In it’s second year, American Express’s “Small Business Saturday” was designed to promote small, brick & mortar local stores and companies during the busiest shopping season of the year.

Well, Come to Saint Paul to do your shopping! Downtown is full of unique, one-off stores and restaurants. Some of my favorites are Heimie’s Haberdashery, [...]

This weekend should be interesting!  We’ve got the fall Art Crawl Fri-Sat-Sun throughout Lowertown in Saint Paul.  If you’ve never been to the St Paul Art Crawl, you have no idea what you’re missing.  So many great, local artists to support and a great chance to snoop around a lot of the buildings in Downtown.

Then [...]

If you didn’t catch it on Facebook, here’s some pics I took last week while walking around our fine city.  Enjoy!

Bud Sells Condos

Spotted this the other day on their rig, I had to grab my camera!  Station 8 is Representing Downtown St Paul with their new “DOWNTOWN” logo on the front of the rig.  One of the benefits of living in downtown is having such an awesome fire station as a neighbor.  The response time can’t be [...]

Food Network Magazine ranked Black Sheep Pizza in their 50 States, 50 Pizzas article.  Regardless of what the Star says, they didn’t get ranked number 7 in the country.  But it was Black Sheep’s #7 pizza Food Network picked

I can’t really argue with Black Sheep holding the title of best pizza in the [...]

The little, lovable Inn on the Mississippi River needs your help.  It was a rough winter for Covington Inn Bed & Breakfast.  Between frozen pipes in the Winter, and the incredible flooding this Spring, they had to cancel a lot of reservations.  Add on top they needed a tug to safer waters, they lost about [...]

It’s not a shocker that we’re expecting a flood this Spring with the crazy amount of snow we received, but it’s how bad the flooding could be that has people worried.  Latest estimate I heard put the flooding on par with the record year of 1965 (still not the all-time high from 1963 though).  The [...]