Sara Kerr

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Lover of Snow, Winter Vacations, Good Beer & Great Music, Minnesota Weather, French Wine & Sidewalks. Yogi for life.

Category: Cool things in Minneapolis

  • Day Two of the Daily Dozen: Small Business Saturday — it’s Hardware Heaven

    Here’s Day Two’s installment of fantastic small businesses that I simply like (okay adore!) and frequent. Let’s shop small for Small Business Saturday! Where do you go? Share in the comments below! Frattalone’s Ace Hardware (Multiple Locations) There are TWO locations on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, which tells you something about my town. If…

  • November 26th is Small Business Saturday: Shop EggPlant Urban Farm Supply and 11 others

    Saturday, November 26th is Small Business Saturday. I’d never heard of this fabulous idea until I read my e-newsletter from Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply. Let’s skip Wal-Mart’s 10 pm Black Friday opening on Thursday and shop local, instead. A dozen days, a dozen shops a day. Everyday between now and November 26th, I’ll feature small…

  • My Twitterview and Love of St. Paul

    Monday, I was Twitterviewed by Joel Carlson – a cool social media strategist here in the Twin Towns. I don’t interview well, but I think Twitter is a better medium then phone for me. I still haven’t figured out how talk with my hands in either media. My point, though, is how much I talked…

  • YouTube: Why Didn’t I Think of That.

    I teach social media. I use social media everyday. Yet every couple of weeks I’m surprised what I find. I mean really surprised. Yesterday I wrote about seeing U2 in Dublin in ’89, but until–yesterday–I never thought to check YouTube for bootleg videos. Here’s one from Saturday night: I should so know better, but I…

  • U2: Dublin 31-12-89, Minneapolis 23-7-11, the Claw, the Scalpers and the Lovely Rain

    Almost 22 years ago I was here: That’s me in the front row with the camera at the beginning of the video. Last night I saw them again. It was a big decision to go, actually. How could I ever top New Year’s Eve 1989? It was 6 weeks after the Berlin wall fell. Europe…