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Twin City Drinks: Nina’s Coffee Cafe

Nina’s Coffee Cafe in St Paul, Minnesota, has a very limited online life – no website! – and this makes its accidental discovery after a stop at the city’s cathedral all the more delightful. The ‘secret’ coffee shop sits in…

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Global Street Galleries, Vol. II

Street art has been making the front pages frequently in recent weeks, what with the erasure of the famed 5Pointz graffiti site in New York’s Long Island City, and Banksy storming the streets of the Big Apple as part of…

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A Day in Dinkytown, Minneapolis

At the official edge of the University of Minnesota sits Dinkytown, a few small streets of cafes, clubs, and small stores catering for their academic neighbours. An old style entertainment venue, the Varsity Theatre, calls these streets home, as do…

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Biking by the Banks of the Mississippi River

Throughout my ten-day trip to Minneapolis, I kept making my way back to the Mississippi.  Lake Calhoun is lovely, but the lure of the river that cuts the country in two is strong.  Whether it’s the history that clings to…

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Meet Minneapolis, the Mill City

I stumbled on the ruins by the Mississippi quite by accident, while trying to get a good snapshot of one of Minneapolis’ main landmarks, the Stone Arch Bridge.  There were crumbled bricks and rusted machinery by the river, where foam…

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