Highland Park (Brooklyn)

Lynden's Soda Fountain busted for selling candy cigarettes

The charming and authentic Lynden's Soda Fountain in St. Paul's Highland Park area announced via Twitter that it will no longer be stocking their retro sweets shelves with candy cigars or cigarettes. Apparently there is a hard and fast legal reason that you rarely see them sold at gas stations, swee ... More >>

Punch Pizza expanding to Woodbury

Punch will be expanding its mini empire of seriously good Neapolitan-style pizzas when it opens its eighth store in Woodbury, the company announced on its Facebook page. Punch says it has signed the lease and expects to open in June. Here's where you can find it.

Chef's Day Off: Where Susan Dunlop of Joan's in the Park likes to eat

It's relatively rare -- maybe even a blue moon-level occasion -- for a chef, particularly one at a new restaurant, to be able to go out on the town and have someone else cook for them. So when local chefs do get a chance to get away from their own kitchens, where do they choose to eat? This Chef's D ... More >>

Colossal Cafe lives up to its name

From small digs in Minneapolis to a big place and bigger flavor in St. Paul

Summit Backyard Bash is Saturday

Last year Summit Brewing Company celebrated 25 years of beer with a blowout in the brewery's backyard. This year they turn 26. Seems like a good excuse to throw another party. And party is just what the folks at Summit plan to do. This year's Summit Backyard Bash happens Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p ... More >>

Beer Dabbler Highland Fest and All Pints North Beer Fest this Saturday

Saturday is a big day for beer fests. In the Twin Cities the Beer Dabbler returns for the fourth annual Highland Fest event in St. Paul. For those up north or headed up north there's the first ever All Pints North festival in Duluth, sponsored by the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild. Tickets are still ... More >>

Paul Summers, missing St. Paul man, found dead

Paul Summers, 50, disappeared from his mother's Highland Park home Sunday. He was found dead this morning, according to City Pages contributor and sister-in-law Joy Summers.Summers was the son of the late Judge Joseph Summers, original co-host of Twin Cities Public Television's "Almanac" program.

Sparks touches on Mediterranean using wood-burning oven

Restaurant fills old Bryn Mawr Coffee shop space

Santana's Shape Shifter U.S. tour dates launch in Minnesota

It no longer feels like yesterday (it was 1999, people) that guitar impresario Carlos Santana kicked his career into a new gear with the collaborative album Supernatural. Sure, Rob Thomas had plenty to do with it, but the Santana legacy is alive in a way that has grown past a crusty classic rock sla ... More >>

My Burger, Turkey To Go, and Which Wich reviewed

A taste test of three new fast-casual restaurants

Ford plant closure symptomatic of capitalism's ills, writes World Socialist

​Weeks after the last Ford vehicle build in Minnesota rolled off the Highland Park assembly line, the World Socialist Website writes that the plant's closure is symptomatic of the decline of American manufacturing. The fact that one of the world's leading sources for left-wing news and analysis pi ... More >>

Top 10 coffeehouses in the Twin Cities

​The second wave of coffee awareness has seized the Cities.  Where once we happily sipped diner swill for $1.50, when we were introduced to Starbucks the coffee snob revolution began. Now we have single-cup brewing of fair trade beans and elegant surroundings in which to savor them.  We ... More >>

Mark Mallman tour diary, Vol. 6

​Jared Diamond says the success of a given civilization is based on three things: "Guns, Germs, and Steel." What he means is, dont open your surf shop in Gary, Indiana, and dont dig for gold in your laundry hamper. If Diamond were to write a book on making it in the music industry, I highly doubt ... More >>

Joan's in the Park: A first look

​The cozy space that St. Paul's Highland Park residents have long known as Grandpa Tony's pizzeria has been transformed into a neighborhood bistro. The walls received a warm coat of soft mustard-colored paint, and white linens cover the tabletops.  Despite having only the one large front wind ... More >>

Kopplin's Coffee moving to Merriam Park

A.J. OlmscheidKopplin moves its coffee--and hot chocolate--across town. ​Andrew Kopplin, proprietor of Kopplin's, announced news that's been long in the making: He's moving his Highland Park coffee shop across town to Merriam Park. The new spot, on the intersection of Cleveland and Marshall, ... More >>

TCF Bank robber caught on camera in St. Paul [PHOTOS]

FBISeen this guy?​The FBI said this afternoon that a man walked into the the TCF Bank branch on Ford Parkway in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood, implied that he had a gun in a paper bag, and walked away with an undisclosed amount of cash. He either didn't know or didn't care that he was bei ... More >>

