Rewire

Heimie’s Haberdashery gives its customers a shopping experience of nearly 100 years ago, a time when the department store served as the cultural hub of a city.

Leeore Levinstein, Elizabeth Alonzi, Jesse Abelson, three members of the five-person Vetiver Solutions team, competed against 24 other undergraduate entrepreneurial student teams from across the United States in e-Fest 2018 at the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas.

A place that can only be described as Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory meets Pee-wee’s Playhouse. At Can Can Wonderland you can play mini-golf, drink boozy milkshakes, learn to tap dance and earn a high score on one of many vintage arcade games. But this mini-golf wonderland is far from your typical wacky roadside attraction—every hole and every decoration was designed and created by local artists.

Raoul Benavides, owner of Flashlight Vinyl, explains why he was able to open a record store in 2016, and why we miss listening to vinyl.

Acrobatics is not easy. Have you ever seen an aerialist or contortionist at the circus and wondered how many decades they’ve been practicing their tricks?

Since China has banned the United States’ recyclables, the price for recyclable material has gone down, and the cost to sort the materials has gone up.

Cohousing is the term for an intentional community of unrelated folks who live together—either in the same building or on the same land—and share the responsibility of maintaining the place they live.

Did you know that the tradition of wearing a white wedding dress started with Queen Victoria? She was influential in more than just politics!

As we get older, it can feel harder and harder to make friends. And, depending on your personality, it can be tough opening up to new people once you're in social situations.

Rewire's web editor reads her own journal entries spanning her coming out process—from denial to the aftermath of a difficult conversation.

Mows510 is the artist behind the installation of tiny mouse doors in public places, miniature art that has brought joy to cities around the world. After discovering street art in the late ‘90s, Mows spent more than a decade as a super fan. He traveled across the globe, photographing and chronicling the mysterious culture of guerrilla art.

Park & Diamond, a startup founded by two college students from Virginia Tech, has one simple goal: to improve cycling safety, starting with the helmet. The duo won #efest2017 competition at the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas. This is their story. More at http://www.rewire.org/.