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CROWDSOURCING IDEAS
FOR EMPTY SPACES
By Michelle Bruch / [email protected]
There’s a small paper sign in a storefront window sandwiched between digs and Grand Café at 38th & Grand.
The sign reads: “We’d Love a Coffee Shop in this space!!”
Some residents living around empty neighborhood
storefronts are becoming vocal about the types of new
shops they’d like to see.
Residents in the Kenny neighborhood are directly
approaching bike shops and asking them to consider
opening near 54th & Lyndale. A Windom resident
started a petition for Blue Plate to open a restaurant at
the former Walgreens at 54th & Lyndale. And a new
startup called Hoodstarter is soliciting community ideas
SEE HOODSTARTER / PAGE A12
Hoodstarter co-founders (left
to right) Jason Goux, Justin
Ley and David Berglund want
the community to brainstorm
ideas for an empty building
at 38th & Chicago. Photo by
Michelle Bruch
A thriving creative economy A shared
Report shows Minneapolis’ creative sector outpaces national average by four times
By Sarah McKenzie / [email protected]
Retail sales in the city’s creative sector
continue to climb with visual art sales
increasing the most significantly in recent
years, according to a new report on the city’s
creative economy.
The Minneapolis area ranks fifth on a list of
the most “creatively vital” cities in the country,
according to the Creative Vitality Index 2014
update recently presented to the City Council
— up from its sixth place ranking in 2013.
The index measures a city’s per capita occupational employment in the arts and community participation in the creative sector.
Cities ranked ahead of Minneapolis include
Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York
SEE CREATIVE ECONOMY / PAGE A16
The city’s
creative
economy
is robust in
many sectors,
including
theater, music,
visual arts and
more. Photo
courtesy Meet
Minneapolis
agenda
A conversation with
Lt. Gov. Tina Smith about her
priorities for her new post
By Sarah McKenzie
[email protected]
When Tina Smith first contemplated taking on
the role of lieutenant governor, she consulted
former Vice President Walter Mondale.
She said he offered some great advice and told
her to be an ambassador of sorts to Gov. Mark
Dayton — someone with access to his decisionmaking process and great information so she
could serve as a trusted advisor.
SEE SMITH / PAGE A11
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Cradle to K draft report released
Hodges says eliminating early disparities is essential for a healthy city
By Dylan Thomas / [email protected]
Mayor Betsy Hodges is seeking public input
on a draft plan for eliminating early childhood
disparities in Minneapolis.
Hodges’ Cradle to K Cabinet released a series
of recommendations Jan. 27 for Minneapolis
residents from birth to age 3 that focus on
health and brain development, access to stable
housing and enriching childcare experiences.
The public is invited to provide feedback online
or in person at a series of upcoming forums
hosted by cabinet members.
Hodges is focusing on the city’s youngest
residents because she said research shows 80
percent of brain development happens by age
3, and early disparities can impact children for
a lifetime. By adding supports for children and
parents “we are a long way ahead of the game in
terms of addressing the opportunity gaps that
kids face, because that’s the age range in which
they start,” she said.
“That means the work we do for zero to 3
year olds will help prepare children to take
advantage of the early education opportunities
that we as a community are investing in and
should be investing in,” she continued.
To ensure more Minneapolis children get
off to a healthy start, the draft report recommends an expanded early childhood screening
program and improved access to mental health
services for children. The recommendations
also focus on language acquisition, targeted
in-home visits with the parents of young children and starting a community conversation
on the importance of early childhood development.
The report states Minneapolis faces “a public
health epidemic of children arriving at kindergarten unprepared.”
Increasing access to affordable housing
will mean building more units for the city’s
poorest residents, those at 30 percent or less of
area median income, according to the report.
The city added only seven units for families at
that income level during all of 2014, Mikkel
Beckmen, director of the Hennepin County
Office to End Homelessness, said.
The report also recommends targeted
funding for homeless children and their families to help them find housing and get on a
path to economic stability. It states that more
than one in four Minneapolis children age five
or younger were living below federal poverty
guidelines in 2013.
For improving access to high-quality childcare, the report suggests increasing financial
assistance for low-income families and finding
ways to better reimburse providers that keep
open slots for those children. The report notes
70 percent of Minnesota households regularly
rely on family and neighbors for daycare, and
recommends working with those providers to
add educational opportunities.
Hodges hasn’t yet said how much it could
cost the city to act on the recommendations or
where the funding might come from. A mix of
city, state and federal funds support many of the
programs mentioned in the report.
The city’s 2015 legislative priorities at the
State Capitol include expanded funding for
in-home visits with new parents and for the
Mayor Betsy Hodges was joined by Cradle to K Cabinet co-chairs Carolyn Smallwood, left, and
Peggy Flanagan, right, for the release of the cabinet’s draft report on eliminating early childhood
disparities. Photo by Dylan Thomas
early learning scholarships that help lowincome families afford preschool.
The Cradle to K Cabinet is co-chaired by
Carolyn Smallwood, executive director of
Way to Grow, and Peggy Flanagan, executive
director of Children’s Defense Fund–Minnesota and a former Minneapolis School Board
member. The feedback they gather from the
public over the next few months will be incorporated into the final report, due out in the
spring, Smallwood said.
Flanagan said they aim to involve the whole
community in the conversation — not just
parents and daycare providers — because
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Minneapolitans.”
“We believe that there’s an opportunity to
create true equity in this city, and addressing
existing disparities is critical, but if also can
eliminate them before they actually start we’re
going to be in a much better position in the city
of Minneapolis,” Flanagan said.
To read the Cradle to K Cabinet draft report, or to
submit your feedback on the recommendations,
go to ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/cradle/
WCMS1P-136627. Comments can also be emailed
to [email protected].
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City’s overall
crime rate dropped
slightly in 2014
MINNEAPOLIS LAKES SPECIALIST
By Sarah McKenzie / [email protected]
The total number of violent offenses and
property crimes in Minneapolis decreased
by about 1 percent in 2014, according to a
recent update on crime trends.
There were 23,574 violent crimes and
property crimes (known as Part 1 crimes) in
2014 compared to 23,351 in 2013 — a level
of crime near a 30-year low, according to the
Minneapolis Police Department.
When looking at the violent crime rate
alone, it ticked up slightly (0.96 percent)
compared to 2013. In the Journals’ coverage
area, the violent crime rate increased 4
percent in the 1st Precinct (Downtown),
dropped 2 percent in the 2nd Precinct
(Northeast and Southeast), and dropped 12
percent in the 5th Precinct (Southwest).
The violent crime category includes homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
Robberies and aggravated assaults were
up slightly, but the number of homicides
dropped by 11.11 percent. There were 32
homicides in 2014, down from 36 in 2013.
Burglaries are also down 10 percent
citywide with a significant drop in the 4th
Precinct (North Side). Overall, there were
492 fewer burglaries in 2014 compared to
the year before, including 326 fewer in North
Minneapolis and 51 fewer in Southwest.
“The reason these numbers are so good
are because of the fine officers in the Minneapolis Police Department,” said Mayor Betsy
Hodges at a press conference Jan. 15 at the
North Regional Library in North Minneapolis. “We asked a lot of them in 2014 and
they came through in shining colors.”
Hodges emphasized that Minneapolis is a
safe city, but added there are disparities in the
city when it comes to crime rates.
Violent crime remains a challenge in North
Minneapolis and parts of South Minneapolis,
in particular. Police recovered 692 guns from
the streets in 2014 — 64 percent were from
North Minneapolis.
The MPD has expanded ShotSpotter
coverage in North Minneapolis — a gunfire
detection system that helps police respond
more quickly to shots-fired calls. Investigators are also going to door to door to talk
to residents to gather information after a
shots-fired call to make sure residents know
it’s a top priority for police, said Minneapolis
Police Chief Janeé Harteau.
Harteau said the drop in crime comes as
The reason these numbers
are so good are because of
the fine officers in the
Minneapolis Police
Department. We asked
a lot of them in 2014 and
they came through in
shining colors.
the department has faced lowered staff levels
because of retirements and an increase in
calls for service.
“I got to tell you I was shocked when I got
the numbers,” she said.
The number of sworn officers is at 816 with
additional recruit classes scheduled to join
the force throughout the year, she said. The
department remains focused on recruiting a
diverse mix of officers reflective of the city’s
neighborhoods.
