My nick is misleading. I lived in Mpls. for 20 years, now I’m 35 miles west of the city.
We lived off East Lake forever and a day. Ticks me off they now have the Town Talk Diner. It was only pancakes when I left in 2000. Oh well....
It's early to say this is actually a trend, but there are signs all over the place. Websites for "modest clothing" are expanding, and Wendy Shalit, who earlier wrote about "A Return to Modesty," has a new book called "Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good." She illustrates the point with an interview with the daughter of Erica Jong, whose book "Fear of Flying" practically launched the sexual revolution. Jong glamorized promiscuity as random guilt-free sex with strangers.
"When you're 12," says Molly Jong Fast, "there's nothing funny about your mother's fourth wedding." Molly describes her own promiscuity as a mistake. "I was sold a bad bill of goods." Molly is married and signs her e-mails "mother of Max," making sure you understand that she's first a mother. So do a lot of other young moms.
From an article about The New Victorians http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SuzanneFields/2007/07/23/the_new_victorians
LOL. Uptown has some good spots.
I don't live in Mpls either. I'm in an eastern suburb, but I use Minneapolis for identification. Most people are familiar with that city.