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Lookin’ for good Photogs
I’m looking for a Duluth-area photographer that wants to go to the Dominican Republic around February 2012. I’m gettin’ hitched down there and need someone who’s willing to eat and drink all they want for a few days and snap some photos of my family, friends, myself and my beautiful wife-to-be. The only qualifications you need are to have experience in professional photography and to know how to keep up with some fun people that want to get down in paradise. Comment to leave info to set up a meeting i.e. phone number, e-mail, website to your portfolio.
Where in Duluth?
I’m guessing this will be an easy one. But seriously, this many of you can’t make that turn?! I must not suck enough at driving.
The heartthrob, his bride
The pomp of musicians, and why we care
Jill Lawful
Associated Press
DULUTH–Poor Kristen Jacobs. She’s not just marrying a local singer. She’s marrying us all.
Once upon a time, Duluth citizens gazed upon their rock musicians from afar. Not any more.
Members of the band Sexhawk are now Hollywood-style mega-celebrities — their cellulite, receding hairlines and boozy nights out subject to the same relentless scrutiny as other A-listers.
(Story continued on page 4A with details about what kind of cake will be served at Hot Rod’s wedding. Look below the fold for a chart with important details like what time it will be in Abu Dhabi or Hong Kong when Hot Rod’s parents arrive at Sacred Heart.)
Where in Duluth?
As a thank you to Starfire for establishing the “Where in Duluth” category link, I figured I should contribute. Do your best.
Not so sweet
To bank tellers, store clerks and post-office-counter workers:
Don’t ask my children if they want candy. And while you’re at it, and even though it’s far more appropriate, don’t ask me, in front of the children, whether they may have candy.
If it were 1931 and candy were a rare treat I couldn’t afford, it might be cool to get free candy. But candy is cheap, and my children don’t need more.
My children are not deprived of sweets. We have baskets full of Easter candy, stockings full at Christmas, Valentine’s candy, birthday treats, and fat pillowcases at Halloween. I realize that another lollipop isn’t going to tip the scales. But the 13 grams of sugar and Red No. 40 aren’t the only issues; it’s also about the message it sends.
When my 6-year-old daughter slammed the minivan door on her fingers, and I took her to urgent care, I thanked the receptionist who asked me whether she could have a lollipop, and I gladly accepted. But when the children’s only accomplishment is standing in line to watch their mother buy stamps, they don’t need a treat for that. I don’t want them thinking that candy is something you eat all the time. I don’t want them eating treats that, seconds ago, they were fine without, but now that it has fallen in their laps, they suddenly want.
Candy-givers, I know you mean well. But you risk taking well-behaved, happy children and turning them into crabby children on a sugar rush, or discontented children who feel like they’re missing out because mom said no to the free sugar.
The ubiquitous candy bowls and offers of treats are wearing on me. Please, make it stop.
Air Supply Air Jam
The winner of the Air Supply Air Jam tonight at Geek Prom will win an autographed photo of Duluth’s Crystal Pelkey with Australian soft-rock duo Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock — Air freakin’ Supply.
Here’s the list of songs available for competitive lip synch tonight, in case you need to do some last-minute reheasing:
All out of Love
Lost in Love
Every Woman in the World
…Making Love Out of Nothing at All
Here I am
Without You
The One That You Love
Where in Duluth?
[This post originally contained an embedded image from hethrael.org that is no longer available at its source.]
Where can this Big Dipper be found in Duluth? (Offer void to those who saw my Nerd Nite presentation – you already had your chance to guess.)
This was difficult at Nerd Nite, so I’ll post more pictures if nobody gets it.
And no, the answer isn’t Sacred Heart at 7:30PM on April 9.
1893 Duluth
[This post originally contained an embedded image from bigmapblog.com that no longer exists at the source.]
Not only cool that it’s there, but damn if it isn’t interactive (after the jump)!
If someone has shared this before, I apologize … I’m kinda geeked up about it right now.
