Minneapolis friends: If you’re in Minneapolis on June 4th-5th and you’re not doing anything from 9 pm until 5 am, you might want to check out the Northern Spark Festival. My own participation will have to be pretty limited (married, daughter, stupid job that only pays $10 hourly and requires me to work at times when fun shit gets to happen), but I’m going to try to sneak out and enjoy some of it. Music emanating out from the sewer doesnt happen all that often, not to mention Wing Young Huie’s entire career-spanning work projected over rows and rows of ping pong tables give me a couple of ideas of things worth checking out. I think it’s entirely free.