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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the newsletter: The contentious plan to demolish the Cooper School and replace it with a newly built Anishinabe Academy is up in the air as of this afternoon, when the District shared that it’s now considering an alternative location at the Wilder Complex near Powderhorn Park.
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🏫 Anishinabe Academy might not move to the Cooper School site, after all
The plan to demolish the building and replace it with a newly-built facility for Anishinabe Academy could be scrapped in favor of a different site.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In the newsletter: Marathon watching tips, seasonal business closing dates, utility work updates, boulevard garden plantings, new construction, bike events, daredevil hijinks, and much more.
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🏃 September miscellanea
Where to watch the marathon on Sunday More than a quarter-million people are expected to cheer on the Twin Cities Marathon runners on Sunday. The course makes its way up West River Parkway from miles...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the newsletter: Inside Becketwood senior co-op, where the most distinctive feature isn't the idyllic riverside campus, but how really, very, extremely, almost-comically engaged most residents are in the enterprise.
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🏫 "Like never-ending summer camp": Becketwood senior co-op turns 40
“It’s a little slice of Utopia in South Minneapolis.”  That’s how Iric Nathanson describes Becketwood, his home of the past 15 years, as we stroll through the oak savannah that rings the campus. I’m ...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In the newsletter: Financing is coming together for a redevelopment of the former ADM Nokomis Mill at 35th and Hiawatha. But the corner will stay in its current dilapidated state for at least another year.
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🏗️ Developer unveils plans for Nokomis Mill site at 35th and Hiawatha
Financing is coming together for a redevelopment of the former Nokomis Mill at 35th and Hiawatha. But the corner will stay in its current dilapidated state for at least another year.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the newsletter: A look at Levitated Dispensaries at 41st and Hiawatha, a venture led by the owners of neighboring Elevated Beer Wine and Spirits, who are hoping their highway-side location can become a convenient one-stop shop for the state's range of legal intoxicants.
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🌲 Team behind Elevated liquor store opening an adjoining dispensary
The owners of Elevated Beer Wine and Spirits at 41st and Hiawatha are preparing to open a cannabis dispensary on the other end of their building next week.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In the newsletter: @thehookmpls has survived a tumultuous 10 years at Lake and Minnehaha, and is now preparing to further expand its programming. It's celebrating its anniversary with a free two-day festival and community picnic this weekend.
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🎸 The Hook and Ladder turns 10
The venue has survived a tumultuous 10 years at Lake and Minnehaha, and is now preparing to further expand its programming.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In the newsletter: A new shop in a long-vacant space, more dog treat stations, leadership change at Redesign, whimsical graffiti, and much more.
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🌞 July miscellanea
A new shop in a long-vacant space, more dog treat stations, leadership change at Redesign, whimsical graffiti, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In the newsletter: A look back at the history of the stately schoolhouse and the apartment building it became, which respectively turn 120 and 40 years old this year.
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🏫 The life and times of Simmons Elementary
The history of the stately schoolhouse and the apartment building it became, which respectively turn 120 and 40 years old this year.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In the newsletter: A look into the phenomenon of neighborhood dog treat stations.
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🦴 Dog treat stations of Longfellow
The stations have become an increasingly common sight in the neighborhood, and come in all shapes and sizes.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In the newsletter: The Savory Bake House space won't be vacant long once the beloved neighborhood bakery moves to St. Paul later this summer. Front Porch Pies, a vegan bakery that supplies pastries for a number of Twin Cities coffee shops, will open a retail bakery in the small storefront this fall.
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🥧 Front Porch Pies vegan bakery will take over the Savory Bake House space
The Savory Bake House space won't be vacant long once the beloved neighborhood bakery moves to St. Paul later this summer. Front Porch Pies, an all-purpose vegan bakery that supplies pastries for a nu...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In the newsletter: The side hustle that started in an apartment has grown to one of the region's largest residential cleaning companies. And they've done it from a series of visible locations in Longfellow.
