This is my favorite weekend of the year to be in Minneapolis. My neighborhood – Northeast – is busy with the Art-a-Whirl gallery tour (the country’s largest) and fun things are happening in old buildings – like the Northrup King Building and 331 Club.
Some people know where this building is located, while others do not.
Walking down a gravel trail flanked by gigantic white pine trees showing off their fresh, bright green needles, my mom pointed toward a clearing to explain that this whole tract of land was once owned by Otto C. Doering, an officer of Sears, Roebuck & Company of Chicago back in the early 1900s. We were walking the Round Lake Logging Dam Interpretive Trail in northern Wisconsin on a perfect spring day, and I couldn’t remember the last time my mom and I had spent this much one-on-one time in the outdoors…
Read the rest of the story about my Wisconsin weekend HERE.
I’m really liking Kurt Vile, especially the Baby’s Arms song on Smoke Ring For My Halo.
Lowry Avenue + Blue Blockers
Hopped on my bike for a quick perusal of the Lowry Bridge’s progress – it’s moving pretty quickly at this point and is on track to be open this summer. After this bridge closing in 2008, along with the Plymouth Avenue Bridge to the south, it will be nice to have another bridge serving NE.
Tom About Town 