December 2010
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what I'll miss about San Jose
[I’ve been prompted to get started on the posts that have been waiting for me to write them down. Thanks, prompters.]
Most of this blog has been about what’s so great about Minneapolis, and it really is great. But back in September, I sent myself a short list of things I planned to miss about San Jose. Annotated, here they are:
Thai dentists. Okay, I don’t know any Thai...
November 2010
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packing
This morning I decided I’m not worried about getting packed: Worst case, in our last week, we just dump everything we might want into boxes, and everything else into Goodwill, etc. But it’d be better to have actually decided what we want to keep, and better to have found good homes for what we don’t.
I also decided that although I’m not worried about getting packed,...
October 2010
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so many neighborhoods!
A long time ago I wrote a post about what neighborhood we should move to. Our main ideas were and are Uptown-ish and the Northeast Arts District, but there are so many great places! SO MANY! I realized today that we could live within two blocks of the new Peace Coffee Cafe, the Hub Bike Co-op, the Trylon microcinema/XYandZ Gallery, Patrick’s Cabaret, and the East Lake Library. Just a little...
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September 2010
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Moving to MPLS
I had this idea as we were talking about our planned move to Minneapolis that we could start a blog where we documented the process - for our friends and family, or anyone who was interested, but also for us. A place to write down how we were going to do it, and why.
So far it’s really been all about the why (Minneapolis is awesome! and we like Saint Paul too!), and not about the how. But...
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Research at the Red Stag →
“Research at the Red Stag is NCED’s new science salon - a chance to hear about new and exciting research over beer, in a cool bar… a happy hour forum that offers the opportunity to talk with researchers about their current work, its implications, and its fascinations. Each month we feature guests from a variety of fields discussing Earth-surface dynamics, global change, and...
August 2010
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Views from the Open Field: 10 things to look... →
Including Lewis Hyde! Also human chess.
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Minneapolis had not one but three art fairs (featuring somewhere over 500 artists) this weekend, with a free shuttle between them. Minneapolis is obviously a great town for artists, or will be once they’ve solved that whole law of physics about being two (or more) places at the same time.
Bonus weekend art: Lutefisk Sushi mini-comics publication and gallery show, and St. Paul’s...
July 2010
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Cities tackle traffic head-on with commuter... →
Via pencilthin:
The Twin Cities… has 300 miles of bus-only lanes, in which the right shoulder of highways is opened for buses during peak traffic; that’s more than the rest of the USA combined.
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Bedlam to leave its West Bank Social Hub! « Bedlam... →
We’ve been to some cool shows at Bedlam Theatre’s current space, but I guess we won’t get to any more of them. Their lease ends August 31. They’re asking people to help them find a permanent space, and more immediately to “join the party, support Bedlam, volunteer, have dinner and see some final shows in the space.”
(via fresh.mn, basically)
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Summer Dance →
Free dance lessons every Thursday in downtown St. Paul, with dance movies the next night.
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EGG|PLANT Urban Farm Supply →
St. Paul store for city-dwellers farming in their backyards.
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June 2010
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Free Geek Twin Cities →
Inspired by Free Geek Portland, FGTC aims to reduce electronic waste and the digital divide by teaching people to build their own computers out of donated parts. It’s three blocks from the previously mentioned Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center.
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Yards to Gardens →
“Whether you have extra space in your yard, extra tools in the garage, extra seeds or seedings, or just looking for a space to garden, Y2G makes it easy to share what you’ve got or find what you’re looking for.” (via freshmn)
Not the same thing, but it reminds me of San Jose’s Village Harvest, a volunteer organization that “harvests fruit from backyards and...
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Storefront in a Box →
This summer, 2441 Lyndale Avenue is a different store every week: art swap, hoedown, nerd party, bike shop, theater festival, and the list goes on.
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ericaaaaa: What Might Happen If You Visit →
Earlier this month Time Out Chicago published a batch of “road trip” guides to the Twin Cities, but for my money they should’ve visited Erica:
I had friends in town last weekend, and we stopped at the following places:
Mango Thai for dinner, Muddy Pig for post-dinner beers
Mill City Farmer’s Market (including Chef Shack, omgggg), with a stop in the Guthrie because it was...
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Hummus Catches On in America (as Long as It’s... →
New York Times article on American hummus, with a focus on Minneapolis hummus maker Holy Land.
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Twin Cities Bike Walk Week →
Okay, “Bike Walk to Work Day” makes me think they’re pushing a heretofore undiscovered mode of transport, bikewalking. But aside from the awkward language, Bike Walk Week sounds pretty cool. The long-awaited bike sharing program opens Thursday - I’m very curious to see how that works out. Also, free breakfast!
May 2010
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WatchIn the Heart of the Beast May Day 2010: Uproar! by Michael Hartford
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Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board announces... →
adambez:
Sweet deal. That’s almost every day this summer.
