Empty Bowl, good feeling inside
17th annual Empty Bowl
Tuesday, April 26 – 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The Depot, 506 West Michigan Street, Duluth
Empty Bowl benefits Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank, providing food for more than 3 million meals annually to people in need throughout northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. $15 includes a handmade bowl and a simple, delicious soup meal.
Game Night at Collector’s Connection
Collector’s Connection used to be cramped, a place to stall while my wife wandered the mall. No longer! It’s become a destination. Last night, my wife and I played two games with a charming young couple of students and the Host, who did an excellent job of teaching us how to lose gracefully. The evening was free, though I bought a comic on the way out! (more…)
Slumber party report needed
Action at Yarn Harbor -- Not Slumber Party
Did anyone attend the “Slumber Party” at Yarn Harbor?
The next one will be May 13th. More info about Yarn Harbor is here.
Seems like a lot of money…I thought “we” were broke?
This is from the upcoming City Council Agenda for 04/25/11
$450,000 for computers? I suppose they have to keep up with the $800 chairs each councilor has. Anyone who works in technology / retail, does this seem like a lot of money?
11-0191R – RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH CITON COMPUTER CORPORATION FOR THE PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF LENOVO COMPUTER HARDWARE (LAPTOPS) AND RELATED EQUIPMENT AS NEEDED IN YEAR 2011, NOT TO EXCEED THE BUDGET ALLOCATION OF $150,000.
11-0194R – RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR, INC., FOR COMPUTER HARDWARE AND RELATED PRODUCTS AS NEEDED IN YEAR 2011 NOT TO EXCEED THE BUDGET ALLOCATION OF $100,000.
11-0196R – RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH SOFTWARE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL (SHI), INC., FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE AS NEEDED IN YEAR 2011, NOT TO EXCEED THE BUDGET ALLOCATION OF $200,000.
you can view the whole thing here
duluthmn.govHomegrown 2011 tickets on sale
Advance Homegrown tickets now on sale only at the Electric Fetus.
Friday or Saturday $15
Weeklong passes $25
Be the first on your block. Or something.
Call for Photos – Homegrown Photo Show
For those of you who have been waiting and wondering… will there be a Homegrown Photo Show (it was inadvertently left out of the schedule)…
The answer is YES. (more…)
Spirit Mountain Snowboard Video
Some shots up at Duluth’s local hill, Spirit Mountain.
Video Sessions with Charlie Parr and the Fontanelles
New local videos from North Shore Sessions featuring Charlie Parr & Lane Prekker, and the Fontanelles.
Can’t Wait Until Homegrown the 13?
I know I’ve got everyone really pumped up about the new the Moon is Down EP This Machine, and you all can’t wait to come to the show at the Main Club and be one of the lucky 100 who get a free copy. I’m getting so many requests for it now, that I decided to put ‘er up on Bandcamp early so you’s all can get a listen!
Go to themoonisdown.bandcamp.com. However, it will be expected that you learn all of the gang vocals for show participationationationing. I’ve bought stock in Depends because you’re all gonna need to put on your diaper before you experience This Machine.
Guest Vocalists include Ben Butter, Anders Jefferson, Devon O’Shaughnessy, Mike Wilson, and Paul Daniel Trader,
Blood in, Blood out.
Where in Duluth?
This one is probably pretty easy, but bonus if you know what it’s for. (I don’t, so you could probably make something up.)
UMD Bulldogs Hockey on wild.com
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Highlight video of the Frozen Four Championship Game 2011 at Xcel Energy Center.
Another COGGS Movie Night
Cyclists of Gitchee Gumee Shores present the film Life Cycles.
Tuesday, April 26, 7:15 pm
Zinema 2 Theater
222 E. Superior St.
All proceeds go toward completion of the “Duluth Traverse,” a single-track trail running the entire length of Duluth.
Two Many Banjos featured by Macedelic Studios
Duluth’s own Two Many Banjos were featured this week by Macedelic Studios. The piece included live music and conversation with singer/songwriter Marc Gartman.
You can listen to ‘An Evening with Two Many Banjos’ and get more information here. Be sure to see them performing at Duluth Homegrown!
Two Many Banjos is a dynamic and engaging band out of Duluth, MN. Producer Doug MacRostie joined singer/songwriter Marc Gartman before the performance at Terrapin Station to talk about the band’s latest release Fatwa.
