📖 Inside the cozy confines of Sister Black Press & Studio
For 25 years, Monica Edwards Larson has made a career out of printing things the hard way and teaching others the joy that comes from it.
🌍 "Longfellow Welcomers" sponsor three refugee families through federal program
It's a daunting commitment to take part in the Welcome Corps program, but that didn't stop 27 neighbors on short notice.
💸 4 neighborhood earmarks in the 2025 city budget
The heavily amended budget provides specific funding for a few neighborhood projects in 2025.
🏗️ Financing coming together for major redevelopment of 38th Street grain elevator
A look at the planned redevelopment of the vacant "Checkerboard" grain elevator, which would be among the largest in neighborhood history.
⚾️ The neighborhood glove shop goes national
Tracing D&J Glove Repair's rise from a Longfellow basement to national notoriety.
✨ The 41st/42nd Avenue boulevard lights are on
The annual lighting of the radiant holiday corridor.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: December events calendar
A near-comprehensive roundup of events in Longfellow this month, including a raft of holiday markets.
🍁 November Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
The latest at Elsa's House of Sleep, a condemnation scare and playground progress at Cooper School, the evolving fight against streetlight copper theft, Francis's grand opening, trouble at Zaza Cannabis, a cozy winterscape at Audrey Rose Vintage, and much more.
🚲 One On One: The last bike shop in the neighborhood
A visit to One on One Bicycle Studio, which helped usher in the golden age of Minneapolis bike culture and is now the last shop standing in the neighborhood.
🏘️ 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.