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The print edition of the Saint Paul Almanac is scattered with features about many varied aspects of life in Saint Paul. The Features section of the online Saint Paul Almanac regularly highlights places and people of note in Saint Paul!
The Saint Paul Almanac is the singular guidebook to Minnesota's capital city of St. Paul. Celebrate our ma-and-pa restaurants, our corner bars, our small-town manners, and our big-city ways. Read the travel guide that includes festivals and parades, poetry and fiction, recipes and trivia. St. Paul is as much a state of mind as a place. Come on in. Get to know us. The coffee pot is on!
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2009 Saint Paul Almanac on Sale Online on August 20th!
Aug 18, 2008 - 12:51:24 PM—
Now in its third year, the Saint Paul Almanac is the only guidebook dedicated solely to Minnesota's capital city. Including a calendar, date book, restaurant reviews, essays and poems about Saint Paul, the Almanac is a rich resource for anyone wishing to explore the cultural and social depths of Saint Paul throughout the year.
Contributors include notable Saint Paulites such as Garrison Keillor, Gordon Parks, Patricia Hampl, Carol Connolly, Jim Moore, Deborah Keenan, Mahmoud El-Kati, Phebe Hanson, and 75 other writers.
The 368-page 2009 Saint Paul Almanac is on sale now for $11.95 online at saintpaulalmanac.com, and will be available in mainstream bookstores, including Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Amazon.com on September 1st, in time for the Republican National Convention, during which 50,000 new visitors are expected to descend upon the city. Read more
Bars and Restaurants: W. A. Frost
Jul 11, 2008 - 10:39:29 AM—
Whether you are a native Saint Paulite or a transplant, chances are you have a favorite bartender. Saint Paul is arguably short on some things, but people: when it comes to bars, you can take your pick. From the highest order, with oak and marble features, to scratch-off parlors in old working-class neighborhoods, there is a crowd and atmosphere to suit your taste. And I am not talking about the suburban-chain Cheers bars that sometimes creep past the city line. When I want a bar, I'm thinking the Turf Club (the old '40s dance joint on University and Snelling) or the family-friendly Ranham Bowling Center with its decades-old lanes, 3.2 taps, and charming tarnish. Read more
Recipes: The Fruit Of Summer
Jul 11, 2008 - 10:28:40 AM—
My nails have been black for over a week now. This is the price I pay for picking mulberries, whose juice has a staining power the military might want to look into. Under the guilty tree, a (doomed) white car has been parked for the past nine days, and I know from experience that its hood will never be pure white again: pale pink blooms will adorn its surface, souvenirs of its time beneath that tree. Perhaps it's not surprising that the native mulberry, Morus rubra, is disappearing from Saint Paul. If you ask a random sampling of people what they think of when they think mulberry, you'll get a single reply: "Messy." Messy trees that stain automobiles have no place here in 2008, apparently. And that is sad and telling. Read more
People: Halwa's Story
Jul 11, 2008 - 10:20:52 AM—
My name is Halwa Abdulkadir Hussein. I was born in Somalia in the town of Hargeysa in 1989. I grew up in Somalia. I am Muslim. I have four brothers and a mom. My father died in 1994, and at that time I was young, so I moved to Kenya. I came to the United States of America on June 6, 2006. I saw many challenges in the United States, such as the weather. The weather was very cold. I saw many snowstorms that came from the sky. I hadn't seen snow before, so it was a surprise to me. Read more
Historical Buildings: The Union Depot
Jun 29, 2008 - 2:36:28 PM—
If you were to stand here today, on an equally mild summer morning, as the maker of this 1925 photograph did, Union Depot would not look much different. It would be, of course: time changes not only the physical lives of buildings but their meaning and function. In 1925, the Union Depot was a mere two years old, the granite embodiment of Saint Paul's importance as a rail hub and seat of commerce. More than 280 trains a day stopped here, their 20,000 passengers pouring through the depot's vast vaulted space and out onto Fourth Street to waiting taxis and street cars. Read more
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The Saint Paul Almanac is the singular guidebook to Minnesota's capital city of St. Paul. Celebrate our ma-and-pa restaurants, our corner bars, our small-town manners, and our big-city ways. Read the travel guide that includes festivals and parades, poetry and fiction, recipes and trivia. St. Paul is as much a state of mind as a place. Come on in. Get to know us. The coffee pot is on.
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