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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🎁 Corazon gift shop expanding into the old Papa Murphy's
After nearly 20 years in the tight confines of its middle retail space at West River Commons, Corazon is about to double its size. The whimsical gift shop at 46th and Lake will expand into the former Papa Murphy's space next door, and plans to have the new
💿 Famed local record store Extreme Noise moving to 36th and Lake
The south Minneapolis institution will move into the former Nostalgia Zone Comics space, part of a recent shuffle of storefronts in the historic commercial building.
🍺 Brewery planned at 45th and Minnehaha
Veteran brewery operators Qiuxia and Kevin Welch have purchased the building that formerly housed One on One Bike Shop.
🔊 The Longfellow ...Hum?
Residents troubleshoot an irritating new noise — the ones that can hear it, anyway.
📆 Whenever Wherever: March events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
💘 February rundown
LW celebrates 2 years, Lake Street LRT station construction delayed, a neighborhood angle on the Olympics, church for sale, and much more.
🌲 Neighborhood's first dispensary coming soon to 38th and Minnehaha
H.D.S.P.M. Cannabis Dispensary hopes to open as soon as April.
💸 Anatomy of a neighborhood aid fund
Under the hood of the Greater Longfellow Neighbor Relief Fund, the neighborhood's largest mutual aid fund.
🧊 Mid-February ICE rundown
Reports of ICE detentions in the neighborhood have slowed, even as sightings of agents remain common.
💿 Time Bomb and Nostalgia Zone both expanding at 36th and Lake
A shakeup is coming to the southwest corner of 36th and Lake this spring.
🍺 Arbeiter Brewing turns 5
A speed run through the brewery's first five years, which have been bookended by crises.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: February events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🧊 January ICE rundown
The latest on federal immigration activity and neighborhood response.
🤝 Neighborhood support swells in response to ICE activity
How neighborhood residents, businesses, and institutions are responding to novel challenges with little precedent.
🧊 Mid-January rundown: ICE activity intensifies
Federal immigration activity continues to intensify this week throughout the neighborhood.
🧊 ICE activity ramps up throughout Longfellow
Updates on ICE activity, and community response, throughout the neighborhood.
🖌 Worth a thousand words: 19th-century descriptions of Minnehaha Falls in winter
It's hard to put the splendor of a frozen Minnehaha Falls into words. But plenty have tried.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: January events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
🏃 Ed Kohler's year of 100 friendly jogs
Joining Ed Kohler — one of those people who seems to know everybody — on his quest to run with 100 different people in 2025.
🪟 The Dorman Avenue window painter
Shawna Wolf paints a new window mural each month at 29th and Dorman.
🍰 Savory Bakehouse is moving to St. Paul
Details on the planned departure of the cult-loved bakery in the teeny-tiny space at 36th and Lake.
❄️ Mid-December rundown
Longfellow resident detained by ICE, plan approved for former Shower of Blessings Church, the tallest(?) tree in the neighborhood comes down, and much more.
🏡 Inside the briefly famous "1936 Insulite House"
Thousands of people filed through the house upon its completion, as it was opened to the public for seven straight days, nine hours a day.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: December events calendar
Hundreds of events in the neighborhood this month.
🍂 Monthly miscellanea: November
A full-on cornucopia of neighborhood happenings this month.
