MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA


A air | architecture | art centers, galleries, projects | arts organizations, resources B bakeries | bicycling | bookstores | breweries, brewpubs | Buddhism C cafés | cinema | cities and towns | civic organizations | classifieds | comics | computing | cooperative economics | craft supplies D dance E economy: major firms | education: colleges and universities: religious-affiliated, secular | environment: organizations, wildlife preservation and restoration F Finnish Americans | florists | food: farmers' markets, grocery market stores, specialty shops, tea shops/salons G government: county, municipal, national, state | green resources I ice skating L libraries | literary centers, resources M media | museums | music: art music & repertory, performance venues, portals & etc. N Native American/American Indian | neighborhood organizations | Nordic design P paper | parks | peace | political parties | publishers Q queer/GLBT R radio | record shops | restaurants S shopping malls | sports: amateur, collegiate, professional, venues T theater | tourism | transportation, travel U utility companies

air

  • Air Quality Index Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
  • Midwest HazeCam: Saint Paul

    • architecture

  • Minneapolis architectural history site by James Lileks
  • Minnesota's Roadside Architecture also known as "roadside attractions"

    • art centers, galleries, projects
    see also museums, below

  • Altered Aesthetics
  • Highpoint Center for Printmaking
  • Intermedia Arts
  • Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
  • No Name Exhibitions at the Soap Factory
  • Northland Poster Collective
  • Northern Clay Center
  • OX-OP
  • Rosalux Gallery artist collective
  • Soo Visual Arts Center
  • Steven's Square Center for the Arts
  • Sursumcorda alternative music and multimedia arts
  • Textile Center of Minnesota
  • Two Rivers Gallery native artists
  • Walker Art Center

    • arts organizations, resources

  • COMPAS Community Programs in the Arts
  • Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
  • mnartists.org Minnesota artists portal
  • Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association
  • Springboard for the Arts business, organizational consulting
  • State of the Arts MPR radio program

    • bakeries

  • French Meadow Bakery
  • Keefer Court Bakery Chinese
  • Rustica
  • Scandia Bake Shop
  • Turtle Bread Company

    • bicycling

  • Freewheel Bike
  • The Hub Bike Co-op
  • Minnesota Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance
  • One on One Bicycle Studio bike sales and service, gallery, café
  • Twin Cities Bicycling Club

    • bookstores
    see also literary centers, below

  • Amazon Bookstore Cooperative specializing in women's books
  • Arise! bookstore and resource center, collectively operated
  • Big Brain Comics
  • Birchbark Books books, native arts, and jewelry
  • Cummings Books used books
  • DreamHaven Books & Comics
  • Half Price Books used and remaindered
  • James and Mary Laurie Booksellers antiquarian
  • Magers and Quinn Booksellers used and discount new
  • Mayday Books left-wing literature and meeting space; volunteer collective
  • Nostalgia Zone comicbooks
  • Red Balloon Bookshop children's
  • University of Minnesota Bookstores

    • breweries, brewpubs

  • Fitger's Brewhouse Duluth
  • Flat Earth Brewing Company St. Paul
  • Great Waters Brewing Company St. Paul
  • Lake Superior Brewing Duluth
  • Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery
  • Summit Brewing Company St. Paul
  • Surly Brewing Company Brooklyn Center

    • Buddhism

  • Clouds in Water Zen Center
    Practicing in Soto tradition. Located in downtown Saint Paul.
  • Common Ground Meditation Center
    Practicing in Theravada-Vipassana tradition. Located in Seward, Minneapolis.
  • Compassionate Ocean Center
    Practicing in Thich Nhat Hanh and Soto traditions. Located in Logan Park, Minneapolis.
  • Minnesota Zen Center
    Practicing in Soto tradition. Located in East Calhoun, Minneapolis.

