Kingfield

It’s Good Times, for now 

“I can’t wait to go away,” Franz Gilbertson, owner of Good Times Pizza, told me in between making pizzas and changing over vinyl records an hour before closing on Wednesday night. 

“You could do a festival of just Bert Bacharach’s music and go for 10 hours straight,” Ariel Donahue, the singer of RetroFizz, explains from her Kingfield house. “I mean, it's wild how much material he has.”

The owner of the house on Aldrich Avenue missing a front foundation stepped out of his house, right on cue, as yet another reporter approached. He is used to the media attention by now. 

Here's a rundown of what you can expect on Saturday, September 6th

The online group moves their goods offline for the day in conjunction with the Kingfield Garage Sale

The Kingfield restaurant opened in January 2024.

Coffee industry veteran Tony Querio is behind the new coffee shop.

Ann Ahmed is a semifinalist again, this year for the Outstanding Chef James Beard Award for her work at Khâluna in East Harriet.

The restaurant and corner store opened in March 2023.

A decades-old HIV/AIDS organization based in Kingfield is taking on Rainbow Health's contracts, while figuring out which community organizations will best serve them in the long term.

Sebastian Joe's Kingfield Social is opening in the former Apoy space.

Celebrate Dining Out for Life April 25

Dine out to end HIV. Thirty restaurants in Southwest Minneapolis and 97 restaurants in Minnesota have committed to donate a portion of their sales to The Aliveness Project.

The Lynette team showed a little more of what they have planned at 42nd Ave and 38th Street during a sneak preview at Petite León, the buzzy Kingfield restaurant where two of the co-owners hail from.

Vacant Lots of Southwest Minneapolis

Curious why vacant lots are, well, vacant? Brian Martucci looked up the history of a few and tried to figure out why they are empty and what plans the owners have for them.

Performed for the third time since 2009, church member and local musician Doug Weatherhead first wrote the requiem for the church’s 100th anniversary.

A small lot is still available for an entrepreneur or local ice cream shop to lease

A new Neighborhood Revitalization Program Policy Board with more organization representation may impact funding decisions in the future.

Incarnation Catholic Church’s Harvest From the Heart serves thousands of people each month.

Craft Stores of Southwest

Beads, fabrics, yarn, and sewing supplies are all within your reach here in Southwest Minneapolis

Some quick tips of how to make the most out of your farmers market trip.

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