Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

merry xmas at the Guthrie!

First play at the Guthrie in over 600 days. Still hasn’t been kicked out. pic.twitter.com/II4d2XJKjs

— Jake (@ekajmw) November 13, 2021

Lol I saw that. Do you know the context? I couldn't really understand what she was mad about.

Props to the Tweeter in the mentions who called this A Christmas Karen.

Lol

Allegedly upset after the couple in the row in front of her took a selfie (the angle suggests it was a covert attempt to get her in the shot, so).

still nice to see a white woman can rage for 40+ minutes, spit on someone for telling her to put her mask on (which someone from Twitter says happened to their boyfriend), and be allowed to just...keep doing it.

to be fair they did have to wait for police I guess

Sounds like schizophrenia.

in which case I don't think I'd want police to handle

given what the Guthrie Theater I wouldn't imagine generally has much in the way of security or many problems with rowdy patrons

yeah, in past years (esp pre-pandemic) usually the worst most theatres nationwide had to deal w/ was people illegally taking pics with cell phones. don't know much about the Guthrie but I can see how this is something you don't exactly expect or immediately have an easy way of dealing with.

backing off my kneejerk reaction a bit

in my experience it's usually a nice senior citizen with a flashlight who show you to your seat is about the extent of it

Lmao

NEW: Republican Sen. Jim Abeler, who chairs the MN Senate human services reform committee, tells me he did not realize the new MN law allowing THC edibles would do just that. He thought it would just regulate delta-8 THC products, said the Legislature should roll the new law back

— Ryan Faircloth (@RyanFaircloth) June 30, 2022

We hear you. Tonight’s show has been cancelled at First Avenue and is moving to the Varsity Theater. See our full statement for more. pic.twitter.com/tkf7rz0cc7

— First Avenue (@FirstAvenue) July 20, 2022

Whew, we're in trouble here

What's up?

btw, I have a family member moving to minnesota so the possibility I'll need some recommendations or will be passing through seems likely

Just the biggest snowstorm since '91 lol

this is going to mentally break me

That it's happening now, with the inevitable 3 or 4 March/April snowstorms yet to come, is what's really spirit-crushing.

We're going to have snow on the ground into June.

oh god

I was absolutely done with snow weeks ago and we had a measly five inches last week and it made me sad.

best of luck

Even the low-end estimates are well over a foot, and those models are now the outliers

watched the local tv this morning and the most conservative model of the 7ish he showed on a graph was 14.5" :(

Minnesotans being fearfully aroused by incoming big blizzard, quel surprise! Seriously, though - stay safe.

(I got snowed-in helping take inventory at the much-missed Northern Lights in ‘91, until the owner turned up in 4WD to drive everyone home)

and to think The Beths have to travel into this

I’m only annoyed that this blizzard is going to make everyone talk about The Halloween Blizzard without eclipsing and replacing the Halloween Blizzard.

— Fentanyl Dusted Donut (@David_5mith) February 21, 2023

Ugh, here we are at the very much now annual April that is 90% winter, just not quite as extreme. I've had it with this place that only gets literally 14 weeks of acceptable weather per year.

Yeah, this winter/spring blows.

not a fan

i relocated from mpls to pdx last fall and it's been unseasonably wet and cold here, and people are complaining, it's hilarious because i've been keeping track of y'alls winter... weather like that was certainly one of the underlying motivations for the move

Lol I’ve made friends with someone who at the turn of the year moved from Portland to here, and just this week he meekly asked “so this winter’s been one of the worst, right?” While on paper, yes, it has been, I couldn’t tell him that every March and April here inevitably brings you to the same mental crisis

xp global I am in Eugene and this has been the coldest wettest spring in my 32 years here, it's been brutal

it has also been a surprisingly wet and cold winter and spring in SF too, we got record rainfall this year, and from what I've heard from my friends and family, it has been the same in LA and San Diego too

it's spring, but most days so far haven't gotten up from highs in the 50s, and there have been no warm days. thankfully the rain has stopped now and it's starting to warm up

I’ve been keeping an eye on Palm Springs and thinking how much this winter must’ve sucked for those used to Palm Springs weather

It’s me, hi, I’m the biggest planning blunder in Minneapolis history, it’s me❗️ pic.twitter.com/qFAFHsWRwN

— Abigail Blonigen (@abigailblonigen) October 31, 2023

I haven't been around Minneapolis that much for a number of years but the moment I heard "k-mart fire" I knew exactly what building was burning!

I'm actually K Mart defender, it was a store where the local population without cars could get basic household goods and clothing.

I don't think the existence of a k mart on that block was what people disliked about it, but again, was never a local

Correct; no objections to the Kmart itself (though, obv, I don't speak for everyone ... I'm sure there were plenty of residents who hated it because it attracted lower class shoppers). It was merely the building's function as a bulwark, dividing the neighborhood in half.

I also believe that the largely immigrant restaurants that turned Nicollet North of Lake into "Eat Street" never could have thrived without that K Mart making it less attractive to developers. the only harm it caused was drivers having to drive around it, big deal.

I'm sure they are licking their chops to gentrify it now and drive the local low income population out.

look forward to a couple new ugly apartment buildings with a shitty brewery on the first floor

LOL, plenty of speculation lately that they'll do exactly the same thing to the brutalist Nicollet Mall YMCA building if/when they knock that down

Related-ish: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/new-study-says-downtown-minneapolis-has-one-of-the-worst-post-pandemic-recoveries-but-there-are-questions-about-methodology/

Apparently Minnesota is redesigning the state flag, and there have been over 2000 submissions to date. Needless to say, there are some really good ones, if you are willing to dig:

https://serc.mnhs.org/flags

good riddance and FUUUUUCK YOU

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/business/uber-lyft-minneapolis-minimum-wage/index.html

I don't want to clog up another thread with a niche observation, but the new Taylor Swift album so far is very Cities 97 circa 1990.

lmao

haha let's line up to get it at a Best Buy in Bloomington like an old Cities 97 sampler

Apologies for deflecting the thread away from Swift talk but why is this state so fucking windy?

Good question. The wind tunnel on 7th Street downtown between Nicollet Mall and Hennepin (where a lot of buses stop) is fairly legendary.