    • cafés
    see also restaurants, below

  • Birchwood Café
  • Blue Moon Café
  • Caffetto
  • Common Roots Café
  • Hard Times Café
  • Riverview Café
  • Seward Café
  • West Indies Soul Cafe & Catering

    • cinema

  • Cinema Revolution DVD rentals
  • Crown Theatres: Crown Block E 15 Movie Theatre
  • Landmark Theatres: Lagoon Cinema, Uptown Theatre
  • Minnesota Film Arts: Bell Auditorium, Oak Street Cinema
  • Riverview Theatre

    • cities and towns

  • Albert Lea
  • Anoka
  • Bemidji
  • Bloomington
  • Brainerd
  • Duluth
  • Grand Rapids
  • Hibbing
  • Mankato
  • Minneapolis
  • Minnetonka
  • Moorhead
  • Northfield
  • Rochester
  • Saint Cloud
  • Saint Paul

    • civic organizations

  • Citizens League

    • classifieds

  • Craig's List Minneapolis - Saint Paul

    • comics

  • Residue Roger Lootine
  • Roadkill Bill Ken Avidor

    • computing

  • Apple Store at Mall of America
  • FirstTech Computer retailer
  • Miniapples Minnesota Apple computer users' group

    • cooperative economics

  • Minnesota Worker Cooperatives informational resource

    • craft supplies

  • Crafty Planet
  • Depth of Field

    • dance

  • Ballet Arts Minnesota
  • Corning Dances & Company
  • Ethnic Dance Theatre
  • James Sewell Ballet
  • Minnesota Dance Theatre
  • Ragamala music and dance theater
  • Rosy Simas Dance Projects
  • Saint Paul City Ballet
  • Zenon Dance Company and school

    • economy: major firms

  • 3M: chemicals. Maplewood.
  • Aveda: cosmetics, personal care products. Blaine.
  • Best Buy: retail. Richfield.
  • Cargill: agriculture. Minnetonka.
  • Carlson Companies: hotels, travel. Minneapolis.
  • Dairy Queen: restaurants. Minneapolis.
  • Ecolab: sanitation supplies. St. Paul.
  • General Mills: food processing. Golden Valley.
  • Imation: data storage. Maplewood.
  • Land O'Lakes: dairy products. Saint Paul.
  • Medtronic: medical technology. Minneapolis.
  • Northwest Airlines: airline. Eagan.
  • St. Paul Travelers: insurance. Saint Paul.
  • Schwan's: frozen foods. Marshall.
  • Target Corporation: retail. Minneapolis.
  • Thrivent Financial for Lutherans: finance, insurance. Minneapolis.
  • U.S. Bancorp: finance, insurance. Minneapolis.

    • education: colleges and universities, religious-affiliated

  • Augsburg College Lutheran
  • College of St. Catherine Catholic (women's)
  • Concordia University Lutheran
  • Hamline University Methodist
  • St. Mary's University Catholic
  • University of St. Thomas Catholic

    • education: colleges and universities, secular

  • College of Visual Art
  • Macalester College
  • Minneapolis College of Art and Design
  • Minneapolis Community and Technical College
  • University of Minnesota: Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester, Twin Cities

    • enviornment: organizations

  • 1000 Friends of Minnesota
  • Audubon Minnesota
  • Friends of the Mississippi River
  • Midtown Greenway Coalition Minneapolis
  • Sierra Club North Star Chapter

    • enviornment: wildlife preservation, restoration
    See also parks, below.

  • International Wolf Center
  • Prairie Restorations natural landscaping company

    • Finnish Americans

  • Finnish American Cultural Activities
  • Minnesotan Suomi-koulu Finnish-language school

    • florists, nurseries

  • Greenstone Floral and Nursery
  • Minneaplis Floral

    • food: farmers' markets

  • Minneapolis Farmers' Market
  • Saint Paul Farmers' Market

    • food: grocery market stores

  • Eastside Food Co-op Minneapolis
  • Kowalski's Markets
  • Lakewinds Natural Foods Anoka, Chanhassen, Minnetonka
  • Linden Hills Co-op Minneapolis
  • Mississippi Market St. Paul
  • Seward Co-op Grocery and Deli Minneapolis
  • Wedge Community Co-op Minneapolis

    • food: specialty shops

  • Kitchen Window cookery gear
  • Native Harvest organic food from the White Earth Reservation
  • Peace Coffee organic, fair trade coffee
  • Penzeys Spices in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Savage
  • United Noodles east and south Asian foods grocery

