Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

property politics: shit is getting heated!

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/03/pols-push-back-against-online-mob-in-mpls-house-demolition/

hmmm i don't know where to side in this deal

it's actually about ethics in property demolition

http://wedgelive.blogspot.com/2015/02/getting-out-of-hand.html

this is insane

#wedgelyfe

the minneapolis mayor seems pretty fucking cool, honestly.

Yeah she's cool

oh my god

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/299228041.html

https://twitter.com/janashortal/status/586249434230628354

Ugh so insane

http://pollenmidwest.org/stories/meet-emma/

laidoff tsrget employee has lip tattoo, thinks minnesotans are bad, is moving to new york > a decade late to be a bigtime artist

I scrolled through that and then began rolling my eyes so hard

lol idk if i've ever met that person but my ambient opinion of her is not high

there are a lot of assumptions in there that I don't quite buy, although I have heard them in other cities of the midwest with "art communities"

That might be the least worthy use of the word "titan" in history

Also a lot of that is um... Well Minneapolis has a good art scene but it's not New York but it's nice and New York is super expensive but it's also more exciting than Minneapolis, like...no shit?

i wonder what kind of membership oath this community of connectors has

Honestly one of the worst things about Minneapolis is how we're constantly worried about how we stack up in the arts

sometimes people aren't being mean about your abilities when they say there are "too many painters," they literally mean that there are so many painters that it's going to be difficult to establish a niche when the interest is so divided

xp yeah it's lame. we're up there man! we're on the map. right up there, indianapolis, columbus, ft worth, charlotte, detroit, el paso, seattle, denver, all of them

you guys have the Walker, stop aiming so high with people doodling or w/e :D

re: "too many painters" -- the dude did ok eventually. though iirc the bulk of his work was of her.

http://www.vita.mn/133908173.html?page=all

idk i kind of feel like a dick now. go on, do your thing.

"worked for Target" is such a broad brush. not that it matters what your day job is if it's in service of what you view as your actual work, but?

Who will fill this void of "aging hipster lady that works a corporate gig but has an artsy side that she uses to define herself"? Might as well pack up the city and move on I guess.

they employ so many people, a lot of 'creatives' too. copywriters, people in textiles, designers of all kinds. it was sort of the underlying base to the whole fashion & arts infrastructure here. the bloodletting after the canada debacle was seriously bad; i think a lot of the uhh elegiac tone of that article only makes sense in that context.

tbh every person I've known who does organization in an arts community either eventually moves to do so in a larger city, usually as a paid position, or eventually rededicates their effort toward a more fulfilling career in their existing community

that's not really a community shortcoming or tragedy, change is good

xp yeah, I wondered if that was partially the case

'yall ambitionless fucks don't realize what a titanic maker yall had right under yr nose, C-YA'

Who will fill this void of "aging hipster lady that works a corporate gig but has an artsy side that she uses to define herself"? Might as well pack up the city and move on I guess.

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, June 16, 2015 1:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey I know a guy like this *dies inside dreaming dreams of NYC*

Honestly one of the worst things about Minneapolis is how we're constantly worried about how we stack up in the artseverything
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2015/06/high-weirdness-mail-mapping-twin-cities-late-80s-fringe?utm_content=buffercf1f9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

that was great. i remember the stang book from the time of course. WKIW warlords of satan.

oh awesome, thanks

that writer just put on a fake personal growth seminar for a big all-night art event here. this is the website:

http://webzap-services.info/

http://go963mn.com/news/2015/farewell-uptown-cheapo-records

this is so fucking sad

is the snelling ave one still alive

a shell

you can buy some chicken across the street tho

the premise of the go96 article is such bullshit

they weren't going out of business they got kicked out of their lease

Yeah no shit, that pissed me off

Some people don't get the economics like OK let's imagine Cheapo could afford even 100K a month in rent. That's not going to compete with a new building where they'll do 3 storefronts with 30k rents and then 200 units at 1500 or more a pop

been kind of wanting to visit mpls sometime this summer, I guess I'll have to do an uptown afternoon?

gentrification is too real

http://www.nordeastyoga.com/

i can tell you that nobody who grew up in this neighborhood pronounces it like a finnish tinker telling you how to get to taylor's falls

I'm coming back to the Twin Cities for visit number 2 next month. What new things have appeared in the last year that I must see/do?

Did you go to Minnehaha Falls?

I did not!

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EZ - the Falls park is great, beautiful waterfall in south mpls, go on as weekday if you can, there is a great lunch place called Sea Salt where you can get po boys and oysters and fish etc & beer....lots of trails to explore. Good place to get "nice" and walk strong around if you are so inclined

Sounds amazing. Adding it to my itinerary.

Also this sounds kinda weird but...Lakewood Cemetary