Southwest Journal

The City of Minneapolis this morning declared a snow emergency. Starting at 9 p.m. today, cars will not be allowed to be parked on either side of snow emergency route streets. Full Story »

The Greater Twin Cities United Way has rolled out a new site — www.WarmSafeFed.org — and announced a $300,000 grant to help area food shelves, homeless shelters and other housing services. Full Story »

Saturday, December 19 Cookies with Santa, Kitchen Window, 3001 Hennepin Ave S., Minneapolis. Santa stops by Kitchen Window’s cooking school for a special day of holiday cookie baking with kids. Treats include sandwich cookie reindeer, corn flake wreaths, marshmallow snowmen and more. Full Story »

Sauce Spirits & Soundbar was only a few months old when word spread about the impending death of its legendary music counterpart to the west, the Uptown Bar & Café. Full Story »

Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, 5025 Knox Avenue South, Minneapolis, will sponsor its 80 th Annual Scandinavian Dinner, complete with lutefisk, meatballs, boiled potatoes, lefse, limpa bread, rutabagas, beet pickles, and ending with rice pudding and lingonberry sauce. Full Story »