News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Sunday December 21st 2025
Sustainable Kitchen and New Nordic Cooking Classes at Ingebretsen”'s
By Carstens Smith
Karen Olson Johnson, the co-host of AM950”'s “Food Freedom Radio” will host two talks in April focusing on the small changes you can make in your cooking and eating habits that will have a big impact on the environment and the quality of everyone”'s life, especially your own. Karen will host the lively combination of lectures, questions, and answers on Monday evenings April 1 and 8 from 6 to 8 pm. Each evening is $5.
Karen is a long-time science education and teacher-trainer. She is the author of Common Sense for the Common Good and From Where I See It, informative guides to the simple steps we can take to create a cleaner, healthier world. Both books will be available at Karen”'s talks.
Ingebresten”'s will celebrate Earth Day with a New Nordic Cuisine dinner prepared by food historian and blogger Patrice Johnson. Patrice has combined her love for Scandinavian food (she is a self-proclaimed “Nordic food geek and meatball historian”) with her commitment to sustainability and to eating well with minimal impact on the environment. Patrice will provide a light dinner, recipes, and an overview of the aesthetic behind New Nordic cuisine on Monday, April 22 from 6 to 8.… Read the rest “Sustainable Kitchen and New Nordic Cooking Classes at Ingebretsen”'s”
Hey Gardeners
By Brad Pass
It”'s NOT too early to start thinking about Garden fresh tomatoes, herbs and squash, It only seems so if you look outside. So – crank up your imagination and conjure mental pictures of spading warm loam, planting and tending the food and flowers for 2013.
Gardening News:
- The East Phillips Community 17th Ave. Garden (2428 17th Ave. S.) has a few openings for garden plots every spring. If you are an East Phillips resident and are interested, Contact Brad Pass at bpass@usinternet.com to get on the Wait List. For immediate attention, add “GARDEN” in caps to the subject line.
The First Garden General Membership meeting of the 2013 Gardening season;
WHEN? Saturday, April. 13th
Time? 10:00 AM
Where? The East Phillips Park Community Center (2307 17th Ave. S.)
Garden Plots will be assigned, and
Plot fees will be collected, and
Sign-up for Garden Work Groups
- The Local Food Resource Hubs Network provides support to residents who wish to grow their own fresh produce, helping to ensure greater food security and healthy food access. Hub membership provides seeds, plants, classes, tools and networking. To join a hub in one of four Minneapolis neighborhoods or the Midway neighborhood of St.Paul,Â
Jack the Giant Slayer
Jack the Giant Slayer
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Jack the Giant
Slayer (2013)
**1/2
Warner Bros. Cast: Nicholas Hoult (Jack), Eleanor Tomlinson (Isabelle), Ewan McGregor (Elmont), Stanley Tucci (Roderick), Eddie Marsan (Crawe), Ewen Bremmer (Wicke).(PG-13) Running time:114 minutes. Director: Bryan Singer.Â
A simple, young farmhand Jack (Nicholas Hoult) unwittingly starts a war between giants in the clouds and earthly humans that hasn”'t happened in centuries.
One Day Jack went to the marketplace where he intermittently eyes a pretty girl in the crowd who happens to be Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson). But on the way back from fending off three or four brutes from Isabelle, a monk convinces Jack to buy a handful of beans in exchange for his horse. Those beans, however,are not ordinary beans”“they”'re magic.
Meanwhile, Isabelle is suited to marry a surly knight Roderick (Stanley Tucci) on order of her father, King Brahmwell (Ian McShane). She rebuffs any marriage to Roderick and at nightfall leaves the castle fleeing to Jack”'s hut. There at the hut is short-lived because Jack dropped a bean producing a monstrous beanstalk rises to the skies carrying the hut and Isabelle with it.
The king sends out a group of men”“Jack willing volunteers”“including Elmont (Ewan McGregor), Jack”'s good friend,and the backstabbing Roderick.… Read the rest “Jack the Giant Slayer”
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