• The TC Avengers, “an all-inclusive direct action group committed to dismantling all forms of oppression” with an emphasis on LGBT issues (e.g., they sponsor Dyke March), are “chronicling gendered injustice” by putting together a Google map documenting instances of harrassment based on gender and sexual orientation. I presume, given their mission statement, they’d include incidents based on race, (dis)ability and whatever other situations might cause a person to feel uniquely targeted and threatened. (via @autoclavicle)
• Google released its web browser, Chrome, in Windows-only format a few weeks ago. Yesterday, Minnesota company CodeWeavers released “proof of concept” versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux. (via @Minnov8)
• At the Walker tonight: Daniel Bergin on Parents, Kids, and the Media. Daniel Bergin is a media educator and TPT producer.(via @lisa_ray, founder of Parents for Ethical Marketing and the Corporate Babysitter blog)
• Michele Bachmann: Still a crazy hypocrite!
• Minneapolis has a new Sister City: Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico) from which thousands of Twin Cities residents have emigrated.
• Altered Esthetics (now sporting its fancy new F1 Overnight Website Challenge redesign) has put out the Call for Art for 2009. There are 12 themes (one for each month). You may end up on display at AE and/or featured in their 2009 calendar. Read the submission guidelines (pdf) and get your artwork in by September 30.
• The Poster Offensive 4 exhibit, a political poster show, just closed at the Black Dog Cafe but will be opening September 24 at the Frank Stone Gallery. Watch the 3 Minute Egg video on Poster Offensive. (via bigboxcar)
• And, hey! Look at 3 Minute Egg, “a video blog spotlighting the Twin Cities arts scene, created and produced by Matt Peiken, former staff arts writer at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and managing editor of the Walker Art Center’s magazine.” Matt, one word of advice: Disable that SnapShots WordPress plugin. It’s really annoying.
• Lazy Lightning: Random Sampling of South Metro Police Calls.
• Fringe Famous: Why you gotta be all melodramatic?
• Glimpses of Soul Photography talks about photographing They Might Be Giants at First Avenue. With photos from said concert.

i was thinking explains the Harrington Household Index (HHI) for local grocery prices, from the point of view of someone who loves a good ethnic market.

Ponedaddy’s Pound has good things to say about Minneapolis Public Schools. One of ’em, anyway. That would be Cityview in North Minneapolis.

Two items on Northwest Airlines’ nickel-and-diming: News Cut is brainstorming ways to work around the new luggage checking fees. Aaron Landry explains why he’s breaking up with Worldperks.

On the Radar rounds up some of the plentiful free entertainment options in Minneapolis over the next week.

MinnPost says that the Trust for Public Land says St. Paul parks are awesome.

Altered Esthetics is having its first ever Arty Garage Sale this Saturday.

Car Free Family says “[t]he Northeast Parade was as toxic as usual.”

Two upcoming NRP-sponsored workshops: “Neighborhood Volunteer Training” on July 16 and “Walking your way to a safer neighborhood” on July 17.