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Issue 651

Grow Something Beautiful

Grow fresh flavors for your table with veggies and herbs. Photo courtesy of Bachman’s Bachman’s has all your gardening and landscaping needs for your home projects. Like the rest of you, amid all the uncertainty and change of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been trying my darnedest to find little happiness boosts. Probably also like…

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Urban Organic Gardening

Mother Earth Gardens has locations in South and Northeast Minneapolis. Photo by Stepheni Hubert Mother Earth Gardens brings much-needed greenery to Minneapolis urbanites. Minneapolis is truly a city unlike any other. Sure, it has its skyscrapers and dense city streets, but its lush bounty of parks and community gardens makes for a natural oasis right…

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At Home With Hirshfield’s

Hirshfield’s offers an abundance of paint options for your home. Photo courtesy of Marsha Keppel Hirshfield’s offers a wide variety of paint products and services to keep you busy—and your home looking beautiful—during COVID-19. If there’s one thing we can all bond over during this coronavirus-induced social distancing, it’s that people are craving change. From…

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Coming Attractions: Quibi Shows

Photo courtesy of BigStock/Tiplyashin Anatoly If you’re on social media, chances are you’ve seen advertisements for an app called Quibi. The new streaming platform, exclusively for mobile devices, touts the motto “Quick Bites, Big Stories” and has officially launched as of April 6. It’s been hyped over quite some time, and now it’s finally available…

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Counseling With Care

Daniel Sullivan earned a BA in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Community Counseling. Photo by Jagger Karls of Yagger Rose Photography These are scary times we’re living in right now, and for those living with mental illness, that can be doubly true. The stress and fear of living in the time of a…

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Skirting The Issues: Sprouts

Photo courtesy of BigStock/Kholywood I composed my last column barely three weeks ago. My, how the world has changed since then. In the interim, I’ve learned some new phrases, like “social distancing” and “virus transmission rate.” Confined to 1,100 square feet on the twelfth floor of a downtown Minneapolis condo, I’m getting in real practice…

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Leather Life: Leather in a Time of Crisis (Again)

Image courtesy of BigStock/grebeshkovmaxim A new virus has emerged. It can be deadly. People are dying in horrifying numbers. The fact that it’s new means that no human being anywhere on earth has any kind of natural immunity to infection with it. There currently is no cure and no vaccine. The rapid spread of the virus…

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Books: 651

Quest for Redemption Jessie Chandler Bella Books $17.95 Chandler takes a new approach: A four-movement symphony, edgily constructed, yet nevertheless bearing the reader along. In the romantic overture, “lowlife military brat” Mikala Flynn falls for, and is fallen for, by upper-class Kate Goldsmith. Bliss… until the second movement’s crescendo as the Twin Towers fall on…

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A Word In Edgewise: Notes from the Briar Patch II: Doing Time

Photo courtesy of BigStock/Yarkovoy Br’er Rabbit savored his victory, once he’d tricked his foe into tossing him into the safety of his briar patch. But while folklorist, journalist, tale-teller Joel Chandler Harris (1848- 1908) himself weathered parlous times, he never hinted at how his Rabbit might fare if confined to his bolt-hole indefinitely. Rabbits are a moveable feast,…

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Little Brothers, Less Loneliness

Image courtesy of Little Brothers—Friends of the Elderly Little Brothers — Friends of the Elderly helps seniors alleviate loneliness through meaningful relationships. People who have younger siblings are definitely the lucky ones. I say this, of course, as a younger sibling, but either way, I think—for the most part—we can all agree that having siblings…

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