“I am proud of the members of this department for their tireless efforts in crime fighting
while removing barriers and finding new
ways to get out of their cars and connect with
residents,” Harteau said.
MPD 5th Precinct Insp. Todd Loining said
while the number of burglaries in southwest
Minneapolis declined in 2014, it remains a
challenge.
The precinct has experienced an increase
in burglaries of condo and apartment buildings with items stolen from storage lockers
and coins swiped from laundry machines.
Loining said 5th Precinct officers will
continue to focus on crime-reduction strategies that helped reduce property crimes in
2014, including educating businesses and
residents about ways to avoid being victimized. Burglaries of unsecured garages remains
a problem and officers alert property owners
when they notice an unlocked garage.
He said officers are also getting more tips
from residents about suspicious activity that
has been helpful in thwarting burglaries.
2014
1-year change
36
32
-11%
386
388
+0.5%
Robbery
1,865
1.869
+0.2%
Aggravated assault
1,785
1,822
+2%
Total violent crimes
4,072
4,111
+1%
Burglary
4,603
4,603
-10.7%
Larceny
13,203
13,203
+2.1%
1,573
1,573
-2.7%
123
123
+4.1%
Total property crimes
19,502
19,502
-1.3%
Total part 1 crimes
23,574
23,574
-1%
Rape
Auto theft
Arson
Source: Minneapolis Police Department
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working at Better Homes and Gardens. Burrets
has remained at the store.
“You don’t do anything for this length of time
unless you love it,” Burrets said. “This is not, for
me, a job.”
Three Rooms focuses on handcrafted and
fair-trade artwork: birdhouses covered in
vintage book pages by Dave Vissat, acrylics on
wood by Brian Jensen, pastels by Kathy Heerwald, and tiles of glass on kiln-fired copper by
Houston Llew.
Burrets said she treasures the relationships
she’s formed with the artists.
“I don’t think there are a whole lot of places
like this,” she said.
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When eight female artists opened “3 Rooms
Up” in 1971, the venture made the front page of
the Sunday Star Tribune.
“At that time, it was kind of unusual for
women to start a business,” said co-founder
Patty Burrets.
Each artist chipped in $150, painted the
walls, and stocked their own work to sell on
consignment at the shop, located “three rooms
up” the stairs at 4316 Upton. Burrets’ contribution was macramé, along with cut-and-torn
paper landscapes.
Forty-four years later, Burrets is still running
the shop. Burrets and her daughter Amy
Nelson recently relocated Three Rooms from
the Galleria to 44th & France, returning to the
neighborhood where the shop got its start. The
other founders moved on long ago to careers
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Spill The Wine is closing at 901 W. Lake St.
to make way for a new restaurant called Tinto
Cocina + Cantina.
“It’s been eight years,” said Owner Katie
Greeman. “We felt that we had a really good
run. ... It’s an opportunity for us to close this
chapter and start a new one.”
Rebecca Illingworth is launching Tinto
Cocina + Cantina after dropping plans for Latin
Hills Kitchen at 44th & Beard in Linden Hills.
She said she was hoping to open a restaurant
with nearly 200 seats in Linden Hills. But she
said the 105-seat count allowed by the city
wouldn’t leave her with a viable restaurant,
given the size of the building. Illingworth said
she was disappointed plans fell through.
As for the new 150-seat restaurant at Lake
& Bryant, Illingworth said she’s planning to
serve authentic Latin cuisine with a full bar. The
kitchen will be led by Carlos Garza, coming
from Carnivale in Chicago. They’re planning
mole con pollo, pork belly tacos and authentic
tortas. The opening date is targeted for midFebruary.
Illingworth said she’s been friends with
Greeman for a long time.
“Katie just wanted to pass the torch. It was an
opportunity I couldn’t pass up,” she said.
The Southwest Auto building in Linden Hills
doesn’t have a new tenant lined up yet.
“We’re still in the process of figuring out what
happens next,” said John Gross, an owner of the
building.
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Solomon’s Bakery
Hennepin Avenue lost its second bakery in
recent weeks: Solomon’s Bakery has closed at
2827 Hennepin Ave. S. and relocated to 1085
Grand Ave. in St. Paul.
Owner Veronica Anczarski said the decision
was a financial one. The storefront saw plenty of
car traffic, she said, but not enough foot traffic.
“I had to close it to survive,” she said. “In
Uptown, everybody is in a rush to go somewhere.”
She thanked her customers in a Facebook
post.
“These [past] two years in uptown have been
really special for us, and we don’t regret one
minute of it!,” she said.
Wuollet Bakery has also closed at 25th &
Hennepin.
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26TH & NICOLLET
Black Sheep Coal Fired Pizza
Out of 70,000 pizza restaurants in the country,
the Food Network recently lauded Black Sheep
as one of the nation’s “Best. Ever.”
Owners Jordan and Colleen Smith live in
an apartment above the original North Loop
restaurant, and they’ve been eating at Black
Sheep seven days a week. They didn’t intend
to open another restaurant this year. They
planned to take a year to relax, especially as
their youngest kid left for college. But they like
Eat Street — they considered opening the first
pizza shop where Glam Doll Donuts is today.
So when the former Buddha Kitchen space at
26th & Nicollet opened up, they grabbed it.
“It’s not like you get another chance,” said
Jordan.
“We’ve always loved the neighborhood,” said
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The Nicollet location features a giant wall
mural by PUNY. The local firm does the
cartoons for Yo Gabba Gabba, and it’s created
table art for Black Sheep since the first restaurant opened in 2008.
Nicollet Avenue offers the same pizza and
salad as the other locations, with a full bar open
until 2 a.m. The closing time is later than any
other Black Sheep spot, and the bar is attracting
other restaurant workers who get off work
earlier in the night.
A grill behind the bar (inspired by 3.2 restaurants and suggested by architect David Shea)
cooks chicken and steak skewers, grilled oysters
and fennel sausage.
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The developer Trammell Crow told the
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“It’s nice to be able to spread the love a little
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CPM Development’s footprint may continue to
grow in Uptown, with a new project proposed
a block away from two others in development.
CPM is proposing a four-story building at 1708
and 1714 W. Lake St. with a mix of apartments,
commercial space and parking.
The project is on a tight timeline. To settle
litigation with the city, the developer has agreed
to flood its lowest parking level at 1800 Lake
in order to stop discharging water through the
city storm sewer into the chain of lakes. To help
offset the lost parking, the new project next
door would contain one level of underground
parking connected to 1800 Lake, with 23 legal
and five tandem spaces.
Additional parking for the new tenants,
amounting to 14 legal and seven tandem
spaces, would stand on the first level of the new
building, with retail fronting Lake Street. The
second floor is slated for office space; the third
floor would hold six apartments; and the fourth
floor, set back from the building edge, would
contain a single 2,000-square-foot apartment.
The project would need special city approval
for height. The proposed 51-foot building
would rise above 42-foot height limits for the
site’s zoning, and its position inside the Shoreland Overlay District requires a conditional use
permit to go above 35 feet.
The developer expects to visit the city Planning Commission in mid-March.
At an East Calhoun committee meeting in
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January, architects said the building height
would relate well to other buildings in the area.
“I think aesthetically it looks really nice,” said
Steve Latham, an East Calhoun resident.
Other residents questioned whether there
was enough density in the project, and some
wished for more green space. East Calhoun
resident Linda Todd requested more rooftop
greening.
In response, Principal Gabe Keller of
Peterssen/Keller Architecture explained that
green roofs are costly to build and require
expensive units in the building.
Kate Davenport, co-chair of ECCO’s Livability Committee, said she’s interested to see
who will end up filling the retail, as there are
few independent stores left in the area.
The developer’s consent decree and settlement with the city of Minneapolis is not contingent on city approval of the new project.
The settlement reached in mid-January
requires Lake and Knox LLC to flood the
1800 Lake basement and pay the city nearly
$300,000 to cover past and future damages
and costs related to water reroute during the
Loppet. The pumping must stop by March 31,
with delays resulting in $5,000 daily penalties.
In January, Hennepin County District Court
judges ruled that Lake and Knox LLC’s subcontractors, including BKV Group, Braun Intertec
and RLK Inc., may be liable for damages.
Harriet’s Inn
Construction is underway to build Harriet’s
Inn at the former SuperAmerica site at 40th &
Lyndale, with an opening anticipated next spring
or early summer.
