After a glorious Saturday serving up pizzas for volunteers renovating Urban Roots' garden in our neighborhood, we did it again the next week.  The weather was supposed to frown on us but it turned out just as glorious and sunny as the first week.  So, too, were the conversations over pizza.  Lots of passers-by visiting the houses on our block that were participating in the Minneapolis St.

Carla Riehle from the Dayton's Bluff Forum interviewed me about the radio novelas project and has become the first journalist to link Nuestro Pueblo San Pablo to what I'll be doing with the mobile pizza kitchen.  Thanks, Carla, for helping me get the ideas and the story out there to neighbors.  Follow the link to read the story in both english and spanish!

It's official!  Last night it was announced that my radio novelas project has been selected a winner of the Knight Arts Challenge by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.  42 projects (!) have been awarded -- representing almost $1.4 million -- in this first year of the 3-year challenge.  This is a huge act of support for St. Paul and St. Paul artists.