Link Dump
- MSP Crime Watch: one year of crime blogging. Excellent read.
- The Daily interviews the PostSecret guy. (via doodledee)
- Tillie’s Bean gets cease-and-desist order from the city of Minneapolis for unlicensed live music. Minneapolis Issues Forum discusses the Coffee Unplugged issue.
- Ken Avidor on Tom Johnson and why he drives the people nuts. Dude’s running public meetings and is clearly completely disinterested. And he’s kind of a dick. (via Mpls Park Watch)
- City to collect organic waste in Linden Hills. “Thirty to 40 percent of garbage in Minneapolis is organic waste that could potentially be recycled, according to city documents.”
- Target to feature model-less fashion show. Holograms, they say.
- Metro Magazine got RSS feeds! This might have happened a while ago and I didn’t notice. Because I don’t go to their site since they had crap RSS feeds.
- Pick up the Blue Sky Guide. Prominently displayed at Common Roots and I’m sure other fine establishments around town. “Find the best green and local products, merchants and ideas from the people around you.” And coupons. (as reminded by Taylor)
- The City of Minneapolis reports back on the bicycle count study. [report (pdf)] [map (pdf)]
- ICYMI: the video of those guys rollerblading around Minneapolis in their underwear.
- Eating Local in the Winter - At REI Bloomington. 11/14.
- Another Fringe Encore. 11/8-11/11 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. I Hate Kenny G, Hansel & Gretel, Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach, and Take a Left at the Giant Cow: A Beginner’s Guide to North Dakota.
- I wish MinnPost would stop telling us what they’re going to give us, and just give it to us already.
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Jeff Horwich agrees with me on MinnPost.
“the site is stocked with commentaries on how it plans to do what it’s going to do, when it does it starting November 8″