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It had long ago attained the status of a Minneapolis institution.įounded on the West Bank in 1968, the Fetus has been in its current Whittier-neighborhood location since 1972. Ranking as one of the best record stores in the country, the Electric Fetus turned 50 years old in 2018. | 870-9300 Electric Fetus – Photo by Michelle Bruch And Mia is in the midst of an ongoing effort to refresh its collection with works by living artists that began in 2008, when the museum created a new Department of Contemporary Art.Ģ000 4th Ave. Its collection of American modern art was bolstered in 2015 with the long-term loan of 550 works from the family of collection Myron Kunin. Mia’s collection of Asian art, built on a foundation of generous donations, is known throughout the art world. With a collection that includes tens of thousands of objects documenting human creation over millenia, Minneapolis’ free, encyclopedic art museum invites and rewards return visits. Looking for, say, a mounted jackalope? Or perhaps an oversized letter stripped from a retail facade? Hunt & Gather should be your first stop.īurlap & Brass, which also won this year for best gift shop and best women’s clothing, offers an assortment of decorative objects alongside gifts and apparel. Our other two winners offer a more eclectic mix. The selection at Uptown’s CB2 outlet is sleek, modern and on-trend. Southwest shoppers don’t have to venture far to find top-notch furniture and home decor, as the three-way tie in this category demonstrates. The recently expanded East Isles store also has a stand-alone wine and spirits store.ĥ013 Ewing Ave. The local, family-owned chain arrived in Minneapolis in 2002, when the Kowalskis bought out a small group of Supervalu stores and remodeled them in the signature style of Kowalski’s Markets.Īt locations in the East Isles, Tangletown and Diamond Lake neighborhoods, shoppers will find aisles stocked with specialty items, full-service meat counters and in-store delis featuring an array of prepared foods. Paul in 1983, when Jim and Mary Anne Kowalski purchased a sleepy Red Owl store. Southwest’s favorite market opened its first location on Grand Avenue in St. gear, including hoodies emblazoned with “MN” and crossed canoe paddles and Sota trucker hats. The selection at the 50th & France boutique ranges from elegant (Twine & Twig jewelry) to irreverent (an array of oven mitts with unprintably sassy messages).įor a touch of local flavor, check out the selection of Sota Clothing Co. Opened in 2016 by Rena Lindberg, a veteran of the Anthropologie retail chain, Burlap & Brass offers an eclectic mix of gifts, jewelry, apparel and vintage furniture. This year’s list is a celebration of everything we love about our corner of the city.īurlap & Brass appears on our list three times (it also tied for best home furnishings), so the Ewing Avenue shop must be doing something right. Thanks to all who voted in our 2018 Best of Southwest contest. It was commissioned by Frank Wickes and the LSU Wind Ensemble for their performance at the 1999 Concert Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) meeting in Austin, TX.We asked and you answered with your favorite places to eat, shop, swim, hike and hang out. And the closing movement is the raucous and somewhat uneven marching of this rowdy group. The first movement of Wild Rumpus depicts the opening tableau of howling. The third and final page has them marching madly. The next page has them swinging through the trees. The following three pages are tableaux that depict Max and the wild things as they frolic through the forest. Max, the king, then proclaims to the wild things “let the wild rumpus start!” In the book, the protagonist Max travels to a magical island where he meets a group of wild things, who make him king. Wild Rumpus is a two movement work for wind ensemble, and was inspired by the children’s book “Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak.