News and Current Affairs
Extreme Home Makeover – Huber Edition
It has ben confirmed that Sunday September 27 will be the season premier of Extreme Makeover – Home Edition and that the first show if the season will feature none other than our South Shore friends the Huber family. Ace’s on 29th in Superior will be hosting a party during the show – offering FREE appetizers and snacks during the show. The back room will feature EM – HE on all the TVs and we will celebrate Superior’s amazing role in the life changing event. Producers of the show say that the residents and businesses in the Twin Ports turned out in droves, maybe the most local support they have seen in the history of the show. So come on down to Ace’s on 29th in Superior on 9/27 and celebrate the Huber’s joy and watch your fellow Northlanders on TV.
Health Security for America
Health Insurance Reform
Dr. Charles Gessert
Marlene Hart
Dr. Patrick Schoenfelder
Professor Jennifer Schultz
Wednesday, Sept. 16 | 4:30-7 p.m.
UMD School of Business and Economics, Room 118
(For parking take St. Marie St. to University Dr. to Pay lot G)
Duluth Pack – Backpacker Magazine “Get Out More” Event
Backpacker Magazine Get Out More
Sept. 9 | 6-8 p.m. – Backpacker Magazine visits the Duluth Pack retail store in Duluth as a part of its “Get Out More” events. Free outdoor gear give-a-ways, slideshow and more. getoutmore2009.com | duluthpack.com
Duluth Pack is one of about 50 places Backpacker Magazine will visit in the USA.
Superior Choice Credit Union Cookout FREE
Free Food & Prizes!
Join us at 4161 Haines Road for a cookout!
Hermantown Branch of Superior Choice Credit Union.
Hotdogs, chips, punch and cookies available.
Prize drawings!
Email kacil@superiorchoice.com if you have questions. Hope to see you there!
Magic Mama – Duluth performance
Magic Mama will be performing at Beaner’s Central in Duluth on Saturday, October 3rd at 7 PM. The Concert will feature music from her CD’s Rodeo deGaia and Wild Birds. Magic Mama performs organic hip hop and world beats for the whole family. Family-friendly set starts at 7 PM and a more adult-oriented set begins at 8:30. Tickets at the door $5 adults $3 kids. more info available at www.magicmamamusic.com and www.beanerscentral.com
Pipeline to Superior
Duluth/Superior is mentioned in this article about the pipeline which will bring Tar Sands Oil through town. Go here.
Group Ride to Courthouse
Support three local cyclists who have been receiving tickets for “impeding traffic” while they were riding legally on the city designated bike route in downtown Duluth. There will be a free breakfast from 7-8 a.m. Sept. 15 at Leif Erickson Statue, followed by a group bike ride to the court house for the three’s first court date.
Ah, September
I’d like to welcome the best month in Duluth.
Equal Xchange CD Release
w/ special guest Mat Milinkovich on drums.
Harold Nelson Dies
Harold Nelson, the old fellow often seen walking along Central Entrance and elsewhere, was struck by a car and killed. The News Tribune has an article in the August 16th edition.
Ride the Rubber Chicken Charter to Applefest this October!
On Saturday, October 3, make it a beautiful fall day of crunchy apples and corny jokes as KUWS Radio and Rubber Chicken Theater invite you to ride in style to Applefest in Bayfield aboard the Rubber Chicken Charter.
The Rubber Chicken Charter will leave from Wessman Arena on the campus of UWS at 11:00am, and gets back to Superior at 10:30pm. There will be plenty of time in beautiful Bayfield to enjoy the sights and sounds of Applefest, then, at 5:00pm, you will be in the audience for the LIVE broadcast of The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour. The show will be performed smack dab in the middle of Applefest, right on the main stage. The show will feature local musicians from Big Top Chautauqua, a Brett Favre apple sketch or two, and other fun surprises.
Cost to ride the Rubber Chicken Charter is just $20. Seating is limited, so reserve your spot today by contacting Kim Gustafson at KUWS Radio (kgustafs@uwsuper.edu, 715-394-8530). Credit cards are accepted.
