Izabella Zadra
PDD Gift Guide 2025
Make your list and check it twice. This year’s Perfect Duluth Day Gift Guide features 16 items from local artists and manufacturers that will jingle all your gift-giving bells this holly-jolly season. It’s the year of the collab, with three items on the list produced by two entities working together on a single product. (more…)
Perfect Duluth Day Outdoor Summer Concert Primer 2025
Lu Starr performed in a backyard concert on June 7 to raise funds for Food Not Bombs, sharring the bill with Charlotte Montgomery, Elsa Krantz and Jerree Small. (Photo by Rich Narum)
The sun has put on its comically large sunglasses, which can only mean one thing — it’s time to soak up the rays and jam with some of the most anticipated musical acts hitting Duluth-area stages this summer. (more…)
PDD Gift Guide 2024
It is the most wonderful time of the year — the time of giving and gifting to all the people in our lives. This holiday season is also an opportunity to shop local and support Twin Port businesses. Perfect Duluth Day’s nifty gifty gift guide features items from 15 local artists, shops and creators whose products could make the perfect present for anyone on your nice or naughty list. (more…)
Hellwig Hollow: An Inner Monologue
The Way There
- Canyon? Is that up north?
- Oh, it’s past Twig, just south of Cotton, gotcha!
- I didn’t know they had a haunted thingy out there.
- How the hell do you get to it?
- No, I have never heard of the Dawghouse Bar & Grill, but I assume it is near the hollow?
- Okay — park at the Dawghouse and a bus will shuttle us to the actual attraction.
- I’m not super sure how this is going to be set up … but I guess we are just gonna have to go and find out. (more…)
Perfect Duluth Day Outdoor Summer Concert Primer 2024
The Northwood’s Band performed an outdoor show last week at Eveleth’s Timber Edge Bar and Grill, bringing a large crowd out to enjoy a pre-summer concert. (Photo by Izabella Zadra)
Put on those short shorts and tank tops, the summer concert season is upon us. The Twin Ports area is always bumpin’ with outdoor shows featuring a vast array of music styles on a variety of mostly temporary or makeshift stages. Take a dive with us into some of the best, don’t-wanna-miss concerts happening in the area over the hot months ahead. (more…)
The Vintage Hideaway flips the script on antiquing
Nichol and Tony Hommerding, owners of The Vintage Hideaway. (Submitted photo)
A thrift and antique store in Hermantown has brought a fresh take on antiquing and thrifting in the Twin Ports. The Vintage Hideaway focuses on uniquely staging items, restoring pieces looking for a little bit of love and creating a welcoming environment by offering coffee and snacks in its pantry. (more…)
Interview with On the Record’s Kristi Olson
Duluth has seen a multitude of music and arts ‘zines over the years. They are a part of culture that connect and inform people about niche things in a community. In the past, Duluth has watched ‘zines such as The Transistor come and go, but now there is a new sheriff ‘zine-maker in town and her name is Kristi Olson, creator of Duluth music publication On the Record. Click on the image above to hear Olson open up about breaking the mold of the “good ol’ boys club” that made up the Duluth ‘zine-crafting community for many years.
Spookin’ at the Irvin: An Inside Look at the Duluth Haunted Ship
All photos by Erik Poffenberger
Most Duluthians can say they have taken the Duluth Haunted Ship tour, but how many have been on the other side? Every year this haunted attraction reaches out to invite volunteers to participate in the spooking instead of being spooked. I was able to get behind the scenes, uncover the creepiness and see how organizers of this historically haunted attraction keep things afloat (get it?) throughout the season. (more…)
Perfect Duluth Day Outdoor Summer Concert Primer 2023
Musicians gather around the fire pit at Girl Scout Point in Billings Park for the first concert of the 2023 Superior Porchfest season.
Outdoor music saw a boom during the pandemic out of necessity, but on warm summer days the preferred concert venues have always been those with free-flowing air. With the Duluth-area music scene continuing to flourish and touring artists on the move, the season has music to soothe all souls with genres spanning the realms of rock, pop, hip hop, folk and more.
From porches, patios and piers to amphitheaters, big tents and city parks, the outdoor summer concert options are numerous. Below is Perfect Duluth’s Day’s annual guide to al fresco music in 2023. (more…)