Minnesota Energy Challenge

Northeast is looking pretty lame in the Minnesota Energy Challenge neighborhood standings. The website estimates how many pounds of greenhouse emissions your routines are responsible for generating, and then calculates how much you could reduce it by "pledging" various actions like switching to energy-efficient light bulbs. Your savings are added up with others in your […]

Sock-Monkey Dress

I just read on the Walker Art Center’s Off Center blog about a Northeast artist who’s work includes a dress made from sock monkeys and western shirt made of fruit roll-ups. Rebecca Yaker is also a Minnesota Rollergirl and designs and sells baby bedding, quilts, and sock monkeys at her business, Hazel and Melvin’s […]

Marshall Avenue Shooting

Associated Press is reporting that a 24-year-old Minneapolis man was shot and killed early this morning in Northeast in a gun battle between two cars. The Star Tribune says it happened around 2:30 a.m. in the 2800 block of Marshall Avenue (in the neighborhood of Marshall Terrace Park and Psycho Suzi’s). KARE 11 says police […]

Press Start

Up, up, down, down, left on Broadway, right on Quincy? Altered Esthetics celebrates the opening of its new gallery tonight with an evening of video-game-themed art and music. "Level_13: Bonus Round" incorporates the sights and sounds of classic video games into artwork, music, sculpture and video: Steve Ogdahl’s wall of lights to the music of […]

The Show Goes On

With a hop and a shuffle rockabilly-bluesman Cadillac Kolstad ushered in the 331 Club’s city-mandated amplified-music moratorium Wednesday with a bit of unplugged rebellion. The first musician on stage since a cease-and-desist order took effect, Kolstad opened his set with "Mama Don’t Allow," a traditional built on repeated verses like "Mama don’t allow no (guitar […]

football season is over.

This piece of poster graffiti was pasted to a utility box at Spring and Central about a month ago — weeks before the Vikings inevitably tanked it for the year. What the heck does it mean? Four cartoonish rabbit silhouettes, identical except that the bottom two seem to be dripping with blood, or ink. I […]