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Making it Up North: Y-ker Acres
PBS North has rebooted its series Making it Up North, which explores stories of creative artists, artisans and entrepreneurs engaged in honing their skills, following their passion and realizing their dreams.
The premiere episode of the new digital series profiles the Stamper family and Y-Ker Acres, located about a dozen miles southeast of Duluth in the town of Twin Lakes. The farm is home to heritage-breed beef and pork, raised on open pasture.
Pink Marlena – “Ishpeming” and “Akiing”
Pink Marlena, aka Makwawigwamikwe Marlena Boedigheimer, has a new album, Ishpiming, set for release Jan. 16 during a performance at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center. (more…)
Pronoya – “Pull Me Closer to the Flame”
“Pull Me Closer to the Flame” is from Pronoya‘s 2025 EP All for the Sun. The video is directed and edited by Cristian Pastrana of D/E Design & Studio. It was shot at Pizza Lucé by Pastrana with additional camerawork by Austin Sherzberg.
Wizardstone – “People People”
From the great forests and lakes of northeast Minnesota comes Wizardstone, the musical alter ego of Chuck Olsen, who hopes the video for the song “People People” can “help envision the world we want to live in.”
Ingeborg von Agassiz – “Poison”
A new original song from Duluth’s Ingeborg von Agassiz.
Ian Alexy – “Healing Me”
“Healing Me” is the new music video from Duluth’s Ian Alexy. The track is on Alexy’s new album The Tao of Ian.
Video: Ice Climbing at Quarry Park
“The Frozen Photog” Adam Jagunich recently visited Quarry Park in West Duluth, capturing scenes of ice climbers ascending the 100-foot manmade cliff at the former quarry, which became a city park in 2016.
Perfect Duluth Day’s Best Videos of 2025
From the multitude of videos posted to PDD, here’s the annual handpicked collection that stood out in 2025. (more…)
Berzerk Blawndz – “Santa is Injured”
Berzerk Blawndz released a new Christmas album, Go Berserk This Christmas!, in early December. The post-Christmas release of the music video for “Santa is Injured” tells the story of how St. Nick was unable to deliver presents this year, so the band did the job using Steve Solkela’s minivan.
Vincent Gargiulo’s Fantastic
San Francisco-based writer/director Vincent Gargiulo was in Duluth in 2013 shooting his short feature Duluth is Horrible. A segment from his next feature, Vincent Gargiulo’s Fantastic, was also shot in Duluth. “I Found Myself Stuck in an Experimental Film,” featuring Kat Mandeville, starts at the 4:55 mark in the embedded video above. (more…)
A Texan from out near Duluth, Minnesota
The World War II film A Walk in the Sun premiered Dec. 25, 1945 — 80 years ago today. A song early in the movie mentions Duluth. (more…)
Hauliwood Dreams – “Finns in America”
Duluth’s Steve Solkela partners with Maria Voltaine, Miska Kajanus and Jaakko Manninen to form the Finnish-American novelty band Hauliwood Dreams for this parody of Kim Wilde’s 1981 hit “Kids in America.” The “Finns in America” lyrics are by Voltaine.
Trailer: Ish Meets a Mermaid
Duluth artist Jonathan Thunder’s new movie, Ish Meets a Mermaid, is in the submission process for the national film festival circuit. The story invovles an artist in a slump who meets a mysterious woman from a realm beneath Lake Superior and finds success in the last place he ever expected — death.
Steve Solkela – “En Etsi Valtaa, Loistoa”
Steve Solkela performs the Christmas song “En Etsi Valtaa, Loistoa” or “I Seek Not Power, or Glory,” composed by Jean Sibelius. He dedicates the song to the recently departed Rev. Martti Hyhkö of Ontario, Canada. (more…)
Duluth: Dull is right there in the name
The animated adventure comedy In Your Dreams, which premiered on Netflix in November, references Duluth six times. The four relevant scenes are in the pirated video embedded above.
Plot: The family life of 12-year-old Stevie and her younger brother Elliot is threatened when their mother announces her desire to move the family to Duluth.
Chasing the Sunset in Duluth
The latest video from “The Frozen Photog” Adam Jagunich features scenes from sunset at Park Point and Brighton Beach in Duluth.
Trailer: Death of a Piano
Tomas Soderberg’s upcoming documentary, Death of a Piano, follows four years of Duluth’s SubSuperior Underwater Music and Art Festival. A discarded piano emerges as a central character as festival participants decide how to conduct a proper sendoff.
Video: Flying Squirrel Flying Against its Will
The latest trail-camera highlight from the Voyageurs Wolf Project shows a bobcat whipping around a flying squirrel. The footage was captured in Voyageurs National Park, about 100 miles north of Duluth.
Ian Alexy – “Living in a Dream”
The latest from Duluth’s Ian Alexy is a bluesy rock track with an afrobeat inspired chorus, featuring Emma Lee Heart on guest vocals. The “Living in a Dream” video features a collage of footage from public archival sources, edited by Alexy.
Alexy’s new album, The Tao of Ian, releases on Dec. 9.
Sparky’s 2025 Owl Footage
Mark “Sparky” Stensaas shares his favorite video clips of owls from the early months of 2025. The bulk of the observations were from south of Duluth, Sax-Zim Bog, the Two Harbors area, Lake County, Superior National Forest and Grand Marais.
Pronoya – “Your Worship Cannot Be Undone”
Pronoya‘s new EP All for the Sun is out now on numerous platforms. The video for the track “Your Worship Cannot Be Undone” is directed, shot and edited by Cristian Pastrana of D/E Design & Studio.
Pronoya’s EP release show is Nov. 29 at Pizza Luce.
Toby Thomas Churchill – “You”
Duluth’s Toby Thomas Churchill has a new album called Nighttime coming out any minute now. “You” is the first single.
Rich Mattson and the Northstars – “Races With Turtle”
Rich Mattson and the Northstars are jumping over hurdles, running round in circles and racin’ with the turtles in their minds. The video for the band’s new single is directed by Reggie Pype.
JamesG – “Feeling Myself (Today)”
Former Duluthian James Geisler, aka JamesG, is feeling the flow today.
Robert Plant covers Low on Tiny Desk Concert
Rock icon Robert Plant performed a five-song set for National Public Radio on Halloween. The third piece, “Everybody’s Song,” was composed by Duluth band Low.
At the 10-minute mark in the video, Plant explains that it’s the third song he has recorded from Low’s 2005 album The Great Destroyer.