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Apple Store in San Francisco / Photo by Christian Rasmussen

Apple Store Opening in Uptown

The new Uptown Apple Store will go into a new building that was formerly the Uptown Bar.

Rybak Receives Grinch’s Present

The Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis sends a nasty message to Mayor R. T. Rybak. The festive and dark radio ad has poor timing but delivers an ugly truth.

TheAfternoonDLight Dubs MN Nice

The new LOL/OMG blog might not actually cover the seedy, but it sure covers the funny of Minnesota life. Check out their latest sharing by way of YouTube.

Skyway Tour with Leif

Blogger, traveler, and author Leif Pettersen is back in Minneapolis and delivering his informative YouTube videos again. This time he brings us the Minneapolis skyway.

MPLS Hiring for New NRP

Last year’s death vote of NRP, the city’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program, came with great angst among the dozens of officially recognized neighborhood organizations. Many called it a power grab by City Hall to squelch the very citizen participation that drove the city to insist on its creation in the first place. Conveniently, the special TIF More >

Uptown Bar Closes; Justin Vernon Takes on Volcano

Uptown Bar & Cafe

The Los Angeles Vikings

The Star Tribune confirms Guhvenar Schwarzenegger signed a bill into legislation that would “fast-track” a stadium in the Los Angeles area.  Uh-oh, does this mean the Los Angeles Vikings could be a reality?

MIA Invites the Louvre

To celebrate their second anniversary, Twin Cities Green is celebrating in a somewhat unconventional way plus MIA goes Louvre.

URBS: South Mpls Rezoning

Even though hardly anyone could be called a Republican in the running this year, it appears the whole point of a legislator in Northern Minnesota is to throw mud in Mayor Rybak’s face. Other urbanisms…

Hipster for Ward 6

TCS sat down with Matt Dougwillow who is running to represent Minneapolis Ward 6 that includes Uptown.  The Thrifty Hipster founder and Wisconsin transplant spent the past decade becoming a professed Minneapolitan.

Currently employed as: Founder and Head Boss of ThriftyHipster.com, the popular bar specials site receiving about 10,000 visitors a month.