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🧽 Two Bettys Green Cleaning turns 20
A newsletter covering life in the Longfellow neighborhoods of Minneapolis.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In the newsletter: The steam-powered museum on rails — both celebrated and mocked — drew record crowds to Minnehaha Park.
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🚊 When the bicentennial train came to Minnehaha Park
The steam-powered museum tour — both celebrated and mocked — drew record crowds to Minnehaha Park.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In the newsletter: A peek inside the freshly opened Ducks on Lake, plus construction updates, boulevard plantings, commercial buildings for sale, a very large snake sighting, and much more.
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☕️ June miscellanea: First look at Ducks on Lake
Plus construction updates, boulevard plantings, commercial buildings for sale, a very large snake sighting, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In the newsletter: A local developer has pursued a shifting series of plans for the site since purchasing it in 2020.
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🏗️ Work could soon begin on rehabbing the former Dragon City Cafe
A local developer has pursued a shifting series of plans for the building since purchasing it in 2020.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
In the newsletter: The new history-slash-cookbook from Sea Salt co-owner Kait Zimer-Davis and journalist Gail Rosenblum offers a glimpse into the notoriously insular institution.
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📘 New book shares Sea Salt's recipes — and lore
As a longtime Minneapolis resident, Gail Rosenblum isn't sure how she'd never been to Sea Salt before 2017, the year her daughter started dating co-owner Kait Ziemer-Davis. But after that first visit,...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In the newsletter: The latest plan for the long-boarded property, perhaps the neighborhood's most-wondered-about vacancy.
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🏚️ New buyer in line for Elsa's House of Sleep building
A newsletter covering life in the Longfellow neighborhoods of Minneapolis.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In the newsletter: The calendar runneth over with summer events this month.
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📆 Whenever Wherever: June events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The inaugural Great Longfellow Saunter is coming up on Saturday, June 6. A 10K walk around the neighborhood for no reason in particular. Free with pre-registration.
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The Great Longfellow Saunter
A long neighborhood walk, for no reason in particular.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
In the newsletter: A preview of Tree House dispensary, one of at least three recreational cannabis dispensaries planned in the neighborhood, as the long-delayed retail shops legalized by the legislature in 2023 begin to proliferate across the Twin Cities.
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🌲 Dispensary coming to 41st and Lake
In the newsletter: A preview of Tree House dispensary, one of at least three recreational cannabis dispensaries planned in the neighborhood.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In the newsletter: Updates on numerous neighborhood developments, spring festivals, Laune's rhubarb trade, and much more.
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🌷 Mid-May miscellanea
Numerous development updates, spring festivals, Laune's rhubarb trade, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In the newsletter: An exclusive sneak peek at this year's variation of the unofficial neighborhood uniform, which drops Thursday.
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👕 This year's East Lake Liquor t-shirt color is...
An exclusive sneak peek at this year's variation of the unofficial neighborhood uniform.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In the newsletter: Spring bloom report, Doors Open preview, hand-painted sign rundown, restaurant updates, and much more.
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🌸 April miscellanea
🏛️ Neighborhood spots at Doors Open Minneapolis The Doors Open Minneapolis Festival is coming up next weekend, May 9-10, an annual event that opens up notable buildings for public viewing across the ...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In the newsletter: Even more coffee news! Today, details on the planned "Ducks on Lake," a second location of Duck Duck Coffee, which will take over the former Milkweed space at 39th and Lake.
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☕️ "Ducks on Lake" coffee shop opening in the former Milkweed
More coffee news this week: Duck Duck Coffee will open a second location, called Ducks on Lake, in the former Milkweed space at 39th and Lake. It could open as soon as next month.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the newsletter: Details on the reopening of Arya Cafe, where new owners are hoping the third time's the charm for the sunny coffee shop at 46th and Minnehaha.
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☕️ Arya Cafe is back
Details on the reopening of Arya Cafe, where the owners are hoping the third time's the charm for the sunny coffee shop at 46th and Minnehaha.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In the newsletter: A new home for Lowbrow Saints Tattoo Collective, new details on the potential new Anishinabe Academy, Sea Salt opening, a new boardwalk at Minnehaha Park, Dorman Avenue eagle updates, and much more.
