With snow falling almost non stop since Sunday, the City of Minneapolis this afternoon declared a snow emergency.

Starting at 9 p.m. today, cars will not be allowed to be parked on either side of snow emergency route streets. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow, cars should only park on the odd side of non-snow emergency route streets, and from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, cars should only park on the even side of non-snow emergency route streets.

Cars parked on the wrong sides of streets will be ticketed and towed.

To look up what streets are affected when, click here. More information is at ci.minneapolis.mn.us/snow.
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President says Superintendent Jon Gurban has done great work but that moving on 'happens as the natural growth of an organization'

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is set to move beyond Superintendent Jon Gurban, voting 6–3 Wednesday night to begin a search for candidates.

It’s the will of Minneapolis’ residents, said a majority of the board that included all three new commissioners. The campaign trail sealed Southwest’s Brad Bourn and Anita Tabb’s decision, they said, while Northeast’s Liz Wielinski said people brought up the issue repeatedly last fall.

But three of the board’s longest-serving commissioners fought back, stringing along a discussion that dominated the night’s meeting.
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There will be a special screening of the documentary “Beyond Our Differences,” a film exploring the positive impact of religion and spirituality in the world, at the Mayo Memorial Auditorium at the University of Minnesota campus Friday.

Peter Bisanz, the film’s director, will be on hand after the screening for a Q&A session.

Bisanz of St. Paul is the director and founder of New York-based Entropy Films. He is one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders — a group of people committed to turning their visions for positive change into action on a variety of important social causes.

In a recent interview, Bisanz said the concept for “Beyond Our Differences” came about while he was at the Dalai
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Walker Art Center rescreens 1962 sci-fi classic ‘La Jetée’

A catastrophic third World War. A radioactive, post-apocalyptic Paris. A perverse time-travel experiment as mankind’s only hope. At only 28 minutes, Chris Marker’s 1962 classic “La Jetée” packs in enough mind-warping intrigue to make it a landmark of science fiction. So influential is the story that Terry Gilliam executed a loose remake of it with the 1995 hit “Twelve Monkeys.” Beginning Feb. 9, Walker Art Center is rescreening the film as part of “Event Horizon,” a reinstallation of its permanent collection that includes rotating works from the film and video study archives.  

Only to call it “a film”
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