Emily Gedde Jun 1 2025 Pets Wellness
Minnetonka veterinarian offers recommendations for soothing animals triggered by the sounds of the season. A late-night thunderstorm or fireworks on the Fourth of July are familiar sounds this time of year, but they create anxiety for some pets, leaving owners looking...
Renée Stewart-Hester Jun 1 2025 Giving Back Shops
For more than 100 years, Wayzata church hosts annual rummage sale. You know a rummage sale is a big deal when it has a director. And you also know it’s something special when the queen of the local hunter/gatherer scene Emily Carriveau, social media influencer and...
Renée Stewart-Hester Jun 1 2025 Pets Wellness
Area lakes aren’t the only beautiful natural vistas; there is plenty of horse country in this neck of the woods. With open spaces providing suitable conditions for fireworks displays, horses can be affected by the booms, crackles and whistles. We turned to Krishona...
Emily Gedde and Renée Stewart-Hester Jun 1 2025 Local Makers Recipes
At home in Minnetonka, Mike Rakun enjoys cooking for his family, which includes his wife and business partner, Abby Rakun, and their three children Nadia, 21; Keller, 17; and Mercy, 13. Here he shares a family favorite—ribeye steak. Sous Vide Ribeye and Chimichurri...
Meredith Heneghan Jun 1 2025 Arts Education Senior Living
All ages find their creative groove at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Before or after retirement, one never knows if another work opportunity is around the bend. Take Frank Picos for example. He enrolled in classes, including stone carving, at the Minnetonka...
Renée Stewart-Hester Jun 1 2025 Photo Contest
“My dad [Gary Marquardt], was teaching my son Frank [now 15] how to drive an inboard boat, and it was a gorgeous night, so my mom and I decided to tag along for the lesson,” says Jennie Oko, explaining the photograph’s scenario. “My dad plays taps at sunset in Spring...
Ellie Heyerdahl Jun 1 2025 Giving Back Sports
Update: The 2025 Lake Minnetonka Triathlon has been canceled. Find more information at lakeminnetonkatriathlon.com. The Lake Minnetonka Triathlon returns at 7 a.m. June 21 at Excelsior Commons off Lake Street in Excelsior. The race, expecting around 650 racers, will...
Jennifer Pitterle Jun 1 2025 Drinks Featured Local Makers Restaurants
The owners of Everly Farms create a gathering place, focused on food, drinks and family. When husband-and-wife team Frank and Esther Weigel closed on their Minnetrista orchard and winery in 2021, they were diving into a true passion project. “We really had no...
Rima Parikh Jun 1 2025 Book Club Noteworthy
What happens when a literary icon reimagines a classic? You get James: A Novel, a bold retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man. Percival Everett’s masterful novel transforms Jim into James—a man of...
Emily Gedde and Renée Stewart-Hester Jun 1 2025 Featured Local Makers Restaurants
Minnetonka’s Mike Rakun, co-owner of Northern Hospitality & Co., shares some insight about cooking with the sous vide method. A cooking method that has created its own popularity steam has been a favored food prep method for a local chef/proprietor for more than a...
Madeline Kopiecki May 28 2025 Giving Back
Wayzata nonprofit names the local chapter of an international club as one of its Community Partner Award recipients. If you’ve attended one of the Lions Club of Wayzata’s annual waffle breakfast fundraisers, there’s a good chance you met one (or more!) of the club’s...
Madeline Kopiecki May 6 2025 Featured Restaurants
Two new eateries will be housed above Parlour on Water Street. The restaurant group Jester Concepts announced exciting news for foodies in the Lake Minnetonka community. Two new restaurants are set to open this summer in the same building as mainstay Parlour, which is...
Susan Isay May 1 2025 Uncategorized
Welcome, readers, to our 20th anniversary as the Lake Minnetonka area’s premier community lifestyle magazine. We couldn’t be prouder of our longstanding roots in and commitment to this community. A lot has changed over the course of two decades, but we look back with...
Lisa Havelka May 1 2025 Travel
Presented by: After a long winter, I buckled up my kids for a quick spring road trip to stretch our legs and see the landscape as it started to bloom along the Mississippi River. For impressive scenery within a few hours of our home in Southern Minnesota, we drove...
Renée Stewart-Hester May 1 2025 Arts Interior Design Shops
Hollie Blanchard helps clients visually express their décor and personal narratives. Attributing a positive outcome to being in the right place at the right time can feel a touch trite, a bit clichéd, but when Hollie Blanchard tells the story of how her business, Art...
