The Daily Planet does a story about the fate of Northeast’s long-dorminant Hollywood Theater which may be reopening soon, although not necessarily as a cinema: the city reevaluated the site’s development potential and changed its approach to pursue more general or interim arts-related reuses such as photography and art studios or architectural offices.
Hollywood Theater
Aug 20 2009 — 1:53pm
10 Reader Comments
3:27 pm
Doesn’t say how much $$$$$. Lots of empty office space in the city.
Dubious.
Someone in the comment section is griping about the use of the word Nordeast.
“Please stop mocking the accents of the immigrants who built my neighborhood.”
3:35 pm
And they link back to a MnSpeak discussion about just that topic: http://www.secretsofthecity.com/talk/posts/nordeast-a-racist-term-when-will-the-madness-stop
And so the circle of life is complete.
4:02 pm
There are people who wake up in the morning and won’t rest until they find something that offends them.
4:07 pm
@Rat: Please — PLEASE — don’t let them find out about Frogtown.
4:09 pm
oo.. I’m intrigued. What’s Frogtown?
4:10 pm
Frogtown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogtown
4:11 pm
A place, Shopgirl, were if you waited on the corner long enough, you’ll meet all sorts of new friends slowing down their cars to talk with you….I think Sailor Martin wrote a song about it…
4:13 pm
Indeed he did: http://sparberfans.blogspot.com/2009/02/sailor-martin-one-million-frogtown.html
4:23 pm
Ah. Heh. Heh. Gotcha.
4:35 am
Ah… was wondering whether you were joking about Frogtown, didnt realise it was a real place!!