Week in Words: From Hockey Quarterfinals to a New Minneapolis Brewery

Tom Carothers kicked off the week with coverage of . We updated you on , and some of you sent us pictures of the snow. 

In our weekly , we posted video of Rep. Jeff Hayden's concerns about health and human services cuts, as well as updates on other Southwest legislative business.

On Tuesday, Dan Emerson contributed an interesting 's forays into music.

Marsha Trainer delved into American cafe food in Southwest Minneapolis in her weekly column, . 

We also posted a from Sen. Scott Dibble, Rep. Frank Hornstein and Rep. Marion Greene.

Patch's new sports coordinator, Mark Remme, put together a on the Minneapolis Novas as they prepared for their quarterfinals game.

Southwest Dad Jeff Alexander wrote about in his weekly column. Go read !

And on "Momsday" we published a , , , and from a member of our moms council. We also published an and . 

James Sanna, Southwest Patch's education contributor, gave us an interesting piece on the role ofas Minneapolis Public Schools faces a likely budget shortfall. He also explored some to the budget.

We also attended the first in a series of community meetings where Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak will be, which are costly.

Andy Blenkush contributed a short from the Novas loss to Eden Prairie.

Ashle Briggs Horton sent a , which held its grand opening this weekend (I tried a growler of it last night, it's well worth checking out in its South Minneapolis location).

In an early Capitol Review, we posted a video of House Minority Leader Paul Thissen throwing , which he pointed out relied on federal dollars, something Republicans have opposed in the past.