Over the last month we have aquired several new neighbors! The first to move in was the state campaign headquarters for Barack Obama. It amuses me mightily that they are only a few doors down from the Libertarians. This area seems to attract campaign offices- our space was once Paul Wellstone’s; and Mike Ciresi’s place was across the street. As a matter of fact, that space is now occupied by Gremlin Theater, who just moved in at the beginning of the month. We’ve met some of the people involved and they seem to be pretty awesome- I can’t wait until their season starts! I haven’t had a chance to check out the last place, Lounge 150 yet, but I think it’s a hookah lounge. I just saw the gianormous hookah drawn on their window as I was leaving last night, so they probably opened up while we were gone.
The next few months should be interesting as we see what kind of people get drawn in to this area. We’ve already had more political people in than normal; my favorite being the republican lady who was really into crystals and was super excited about stumbling upon us (she actually got lost while she was going to pick up lawn signs and found us instead)! Obama’s place got vandalized early Sunday morning, which was not too cool, but I doubt that kind of attention will spill over to us. And it’ll be nice to have a theater crowd around here at night; right now the only other evening draws are the liquor store and the pool hall-not people likely to stop in our store.
Evenstar Muses 