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Minnesota weather: Hazy sky, staying warm on Wednesday
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MM weather: Staying warm, hazy sky on Wednesday
Wednesday is another warm summer-like day with temperatures in the mid-80s. While the day will have plenty of sunshine, wildfire smoke from the western U.S. is creating hazy conditions for much of the state. FOX 9’s meteorologist Jared Piepenburg has your forecast.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Wednesday brings another summer-style day with temperatures climbing into the mid-80s, accompanied by hazier skies.
Wednesday’s forecast
The Twin Cities metro and much of Minnesota will experience another warm, hazy, and dry day. Expect fewer clouds on Wednesday, but the haze from the wildfires burning in the western U.S. continues to linger, making for hazy conditions.
Temperatures will start in the low 70s and rise to a comfortable daytime high of 86 degrees in the metro area. It will be a warm, summer-like day with light southwest winds ranging from 5-15 mph, making for a pleasant but warm afternoon.
Overnight remains pleasant and quiet with a few passing clouds and temperatures in the 60s.
Looking ahead
Thursday continues the trend of warm, sunny weather with temperatures reaching the mid-80s. As we approach the weekend, Saturday will be slightly cooler, with a high of 80 degrees, still above the seasonal average of 75 degrees. While a stray shower may pop up, the day will generally be mild and quiet, with partly sunny skies.
Sunday sees a slight uptick in temperature and humidity, reaching a high of 82 degrees in the metro, along with light winds. As we move into the week ahead, expect temperatures to stay steady in the 80s.
Here’s a look at your seven-day forecast:
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Minneapolis, MN
Hennepin County Jail overcrowded, 180 inmates to be moved
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Hennepin County Jail overcrowded, 180 inmates to be moved
The Hennepin County jail has a functional capacity of 755 inmates.
Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the jail is now overcrowded and exceeds that limit. Officials are currently in the process of moving 180 inmates to two other jails in separate counties.
Witt said the inmate transfers are necessary to keep inmates and jail staff safe.
“You know, in terms of overtime and running at minimums, that’s not good for anyone. It’s not good for our incarcerated population. It’s not good for our people that are working in the jail day in and day out,” said Witt.
Witt said that if the current inmate trend continues, she would seek to build a new jail outside Minneapolis.
“So, if somebody asked me today, ‘Hey, what do you need?’ I would say we need a bigger jail and we would need to not be in downtown Minneapolis,” said Witt.
Witt also said she does not support releasing inmates to ease the overcrowding because 84% of the inmates have a violent criminal history.
“We have to have answers. But, I can tell you what, the answer shouldn’t be to allow people to terrorize the neighborhood because our jail is overpopulated,” said Witt.
Witt said Wright and Scott counties have agreed to accept some inmates but at least two more jails in other counties are still needed.
Minneapolis, MN
National cigarettes, banned pop songs and memory oceans: Minneapolis Iranian artists show work about diaspora
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In the underground gallery of the Q.arma Building in northeast Minneapolis, there is a line of giant stubbed-out cigarettes, all of them glossy and hard ceramic.
Nearby are watercolor prints of Persian calligraphy featuring lyrics by female Iranian pop artists who worked in exile after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. In a back room, artist Shirin Ghoraishi places a virtual reality headset on visitors, chaperoning them through an ocean horizon that leads to a subway car.
This is the show, “So Far, So Close,” featuring Ghoraishi, Ziba Rajabi and Katayoun Amjadi. The artists were all born in Iran.
Artist Shirin Ghoraishi, here with curator and artist Ziba Rajabi, guides guests through her VR experience inspired by dreams and memory. Courtesy of Drew Arrieta
“We all have been living outside of Iran for years,” says Rajabi, who also curated the show. “This is an exhibition that explores the complicated experience of displacement from the motherland through themes of space, distance and memory by three Iranian female artists.”
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The exhibition was funded by the Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective and the Minnesota Humanities Center.
Rajabi’s works are the series of watercolor calligraphy. In her artist statement, Rajabi explains that in “the ‘80s and ‘90s, the Islamic regime banned pop music, and the only art and music allowed were war propaganda.”
The pop songs she references in her work come from Iranian artists whose work was smuggled into the country on tapes or VHS. For this show, she focuses on the music of Leila Forouhar, an Iranian woman who fled Iran in the 80s.
