My name is Ellie Kidder, founder of Deaf Cultural Arts & Wellness, or DCAW. DCAW strengthens Deaf culture through art, storytelling, community relationships, historical preservation, and Deaf-led …

For people to agree on what a word or phrase means before they discuss a topic seems like common sense and a necessary step in clear communication. However, as Ira Gershwin wrote for the character …

By binge reading I commit to reading the entire paper in one session. MICHAEL AND MITRAL Michael Casper is my former massage therapist at The Wellness Center MN and a Longfellow neighborhood …

Everyone knows Nokomis Surplus. Most people don’t know that this familiar neighborhood store was created almost accidentally during the beginning of the pandemic. Raul Morales bought the …

It’s starting to cool down here in south Minneapolis, and you might be thinking about houseplants to provide some indoor greenery all year. Most houseplants are native to tropical climates and can …

Feeling too exhausted to cook and yet not wanting to spend too much money on meal delivery is a sentiment that describes most of my friends and family lately. By the time we get to the evening our …

Here I am wondering what this column is about knowing that the only way I am going to find out is to start writing. Surprise! If you have read this far you have taken the plunge into the river (flow) …

We’ve had a lot of hot, sticky weather lately, and it’s probably affecting your plants! When the air stays warm and humid for days at a time, you might start noticing a white, powdery coating on …

Moving to a new city can be difficult. It is a process of acclimating, of getting used to a new routine: new buildings, new sights and sounds, new routes. It is unknown but pleasant, like shaking …

Stories abound like produce at a farmers market this time of year. Here are a few of mine. SPEAKING UP FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM AND PEOPLE WHO LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS June 15. I am at Richfield Lutheran …

“It’s like a small whale.” This is how Caroline Hallstrom describes the volume of 25 cubic yards of soil she needed to find a place for in June after hustling to get it donated from the …

I’m Mike and I own Nokomis Tattoo. I’ve lived in Nokomis East since 2013 and have had my shop since 2019. In that time there have experienced and seen a lot of ups and downs. I’ve had the good …

It appears that a tradition is forming: whereby the last week in May (what I call Memorial Day week). I spend that week visiting with Iowa relatives, visiting the burial sites of my brother and my …

Every spring, gardeners across Minneapolis plant their seeds and hope for a productive growing season. Some gardens thrive, but others limp along despite careful watering and fertilizing. If you’ve …

On any given Thursday afternoon in June and July, people can find a group of folks doing arts and crafts at the Nokomis Library. Supplies like coloring books, various crafts and puzzles litter the …

It looks like this year I will renew my visits to south Minneapolis Farmers Markets starting with Midtown Farmers Market and Neighborhood Roots Farmers Markets (Southwest, Kingsfield and Nokomis). …

A stunning new report has good and bad news for  Minnesota nith to 11th grade students who want to challenge themselves and potentially save thousands of dollars in college/university costs. The …

The conversation started in late January, at a kitchen table with two friends in the disability community. We looked at each other and asked: Why are there so many of us at the front line? …

We are a group of 50 elders who live at Nokomis Square Cooperative on 35th Avenue South. We have lived through the culture-changing 1960s and 70s. We have protested foreign wars. We have fought for …

I’m sitting in front of my computer’s equivalent of a blank page with a deadline approaching. What to do with this blank page. It appears I am going to do something. I have already written 59 …