A soft snow falls over the North Loop in Minneapolis, coating Washington Avenue in a fresh winter layer on January 9, 2025. Warm lamplight and neon glow from neighborhood fixtures like Bunker’s Music Bar & Grill and Club Solo cut through the flurries, lending the street a cinematic quiet. The North Loop — once an industrial hub of warehouses and rail spurs — has evolved into one of Minneapolis’s liveliest nightlife districts, where music venues, old brick buildings, and modern bars coexist in a mix of grit and polish. Even in the dead of winter, the area’s energy hums on, softened only by the sound of snow underfoot. Included in the Minneapolis Uprising archive, filed in the January 2025 album, documenting events following the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