Renegade Duluth makes “the Network”
I had given up on much Duluth art being discussed ever on MPR, after forever of hearing the Pioneer Press’ Dominic Papatola’s eye-rolling, painfully self-conscious weekly host chats, (yes, “host chat” a la Regis and Kelly, only if you added a condescending air to their blather). But then they added this interesting feature “Art Hounds” which is a great step in the right direction, only they’re very Twin Cities centric, as is standard for “the Network.” THEN, today I heard a familiar voice: Lucie Amundson, who is (if I’m not mistaken) a PDD and/or Park Point regular. Haven’t heard her on the “network” since election day. They should use her more. Good work, Lucie. Would love to hear you do stories in person sometime!
https://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/13/art-hounds/?refid=0
She talks about the new renegade theater show, hopefully there is a link there ^ and you can click and listen …
Opens This Thursday!
Music & Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Directed by Andy Bennett (more…)
Billy Mays shocks and dismays.
Read and discuss. 🙂
Trouble in Thunder Bay
People may complain about crime in Duluth, but it appears our sister city to the north is having a really, really bad year.
According to Thunder Bay’s daily newspaper, the Chronicle Journal, the city just recorded its sixth homicide of the year. And we’re only in August. That may give Thunder Bay the highest per-capita murder rate in Canada.
I love visiting up there, but… yikes.
Historic Day at Denfeld
Ten new members were inducted into Denfeld High School’s Hunter Hall of Fame on Saturday. At the end of the ceremony, descendants of Robert E. Denfeld and Walter Hunting were brought to the stage. Although the phrase “Denfeld Hunters” has been around since the 1930s, the Denfeld and Hunting families had never met before. (Photo by Butch Williams)
Looking for Randy Lee – or equivalent
www.clean4life.org
I’m looking for somebody to provide about 60 minutes of “background” music for an event being held at St. Scholastica on September 17th [I’ll post more on that later]. Need to find a group who can set the vibe. T-57 is busy. Randy Lee was suggested – anybody know how I can get a hold of him or similar alternative? You can email me directly: recovery at css.edu
National Night Out
National Night Out (NNO) is this coming Tuesday, August 4th. (more…)
Ball Slasher on Controverse
It’s around timecode 3:25.
River Walk West
Spirit Valley Land Co., developer of BayHill on the River townhomes, is planning another development in West Duluth. Read John Ramos’ report on the Cheerleader Blog.
Hibbing High School reunion makes international news
Last weekend was the 50th reunion of the Hibbing High School Class of 1959.
Why is that notable? In that class was Bobby Zimmerman, later to become Bob Dylan.
It appears Dylan did not show – but a British journalist did, and he wrote a pretty long story about it that’s posted on the Daily Telegraph Web site this morning. (more…)
Free Range Film Festival this weekend
Free Range Film Festival
July 24th and 25th
Wrenshall, MN
Motion Pictures in a Barn
www.freerangefilm.com
Miss West Duluth Pageant 2009
An annual tradition that goes along with the Miss West Duluth Pageant is my attempts to stir up controversy about it.
My initial objection came in 1987, when the first Miss West Duluth was a young lady from Morgan Park. It seemed to me that if the title was going to be “Miss West Duluth,” the contestants should all be from West Duluth.
I was told back then the criteria was that girls must live within the attendance boundary for Denfeld High School to be eligible. Although I thought “Miss Western Duluth” might be a more appropriate name, I was satisfied with this Denfeld rule, so I shut up about it for a few years.
Then, in 1996, a graduate of Hermantown High School was a contestant. I assumed she lived in the Denfeld area but chose to attend Hermantown, which would get around the rules enough to allow her to compete. In subsequent years I’ve noticed Proctor High School students in the list of contestants.
Give a contest an inch and it takes a mile. One of this year’s contestants is a senior at East High School, according to the Spirit Valleys Days insert in the Budgeteer News. (UPDATE: She lives in Morgan Park, according to comments to this post.)
Now, I don’t mean to fan the east/west flames here, so I’m just going to suggest we call this thing the Miss North America Pageant already and get it over with.