Thursday, May 23, 2013
Find movie reviews and showtimes for theaters in the south metro.
Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from Moviefone and RottenTomatoes. Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here is Patch's roundup of movies playing at the three theaters in the south metro: Burnsville's Paragon Odyssey 15, Marcus Rosemount Cinema, Apple Valley’s Carmike Cinema and Great Clips IMAX Theatre at the Minnesota Zoo. The Hangover Part III One sentence plot: "The Hangover Part III" is the third and final film in director Todd Phillips' record-shattering comedy franchise. Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 88 Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 27 Reviews: "The first movie left you with an exhilarating rush. All that Part III leaves is, well, a hangover." Rolling Stone Full Review "The Hangover Part III gives off such a …
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
This three-bed, three-bath home has a tiny twin.
12932 2nd Avenue South in Burnsville: Tour a 1960s era gem and its miniature, a small cottage in the backyard that is currently used as a workshop. This home also boasts solid oak floors, a four season porch and a lovely yard filled with lilacs and flowering crabapple trees. Built in 1964. Priced at $255,000.
During a recent spate of burglaries, Lucas Charles Wynn and Blake Robert Schrunk allegedly stole rosaries, a wedding ring, and funerary urns among many other items.
Two men have been implicated in four brazen, night-time burglaries, three of which took place a half a mile away from the Burnsville Police Department. Lucas Charles Wynn, 38, and Blake Robert Schrunk, 21, were arrested after a break-in that occurred during the wee hours of May 15. Around 12:20 a.m., the BPD responded to an alarm at an unnamed business in the 12900 block of Nicollet Avenue. On arrival, officers found broken glass but the suspects had disappeared. A police dog led officers to the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex before the trail went cold. The search for the suspects resumed around 3 a.m. when officers patrolling the area saw a man dressed in dark clothing standing outside the business. The man sprinted away as …
The council gave the organizers of the Greater Downtown Savage Music Festival the go-ahead, with a few strings attached.
Rock on, Savage. Monday night, the city council approved a request from Neisen's and the Savage American Legion, which hope to put on the Greater Downtown Savage Music Festival, a two-day event with outdoor and indoor shows. The council approved the request unanimously, but with a few caveats. For one thing, the party will have to end sooner, rather than later. Initially, event organizers asked to fenced off a stretch of Princeton Avenue between 123rd Street and the city parking lot south of the Legion, where a crowd of 600 to 900 patrons could drink, dance and eat. They also asked that the fenced-in remain open from 6 p.m. to midnight. Neisen's has already been the subject of noise complaints in the past. According to City Administrator …
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Monday night, the Savage City Council approved a restaurant proposal put forward by two sisters from Prior Lake.
It's a new day for the Savage Depot. The historic building has been vacant since last summer, when its last tenant—a bistro and coffee shop—abruptly closed up shop. At the time, leaseholder Jim Lewis attributed the business' failure to road construction. On Monday night, however, the Savage City Council sealed the deal with new tenants, Cindy Feldman Hurley and Carol Feldman Madson, both of Prior Lake. The two sisters have a long and storied careers in the restaurant and catering business. Their newest venture, FLaVOR at the Depot, will likely be a breakfast and lunch spot. The council agreed to give the pair six months free rent ($1 a month). The monthly rent will gradually increase, however, to a maximum of $1,500 a month in the …
Monday, May 20, 2013
Burnsville-based company Pawn America recently opened its 25th location, where it's working on a model to separate pawn shops from their negative connotations.
Over the last 22 years, the Burnsville-based company Pawn America has grown into a regional force largely by subverting customers' not-so-high expectations of what a pawn shop should look like. Pawn America recently opened its 25th location on I-94 in St. Paul—called "PA Exchange, its the company's first store to drop the word "pawn" from the name. "This year we should run right around $80 million in sales, and I believe at the end of the year we'll end up right around 800 employees," Brad Rixmann, the company's owner, told the Pioneer Press. Pawn America has long worked to fight the pawn shop stigma, partnering with other community businesses and working with law enforcement to combat theft. But the new concept store is taking additional …
Minimize your costs at the gas pump with this helpful guide to the lowest gas prices in the city.
Seeing your bill at the gas pump climb to $50, $60 or even $70? The Minnesota statewide average gas price is $4.27—the highest in the lower 48 states, according to a Monday report in the Pioneer Press. Burnsville's gas prices roughly mirror the state's predicament, with per-gallon prices at many stations hovering a bit below the average. Wondering where to go for the cheapest gas in Burnsville? Here are a handful of local stations with the lowest gas prices on Monday morning, according to gasbuddy.com. Editor's note: Gas prices can change several times throughout the day, therefore there may be discrepencies between what is shown here and what the price is when you stop at a station. Where do you usually go for the lowest gas prices in …
A new, $12 million assisted living building is set to open this week at the Fairview Ridges Campus.
Officials at the Fairview campus are about to unveil a new senior living complex—Arbors II, a $12 million assisted living community. Arbors II is the fruit of a partnership between Ebenezer Management Services and Kraus-Anderson. The new building is an addition to an existing facility, Arbors at Ridges, which currently offers skilled nursing transitional care, adult day care and child care. The new three-story addition on Community Drive features 62 assisted living units, including a guest apartment and six "care suites," a special, private-pay area designed for post-operative and therapy residents. The new building will also give Ebenezer Ridges room to add memory care services. It will open on Tuesday, May 21. A grand opening …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The 38,000 square-foot building at 14050 Nicollet Avenue South changed hands in late April.
A medical building in Burnsville was recently acquired by a real estate company on the north shore. The AtWater Group bought the Ridge Point Medical Building (14050 Nicollet Avenue South) in Burnsville from Ridge Point Holdings LLC for $5.7 million, the Delano Herald Journal reports. The 38,000-square-foot building sits across from Fairview Ridges Hospital. As of late April, it was 80 percent occupied. Metropolitan Pediatrics Specialists is the building's anchor tenant. AtWater is based in Duluth. The company manages more than 750,000 square feet of commercial, retail, and industrial space. It has recently made several inroads into the Twin Cities market.
Friday, May 17, 2013
The local wedding industry is preparing for a flurry of same-sex weddings after the bill takes effect on Aug. 1.
Amy Zellmer wasted no time after the same-sex marriage bill passed the senate on Monday. The owner of Custom Creations Photography in Shakopee posted a jubilant blog post, then pledged to shoot one couple's same-sex wedding completely gratis. For Zellmer, the issue is deeply personal. Her own beloved sister has been in a committed relationship with another woman for 17 years and Zellmer would like nothing more than to see the two get hitched. "It's time," Zellmer said of the passage of the bill, which was signed by Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday. "This is very exciting." Evidently, others in the industry are enthusiastic as well. Zellmer posted her LGBT giveaway offer on Monday night. The next morning, a host of other vendors had contacted …
Clare Kennedy
12:27 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Oh come on. There are plenty of wedding giveaways for straight people. One of my own friends, who is straight, won a free wedding photography package too, which, by the way, wasn't available to gay couples. It isn't discrimination to offer a giveaway to a specific group of people: There are lots of giveaways aimed just at new moms or only at women. It would be discrimination if this photographer … more ›