Restaurant representative Dan Peterson said
the venue would feel like an “English pub” inside
and out, with windows opening up to Lyndale
and a menu featuring juicy lucys and pot pies
made from scratch.
The 100-seat restaurant would close at
midnight Friday and Saturday and 11 p.m. weeknights. The outdoor patio, seating 20 and holding
a bocce ball court and outdoor speakers, would
close nightly at 10 p.m. Peterson noted that at his
other Minnesota restaurants, he’s lucky to get 30
nice patio days per year.
Minneapolis License and Consumer Services
Supervisor Pat Hilden said that given the current
noise level on Lyndale Avenue, he doesn’t expect
the restaurant to exceed the city’s noise param-
eters. He said managers have needed to quiet
bocce ball cheering at the Nomad on Cedar
Avenue, however.
The ownership group includes operators
of the Green Mill and Town Hall venues. The
new restaurant was originally called Crooked
Pint, but the name has changed to emphasize
a food focus.
Peterson said he expects Harriet’s to operate as
a restaurant, first and foremost.
“If I wanted a noisy bar, I wouldn’t have built
there,” he said. “You’ll see families in there.”
At a public hearing in January, several residents
in attendance said they supported the plans,
saying they were anxious to be rid of graffiti and
see a new neighborhood venue on the vacant lot.
Another resident who lives near the operating
SA station across the street was worried latenight hours at the restaurant would encourage
late-night activity at the gas station.
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SCHOOL START
TIMES UNDER
REVIEW
By Dylan Thomas / [email protected]
Minneapolis Public Schools is taking tentative
steps toward changing some bell times next fall.
The district surveyed parents on possible
adjustments to start and dismissal times in
January and planned to make changes at a small
group of pilot schools in 2015–2016. But Chief
Financial Officer Robert Doty said the district
was still “in an exploratory phase” and that not
even the pilot was a certainty.
“We’re waiting to get the results from the
survey and look at all the information we have,
and then we’ll be able to look at what part of
the system we really want to effect and in which
phases we want to do that,” Doty said.
After a timeline posted on the district’s
website raised concerns about the timing of
changes, the district pledged in January to
announce which schools would participate in
the potential pilot program before the school
choice deadline. School request cards are due
Feb. 28.
More than $30 million of the district’s nearly
$541-million budget for the current school year
was dedicated to transportation costs. But a bell
time change doesn’t just impact the district’s
budget; it affects the sleep routines, work schedules and childcare arrangements of potentially
thousands of families.
It’s a fraught issue for school districts, and
that’s why Minneapolis is proceeding with
caution.
St. Paul Public Schools came close to
adjusting bell times this fall, but in October its
school board voted to delay the decision a full
year. The district aimed to start the school day
later at high schools and earlier at elementary
schools, but the parents of the younger students
pushed back.
“What we draw (from St. Paul’s experience) is, number one, it’s a complicated issue,
and take some time to figure it out — and
that will be something that we weigh, for
sure,” Doty said. “I think it probably also
shows the incredible diversity of opinions
and needs, transportation needs, that a large
urban school district has, as well.”
Staggered starts
There’s a greater than two-hour difference
between the district’s earliest start time and
the latest.
The bell rings at 7:30 a.m. for students at 14
schools, but not until 9:40 a.m. at seven other
district schools. Students end their day as early
as 2 p.m. or as late as 4:10 p.m.
Doty said school buses maintain a close
to 90-percent on-time arrival rate across the
district, but he wants that number even higher.
The district also aims to reduce the amount of
time students spend on the bus and waiting at
the bus stop.
“We are viewing the experience of the
student on that bus as an extension of the
school day,” Doty said.
Start times are staggered to allow for buses to
complete multiple routes, picking up and dropping off students at an early-start school before
heading out on another run for a school with a
later morning bell. Reducing the number of bell
times could require more spending on buses or
transportation personnel, but it’s not clear yet
whether that’s a likely outcome of the pilot.
“Really what this was coming down to is we
need a more robust transportation system that
provides more flexibility, more choice and is
just way more efficient,” Doty said.
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He said the district’s current transportation
contract expires in June.
Students at the district’s seven traditional
high schools all start their days between 7:56
a.m. and 8:30 a.m., and that’s not going to
change under the pilot. In 2012, the district
began shifting high school transportation to
MetroTransit from yellow school buses and
issued the teenaged students Go-To bus passes.
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To get his second grader to Armatage
Montessori by 7:30 a.m. each morning,
Ryan Lindberg regularly wakes up at 5
a.m. — “which, three years ago, I would’ve
thought was insane,” he said.
But Lindberg’s family has learned to live with
a school day that starts early and ends early.
Bedtimes come early, too, even on nights when
his son plays with his parks league basketball
team.
“It actually works out pretty well for me,”
Lindberg said. “It allows me to be in the office
by 8 a.m. with a lot of regularity.”
At some late-start schools, the extra-curricular activities get scheduled at the start of the
day. Lake Harriet’s upper campus offers a twice
weekly, hour-long Spanish program before the
school day starts at 9:40 a.m., said parent Leota
Pearson, who added that the later start works
well for her family.
Parent Joshua Sillers called Windom’s 7:30
a.m. bell “a big pain,” but added his wife doesn’t
mind the early start for their third grader. Sillers,
who is employed in telecommunications and
works from home, regularly drives his daughter
to school in the morning but then has to wait to
run errands.
“I’ve fallen asleep inside Home Depot’s
parking lot waiting for them to open,” he said.
Like several other parents who discussed
the potential pilot in January, Sillers was open
to a shift in start times, as long as it wasn’t too
drastic.
“If they switched Windom to (a) 9:40 a.m.
(start), I think I’d have to pound my head
against the wall,” he said.
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t’s no secret that we live in an unprecedented
time of visual stimulation and documentation, where everyone with a smart phone
makes like Ansel Adams and blasts their artwork
out to the world. This area of the city is especially
photogenic, inspiring neighbors’ quick pics that
gloriously glut the daily newsfeed with all stripes of
sunsets, sunrises, surprises.
Long before the digital camera revolution,
Larry Risser was enamored with photographing
the many charms of Lake Harriet, a sampling of
which can be seen in all its slide-show glory at
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A lifelong photographer and former English
teacher at West and Southwest high schools, Risser
has lived in Linden Hills/Lake Harriet for 50 years
with his wife, Edis, and has spent much of the past
decade walking and photographing the lake named
for Harriet Lovejoy, the wife of colonel Henry Leavenworth, who lived at Fort Snelling in the 1800s.
“I see the lake the way you write about music, as
such a refuge and such an important part of life,”
Risser told me recently, sitting in his living room
surrounded by his photos. “I see people coming there
in grief, and celebration, and romanticism; a desire
to work out and get in shape, and everything. It’s just
a place that sort of meets the human needs in every
aspect of life.”
Risser’s photos capture as much, from lovers in a
poignant post-bike repose; a marathon-running flagwaving Marine; a peaceful father-son fishing team; a
flurry of eagles, owls, fox, ducks, geese, and birds of
prey; the simple majesty of Rose Garden weddings;
the regulars, characters, and kooks that populate the
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shore; stolen moments between lovers; the sailors
and fisherpeople; the always interesting parade of
all-season runners and walkers, and more.
“I like photos that tell a story,” said Risser. “I want
my photos to say something, not just be there. I do a
lot of street photography, and I frequently tell people,
‘I think I just got a good picture of you,’ and I always
offer to email it to them, and I’ve had some really
interesting responses. Usually just a short ‘thank
you,’ but once in a while people just pore out a whole
story.”
A native of Stewartville, Minnesota, and a graduate
of Macalester College, Risser was obviously born
with the skills that make any good photojournalist
tick: a terrific eye and a passion for people and the art
of photography.
“I found a little camera when I was 7 years old,”
he said, “and I remember it didn’t have protection
against double exposure, and I had my sister, kind
of Chagall-like, sitting on top of the house, and I
thought, ‘My god, this is fabulous! You can do things
with this other than just take a straight picture!’
“Then in 10th or 11th grade, a teacher let me use
the school’s Crown Graphic sheet belt camera, and
I took sports pictures and stuff for the school newspaper. I went to Macalester as an English major and
art minor, and I took a class with Jerome Liebling,
who was a classic photographer, and I’ve been at it
off and on ever since. I still have my dark room in my
basement, and I won’t give it up.”
