Weekend

This week, we’re reading about the Olympics. And since 2012 marks the fortieth year since 1972, we’re especially interested in the infamous massacre that marred the memory of that year’s summer Olympics.

So far, the most chilling, comprehensive and intriguing report we’ve found on that event is “Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games” by David Clay Large.

Church members in blue T-shirts and hair nets doled out gyros, falafel sandwiches and lemonade to the hungry visitors forming lines next to the big white tent set up in the roped-off parking lot. Across the lot, in a bigger white tent, young women performed traditional dances for their proud families and curious community members.

They were celebrating their heritage and culture for the fifth annual Middle Eastern Festival.

Minnesota has more shoreline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. We couldn’t get to all 10,000 lakes, but here are some of our favorites.

Hidden Beach

Officially entitled East Cedar Beach by the city of Minneapolis, but known to its regulars (of whom there are many) as Hidden Beach, Minneapolitans’ favorite outdoor hangout is wacky — and we like it.

Friday: “Girl Walk // All Day”

Where: First Avenue, 701  N. First Ave., Minneapolis

When: 8 p.m.

Cost: $8 in advance, $10 at the door, 18+

Part of the Minneapolis films-on-music festival Sound Unseen, First Avenue is hosting a screening and dance party for the feature-length music video “Girl Walk // All Day.”

Thursday:

Signmark

Where: McNamara Alumni Center

When: 7:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

Signmark (aka Marko Vuoriheimo) is a Finnish deaf rapper. You read that right. Signmark raps in American Sign Language over beats with plenty of bass to give him rhythm he can feel.

THURSDAY

Crimes and Teenage Moods

Cause Spirits and Soundbar

3001 S. Lyndale Ave, Minneapolis

9 p.m.

$5

21+

Thursday

Music — Claps, Sleeping in the Aviary, Enola Gay and Miami Dolphins