• MinneAfrica.com is (aiming to be) your one stop shop for all things African in Minnesota. (Aside: The connection to the now-defunct Metropolitan Cafe is merely coincidental.)
• Is Second Harvest Heartland your charity of choice? Follow them on Twitter: @2harvest
• You know any guide to the Twin Cities written by Max “Bunny” Sparber is gonna be… different. If anyone knows “hidden treasures, little-known locations, and strange history,” it’s Max.
• LiveJournal discusses the best apple orchards and pumpkin patches in the TC. (via @alexisthegirl)
• Inside Northside is a North Minneapolis Encylopedia in wiki format. Remember, a wiki means anybody and errbody can contribute to it. Who, what, and why.
• The Lynx‘s Candice Wiggins handily won the WNBA’s Sixth Woman of the Year Award for the 2008 season. She set a league record for bench players in averaging 15.7 points per game. Gettin’ Wiggy wit’ it! The team has audio and Ice’s highlight reel.

• 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.

Lazy Lightning and commentors discuss replacing vs renovating the currently-condemned Meadow Lake Bridge which carried bikers across the Minnesota River between Bloomington and Burnsville.

Cam Gordon (Mpls 2nd Ward city council member) has the deets on this year’s National Night Out.

TC Biz Journal‘s 2008 Women In Business Honorees.

TC Biz Journal reports what downtown MNspeakers have known for weeks and that is that a SoupMan (of Seinfeld fame) is now open in the Minneapolis Skyway.

The great people of the Tale of Two Cities LiveJournal community discuss Minnesota’s representation in that CNNmoney list of Best Small Cities to Live. “[Y]ou’ll see most of what got Plymouth into the #1 spot isn’t even located in Plymouth.” MNspeakers discuss as well.

Mary Lahammer on Jesse’s non-announcement on Larry King Live. He did, in fact, talk to someone in the local media. Sort of.

MinnPost runs a University of Minnesota eNews report on a study confirming what people who use Facebook and Myspace already know, which is that kids learn technology skills and share/collaborate on creative efforts through social media. New news: the digital divide is perhaps not as big as we think it is. “The students participating in the University of Minnesota study were from families whose incomes were at or below the county median income (at or below $25,000) and were taking part in an after-school program, Admission Possible, aimed at improving college access for low-income youth.”

MnIndy: “Local immigration attorneys and advocates say Postville raid reflected ‘a complete lack of due process'”

NRP is sending a delegation to the 2008 Bank of the West Neighborhood Summit in Omaha. (Bank of the West is an actual bank.) “The Summit will be an opportunity to learn from residents of Des Moines, Omaha, Wichita and Kansas City what they are doing around key issues, share ideas, network, tour Omaha, and have fun!” 31 Minneapolitans attended last year. Apply to attend by August 1.

saintpaulitan visits the friendly neighborhood geodesic dome house.

vita.mn‘s guide to all the drag shows in Minneapolis and St Paul. That’s not very many, but then, how many drag shows do you need? Feel free to edit the list.

TC Biz Journal says, in the wake of the dented nose cone issue, MSP is some new runway status lights at some yet to be determined time between now and 2011. The $400 million tab is to be picked up by the FAA.