Tom Hackbarth reloads with gun-rights amendment

Tom Hackbarth exercises his Second Amendment rights.​Rep. Tom Hackbarth likes his guns, especially when they're strapped to his hip outside a Planned Parenthood office while he hunts for a girlfriend he met online. So it only makes sense, really, that he'd want to ensure that his right to keep an ... More >>

The Grand Sandwich is now delivering

Look deep into my olives and tell me what you see​ When Dan Esrig graduated with a degree in geography from Macalester College last year, he realized what he wanted was in his own back yard.  He wanted to open a sandwich spot that would serve the student's need for late night, affordable food ... More >>

Tom Hackbarth won't be charged in armed search for girlfriend

Tom Hackbarth parks at Planned Parenthood, and his career takes a turn for the worse.​St. Paul police suspected Republican state Rep. Tom Hackbarth of stalking and harassment the day he strapped a loaded gun to his hip, parked his pickup truck next to Planned Parenthood in Highland Park, and w ... More >>

Rep. Tom Hackbarth's loaded gun seized by cops near Planned Parenthood

Hackbarth packs heat when he visits the ladies.​Republican state Rep. Tom Hackbarth went looking for a date the other day in a Highland Park alley, with his Smith and Wesson .38 strapped to his waist. He chose an odd place to park his pickup truck, too: The Planned Parenthood clinic lot, wher ... More >>

Psycho Suzi's liquidation sale--all liquids must go--this Week in Food.

Kathy EasthagenDo your part: drink up. ​ Monday 11/5 Gather at Brit's with members of the Guthrie to honor the theater's smash-hit production of The 39 Steps, based off of Alfred Hitchcock's acclaimed 1935 film. Trivia host John Cosgrove will kick off the evening at 7:15 p.m. with a Movies and Hi ... More >>

Heiruspecs' Sean McPherson slings food recommendations

Whether you want vegetarian Ethiopian or a solid strawberry shake, Sean McPherson has your rec.​Sean McPherson is a busy guy: When he's not working in McNally Smith College of Music's hip-hop department, he's hosting trivia around the Twin Cities with Trivia Mafia or playing with his band Heir ... More >>

DWITT: 100 Creatives

​Number 97: DWITT (a.k.a. David Ruddy Witt)  City: Saint Paul (Highland Park)  Years spent living in MN: 31He may not be an actual rock star, but prolific artist DWITT (David Witt) is as close as you can get without picking up a guitar. In fact, his mere association with an event usuall ... More >>

Ford says no turning back on St. Paul plant closure

Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant once built 300,000 Ranger pickup trucks a year​Despite a last-ditch, bi-partisan plea from Gov. Tim Pawlenty and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, Ford Motor Company's St. Paul truck plant is now all but certain to be shuttered in 2011. The two politicos made wha ... More >>

Planned Parenthood announces new St. Paul HQ

​Planned Parenthood's Highland Park clinic in St. Paul, the frequent scene of anti-abortion protests -- and, more recently, counter-protests favoring reproductive rights -- is closing up shop. But the services it offers aren't going away. Instead, the women's reproductive health organization ... More >>

Twins fans ready to believe anything good about Joe Mauer?

He's got his doubters, but Mark Rosen is sticking with his story.

Food Fight: Bagels

Bagels can be about as different as night and day but we put a couple head to head anyway.

Police beatings, ball slashings, and cat killings

A violent week in the news

Circus Juventas bleachers collapse during final performance, 450 people fall

At the end of the St. Paul youth circus's final performance, half of the audience fell as the bleachers underneath them collapsed.

Free hot dogs for Cecil's 60th, through Sunday

We're giving you this information with the understanding that you will not start any Popeyey's/KFC-style riots, okay?

Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel

Chicken Run

The metro area's three greatest takeout chickens are revealed

Punch Drunk Love

The Twin Cities' original neapolitan pizza purveyor is almost as hard to top as one of its top-flight pies

A Stylish Statement

A Cooking Class

Won't You Be My Diner?

Pastrami Divine

Better Driving Through Chocolate

My Own Private Quang

Farewell, Kabul

Splendor in the Grass

Vegetarians at the Gate

Health-food heavyweight Whole Foods takes aim at the Uptown crowd

A Tale of Two Towers

Family Planning

Like a Prayer

How the power of faith is fueling the revitalization of Catholic education

Love at First Flush

Anatomy of a Storm

Why some trees stood their ground while others toppled

The Alchemist

Brian McElrath's Zinfandel-Balsamic Vinegar Truffle is so potent and rich it seems almost meaty.

Saint Bore

In Ward 3, home to one of St. Paul's two hotly contested City Council campaigns, the race parallels the mayoral contest. Incumbent Mike Harris has been drawing fire from his challenger, DFL endorsee Randy Schubring, for defending "the special interests of

Big Brother, Inc.

Why are businesses spying on their own employees more and more? Because they can.