Category: Business

  • New West St. Paul bookstore dwells on the weird

    New West St. Paul bookstore dwells on the weird

    By Casey EkIn 2007, an adolescent boy walked into Midway Book Store and spotted a first edition copy of Robert W. Chambers’ The King In Yellow.…

  • Come Celebrate Union Depot

    Come Celebrate Union Depot

    Editor’s note: Publication of this regularly scheduled column does not equate an endorsement for Rafael Ortega in the Nov. 8 election. When we refurbished and reopened Union…

  • St. Paul Almanac returns after pandemic hiatus

    St. Paul Almanac returns after pandemic hiatus

    Poets, authors, artists and other supporters of the St. Paul Almanac gathered on Oct. 20 at CHS Field’s Securian Financial Club to celebrate the launch of…

  • Be Prepared with an Advance Directive

    Be Prepared with an Advance Directive

    West End HealthlineBy Anna Dovre, MDAs the season shifts ever on toward autumn, I’ve been noticing the ways that we’re all making preparations. The squirrels…

  • Schmidt Art Crawl returns this fall

    Schmidt Art Crawl returns this fall

    By  Lark GilmerArt Lives at Schmidt Artist Lofts. For the last several years, we have not only created art but also produced unique events to display…

  • White Squirrel Bar hits one-year milestone

    White Squirrel Bar hits one-year milestone

    Wife and husband, Dani and Jarret Oulman, were channeling this inside joke while naming White Squirrel Bar, 974 West 7th St. In case you get…

  • The rubber hits the road for St. Paul rent control

    The rubber hits the road for St. Paul rent control

    After a May 1 rollout, St. Paul’s voter-approved rent control ordinance is being road tested as landlords across the city continue appealing the ordinance’s 3%…

  • We remember Scott McClure: 1968-2022

    We remember Scott McClure: 1968-2022

    by Jerry RothsteinScott Andrew McClure was born on June 25, 1968, to Georgann Warren McClure and Norman Donald McClure (d. 2019). He was the “little…

  • All hands on decks

    All hands on decks

    by Casey EkZachary Rassett picked up his first skateboard when he was 5 years old, and since then he hasn’t looked back. Now, the 26-year-old…