He’s done professional photography work and
continues to shoot all over the Twin Cities, but
Risser’s first love is the lake that sits a couple hundred
yards from his home.
“You can go all over the world and explore and find
all kinds of things, and I love to travel, but you walk
around that lake and I never know what I’m going to
find,” he said. “You’re cosmopolitan in your own back
yard, aren’t you?
“There’s endless possibilities. The lake draws ethnic
diversity from all over; people come to the lake for all
kinds of reasons. It just pulls people.”
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Board approves new graduation standards
The School Board approved a controversial
set of changes to Minneapolis Public Schools’
graduation requirements on a 6–3 vote at its
first meeting of 2015.
High school students are now required to
earn fewer physical education, health and social
studies credits, a change Department of Teaching
and Learning Executive Director Mike Lynch
said will make class schedules more flexible and
increase opportunities for elective study. Critics
say the policy change sends the wrong message
and may leave students unprepared for higher
education opportunities after graduation.
Local medical professionals were among those
who testified against the reduction in required
physical education credits at a School Board
meeting in December, arguing that students need
more physical activity, not less. Requirements for
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Jenny Arneson was elected chair of the Minneapolis Board of Education at its first meeting of 2015.
Arneson won a second term representing
Northeast’s District 1 in November. Kim
Ellison, who was appointed to fill a board
vacancy in 2011 and then won her District 2
seat in 2013, was elected vice chair.
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looking at what we’re preparing our students
for,” she said.
If most colleges are looking for students with
four years of math under their belts, the district
should “lay that out” for families, Asberry said.
Chief Academic Officer Susanne Griffin said
it’s the responsibility of students and parents,
working with high school counselors, to decide
on the best path for achieving their postsecondary goals.
“That already needs to happen,” Griffin said.
“… If I go to MIT I’m going to need more
than math and science than currently what we
require as a state or a district.”
Board Member Josh Reimnitz said students
were deeply engaged in the review of the
district’s graduation requirements and “overwhelmingly support” the changes.
A reason to celebrate Kenny
The Minnesota Department of Education
named Kenny Community School one of the
state’s 22 Celebration Schools in 2014.
The honor goes annually to Title 1 schools
that score in the top 25 percent on the state’s
Multiple Measurement Rating system, which
factors in student performance on standardized tests, academic growth and the school’s
achievement gap. Schools with federal Title
1 status serve significant low-income student
populations, and at Kenny about 37 percent
of students qualify for free or reduced-price
lunch, according to the district.
Kenny was one of five Minneapolis public
schools identified by the education department as celebration-eligible based on its
performance during the 2013–2014 school
year. Statewide, 143 celebration-eligible
schools applied for Celebration School status
in 2014.
The only other Minneapolis school on the
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vary widely, but many look for world language
coursework on high school transcripts. The
University of Minnesota, for example, requires
two years of a second language.
About 65 percent of Minneapolis students
are enrolled in a world language course even
though it’s not required either by the district or
the state. The district has made the case that,
with more opportunity for students to pursue
electives, that number could go even higher.
Board Member Tracine Asberry, another
“no” vote, said the district’s graduation requirements fall short in other areas and potentially
leave college-bound students underprepared
for higher education. Many Minneapolis graduates already start their college careers by taking
remedial courses, Asberry said.
“When we say ‘college and career ready,’ I’m
both physical education and health were reduced
to one semester from one full year, and the
requirement for social studies went to three-anda-half years from four full years.
Board Member Nelson Inz, the new District
5 representative, said the changes send a
message that social studies, health and physical
education courses are now considered less
important than they once were, and that the
net effect will be students taking fewer of those
courses. One of three “no” votes, Inz later
compared elective courses to dessert, and said
students who don’t eat their academic vegetables are “set up for a lifetime of limited choices.”
Board Member Kim Ellison, who also voted
against the change, said the district was missing
an opportunity to make world language a
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FROM SMITH / PAGE A1
“I really took it to heart,” she said.
Smith, a southwest Minneapolis resident,
previously served as Dayton’s chief of staff, and
before that, as chief of staff to former Mayor
R.T. Rybak. In addition to roles in government,
she founded a marketing and communications
firm and served as vice president for external
affairs for Planned Parenthood of Minnesota,
North Dakota and South Dakota.
Smith will remain focused on her work as
chair of the board of directors for the Destination Medical Center — the largest economic
development project in the state’s history
focused on building on the strength of the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester. She is also planning
to focus on promoting economic development
and job creation throughout Minnesota.
“I’m anticipating my role as working to
advance a shared agenda with the governor,”
she said.
Here are highlights from a recent interview
with Smith in the Linden Hills neighborhood.
For an expanded version of the interview and
the latest on Dayton’s budget proposal, go to
southwestjournal.com.
Q: In your inaugural address you
talked about the spirit of invention
as the state’s competitive advantage.
How do we nourish that spirit?
Smith: I believe Minnesota doesn’t always
appreciate what makes us exceptional. We
talk about our Midwestern humbleness, but
appreciating that spirit of invention and that
willingness to make things better for the good
of the whole is really intrinsic to what makes
Minnesota exceptional. You see that in business
and government. I think there are good inventors and thinkers walking the halls of the state
Capitol everyday and they need to be inspired
to think about things differently. Part of it is just
a culture of trying to make things better.
Minnesota is blessed with having a very
diverse economy, but we don’t do as well as we
our heritage that we invest in education.
Having said that, Minnesota is [in the
middle] of other states in per pupil investments in education. Our investment in K-12
took a real dive over the last 10, 12 years.
While the governor has made a real point of
increasing those investments in the first four
years of his term, we’re not pouring money
into education.
I’m not saying, nor is he, that we should be
measuring ourselves in terms of how much
we spent several years ago and trying to get
back to that, but we need to understand that
if we want our schools to be excellent we
have to pay for them. … Some of the schools
are in deep need of reinvestment.
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith
need to when it comes to nourishing small business expansion. And we don’t do nearly as
well as we should when it comes to attracting
the venture capital and investment capital to
help those small businesses grow.
If you talk to small businesses in Minnesota and ask them what they need the most,
almost all of them will say right up front, ‘I
need working capital.’ … As the governor
said in his speech, you need to invest to grow.
It doesn’t just happen organically.
Both you and Gov. Mark Dayton have
talked about the importance of
striving for excellence in schools. How
do you define that?
I would say first, I don’t think we appreciate enough how excellent our schools are
overall. Minnesota has one of the highest
graduation rates in the country. Just last year
Minnesota fourth graders scored at the top of
the country in math and our eighth graders
scored way at the top as well. So we have
an excellent education system. That doesn’t
mean we should be complacent. It’s part of
How are you working to reduce
racial disparities in the state?
We have focused like a laser on early education because if you think about the things
that really make a difference for getting kids
ready to learn — that is the most important
thing. That is why we have invested in that.
We’re going to continue to do that.
Do you have any specifics
on early education proposals?
[Gov. Dayton] has supported the early
learning scholarships and he has also
supported expanding preschool in our public
schools. Often that is one of the most effective ways in making sure kids have access to
really high quality early learning experiences.
So I think you can expect to see a continued
commitment there.
In some districts across the state … you
have kids in schools that come from very,
very poor families. They are hungry. They
have lived in six different places — not all of
them going to the same school.
We have kids in our public schools that
30 or 40 years ago would never have been in
our public schools. This is a good thing. We
have special needs kids in our public schools
getting great educations. We don’t say to
those families anymore, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. That
child is your responsibility.’ We don’t do that
anymore but that costs a lot of money. It
gets to the point about underfunding special
education. The federal government has never
lived up to its [promise] to fund special ed.
The long and short of it is how we take
our schools from very good to excellent is a
complex answer, but we know what to do. We
just have to have the will to make it happen.
We know that we have to invest in our
schools. We know that kids can’t be hungry
when they walk in the door. We know that
our high school students have to have access
to a counselor so they don’t make choices
about their future without good information about where the jobs are and where the
opportunities are.
Are you optimistic about
this legislative session?
The joke between the governor and me is that
he always says, ‘She’s hope and I’m reality.’
I am always optimistic. I think there have
been early signs from our new Speaker
[Kurt Daudt] to being open to working with
Democrats in the House and the Senate, and
that’s good.
I think that what really matters is not what
they say but what they do. We were disappointed in the early bill that came out in the
House on transportation. The proposals put
forth fell so far short of their rhetoric around
actually addressing our transportation needs
in this state. I appreciate they say that was a
first step. I would say it was a baby step.
