Last week, Trevor and I had the opportunity to photograph and videograph our client, Indian Health Board’s, biggest event: the annual Chili Feed. A little background: IHB has been a neighborhood clinic since 1970 and was founded to provide free or affordable health care to Native Americans and the Phillips Community. It’s truly an honor [...]

If you’re looking for Fast Horse World Headquarters, you’ll find us in Minneapolis’ wonderful North Loop neighborhood. Home to Club Jager, Cuzzy’s and, now, the Minnesota Twins, this part of town has all the things you like about being in the heart of the city while still having parking spots available when you need them. [...]

Editor’s note: This is John Reinan’s weekly marketing column for MinnPost. To see the original, go to http://bit.ly/6En2R3. We hear a lot about what it takes to attract business to Minnesota. Today I’m offering the perspective of one small-business owner. I talked with John Kraus about the reasons he chose Minneapolis for Patisserie 46, the [...]

  It’s a lovely day for a bike ride, isn’t it? Today is my first day biking to work and, oh boy, is it nice. Every pedal rotation is like giving myself a double high-five. I have not had much luck riding my bike lately. Last summer I got hit by some cars and a [...]

So Minneapolis is an unhappy city, huh? An Idea Peepshow post from last week proclaimed that the undisputed pretty sister of the Twin Cities with all the great culture, lakes, communities, businesses and restaurants is actually not very happy.  As a guy who was born and raised in Minneapolis, I do not appreciate such banter. We can play the rankings game. I guess Minneapolis is [...]

The Charlie Brown Christmas specials were set in Linden Hills. It must be true — we read it on Wikipedia. Sparked by the Peepshow poll at right, we were having a discussion about the Christmas movie choices. Amanda was offended that “White Christmas” wasn’t included. John said, then what about “Jingle All The Way,” which [...]

Yesterday, we met with someone who’d recently moved back to Minneapolis from a coast. As expected, her friends on the coast were perplexed why she’d choose to move back to sleepy Minneapolis. As someone who packed up her belongings in Washington D.C. and happily resides in Minneapolis, I’ve also heard this argument. In defense of [...]