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✒️ Mid-April miscellanea: Lowbrow Saints reopens on Minnehaha
Plus new details on the potential new Anishinabe Academy, Sea Salt opening, a new boardwalk at Minnehaha Park, Dorman Avenue eagle updates, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Details on the expansion plans for Shepherds Table, the tiny direct-from-Minnesota-producers deli and cheese shop across from Longfellow Park, which will turn it into something closer to a full-fledged cafe.
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🥪 Shepherd's Table adding a dining room next door
Details on yet another neighborhood business expanding in place.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
In the newsletter: Details on the oft-shifting plans for Longfellow residents Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukherjee to bring their storied Pangea World Theater to the neighborhood.
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🎭 Momentum building for the new Pangea World Theater at Lake and Minnehaha
For more than a decade, Longfellow residents Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukherjee have been angling to move their longstanding Pangea World Theater to the neighborhood. A slew of plans have advance...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
In the newsletter: A look at neighborhood filmmaker Ajuawak Kapashesit’s project — which premieres at the MSP International Film Festival on April 14 — and the phenomenon that inspired it, which remains stubbornly unexplained after decades of investigation.
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🎬 "The Boom" is an eerie short film inspired by the Longfellow Boom
The lowdown on the film and the phenomenon that inspired it, which remains stubbornly unexplained after decades of investigation.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In the newsletter: Mutual aid updates, community ed in the neighborhood, a chance to run for the LCC board, dance parties, baseball watch parties, bouquet subscriptions, egg hunts, and much more.
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🍀 Mid-March miscellanea
Mutual aid updates, community ed in the neighborhood, a chance to run for the LCC board, dance parties, baseball watch parties, bouquet subscriptions, egg hunts, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
In the newsletter: After nearly 20 years in the tight confines of its middle retail space at 47th and Lake, Corazon is about to double its size.
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🎁 Corazon gift shop expanding into the old Papa Murphy's
After nearly 20 years in the tight confines of its middle retail space at West River Commons, Corazon is about to double its size. The whimsical gift shop at 46th and Lake will expand into the former ...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In the newsletter: The south Minneapolis institution will move into the former Nostalgia Zone Comics space, part of a recent shuffle of storefronts in the historic commercial building.
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💿 Famed local record store Extreme Noise moving to 36th and Lake
The south Minneapolis institution will move into the former Nostalgia Zone Comics space, part of a recent shuffle of storefronts in the historic commercial building.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A scoop in the newsletter this morning: Details on Mixed Culture Brewing, which a pair of veteran brewery operators are building in the former One on One bike shop at 45th and Minnehaha and could open later this year.
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🍺 Brewery planned for former Minnehaha Ave bike shop
Veteran brewery operators Qiuxia and Kevin Welch have purchased the former One on One Bike Shop and begun building it out into a combination brewery, coffee shop, and possible bike shop called Mixed C...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Residents troubleshoot an irritating new noise — the ones that can hear it, anyway.
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🔊 The Longfellow ...Hum?
Residents troubleshoot an irritating new noise — the ones that can hear it, anyway.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
In the newsletter: Whatever Whenever - March edition, a good faith attempt to roundup every event in the neighborhood this month.
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📆 Whenever Wherever: March events calendar
A good-faith attempt to round up every event in Longfellow this month.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In the newsletter: LW celebrates 2 years, Lake Street LRT station construction delayed, a neighborhood angle on the Olympics, business reopenings, a church for sale, and much more.
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💘 February rundown
LW celebrates 2 years, Lake Street LRT station construction delayed, a neighborhood angle on the Olympics, church for sale, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In the newsletter: Full-strength weed is coming to Minnehaha Avenue as soon as this spring.
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🌲 Neighborhood's first dispensary coming soon to 38th and Minnehaha
Full-strength weed is coming to Minnehaha Avenue as early as April.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
In the newsletter: A brief detour from ICE coverage to share a shake-up at 36th and Lake: Time Bomb Vintage and Nostalgia Zone will each expand into half of the vacant building that sits between them. And another storied business of similar ilk is rumored to take Nostalgia Zone's old space.
