‘Today’s Special’ sure to be a hit of the Fest
BY ED FELEN
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Aasif Mandui |
Written by and starring Aasif Mandvi (the faux reporter on “The Daily Show”), “Today’s Special” will charm you into believing that all it takes
to be a great cook is plenty of soul and a short apprenticeship with an itinerant cab driver. Samir (Mandvi) is an accomplished sous chef, but he
is too ambitious to be patient. He quits his job and starts to go to Paris. His father has a heart attack and he is called upon to run the family Indian
restaurant in Jackson Heights, the #7 train out of Manhattan. With veteran Bollywood actor, Naseeruddin Shah, as his mentor, Samir learns a lot about cooking and even more about himself.
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Emerald ash invasion
By KAREN ZUMACH
So the day has come. The pest that has destroyed millions of trees in Michigan and Ohio since its discovery in 2002 is here in the Twin Cities. The emerald ash borer, an exotic, iridescent beetle, was imported (inadvertently) from Asia, where it is a native beetle. The beetle, as destructive as it is beautiful, attacks and kills only ash trees (Fraxinus spp) by laying its eggs just beneath the bark where the larvae feed on the food and nutrients created by the tree’s leaves, essentially starving the tree. The emerald ash borer can kill a tree in as little as three to five years, and is very difficult to detect.
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A statement from McMahon’s Pub on the tragic fire
On Friday morning, the 2nd of April, we lost a friend. Ryan. The Gervais family lost five of their loved ones. Many people were left without a home. Our thoughts and best wishes are with them and all their families—everyone touched by this tragedy. Due to the damage on the upper floor of the building, the whole building will have to be demolished. That means the pub will be taken down as well.
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Taxed Enough Already?
Then, let’s Party
BY ED FELIEN
You just filed your State and Federal Income Taxes. You’re going to have to pay your property taxes May 15. You pay a 7.775 percent Sales Tax on everything you buy in South Minneapolis. Plus, you pay sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco, excise taxes on anything else the government thinks they can get away with and fees on everything from dogs to building permits.
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Re: “Understanding Gaza, Sderot and Najd”
A REBUTTAL BY CHERYL FIELDS
Southside Pride (March 2010) recently examined the history of the Israeli town of Sderot, a target of many Palestinian rocket attacks. Quoting Wikipedia, the article stated that in 1948, the Arab village of “Najd was occupied by Jewish soldiers” and “the inhabitants were expelled and fled to
Gaza. The village was then completely destroyed and leveled to the ground. In 1951, the town of Sderot was built over the village lands.”
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Homeowners in mortgage distress (and first-time buyers) can find advantages in short sales
BY STEPHANIE FOX
Home owners facing mortgage problems that have not been able to complete a loan modification program might consider a short sale. For many, it’s a way out of a difficult situation with as little financial damage as possible. For buyers, purchasing a house in short sale can be a golden opportunity for home ownership.
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Six peace activists arrested at Franken’s office
BY KIM DOSS-SMITH
On Thursday, April 8, a crowd of about 75 peace protestors
gathered outside Senator Al Franken’s St. Paul office to urge Franken to vote against the proposed $33 billion dollar supplemental bill for the war on Afghanistan.A peaceful crowd started gathering outside the senator’s office at around 4 p.m. with banners and signs saying “No More Money for WAR.” Amid honks and cheers from passing motorists, the crowd chanted “Vote No” and read names of Minne
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What are we doing over there?
BY ED FELIEN
Recent public screening of a U. S. Apache helicopter gunship massacre of unarmed civilians in Baghdad in 2007 should convince even the most skeptical that the U. S. attempts to invade and occupy the Middle East are doomed and carry with them tragic consequences. The official video from the gunship is available at www.collateralmurder.com.
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Rediscover East Lake Street!
BY ED FELIEN
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Hymies new location on Lake & 39th Ave. |
Uptown has always been glamorous. Even after losing Schlamp’s Furs it was
still chic and hip. Midtown was always durable and sensible, even after losing Sears. But East Lake has always seemed like the sad and neglected sibling—a wallflower, standing alone.
It wasn’t always like that. Two long gone anchors of East Lake reflected the character of South Minneapolis in the forties and fifties.
The intersection of Lake and Hiawatha in the 1950s was a fast stop gas station on the northwest corner, the Tuttle family bowling alley on the southwest corner, a White Castle on the southeast corner and White Manufacturing on the northeast corner.
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Out of the mouths of babes
By Tony Bouza
About three years ago Erica and I decided to take our 10-year-old grandchild on a train trip up and down the West Coast. We invited his 12-year-old cousin for companionship.
Tony loved buses, subways and all forms of public transport, having spent his life surveying Santa Monica from the back of an SUV. Now we booked a room that slept four (two upper singles and a lower double).
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April 2010 
