Zach at An Urban Affair puts together some great posts, including this one breaking down the differences in proposed LRT routes to Eden Prairie from downtown Minneapolis. The construction costs vary by $600 million and the operating costs by $5 per year, so some tough decisions need to be made on which makes most sense [...]
Minneapolis has tons of great trails, but it also has tons of people who want to use the trails in a variety of ways, including walking, running, rollerblading, biking, rollerskiing, and dog walking. A few other bloggers have looked into the issues lately, including great blogging newcomer, Nathan, from Life by the Falls, with this [...]
Doodledee is fed up with Christmas lights still hanging on homes a full three months later: doodledee – ho ho ho, merry springtime Seriously, I’ll give you through the New Year. I’ll even tolerate a few stragglers until Valentine’s Day (assuming there’s snow on the ground). Then this year we got all that snow right [...]
The pages load times on The Deets over the past few days have been painful, as if the server was approaching the peak of Everest with a piano in tow. I finally had a chance to look into why this was happening and figured it out. The left column used to have a feature called [...]
Least Dangerous Game kicks off tomorrow in Minneapolis. What’s that? Sounds dangerous, eh? Least Dangerous Game is a Twitter-based scavenger hunt where a Twitter users hides somewhere in town, then send out hints via Twitter leading people to his or her location. Joining the game is as simple as adding LDG as a friend at [...]
The Southwest Journal created a Day in the Life slide show set to voices of personalities and places along Hennepin Ave. Very cool stuff. They captured a wide array of personalities from Nye’s to Uptown. One group they missed was the gangsters hanging out between Block E and Shinders. I wonder why?
Another great video from JibJab. This time taking swipes at news coverage in America.
Teresa Boardman has the goods on the new Farmers Market Flats going up next to the St. Paul Farmers Market (duh). District Energy heating and a year-round indoor farmers market both sound cool: St. Paul Real Estate: Famers Market Flats A year-round, indoor Saint Paul Farmer’s Market on the street level of the building, complete [...]
