Tag: st paul
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July 03, 2008 10:13 PM EDT --
It was a gift... unexpected... and unaware you needed it until it was there.
The best kind of gift.
Lunchtime in downtown StP. The tension of a work morning at a terminal . . .
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December 11, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
imagine surprise
opening the door to mail
Chicago cookies!
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October 09, 2006 11:44 AM EDT --
I was told I was left at the doorstep of a police station in Seoul, South Korea, in 1975. 'That was the thing to do if you wanted to make sure the baby was taken care of,' I was also told. The . . .
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June 19, 2008 01:41 PM EDT --
According to South St. Paul, Minnesota resident and longtime friend of mine, Trevor Brooke, even though Minnesota boasts 10,000 lakes, the outdoor venues are just a part of what makes the region special. . . .
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April 27, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
As an eager new gardener, I try to reign in my enthusiasm for the ideas and things I'd like to do in my yard. I remember the first spring and summer I spent in my house, I spent it in awe watching . . .
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December 10, 2006 07:00 PM EST --
It was an unseasonably warm Saturday December night in Downtown St. Paul, and The Mrs. and I found ourselves amid the hustle and bustle of people making their way through the streets toward the Ordway . . .
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December 17, 2006 07:13 PM EST --
The Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis are a study in contrasts and similarities. St. Paul is more insulated, a place to raise your family, and a city that tends to adhere to the past through the . . .
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December 26, 2006 06:21 PM EST --
Hey there, ya mugs, the Ghost of John Dillinger here, speaking to you from the great beyond. Yeah, I was Public Enemy Number One until those no good coppers gunned me down in front of the Biograph . . .
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January 07, 2007 02:00 PM EST --
I ride the bus to and from work every day down University Avenue from St. Paul to Minneapolis. I pass by the same buildings, shops, even people. I notice when stores have closed down, or marvel at how . . .
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August 01, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
In Minneapolis, Minnesota there was a catastophre today during rush hour. Six people have been confirmed dead. There are many bodies yet to be fished from the water. The I35 bridge from . . .
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May 27, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
University Avenue physically runs through St. Paul and Minneapolis as much as it travels through the cities' history. It reportedly has one of the busiest intersections in Minnesota (at Snelling, of . . .
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May 17, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Hooray!! The plants are in the ground. I had some time last Friday being away from work and I picked up a flat of herbs and a couple of four packs of marigolds at a local big box grocer that has a garden . . .
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January 06, 2008 10:43 AM EST --
A photo tour of foreign markets
Hong Kong
Bolzano, Italy
Amsterdam
Greece
Portugal
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January 18, 2008 04:18 PM EST --
Porky's Drive-In
1890 University Ave W
Saint Paul, MN 55104
(651) 644-1790
I have an Achilles heel for hamburgers. When . . .
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April 08, 2008 11:39 PM EDT --
10-years old and pedaling hard, I rode my bike down the street of a small mountain town in northern California to deliver groceries to an invalid. Eloise, or "Weezie" as everyone called her, . . .
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December 02, 2006 10:57 AM EST --
If you talk to any longtime resident of the Twin Cities, you will be regaled with tales of misspent youth and amazing concerts that they have seen (or at least remember seeing) at the legendary First Avenue . . .
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December 23, 2006 03:09 PM EST --
Like many people on Gather, I love and support public radio. I've spent the majority of my waking life for the past 10 or so years listening to the programming that comes to me through Minnesota . . .
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December 23, 2006 06:18 PM EST --
I love going to see films in the theater, but, I am very picky about the films I see. I tend not go for the big blockuster movies that are hyped beyond belief (and usually are awful), I don't . . .
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December 28, 2006 05:27 PM EST --
Scouring our local entertainment weeklies, here's what I found out: Everyone in town is having a New Year's party of some sort or another. Be it a bar, restaurant, hotel, hot . . .
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January 07, 2007 04:03 PM EST --
As with just about every person my age, I missed out on the Golden Age of Folk Music here in the Twin Cities. Back in the early 1960's when a scraggly-haired University of Minnesota student, . . .
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