It may be that the Burma-Shave building is built with posts and beam construction, a type of construction that is now very unusual in this day and age. Indications of this type of construction has not ...

40 years ago a building was added to the Wendell Phillips Junior High School with a pool and a gym. The school itself was demolished 12 years later. The pool and gym building was kept, restored with ...

Growing the Backyard CHAT is collaborating with Amen Corner in making fresh produce available, Saturdays, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Project S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N, another ...

On March 10 at the Minneapolis American Indian Center a 19th century style Dakota dugout canoe was stretched into its final form using water boiled with with fire-baked rocks. The single piece vessel ...

The year 1975 marks the conception of the alley newspaper. Volume 1, No. 1 went into production in the fall of 1975 with photography, writing, typing, and cutting and pasting, finally landing on ...

Like many people, I have watched Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government with everything from bemusement to unspeakable foreboding. The bemusement comes from Musk’s own claims that he is ...

August William Swedenborg was 16 years old when he arrived in America. He was born in Sweden on October 20, 1855. Before moving to Minneapolis, he briefly lived in Chautauqua, New York and Titusville, ...

It’s no question the Oscar committee blew it at the 97th Oscars in at least three categories. Although I’m disappointed to a ...

Saturday, March 22 was the start date for Metro Transit service changes in the Phillips Community and throughout the Twin Cities. Changes affecting Phillips are: Is Metro Transit becoming better than ...

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Join Hennepin History Museum’s Executive Director John Crippen in a conversation with Susan Hunter Weir, tireless public historian and alley Cemetery Tales columnist. Learn about her research process, ...

Close your eyes and think about art. Picture the process, the skill, the medium, everything from concept to completion. We may envision this all as something singular, the product of one, yet the ...