A kinetic sculpture has kept watch over Cedar Lake since 1983. Now the sliver of land it stands on is on the market.

The Park Board’s fiscal shortfall amounts to roughly one-tenth of 1% of the city’s proposed budget, a math teacher argues, and no line item delivers more for the money.

Three miles east of Uptown, Ingebretsen’s Anna Bloomstrand watched her stretch of Lake Street move from crisis to cooperation. What worked was not construction. It was a room where people knew each other.

The Park Board rebuilt the lakeside pavilion for $6.5 million, then renewed a 2017 concession decision without reopening it to bidders. The concept that opened was never competitively evaluated, and two years have cost the park system $291,777.

A grand home on the parkway has sat empty for more than a decade. The county seized it, then handed it back on a promise of renovation that still has not arrived.

Those mysterious road cutouts around the lakes are speed humps and traffic circles, the payoff of an eight-step city process that can take years.

Long called the Twin Cities’ oldest fountain and a work of the Italian Renaissance, the Lyndale Park landmark is neither. Its real story begins in a Florentine foundry a century ago.

The historic Loring Park landmark, home to a 650-seat theater and a rooftop terrace, goes to a developer known for restorations, and the club stays on as a tenant.

A chance conversation after a concert turns into an discussion about parking, primaries and why two lifelong liberals hardly recognize each other.

Neighbors are invited to meet the artists behind the Uptown shop’s taxidermy birds, French homeware and one-of-a-kind handmade pieces.

The 15th annual sale spans six neighborhoods with over 100 individual sales. Join the re-use fun as a buyer or seller!

Almost 20 years in, the Uptown mainstay still has its original owners doing most of the cooking, a neighborhood that carried it through the hard years, and boat noodles you won’t find on many American menus.