May 2012
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April 2012
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First Avenue Shows
I wasn’t at any of the City Pages Top 20 First Ave shows of all time, but I was a few of the Readers Picks, all of which I remember very well.
3. Radiohead, 6/04/95
5. Weezer, 11/15/96
6. The Chemical Brothers, 4/27/97
9. Blur, 6/24/97
Not a bad two year stretch there in my late teens.
Scratch that first point. I was at one show from the City Pages list
10. Basement Jaxx, 10/08/01
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-4-15) →
Trampled By Turtles (it’s good)
Cloud Nothings (love it)
Of Monsters and Men (eh)
Nada Surf (missed the show a few weeks ago, still pissed)
Dean Martin (Dean’s current favorite. Well, he really just loves “That’s Amore”, so we play that song over and over again)
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North Coast Nosh IV: The Recap « The Heavy Table →
Saturday evening was Heavy Table’s fourth North Coast Nosh event, this one held at the Peace Coffee roastery.
After one of the previous North Coast Nosh events, I complained about Summit only bringing regular bottles of their standard beers, so I definitely want to thank Summit for stepping up and offering someone different than just the beers. Beer floats with Izzy’s Ice Cream was an...
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Longfellow Field: The Park that Bombs Bought «... →
Excellent article on the original Longfellow Field:
If any park in Minneapolis should be a “memorial” park, perhaps it should be Longfellow Field, because it was bought and built with war profits. It would be hard to explain it any other way. The neighborhood around Longfellow Field is one of the few in the city that didn’t pay assessments to acquire and develop a neighborhood park. That’s...
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1940s Census Data
Using the 1940 Census Data, I was able to find the name of the family that lived in my house.
Edwin and Dagmar Englund, and their son Lyle, who according to this page, was a 16 year old Roosevelt HS student, and the winner of the 1936 Orpheum Tap Dance Test.
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