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).
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🏘️ 37th Ave's neverending block party
A visit to the block's weekly happy hour, which, like many similar social traditions throughout the neighborhood, got its start under the duress of 2020.
👥 Tense neighborhood meeting reflects mounting concerns over safety around 46th and Hiawatha
More than 100 residents packed into a standing-room-only meeting at Hiawatha Flats Apartments on Wednesday night to discuss safety issues around the 46th and Hiawatha intersection with the mayor, police chief, and two city council members.
🏗️ What's going on in the old substation at 32nd and Hiawatha?
Spoiler: A little, but not a lot.
🐶 A sneak preview of the Howe's new all-season "pawtio"
The new structure will feature clear walls, a roof that opens and closes, a nine-foot gas fireplace, TVs, expanded seating, and more.
🌮 Visiting downtown’s permanent taco trailer
Jaime Lopez operates the trailer at Lake and Minnehaha seven days a week.
🏈 Skol! The Vikings house just got a fresh coat of purple
Mary and Paul Uphoff first painted their Minnehaha Avenue home a Vikings-inspired purple more than 30 years ago.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: November events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
🍂 October Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
Updates on Francis, the Third Precinct, new happy hours, Community Hops Garden, and more.
🚔 What we know about the recent shootout(s) at 34th and Lake
A forced eviction is pending for the promoter who has been throwing large, unlicensed parties associated with the incidents.
🎃 100 spooky yards
A highlight reel (and map) of the neighborhood's most ghoulish decor.
📚 After parent pressure, Hiawatha will no longer have the two largest first-grade classrooms in the district
A look at the fight against crowded classrooms at Hiawatha-Howe Community School, where three teachers were cut this year despite steady enrollment.
🥣 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
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