"The Revolution Begins in Minnesota." So says OccupyMN in its triumphant statement sent out at 3:26 a.m. By 9 a.m., though, the transformation of Government Plaza into People's Plaza downtown was still more notable for the cops, cameras and portable toilets than for angry Wall Street protesters, who are still filtering in. The protesters got a kind of welcome message from Mayor R.T. Rybak, Paul Walsh reports. A team that includes reporter Randy Furst, who has followed preparations for the demonstration since last week, will be there to cover the demonstration, which is in solidarity with the weeks-long protests in New York and other cities against corporate power and the concentration of wealth. A more immediate concern for Minnesota demonstrators, however, could be the official refusal to allow them to put up tents.

Minneapolis leaders over the past century have tried - and usually failed - to simplify the city's governing structure that divides power among a bewildering array of boards, politicians and bureaucrats. Voters turned down the last big proposed change - eliminating the Board of Estimate and Taxation - but the city's Charter Commission is plowing ahead with another reform proposal: centralizing power in a city administrator, Steve Brandt reports. The mayor and council president don't want it, but the commission has the power to put the question before voters if it wants.

What's happening on stage at the Mixed Blood Theatre is appalling to audiences, and that's the point. Yet for some, the offensive racial and sexual stereotypes of "Neighbors" are so over the top that the medium drowns the message, Rohan Preston reports. The show has been arresting from the start: Warren Bowle collapsed on stage on opening night with cardiac arrest. He was well enough to watch the show Wednesday.

The most serious criminal charge facing the brother of former NHL star Derek Boogard was dismissed, after a judge ruled that Aaron Boogard didn't buy or acquire the pills that led to Derek's overdose death in a Warehouse District apartment in May, Abby Simons reports.

Finally, it's the weekend when zombies crawl around the Twin Cities. This year, up to 18,000 of them will take over bars in Minneapolis's West Bank and Lowertown in St. Paul, Chris Riemenschneider reports. Presumably the regular zombies will have to get their heads off the bar for the occasion.