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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, so it’s likely you aren’t at work. There’s a march that starts at Washington center and ends at the DECC where there’s a rally. Later this afternoon there are films and discussion at Zeitgeist.

Sen. Franken and Rep. Nolan will be at the Radisson on Tuesday for a little chat moderated by Mayor Ness.

On the theater scene there are all sorts of people. Renegade‘s All New People opens at the Teatro Zuccone on Thursday while Good People continues at The Underground. Meanwhile, there are mer-people when the Playhouse Children’s Theater presents Disney’s Little Mermaid at Marshall.

On Saturday the DSSO continues its season with a DECC concert featuring Wicked Divas while Charlie Parr releases his new album, Hollandale, at Sacred Heart with a concert.

The on again, off again John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon is set to start on Sunday at East High School. Looks like there’s enough snow and apparently they’ve raised enough money.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

What will this week bring us? We’ve endured snow, frigid cold and ice. What’s next? Well, we all survived so we could see the season three premier of Sherlock tonight with a preview screening at Teatro Zuccone.

Tuesday you can get your civic duty on with a special election in the east and Mayor Ness speaking at the Kitchi Gammi Club on the future of Duluth.

It’s a busy week in the Parr household this week. You can see Charlie Parr at Fitger’s on Wednesday and then you can see his other half, Emily Lanik Parr, star in Good People at The Underground starting on Thursday and running for two weekends.

You also have a chance, only on Thursday, to see an encore performance of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove at UMD before they take the show to Lincoln for a regional competition.

Get yourself a white russian and watch a special midnight screening of The Big Lebowski on Friday night at Zinema 2.

There are several events this weekend related to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, including a talent show at Duluth East on Friday and a worship service at St. Mark AME on Sunday.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

It’s kinda cold out today. Cold enough that some events are being cancelled, so double check your event to make sure it’s happening. Also, if you were planning on going to school today, Gov. Dayton has given you the day off. Because, you know, it’s cold.

Don’t know who to vote for in the upcoming special election for county commissioner? Jim Stauber and Patrick Boyle will be having a forum at Valentini’s on Tuesday sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.

Scott Murphy, best known as the artist who created the outdoor library mural, will be doing an artist talk at the Duluth Art Institute in the Depot on Thursday.

The Underground continues its Song Interrupted series (highlighting musical artists and the stories behind their songs) with Mark Lindquist on Friday.

Getting married and have at least one bride involved in said wedding? The Duluth Bridal Show hits the DECC this Saturday. They also have a “man cave” where men can drink and watch sports because, apparently, that’s what men do.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

How are you ringing in the new year on Tuesday? Here are some options:

• There’s a New Year’s Eve Bash going on all day at Beaner’s. The line up of musicians starts at 6:30 a.m.
• CASDA is having their annual dance at Barker’s Island.
• The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra is Dancing and Romancing at the DECC.
• R. T. Quinlan’s is having a Semi Formal Dress Ball which will likely be slashed by the Ball Slashers.

If you take a cab and leave your car downtown Tuesday night, don’t worry. It’s free parking on Wednesday.

The Bulldog Men’s Hockey team plays an exhibition game at Amsoil Arena on Friday.

Jason Schommer does a one man show about his encounters with celebrities in Starstruck at the Teatro Zuccone on Saturday.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

‘Tis the week of Christmas and, here in Duluth,
Rubber Chicken has a revue which is most uncouth.

Bentleyville‘s lit up from bottoms to tops
and there’s Open Ice Skating for teens and for tots.

Magic‘s all around! (Well it is on Friday nights.)
And Fairlawn Mansion is all done up in lights.

CHUM’s holding a vigil to remember the homeless
who can’t find a room, like modern Marys and Josephs.

Winter Camp at Camp Miller will stave off the chills
with sledding, ice fishing and cold weather skills.

There’s outdoor trail hiking at Jay Cooke and Gooseberry
and indoor brew touring if that’s way too scary.

And all day Wednesday, my words you’ll be marking,
have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy the free parking.

Congratulations to the Harbor City Roller Dames for being chosen to host the 2014 WFTDA Division 2 Playoffs, Aug. 15-17.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Christmas events are in full swing and you can get see all our listings right here.

Sing along to Handel’s “Messiah” with an orchestra at St. Scholastica this Tuesday.

You can celebrate the Solstice with cross-country skiing and a bonfire at Spirit Mountain this Wednesday.

On Thursday you can hear the Rose Ensemble at Sacred Heart or Anonymous Choir perform Neil Young at Teatro Zuccone.