The Republicans now need to lead. They
need to put forth their own ideas about
where the think the state ought to go. I look
forward to seeing how they do, and I wish
them the best because we need to make progress this year.
A12 January 29–February 11, 2015 / southwestjournal.com
FROM HOODSTARTER / PAGE A1
for vacant retail spaces.
The founders of Hoodstarter said people
are accustomed to exerting influence online,
whether through a Yelp restaurant critique or
Amazon product review — so why not the
storefront down the street?
“More people want to have a say — they
just haven’t had the tools,” said Hoodstarter
co-founder David Berglund.
Neighborhood wish lists
Windom resident Troy Eaves saw an opportunity at the former Walgreens at 5415 Lyndale
Ave. S. He started a Facebook group asking
Blue Plate, the company behind The Lowry
and The Freehouse, to open a restaurant
there — he even posted a mockup logo of
“The Windom Ale House.” (Blue Plate staff
say they’re flattered, but not interested at the
moment.)
The page netted 62 members.
“People messaged me saying, ‘Thank you,
this is a great idea,’” Eaves said.
Eaves would also love to see a taproom
there, and he’s thinking about reaching out to
the owner of Indeed.
“I’d prefer something local for sure,” he said.
“It doesn’t seem like places are vacant very
long. ... I imagine someone else will scoop it
up.”
54th & Lyndale is also the area of focus for
a group of cycling enthusiasts in Kenny.
“There is not a bike shop in our neck of the
woods, and we think there is a market for it,”
said resident Thatcher Imboden.
Residents have approached a couple of bike
shops (no luck yet) and plan to keep trying.
Matt Perry, president of the Nicollet-East
Harriet Business Association, said that when
Borton Volvo left Lyndale, he heard from
many people who wanted a restaurant to
move into the area.
“I’ve gotten a number of emails and phone
to open in vacant or underused spaces, highlighting storefront possibilities.
It’s a chance for the
community to put its
money where its mouth is.
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calls from people asking what they can do to
make that happen,” he said.
He said NEHBA can share census data,
community survey data and private purchase
data to groups working to draw retailers to the
neighborhood.
David Thompson owns the building at the
southwest corner of 38th & Grand, and he
works next door at Integral Psychotherapy
and lives a block away. He’s heard from a
couple dozen people who said they’d love a
coffee shop on the corner, so he advertised
the space and posted the aforementioned sign
in the window. The strategy may have worked:
Of the seven tenants who expressed interest,
four of them fall into the coffee shop category,
he said. One leading candidate is the Grand
Café next door, which has a new chef, Andrew
Kraft, and a new menu with more shared
plates.
Web platforms highlighting vacant spaces
have cropped up around the world, with maps
of empty properties in cities like New York
and Dublin. The website “[im]possible living”
solicits ideas to reactivate abandoned buildings in Italian cities.
In New Orleans, artist Candy Chang posted
vinyl stickers on vacant buildings around
town labeled “I wish this was” ... with space
for passersby to fill in the blank. Responses
ranged from “a butcher shop” and “real soul
food” to “repaired” and “a place without theft.”
Locally, the upcoming sixth season of
Artists in Storefronts enlists pop-up galleries
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Putting empty spaces to a vote
The Twin Cities has a new website designed
to crowdsource ideas for vacant storefronts
called Hoodstarter.com, formed by a group
of guys who met at UnitedHealth Group.
Through the site, users can highlight empty
spaces, suggest the sort of businesses that
should move in, and vote on favorite ideas.
The site can also work like a Kickstarter to
help raise money for entrepreneurs.
“It’s a chance for the community to put its
money where its mouth is,” Ley said.
One popular building on the site is a
former furniture liquidation store at 38th &
Chicago that has been vacant for years. Its
expansive basement was originally used as a
city parking garage, according to Hoodstarter.
The building drew 275 votes for ideas like an
indoor dog park, a cat café, a NeoSoul diner,
or community art center. One voter posted
that the store should stay empty, with a plea
to “quit gentrifying Chicago Avenue.” Ley’s
initial instinct was to delete the post, but
found that it didn’t gain any votes and generated a backlash of debate on the page.
The Hoodstarter founders said brokers can
be incentivized to fill an empty spot as quickly
as possible, and national tenants with deep
pockets are an attractive option — they’re
stable tenants that can remain for many years
and increase a building’s value. For residents
who would prefer independent shops, their
interests can seem at odds with brokers’.
“I want to help them realize their interests
really are aligned,” Ley said.
Crowdsourced ideas with votes of support
can give entrepreneurs confidence in entering
a market, he said. He said the public simply
needs an outlet to make their voices heard.
“We wanted to give the community a mechanism to make that happen,” he said.
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Park Board looks to restore golf courses
Minneapolis golfers may get two damaged
courses back, but it’s unclear how they’ll be
fixed before being reopened. The Hiawatha and Meadowbrook Golf
Courses in Minneapolis and Hopkins suffered
about $3.5 million in damages due to flooding
from torrential rains in spring 2014. The two
courses likely won’t reopen until at least 2017.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation
Board is now working to restore the courses
with FEMA help, though they have several
options. At a public meeting in January, Park
Board staff outlined three possibilities for
the courses: They could just do the repairs
that FEMA will fund; they could repair that
damage and address flooding, drainage and
some irrigation issues; or they could renovate
the courses, including bunkers, tees, cart paths
and clubhouse upgrades.
The latter plans will require more money
and planning than what federal dollars will
fund. As part of FEMA guidelines, the Park
Board will need to look at ways to mitigate
flooding at the two courses in the future.
The courses were closed for the 2014
season and largely remained damaged, though
Hiawatha’s driving range and front nine were
reopened for a short time.
Both courses took severe damage in the
storms. Between the two, flooding destroyed
more than 100 acres of turf, downed nearly
100 trees and flooded several greens.
A consultant report from last February
Hiawatha and Meadowbrook Golf Courses both experienced significant flooding in spring of
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showed rounds of golf played dropped 42
percent between 1997 and 2011, in tandem
with falling revenue and national trends on
course closings. It also recommended new or
expanded clubhouses at both Hiawatha and
Meadowbrook.
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open houses to share design concepts for the
proposed Wirth Park Adventure and Welcome
Center — a collaboration between the parks
system and the Loppet Foundation.
The new facility will focus on cross-country
skiing, par-3 golf support, snowboarding,
mountain bike racing and snow tubing.
The open houses will be held Saturday, Jan.
31, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., at the main City of Lakes
Loppet Village tent on the west side of Lake
Calhoun, and Tuesday, Feb. 3, 6–7:30 p.m. at
Park Board headquarters, 2117 W. River Road.
A second round of community open houses
is planned for spring.
For more information, go to minneapolisparks.org/currentprojects.
Park Board has at least two public meetings
where residents and golfers can voice their
concerns. The Park Board is hosting two meetings on
Feb. 2 at its offices at 2117 W. River Rd., one
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By Dylan Thomas / [email protected]
Energy coach program
wins grant
A program that helps busy Lake Street small business owners save money by cutting energy costs
was awarded a $50,000 grant from Wells Fargo in
January.
Trained “energy coaches” meet with small business owners to review their energy use and suggest
easy steps to cut utility bills. The Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development, a Minneapolisbased nonprofit, and the Lake Street Council business association sponsor the program.
During a Jan. 16 event at City Hall to announce
the grant, Cecilia Pelaez, owner of the Los Hornos
Del Ray bakery at 1703 E. Lake St, described
how she made a “swift and effortless” transition
to more efficient lighting inside her business
after meeting with an energy coach. The coach
connected Pelaez with the Minnesota Chamber
of Commerce’s Energy Smart program, which
covered two-thirds of the cost of the upgrades.
She said the investment would pay for itself
within a year.
“There is no excuse for dragging our feet,”
Pelaez said.
A report on the program by Matt Kazinka,
sustainability program coordinator for the Lake
Street Council, identified a lack of awareness
about energy saving opportunities and language
barriers as two of the main challenges for business
owners. They are also often too busy to pursue
energy efficiency upgrades and may not be aware
of how much money they’ll save.
Kazinka’s report also noted that energy
FROM CREATIVE ECONOMY / PAGE A1
City and Boston.
The city’s creative sector contributed
$831 million to the city’s economy in 2013,
according to the Creative Vitality Index 2014
update.
