Owned and operated by husband and wife duo, Dr. Juneau Robbins and Anika Robbins, the center is an expansion of the current Cultural Chiropractic clinic, owned by Dr. Robbins. In operation since 2001, the clinic has been in it’s current location at 2524 39th Avenue North since its 2005 move from the Plymouth Avenue mall, the current home of the University of Minnesota’s Urban Outreach Center. The quaint, country cottage facade of it’s current location, will now encompass the attached building recently vacated by Camden Homes Realty, which sits on the corner of 39th & Thomas Avenues North.

‘We are very excited by the opportunity to showcase products, services and a diverse range of wellness expertise with the community.” Says Anika Robbins, the center’s Lifestyle and Concierge Manager. “Our goal is to engage the community and present healthy living as a fun, stress-free lifestyle that’s good for you!” By presenting healthy living without the ‘clinical’ edge, Robbins hopes the social atmosphere will encourage more engagement and action around health issues impacting the community.

Anika Robbins owns ANIKA International Cosmetics, a skin care and cosmetics company she launched in 2005 to appeal to busy women on the go. She also operates a boutique agency, ANIKA & Friends, which consults on various projects within the health & beauty, corporate & non-profit sectors. The firm produces the Urban Maven Small Business Showcase, a mobile marketplace designed to promote emerging and home-based businesses, many of whom will be featured in the new Urban Lifestyle Store also housed in the center. With an infusion of unique products and gifts from around the world, including organic teas, spices, bath & body products and then some, the center hopes to be a haven for cultural exchange and enterprise.

In response to the surge in small business start-ups due to the economic downturn, the Robbins Urban Wellness Center also functions as a small business incubator for emerging businesses, particularly those in the health & wellness industry. Rooms are available for private consultations, group meetings and community gatherings, allowing entrepreneurs to design their usage, ‘a la carte’-style, based on their budget and need.

“Having been a home-based business owner myself for many years, I understand the unique challenges in trying to build a sustainable brand with a professional image,” Says Robbins. “The Center provides a warm, yet professional setting for budding entrepreneurs to hold client meetings, presentations and perform services. It’s perfect for attorneys, consultants, massage therapists, makeup artists, life coaches, mental health & wellness professionals and others.”

With the trust and respect of the community for well over 15 years of service, Dr. Robbins will continue to treat chiropractic patients under Cultural Chiropractic which now anchors the expanded wellness component to offer a diverse range of health & wellness options to the community. ‘This has been a goal of ours for many years,’says Dr. Robbins. “When the opportunity presented itself, we seized the chance to finally blend our vision for a total health & wellness center that is accessible to the community. We are committed and we are ready!”

The center will have a soft launch Wednesday February 1st from 3pm-7pm with an open house held every Wednesday from 3pm-7pm. Guests will be able to tour the premises, sip tea and experience some of the product and service offerings. The Retreat is open Monday through Friday from 10am-6pm. All professional services and weekends are available by appointment. The community is welcome. For more information call 612. 522. 9536 or 612. 670. 6355.

Press Release Courtesy of Anika Robbins

Christine Rosholt's Last Celebration; at the Dakota Jazz Club

By RE

The Dakota Jazz Club has been the site and face of many celebrations over the years but on Tuesday evening it was a celebration of an unexpected variety. Christine Rosholt, local jazz singer, friend, sister, and child of fun and laughter has passed through this life, leaving behind a host of great memories, and great friends. The Dakota generously opened its doors to family and friends of Rosholt's to gather, remember and celebrate the life and music of one of the Twin Cities most popular artists.

On December 28th Rosholt made the transition from this moment to the next. She was one week shy of her 47th birthday. Some sounds resonate through the universe and to God's ear- Christine's laughter should be one of those sounds. Her laughter was a big part of who she was and what she shared-she shared it freely.

On December 1st after the successful "PAZZ" release party we celebrated, laughed, and made plans for a future project. It was a happy event with Christine the crowning jewel of fun in a room full of talent.

Christine had more than one talent, singing was just the one she focused on. Her real talent was how she spoke and related to people. Her spirit was free and her generosity was without question. To talk to Christine, was to look into the most sincere eyes you've ever met, that made everybody feel as if they had always known her-sincerely! You're welcome!!

She loved still life-pictures, photography, and design...and of course MUSIC!

She had friendship loves that tended her garden of generosity and listened and soothed her when she was in hyper-woman over-drive; Betsy-Tanner-Kevin-Elizabeth......and so many more. She was blessed with a focused determination for action when it was called for. Christine wasn't born a jazz singer-she determined it. It was a decision she came to one day a little over 10 years ago- She immersed herself in jazz wholeheartedly-and simply became it. While Christine was a good singer-she was a better actress.

Gifted by the light...so many talents, so many friends, and so much beauty...so little time!

Christine Rosholt will be missed.

Written By RE

December 1st found Litt Magazine enjoying the warm confines of Dakota Cooks jazz club. On a cold Minneapolis night, Christine Rosholt and what seemed like a few hundred of her good friends warmed the Dakota stage and spiced the night with fun. Rosholt surrounded herself with great musical talent from all sides of the stage.

Christine Rosholt's "Pazz" party was one of the most FUN and entertaining events of the year. It was not only an unveiling of a roster of new songs written by Kevin Hall, but a budding musical collaboration that has energy and longevity written all over it. "Pazz", the combination of the words and styles of, pop and jazz, represents a new chapter in the book of "Christine". It is a chapter well worth the wait, because the fruit is ripe.