The Minnesota Ballet performs the Nutcracker this weekend, Friday through Sunday, at the DECC.

The Duluth Dolls return for an all new burlesque cabaret at Tycoons with their show, “Naughty or Nice,” on Saturday.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Christmas is getting closer, and there are a lot of related events listed right here.

This week Amnesty International invites you to “Write for Rights” for human rights in general and the unjustly imprisoned in particular. There will be a table set up at the Multicultural Center at UMD Monday through Friday.

The Walker Art Center’s curated collection of cat videos will be shown at Zinema 2 on Tuesday as part of their Explorers Club series.

You can see what U of M graduate students in  landscape and architecture think Duluth’s future might look like when they display their projects and take feedback at Clyde Iron on Wednesday.

Cars & Truks, Haley Bonar, Mary Bue, Southwire and many other bands give their tributes to one of Duluth’s signature bands, Low, when Duluth Does Low at Sacred Heart on Thursday.

You’ve seen the video here on PDD, now see the review! How the Grinch Shut Down Christmas or I Saw Rudolph Twerking Santa Claus is Rubber Chicken‘s sixth annual holiday revue at Spirit of the North Theater in Fitger’s. It opens on Friday and it runs through New Year’s Eve.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Monday, Monday, Monday at Duluth City Hall! It’s a city planning double header with public meetings to discuss revising zoning regulations and street improvement back to back! Get your civics on! Update: The street improvement meeting has been postponed due to snow.

And, speaking of double headers, the Harbor City Roller Dames are hosting a double header on Saturday at the DECC.

“Dear Mr. Watterson,” a film documentary about Calvin & Hobbes and its creator, Bill Watterson, is showing on Tuesday at Zinema 2 as part of the Explorers Club series.

Four plays open on Thursday: “Peter Pan” opens at the Duluth Playhouse and runs three weekends, “Compleat Female Stage Beauty” opens at UMD and runs two weekends, and “The Odyssey” opens at Harbor City Theater and “Yes, Virginia” opens at Denfeld, both running just this weekend.

And, as we enter into the holiday season, you can track Christmas events right here.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Want to make the old Nettleton School into a paintball course? A Buddhist temple? A cereal museum? Let the Duluth City Planning Commission know at the public meeting tonight at Old Central High.

The UMD Women’s Hockey Team takes on the Russian National Team at Amsoil Arena on Tuesday.

Thursday is Thanksgiving with free dinners being served at the DECC and at Faith UMC in Superior.

The Duluth National Snocross starts Friday and runs through Sunday at Spirit Mountain.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

What’s that high pitched sound coming from Sacred Heart tonight? That would be the Vienna Boys Choir.

What would you do if you found a spiral notebook containing a harsh, vindictive and poorly spelled 20 page break up letter? Turn it into a one act play with original music by Brian Ring? That’s what Jonathan Manchester did and Everything You’ve Done That Hurt Me opens this Thursday at the Teatro Zuccone and runs for two weekends.

All the people are going to be “nice-sicle” on Friday for the annual Christmas City of the North Parade and that means, yep, you can start tracking Christmas events on the calendar, including Pepperkakebyen, the Festival of Trees and the opening of Bentleyville, all this week. Leave all the grinchy comments you desire below.

To work off that rage, you can go to Shine Mixed Martial Arts at Clyde Iron on Saturday or go across the bridge and shoot something. Don’t you feel better now?

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Tonight there’s a discussion on the medical use of marijuana in Minnesota at UMD.

There is still lots of theater going on in town with Guys & Dolls opening at Marshall on Thursday and Memory of Water opening on Friday at UWS. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Frozen, and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove continue their runs.

Hartley Nature Center celebrates its tenth anniversary on Thursday with an open house.

Give to the Max Day is Thursday to encourage people to give to their favorite charities. Any you want to promote? Link it in the comments below.

Chris Monroe opens a new exhibition, “Look Again,” at Red Mug Coffeehouse on Friday.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival comes to town with two different presentations on Saturday and Sunday at Marshall.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Tuesday is Election Day with four City Council seats and four Duluth School Board seats up for grabs as well as two School District Questions. Find out where your poll is and, if you aren’t registered already, you can register at the poll.

Winter is coming! Get ready for cross country skiing with dryland training at Chester Bowl this Wednesday.

Lots of theater going on this week with Frozen opening at The Underground and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove opening at UMD this Thursday. Continuing their runs, An Ideal Husband is at CSS and Renegade‘s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is at the Teatro Zuccone.

