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Related: Remember Nice Ride MN?

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For one high-end black market dealer, business is reportedly booming 🌬

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This piece is so thought provoking and optimistic, I BEG you to read it.

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“I always get someone that tells me, ‘This is the first time I’ve seen so many trans people in one room,’” Anita says. “I think a few years from now, there’ll be kids playing music and they’ll be like, ‘Oh yeah, my parents moved here when I came out.’”

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Downtown is getting more boobs and booze:

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Choo-choo enthusiasm? It's high.

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Love those wacky lil yellow dudes? Then tell our film critic to BUZZ OFF! (Respectfully.)

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Just killing time at work today? Might as well chat here:

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You're free to engage the Weekend Mindset 😎

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If these types of stories rely almost exclusively on one perspective, as they often do, you can direct all further questions to the tight-lipped restaurant owners who refuse to state their cases—good luck, though!

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Laurie Lindeen, best known in Minneapolis as the singer and guitarist for the band Zuzu’s Petals, died yesterday of a brain aneurysm.

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Opened, closed, coming soon, and a good rant on bad food news from Em:

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Awwww yeah! Here's our weekly installment of music listings:

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Review: Turns out Lenker is really, really good at this.

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Happy pants-free bike ride weekend!

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And other labor news in today's Flyover news roundup:

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The lack of a government office and shortcomings in job training are keeping film producers from choosing Minnesota, industry members say.

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Will Minnesotans talk about the weather? Let's find out.

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I wanna light a candle in the darkness & maybe you can help. A tiny local-local publication, Southwest (Mpls) Voices, has tried to fill the gap left by the Southwest Journal, which I once edited. They’ve seen ad revenue crater & desperately need $50 members. www.southwestvoices.news/posts/minnea...

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Happy Pride weekend! Among the many, many highlights: Minneapolis People’s Pride this Saturday at Powderhorn Park 🏳️‍🌈

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two things to know about Alary's (the cop bar) - I got spanked by a drunk waitress while I was delivering a pizza to the staff there. It was 11:30am - back in the early 70s, my grandpa bought a puppy off a one-eyed bartender and brought it home to surprise his kids. He didn't tell grandma in advance

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In today's Flyover news roundup:

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Been a while since we shared new local (and non-local music). So here are 20 new songs for you to listen to!

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With the help of TikTok, John O'Sullivan built a successful walking tour company in Australia. Now he's trying to do the same in his home state.

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Our summertime bookmelier is in!

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“Someone has to do it, because I don't think anyone else is,” says Tom Oszman, whose home studio is bursting with around 5,000 tapes and stacks of throwback production gear. “It’s our history, and I think we’d regret it if it was just thrown away.”

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Family values candidate or the biggest chaos demon in town?

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Wow! Now that's a stacked concert calendar!

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Cake maker Micheli Vazquez creates new, edible worlds with Puerto Rican flavors:

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How far do the dollars of a 37-year-old assistant professor go?

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"It was right out of a scary movie."

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Happy Pride week 🏳️‍🌈

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It's back on the market, this time at a steep discount.

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“Honestly, it’s four people front of house, four people back of house,” chuckles Ann, who owns the restaurant with her husband Juan Yunga and serves as its front-of-house manager and hostess. “So we’re tiny, yeah.”

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OK, let's hear from you: How do we fix everything?

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AI! Is there anything it can't do? (Besides pretty much everything.)

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Yes, it has come to this: We're interviewing each other now.

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