Charlie Rybak

How does a business survive an 85% drop in sales? Mercado Central lost 85% of their revenue during the month of January in Minneapolis. In this episode of The Twin Cities Business Show, Juan Linares, Co-founder of the market, takes us through that period of time and how they are navigating it.

This week, our team is excited to announce the launch of a new project, The Twin Cities Business Show. We'll host in-depth conversations with the builders and leaders shaping Minnesota's economy that go beyond the talking points to learn what really drives the most interesting people in our community. We'll focus on the big decisions that drove their company's growth and what they've learned along the way. You'll be able to find the first full episode of The Twin Cities Business Show on Wednesday, February 25th on the Twin Cities Business YouTube page or wherever you listen to podcasts. For highlights from each episode, make sure to follow us @TCBmag on all social channels.

A surreal experience to see the new and improved Southwest Voices in print, delivered right to my door alongside more than 20,000 of my neighbors. So grateful to everyone that played a role into getting us here, especially @melodythereporter , Tesha, @aohaeg , and more, and especially everyone that’s become a member, donated, read, praised, criticized, listened to a rant, offered some help, made an introduction, or otherwise engaged with the work that we’ve done. To our biggest fans, this is just getting started and is only going to get better from here, and to our biggest haters, I’ve got bad news - you lost. Here’s to making Minneapolis an even better place each and every day.

Views from our backyard. #minneapolis

May Day

Happy birthday to the best friend, wife, mom, impromptu karaoke singer that’s going to screw up at least 3 words, twerk while you pump, sous chef, dog obsessive, Mahtomedi hockey fan, Mbappe hater, redecorator of redecorations, and Kit Kat consumer that I could ever ask for. What a year it has been.

Larry and my thigh were on the news

Every year I accidentally grow one freakishly large Godzilla food vegetable in the garden. This year, I present: The Cucumber.

Happy birthday Ashley. You’re the best person I ever could’ve imagined sharing everything with and you make everyone in your life very happy (especially the ones with fur). Here is to our many adventures yet to come.

World Cup @ Wirth

The Twin Cities Media Group tried something new last week – we got a billboard to get more people to support local news! If you haven’t heard of the Twin Cities Media Group (TwinCitiesMediaGroup.com), it’s a collaboration of a few local publishers in the Twin Cities that banded together to try to help each other out. That includes Minneapolis Voices (Downtown Voices, Southwest Voices, and Minneapolis Schools Voices), Racket, North News, KRSM Radio, Heavy Table, and New Prensa. We’ve been working together to build a one-of-a-kind advertising collaborative that allows you to buy ads across a bunch of community-centric publications, all in one easy place. That’s where the slightly cryptic message on the billboard comes in – when the letters are all spread out, like in “Twin Cities” and “Media”, you can’t really read or decipher them. When they’re together, like in “Community”, you can. It feels like that for all of us small, independent publications. It’s hard to make it work, but if any of us are going to do it, it’s going to be by working together. Things have been going well for our group, but we want more people to learn about who we are and what we’re doing. The math basically works out like this: advertising packages for the Twin Cities Media Group start at $2,500, which gets you hundreds of thousands of local folks that are reading, listening to, and watching great local publications cover their communities. If we sell two of these packages, then the billboard will have been worth it. That’s where you come in. We need your help! Do you know anyone with an advertising budget that wants to reach people in the Twin Cities? Get in touch with us through the Twin Cities Media Group website (TwinCitiesMediaGroup.com), shoot me an email at [email protected], send me a DM, or leave a comment on this post. If you know anybody we should be talking to, tag them below!

Best day of the year - first night skate.