Events
A few unsolicited viewing recommendations for this week’s SUID Film Fest
If you didn’t have the pleasure of attending a screening at last year’s inaugural SUID Film Fest, I encourage you for your own sake to not let this opportunity escape you the second time round. This year the programmers have once again assembled a remarkable slate of films, many of which will be accompanied by Q&As with the directors and producers. As a film fan, it is close to utopia to have a festival of this quality here in our hometown. This year I (legally) got my hands on screener copies of some festival selections and have a few recommendations for films to check out this weekend.
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The Chicken Hat Plays, sponsored in part by Pizza Luce!
This Saturday, come see 8 plays that don’t exist right now.
Eight writers draw their prompts from hats full of suggestions on Friday night. (Odds are pretty good that someone will get “wiener.”)
Eight directors and a bunch of actors show up Saturday morning. Each director draws a script from a hat, then their cast from a hat, then they all go away.
Saturday is spent memorizing lines, finding costumes and props, and general cramming.
Saturday night at 7pm, you get 8 original world premiere plays from the area’s bravest theatrical artists.
All of this for ten bucks.
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An Open Letter To Our Community
Dear Citizens:
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou
And perhaps we can understand each other right here.
We, the members of our state and local community, ask you, the members of our state and local community, to join us in making Saturday, July 9, 2011, a milestone.
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Free Chamber Music Concert
Come hear some amazing chamber music by some of the country’s best musicians and members of the Duluth Superior Youth Orchestra at the beautiful Sacred Heart.
Concert starts at 7:30 and is free.
More info at sacredheartmusic.org.
Sound Unseen Duluth Festival Trailer
Coming June 8-12 at multiple locations around the Twin Ports. Visit soundunseenduluth.com.
Review of The 39 Steps at the Duluth Playhouse
I won’t go into a lot of detail about the intricately convoluted plot of The 39 Steps, largely because the plot resists description, but also because part of the delight of this cinematic play is to see how it all unfolds. Needless to say, it involves the usual trappings you’d expect of Hitchcockian suspense and film noir: a femme fatale, foreign espionage, and false murder accusations. With a cast of four playing innumerable characters, The 39 Steps lovingly lampoons the genres of noir (and even, at times, screwball comedy), with many winking references to Hitchcock’s oeuvre. (more…)
The Life of Riley – Trailer!
Sneak Preview
Monday, June 13
7:15 p.m.
$10 suggested donation – RSVP on the FaceBook Event Page or by emailing carrie@4trackfilms.com
Books Needed for Children’s Book Drive
Have you been doing some spring cleaning and noticed that you have a lot of children’s books your kids have grown out of? If so, please consider donating them to United Way of Greater Duluth’s Big Red Bookshelf. Or, consider donating because you believe in the importance of early interactions with books, stories and reading for all young children. (more…)
Flaming Lips’ movie Christmas on Mars
The Flaming Lips’ film Christmas on Mars screens on Friday, June 10, just before midnight, under the auspices of Sound Unseen, within the magnificent Zinema 2.
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Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps with Sarah Krueger
Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps are set to appear at Lake Avenue Cafe this Friday, June 3, as part of Lake Avenue Cafe’s First Fridays Live Music Series. Duluth’s Sarah Krueger will open the show. Come check out two of Minnesota’s best up-and-coming female songwriters performing in the intimate setting of Lake Avenue Cafe. This will be a show to remember.
10pm doors/$5/21+
END:CIV with Director Franklin López
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This culture will eat you alive
Fight back; resist & survive
Screening at Zinema 2 on June 7 at 7pm. (more…)
Your tax dollars at work
Sing! A Women’s Chorus with Sowah Mensah Wednesday, June 1, 7:00pm UMD Weber Music Hall $5.00
Haiti Worthy Cause Concert
Haiti Worthy Cause Concert – Music! Storytelling! Food! Free! Donations accepted!
June 5 @ 3 p.m. – Chester Park United Methodist Church – 819 N 18th Ave E – 724-4969 (more…)
A Winter Downpour w/ Hybridge + Br’er Wolf tomorrow @ TPB
Lots of good shows going on tomorrow … we got one too. If you’re looking to check out some newer bands in the area come over to Thirsty Pagan Brewing in Superior for a free show.
More info on:
– A Winter Downpour
– Br’er Wolf
– Hybridge
Hope to see you there!
Beer Festival in Lutsen
Hey beer lovers,
Hopped Up Caribou Beer Festival is happening in Lutsen this summer on the weekend of July 9. If you’re interested in regional beers, meeting the brew masters, good food and live entertainment, hoppedupcaribou.com has more info. Tickets are 25 bucks.
Opening Night of Reasons to be Pretty
Opening night of Reasons to Be Pretty is Thursday, June 2, at 8pm. Stick around after the show for the after party in the Zeitgeist lobby featuring food from the Zeitgeist Cafe and music by Mae Martin. Then, stick around for a free Long Form Improv set from the newly formed Long Form Team of Renegade Improv.
And if all that wasn’t enough, opening night is pay what you can! Only have $1? That’s fine! Feel like the show is worth $100? We will totally accept!
But come out and celebrate with us. Whatever you decide to pony up to see Reasons to Be Pretty also gets you free food and music, plus a free late-night improv set. Because we think you are all awesome and we like hanging out with you.
Monthly Concert and Pipe Raffle
Free Show: 5 PM Legacy Glassworks: 30 W. First St., Duluth
Whisky at the Gallows: 5:30 PM
Fearless Moral Inventory: 6PM
Yester: 7PM
Sitter: 8PM
Two Many Banjos: 9PM (live painting by Jeredt Runions)
North Shore Photography Club artists!
Image by Marvil LaCroix
Wednesday, May 25, from 4:30 – 8pm at the Duluth Photography Institute at 405 E. Superior St. Come and chat with the artists about their photography (and photography in general)! For more information on the club go to, or call Brian at 218.393.2468.
Br’er Wolf – “Song 3”
Br’er Wolf is playing Friday, May 27, at Thirsty Pagan Brewing in Superior with Hybridge and A Winter Downpour.
Also Friday, June 10 at Beaner’s Central in West Duluth with Loup-Garou and the Good Colonels (music video showing). Both shows are at 9 p.m.
ISO: supporting musician! (Nice guy from Minneapolis playing at Beaner’s)
So, my friend Matt’s got a gig @ Beaner’s on Aug 13, and he’s needing someone to cobill with. If you’re interested, you can hit me here for info, or get with him on facebook or on reverb nation.
Much obliged, peeps.
Haley Bonar – WOJB Concert Series at the Park Theater
Sublimely-talented Haley Bonar and her awesome band will be performing Friday, June 3 for the WOJB Concert Series at the Park Theater, 15791 U.S. HWY 63 in Hayward.
She’s about to head out on a nationwide tour starting mid-June with Andrew Bird and Gary Louris (The Jayhawks), so this is your best chance, Duluthians, to catch her live onstage. Hayward’s only about an hour-and-a-half south of you all. Don’t miss it!
Showtime is 7:30pm. Tickets are $15 in advance and available at wojb.org or 800-776-3689. They’ll be $20 at the door.
Community Ayurvedic Soothing Warm Oil Therapy~Shirodhara. Duluth’s First!
Help me practice with my new Shirodhara Set!
When: 6/5, 8/7, 9/4
Where: Deep Peace Wellness Studio Studio
31 W. Superior St. #501, Duluth
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Blood on the Tracks Express!
Blood on the Tracks Express Train tickets are on sale now at the Electric Fetus and Brewhouse Beerstore!
Fontanelles — Dirty Horse — Rich Mattson — 4 on the Floor