Rosholt spent the opening half of the program on a musical tear that introduced everybody and got down to business-fun business, but a thorough introduction, of talent and lyric. The pace and the cast was almost dizzying with so much variety. Rosholt was incredibly succinct in her employment of time and talent, as everyone on the stage got their own moment in the light. The talent on board was an incredible mix of vets that took the audience on fun and fast paced musical journey that had Rosholt doing double duty as star of the show and traffic cop, which she handled with ease and grace. She shared the stage with the most talented and humble musicians the twin cities has to offer-and they're her friends! The warmth was mutually apparent as the evening progressed.

At halftime in the program, gifted writer/pianist, Kevin Hall an Irishman from Dublin, via London, with a bit of the Billy Joel piano player/storyteller in him-soloed to greatly appreciative audience; one singer, one simple song using his piano to tour us over the song scape. Hall gave a breather to the party like atmosphere that Rosholt creatively surfed. Awhile later while sharing the stage for a duet with Hall, Rosholt joked to the audience that she couldn't understand a word Hall said-and asked the audience if they could understand him. They all agreed, with enthusiasm, that they could understand him-and that they liked him! Add one star for piano player!

There were stars on horns as the Hornheads (Keni Holmen and Kathy Jensen, saxophones, Steve Strand and Dave Jensen, trumpets, Michael Nelson, trombone) added their own special air of excitement to party. Each of these individual horn players are a party by themselves, but as a unit-they can, literally, blow the roof off the....

There was no shortage of muscle on guitar and bass. Vinnie Rose on guitar is like having an angel on a singer's shoulder. While Rose is one of the Twin Cities most versatile guitarist-he can rock, rhythm, slang and twang with the best of them, and has no problem turning up the volume-Part of the strength of great guitar players is not knowing how-but knowing when-Rose is a thoughtful, judicious player, who can sit out a line, as ably as he can fill a song out. The Twin Cities is blessed with an abundance of good guitar players, Vinnie Rose is a superior guitar player.

Zacc Harris took a little time away from the production and fund raising of his album project to hang. Harris' jazz rhythms could be heard through out the night as he held down the string roots of Rosholt's party. Listening to Harris' accompaniment makes you smile-its a fluid, happy, facile guitar touch-the audience enthusiastically tapped, and bobbed their heads to his beat.

And don't you know-that Christine Rosholt should have been 'shamed to have such a wealth of singers in her company that night. Songstresses, Ms. Lucia Newell, and Katie Gearty, both of whom could entertain their own full houses singing solo-were in the house playing second fiddle ( in the most complimentary sense) as well as the talents and good looks of Rachel Holder and Sophia Shorai. How's that for a boatload of talent on one small stage-and they were all having fun with each other, as well as the audience. This was truly a party, in the finest musical sense. The combo of female talent alone was a full deck-but to stack the deck further there was Jason Craft, Mac Santiago on drums, Graydon Peterson bassist, Randy Sabien, and Vince Hyman.

And just when it seemed that the stage couldn't possibly get any fuller-out of the cold Minneapolis night appears special guest-J.D. Steele. Steele and Katie Gearty teamed up as backup for Rosholt on a few songs that stirred up the audience again. The combination of Gearty and Steele added a totally different dimension to Rosholt's energy level, and of course Christine dove in and belted out some choice numbers. Rosholt then turned the stage over to Steele who challenged the audience to a male vs. female sing off (where the female audience out sang the men, convincingly) and raised the energy ante that much more. J.D. Steele has always been one of the most generous musicians of the day. Steele's contribution of time to charities and causes is a badly kept secret inside the music community. His generosity lies in, but not exclusive to, the giving of his unmistakable personal energy to every collaboration requested, and he continually makes those events special. Rosholt's "PAZZ" party was no exception.

In the event you've not been acquainted with Christine Rosholt and Kevin Hall, go to her website, or Dakota Cooks (December 1st) -Also be sure to pick up a copy of "PAZZ"- and then turn your friends on to some of the finest local music available.

The rap industry has a lost one of its most endearing artist, Heavy D. Dwight Errington Myers passed away Tuesday Nov. 8th at his home in Los Angeles. Sources state that Myers was experiencing breathing issues earlier that day while shopping.

Many of us will always remember Myers for his ability to bring love, romance and fun into rap music. While many rappers were focusing on trying to be hard and gangster, Heavy D was crooning the ladies with songs such as “Nuttin But Love”, “Now That We Found Love”, and “Overweight Lover.” Heavy D was very instrumental in the rap game because he was a positive rapper. He was famous for being non violent, a true gentleman, never exploiting women in his music, which unfortunately is very rare in rap music. He was a lover not a fighter.

While Myers was overweight, he did not let his hefty frame hold him back. He always carried a certain swag and confidence that showed there was nothing that he could not accomplish. How many rappers his size did you see dancing along side their back up dancers? Not many and Heavy D showed that he could hang with the best of them. Even in his last performance at the BET Hip Hop Awards he again showed that he still had it! And of course brought the crowd to their feet!

After Myers made major headways in the music industry he decided to try his hand at acting. After singing the theme songs in “In living Color” and “Mad TV” he was able to make a smooth transition into television roles. He played roles in series such as Boston Public and The Tracey Morgan Show and films “Life” and “Tower Heist”.

Looking back at Myers’ accomplishments, one can see he made a mark in the industry and will forever be a part of our lives. Whether you hear one of his songs on the radio or see him on a movie or sitcom you will feel his warm spirit. Our heart goes out to Myers' family, friends and fans for we have lost a true legend. We wish you a peaceful journey.