Demolition of the High Bridge Power Plant Smokestack
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in Twin Cities | 2 Comments »Earlier this week I talked about the demolition of the High Bridge Power Plant smokestack. Well, today was the day. Smokestack go boom. You can check out my before and after pictures, but the real excitement is the video. I missed ...
High Bridge Power Plant Smokestack Coming Down
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Twin Cities | No Comments »On Saturday, June 28 Xcel Energy is going to blow up the tallest thing in St. Paul's skyline. The 570-foot tall smokestack at the High Bridge Power Plant is scheduled to be imploded on Saturday at 7:30 a.m. The ...
$2 Million Stairway
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Posted in Twin Cities | No Comments »I recently heard that the stairway on Wabasha Street that climbs the bluffs on St. Paul's West Side was being torn down. The stairway, built in 1916 and known as the Green Stariway, suffered damage when a massive limestone rock ...
Sesquicentennial-tastic
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Twin Cities | 4 Comments »On Sunday the frozen state of Minnesota turned 150. It's our sesquicentennial! I'm an old pro at this, having lived in Michigan during their 1987 sesquicentennial (which means I can pronounce sesquicentennial, but can't spell it without help). Some have ...
Caponi Art Park
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Art, Twin Cities | No Comments »Last weekend I went to Caponi Art Park in Eagan, Minn., to check out the art. If you're not familiar with it (I wasn't), artist Anthony Caponi bought a chunk of land in the 1950s and build his home and ...
City Pages’ Best of the Twin Cities 2008
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Twin Cities | No Comments »The City Pages recently released their Best of the Twin Cities list for 2008. I'm always eager to see who made the cut, but as I get into it I'm usually disappointed. It seems like you have to be way ...
Spending a Week at the Mall of America
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Twin Cities | No Comments »Matt Snyders spent an entire week at the Mall of America and lived to tell about it in a City Pages article. From open to close, Snyders was there. He even spent the night once. It only fuels my obsession with ...
89.3 The Current Playing More Repeats
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Media, Music, Twin Cities | 3 Comments »OK, enough politics. Apparently my favorite radio station, 89.3 FM The Current—which extols listeners to "expand their playlist"—is shrinking their playlist according to City Pages. With falling ratings songs are getting played more often. In March 2007 one song was played ...
Start Seeing Art on MNSpeak
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »My little side project, Start Seeing Art, made it on the Twin Cities blog MNSpeak today. I'm pretty excited about the exposure. And a little frightened--though so far no one has mocked the rudimentary design, and for that I'm thankful.
Busy Week at Start Seeing Art
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »Last week I was all excited to announce that Start Seeing Art had mapped 100 works of public art across the Twin Cities (if 'across' means primarily in St. Paul). But in the past week alone we've added 25 more ...