HCIS presents Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Harbor City International School will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream between Thursday, April 28 and Sunday, May 1. With the exception of the Sunday performance, which is a 2 PM Matinée, all performances are at 7 PM. The theater is located on the second floor of the school at 332 W. Michigan St. Admission is eight dollars for adults and three dollars for students.
Performance Description: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a classic comedy of William Shakespeare’s. This particular performance takes place in the 30s, with settings, costumes, and music appropriate for the time period, with a certain emphasis on jazz and blues. The play intertwines three stories — that of a group of lovers turned astray from their state, divided by their uneven interests in one another; that of a group of workers who conspire to perform a play and are beriddled with conflicts as a result of their own incompetency; and that of a squabble between the King and Queen of the faeries, who in their fight play with the emotions of the lovers and enchant the lead performer of the laborers. All these events revolve around the marriage of Duke Theseus and the queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. The play is a comedy, renowned for its ridiculous humor and says a number of important things about the way we love and what is important in our relationships.
Duluth Smelting
Rick LeBlanc of Hermantown surpassed tradition by biting the head off not just his first smelt, but about two dozen others, too, at the Lester River on May 5, 1983. (Duluth News-Tribune file photo)
At this time of year, 20 or 30+ years ago, the hot topic in Duluth and Superior would have been the status of the smelt run.
Duluth’s mostly-vanished smelting tradition has been discussed on Perfect Duluth Day at least once before. It’s been a frequently requested item for the News Tribune Attic to cover.
So, by popular demand, the latest post in the News Tribune Attic includes a bunch of photos and a couple contemporary accounts of smelting in Duluth in the early 1980s. Enjoy!
Duluth Central High School class of 1924: Mixers, fussers, boosters and bluffers
These snippets are from the 1924 edition of The Zenith, Central’s yearbook. If you wish to read the text and find it too small, click on any image to see it bigger.
The doctor is in, and he is 11
The Black-eyed Snakes, featuring 11-year-old percussionist Andrew Olson, performing “Chicken Bone George” on April 15 at Jefferson Pub & Grill during the Mid West Music Fest.
Rachel Sandell Benefit class this Saturday
Please help us raise money for Rachel Sandell, a Duluth East High School student, undergoing expensive treatments for liver cancer. Jillian Holmen and Stacy Holden will be leading a women’s yoga circle at Yoga North (4628 Pitt Street, Duluth, MN) from 10a-12p on Saturday, April 23.
Mamas, daughters, sisters, aunties, grandmas, friends…of all experience and acquaintance welcome. We will move and sing, chant and pray — individually, as partners, and in group poses. Maybe cry, probably laugh, and definitely send lots and lots of love (and some money!) Rachel Sandell‘s way.
All proceeds will go in support of funding Rachel’s healing. Suggested donation of $50 per pair or pay what makes you happy. Cash, check & credit cards accepted.
Register through Yoga North or call 218-722-YOGA.
The Sunny Era w/ Lions&Creators, Loup-Garou, and Scattered Birds
This Friday night you can catch a fantastic show out at the Thirsty Pagan in Superior. Sunny Era just had a CD release last weekend and are coming hot off its coat-tails.
8pm // 21+ // $5 suggested cover but FREE if you so choose
Homegrown Post-Kickball ’80s Party featuring music by Glass Elevator
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNUrgom0wmM
Saturday, May 7, 5 to 7 p.m., at Pizza Lucé
MPIRG’s Week of Events
Monday, April 25:
An Evening with DeAnna Cummings: Arts for Social Change in MN, 6pm, UMD Kirby Rafters
Free, Open to the Public, Refreshments Provided.
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Miller Creek Disk Golf Course
Public Meeting: Friday, April 29, 11 a.m. to noon at Lake Superior College. Click here for details.
Jeredt Runions’ art at J. Lydia Salon
Artwork by Jeredt Runions. Live music by Marc Gartman, Hattie Peterson, Ashley Northey and Shaunna Heckman. Fire dancing from the Spin Collective, hors d’oeuvres from Lave Avenue Café.
That’s some old ce-ment
I Google-mapped Duluth East High School today for various reasons and found that the corner of E. Eighth St. and N. 26th Ave. E. is “Minnesota’s oldest concrete pavement.”
Is that the cobblestone-y stuff back there, and is it seriously the oldest?