| Minnesota State Fair to start next week |
We've all been waiting for it, and after months of anticipation, the start date of the Minnesota State Fair is just around the corner. With more than 450 different foods, more than 100 entertainment acts, tons of exhibits and scores of rides for both children and adults, there is something for everyone at the Minnesota State Fair.
Sunday, August 22, 2010 |
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| Chutes and quackers: SSP ducks gain speed |
On Sept. 18, the rubber ducks are in for the ride of their lives.
In 2009, anticipation ran high during the 2nd annual Neighbors Inc. Mississippi river duck races. Rubber duck enthusiasts lined the shore of the Mississippi at Kaposia Landing, 800 Bryant Ave. and Concord Street, to root for their individual ducks.
Monday, August 16, 2010 |
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| Horsing around on Mackinac Island |
Clip clop, clip clop, jingle. Clop, clop.
These are the sounds of horsing around on Mackinac Island. Missing are the squeal of brakes, the booming of car radios and the smell of diesel exhaust. Instead, there's the mild smell of horses, and when I was there recently, the fragrance of lilacs.
Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
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| FLUGTAG! |
Not since Amelia Earhart crossed the Atlantic has there been this much enthusiasm for a flying machine.
On July 24, a local team of amateur aviators (and one real pilot) shattered the Red Bull Flugtag world record for flying a homemade flying machine during competition on Harriet Island in St. Paul.
Sunday, August 01, 2010 |
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| It's off to the circus school for one Mendota Heights teen |
Spinning down from the ceiling while clutching only a thin cloth rope may not be for the faint of heart, but for 16-year-old Anna Hamer of Mendota Heights, it has a unique appeal.
Sunday, July 25, 2010 |
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| Blooming butterflies at Como |
In case you haven't seen it yet, this is the year to visit Como Park Zoo and Conservatory's Blooming Butterflies exhibit.
That's because it's the exhibit's third and final year, and it may well be a long while until the dozens of butterfly species from Africa, Asia and the Americas yet again grace St. Paul's borders.
Monday, July 19, 2010 |
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| "We're Gonna Win, Twins" brings fans back, and into present |
While growing up in the mid-to-late 1990s my dad bought a pair of Minnesota Twins season tickets for $100 where we had free rein to pick nearly any upper deck seat in the Metrodome.
Monday, June 28, 2010 |
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| Milwaukee on the water |
Milwaukee grew up on the water and celebrates water. It was water - the confluence of three rivers - the Kinnickinnic and the Menomonee joining the Milwaukee before flowing into Lake Michigan - that drew native people there. When French missionaries and fur traders came through, it became an active fur trading area.
Sunday, June 20, 2010 |
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| Dancing with crawfish |
Two red-shelled crawfish danced on the table at Boutin's Restaurant, "A Cajun Music & Dining Experience" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The larger one stood on its back legs and waved its front legs in the air. The smaller one rolled onto its back and waved all legs. Then they met their fate in a pot of boiling water.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
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| Local author talks books and bullets at the SSP library |
On May 20, the South St. Paul Library hosted a special version of "show and tell."
The items being shown included a bullet-torn paper target and a Minnesota Book Award.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
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| If you die unexpectedly |
When a 71-pound Siberian husky recently attacked an 11-day old baby, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office was called to determine the dog's attack was the cause of the baby's death.
Monday, May 24, 2010 |
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| Daring to dream |
Best-selling author Kao Kalia Yang, a petite, dark-haired young woman with a soft voice brought many in her audience to the verge of tears as she spoke of her parents and grandmother and their escape from Laos, her early childhood in a refugee camp and then the difficulties of starting a new life in St. Paul.
Sunday, May 16, 2010 |
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| Take me out to the ballgame - Clyde Doepner: living his dream |
Everyone yearns for what they consider a "dream job;" a lucky few find it.
A well-known local man has stumbled onto such a situation.
Clyde Doepner, a North High 1962 grad and a member of the school's 1961 state champion baseball team, smiled broadly and said, "I can't believe I'm doing this and getting paid!"
Sunday, April 25, 2010 |
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| The Brew Master is calling you |
Anyone who has lived on the East Side never called 3M by that name. It was always referred as "da Mining".
There were two or three main sources of employment on the side of St. Paul that was east of the north-south railroad tracks.
Monday, April 19, 2010 |
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| A place for peace and prayer |
St. Paul's Monastery has been a fixture of faith in three different metro locations for more than half a century, and the Benedictine sister's new home, right behind the old monastery adjacent to Hill-Murray High School, will be open for tours April 11, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
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| Audrey II is about to set her jaws on the Sibley stage |
What is 7 feet tall, made out of couch cushions and willing to eat any person that happens to walk by?
It's Audrey II, the green and leafy villain of the dark musical "Little Shop of Horrors."
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
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| Task force offers SSP new ways to 'go green' |
Most people recycle, but if you really want to "go green," the South St. Paul Mayor's Youth Task Force members offered ways to go beyond mere recycling during their "Going Green in South St. Paul" town hall meeting March 18.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
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| Easter egg coloring:
colorful memory-making |
It's this time of year, right before Easter, when Review staffers receive a little reminder of the season at their desks.
Monday, March 29, 2010 |
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| Award-winning librarian retires from SSP |
Just before her retirement, South St. Paul children's librarian Susan Lippolt was as hard at work as ever, creating a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
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| Q and A with stained-glass artist Josie Geiger |
Beech Street stained-glass artist Josie Geiger, aka owner of Josephine A. Geiger Studio, pulled herself away from her work to talk with East Side Review editor Scott Nichols about the joys and challenges of creating her biggest commission yet: 32 stained glass panels for a new courthouse in Middleton, Wis., using as inspiration images she has of the nearby Pheasant Branch Conservancy.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 |
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| St. Thomas students built chicken coop, improve lives |
For most Americans, a chicken coop seems inconsequential. But for orphaned children in Uganda, a chicken coop could change their future.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
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| Dino-snores and spheres that soar |
It's every child's dream: to spend the night in a museum.
For the fourth- and fifth-graders at St. John Vianney School, located in South Saint Paul, that dream came true Feb. 18.
Monday, March 01, 2010 |
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| Regional arts council funds St. Paul's stories, arts |
St. Paul's residents have lots of stories to tell, judging by the entries within the St. Paul Almanac, a nonprofit devoted to publishing a yearly tome devoted to all things St. Paul.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
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| Slicing up the ice |
Diane Ness remembers her love of skating started as a young girl when she would lace up her skates, head out to Silver Lake in North St. Paul and cut swiftly across the ice with family and friends.
Monday, February 22, 2010 |
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| The gavel man |
Some might see buckthorn as a bothersome, invasive plant that's extremely difficult to root out of area parks and backyards, but North St. Paul resident Dave Nelson has found a good use for the extremely hard wood the plant produces: gavel making.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
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