Thanks to Kenneth for sending this over: Student arrested in bus tagging – Los Angeles Times A 15-year-old sophomore at the Santee Education Complex in South L.A. was arrested late Tuesday on suspicion of being the student who scrawled his nickname on the outside window of a city bus carrying Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Schools [...]
The Star Tribune has a write-up of Blue Plate Restaurants today. You know, the folks behind the Highland, Longfellow, and Edina Grills, and the Groveland Tap. Blue Plate finding special niche in Twin Cities restaurant scene The roster now includes the Highland Grill and Groveland Tap in St. Paul, the Longfellow Grill in Minneapolis and [...]
Isn’t technology great? BeerMapping.com plots the locations of beer pubs, liquor stores, bars, breweries, and homebrew stores on a Google Map, making it easy to find beer. This sort of thing could come in handy for people planning things like, “The Best Day Ever.”
Pre-LRT, Pre-Ford bridge, pre-Highland Park, Pre-South Longfellow. Jackalope or Nathan, do your homes fall in this photo?
This seems like something I’d expect to hear about Hugo or Hastings well before Nokomis: Bloomington explosives case expands with munitions find Military-grade ammunition was found Tuesday at a south Minneapolis building linked to a man jailed the day before on suspicion of having military explosives at his home, Minneapolis police said. A federal investigation [...]
I believe this takes the cake for most catastrophic event in the history of 46th Ave S in Minneapolis: Retro: 50 years ago, a quiet Minneapolis block became an inferno “On Saturday morning, June 9, 1956, about 20 children were in the small frame houses or playing in yards on the 5800 block of 46th [...]
Does the government have a responsibility for protecting the food supply in America? I think in the wake of recent outbreaks of food illnesses, we can see what happens when the food supply is not safe. And self-regulation, while is sounds great on paper, doesn’t seem to be doing the trick. Food problems connected to [...]
Thanks to Cariann for hooking me up with this Hard Rock Hotel charm from Hollywood, Florida. From one celebrity obsessed geeker to another. For those who don’t keep up on The Superficial, the Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL is where Anna Nichole Smith’s life ended.
His name lives on in South Minneapolis: Happy 200th birthday, Longfellow Longfellow’s popularity accorded him an influence far beyond that of other public figures. His poems gave human voice to Indians and slaves, promoted strong women, and held forth on the horrors of the Civil War, witchcraft in Salem, the suppression of the Quakers and [...]
Maybe I’m late to the party on this, but better late than never. I’m on Netflix now. If you are too, let’s connect. Why? I don’t know why just yet, so let’s find out.
