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Conny's Cone

Down Dale: Images of a city street

Bill Kelley Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Our photographer, Bill Kelley, took a leisurely trip from Maryland Avenue to Selby Avenue on Dale Street, making images of the many faces of this great old Saint Paul street: the well-loved neighborhood institution called Conny's Creamy Cone, a place to get Cambodian DVDs, the ambitious new Frogtown Square development, Big Daddy's Barbecue--and a gigantic sunflower too. Join him on one of the city's most diverse and soulful thoroughfares.
scott smedberg

Life in the no-drive zone: Two autoless experts on how to be car-free in the Twin Cities

Dan Heilman Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Can you really ditch your ride and live carless in the Cities? A youth worker and a cartoonist who have been without everyday internal combustion for years say yes--as long as you're willing to do a little planning and take advantage of all the transit options in town. Pluses include: closeness to nature, awareness of others, improved relationships--and a body that tells people you don't spend half your life in a driver's seat.
Groupo Rival at El Nuevo Laredo

El Nuevo Rodeo: The restaurant/dance club with something for everybody in the Latino community

Alyssa Ford Wednesday, October 20, 2010
El Nuevo Rodeo is a a large, cheerful Mexican restaurant on Lake Street. It's also a gigantic, pretty sensational dance club upstairs, drawing huge crowds to hear the biggest names in Latin music, from Mexican banda and norte�o groups to pop and salsa superstars. For co-founder and owner Maya Santamaria, a music promoter who used to be an anthropologist, it's also a cultural and community center for the whole local Latino population--straight and gay--and a symbol of Latino entrepreneurship and enterprise in the Cities.

Editor's Note: No issue next week

Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Line will take next week off starting Wednesday October 27--it's not a Halloween hiatus but the beginning of some changes to our web site's Content Management System (CMS) that will allow us to organize and display our content more effectively.
John Foley of Level

John Foley's 4Front festival: turning our towns into world centers of creativity

Chris Steller Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Like it or not, the Twin Cities are competing with major metropolises around the world--we're talking Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, and the like--to attract creative, innovative, entrepreneurial people who can live anywhere. That's the message of adman John Foley, whose brand-new nonprofit, 4Front, aims to raise awareness of this high-stakes situation by creating a yearly festival that's part competition, part showcase of Twin Cities innovation. The goal: to lure the best and brightest worldwide to our towns.
Steven McCarthy

Where is product design headed? A U of M symposium offers up-to-the-minute answers

Camille LeFevre Wednesday, October 13, 2010
To celebrate the creation a graduate minor in product design, and raise awareness of the field within the Twin Cities' vibrant design community, the University of Minnesota's College of Design held a wide-ranging symposium on the discipline of designing objects to sell. Experts weighed in on everything from the role of humor in design creativity to the popularity of vintage clothing stores--and more than one presenter warned that the increasing geographical separation of design centers from factories is weakening product design in the US and favoring China, where designers and producers interact with ease.
Alchemy

Small is beautiful: Alchemy Architects' weeHouses are little, prefabricated, and getting famous

Meleah Maynard Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Think of them as small, elegant design objects you live in. They take a whole lot less time to put up than your average house--even your average little house--because they are almost entirely prefabricated. They're weeHouses by St. Paul's Alchemy Architects, and they're a hot commodity in the national, and even international, design world.
Chef David Fhima

For chef David Fhima, healthy eating isn't necessarily lo-cal, lo-carb--it's all about real food

Lori Storm Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Want to be healthy? The celebrated Moroccan-born chef David Fhima says: eat butter, cream, and other supposedly "bad" foods if you love them. But eat them in moderation, and in all your eating, opt for "real food"--fresh foods that come right from mother nature. The stuff Fhima is phobic about is lo-cal fake food that may not be fattening, but isn't healthy either. The chef, who's had his share of glitzy successes and failures in the Twin Cities restaurant scene, has brought this "real food" philosophy to his Saint Paul restaurant, FACES, to Lifetime Fitness' health clubs, and even to high school.
Triple Rock

Replacing the Replacements: Our music scene is still hot, and here's where to catch rising stars

Dan Heilman Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The palmy days of Prince, H�sker D�, the Replacements, and other iconic Twin Cities bands may have passed, but our music scene is just as vital, and a lot more diverse, today. Just as in the golden age, seeing and hearing the bands live is crucial to really getting to know the scene, so here is our list of definitive venues--from the legendary and cavernous former home base of the Purple One, First Avenue, to the beer-fragrant holes-in-the-wall where tomorrow's stars are plugging in their amps.
Mpls. TV 1

It's not TV--It's MPLS.TV, the witty web "station" that loves the twin cities in its own oddball way

Dan Haugen Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The three self-confessed "broke, clueless twenty-somethings" who put out MPLS.TV five days a week want to take their cheeky, edgy web-video love letter to the cities to the next level. With new offices in Northeast, a growing fan base and social-media profile, and no end of new ideas, they just might make it.
roundtable

The green question mark: State researchers are trying to define just what a green job is

Holly Dolezalek Wednesday, September 22, 2010
There's a lot of excitement about "green jobs" and their potential to put America back to work. But defining what a green job actually is can be difficult, say some clued-in researchers in the state Department of Employment and Economic Development whose efforts have helped put Minnesota is in the forefront of the infant science of green-labor-market studies. A few real-world trends: there are many shades of green in the job market, the total number of certifiably green jobs in the state isn't large yet, and yet the potential for green-job growth is real.
The Coffee Shop NE

28th and Johnson: an urban village in the sweet spot between "too quiet" and "no place to park"

Ellen Shaffer Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Meet the quirky, inviting business district at 28th and Johnson in Northeast Minneapolis--an urban village that, at least for now, seems to have found an elusive middle ground: it's got enough enticing amenities to attract strollers, shoppers, and eaters, but it's not well enough known for there to be parking problems and half-hour waits for a table.
Heather Wielding a Torch

The Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center wants to be a torch-bearer for neighborhood renewal

Jon Spayde Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Six friends who live near the struggling intersection of 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis wanted to see what they could do to revitalize their neighborhood. So, in the middle of an economic downturn and against most of the odds, they formed a nonprofit to create, of all things, an art center centered on fire. They worked hard and got lucky, and the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center is set to open in October with classes in welding, forge building, jewelry making, and blacksmithing. If their luck holds, the CAFAC will be also be a crucible for change in the 'hood.
Daithi Sproule

The sound of Ceol Heights: An Irish music renaissance on Saint Paul's West Side

Susan Klemond Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Guitarist Da�th� Sproule, a globe-trotting member of the Celtic supergroup Altan and one of the true giants of traditional Irish music, lives not in Dublin or New York but on Saint Paul's West Side--along with a growing community of musicians who play Irish music locally and nationally, and who love the fact that their close-knit neighborhood gives them plenty of chances to get together and jam.
Lili Hall of Knock

Will gritty Glenwood Avenue be the next hot creative district? Forward-thinker Lili Hall says yes

Amy Goetzman Wednesday, September 08, 2010
When Lili Hall moved her hip marketing agency, KNOCK, from the Warehouse District into a massively remodeled former grocery market on Glenwood Avenue, eyebrows were raised. After all, the street was best known for the municipal impound lot, vacant storefronts, and vast stretches of cracked concrete. But Hall is sure that Glenwood's creative resources (International Market Square, for one) and its role as a gateway to downtown foretell a cool future for the struggling street--and she intends to help it happen.
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