July 2010
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Hennepin Ave & First Ave Cycle-Way Revisions
adambez:
The city just released their report on the Hennepin Ave & First Ave restructuring (pdf). There is some data about how cycling crashes were down and they note the project as a success but are going to be making a few needed revisions to the initial design. I feel that if they would have listened to the people, these changes would have been implemented from the beginning. I know...
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“But interestingly enough, the things I think should most upset people and...”
– Angela Burt-Murray, Editor-In-Chief at Essence on the magazine’s recent hiring of white fashion editor Ellianna Placas. From Clutch magazine.
Although I don’t necessarily agree with Burt-Murray’s hiring decision—Essence is black women’s media, and it’s not that I...
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Goodbye, old green telephone that I bought as a...
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Wednesday Morning Dance Party: The Rapture -...
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Momentous post number! Party time!
Thanks for...
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Insight on the Kind of Racism You'd Think Would Be...
“Racism by Any Other Name Smells Just as Rotten” by Steph Pituc details her less-than-wondrous visit to the new Wanderers Wondrous Azian Kitchen space, rife with sloppy PR, lame stereotypes, and a general lack of cultural understanding.
“Shut up, dude. For @joeljohnson.” by Channing Kennedy on the fact that there was a Gizmodo post titled “Why I Stalk A Sexy Black Woman...
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“Truth is a thing of this world; it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms...”
– Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge, as reproduced by Hazel Dicken-Garcia, who was a fantastic professor.
In an attempt to organize a very disorganized life and provide some tangible evidence of moving on, I just trashed nearly all of the papers, journals, articles, and general crap I’d been...
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The Magnetic Fields - “The Death of...
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“The proposals would have provided for a “complementary” male bishop with...”
– I don’t really know anything about those there Anglicans, but I think it’s hilarious that anyone would suggest this as a compromise, ever.
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Bruce Springsteen - “Crush on You”
If...
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You are going to Zinefest tomorrow, correct? →
I will be armed with lots of cash and business cards, like an real indie publishing tycoon (or a waitress with a big dream who can only really afford to invest in zines).
See you around 1 for the Open Mic.
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Our FEAST Proposal →
tcrunoff:
The Twin Cities Runoff will be featured at the next FEAST dinner. Check out our proposal—and all the other talented presenters— and stop by on Saturday, July 17, at 6pm, at Intermedia Arts.
There’s so much happening in the next few months, and we’re aching to tell you all about it. Keep watching this space—and our Twitter page—for more information while we’re getting it all...
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Where's My Pantone? →
via dangerine and yowhatsthehaps
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Olive Garden prices, state-to-state →
I haven’t been following Minnesota’s gubernatorial race at all, and I’d never vote for the Republican candidate anyway, but evidently Tom Emmer thinks that servers make over $100,000 and thus, a tip credit should be introduced in Minnesota to keep business costs down.
That is so true: every server I know owns her own downtown penthouse condo and doesn’t struggle at all...
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WatchChicago. Saturday. 4th of July.
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