Small Business
🌷 Spring is almost sprung at Northerly Flora
As we speak, some of the 15,000 tulips planted behind Northerly Flora's 42nd Avenue studio are beginning to poke out of the soil.
🍀 March Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
Heroic Goods is closing for happy reasons, lean times at Turquoise Vintage, Asian Duck reopens, mysterious lightpole art, and more.
🌯 Longfellow Breakfast Burrito Checklist (feat. Heavy Table's James Norton)
Teaming up with a Longfellow-dwelling food writer to try every breakfast burrito in the neighborhood.
💣 Time Bomb Vintage turns 10
A visit to Time Bomb Vintage, ahead of its 10 year anniversary party on Saturday.
❄️ January Whatevers: Monthly miscellanea
The possible return of Open Streets, the future of 3000 Minnehaha, aspiring wordsmiths at Sanford Middle, and more.
🎤 Minnehaha Recording Company turns 10
Tony Williamette has embraced the visibility of his corner studio at 45th and Minnehaha.
🌙 MoonStone "magical gifts" shop moving in next to Sonora Grill
The mystical gift shop — think crystals, tarot, incense — plans to open in the former Repair Lair space later this month.
⚾️ The neighborhood glove shop goes national
Tracing D&J Glove Repair's rise from a Longfellow basement to national notoriety.
🍁 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.
🐶 A sneak preview of the Howe's new all-season "pawtio"
The new structure will feature clear walls, a roof that opens and closes, a nine-foot gas fireplace, TVs, expanded seating, and more.
🌮 Visiting downtown’s permanent taco trailer
Jaime Lopez operates the trailer at Lake and Minnehaha seven days a week.
🍂 October Whatevers: Notes and miscellanea
Updates on Francis, the Third Precinct, new happy hours, Community Hops Garden, and more.
🥣 Soup for You! brings gourmet approach to free community meals
Paying a visit to the daily free community meal in downtown Longfellow, ahead of its annual fundraiser on Saturday.
🦐 First look: Lagniappe
A look at the upscale New Orleans-style restaurant opening in the Coliseum building tonight.
😎 The guy in the chair at the falls
Most non-winter days since he retired 12 years ago, Jerry Miller fires up his Harley-Davidson and rambles down the river road from his home in Seward to Minnehaha Park. Once there, he sets up his camp chair in the same shady spot between Sea Salt and the Falls, tunes his
⚜️ First look: Du Nord Cocktail Room
A preview of the New Orleans-style cocktail room inside the Coliseum building, which opens tonight.
🛏 What's up at Elsa's House of Sleep?
Tracing the fitful progress at the building that has sat vacant at 36th and Lake since 2019.
👗 Audrey Rose Vintage brings retail flair to sleepy Snelling Ave
A look at the newly-relocated Audrey Rose Vintage, Snelling Avenue's only retail shop.
🍽 Lynette is open
The highly anticipated cafe-by-day-restaurant-by-night opened for real this morning, after a week of short-notice soft open events.
🍔 "Francis" vegan burger joint is coming to the old Peppers and Fries building
The burger joint, which is expanding from its original location in Northeast, caters to vegans and meat-eaters alike.
🛍️ 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.
🍽 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.
🧀 When's Shepherd's Table going to open?
Soon. Ish.
🎒 Little Sparks Montessori preschool opening this fall
A group of parents are reviving the spirit of Riversong Montessori, which closed suddenly this winter when its founder passed away.
☕️ A year of growth for Wildflyer Coffee
Catching up with Wildflyer ahead of its annual fundraiser on Wednesday.
🦐 What we know about Lagniappe, the NOLA-style restaurant anchoring the renovated Coliseum
The team behind Du Nord will open a restaurant and cocktail room on the ground floor of the historic building.
🍔 Peppers and Fries is closing at the end of the month
Peppers and Fries, the beloved burgers-and-burritos sports bar on 39th and Lake Street, is closing June 29 after almost 10 years in business. Father-and-daughter duo Steve and Marie Frias have been planning to sunset the bar since the fall. Having recently finalized the sale of the building to a yet-undisclosed
🛶 Getting in the gorge with your neighborhood river tour guides
Paddle Bridge, whose trailer of kayaks you may have seen parked on 42nd Street, connects people to the splendor of the urban Mississippi.
