Loring Park is getting a new coffee shop, a walking LGBTQA+ tour in downtown, & darkwave at Icehouse

Our newsletter images from this week. Clockwise from left: This building housed Sunrise Cycles after they moved out of their original location at Lake & Bryant (the former Mucci's locale). Do you recognize where this is?; A sea monster rises out of a garden in East Isles; Uptown on a summer night; A misty shot of Lake Harriet. Photo courtesy of Josh Hisley.

Posted Friday, October 7, 2022 8:21 pm

NOTE: We are observing Indigenous People's Day on October 10 and will return with our newsletter on October 11.

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. On Fridays, we share things we've published, popular links from our daily newsletter, and a curation of stuff to do over the weekend.

Here's a roundup of what we published this week

We re-published our voter guides to reflect the general election candidates. Here are the Hennepin County Attorney, Hennepin County Sheriff, and Minneapolis Public Schools School Board voter guides. We continue to reach out to candidates who have not responded to the voter guide questionnaire. The election is November 8 and you can vote anytime between now then then.

One of the first stories I reported on when I started at Southwest Voices was about the Futsal Society. The organization runs free futsal leagues for youth out of Whittier Park's recreation center. Now the organization is set to open up a coffee shop that will benefit and employ Futsal Society players.

Ellie Zimmerman spoke with the educator behind Planets in the Park, a new community event at Pershing Park. Michael Kauper has been teaching kids about astronomy for decades.

We celebrated out 1st birthday this week! In honor of our anniversary, we collected some of our most memorable stories and analyzed our organization's astrology chart. (A few other news organizations followed suit this week)

Melissa Whitler covered how vacancies at Patrick Henry High School are impacting the educators.

Links that our daily subscribers clicked on a lot this week

Eater put together a list of places to get cheap drinks and a bunch of them are in Southwest Minneapolis.

Racket put together a list of the worst bike lanes in the city. (Note how the measurement of bad vs. good bike lanes is often based on how easy it is for drivers to park in them.)

Heavy Table featured Apoy, a Kingfield Filipino restaurant that Anna profiled in April, in a recent newsletter.

We are all excited about the Piecycle Club, despite there being no pie. It's a kid-friendly group ride and their next ride is Saturday morning! (See Out & About for more details)

Hennepin County created a tree bingo card, which would be super fun to do on a fall hike.

If you want to stop junk mail from coming to your house, check out these tips.