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Welcome to URBAN Traveler®

Minnesota's Leading Travelgoods Retailer Since 1986

Thanks to an enormously increased demand for travel products, we now carry over 9,700 styles of luggage and travel accessories. We also have over 1,000 unique, hard-to-find gifts ready for purchase. Stop by our Rosedale COMMONS location (next to Old Navy & across the street from Rosedale Mall) for the largest selection of luggage and travel products in town!

Our Rosedale COMMONS Location is open for safe shopping, as we sanitize our stores regularly, plus we have: •curbside pick-up •free delivery over $30 •internet shopping •personal in-store appointments •virtual shopping appointment by Facetime and Zoom •luggage and gift advice from personal travelgoods consultants •personal in-store or virtual face mask consultants.

URBAN Traveler’s Shipping Policy (process): Explained

We (the staff at URBAN Traveler) process the paperwork for your order in-house within 24-48 hours, Monday-Friday, and is then forwarded to our warehouse. We then transfer the in-stock merchandise to a common carrier (UPS/FedEx/USPS/Speedy), which takes approximately 5-7 business days to SHIP BY GROUND. Your shipment can be expedited by paying for priority or air. Our ground shipping to your destination is FREE (on orders over $30), unlike Amazon, to whom which you must pay an annual re-occurring fee of $150 or more to get free shipping through them. Please note, stock is very fluid and can change at any moment. Inventory is not held until the order is received by our fulfillment department.

We are not Amazon, therefore, we do our best and give our greatest effort to be transparent by also providing personal emails and/or personal phone calls to our customers in order to expedite the shipping process when necessary. So, if you receive a call from 651-631-9157, please take the call, because we are just trying to give you better-than-average customer service.

URBAN Traveler has now been in business for 37 years, and thanks to the post-pandemic desire to travel again, our business has exploded! Manufacturers and retailers alike are experiencing HUGE supply-chain problems, so please place your order in timely accordance with your travel needs and beat the upcoming price increases.

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Legendary record store site in Minneapolis will soon house a new shop for musicheads

G ood news for Twin Cities music lovers ahead of Saturday's annual Record Store Day: The corner storefront that previously housed two of Minneapolis' best-loved record shops will soon be home to a new store for musicheads.

The former location of Oar Folkjokeopus and Treehouse Records, on the corner of Lyndale Avenue and 26th Street, will reopen as Lucky Cat Records this summer.

Former Treehouse owner Mark Trehus, who still owns the building, is leasing out the storefront to a local music fanatic who said she believes "the history of the space should live on."

"It was that location specifically that got me thinking about opening a record store," said Lucky Cat proprietor and first-time shop owner Michele Swanson. "It just seems like that's what should be there."

The site's history centers around the store commonly known as just "Oar Folk," where a scruffy young singer/songwriter named Paul Westerberg handed a demo tape to store clerk and future band manager Peter Jesperson in 1979 to jumpstart the Replacements. Members of that band and many others regularly hung out there and at the kitty-corner dive bar CC Club in the late-'70s and '80s, also including Hüsker Dü, the Suburbs and Suicide Commandos.

Oar Folk staffer Trehus took over the site and renamed it Treehouse in 2001, and for nearly two decades the site remained a hub for Twin Cities collectors and musicians. In 2017, however, Trehus decided to close his record shop and lease the space out to a more lucrative business.

"My initial thought was that the neighborhood had become so gentrified that a record store would not be able to justify the rent I was going to need to semi-retire on," he said. "Michele was very persistent in insisting that she wanted the spot, and we worked something out."

The storefront has rather infamously sat empty for five years with a giant, old Paul Wellstone campaign poster board sitting in the window.

The big Wellstone sign is down — "It sat there so long, it was kind of crumbling," Swanson noted — and work began this past week on redesigning the sign above the doorway. Rebuild construction is also now being done inside to tidy the space up in time for a grand-opening celebration in early-July.

In the end, Trehus said, "I am thrilled that someone wants to keep a record store in that spot."

Aside from a stint working for Musicland in her teens — and being an avid music collector and concertgoer — Swanson has no experience running a record store. She worked in management for Delta Airlines for many years; her love of traveling to Japan turned her onto the storefront "lucky cat" statues that inspired her store name.

Swanson said she has been planning for the store for several years now and building up inventory and a game plan. One of her chief goals for the store is to be more inclusive to women and gender-fluid music lovers "because so many times you go into a record store, and it's all men in there," she said.

Noting the many new condo and apartment buildings that now dot Lyndale Avenue near the store, Swanson said, "There are a lot of new folks living in the neighborhood who don't even know about the history here. So we'll try to educate them on it and preserve that history."

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This Saturday’s a great excuse to patronize your favorite local bookstore — or adventure to one you’ve never been to — when Independent Book Store Day ushers in a host of goodies. For one thing, 28 Twin Cities stores are giving out Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport 2024 , illustrated by local artist Kevin Cannon . Gather 15 stamps and you can enter to win a Prize Pack, filled with gift cards and signed books. Get all 28 stamps and you can enter to win the grand prize: a $25 gift card to all 28 stores. 

Besides that enticement, many of the stores are celebrating with their own unique programming. Birchbark Books and Native Arts, for instance, will have Fawkes Alley Coffee on hand and a performance by the Morris Dancers. Milkweed Books, meanwhile, will have treats and beverages, sales, and if you sign up to become a member, you can get a tote bag and a member discount. Big Hill Books puts all of its picture books at 40% off, with select home goods and non-book merchandise at 25% off.

Babycake’s Book Stack, the mobile children’s book store focused on languages, culture and diversity, will set up in the parking lot outside of Moon Palace Books, which in turn will have sales on audiobooks from libro.fm and free audiobook downloads of “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman. 

libro.fm is an employee-owned social purpose corporation based on the west coast. A number of local bookstores— including Chapter One, Comma, a bookshop, Cream & Amber, Excelsior Bay Books, Wild Rumpus Books and Birchbark are teaming up with the company to hide “golden tickets” within their shelves. Find it to win 12 free audiobook credits, or sign up for a membership and get two bonus audiobooks. 

Black Garnet Books hosts The Bookish Baker in its store, and will be holding a raffle, while Red Balloon Bookshop will present a local author game-show, arts activities, photo ops, and a dance party. Finnish author Antti Tuomainen, author of “The Beaver Theory” will visit Once Upon a Crime Bookstore for a reading, while Chapter One Books will feature readings by children’s book author Cori Doerrfeld and contemporary romance writer Megan Reinking. 

Suffice to say it’s a book-lover’s heaven, but really it’s also just an opportunity to load up on your summer reading list and make sure your favorite local bookseller appreciates the love you have for it. 

For info on Rain Taxi’s Independent Bookstore Passport 2024, check here for a list of participating stores . And here are the Minnesota stores doing the libro.fm giveaways .

Sheila Regan Sheila Regan is a Twin Cities-based arts journalist. She writes MinnPost’s twice-weekly Artscape column. She can be reached at [email protected] .

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