“Minneapolis-St. Paul is among the 15 biggest cities in the U.S. Yet in my opinion, this market is incredibly underdeveloped for small, specialty coffee roasters and retailers. It could be an exciting time here.”
Read more: Caribou closings might mean indie coffee boom is brewing | MinnPost
Murals and signage give Lake & 5th’s automotive zone a unique vibe
Poet and top-fiver on any list of noted Minneapolis literary figures John Berryman once referred to Lake Street as the place “where the used cars live.” East Lake Street is second only to University as the car-craziest part of the cities. From the river to the lakes, it’s home to dozens of body shops, garages, used car dealers, car washes, auto painting businesses, parking lots, drive-in restaurants and liquor stores, and an absolutely absurd amount of auto-parts places.
Less than spring-like weather hasn’t stopped deployment of hundreds of neon-green Nice Ride bikes around the Twin Cities.
And this year, the bike-sharing group will add 24 more stations, bringing the total to 170 stations.
The polls have been open across Minnesota for about seven hours now. Early reports from the Twin Cities indicate strong voter turnout.
Photos by Karl Pearson-Cater, Craig Lassig, Corey Anderson and Joel Kramer
25 years ago today: Twins win the World Series
With an October 25, 1987 game seven win over the St. Louis Cardinals, the Minnesota Twins brought the Twin Cities their first major sports championship and turned the cities into a one big, crazy, happy family.
Read more in Peter Schilling’s ‘In ’87 the Twins turned the towns upside down’.
Image courtesy of the Minnesota Twins
Could beer help the Twin Cities?
It takes only a menu in a local restaurant listing exotically named concoctions like Fulton Lonely Blond, Left Hand Chainsaw Ale and Rush River Double Bubble to let you know that craft beers are booming.
Mapping the Twin Cities’ most dangerous intersections
Using five-year data from MnDOT, MinnPost mapped the intersections deemed to be the Twin Cities’ most dangerous. The ranking includes fatalities, injuries and accident rates.
Click the image to explore the interactive map, or read more in Marlys’s story: Where are Minnesota’s most crash-prone intersections?
Get ready for curated cat videos (!) at Walker Open Field
Forget Rock the Garden and River’s Edge. Never mind Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw at Target Field. Summer’s biggest event may turn out to be an hour’s worth of cat videos on the Walker’s Open Field.
Between now and July 30, you can nominate your favorite cat videos for consideration.
![Amid complaints, chefs keep on [food] truckin’
Currently, there are about 40 food trucks in Minneapolis and 60 in St. Paul, up from none a few years ago. More could be on the way, and once-and-future chefs won’t be the only ones launching them.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70a5rNUAy1qzdjk0o1_1280.jpg)
Amid complaints, chefs keep on [food] truckin’
Currently, there are about 40 food trucks in Minneapolis and 60 in St. Paul, up from none a few years ago. More could be on the way, and once-and-future chefs won’t be the only ones launching them.
It’s Bike/Walk day! To celebrate, we created an animated map showing 24 hours of NiceRide trips around the cities. Watch the bikes in action, and zoom in to find specific stations.
Happy bike commuting!
Rebuild Caribe Caribbean Bistro
PSA for Twin Cities folks who love(d) Caribe — you can help them get back up and running in NE Minneapolis. Their new location would be dangerously close to MinnPost HQ.
The Falls of Minnehaha flash and gleam
The “laughing waters” tumble 53 feet as Minnehaha Creek nears the end of its journey from Lake Minnetonka to the Mississippi River.
Photos by Steve Date
MinnPost’s Jeff Severns Guntzel and Cynthia Boyd teamed up to take a look at growing poverty in the Twin Cities suburbs.
Check out the interactive map and accompanying story.
Steve Date has a slideshow today from a “New Orleans-style wake for the middle class” organized by The American Dream movement, MoveOn.org and OccupyMN, Sunday.
