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Shopping

Visit Bella Gina Boutique on Pink Friday: November 21st, 2025

Looking for boutique shopping in Eden Prairie? Then you’re in luck. Pink Friday, November 21st, 2025 is the perfect time to visit the best boutique in Eden Prairie: our very own Bella Gina Boutique!Founded by lifelong fashion-lover Gina Pellegrini, Bella Gina is a locally owned boutique curating a fun, intimate shopping experience for women who want something fresh and exciting. In celebration of Pink Friday, the woman-owned boutique is offering these discounts and promotions:50% off everything...

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Home Services

Painting Happy in Eden Prairie: CertaPro Painters of SW Metro

A fresh coat of paint can do more than transform a room – it can completely change how you feel about your home. For Kelly and Sara Morlock, owners of CertaPro Painters of SW Metro, painting isn’t just a business; it’s a way to bring joy, comfort, and beauty into their neighbors’ homes throughout Eden Prairie and the surrounding communities.This year, their team was recognized with the “Best of BusinessRate 2025 – Eden Prairie” award for earning the highest number of Google reviews and...

Life + Culture

Impact Grants 2025

Nominate Your Favorite Nonprofit Organization to the Eden Prairie Community Foundation Article by David Scheller Do you know of a great nonprofit organization serving the needs of Eden Prairie residents? Do you believe that organization could do even better if it had more money ? Then this is your chance to make a big impact. The Eden Prairie Community Foundation is accepting applications for their 2025 Impact Grants from December 1st through the end of January! “It’s finally that time of...

Arts + Culture

Carlos Family Woodworks

It’s a Family Affair Article by David Scheller “I started lathing later in life,” said Jack Carlos, the central Carlos in Carlos Family Woodworks. “We were doing medical mission work in Africa around 25 years ago when I picked up woodworking as a hobby. That’s also when I was diagnosed with the neurological disease that would send me back home to Richfield." “I was fortunate to have found a hobby I could continue doing, even if I can no longer handle larger pieces. I soon settled into a good...

Auto + Marine

RipaLip

Essential Gear for Marine Electronics, Born in Eden Prairie Article by David Scheller “We were something straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.” Eden Prairie resident David Janiszewski describes his family – grandfather and father and brothers and sister – assembled along various shorelines to apprehend key ingredients for fish dinners. “The ponds on my grandpa’s farm were brimming with perch and bullhead, and when I was 5 my parents bought a lake cabin in the Upper Peninsula of...

Life + Culture

The Flying Red Horse

Long-in-the-Tooth Landmark Gets Gifted to City Article by David Scheller “And this also has been one of the dark places of the earth.” – Joseph Corad, Heart of Darkness In the midst of asphalt ribbons the Flying Red Horse took aloft, his neon glow crowning the convergence of Highways 5 and 169 in electric vermillion. He was Pegasus – that symbol of freedom, transcendence, and imagination who once nearly bore man to Olympus, and who has also soared over purveyors of fine engine lubricants. ...

Life + Culture

The PROP Shop

The Shining Light of Eden Prairie Volunteerism Article by David Scheller | Photography by Sue Schadow I don’t have to extol the virtue of kindness in this preamble. Minnesotans read this magazine. They’re already onto kindness hook, line, and sinker. But where, a good-spirited Minnesotan might ask, should one commit kindness? All around themself, at all times? Yes . And especially at The PROP Shop: the Eden Prairie nonprofit which supplies gently used clothing, furniture, cookware, and...

Life + Culture

Best Christmas Ever

Saving the Spirit One Family at a Time Article by David Scheller Duluth – Christmas Eve, 2010. Don Liimatainen lay plastered against his sofa, gray and withered from the autoimmune disease that would soon claim one of his more important organs. He stared hopelessly at his tree. With its base bereft of toys, it was little more than a balefire crackling at the center of what would become his 3-year-old son’s worst Christmas ever. Suddenly, Don heard a knocking. Not Santa Claus, but that even...

Life + Culture

Climbing Clouds: An Immigrant’s American Story

Love, Computers, and How to Open a Can of Coke Article by David Scheller Brian Wilson: the smiling salt-and-pepper Eden Prairie resident pictured. He was born in a mountainous region of Southern India in 1964 to parents who knew no more of the Beach Boys than Queen Victoria did about Snoop Dogg. Brian grew up in a home without television. His mother cooked using the same recipes and wood-fired clay stoves that her ancestors had perfected millennia prior. The number to the telephone nearest to...

Education

AV8 Flight School’s Fifth Annual Helicopter Expo

Article by David Scheller They dream of slicing through the sky at triple-digit velocities, pausing to hover high over creation wherever they fancy. They aspire to become professional rotorheads, working prestigious jobs in exciting locales for high salaries. They are children, bespelled by colorful things with big spinning wings. They all attended AV8 Flight School’s Fifth Annual Helicopter Expo at Flying Cloud Airport on September 6th. This year’s expo welcomed 150 to 200 guests to get up...