Retail sales from the city’s creative industries
are nearly equal to that of the sports industries.
Sales from the creative sector were roughly
$520 million in 2013 compared to $533 million
for sports.
Meanwhile, sales from arts-related activities
increased 20 percent from 2011 and sales from
sports activities dropped 14 percent.
“We have a highly productive creative sector,”
said Gülgün Kayim, the city’s director of Arts,
Culture and the Creative Economy, during a
presentation before the Council’s Committee of
the Whole Committee.
Creative jobs continue to be centered in
Minneapolis with about 26 percent of the
region’s creative workers employed in the city.
Photographers rank number one the city’s
top five creative occupations list followed by
musicians, singers, writers and authors, graphic
designers and public relations specialists.
Orin Rutchick, founder and executive
director of the Mpls Photo Center, said the only
way to make money in photography is as a fine
arts photographer with grants and awards or as
a entrepreneur with a new photo-business.
“You have to love what you do because you
aren’t going to get rich at either,” Rutchick said.
“The irony is that photography in general has
become a commodity, and as such, with the
supply so high with so many people taking
acceptable photos, it’s not so much about the
art, as it is about the business.”
The creative jobs that have seen the most
growth since the 2013 Creative Index report
include agents (10 percent), sound engineering
Cecilia Pelaez, who worked with an energy
coach to install more energy efficient
lighting inside her East Lake Street bakery,
Los Hornos Del Ray, met with Mayor Betsy
Hodges at City Hall in January.
coaches gain trust by building relationships
with business owners.
He said those relationships probably play
into the program’s 40-percent success rate
for getting business owners to follow up on
the energy assessments. The coaches educate
business owners about their options, get them
excited to save money and help them overcome
hurdles along the way.
“Usually those assessments sit on a desk,”
Kazinka said.
Instead, of the 25 business owners who have
worked with an energy coach since this summer,
five have completed energy-saving projects and
another five are in the process.
Mayor Betsy Hodges called the program a
“model” for collaboration between business,
citizens and government.
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CREATIVE ECONOMY
$831 million
How much the creative economy
contributed to the Minneapolis
economy in 2013
$520 million
Retails sales in the arts in 2013
37 percent
Growth in the creative industry retail
2009 to 2013
$1,165
Minneapolis spending per capita on
the arts
26 percent
Percentage of region’s creative
occupations in Minneapolis
technicians (8 percent), fashion designers (7
percent) and actors (7 percent).
The Western States Arts Foundation along
with other arts groups in Washington state
developed the Creativity Vitality Index as a way
to quantify arts economies, which can be difficult to measure.
Kayim said the city has shared the information with a variety of community groups as
way to spread the word about the city’s vibrant
Teaching students about farm to school
The Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is hosting a two-part
webinar on the farm-to-school movement
that’s bringing more locally grown foods into
school lunchrooms.
The course is targeted to high school
juniors and seniors and aims to give them the
knowledge and skills to advocate for farm to
school programs at their schools. Part one
of the webinar focuses on local food systems
and the benefits of farm to school, while part
two covers strategies for strengthening or
expanding farm to school initiatives.
The online seminars are scheduled for 3:30
p.m.–4:30 p.m. Feb. 9 and 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Feb. 17. Go to iatp.org for more information
or to register.
Presenters for part 1 include Natasha
Mortenson, a Morris Area High School agriculture teacher, and farmer and registered
dietician Mary Jo Forbord. Vanessa Herald, a
farm to school specialist at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, presents part 2.
IATP has also developed a free Farm to
School Youth Leadership curriculum designed
as a semester-long course for high school
students. It is available for download at iatp.
org/issue/farm-to-school.
Urban agriculture training
Minneapolis’ Permaculture Research Institute
is accepting applications to its 2015 Urban
Farming Certification Program.
Up to 25 people will be accepted into the
nine-month training program, which begins in
February and runs through October. Coursework combines time in the classroom with
hands-on experience in the field.
Students must complete at least 15 classes
on topics like permaculture, pest management and aquaponics. Each student will also
manage a garden plot from planting to harvest,
consulting during the growing season with a
mentor and a group of three to five peers in
urban farming.
arts scene. The report has also been used as a
recruiting tool by groups working to attract
more creative professionals to the city.
Sales by art dealers and visual artists have
increased the most significantly compared to
other sectors within the creative economy, such as
performing arts, bookstore sales and music sales.
Overall, the creative sector has remained
strong while other cities have seen declines in
the health of their arts economies, Kayim said.
Minneapolis’ creative economy isn’t dominated by one sector as it is in some regions. It
has strength in many areas, including music,
performing arts and visual arts. The city has
long been a key player in advertising and
marketing as well.
“Across the board we have strength and that’s
what creates resilience,” Kayim said.
Kayim said she plans to take a deeper dive
into the data and do additional research to learn
more about artists who are having success in
the city and others who aren’t faring as well.
Olga Viso, executive director of the Walker
Art Center, agreed with Kayim about the health
of the creative economy across many disciplines.
“Creative people really congregate here,” she said.
Viso previously lived in Washington, D.C.,
which tops the list of the most creatively vital
cities. Minneapolis has a better infrastructure
than many other cities to support artists —
from working grants to affordable housing
options, she said. The region’s Fortune 500
companies also invest heavily in the local design
community.
As for ways the creative sector could become
stronger, Viso said she’d like to see additional
grants for visual artists and a stronger gallery
network to support artists. She’d also like the
community to examine whether the city has
strong enough incentives to encourage filmmakers to make movies here.
Tom Hoch, president and CEO of the
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PRI also offers a urban farming apprenticeship program. Apprentices gain up to 200
hours of experience in gardening and land
management while working alongside veteran
growers. The cost is $1,500 and the application deadline is Feb. 5.
For more information, or to apply for either
program, go to pricoldclimate.org.
Hennepin Theatre Trust, has been leading an
effort to raise Hennepin Avenue’s profile as a
thriving cultural district, said he’d like to see
the region’s leaders make a “broad and demonstrated” commitment acknowledging that the
arts sector is crucial to the region’s economy
competitiveness.
“We need to attract and retain creative people
— the arts do that,” he said. “We can make that
creativity the hallmark of who we are as a city.”
Hoch said he’d like see more arts organizations represented at the table in the civic arena
as well. He pointed to the Walker Art Center’s
involvement in planning work on the major
Hennepin/Lyndale Avenue reconstruction
project expected to start the end of 2015.
“Artists are terrific problem solvers,” he said.
Viso has also been a key player in the cultural
district planning work. She said the goal is to
build awareness for the many creative assets on
Hennepin. The street has 57 arts-related groups.
Community leaders also want to see people
branch out and do a variety of things when they
visit the district, she said.
Joan Vorderbruggen, the Cultural Arts
District coordinator for the Hennepin Theatre
Trust, said the validation of the strength of the
city’s arts economy, will likely make it easier for
arts groups to secure grants.
She said the Hennepin Threatre Trust strives
to ensure that “artists are at the core” of the
organization’s work and always get paid for their
contributions.
She also stressed the importance of
supporting the arts community by becoming a
collector and investing in local art.
Vorderbruggen has spearheaded the Made
Here project — the art installations in vacant
storefronts throughout downtown. As part
of the initiative, artists have sold more than
$13,000 art pieces and overall, artists have been
paid more than $70,000.
Southwest Journal
January 29–February 11, 2015
A museum with
an expiration date
Some of the city’s best young visual artists
reunite in a quirkily titled group show
By Dylan Thomas / [email protected]
KENWOOD — Time for our annual check-in with Lauren Roche, Lindsay Rhyner, Tynan
Kerr and Andrew Mazorol.
At least that’s what it feels like over at Bockley Gallery, where these four are appearing
together in a group exhibition for the third year in a row. They are complementary visual
artists, with overlapping interests in brash visuals and fractured narratives and a punklike aversion to refinement.
“The Temporary Autonomous Museum of Contemporary Art Minneapolis” is actually an abridged version of a show
originally organized by San Francisco
artist Ryan Fontaine. It popped-up in a
Cedar Avenue storefront for two weeks
last November, but likely flew under
the radar for many.
A kinetic sculpture by Fontaine — a
gold-painted base of three stacked
cantilevers supporting a top that spins
like a carwash sign — made the trip
across South Minneapolis to Bockley
Gallery, as did new work by locals Dietrich Sieling and Rachel Blomgren
Above all, it’s Sieling who really
stands out in this show. He’s working
larger than usual, drawing confidently
in white and black ink on four-by-sixfoot plywood boards.