(via noraborealis)
Might catch the tail end of this. Next year, Minneapolis… next year.
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“[New York Gallery Week] was conceived by Casey Kaplan—owner of an eponymous art...”
– Pia Catton, “Joining Forces to Save a Visual Scene” (via Julie Caniglia)
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Hub and Spokes: Why I moved to "fly over land" →
Matthew Ides, who moved to Minneapolis from New York a couple years ago, keys off a post by Aaron Renn urging cities to find their own way and not just try to do what the trendy cities have done.
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Art-A-Whirl →
The largest open studio and gallery tour in the United States is going on RIGHT NOW in Northeast Minneapolis. Here’s the AV Club’s guide, and wr3n’s been posting some cool stuff from years past.
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“Minnesota holds a very prominent place in the minds of Liberians. I’ve...”
– Ahmed Sirleaf, in African influx reshapes immigration to Minnesota
April 2010
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Twin Cities Human Social Scavenger Hunt is Back! →
freshmn:
Paul Jahn recaps the inaugural running of the second coming of Least Dangerous Game (and reveals that LDG is why he signed up for Twitter in the first place!).
This is really great. Next one’s May 29.
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Sidewalk of the Week: 42nd Avenue and 38th Street →
Bill Lindeke on the Riverview Theater: “I think of the chain of events that must have led to this awe-inspiring corner: the decision to remodel back in 1956, all the turns and twists of running a highly competitive business, surviving the low-rent era, surviving repeated showings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show,
business models and start a indoor roller rink catering to Jr. High dances and...
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some thoughts about biking
We were in Minneapolis for the start of 30 Days of Biking, which is mostly a Twin Cities thing, and we figured, why not? We could borrow my parents’ bikes (and my sister’s, once we found Mom’s too hard to ride), we could ride in the morning even on our airplane day, and we could keep it up once we got back to San Jose.
And we have (… mostly). We’ve had less fun with...
A week in Minneapolis
Some things we saw and did in the Twin Cities this week:
so many parks! Loring, Minnehaha Creek, Mill Ruins, Gold Medal, lakes (Cedar, Isles, Harriet, Calhoun), Basset Creek, and plenty we didn’t even catch the names of
the first 6 of 30 Days of Biking, from Wirth Park to Minnehaha Falls to the Northeast Arts District
fixed a bike at One on One, drank coffee at Cars R Coffins and Angry...
March 2010
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neighborhoods
So yeah, the reason this blog is called Moving to Minneapolis is because we’re moving to Minneapolis, but we don’t actually talk much about the moving part. Soon, though, we’re making a visit, and one of the things we’ll be doing when we visit is looking around at neighborhoods and thinking about living there. On our list are the Northeast Arts District, various facets of...
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Design an Infographic About Neighborhoods: Winner →
Hey, that Minneapolis bike graphic won a contest! (via visualoop) Congrats to 2&21.
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Fork the Fire! →
When two Minneapolis restaurants were destroyed by fire, over 80 restaurants took part in a benefit for the damaged businesses and their employees.
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One thing I’m looking forward to in Minneapolis is buying groceries that match our values - organic, local, healthy, vegetarian-friendly - without supporting Whole Foods Market’s climate-change-denying, health-care-reform-opposing, union-busting CEO. Now, I don’t know what Russell T. Lund III or the Kowalskis think about puppy-kicking, but I know Minneapolis is full of food...
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American Craft Council Announces Relocation to... →
“The American Craft Council will join a number of nationally-known art and craft organizations in the Twin Cities area, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, American Association of Woodturners, Northern Clay Center, The Textile Center and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Minneapolis-St. Paul is home to the third-largest number of museums in the country,...
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The Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge →
This weekend, 16 teams of web professionals will gather at the University of Minnesota to spend 24 sleepless hours developing web sites for nonprofits. As a fellow hacker, I worry about what that 23rd-hour code’s gonna look like… but it sounds like a great idea anyway.
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T's Place - The Best of Both Worlds →
It’s the only Ethiopian-Singaporean restaurant in Longfellow!
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Mike 2600's Minneapolis Mix →
Via derrius. Pretty sure it’s not cool, but my favorite bit was 18 seconds of nostalgia from the Jets.
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Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics =... →
When you attend FEAST, you make a cash donation on a sliding scale to receive supper and a ballot. At the end of the night, you cast a vote for which of a handful of artists’ proposals should get the evening’s proceeds. The winning proposal is funded directly from the donations collected at the door, and the grantee is asked back to present the fruits of their labor to you—the patrons—at the...
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The ANGRY CATFISH Bike & Coffee Bar →
An awesome idea, and there are at least two in the Twin Cities. This is the one that serves Intelligentsia.
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Live Theater and Medical Technology, or Why We... →
(via @donmball)
MNZero: minnes0ta players of sfZero →
This org puts on city-wide games that you play in the city because the city is great and you like to be in it.