‘Miscellany’ Archives
Mogadishu, MN HBO virtual reality disrupts normal reality for days at 26th St. and Bloomington Ave.
BY HARVEY WINJE Film crews busied themselves around 26th St. & Bloomington Avenue from Oct 17th thru 20th as HBO continued to shoot “Mogadishu, Minnesota.” The HBO drama follows a Somali-American family based in Minneapolis. The crew was set up, with large screens, lighting, props, Hi-tech equipment and many trucks and trailers including a fauz car collision that, ironically, happens in reality at that intersection far too often on normal days. Reportedly, 90 percent of the crew being used for the project are local people although a food catering truck was from California (with one staff from Powderhorn Neighborhood and one from Brainerd, MN). Similar scenes of film production are also occurring in other locations across the Twin Cities to be featured in the show; many in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood where there is opposition to the production as influencing discriminatory stereotypes. Kathryn Bigelow is one of the producers behind the project. She is best [...]
Stone”'s Throw Urban Farm produce stand on a Saturday at the Midtown Farmer”'s Market
Angela Schuster and Caroline Devaney displaying and selling beautiful vegetables at Stone”'s Throw Urban Farm produce stand on a Saturday at the Midtown Farmer”'s Market with. Stone”'s Throw Urban Farm is a 3-acre certified organic vegetable farm based on 16 formerly vacant lots in the Twin Cities (including on 15th Av and 28th St in Phillips). Our mission is to develop as a farm that is an agent of economic and social change, empowering its owners, workers, and neighbors to grow nutritious food, employ and develop ecological farming methods, and work collectively to establish equitable and just systems of food and land access in the city. Â Our farm is structured as a limited liability partnership and for profit business, aligning with our belief that growing food should be a viable livelihood and that workplace decision-making power should be situated in people involved in the farm”'s day-to-day operations. Â As a member of Shared Ground Farmer”'s [...]
