Life + Culture

Helping Paws Tail Waggin' Dinner

Saturday, September 19th at Radisson Blu Mall of America Article by David Scheller | Photography by Steve McCuskey They are more than friends.  They are faithful, radiant, extensively trained aides to individuals who have physical disabilities. To veterans and first responders living with service-related PTSD. To people navigating courthouses, mental health facilities, and other places that are vastly improved by the addition of lovely goldens and Labs. They are Helping Paws assistance...

Education

Eden Prairie Montessori

R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find Out What It Means to Me Article by David Scheller IT IS THE AGE OF NINCOMPOOPERY. People everywhere are abandoning deportment in favor of becoming irascible brutes. They’ve zero consideration for their surroundings. They give just as much thought to others. They’re altogether unpleasant to be around! This news is alarming to any parent of a young child. They don’t want to raise a boor. They want their child to become an adult who dances across kaleidoscopic social...

Life + Culture

Eagle Excellence Showcase

Eden Prairie Schools and FEPS Welcome You to Celebrate Greatness This October Article by David Scheller | Photography by Eden Prairie Schools Last year marked the grand debut of Eden Prairie Schools’ Hall of Fame: 20 alumni, staff members, and community leaders whose achievements surpass every standard for excellence. So auspicious an occasion demanded a crowd – precisely what Eden Prairie Schools and the Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools (FEPS) drew to Valley View Campus when they hosted...

Life + Culture

Brandy the Dog

Meet Her at Cadence Chiropractic’s Motion Is Life 5K/1-Mile Walk-or-Run Fundraiser on Saturday, October 3rd at 10am Article by David Scheller | Photography by Diane Wilke BRANDY WAS ALONE.  Though she had met her fair share of people. Her first owner? A family that wasn’t equipped to manage a German wirehaired pointer’s fathomless vigor. Her second, and possibly third? A big question mark. Her latest? An outdoorsman, who’d no use for a dog that wouldn’t hunt. Therein lay Brandy’s great...

Sports + Recreation

RevSports

Just Let Them Play Article by David Scheller I CAN BE ANYTHING. The theme song to Reading Rainbow embodied it best; the infinite paths that spread ahead of childhood, when every new experience opens doors to a thousand imagined opportunities. And then you grow older. And that once fine web of paths turns to highways. And every minute passes to the clicks of a thousand doors swinging shut. “And I find it sad that sports – which I’ve always known to be the greatest source of inspiration to...

Shopping

Pet Evolution Eden Prairie

Feed ‘em. Groom ‘em. Spoil ‘em. Article by David Scheller Gucci. Cartier. Louis Vuitton. Bring your big, hairy dog into any of these fine shopping establishments, and the staff will turn their noses up at you. “Ex cuse me,” one will say in the ingratiating tone that implies you aren’t allowed to do whichever stupid thing you are presently doing. “You will have to take that … ahem – dog – outside .” And you know what? You kind of see their point. No one wants to buy a prechewed purse or...

Fitness

DOJO Karate

The True Story of How I Learned to Love Karate Article by David Scheller | Photography by Real Media MN It had been one full year since my epic martial arts duel against Tyler Hauer: co-owner and head instructor of DOJO Karate in Eden Prairie, and the only man who has ever bested me in combat. Until then, my hulking physique and finely honed reflexes had proven insuperable to every opponent who once stood in my path. But my first taste of defeat was sobering. It made me realize that I would...

Health + Wellness

Urban Speech & Occupational Therapy

Go Team Pippa! Article by David Scheller | Photography by Real Media MN “Of course, there is only one Pippa,” said Kari Kidd, the 7-year-old’s mother. “But genetically speaking, she is one in 3 billion. Her difficulties began before she was born. She started therapy in the NICU, and continued at Masonic Children's Hospital when she was 3 months old. “Among other challenges, Pippa has apraxia; essentially, a disorder that causes her brain to miscommunicate with her speech muscles. She can...

Health + Wellness

Flying Cloud Animal Hospital

Two New Vets Join the Team Article by David Scheller | Photography by Real Media MN Human doctors? A thoroughly commendable bunch. If you spend an extra decade in school and rack up student debt equivalent to the GDP of a smallish country for the sole purpose of keeping people like me alive, then you deserve a firm pat on the back. But animal doctors? They’re the most admirable of all, because they help the best kinds of people. I am speaking of those goodest of good boys and girls: the...

Food + Beverage

Prairie Wine & Brewfest

Saturday, September 12th, 3-6pm at Purgatory Creek Park Article by David Scheller | Photography by Rajendran Thiagarajan We have to ask you to be REAL selfless here for a second. We want you to: Go to beautiful PURGATORY CREEK PARK. Surround yourself with LOVELY PEOPLE. Eat FOOD YOU ENJOY EATING. Drink DRINKS YOU ENJOY DRINKING. Witness what might just be WONDERCURE’S LAST-EVER LIVE PERFORMANCE AT PRAIRIE WINE & BREWFEST. What are we asking you to do, EXACTLY ? That’s simple...