One of the things I look forward to twice a year is the St. Paul Art Crawl, held every April and October. The 2026 Spring Crawl will take place over the next three weekends, with Lowertown and other downtown-adjacent locations April 17-19. The hours are basically 6-9pm on Friday, noon… Read more »
The Friends of the St. Paul Skyway now has a website. They have a couple of events coming up this month that look well worth attending: a Skyway Social at the 1881 in Union Depot on Friday, April 17, and a $5 Progressive Dinner at some of the “Western Zone”… Read more »
Late last year, I got the idea for a series of short weekly videos in which members of the board would speak to the ownership. It would be a way for the board to start being more communicative about the work they were doing, the decisions they were making, and… Read more »
This is to let people know of a meeting next Monday (March 23rd) of the Fitzgerald Neighborhood Alliance, to be held at The Pointe. The Alliance is a consortium of people who live and/or work in the Fitzgerald Neighborhood, which, roughly speaking, comprises the fifteen city blocks bounded by 7th,… Read more »
From Friends of the Skyway (instructions to reply refer to the skywaysaintpaul email address): Help Activate the Saint Paul Skyways — even 2–3 minutes helps! 1) Stakeholder Survey — Share with two people We’re gathering a balanced picture of how people use (or don’t use) the skyways. Action: Forward… Read more »
In the aftermath of the struggle to post announcements about the City Walk Talk newsletter to the bulletin boards, I heard* that one board member suggested that they vote on removing the bulletin boards entirely! Thankfully, nothing seems to have come of this, but it underscored the need for channels… Read more »
The main purpose of this posting is to encourage everyone at City Walk to join the newly formed Friends of the Skyway. You can contact them at skywaysaintpaul@gmail.com — feel free to email me at bcipra@rconnect.com if you have questions. The skyway is one of the (many) attractive features of living… Read more »
In the February 23 board meeting, board president Ray Aguirre made an attack on Social Committee chair Ruth Markovitz that I believe was unjustified on every possible level. You can listen to the first five minutes of the incident here: And you can consult the audio recording and AI-generated transcript… Read more »
Our HOA’s governing documents are poor scans of typewritten pages, which makes it impossible to search them and hard even to read them. I’d like to convert them all to real text using an automated service, but need volunteers to help proofread the results, comparing them to the original PDFs… Read more »
I’ve been having lots of trouble posting this card to the bulletin boards. For over a week, somebody was removing them as quickly as I could put them back up, I assume because they wanted to prevent more people from subscribing to my newsletter and reading the content on this… Read more »
