Beauty

No Known Cure for Pamtastic

Forty-seven years in, Reflect Salon’s clients keep showing the same symptom: they never leave. Article by Antara Murdeshwar | Photography by Ryan Siemers CASE ONE. Male. Age at first exposure: eight. His mother, Susan Severson, brought him to Reflect Salon in Maple Grove for a haircut. The stylist was Pam Moeller. The haircut went fine. That was the problem. He is twenty-one now. His mother says he’ll never stop seeing Pam for his haircuts. Not “probably.” Not “for now.” Never. Duration...

Education

You Get Names

A change of plans, a list of teachers, and a tree worth pulling in for. Article by Tim Doran | Photography by Provided The Larson family settled the school question years before their daughter was old enough to have one. They bought land inside the Wayzata School District and built a house on it. Around here, that counts as doing your homework. Then a friend started in about Providence Academy. She was not gentle about it. She was certain, in the way that makes a person raise something again...

Style + Beauty

Find Your Signature Contrast

Article by Amy Seeman Steve Jobs had the black turtleneck. Fashion icons like Iris Apfel became known for oversized glasses and bold jewelry. While most of us don't want to wear the exact same outfit every day, there's something to be said for having a recognizable point of view. The secret isn't creating a uniform—it's creating a formula. One of my favorite styling tricks is using juxtaposition, or pairing opposites. It's what gives an outfit personality and keeps it from feeling too...

Life + Culture

Maple Grove Takes Center Ice

Hockey Day Minnesota comes to Maple Grove in January 2028. Some assembly required. Article by Lauren Dahl & Tim Doran | Photography by Ashley Brooks At the logo unveiling, Greg Anzelc described a theory about how Hockey Day Minnesota works. The event arrives like a Taylor Swift tour: 15 semitrailers pull in, crews unload the show, everyone watches, and the whole operation packs up afterward. Hosting does not work that way. Experience Maple Grove, the city’s official destination marketing...

Life + Culture

Overheard

A classroom tip at 16. Now she runs the place. Article by Tim Doran | Photography by Ashley Brooks Nobody referred Jasmine Banks to Tradition. She was a 10th grader at Champlin Park High School, sitting in a class she can no longer name, when a girl named Olivia started talking about her job. They were hiring servers. Jasmine looked it up. Minutes from her house. She wasn’t friends with Olivia. She wasn’t part of the conversation. She applied anyway. What she hadn’t planned for was two weeks...

Professional Services

How to Sell a Business in Minnesota

Selling a business in Minnesota takes six to nine months on average, from the day an owner signs a listing agreement to the day the deal closes. The process moves through seven distinct stages, and the two that consume the most time — buyer engagement and closing — are largely outside the seller’s control.That timeline surprises most owners. So does the amount of work that happens before a business is ever shown to a buyer.Here is what the process actually looks like, stage by stage, according...

Food + Beverage

You Came for Lunch. You're Staying for Dinner

Inside Maple Grove's Take on "Fine Fast-Casual" — Greek Style Article by Kristi Sellers | Photography by Ryan Siemers You will walk in expecting fast food. You are not going to get it, and you won't figure that out until it's too late to mind. You'll order at the counter, same as anywhere quick — menu board, register, the whole transaction over in under a minute. You'll walk toward a table already bracing for the usual: a buzzer, a number on a stand, your name called over a speaker. None of...

Food + Beverage

Twenty-Four Pineapples

That's one barrel. It takes two weeks. Article by Kristi Sellers | Photography by Ryan Siemers Photography Nobody made them do this. At nearly every point where an easier option existed, somebody at Redstone American Grill in Maple Grove looked directly at it and went the other way. The bar. Start at the bar. On the counter in front of you are the barrels: enormous glass vessels packed wall to wall with pineapple. Twenty-four pineapples fill a single barrel. Kelli Amontroy cut all of...

Life + Culture

That Would be Awkward

Nobody knows what a chamber of commerce actually does. Six hundred local businesses do. Article by Tim Doran | Photography by I-94 Chamber The new business owner who called the I-94 West Chamber of Commerce wasn't calling to join anything. She'd taken over another company's storefront and hadn't changed the signage, so customers kept walking in expecting the old business — and left furious about gift cards issued by an owner who no longer existed. By the time she dialed the Chamber, she'd...

Food + Beverage

He Walked Out of Tibet. He Built the Shelf Behind You.

A father, his brother, his son, his daughter, and a restaurant that opened before it was ready. Photography by Ryan Siemers Photography The divider next to the bar at Apa Sushi was in the room before the restaurant was. There was a planter box in that spot when the family took the space, and it took up too much room. So it came out, and something slimmer went in, narrow enough to give the tables beside it a little more air. The shelves the sake bottles sit on are handmade too. Same person...