Sieling’s artwork is often autobiographical — reflecting on a trip to a
museum or a day at the beach — and
combines text, pattern and figuration
to depict a total sensory experience.
Knowing he was diagnosed with autism
as a child, it’s tempting to read the
Sieling’s work as a response to overwhelming environmental stimuli, but
it’s deeper than that, too: humane, often humorous and always visually inventive.
Painting collaboratively as AMTK, Mazorol and Kerr routinely
conjure scenes filled with oddly costumed figures, their stiff poses
recalling Daguerreotype-era photography. They’re still working in
that mode, but here their color palette consists almost entirely of pale
blues, greens and yellows that cast a pall of moonlight over the mysterious goings-on.
Like the work of AMTK, Roche’s paintings of women posing with
wild-looking and often grotesque beasts imply a narrative, a dark fable
that’s never made totally clear. Her staccato mark-making gives the
paintings a real immediacy, like fresh blood dripped on the canvas.
Rhyner’s scrap-fabric tapestries look as fresh as they did three years
ago when she first appeared at Bockley. There’s something about the
way she pairs clashing textile patterns that appealingly resembles a
screen glitch, like a web page that failed to load properly and dissolves
into a digital smear.
And for once Rhyner’s not the only fabric artist in the gallery.
Blomgren embroiders what looks like an Addams Family portrait
of ghoulish if not necessarily frightening characters. In fact, they
could’ve wandered right out of a painting by AMTK.
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Vegan / Gluten-Free / Makes 8 ½-pound loaves
The recipe is easily doubled or halved.
This beautiful and crispy loaf is the symbol of France, and the gluten-free version
is just as gorgeous and delicious as the original. The top of the loaf is brushed
with egg-white wash to create a glossy crust, but in a pinch, water will do. Storebought gluten-free blends don’t work in these recipes; mix up your own from the
(downloadable) formula on BreadIn5.com/GFmix. Be sure the dough is mixed
very well before resting, and if you have one, use a scale to measure ingredients
for better accuracy.
Ingredients
6½ cups Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour from “Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five
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1 tablespoon granulated yeast (.35 oz./10g)
1 to 1½ tablespoons kosher salt (0.6 – 0.9 oz./17–25g)
2 tablespoons sugar or honey (1 oz./30g)
Cornmeal or parchment paper
Egg white wash (1 egg white plus 1 tablespoon water)
Directions
Whisk together the flour, yeast, salt, and sweetener
in a 5- to 6-quart bowl, or a lidded (not airtight) food
container.
Baking stars’ book
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RECIPES/ Best-selling bread cookbook authors Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François are out with a
new book devoted to gluten-free recipes, “Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.”
The book features 90 recipes for a variety of breads, pizzas and yeasted pastries.
Since the two bakers met in a MacPhail music class for toddlers and parents in 2003, they have
collaborated on five books. Combined, the titles have sold more than 600,000 copies.
Their first books were mostly based on wheat, but some readers who came to their website
(BreadIn5.com, where the authors answer questions) clamored for gluten-free versions. So Jeff and
Zoë have finally obliged with an entire book of gluten-free bread recipes.
Most of the old favorites from their original book are here, now converted to gluten-free versions
made with rice, sorghum, tapioca, oats, potato, and teff.
“And they had to be delicious and made with easy-to-find ingredients,” says Hertzberg. “People
with celiac disease and gluten intolerance deserve fresh, tasty bread, too.”
Like Jeff and Zoë’s previous books, “Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” is based on
refrigerating and storing a large quantity of pre-mixed dough: mix once, then bake many loaves over
the next five to 10 days. That’s what makes the method so speedy. You can try it yourself with their
recipe for Gluten-Free Baguette, below.
Add the water and mix very well with a spoon, dough whisk, or a heavy-duty
stand mixer fitted with the paddle.
Cover (not airtight), and rest at room temperature until the dough rises, about
2 hours.
The dough can be used immediately after rising, though it’s easier to handle
when cold. Refrigerate in a lidded (not airtight) container and use over the next 10
days. Or freeze for up to 4 weeks in 1-pound portions and thaw in the refrigerator
overnight before use.
On baking day, dust the surface of the dough with rice flour, pull off a ½-pound
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wet serrated bread knife.
Slide the loaf onto the hot stone. Pour 1 cup of hot tap water into the broiler
tray, and quickly close the oven door. Bake for about 35 minutes, or until richly
browned and firm.
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Ask Dr. Rachel
By Rachel Allyn
Looking for love
Q
What are some strategies for coping with frustrating dating challenges in the quest for finding a good partner?
I could write a book answering this question,
but I’ll be succinct. One answer lies in whether
you engage in the process with a heavy heart or
approach it light heartedly.
No doubt the dating game also takes strength
of heart to accept the inherent risks involved.
The risk of being exposed. The risk of wasting
your time. The risk of tolerating the unknowns.
The risk of rejection. Even the risk of getting
what you thought you wanted.
These existential issues can reside below the
surface as you interface with dating in the digital
age. This can include getting lost in details such
as ‘what did that text really mean?’ or ‘how
many times will I have to email back and forth
before meeting?’ and wondering whether the
fact that he’s wearing a hat in his picture means
he’s bald.
It’s important to give the time and attention
to the process that it deserves up front. The law
of attraction reminds us that we get what we
give. The key here is developing clarity within
yourself regarding what you want (someone
educated … someone loyal …), how you want
to feel (respected … adored …) and believing
you deserve it, even if they haven’t appeared in
your life … yet.
With this clarity in place, you’ll be better
able to weed out people who aren’t aligned
with your goals for a relationship. Perhaps you
want to settle down and get serious while for
them dating is a cat-and-mouse game and they
just want to have fun. Or perhaps you find the
other person IS just as intent on commitment
as you, but that’s the only thing you actually
have in common. In the interest of time, find
this out sooner rather than later by keeping the
dates short and simple (meet at a cafe). Have an
escape route (‘I only have 30 minutes’). Spend
the first several dates in interview mode. That
way you can get to know Dr. Jekyl as well as Mr.
Hyde before jumping in and fooling yourself
that he’s “the one.”
If loneliness pervades you throughout an
unsuccessful dating process, consider the
multiple sources of love in your life. Being
single allows you that extra energy to focus on
other non-romantic relationships. This includes
having more time for your single friends. In
the merry-go-round of relationships, even if
you don’t have any friends who are currently
single, give it time. We’re all in this together
at one point or another. The shared experience with others who are single can provide
camaraderie and laughter as you swap stories.
Remember that awkwardNESS does not have
to equal humorLESS. You can choose to see
those embarrassing situations as comical (‘my
life is straight out of a sitcom!’) or a teachable
moment (‘apparently diverse political views
can’t be overlooked’).
Sometimes you need to give the dating
process space. Pursue other hobbies so dating
isn’t your primary focus. And you may groan for
hearing me say this but one idea is to take time
to date yourself. Stay committed to the activities
you want to explore rather than letting life pass
you by as you wait for someone else to accompany you.
The bottom line is there may always be risk or
frustration in the quest for a relationship. Even
if you try to avoid the discomfort by staying
home with your cat, some chocolate and a
Netflix, you can run a new set of risks if this
becomes routine. You will likely find it doesn’t
keep you emotionally safe after all, just more
disconnected from your heart’s longing. I advise
a combination of courage, humility, humor and
patience. This will set you on the path to finding
Mr. Right. Or at least on the path to finding a
warm body to serve as Mr. Right Now.
Dr. Rachel Allyn is a licensed psychologist in
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A wide-ranging and highly entertaining exhibition at the
University of Minnesota features work by dozens of women
artists working in and at the edges of global pop culture.
Pop culture heroines
“WonderWomen” is packed with comics and animation,
smart satire and art that shreds stereotypes. What perfect
timing, too, given the recent release of The New Yorker staff
writer Jill Lepore’s “The Secret History of Wonder Woman,”
By Dylan Thomas / [email protected]
a biography of the DC Comics heroine’s feminist creator,
William Moulton Marston.
