Robbinsdale

Robbinsdale Cooper hall monitor busted having sex with student when her dad walked in

Tajreed Rich, a 41-year-old hall monitor, member of the football coaching staff, and student counselor at Robbinsdale Cooper High School, faces a third-degree sexual assault charge after he was busted having sex with a 17-year-old student last Friday.According to the charging document, the victim's ... More >>

Pig Ate My Pizza plans to open this Friday

After remarkably short time away from the scene, the creative crew of cooks behind the nationally lauded Travail Kitchen and Amusements have announced that they're about to unleash Phase One of their ambitious expansion upon the world.

Travail closing next month, but will resurface

Travail Kitchen and Amusements, otherwise known as Robbinsdale's crown gastronomic jewel, announced it will be closing on April 6, to the shock and dismay of many a local foodie. But don't get too down in the dumps. Travail's owners have plans to re-invent the restaurant as a two-parter (which will ... More >>

Best of Hot Dish: August 27-31, 2012

Another fine week of food and drink news has flown by as quickly as a summer day. Here's a few recent stories we wouldn't want you to miss.~ We take a whirlwind tour of the MN State Fair food stands and share our adventures in this story, as well as a delicious slideshow.~Also reporti ... More >>

Birdtown Cafe brings traditional Main Street dining to Robbinsdale

See also: Birdtown Cafe: The slideshow tour The Birdtown Café in Robbinsdale may only be a couple of months old, but co-owner Brad Eagles is no newcomer to the business. In fact, you can say it is in his blood.Eagles has worked for a quarter century at nearby Broadway Pizza, which is owned by his ... More >>

Ninzel Banks, 5, killed by stray bullet in north Minneapolis [UPDATE]

This morning, Ninzel Banks became the second north Minneapolis toddler killed by a stray bullet in the last six months.Banks, 5, was hit about 8:35 a.m. while sleeping on a couch in a home on the 4500 block of Bryant Avenue North.Relative Robert Tolliver is staying at the house. Tolliver told the St ... More >>

Nonna Rosa's rolls out wine tastings and new Gelato Mobile

Robbinsdale's cherished Italian hot spot Nonna Rosa's pulls in many a weary Minneapolitan who longs for good, old-fashioned food. You know--the kind that doesn't feel the need to be stacked like a game of Jenga to impress you. Husband and wife team chef Francesco and Tina Suglia run a tight, happy l ... More >>

Postal workers will distribute "anthrax medicine" on May 6

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor plume of weapons-grade anthrax stays these couriers come May 6. That Sunday, the Minnesota Department of Health will launch a dry run of an anthrax attack response using postal workers and law enforcement escorts. It's a strategy that's been studied nationally since 200 ... More >>

Travail's fried chicken: 100 Favorite Dishes, No. 34

​Even those who have lived in New Orleans for decades, where fried chicken is an art form, might find themselves losing years of their lives trying to prepare the dish at home, always feeling some sort of disappointment at the results. It's not always easy to pinpoint what is wrong. Was the batter ... More >>

Star Wars X-Wing vs. Snowmageddon: Video of the Day

Help me, Snowbi-Wan Kesnowbi. You're my only snowpe.​Mike Nelson, a commercial and film director, was shoveling the walk of his Robbinsdale home after the snowstorm that popped the Metrodome, when his wife asked him to take some photos. He shot some stills with his digital camera before he ma ... More >>

Big pimpin' in Robbinsdale

​Fur coat? Check. Fedora? Check. Cane? Check? But we have no idea what this pimp was doing walking down the road in Robbinsdale with a rollerbag this past weekend. And nobody, according to our source for the photo, appeared to give much of a damn. So roll on, brother.

Twin Cities' best suburban restaurants

Nick VlcekSzechuan at Tian Jin: Worth a trip to the suburbs.​This week's Dish features Travail Kitchen and Amusements, whose unique, gourmet gastropub fare makes it worth the drive to Robbinsdale from elsewhere in the metro. If you live in Minneapolis or St. Paul, here are four more foodstuf ... More >>

Travail Kitchen and Amusements crib sheet

Emily UtneGet the dessert tasting.​Here's a quick recap of this week's Dish column on Travail Kitchen and Amusements with the essentials of what you need to know when you go to the new Robbinsdale restaurant: Who should go: Anybody who's short on cash but looking for gourmet grub in a relaxed ... More >>

Travail's young chefs launch spirited gastro-workshop

Taste a balloon made of mozzarella, or house-made tofu

Top 5 restaurants for foodies

Four TC restaurants made the Fit for Foodies list. ​I'm often disappointed when national magazines and whatnot make their picks for the best this-and-that in various cities across the country without doing very thorough--if any--on-the-ground research. But I recently found myself impressed b ... More >>

