Minneapolis

sigh

This is pretty fucken sad lemme tell ya.

Screenshot of RSS reader "City Pages is dead. We had a good run."

What else is there to say? We’re sad as fuck. CP, born Sweet Potato, has employed hundreds of people over the last four decades; below you’ll find a farewell from the edit staffers who rearranged those Titanic deck chairs right up until the very end.

City Pages is dead. We had a good run..

I found my first apartment on its classifieds pages. My first job too as a barista in a Dunn Brothers location that no longer exists.

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With the closing, 30 people will lose their jobs. It adds Minneapolis-St. Paul to the growing list of U.S. cities with no more so-called “alternative” newspapers, which rose out of the 1960s counterculture scene and flourished through the 1990s, throwing sharp elbows in political coverage and spotting the edgiest ideas in arts.

Source: City Pages is closing, ending era of Twin Cities alternative weeklies – StarTribune.com

This fucken sucks

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Got me a new hoodie too!

The Mississippi Park Connection says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will lower the water level on the river immediately below St. Anthony Falls so it can inspect the infrastructure that’s normally underwater.

Source: Rare chance to see what the Mississippi River in Minneapolis looked like before the dam – Bring Me The News

This looks to be special! I’m going to be right there freezing my ass off to see this.

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