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Joel Breeggemann

The get-to-NoMi guy: Joel Breeggemann knows why you should move to North Minneapolis

Laine Bergeson Wednesday, June 30, 2010
North Minneapolis--NoMi--has had its share of hard times, crime, and social dislocation over the years. But neighborhood advocate Joel Breeggemann is sick of one-sided portrayals of the neighborhood. He and other Northsiders know it as a friendly, green, increasingly trendy "small town in the city" where neighbors are joining together to make things better--and word has been getting out. Scores of first-time homeowners have been drawn into the neighborhood by Breeggemann's Get to NoMi Home Buyers Tours, which celebrate the North Side while showcasing some amazingly affordable houses.
Garrio Harrison

For designer/marketer Garrio Harrison, social media aren't a tool--they're a revolution

Elizabeth Millard Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Garrio Harrison believes that social media like Facebook and Twitter aren't just the latest slick marketing strategy--they've fundamentally changed the way we do business by making everything, including buying and selling, more personal, more connected, and more human. And he's founded the all-social-media-all-the-time marketing firm Doublethink to prove his point.
Jack Becker

Putting art in touch with life: A conversation with Jack Becker of Forecast Public Art

Jon Spayde Wednesday, June 23, 2010
It's not a statue plopped in a park any more. Public art is a complex, dynamic new way of looking at the relationship between creativity and community. And Jack Becker, director of Saint Paul's Forecast Public Art, knows as much about that relationship as anybody in America. He led the effort to build up Forecast from a failing art gallery into a multitasking go-to organization for public artists around the Twin Cities and around the country, helping public art become a major public resource as well as a public delight.
David Byrne

"Incredibly sexy and utterly normal": David Byrne and friends boost biking in Minneapolis

Dan Haugen Wednesday, June 23, 2010
David Byrne has seen a lot of the world as a touring mega-rocker--much of it from from the seat of a bicycle. Last Thursday he joined three notable Twin Cities bike advocates--Mayor R. T. Rybak, author and journalist Jay Walljasper, and walkability/bikeability expert Steve Clark--at the Uptown Theater for a celebration/exploration that looked at the future of urban pedal culture in the Twin Cities and the world. Hint: it's about a lot more than bike lanes.
Tweeting

Will tweet for food: gardeners and farmers share social-media savvy in St Paul

Meleah Maynard Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Our techno-skeptical writer (and master gardener) Meleah Maynard showed up at a gathering of Twitter- and Facebook-friendly farmers and garden folk--last month's Social Media Breakfast at the State Fairgrounds. The scene was a little strange (half the audience was tweeting or texting during the presentations) but Meleah found herself warming up to the new ways Minnesotans are using the social web to get the word out about healthy food.
Powderkeg members on the Mississippi

Powderkeg Live!: A Prairie Home Companion for the cool kids

Andi McDaniel Wednesday, June 16, 2010
There's a mythical yellow house in a made-up Minneapolis neighborhood where a pair of writers and a musician join together with a rotating company of guest actors and singers to poke gentle fun at the foibles of the city's young, hip, and hopeful. Welcome to Powderkeg Live!, the cool little radio-style live variety show that's miles from Lake Wobegon--but very, very Minnesota.
Vesper Studet at the saw

Building as eco-art: Dan Noyes' Vesper College trains architects to be hands-on visionaries

Karen Olson Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Dan Noyes was a veteran teacher of architecture and design who wanted to create something new: a small, hyper-hands-on school of "ecological architecture" where the goal wouldn't be simply to turn out well-trained designers, but to nurture visionary poets of space-making whose work would foster a connection with the earth. When Noyes discovered that a century-old telephone exchange building in Northeast Minneapolis needed a basement tenant, one of the nation's smallest--and most innovative--graduate schools was born.
Panelists

Can Minnesota be another Silicon Valley? Techies meet at MinneBar conference to mull it over

Holly Dolezalek Wednesday, June 02, 2010
What can we do to do leverage the abundant high-tech talent in Minnesota into more startups? At the MinneBar 2010 conference, geeks and investors gathered to grapple with that question--among others--and to assess the state of the tech biz in the Gopher State. The verdict: More risk-taking, more mentoring, more connectivity are needed here--but everybody can keep their cabins.
Deb and Michael Padgett

The new/old West Seventh: Artist-led renewal honors the fabric of St. Paul's first neighborhood

Camille LeFevre Wednesday, June 02, 2010
There's art happening in Saint Paul's oldest neighborhood, the solidly blue-collar West Seventh, and it's revitalizing the area without gentrifying it. Creative types love the big houses and exhibition spaces that are available, and they're determined to remain good neighbors to the immigrants and old-line St. Paulites among whom they live.
Shopping for Pleasure and Intrigue

Top shops for the design freak: An audio slide show

Alyssa Ford Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Design maven Alyssa Ford scoured the Cities for places where great design is for sale, from legendary pottery to elegant, magazine-spread-worthy home decor to art toys straight out of Japanese cartoon culture--and our photographer, Bill Kelley, came along. Check out her picks and his pix.
Walker Art Center

What's next? Follow The Line

Jon Spayde Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Welcome to The Line. Today we launch the first issue of our weekly magazine, which will chronicle creativity and innovation at the Twin Cities' urban edge, from tech to transit, art to entrepreneurship, design to dining. We'll cover what's new and what's next for the Cities.
Minneapolis Street Market

Super subcultures, great neighborhoods: 14 experts on what makes the Twin Cities special

Jon Spayde Wednesday, May 26, 2010
 What's the special sauce that makes so many bright people who come here stay here--and a lot people who go away, come back? (And what do we need to make that sauce even richer?) Some local creative types weigh in.
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