The “Forget to Fly” series by artist-curator Ziba Rajabi uses watercolor monotypes of Persian calligraphy “employing verses from pop songs by Iranian female singers who lived and worked in exile after the 1979 [Iranian] Revolution.”
Courtesy of Drew Arrieta
“Her experience of exile was similar,” Rajabi says.
Ghoraishi created a VR experience about reality, dreams and memory and where these areas overlap.
“The audience will see an ocean that is a representation of dreams and memories, which doesn’t mean they are true or not true,” Ghoraishi says. “Sometimes memory tricks us. We remember something that didn’t exist before.”
Ghoraishi ends the user experience by placing them in front of a full-length mirror in a dim room.
“This final moment is a necessary reminder that as an immigrant, we are shaped by what we remember of our past and what we have had to forget,” Ghoraishi says. “The mirror reflects not only the self but the constant negotiation of one’s identity.”
A still from the virtual reality experience “Echoes and Fragments” created by Minneapolis artist Shirin Ghoraishi.
Courtesy of Shirin Ghoraishi
Amjadi created the nine giant ceramic cigarettes. The rest of her installation includes silkscreen prints of cigarette packs as well as two actual cigarette packs encased in a clear box. “Two ordinary cigarette packs picked up from newsstands in Tehran and Jerusalem,” Amjadi wrote in her artist statement.
The brands are Bahman, the national cigarette of Iran, and Alia, a cigarette brand from Palestine that is sold in Israel.
Amjadi says her art investigates “how objects carry memory, and the objects that we collect, especially as souvenirs that we bring from one place to another, are signifiers of memory, nostalgia and also identity are embedded in them.”
Bahman, Amjadi explains, is Farsi for “snow avalanche” and is also the word for February, the month of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
“Bahman is the month of revolution, a 1979 revolution in Iran that, in a sense, caused the Iranian diaspora,” Amjadi says. “So me and my friends right here would not be here if that event would not have taken place.”
Minneapolis-based Iranian artists Katayoun Amjadi, Shirin Ghoraishi and Ziba Rajabi with moderator Aida Shahghasemi at the opening of the show “So Far So Close” at the Q.arma Underground Gallery in northeast Minneapolis.
Courtesy of Alaleh Naderi
Alia is the Arabic word for “exalted.” Amjadi says it also has the meaning of a return to the Holy Land for the Jewish people. (Aliyah means “ascent” in Hebrew and is used in Judaism to represent both the act of being called to read from the Hebrew Bible and the act of immigrating to Israel.)
“Which is a reverse diaspora but causes another diaspora, a Palestinian diaspora,” she says. “I’m interested in the desires and yearnings of one population for a homeland, for belonging to a place, and how it causes another group to be displaced, and the parities between these diasporas in a way.”
Gallery hours are 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays through Tuesdays. Visitors can do the virtual reality experience Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition will have a closing reception on Sept. 21.
Minneapolis, MN
Mothership Pizza Paradise will land on France Avenue this fall
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Soul Bowl began as a pop-up in north Minneapolis before growing into the fast-casual spot, popular for its menu of comfort foods with plant-based options. (There’s a State Fair outpost, too.)
As it marks 20 years in business, local burger chain My Burger has announced it will open its 10th location at the Viking Lakes complex in Eagan near the intersection of Interstates 494 and 35E this fall. The new location kicks off plans to double the number of My Burgers.
My Burger was founded in downtown Minneapolis with a skyway location in 2004 by the Abdo family with a menu of burgers, fries and shakes — including a current pumpkin spice shake. A My Burger opened earlier this year in Edina; other locations are in Eden Prairie, St. Paul’s Mac Groveland, Stadium Village, Richfield, Uptown, Minnetonka and Wayzata.
Speaking of My Burger, it’s worth noting that the burger of the month is a collaboration with Rise Bagel Co. The Rise & Shine burger is topped with Rise honey-rosemary cream cheese, arugula, havarti, everything bagel seasoning and a fried egg ($12.95).
All the screens are being installed at the area’s new subterranean sports bar. The Rabbit Hole (411 Washington Av. N., Mpls.) will sport 40 TVs and a menu built for enjoying game day. The bar and restaurant (no affiliation with the one by the same name that used to be inside Midtown Global Market) will take over the space formerly occupied by AxeBridge Wine Co.
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