Introducing… the Northeast Beat wikis!

As the Northeast Beat’s popularity has taken off in the past few months, the amount of free time I’ve had to spend tinkering with it has unfortunately stayed about the same. Your e-mails with news tips and event notices are coming more frequently, which is a great thing. But I’ve felt bad lately that a […]

Northeast in the News (Misc. Links)

PioneerPress: Pop! lives up to its promiseMPR: Film follows Northeast boxers into the ringPulse: Mothersbaugh’s "Postcard Diaries"

City offering trees for spring planting

Northeast residents looking to add some shade to their property have a chance to get trees from the city this spring at a discounted price. The city of Minneapolis and Tree Trust have 1,500 trees available for $15 each and must be ordered by April 15. The city and neighborhood groups have recently promoted tree […]

Man dies after fight on No. 10 bus: reports

An unsettling article in today’s Star Tribune: Minneapolis police are investigating an apparent homicide after a fight broke out Monday on the Number 10 bus. The fight happened between two passengers at about 6 p.m. when the bus was near 5th Street and Central Avenue, according to the story. It wasn’t clear whether the fight […]

A sequel for the Hollywood Theater?

By Melissa SlachetkaNortheast Beat Contributor
“It’s amazing how everyone has a Hollywood Theater story,” Sharrin Miller-Bassi says with a glow in her eye. “People who worked here, who had their first date here … everyone remembers something.”
The Hollywood Theater’s inside is airy and mysterious. Relics of the past are everywhere. Lanterns hang strung on cords. […]

Holland to talk about housing foreclosures, inspections

A discussion from last month about mortgage foreclosures will be continued at Thursday’s Holland neighborhood meeting. A speaker will join the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association from the Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program, a section of the Northside Residents Redevelopment Council. The conversation will be on preventing foreclosures and preserving neighborhoods.
Also on the agenda is the upcoming […]

An alien sighting and a marquee lighting

On a night when the Modern Cafe came under an alien invasion, it was another spectacle down the block that captured neighbors’ attention. It was 1997, almost a decade before the Ritz Theater’s renovation, when a music video crew led by director Phil Harder plugged an electrical generator into the theater’s old 1950s-style marquee. […]

Audubon Park planning 29th Avenue streetscape

By Dan HaugenNortheast Beat Editor
Audubon Park is drawing up plans for a streetscape redesign on a key east-west corridor that could see a spike in traffic in the coming years.
Twenty-Ninth Avenue starts at Central Avenue and runs east past the neighborhood’s park and Johnson Street business node before eventually becoming County Road C and connecting […]