Feeling a need to run around without hardly any clothes on in a socially sanctioned event? Donate your clothes to Goodwill and then run around in your skivvies in the Nearly Naked Mile at UWS on Friday.

Starting next Saturday you can start asking people in blaze orange, “Got your deer yet?”

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Halloween is upon us in full force! How do you celebrate? Where are you going or what are you doing this year? Any costume pics you want to share?

There are a few things going on this week that aren’t directly related to Halloween.

Undecided about how you are going to vote in the City Council race? There is a City Council Candidate Forum at City Hall on Tuesday.

Renegade‘s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a rock musical about our 7th President, opens at Teatro Zuccone this Thursday and runs for three weekends.

You can have breakfast in a bank vault on Friday at the Torrey Building because … reasons.

While you are at All Souls Night at the Depot on Saturday, that laughter you will be hearing from below you in The Underground will be from Rubber Chicken‘s Live Read of the Princess Bride.

And you get an extra hour to sleep in on Sunday because of the time change. Don’t forget to “fall back” an hour.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

There’s a whole lot of Halloween going on in this town this week with haunted ships, shacks, houses, a terror train and a scary aquarium.

Ever want to learn to curl? The Duluth Curling Club is holding Curling Clinics on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Give your input on the reconstruction of Superior Street at a community meeting at Greysolon Plaza on Tuesday.

Zinema 2 continues its “Silent Film, Loud Score” series with Portrait of a Drowned Man scoring L’Inferno, a 1911 silent film based loosely on The Divine Comedy on Friday and Saturday.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Check out all of the Halloween happenings on the calendar, including Zombie Fest on Friday at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, the Haunted Shack at Buffalo House starting this weekend, and a “Not So Scary” Concert for Kids by the DSSO at Denfeld on Saturday.

When I walk into a planetarium the first thing I think is “drum solo.” Well, maybe not, but apparently that’s what Gene Koshinski thought, cause he’s doing a percussion set at the UMD Planetarium on Tuesday accompanied by a planetarium show.

Katherine Boo, writer for The New Yorker and The Washington Post, talks about poverty in India at Mitchell Auditorium on Wednesday.

Your last chance to visit the Lincoln Park Farmers Market at the Harrison Community Center this season is this Thursday.

In theater news Die Fledermaus, Johan Strauss’ comedic operetta, opens at UMD on Thursday and runs through Sunday, A Wrinkle in Time opens at the Duluth Playhouse on Friday and runs two weekends, and Rubber Chicken is doing the Chicken Hat Plays again this Saturday at the Harbor City Theater in which a team of writers, actors and directors create eight new short plays in 24 hours.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

‘Tis the season for ghosts and goblins and you can check out all things Halloween on the calendar. Already this week you can go to the Haunted Ship and the Silver Brook Corn Maze, see Nosferatu at the Scottish Rite, bring your kids to Boo at the Zoo at the Lake Superior Zoo, and meet at Pineapple Arts to help prep for All Souls Night. And there’s much more to come in the weeks ahead.

Tonight you can celebrate the Weber Music Hall at the Weber Music Hall with music… in the hall. Maybe they’ll fire up some Webers outside.

Need to work on your bike? The Bike Cave is a free cooperative bike shop where people can come in and work on their bikes or build new bikes. It’s open Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons. And on your bike you can Bike with a Cop on Saturday starting at Leif Erikson Park.

On Friday you can get your think on at Adeline’s with Prof. Jason Ford of UMD (aka our reigning Geek Prom King, all hail) in a Philosophical Salon.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Crossing Borders is a tour of North Shore artist’s studios that runs through Sunday. Print off a map and go visit local artists in their studios. You can also wander the South Shore by heading over to the 52nd annual Bayfield Apple Festival Friday through Sunday.

Lyric Opera of the North (LOON) presents two “bite-sized” operas at the Underground. The Face on the Barroom Floor and Bon Appetit! run Thursday through Saturday.

Chefs compete. You win. At the Lake Superior Fish Classic 10 chefs from Wisconsin and Minnesota are cooking up fish in a judged competition at the Depot on Friday.

Bradtober Fest on Saturday celebrates running, music, beer… it’s like a fest with attention deficit disorder. And if you wander downstairs from the Bradtober Fest Afterparty at Tycoons, you can have a bawdy time in the Rathskeller with Duluth’s only burlesque troupe, the Duluth Dolls.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

One Week Live at Beaner’s, a celebration of live music being recorded, runs today through Saturday.

