The complete city: why density and amenities are essential to everyday urban living
What are the amenities needed to support a dense urban environment? The answers go beyond nightlife and restaurants.
The Line
The Line tells the story of the new economy in The Twin Cities — a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play.
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Artist/educator Asia Ward: creating the unexpected through a singular blend of art and science
Science, magic, memory and art: These are among the tools artist and educator Asia Ward brings to her work.
Beyond the rails: mapping the development, cultural and community impact of the new Green Line
The $957 million light-rail project is proving a catalyst for rejuvenating the once vibrant, 11-mile spine connecting the Twin Cities.
Food-truck boom inspires appetites, community and culinary startups
If your life is lacking in wonderment these days, maybe you haven’t been dining curbside via food trucks.
Solar Twin Cities: Where urban farming, social justice, green tech and sustainable living meet
Here’s a sneak peek at the Boyce-Olson Home, the Tiny Diner and the Habitat for Humanity Net Zero Home.
Car-free and carefree in MSP: Why Ali Lozoff kicked car ownership to the curb
Ali Lozoff rarely drives a car. She doesn’t own one. Yet she’s on the go — a lot.
Twin Cities brew boom taps into entrepreneurship, neighborhood synergies
Since the passage of the Minnesota Pint Law in 2012, entrepreneurs have rapidly opened craft breweries with taprooms in neighborhoods throughout the Twin Cities.
St. Paul city artist Amanda Lovelee inspires joyful connections through interactive art
Lovelee is making a home for herself as St. Paul’s newest City Artist in Residence. She currently has three big CAIR projects on tap.
Along the Green Line: a guide to the Central Corridor’s arts and culture hot spots
The rail line’s 11-mile route along the Central Corridor travels through some of the region’s most distinct cultural districts.
How Rewire — and Benedict Cumberbatch — are enticing millennials to TPT
“Rewire is a hub for thoughtful experimentation in content, revenue, marketing, engagement, and more,” explains Andi McDaniel, Rewire’s overseer.
Joan Vorderbruggen: reawakening empty storefronts to their community potential
Arguably, artist Joan Vorderbruggen and her Block E “Made Here” project planted the kiss on the lips of Sleeping Ugly and reawakened the space to its potential.
Design thinking at the U of M: organizing collaborations around social issues
“Design Thinking is the creative approach we’re using to explore new ways of working and collaborating at the University,” says Virajita Singh.
Jobs, housing, transit: leveraging the power of Central Corridor’s anchor institutions
How key non-profits have forged partnerships with healthcare institutions along the Green Line to generate corridors of opportunity for job seekers, residents, and communities.
Ten Thousand Things: Connecting with communities through imaginative theater
The company tells stories for intimate and often nontraditional audiences, with the lights up and minimal staging.
Sound.Art MIA and engaging new museum audiences
Museums across the Twin Cities are re-thinking traditional museum practices, to attract and increase engagement with untapped audiences.
The John Biggers Seed Project builds on a public-art legacy
A mural that came down in 2001 has inspired a new public artwork, an installation of porcelain enamel panels.
The Creative City Challenge: public art with lasting influence?
The project that wins the Creative City Challenge will be unveiled June 14 during Northern Spark. A public voting process begins Feb. 3.
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Q&A: Alexis Ohanian on creative entrepreneurship, and giving lots of damns
The cofounder of the social news site reddit is the author of “Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made Not Managed.”
NEIC and 3Bs — bikes, beer, bread — are reinvigorating NE Minneapolis’ Central Avenue
The Northeast Investment Cooperative (NEIC) enables people to collectively buy, renovate and manage commercial and residential property.
How Minneapolis’ Somali immigrants are keeping their artistic traditions alive
The Somali Artifact and Cultural Museum is a 700-piece collection; it includes a wide range of objects that document Somalia’s traditional nomadic way of life.
