Uptown Scott
@uptownscott.bsky.social
Music, geography, history, Urbanist. Anti-puritan. Love your neighbor. Schwäbisch/Scots, fleißig und sparsam.
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Coming soon to Shelter Me on PBS stations: the Wedge LIVE Cat Tour.
August 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Coming soon to Shelter Me on PBS stations: the Wedge LIVE Cat Tour.
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I wrote about the vacancies around Lake and Hennepin, and why it's going to be fine. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
Concern about Uptown’s changing face is familiar and overwrought
Yes, the critical Minneapolis retail and entertainment hub is suffering. But the key to its future isn’t recreating the past.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I wrote about the vacancies around Lake and Hennepin, and why it's going to be fine. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...
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🚨 The 2025 Wedge LIVE Cat Tour route map is here. If you know someone on the route, tell them to prepare their cats for viewing on Wednesday, June 25.
This year's program at Mueller Park will feature free face painters and cat adoptions courtesy of Minneapolis Animal Care & Control.
This year's program at Mueller Park will feature free face painters and cat adoptions courtesy of Minneapolis Animal Care & Control.
June 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🚨 The 2025 Wedge LIVE Cat Tour route map is here. If you know someone on the route, tell them to prepare their cats for viewing on Wednesday, June 25.
This year's program at Mueller Park will feature free face painters and cat adoptions courtesy of Minneapolis Animal Care & Control.
This year's program at Mueller Park will feature free face painters and cat adoptions courtesy of Minneapolis Animal Care & Control.
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It's been a bit over 48 hours since the Federal raid in South, and I'm still struck by the impact that such a large, armed presence has had on our community. Impact matters, especially given the fear that our immigrant communities are facing from this Federal administration.
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's been a bit over 48 hours since the Federal raid in South, and I'm still struck by the impact that such a large, armed presence has had on our community. Impact matters, especially given the fear that our immigrant communities are facing from this Federal administration.
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Brexit and Trump tariff madness and science destruction are like a giant stupid collective midlife crisis, we’ve collectively left our boring wife for an e-girl and are slowly finding out the inevitable ✨
so much winning
I'm in The Atlantic dissecting the messy, miniscule US-UK trade deal and explaining how it's worse than what we had just a few weeks ago and MUCH worse than the deal our old, wrongly-abandoned FTA model would've provided www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
May 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Brexit and Trump tariff madness and science destruction are like a giant stupid collective midlife crisis, we’ve collectively left our boring wife for an e-girl and are slowly finding out the inevitable ✨
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Uptown Dead report
Lower Hennepin was jamming today. Lines at Maeger’s, Mosaic, and Moona Moono.
Not sure this corner needs/can support quite this many $7-$9 iced beverages. Nor am I sure these Minneapolis baristas can handle the crowds. But one thing I am sure of is that Uptown is back.
Not sure this corner needs/can support quite this many $7-$9 iced beverages. Nor am I sure these Minneapolis baristas can handle the crowds. But one thing I am sure of is that Uptown is back.
April 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Uptown Dead report
Well worth watching if you value walkable towns and cities.
www.pbs.org/video/walkab...
www.pbs.org/video/walkab...
Walkable USA
Noted planner Jeff Speck partners with Hammond, Indiana to breathe new life into the city.
www.pbs.org
April 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Well worth watching if you value walkable towns and cities.
www.pbs.org/video/walkab...
www.pbs.org/video/walkab...
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Thanks for all the support, @governorwalz.mn.gov! Always great to have you visit!!
Happy Record Store Day, everybody. Make sure to shop local.
April 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thanks for all the support, @governorwalz.mn.gov! Always great to have you visit!!
Open Streets coming to Hennepin Ave between 26th and 36th Streets in September!
April 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Open Streets coming to Hennepin Ave between 26th and 36th Streets in September!
Finally! There will be an Uptown farmers market on Thursdays starting in April running through Sept outside of Seven Points.
April 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Finally! There will be an Uptown farmers market on Thursdays starting in April running through Sept outside of Seven Points.
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This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.
February 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.
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Protected cycle tracks are needed so children of primary school age can safely cycle along main roads in a city without adult supervision
February 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Protected cycle tracks are needed so children of primary school age can safely cycle along main roads in a city without adult supervision
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Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
February 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
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To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
Don’t accept a buyout.
Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.
And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?
Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor
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Quite the round up, including trump handing over your data to Elon Musk, who now has access to a government system he could use to upend government payments, install malware, etc. to Trump endangering CA farmers by wasting precious irrigation water. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
February 1, 2025
Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...
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February 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Quite the round up, including trump handing over your data to Elon Musk, who now has access to a government system he could use to upend government payments, install malware, etc. to Trump endangering CA farmers by wasting precious irrigation water. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
On Saturday I strolled over to Lake Harriet for the kite festival and ice shanties. Love to see all the families out enjoying the best of Minneapolis.
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
On Saturday I strolled over to Lake Harriet for the kite festival and ice shanties. Love to see all the families out enjoying the best of Minneapolis.
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Clearing sidewalks like roads is not radical. It’s just what any serious winter city does. If you don’t get enough snow to justify clearing sidewalks then you should probably get rid of your road clearing equipment too.
January 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Clearing sidewalks like roads is not radical. It’s just what any serious winter city does. If you don’t get enough snow to justify clearing sidewalks then you should probably get rid of your road clearing equipment too.
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Dumbest news you'll hear all day: Longtime organizers of the Uptown Art Fair—a pedestrian fair—say they will no longer hold their event due to city pedestrianizing Hennepin Ave.
Changes along Hennepin Ave. means the Uptown Art Fair will not return; new art fair will be reimagined at Bachman's
After 60 years, the Uptown Art Fair is no more. At least how it ran for the majority of those six decades. It will now be replaced by a new event dubbed the SoMi Art Fair and will take place at…
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January 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Dumbest news you'll hear all day: Longtime organizers of the Uptown Art Fair—a pedestrian fair—say they will no longer hold their event due to city pedestrianizing Hennepin Ave.
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Something I like about Minneapolis is we know how to embrace & endure winter.
One way is to have a kite festival on a frozen lake in January. 🪁
We also have an art festival on this same frozen lake in Jan/Feb.
One way is to have a kite festival on a frozen lake in January. 🪁
We also have an art festival on this same frozen lake in Jan/Feb.
January 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Something I like about Minneapolis is we know how to embrace & endure winter.
One way is to have a kite festival on a frozen lake in January. 🪁
We also have an art festival on this same frozen lake in Jan/Feb.
One way is to have a kite festival on a frozen lake in January. 🪁
We also have an art festival on this same frozen lake in Jan/Feb.
The best things are short walk away. Isles Bun & Coffee. www.startribune.com/isles-cinnam...
Minneapolis cinnamon roll named best in the world
An Omaha website that’s dedicated to the sweet mission swooned over the frosting-laden rolls and petite, popular puppy dog tails.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The best things are short walk away. Isles Bun & Coffee. www.startribune.com/isles-cinnam...
Founded in Uptown in 1909 at the corner of Hennepin and Lake (Calhoun Square / Seven Points building) by a Lebanese immigrant. “He was totally in love with the metropolis, the city, the buzz of the Uptown area, and the American way,”.
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December 20, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Founded in Uptown in 1909 at the corner of Hennepin and Lake (Calhoun Square / Seven Points building) by a Lebanese immigrant. “He was totally in love with the metropolis, the city, the buzz of the Uptown area, and the American way,”.
www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n...
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