Northern Spark is a free, dusk-to-dawn, participatory arts festival that presents visual arts, performance, films, and interactive media indoors and outdoors in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. Explore a constellation of urban arts and discover these cities in a whole new light!

After a chance encounter with ambient music and a police scanner, Eric Eberhardt created You Are Listening To, a site that combines blends the two into a hypnotic, real time audio experience. Now, Eric is readying You Are Listening To for the iPhone!

Lauren Fleishman spent three years interviewing and photographing couples around New York who have been together for at least 50 years, and is turning them into a sweet book of photos and stories. The results will make you misty-eyed and sentimental. You've been warned.

Bringing books to the street, The Hundred Story House is a miniature brownstone in Brooklyn that functions as a tiny lending library. It operates on the honor system and is open to all passersby. Celebrate literature through sharing!

Photographer Ethan Rafal has been visually analyzing the relationship between on-going war and the declining American landscape since the outbreak of the war on terror. The appropriately titled Shock and Awe is a compendium documenting his photographic journey.

theNewerYork doesn't care about your typical fiction, or even the literary establishment at large. Instead, they publish internet forums, classified ads, love letters, punctuationless stories, and other crazy things that prove that lit mags can be whatever you want them to be.

Set in liminal spaces for liminal moments, The Stoop Chronicles is a series of short films that connected by one common thread — the stoop. Each short follows 2 characters in 1 location as they transition into and out of love and all the juicy bits in between.

A Sundance World Documentary feature, Big Boys Gone Bananas tells the story of Swedish filmmakers Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård whose doc about a lawsuit against the Dole Food Company led to their own epic battle to save their film, reputations and first amendment rights.