Erica find this photo on Flickr and discovers a recent addition to the MPLS skyline! Here’s the “before” photograph. Nice upgrade for sure!
Bike boxes are coming to Minneapolis!
This is fantastic! I posted about bike boxes almost a year ago. Already common in bike-friendly cities like Portland, bike boxes are going to be a welcome addition to roads here.
Save Canvas
Minneapolis, MN
2009
Making art out of vacant spaces. The closing party is on Saturday, September 12th. Look for details soon. Photo by Kaeti.
Fall 2009 Twin Cities Parade of Chicken Coops
Saturday, September 12, 2009 from 10:00 to 4:00PM
If you have ever wondered how people go about solving their chicken problems, then the Fall 2009 Parade of Chicken Coops Tour should be marked on your calendar. You will meet a whole variety of handsome chickens, and get a chance to talk to people who have gone through the process.
This sounds great!
The street is being converted back to two-way traffic and there will be a new shared bike/bus lane going both ways.
Now you’re in the know.
The 100-Course Meal at the West Bank Social Center. Each course photographed and reviewed at The Heavy Table.
City On The Make - Chicks On Bikes (via notesfromminneapolis)
P.O.S. - Purexed (via Chuck)
File under “recent music videos to heavily feature the Twin Cities.” See also City On The Make - Chicks On Bikes.
Hello Minneapolis!
Straightening up a bit, I found this on my desktop today. Anybody know who took it?
Minneapolis is a city in the Midwestern United States, known for its high rate of literacy and racially tolerant atmosphere. In many respects it is the ideal American city, where coexisting cultures thrive, and in turn breed successive generations of even more creative, talented inhabitants. “Minneapolis” considers the implications of Minneapolis, its legacy and impact on everyone who has never been there.
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A press release for a group exhibition presented by Javier Peres in Los Angeles, CA. The show is titled, simply, “Minneapolis.” It runs from July 2 to August 29, 2009 and contains, we are led to believe, a five-dollar bill taped to a wall.
Oh, to be a fly on that wall. (via)
Murray, who co-owns the minor league St. Paul Saints with Mike Veeck, strolled into City Hall on Wednesday to lobby for a new stadium — and $25 million in public funding — in Lowertown.
As he walked later along St. Peter Street, Murray pointed to the downtown facades, noting, “This is too handsome of a city to just be maintained. That energy that the ballpark has when the Saints play, that would really make this downtown pop. It would bring it to life.”
Goddamnit why was I not told that Bill Murray was litterally blocks from where I work yesterday. FML. FML. FML.
Many Minneapolis/St. Paul area artistic and cultural resources are endangered in the current economic crisis. Already operating on a shoestring budget, small to mid-sized and community-based groups may have no choice but to lay off staff. Good people with specialized arts abilities find themselves seeking freelance work or moving into other sectors or communities. However, there is an opportunity in this upheaval and reshuffling of the political and economic order to try a new arts production model.
— Arts producer and collaborator Kathleen Maloney launches the New Bohemian Flats Production Co-op and creates a new legal entity in the process. The State of Minnesota now recognizes the 308B Cooperative Association.
Must find.
Ghostbikempls.org has placed a white Ghost Bike in memory of Dennis Dumm who was killed on May 20th, 2009 while riding in the Park Avenue Bike Lane near 14th St.
R.I.P.
