June 2010
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Playing for the World →
Look, can we get this straight, right from the get-go, from the first whistle: It’s football, O.K.? Football. Not soccer. It’s never been soccer. Nobody but midwestern cougars calls it soccer. Soccer is a late-19th-century English-university slang word that’s an abbreviation of “association,” as in “association football,” to distinguish it from “Rugby football,” which, incidentally, is the origin...
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Town Hall Brewery 2nd Location →
Yesterday, the Town Hall Brewery closed on a property on the 48th block of Chicago Avenue South. We plan to open a second location there sometime this fall.
This is wonderful news for South Minneapolis, which has a great lack of good beer bars (besides Busters on 28th).
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Turtle Bread, Longfellow →
Turtle Bread, Longfellow Neighborhood, Minneapolis: It took about five years, but Tosca, which adjoins the Turtle Bread in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, is open — and jam-packed every night. Now, Harvey McLain is once again expanding his Turtle Bread empire. He has signed a purchase agreement to buy a 3,800-square-foot building in the Minneapolis Longfellow neighborhood near 34th...
Horst and Friends: An Oral History →
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1964: Horst of Austria opens in Calhoun Towers. 1966/67: Horst & Friends International opens in Highland Park. 1968: Rocco Altobelli joins Horst & Friends. 1972: Altobelli leaves to open Rocco Altobelli Salons in Highland Park. 1977: David Wagner graduates from the Horst Education Center. 1978: Horst Rechelbacher launches Aveda Corporation. Jon English comes from London to join...
