May 1, 2022 | COVID-19 News, Features, Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown Food & Drink News, Lowertown News, Lowertown.info Announcements, News, Podcasts
Lowertown.info was launched in 2014 as an online visitor’s guide, news magazine, and community information portal serving the arts neighborhood of Lowertown, Saint Paul, Minnesota. The site also served as a place of record of the changes Lowertown went through in the last decade. The site created special archives relating to the gentrification of the neighborhood—the JAX Wake, Domination Corporation, interviews with Lowertown pioneers, the pandemic on top of the existing struggles of an artistic community—for those interested in what happened to Lowertown. This project and its associated Twitter feeds will be wrapping up by 1 May 2022. I can’t thank enough the people who supported this project over the years—artists, individual community members, galleries, and local performing collectives…. Thank you so much.
May 1, 2020 | Lowertown News, Lowertown.info Announcements
Lowertown.info—Following KARE-11’s firing of weatherman Sven Sundgaard after a viciously homophobic & antisemitic campaign by right wing extremists, Lowertown.info & its related Twitter feeds @lowertownlive & @lowertowninfo will no longer be reposting any material from the news station.
October 19, 2019 | Lowertown.info Announcements
lowertown.info—Longtime Lowertown Lofts Artists Cooperative resident and Lowertown community member Allison Hoogervorst passed away in an apparent accident in the first week of October at her home in Desert Hot Springs, California, on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, where she had been living for the last several years. No memorial event has been announced yet. A group of Allison’s family members, friends, and neighbors are collecting written recollections and photos of Allison through the years. Please submit your memories.
November 28, 2016 | Features, Lowertown Art, Music & Culture News, Lowertown News, Lowertown.info Announcements
Nigel Parry, the creator of the Lowertown Eye neighborhood forum, could be dubbed a Lowertown maven, so deep is his love of the artist community that emerged around the century-old warehouses at the edge of downtown St. Paul. Artists have been a mainstay here for decades. These days, the Lowertown Eye is having a tough time accepting all it sees. “It’s unrecognizable,” says Parry, a musician and website designer, lamenting the latest wave of brew pubs and upscale housing construction on the horizon.