The View From Your Duluth Window
Andrew Sullivan’s blog features a contest called “The View From Your Window” where people submit views, as it were, from their windows, and people have to guess where in the world it is. This week features a view familiar to Duluthians. He quotes my entry but I didn’t win.
Hear it first on LakeVoice
To hear what is going on in LakeVoice this week listen to our audio recording that appears on KUMD. To listen, click the audio link below.
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If you have a story suggestion or would like to contribute to the LakeVoice email us at lakevoicenews@gmail.com
To Iraq and Back: Three UMD students’ journeys with the U.S. Army
This is part one of a three part series profiling three UMD students who all went to Iraq together in 2005 and all came to UMD together right after. Two of them are being redeployed in May and the third is staying behind, due to PTSD. This is Sergeant Benjamin Hatton’s story of his last eight years in the United States Army. Read Hatton’s story on LakeVoice News.
LakeVoice News is a weekly online publication produced by UMD journalism students. The stories are reported on and written by students, but the content is for the community.
Pay it Forward in Duluth
Duluth student, Tara Mortenson, received one hundred dollars from a fellow peer for project “Pay it Forward.” She is now on a “Pay it Forward” journey along with local radio station 97.3 who developed the “Drive Through Difference” project.
You can read more about this effort and Tara’s experience at LakeVoice News. LakeVoice News is a weekly online publication produced by UMD journalism students. The stories are reported on and written by students, but the content is for the community.
You can also follow Tara Mortenson on Twitter @Tbird99 for an update of her journey. If you have been involved in the “Pay It Forward” effort we would like to hear about it. You can email your stories and/or pictures to lakevoicenews@gmail.com
Where in Duluth?
This should be quite easy considering its location. I still find it interesting though.
Photos Wanted!
LakeVoice News is looking for recent photos from around the Duluth area that we can showcase in our weekly news publication. They can be of anyone or anything, but all we ask is that it is from the area. We also ask that you write a short caption for the photo that explains where the picture was taken, who is in the picture, what is going on in the picture and who took the photo.
To submit your photos you can email them to lakevoicenews @ gmail.com and an editor will get back to you as soon as possible if we decide to publish it.
See it. Hear it. Read it.
This week in LakeVoice
See it. Hear it. Read it.
LakeVoice News is a weekly online publication produced by UMD journalism students. The stories are reported on and written by students, but the content is for the community.
Top stories on LakeVoice this week include a family’s ties to the 1920 Duluth lynchings, what the community is doing to help Japan tsunami relief, and the equal working environment at Positively Third Street Bakery.
Also be sure to check out this week’s top photos from around the area and student spring break destinations.
1,000 Perfect Duluth Day Users
Perfect Duluth Day hit a milestone today at 4:28 p.m. when the user “emmajoru” created an account and made the post below about the Low concert. PDD now has 1,000 contributors.
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Completely hypothetical question about drinking on the beach
July 4th weekend, two couples are sitting at the beach around mid afternoon watching their kids play in the sand. They are at the “s” curve beach at Park Point, approx 100 yards to the right of the sidewalk. They are talking quietly, drinking a few beers from cans. Each open beer is wrapped in a can “coolie” or whatever you call them. Each beer can is immediately put back in the small cooler when emptied.
What are the chances that a community officer (or whoever patrols the beaches) will come up and hassle them?
Found: 1-year-old male brindle mixed-breed dog
Found – 1 year (?) mixed-breed dog, brindle coat, fixed male on Grand Ave & 80th Ave. W. Please call 218-349-5808 if this guy is yours.
Aerial Lift Bridge Picture
A picture I took about a month back of a boat going under the bridge, shot with a Canon Mark 5D II.
NerdNite VIII
You don’t need a GPS to find coolness. You do need it to try GeoCaching, one of the awesome events discussed at NerdNite VIII.
We loved all the talks, and we loved learning about a local creative resource. Kudos to all who planned it, and looking forward to the next one! I’d love to know about NerdNite as a movement — I learned a little at nerdnite.com, but want to learn more!
