The weekend planner: Not so easy this weekend, since I'm subjecting myself to an under-planned canoeing excursion, as not even half-baked by the rather impulsive boyfriend.

But if I were to be sticking around town this weekend, here's what I'd probably be up to:

The Fusion Fashion Event [1], featuring work by many-a local clothing designers at the Varsity Theater.
And speaking of local designers, The Design Collective [2] is having a big Memorial Day Weekend Sale.

HowWasTheShow.com [3]'s fourth anniversary show featuring Alva Star, The Alarmists, White Light Riot, and our dear friend, the ever-optimistic, photo-snapping David DeYoung--or, as the man himself likes to say, the "best-paid man in local music journalism," since he makes his living doing something else.

Flaming Film Festival [4]--especially all that B-Boy shit, yo.
Speaking of which, there's also the Homocore Minneapolis Show [5], on Sunday, featuring an evening of "Homo-hop." Ha! Actually, I'm expected to have had my fill of river water by this late date in the weekend, and so I might actually catch this one.