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💿 Time Bomb and Nostalgia Zone both expanding at 36th and Lake
A major shakeup is coming to the southwest corner of 36th and Lake this spring. Time Bomb Vintage will expand its current storefront into half of the neighboring space recently vacated by Prairie Woo...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In the newsletter: It's hard to put the splendor of a frozen Minnehaha Falls into words. But plenty have tried.
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🖌 Worth a thousand words: 19th-century descriptions of Minnehaha Falls in winter
It's hard to put the splendor of a frozen Minnehaha fall into words. But plenty have tried.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Joining Ed Kohler — one of those people who seems to know everybody — on his quest to run with 100 different people in 2025.
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🏃 Ed Kohler's year of 100 friendly jogs
Joining Ed Kohler — one of those people who seems to know everybody — on his quest to run with 100 different people in 2025.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In the newsletter: A visit to 29th and Dorman, where a new window painting greets passersby and eagle watchers each month.
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🪟 The Dorman Avenue window painter
Shawna Wolf paints a new window mural each month at 29th and Dorman.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
In the newsletter: The full details on the cult-followed neighborhood bakery's plans for moving to larger and St. Paul-ier pastures in the coming months.
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🍰 Savory Bakehouse is moving to St. Paul
Savory Bakehouse's social media posts are usually full of good news: In-progress previews of what they're dreaming up for the upcoming weekend; photos of golden-brown items fresh out of the oven; snap...
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
In the newsletter: Upon completion, the house was opened to the public for seven straight days, nine hours a day. Thousands of people filed through, "to glean new ideas on the latest modes of home architecture and furnishings."
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🏡 Inside the briefly famous "1936 Insulite House"
Thousands of people filed through the house upon its completion, as it was opened to the public for seven straight days, nine hours a day.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
In the newsletter: A full-on cornucopia on neighborhood news, including a new playground finally underway at Cooper school, teardowns and rebuilds, work at the 36th Street oak savanna, and more holiday news than you can fit under a tree.
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🍂 Monthly miscellanea: November
A full-on cornucopia of neighborhood happenings this month.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In the newsletter: After the closure of Milkweed took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a tour of the boards that remain.
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📌 Bulletin boards of Longfellow
After Milkweed's closure took one of the neighborhood's best bulletin boards with it, a look at 10 community boards still standing.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In the newsletter: Kela Market quietly opened last week, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware in the heart of what you might call Longfellow's Ethiopian cultural district.
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🛒 Specialty Ethiopian grocer opens at 40th and Minnehaha
Kela Market quietly opened last week at 4020 Minnehaha Avenue, offering traditional Ethiopian groceries and cookware.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
In the newsletter: A breakdown of neighborhood voting patterns, food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
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🗳️ Mid-November miscellanea: Election breakdown
Plus food donation options, changes at Electra Tune, new street signs, holiday markets, Thanksgiving pre-orders, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In the newsletter: Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
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🎃 Monthly miscellanea: October
Neighborhood trick-or-treating opportunities, new murals, a celebrity sighting at the Schooner, mill noise, and much more.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In the newsletter: A highlight reel, and map, of Longfellow's Halloween decor.
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🎃 387 spooky yards
A near-exhaustive look at Longfellow's Halloween decor.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
In what may be the most riveting newsletter to date, a look at four new traffic-calming medians coming to the neighborhood and the bureaucratic details behind their approval.
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⛔ Four traffic-slowing medians coming to previously excluded roads
Previewing four new traffic calming medians, and the (admittedly dry) bureaucratic details behind their approval.
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longfellowwhatever.bsky.social @longfellowwhatever.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In the newsletter: A look at the history and architecture of the house, designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, which is for sale for this first time since it was built.
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🏠 The "Butterfly House" is for sale
A peek inside the midcentury gem designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright protege, virtually untouched since it was built in 1960.
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