and much more.
🌾 Ian Young wants to help you help your neighbor plant their boulevard
Ian Young doesn’t want to tell you what to do with your boulevard — but, if you have no preference, he’s pretty sure you’re best off filling it with native plants.
🗳️ Choosing the community tenant for 3000 Minnehaha
Two finalists proposed their vision for using 8,000 square feet of space within the repurposed building.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: September events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
⛺️ August rundown: 27th and Lake encampment standoff continues
Plus updates on Shepherd's Table, Savory Bakehouse, the "Gold Medal Flour" house, and much more.
🛜 USI's being acquired. Let’s visit its oddly handsome utility building.
It doesn't stick out much from the single-family homes that surround it, but there are clues it's not quite a human dwelling.
🕰️ Take a late-90s drive down Minnehaha Avenue
Via a collection of hastily taken photos by a lost-to-history municipal worker.
🌞 Mid-August rundown: Sneak peek at the Hi-Lake murals
(And much more.)
⚽️ The old Minnehaha Academy ice arena is now a fieldhouse – while it lasts
The history, and future, of the iconic vintage arena on Minnehaha's lower campus.
🧀 At long last, Shepherd's Table is about to open
Details on the long-awaited deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, set to open September 1.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: August events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
