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Testing the new Green Line cars

Next in Transit: The Green Line, Then Southwest Rail?

The Green Line sets the stage for a full regional transit network unlike anything we've seen since the heyday of the streetcars.

Ten Thousand Things in "The Music Man," photo by Paula Keller

Ten Thousand Things: Connecting with Communities Through Imaginative Theater

The Minneapolis theater company Ten Thousand Things builds connections  both radical and backed by tradition by telling  stories for intimate and often non-traditional audiences, with the lights up and minimal staging, using the power of communal imagination.

Body/Head, Photo By Annabel Mehran, courtesy Body/Head

Sound.Art MIA and Engaging New Museum Audiences

Museums across the Twin Cities are re-thinking traditional museum practices, to attract and increase engagement with untapped audiences and thrive in the 21st century, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Assisting Fellows via the C3 and CCAP programs

Jobs, Housing, Transit: Leveraging the Economic Power of the Central Corridor's Anchor Institutions

How key non-profits have forged partnerships with healthcare institutions along the Green Line to generate corridors of opportunity for job seekers, residents, and communities.

The restored Union Depot waiting room

All Aboard: How Urban Train Stations are Becoming Neighborhood Amenities

Smart cities like Saint Paul are renovating their train stations (like the multi-modal hub Union Depot) into neighborhood and urban amenities.


All are welcome at the Beer Dabbler, courtesy Beer Dabbler

New Brews and Gastro-preneurs: Find Them At The Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival

Few organizations have done more to connect locally minded craft-beer enthusiasts with the startups that drive Minnesota’s resurgent brewing industry than the Beer Dabbler, which holds its Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival on January 25.

The popular Nice Ride MN program

Back to the Future With Bicycle Power

New studies, national honors, and expanding facilities for two-wheel mobility all reflect sturdy growth of this economical, healthful, environmentally sound, and social-fabric-friendly way of getting around.

Minneapolis Convention Center plaza, courtesy Kristin Maywire, Urbain DRC

The Creative City Challenge: Public Art with Lasting Influence?

Finalists have been selected for the second annual Creative City Challenge. The winning, interdisciplinary, public-art installation--selected by popular vote this winter--will be open all summer on the Minneapolis Convention Center plaza.

Osage dancers, courtesy College of Design

The Endangered Osage Language Gets a Unicode-Friendly Alphabet

Jessica Harjo, a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Design MA program and a current PhD candidate, has sketched out a novel orthography for the Osage language.

Ward 6

Beer, Breweries, Bees, Bikes: The Line's Top Stories of 2013

The Line buzzed in 2013 with articles—many of them in the top 10 most-read of the year—on topics starting with a “b”: beer and architect-designed breweries, beekeeping and bike entrepreneurs among them.

Alexis Ohanian, courtesy WAC and Tanya Kechician

Q+A: Alexis Ohanian, Creative Entrepreneurship, and Giving Lots of Damns

The Line asked Alexis Ohanian, who is speaking at the Walker Art Center and is best known as the cofounder of the social news site reddit, about how to create community on the Internet and his advice for startups.

The collective perspective from Fair State Brewing

Looking for Financing? Research Paper Provides Insights for Social and Co-op Startups

The report, “Financing Worker Cooperative Start-Ups in Minnesota,” produced in a Master’s of Public Affairs course at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School, focuses on the unique funding challenges of cooperative startups and social enterprises.

Freewheel's Winter Expo--Courtesy Freewheel

Getting in Gear: Local Innovations--From Knobbies to Pogies to Rims--for Winter Biking

The burgeoning winter-biking scene wouldn’t be possible without the bike designers, entrepreneurs, co-ops, fests, expos, zines, and coffee shops that give the community its innovative edge and vitality.

NEIC enjoying Aki's German-style bread

NEIC and 3Bs--Bikes, Beer, Bread--Are Reinvigorating Northeast Minneapolis' Central Avenue

The Northeast Investment Cooperative is a for-profit group that enables people to collectively buy, renovate, and manage commercial and residential property. NEIC's first project is reinvigorating Central Avenue with tenants that focus on bikes, bread, and beer.
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