Life + Culture

Roy Terwilliger

Give Yourself to Eden Prairie Article and Photography by Born just east of the middle of nowhere in South Dakota. Bachelor’s in business admin. Master’s in public administration. First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Led the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and South Dakota Bankers Association. Worked for the American Bankers Association in New York City and Washington, D.C. Organized Suburban National Bank, Eden Prairie’s first bank, at the newly built Eden Prairie Center in 1976. Helped...

Food + Beverage

Kevin's Italian Bistro

Article by David Scheller All our food: pizza, calzone, buffalo moozarell', olive oil. These [can’t print that word in a family magazine] had nothin'. They ate pootsie before we gave them the gift of our cuisine. – Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri I’ve meditated in the innermost sanctums of Fanjingshan. I once witnessed a meteor shower crackle apart into cosmic ash behind the diaphanous dazzle of aurora borealis – during a lunar eclipse. I’ve even hung out with jazz musicians. But no matter how...

Entertainment

Grease

Now Playing at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres Article by David Scheller It’s been a long time since greasers ruled the earth as its coolest cats. Ask kids to identify James Dean nowadays and they’ll tell you he was breakfast sausage. And yet Grease lives eternal, because it’s about so much more than greasers goosing screamers down the LA River and the beautiful women who love them. It’s about friendship. Rebellion. Finding your identity within the unrelenting pressures of society. It’s also...

Finance + Legal Services

First Western Bank & Trust

Eden Prairie’s Commercial and Industrial Lender Article by David Scheller Vision. Ambition. Drive. A crackerjack of an idea for a new or expanded business. If you have these, then you need just one more thing before you can start changing the world for the better (especially whichever parts of it you happen to occupy). Capital “Commercial and industrial lending has been one of our bank’s main focuses since its foundation 61 years ago,” said David Thompson, market president of First Western...