👕 Sneak peek: This year's East Lake Liquor shirt drops Friday
The iconic t-shirt has become the neighborhood's de facto uniform, with a new color scheme every year. We have the scoop on this year's look, which drops Friday.
🏡 LCC's popular home improvement grants go live Wendesday
The popular program helps pay for home improvements and is open to people earning up to 80 percent of the area's median income.
🚶♂️Strolling with the lightpole-famous "Men's Walking Group"
The most common billboard in the neighborhood isn’t for Kris Lindahl or TSR or Nicolet Law. It’s for the "Men's Walking Group."
🏫 Vacant Cooper School boarded up to deter intruders
The school board said it has seen fewer intrusions at other vacant schools after boarding the first-floor windows.
🌮 Racket's Best Budget Bites: $7.50 ‘Mini’ Tacos Dorados From Mi Mexico Querido
Racket writer Em Cassel highlights the eyebrow-raising value of Mi Mexico Querido's Mini Tacos Dorados.
🌲 Exploring the Lake Street weed district
Ahead of Saturday's high holiday, a look at four Lake Street businesses staking their claim in the new market.
🌳 What are those brush piles by the river?
They’re part of a largely successful push to rid the area of a buckthorn infestation.
🚫 Don't get got: Street sweeping starts Wednesday
The twice-yearly chore of sweeping the streets of a half-year's worth of salt, sand, litter, and plant matter reaches Longfellow this week on Wednesday and Thursday, and will continue piecemeal over the next three weeks.
🚧 Hiawatha-Lake interchange closing for six months
All four ramps connecting the two roads will be closed and Lake Street will be down to one lane in either direction. But once completed, the intersection should be considerably easier to walk, roll, and drive through.
🧵 SKY Chairs HQ moves in
Bob Anderson, who's been handmaking the hanging canvas chairs for almost 50 years, sets up shop in Longfellow.
