‘Miscellany’ Archives
SPOKES Bike Walk Connect
Spokes, a community biking and walking center with a goal to get more people biking and walking at 1915 East 22nd Street Minneapolis. (one block west of Minnehaha Avenue on 22nd Street. 22nd Street is one block south of Franklin Avenue) gathered bikers on June 22nd to bike to Somali Independence Day at Lake Street and Blaisdell Avenue. Spokes also repairs, teaches and promotes walking and biking always connecting people at the same time.
East Phillips SummerFest 2014: A Roaring Success!!!
By Brad Pass The East Phillips Community held its First Annual SummerFest Sunday, June 22nd in the extraordinary East Phillips Park. The festival honored the diversity of the community with foods and entertainment from many of the cultures who call East Phillips home and the festival celebrated the 5 ½ year struggle, against all odds, to raise the money and redesign what used to be called “Cockroach Park” into the vibrant community center and park home for the community that it is today with its wonderful soccer fields, basketball courts and baseball diamond. The East Phillips Improvement Coalition (EPIC) and Minneapolis Park and Recreation sponsored the Festival. The mantra of success for this community as stated by neighborhood advisor Arthur Himmelman many years ago was and still is: “If you want to go Fast, go alone. (more…)
Buster Keaton, “The General” and Dreamland Faces combine for exquisite night at Cinema in the Cemetery
Saturday, May 24th, was a night to remember at Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery. Over 300 adults and an undetermined number of children under the age of 12 were on hand at the cemetery to watch Buster Keaton”'s 1926 classic silent film, “The General.” If you”'ve never seen the movie, The General is not a person but a locomotive. The locomotive, the great love of Johnny Gray”'s (Keaton) life, runs away with his sweetheart Annabelle, the second greatest love of his life. The film, set during the Civil War, is generally regarded as the greatest train movie ever made and is often listed among the top 100 American-made films. It is one hour and twenty minutes of chases, intrigue, stunts and slapstick comedy. Keaton never used a stuntman and took enormous risks while making what he considered his masterpiece. If something that is perfect can be made even “more perfect,” Dreamland Faces, local musicians, made that happen. For the full hour [...]