    • food: tea shops/salons

  • La Société du Thé
  • TeaSource

    • government: county

  • Hennepin
  • Ramsey

    • government: municipal: Minneapolis

  • City Council Member, Ward 2 Cam Gordon (Green)
  • Mayor R. T. Rybak (DFL)
  • Minneapolis, city of
  • Minneapolis City Council
  • Minneapolis Police Department

    • government: national
    US congressional delegation

  • U.S. Representative, 5th District Keith Ellison (DFL)
  • U.S. Senator Norm Coleman (Republican)
  • U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (DFL)

    • government: state

  • Governor Tim Pawlenty (Republican) and Lt. Governor Carol Molnau (Republican)
  • Minnesota, state of
  • Minnesota Attorney General's Office Lori Swanson (DFL)
  • Minnesota Public Utilities Commission telecommunications, electricity, natural gas
  • Minnesota State Legislature
  • Minnesota State Representative, District 59B Phyllis Kahn (DFL)
  • Minnesota State Senator, District 59 Lawrence Pogemiller (DFL)

    • green resources

  • Green Institute
  • Twin Cities Green Guide

    • ice skating

  • The Depot Rink open seasonally
  • Rink Finder a service of the Minnesota Ice Arena Managers Association

    • libraries

  • Minneapolis Public Library
  • Saint Paul Public Library

    • literary centers, resources

  • Open Book literary center
  • Loft Literary Center
  • Minnesota Book Awards a program of the Minnesota Humanities Commission
  • Minnesota Center for Book Arts
  • Rain Taxi review of books
  • Ruminator review

    • media

  • Brainerd Dispatch newspaper
  • The Business Journal newspaper
  • City Pages weekly newsmagazine
  • Duluth News Tribune newspaper
  • Finance and Commerce newspaper
  • Mankato Free Press newspaper
  • Minneapolis Observer monthly community newspaper
  • Pioneer Press daily newspaper
  • Pulse of the Twin Cities weekly newsmagazine
  • The Rake monthly magazine
  • Rochester Post Bulletin newspaper
  • Saint Cloud Times newspaper
  • StarTribune daily newspaper
  • Twin Cities Daily Planet "community newswire"
  • Twin Cities Indymedia alternative media collective
  • Winona Daily News newspaper
  • Workday Minnesota labor news digest

    • museums see also art galleries, above

  • American Swedish Institute historical museum
  • Bell Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Minnesota
  • Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
  • Hennepin History Museum
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  • Minnesota Historical Society
  • Minnesota Museum of American Art
  • The Museum of Russian Art
  • Science Museum of Minnesota
  • Tweed Museum of Art at University of Minnesota, Duluth

    • music: art music and repertory

  • Minnesota Chorale
  • Minnesota Opera
  • Minnesota Orchestra
  • Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    • music: performance venues

  • 400 Bar rock
  • Artists' Quarter jazz
  • Cabooze blues, rock, soul, country, and reggae
  • Cedar Cultural Center folk, traditional, and world-fusion
  • Dinkytowner Café
  • Fine Line Music Café
  • First Avenue
  • Hexagon Bar
  • Northrup Auditorium Univ. of Minn.
  • Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
  • The Quest
  • Red Sea Bar
  • Station 4
  • Triple Rock Social Club punk, rock
  • Turf Club rock
  • Uptown Bar and Café
  • Whole Music Club at Coffman Memorial Union, Univ. of Minn.

    • music: portals and other stuff

  • Funkytown
  • Musicscene Network bands, nitelife, radio, stores, festivals, services, production
  • TC Punk calendar, discography, forum, webzine

    • Native Americans/American Indians

  • American Indian Policy Center
  • Circle of Indigenous Nations at Univ. of Minnesota
  • Great Lakes Powwows
  • Honor the Earth advocacy, grant-making
  • Indigenous Environmental Network
  • Minneapolis American Indian Center
  • Jim Northrup Anishinaabe, writer

    • neighborhood organizations

  • Longfellow Community Council
  • Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association
  • Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association
  • Southeast Como Improvement Association
  • West Bank Community Coalition
  • Seward Neighborhood Group

    • Nordic design
    shops selling products of Nordic design and origin

  • Danish Teak Classics vintage and contemporary furniture
  • FinnStyle modern Finnish design
  • IKEA
  • Ingebretsen's old world Scandinavian marketplace
  • Saga Living contemporary Nordic designs

