💃 Exploring the Minnehaha Dance District
The four studios clustered on Minnehaha Avenue are coming together for a joint daylong dance party May 31.
⚽️ Soccer field coming to former Odd Fellows site while it awaits redevelopment
Construction is underway on a soccer field at 27th and Lake Street, bringing some life to a prominent vacant lot that is still at least two years away from redevelopment. The semi-public field and event area is scheduled to open next month, one of several bursts of programming on vacant
☕️ Specialty coffee shop opening inside Okome House next week
Red Coral Coffee will open inside Okome House next week, operating during the daytime hours when the Japanese cafe is closed.
🌼 Mid-May Misc: Arya Cafe moving into former Cafe Ceres space
A new coffee shop on the way, a unique compound on the market, a full summer on the Lynette patio, DFL endorsements for city council, and much more.
🍺 Hop growing season is underway at 38th and Cheatham
The team of volunteers will meet weekly through the rest of the summer to tend the plot — and, just as much or moreso, hang out and drink beer.
👕 This year's East Lake Liquor t-shirt color is...
An exclusive sneak peek at this year's variation of the unofficial neighborhood uniform.
🥐 Laune Bread wants to buy your rhubarb
The locally-sourced bakery just finished using up the 1,007 pounds of rhubarb it bought from neighbors last spring.
🗓 Whenever Wherever: May events calendar
A roundup of hundreds of events in Longfellow this month.
🌷 April Miscellanea
A cats-only salon, traffic calming projects, construction at Minnehaha Academy, explaining the extra plane traffic, and much more.
🏡 Strolling the suburban-style "Luella A. Anderson" neighborhood, with Andy Sturdevant
The "Luella A. Anderson" development stands out to anyone who wanders the southern reaches of Longfellow, even if they don't know it by name. It's a place where the neatly-gridded, bungalow-lined streets are suddenly interrupted by curving roads of postwar homes, often architecturally ambitious,
