My building is kitty-corner to Stevens Square Park just outside of downtown Minneapolis. I’m fortunate enough to have a corner unit that overlooks the park, even more so today thanks to Red Hot Art, a tiny but not-half-bad art and music festival. I’ve been milling about my condo for a while listening to the bands playing, and I was just drawn out to the grass by Dot Communists, a really fun, rockin’ local pop band I had never heard of (and for whom I can’t even find a website). How cool to have this going on just outside my window.

Especially after the sharp contrast of last weekend, when there was an actual gunfight in the alley across the street. In the middle of the afternoon! Geez! Anyway, that’s “old” Stevens neighborhood - a version that’s gradually disappearing. I hope that this “new” Stevens catches on a little quicker, though.

Question that’s been going through my head a lot lately: can two people live comfortably in 609 sq. ft.?

Update: Now there’s a really frickin’ terrible, super-hardcore thrash band on. Actually for what I know, they might be a phenomenal hardcore thrash band, but I’d still rather hear those gunshots!