    • paper
    shops selling art and specialty papers, stationery

  • Bibelot
  • Lunalux
  • Paper Depot
  • Paper Source

    • parks

  • Como Park Zoo and Conservatory Saint Paul
  • Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
  • Minnesota Department of Natural Resources state parks
  • Minnesota Zoo Apple Valley
  • National Park Service: Grand Portage national monument, Mississippi national river and recreation area, North Country national scenic trail, Pipestone national monument, Voyageurs national park
  • Saint Paul Parks and Recreation

    • peace

  • Twin Cities Peace & Justice Links compiled by Chris Dodge

    • political parties

  • Communist
  • Democratic-Farmer-Labor
  • Green
  • Independence
  • Libertarian
  • Republican

    • publishers

  • Coffee House Press literary
  • Graywolf Press literary
  • Milkweed Editions
  • Minnesota Book Publishers' Roundtable
  • Voyageur Press nature, country life, travel, American heritage

    • queer/GLBT

  • District 202 creating safe space for queer youth
  • Lavender magazine
  • Outfront Minnesota advocacy
  • Quatrefoil Library
  • Rainbow Families

    • radio

  • KAXE northern Minnesota community radio
  • KFAI community radio, Minneapolis & St. Paul
  • KMSC Moorehead student radio
  • KUMD Duluth student and community radio
  • KUMM Morris student radio
  • KUOM University of Minnesota student radio
  • KVSC Saint Cloud student radio
  • MPR Minnesota Public Radio

    • record shops

  • Aardvark Records
  • CD Warehouse
  • Cheapo
  • Electric Fetus
  • Extreme Noise punk record co-op
  • Know Name
  • Land Speed/Roadrunner Records
  • Let It Be Records mail order
  • Treehouse Records

    • restaurants
    see also cafés and brewpubs, above

  • Café Brenda
  • Ecopolitan
  • Fuji-ya
  • Harry Singh's Original Caribbean Restaurant
  • Maria's Café
  • Marla's Indidan and Caribbean Cuisine
  • Nami
  • Origami
  • Pizza Lucé
  • Sushi Tango
  • True Thai
  • Victor's 1959 Café

    • shopping malls
    if you must

  • Eden Prairie Center
  • Gaviidae Common Minneapolis
  • Mall of America Bloomington
  • Rosedale Center Roseville
  • Southdale Edina

    • sports: amateur

  • Adult Hockey Association
  • Twin Cities Gay Hockey Association

    • sports: collegiate

  • Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
  • University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Athletics

    • sports: professional teams

  • Major League Baseball: Twins
  • National Basketball Association: Timberwolves
  • National Football League: Vikings
  • National Hockey League: Wild
  • National Lacrosse League: Swarm
  • United Soccer Leagues: Thunder
  • Western Women's Hockey League: Whitecaps
  • Women's National Basketball Association: Lynx

    • sports: venues
    all of the below also host non-sports events

  • Metrodome: Twins, Vikings
  • Target Center: Lynx, Timberwolves
  • Xcel Energy Center: Swarm, Wild

    • theater

  • Brave New Workshop Comedy Theatre
  • Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
  • Children's Theater Company
  • Guthrie Theater
  • Heart of the Beast puppet and mask theatre
  • Mixed Blood Theatre
  • Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
  • Penumbra Theatre
  • Playwrights' Center
  • Red Eye
  • Southern Theater
  • Stages Theatre Company children's theater
  • Theatre de la Jeune Lune
  • Theatre in the Round amateur theater

    • tourism

  • Downtown Minneapolis map and guide to shopping, dining, entertainment, etc., published by the Downtown Council of businesses
  • GLBT Minneapolis
  • Minnesota Office of Tourism
  • Saint Paul Convention and Visitors Bureau

    • transportation, travel

  • Hour Car car sharing
  • MetroTransit Twin Cities public transit
  • Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport
  • Minnesota Department of Transportation
  • Northwest Airlines
  • Transit for Livable Communities

    • utility companies

  • Qwest telecommunications
  • VISI.com internet service provider
  • Xcel electricity
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