Prairie Ale House coming soon to Eden Prairie

Aaron Johnson, right, of the Strip Club is launching a new suburban pub!​ On the heels of great gastropup fare coming to the suburbs in the form of Robbinsdale's new Travail Kitchen & Amusements, Eden Prairie will be graced with a similarly casually ambitious venture from Aaron Johnson, a part ... More >>

Travail Kitchen and Amusements--take the slideshow tour

Fancy-pants food, chill atmosphere.​Chefs whirl around in a food prep hurricane the afternoon we visit Travail Kitchen and Amusements, now open in Robbinsdale. With choice seasonal delights and a 20-item menu that changes daily, this is small-plate heaven. The food presentations are beautiful ... More >>

Best of Hot Dish: August 23-27, 2010

butter head​Two words: State Fair. Mini donuts, animals giving birth, WCCO live, free yardsticks, all the milk you can drink. While you think about what you are going to eat first, let us remind you of all the great food stories that were told. Here are a few of this week's highlights.~Giant soft ... More >>

Travail Kitchen and Amusements now open

Travail is the best thing to happen to  Robbinsdale dining yet.​Mike Brown and James Winberg made a name for themselves with their tasty, playful pub fare at the North Side's Victory 44 and then decamped for the suburbs. Their new venue, Travail Kitchen and Amusements, in the site of the form ... More >>

Pistol Whippin Party Penguins release album at 331 Saturday

Photo courtesy of band's MySpace page.​I've got this friend who's pissed at me. Over some grave misstep on my part? Sure, I suppose you could say that. I said I'd go sing karaoke with her this week, but then didn't show. Terrible, I know. How do I make her forget what a terrible friend I am? ... More >>

Nonna Rosa's: Coming Soon

​Robbinsdale's best-known restaurant, Thistles, closed on New Year's Eve 2009. Very soon, the owners promise, an authentic Italian restaurant, Nonna Rosa's, will take its place at 4148 West Broadway. Nonna Rosa's is named after chef and co-owner Francesco Suglia's mother, Rosa, and he'll be ru ... More >>

Sahar Sandar Nikpay named suspect in Robbinsdale standoff

​The Hennepin County Sheriff's Department has released the name of a man suspected of firing shots on officers outside his house earlier today.Sahar Sandar Nikpay, 26, was inside his Robbinsdale home this morning when police arrived with a narcotic search warrant. Nikpay allegedly opened fire on t ... More >>

Minneapolis City Council keeps streetcars on track

Photo: minnemom​In 1920, streetcar ridership in the Twin Cities was 238 million. Today, the Minnesota Streetcar Museum's Como‑Harriet Streetcar Line and Excelsior Streetcar Line are all that remain of the once mighty system. And Friday, the Minneapolis City Council may have made another mode ... More >>

Minneapolis skyway can be yours for just $50,000 cash

Plus: Unibrow bandit strikes with furrowed fierceness

Drunken driver plows into minivan, killing fetus, injuring 8

A pickup truck goes the wrong way up an I-94 ramp and plows into a family's minivan.

Readers respond to "Fairmongering"

More shootings in Minneapolis Sunday night

Three men were shot in north Minneapolis Sunday evening, and one of them is in critical condition.

Minneapolis exotic dancer forgets to report 80,000 dollar bills found in her panties,

Friday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Minnesota's terrible Tuesday: Job loss roundup

Denny Hecker in fair condition after collision with irony

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11/21 Morning Must Reads

Friday's five most fascinating stories printed on wood pulp.

Outdoors amendment and Minneapolis school levy also win

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to "Dosh's World"

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to To Disrespect and to Serve

Anti-Levy Mercenary on the Loose in Robbinsdale

Cable-access TV in Minnesota: complete links

Meat Locker

Your clip-and-save guide to the best specialty butchers in the metro

Divine Intervention

The Robbinsdale Clinic tries to offer reproductive services, but its neighbor keeps getting in the way

Best Karaoke in the 'Burbs

Was he lost in the blaze?

Minnesota's Greatest Hip-Hop and R&B Hits

Punishment for Gluttons

Old School

Sweatin' to the local oldies with our favorite reissues

The Tan Who Wasn't There

Your faithful scribe pursues ghost-of-Christmas-present Paul Magers

Off Beat

Off Beat

Shooting for Success

Local director-entrepreneur Dean Hyers takes aim with Bill's Gun Shop

Pawn Broke

Neighbors say Pawn America will bring nothing but trouble. Strapped customers say it's their last resort. The City of Minneapolis just says no.

Birdland Revisited

Thirty-five years ago teen rock like the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" caught a wave across the prairies--and rode it into adulthood

Last Stop Shop

Even though Sullivan's New Market on West Broadway in North Minneapolis is the only grocer in the immediate area, its parking lot fills up only a couple of times a month. Aghast at what they see as Sullivan's poor customer service and substandard merchand