The show includes a reproduction of Marston’s first
Wonder Woman story from a 1941 issue of All Star Comics,
and we also get a full reprint of “!WAR (Women Art Revolution),” a comic-pamphlet history of feminist art from Judy
Chicago to the Guerilla Girls written by Lynn Hershman
Leeson with art by underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez. It’s unfortunate that work by pioneering women
cartoonists like Jackie Ormes, Trina Robbins and Alison
Bechdel is limited to a few books inaccessibly displayed
inside glass showcases, but that’s a common problem with
bringing comic art into a gallery setting.
Textile artist Nina Braun crafts replica Nike and Adidas
athletic shoes in wool and felt, a subversively feminine
remaking of products some men obsess over. One wonders
how many men will take up Cheri Gaulke’s challenge to take
a spin in lipstick-red high-heeled shoes; “You know you want
to,” a sign purrs, next to a display offering pairs in men’s and
women’s sizes.
Young women in schoolgirl uniforms conduct military
drills in a dystopian urban setting in the work of Diyan
Achjadi, which includes an animated short and
several digital prints. It reflects on Achjadi’s
WONDERWOMEN childhood in Indonesia, where she grew up in
the 1970s and ’80s during the authoritarian rule
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Minneapolis students
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Jan. 24 on Lake Harriet.
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Inspiring another generation of
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When Karl Erickson offered to teach students at
Lake Harriet Community School how to ice fish
on a recent Saturday, he was amazed to see 50
kids sign up.
“I am looking to sell these kids and families
on the sport of ice fishing,” he said in an email.
“I want these kids to put away their devices and
video games and let these Vexilars and fishing
rod/reels be the items that grab their attention
for the day.”
Erickson, an associate educator and Minneapolis Kids staffer at Lake Harriet’s upper
campus, wants to pay forward his own introduction to the sport.
“When I came home from Iraq in 2007 with
the Minnesota Army National Guard a friend
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been an avid ice angler ever since.”
Erickson spent three months planning the
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wounded veterans out hunting and fishing
regardless of injuries.
Jadyn Guzman was one of the Lake Harriet
students who gave ice fishing a try Jan. 24.
“What do I do if I catch a fish?” she asked Don
Nelson, a friend of Erickson’s who helped set up
rods for the kids.
Guzman sat patiently waiting for fish to bite,
but became a little squeamish when Nelson
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“I feel so bad for them,” she said.
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next year.
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By Eric Best / [email protected]
LET FREEDOM RING
To honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., VocalEssence is hosting a musical event with
Grammy-Award-winning musicians. Ensembles “Sounds of Blackness,” the South High
School Varsity Choir and the VocalEssence Chorus will commemorate the civil rights
legend by exploring the history of African American music through spirituals, gospel
music and R&B. “Sounds of Blackness” director Gary Hines will take part in a pre-concert
conversation at 3 p.m.
Where: Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall
When: Feb. 8 at 4 p.m.
Cost: $10 to $40
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WE ROCK LONG DISTANCE
Intermedia Arts will host the world premiere of “We Rock Long Distance,” a project
from Twin Cities-based filmmaker Justin Schell. The film features the stories of hip-hop
artists M.anifest, Maria Isa and Tou SaiKo Lee as they go to Ghana, Puerto Rico and
Thailand, respectively, to create cross-generational, border-crossing collaborations.
At the filmmaker’s Feb. 6 screening, audiences will have a chance to meet two of the
artists and see their live performances. Schell will engage in a post-show conversation
at the final screening on Feb. 7.
Where: Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave. S.
When: Feb. 6 and Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $7 advance, $9 door
Info: intermediaarts.org
Many Twin Cities residents have memories of Bloomington’s South Loop and the
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. In order to make “Cross Pollination,”
a dynamic, biographical theater production on the South Loop and the refuge,
the City of Bloomington and other collaborators want to hear your stories during
several workshops. Real stories will inform the script for a large-scale, site-specific
theater production performed by and for the community. Collaborator PlaceBase
Productions is hosting several workshops (Feb. 7 from 2 to 4 p.m., Feb. 24 from 10
a.m. to noon and Feb. 26 from 6 to 8 p.m.) to engage the public and hear their stories.
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CITY OF LAKES
LOPPET SKI FESTIVAL
FIRESIDE CHAT:
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THE PARTY’S OVER,
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The 13th annual City of Lakes Loppet Festival is the
year’s biggest event for local skiers of all ages and skill
levels. Even if you’re not one to ski, the urban cross
country ski festival is a packed weekend for spectators
to watch races and enjoy the festival. The festival
opens from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 30 culminating
with fireworks at Loppet Village at 8 p.m. A vendor
village with plenty of outdoor wares on display is
open each day, along with a beer garden from Surly
Brewing. The Southwest Journal is also hosting a Snow
Sculpture Contest on Saturday, Jan. 31 from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. Mild weather and a lack of snow has resulted in
some venue changes. Check out loppet.org.
The Hennepin History Museum will host author of the
long-running “Test Recipes” column and food journalist
Eleanor Ostman as part of its Fireside Chat series. The
conversation will be a rare chance to hear from Ostman
about her time writing for the St. Paul Pioneer Press,
the Twin Cities food scene and her books, such as her
most recent cookbook “Always on Sundays Revisited.”
Her column, “Tested Recipes,” appeared in the paper on
Sundays for several decades.
“The Party’s Over” is the culmination of collaboration
between Chicago Artists Coalitions and The Soap
Factory’s resident artists. Inspired by cross residencies
between artists in Chicago and the Twin Cities,
the exhibition is a unique engagement of art and
Midwestern artists. The exhibition runs in tandem
with “Friction Fiction: Survey of Black Animation,”
a collaboration with Obsidian Arts. This exhibition,
curated by Minnesotans Roderic Southall and Ernest
Bryant III, surveys contemporary black artists and
animators who address their relationship with the
urban landscape.
Where: Hennepin History Museum, 2303 3rd Ave. S.
When: Feb. 8 at 2 p.m.
Cost: $1 to $5
Info: hennepinhistory.org
Where: Theodore Wirth Park and Chain of Lakes
When: Jan. 30 through Feb. 1
Cost: Free
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Where: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd St. SE.
When: Feb. 7 through March 8
Cost: Free
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After their 2014 success with “Alice in Wonderland,”
dance and theater company Flying Foot Forum will bring
“The Percussion Project” to The Cowles Center, crossing
percussion with percussive dance. The all-ages show builds
to a percussive whirlwind of collaborators, not to mention
their appendages, with some quirky scenes — crazy chefs,
baseball umpires and madcap vaudevillians, included. The
program also includes the highly physical “Maiden” from
Karla Grotting, which features dance set to a driving Nordic
folk-rock score.
Where: The Cowles Center, 528 Hennepin Ave.
When: Feb. 27 and Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $30
Info: the cowlescenter.org
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ACROSS
1 Some portrait frames
6 Noble __
11 Singsong syllable
14 With 15-Across,
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15 See 14-Across
16 Like some aces
17 Manage
18 Walking __
19 Sound after a satisfying
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20 Scotch cocktails
22 Zenith
23 “I won’t hurt you”
26 Not as deliberate
28 Toothbrush-endorsing
org.
29 With 31-Across,
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31 See 29-Across
32 Worlds
35 __ legend
37 Question about change,
which hints at the hidden
feature of four two-part
puzzle answers
65 With 66-Across,
National Book Awardwinning novel by Don
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11 Gillette razor
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44 Mortarboard frill
45 “That upset me!”
46 Speakers of Tolkien’s
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some
44 With 47-Across, some
receivers
69 Mount
23 Traffic stopper?
24 Notion
48 Costing more
51 Corporate raider Carl
53 Jockey’s handful
47 See 44-Across
DOWN
49 Set-__
1 Pigs out (on)
27 Shoshone Falls river
54 “This __ a drill!”
50 Malady in the 2000 film
“Memento”
2 Center of gravity?
30 Shroud city
57 Mechanical repetition
3 Presidential nickname
52 Like the best occult films
33 Chinese evergreen
59 Prefix with light or night
4 Petrol unit
55 It’s about a foot
34 Zoo security features
5 Gave up a seat
61 “Easy as __!”
56 Yield figures
6 One of six British kings
36 Droopy-eared hound
62 Wear and tear
58 Figure under a line
59 Fife-and-drum drum
60 Two cents
64 Bardic before
7 Year in Tuscany
8 “Wait for me”
9 Pension law signed by
Ford, briefly
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38 Wonderful container?
39 Bordeaux bean?
40 “The Dukes of
Hazzard” officer
63 Former Ohio governor
Strickland
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