People who live outside of MPLS and don't have skyways: where do you go to walk two blocks out of your way, a story up from the street, and oh also lemme get some peanut butter m&ms since I'm here, why not, incidentally where am I
The Minneapolis Warehouse District building that formerly housed the Tony-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune has been sold for $10 million to River Valley Church.
One Christmas some decades ago we got what we assumed was a dwarf tree for our tiny apartment in California. We brought it back in a pot to Minnesota and planted it as a kind of small shrub landscape accent.
When Paul Westerberg and his post-Replacements band played "Can't Hardly Wait" on SNL in 1993, drummer Josh Freese (at Paul's direction) shouted whatever came into his head during the song's signature pause. He opted for "Burt Reynolds!"
#RIPBurtReynolds
@birdpoems
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
Fact: Minneapolis opened the first bridge across the Mississippi River, anywhere along its length.
So to honor our nation's birthday, Minneapolis is closing a bridge over the river at 10pm for the better part of a week.
Let the record show that at 10:30 a.m. on the opening day of the Minnesota State Fair, I received my first direct message containing an image from the Crop Art exhibit. “Grimes and Misdemeanors” by Jill Moe shows the recording artist and her ill-fated houseboat aground in Mpls.
The University of Minnesota has an underground library built into the rocky Mississippi River gorge’s west bank and marked above ground with an obelisk
Wedge sinkhole gets a man on the street interview from
@FOX9
: "I walked up and I was like 'whoa look at that sinkhole, that's a crazy sinkhole,' that's what I thought when I walked up here."
Two-tone Minnesota Stare Capitol
That’s not artificial lighting. It’s the setting winter sun catching only the dome.
Which by the way is the largest self supporting marble dome in this hemisphere, and largest in the world after St. Peter’s
PRINCE AT AGE 11: WCCO stumbled upon a priceless film in our archives while looking through footage of the 1970 Minneapolis teachers strike. See the journey
@Jeff_Wagner4
took to solve a Minnesota music mystery. |