If it seems like you can't swing a bicycle messenger bag in this town without hitting another artist or creative, it's because we're creatively dense.
Creative-class guru Richard Florida has been crunching geographic numbers over at
The Atlantic lately. Last week, Florida took a look at the density of artistic and cultural creatives.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area ranks fifth overall, behind Los Angeles, New York, DC and San Francisco, when measured by the number of artistic and cultural creative workers per square kilometer.
The Twin Cities rank in the same place on Florida's list of creative "overperformers"--cities with the highest density of artistic and cultural creatives compared to what would be expect based on their population density.
Charts and graphs over at The Atlantic.