In 1990 Ed Felien started the newspaper Southside Pride to protest the First Gulf War. Southside Pride has always been an anti-war paper. So it seemed like an anti-war article was what I should write ...

Omar Fateh faced more media scrutiny than any Minneapolis mayoral candidate in recent memory. Had he not been both a socialist and Somali, it’s likely he wouldn’t have critics lining up on both sides ...

A fairly new restaurant, Brim in Uptown, is one I have not tried yet but it sounds like my kind of place. They recently opened a second location in Edina, in the former Red Pepper Chinese location, ...

Memory of even recent history is being lost. To review early warnings: Thirty years ago, Boris Yeltsin argued vehemently against expanding NATO to include Ukraine ...

Starbucks workers are on an open-ended strike. I continue to stand in solidarity with Starbucks Workers United. I call on the Starbucks corporation to stop union busting and meet the demands of ...

I am trying to transition from a more or less addicted coffee drinker into a tea drinker. I have always associated tea with gentleness and relaxation, while I associate coffee with hard work, both ...

What happened with the November elections? Everywhere there was a Blue Wave, a rejection of Trump and his policies. In New York City, an African immigrant, a Muslim, a Democratic Socialist, won the ...

“Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” at the Children’s Theatre Company has something for everyone. The story is narrated by Max, the Grinch’s long-suffering dog. The performance of Max is so ...

As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors. Hegseth gave a verbal order ...

We now have a new set of Minneapolis Park Board Commissioners. During the campaign the candidates aired some of the same old misinformation about Hiawatha Golf Course. In honor of the new ...

We are going to stop publishing Southside Pride with this edition. I’m 87. And, lately, I think a lot about the hereafter. I go into a room and I wonder, “What did I come in here after?” Like with ...

Living in tents is very difficult in winter. One of the most painful things: when you wake up from sleep and rainwater fills your tent and soaks you while you can’t do anything. This is our painful ...