We Cried

As a born-and-bred St. Paul West Sider who lived for two years just a couple of blocks from Jerabek’s New Bohemian Cafe, I have to correct what—to a born-and-bred West Sider, no matter where he lives now—is a big, honking error [Rake Appeal, August]. The cafe (which is everything you write it up to be, and more) is on “an inconspicuous residential street on St. Paul’s” WEST Side. Now, admittedly, the West Side is south of downtown, on the “west” bank of the winding Mississippi River. But as any good, territorially bound St. Paulite could tell you, it is decidedly not on the East Side. And we all thought the St. Paul/Minneapolis split was the biggie in these Twin Cities …