Small Business
💸 All Square gets windfall grant
The money will help sustain All Sqaure's rapid growth from a small grilled cheese restaurant employing formerly incarcerated people to an influential criminal justice reform advocate connecting incarcerated people to legal training, and running a law firm of its own.
🏢 Longfellow spots to check out at Doors Open this weekend
The citywide festival opens notable buildings for public viewing.
👗 The "good used stuff" shop opening this weekend on 42nd Ave
True Finds, a secondhand clothing and accessories store, opens on Friday across from Sanford Middle School.
🍦 Minnehaha Scoop opens Friday
James Freid has been supplying his neighborhood with ice cream for a long time.
👕 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.
🌮 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.
🧵 SKY Chairs HQ moves in
Bob Anderson, who's been handmaking the hanging canvas chairs for almost 50 years, sets up shop in Longfellow.
🐟 Sea Salt opens April 19
Featuring a brand new sandwich shop next door.
🚲 The Hub returns this weekend
The bike co-op is reopening in a smaller part of the same building March 30.
🍽️ A look at Lynette
A look at what the Lynette team has planned for the old Riverview Wine Bar space.
🎥 Love is Blind *almost* filmed in Longfellow
It would've been great publicity for the new Clay Pit pottery studio, but this neighborhood newsletter feature will have to do.
🍦 Weekly Whatevers: DQ's open, dome home for sale, LoLa artists on display
Both neighborhood DQ's are now open; an iconic geodesic dome house is open for viewing; and LoLa's winter exhibition is underway.
☕ Dogwood's bold Lake Street expansion
A brand new Dogwood, plus co-working and apartments, are coming to the vacant lot next door.
