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🗓 Whenever Wherever: August events calendar
A good faith attempt to list every event going on in Longfellow this month.
✂️ A man "carrying large shears" probably caused today's power outage
About 1,400 homes in the neighborhood lost power this mid-morning.
🌊 Improvements coming to Minnehaha Park
The Park Board is considering a range of options for the crumbling south slope overlook, and is hosting a public meeting and survey to gather input.
🛍️ Exploring that strip mall on Hiawatha
A deep dive on the history and businesses of "Parkway Plaza," the easily-forgotten strip mall perched above Hiawatha.
🌽 The 50th-ish-annual Longfellow Corn Feed is on Friday
The event, little known outside the neighborhood, attracts as many as 1,000 people to Longfellow Park.
🛶 Scott Miller's quick trip down the Mississippi
Talking with Longfellow resident and business owner Scott Miller, ahead of next weekend's Riverview Theater premiere of a documentary about his team's world-record-breaking trip down the Mississippi.
🏋️♀️ Solcana Fitness is coming to downtown Longfellow
The gym, focused on small group fitness classes, will move from Seward this fall.
🚸 Andy Sturdevant traces Longfellow’s “geography of childhood”
Sturdevant, a one-of-a-kind chronicler of Minneapolis life and a semi-recent Longfellow transplant, is leading a neighborhood walking tour this weekend.
🍽 Lynette on pace to open in about a month
A speed run of everything we've learned about Lynette lately, ahead of its opening next month.
🍜 Asian Duck makes a go of it at 46th and Minnehaha
Following two short-lived predecessors, the husband-and-wife duo is serving up a tight menu of Thai and Laotian favorites.
