Streets.mn presents Bicyclopolis, a graphic novel by Ken Avidor in serial form. In last week’s episode, The Great Collapse, Dan Petosky learned from his travel companions Sara Raleigh and Archer Sturmley the catastrophic collapse of the industrial era in the United States. In this week’s episode, Sara explains how the suburban survivors of the Twin […]
Streets.mn presents Bicyclopolis, a graphic novel by Ken Avidor in serial form. In last week’s episode, Archer Sturmley’s Tale, Dan Petosky escaped the siege of Stillwater, Minnesota only to find himself many decades in the future and pedaling with two companions to Bicyclopolis. This week’s episode, Archer Sturmley continues his tale. Click on the pages twice to […]
Streets.mn presents Bicyclopolis, a graphic novel by Ken Avidor in serial form. In last week’s episode, Cycling Into the Future, Dan Petosky pedaled Uncle Fred’s time-travel invention, the velochronitron into the troubled future of Stillwater, Minnesota. This week’s episode is Archer Sturmley’s Tale. Click on the pages twice to make them bigger.
Streets.mn presents Bicyclopolis, a graphic novel by Ken Avidor in serial form. In last week’s episode, The Velochronitron, Dan Petosky learned about the pedal-powered time-travel invention in Uncle Fred’s laboratory in Stillwater, Minnesota. This week’s episode is Cycling Into the Future. Click on the pages twice to make them bigger.
Streets.mn presents Bicyclopolis, a graphic novel by Ken Avidor in serial form. This week’s episode is The Velochronitron. Click on the pages twice to make them bigger.
A year ago on Streets.mn, I wrote about the Urban Sketchers movement which seeks to celebrate the cities we live in “one sketch at a time.” One very active, local group of sketchers, the Facebook-based MetroSketchers is having an exhibit of their sketches titled “MetroSketchers Four Years and Counting” at the The Black Dog Cafe & Wine Bar in […]
Roberta and I live in a loft in the Union Depot and we are always encountering lost, bewildered and confused travelers. Very often, they step off the Green Line and ask us where the Amtrak station is or the bus terminal. This should come as no surprise as the train and bus platform is not visible from the Green Line platform and there […]
Do pedestrians and cyclists have a more sophisticated sense of navigation than drivers, who only have to follow road signs?
The Twin Cities is hosting the Rail-Volution conference this week. As I watched the Rail-Volution attendees gathered in the refurbished Union Depot last night, I thought what a long way we’ve come from the dark days ten years ago when nearly every transportation meeting I attended included at least one proponent of Personal Rapid Transit, […]
When I was a kid, I watched the Olympics on television and they had this artist with a big mustache painting a big canvas. That painter was Saint Paul native Leroy Neiman. Whenever there was a dull moment or a break in the action, the announcer would ask, “What’s Leroy Neiman up to?” and the […]