Mayor Don Ness invites you to meet with him one on one during Mayor’s Night at City Hall on Tuesday.

There are two events for the chattering classes this week. Nerd Nite returns to the Underground on Wednesday with presentations about martial arts, Santa Claus, and computer games. Chester Chats, modeled on TED Talks, opens at Glensheen Mansion on Thursday with presentations on public service.

Moliere’s hilarious farce, The Miser, gets the Wise Fool treatment and opens in the Harbor City Theater on Friday and runs two weekends.

The annual Pirate Ninja Jedi Trekkie Browncoat Whovian Reddwarvian Pub Crawl (otherwise known as “Pub Crawl for Indecisive Nerds”) starts at R. T. Quinlan’s on Saturday. The organizers urge you, as always, please, do not bring a real sword.

Ottertoberfest is Sunday at the Great Lakes Aquarium with accordion music and root beer! Because apparently that’s how you celebrate Ottertoberfest.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

There’s a panel discussion on issues surrounding ethics of voter ID laws at UMD on Tuesday.

Suspect that painting of dogs playing poker hanging in your den may be a priceless antique? Bring it to the Depot on Wednesday for a free appraisal.

Renegade Theater Company opens The Pillowman at the Teatro Zuccone on Thursday. It runs for three weekends.

Not sure who you want to elect to the school board? There’s a candidate forum at Valentini’s on Thursday.

Get ready for bad French accents and hot air balloons this weekend with the first ever Le Festival des Montgolfières à Duluth at Bayfront. Elsewhere in Duluth airspace, there’s the annual Hawk Weekend Festival with hawk watching at Hawk’s Ridge. Both festivals run Friday through Sunday.

And, if that isn’t festy enough for you, the Chester Bowl Fall Fest is Saturday.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Tuesday is a Primary Election here in Duluth and after you get your vote on you can head down to The Underground for Portrait of a Drowned Man and Toby Thomas Churchill being recorded for a future airing of The Playlist.

Time is running out for farmers markets. The UMD Market Day is every Wednesday until the end of September outside Kirby Center. The Lincoln Park Farmers Market is every Thursday through the middle of October at the Harrison Community Center.

The very very very exceedingly silly musical, Spamalot, opens at the Duluth Playhouse on Thursday and runs for five (no, three, sir) three weekends.

Transplants is a new exhibition opening at the Prøve on Friday featuring artists who have moved to Duluth.

The 18th annual Inline Skate Marathon is this Saturday following the well worn course from Two Harbors to Canal Park.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Happy Labor Day! Celebrate work by taking a day off of work. Today may be the unofficial end of summer, but it’s the official end of beach house season. No more lifeguards on duty on Park Point until next year.

Buzzed Up Spelling Bee is a new Tuesday night event at Red Star hosted by a variety of local celebs, because watching drunk people spell is funny.

Two new shows open on Thursday. Collected Stories, a two woman show starring Julie Ahasay and Sarah Ruth Diener, is at The Underground. Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), a one man show featuring John Pokrzywinski, is at the Teatro Zuccone and runs through Sunday. 

Friday marks the beginning of high school football with the Denfeld Hunters taking on the Chisago Lakes Wildcats at the Public Schools Stadium and the East Greyhounds hosting the Cambridge-Isanti Bluejackets at Ordean Stadium.

The Lake Superior Harvest Festival is a celebration of locally produced food. It’s at Bayfront this Saturday.

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Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

I bet you’ve been hankering a good ol’ fashioned laser light show synched to classic rock in a planetarium with a fog machine thrown in, haven’t you? Well, you’re in luck! There’s a series of Classic Rock Laser Light Shows at the UMD Planetarium tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Tonight kicks off with “Dark Side of the Moon.”

Charlie Parr appears at the Underground on Tuesday in a new series of music and conversation shows called “Song, Interrupted.” It’s like a concert with liner notes.

Pride Festival kicks off Thursday with the Mayor’s Reception at the Depot and runs through Sunday with music, a wedding tent, a parade, a 5K, a drag show, a boat cruise, a train ride, a worship service… and the pride goes on and on and on.

“Who Am I, Again?” is a one-man show about brain damage showing one night only at the Teatro Zuccone on Friday.

Break out the s’mores! Rachael Kilgour, Brothers Burn Mountain, Evergreen Grass Band and others gather around the campfire at Camp Miller for a fundraising concert on Saturday.

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