We Are One
Please join us for a Noon Rally at City Hall to draw attention to the attacks on collective ing and workers’ rights across the country as well as the right wing’s “cuts only budget” that rates high in political rhetoric and low on moving Minnesota forward. These attacks and budget cuts impact real people and we want to stand up to them.
Then this evening, join us for a silent march and vigil to remember and honor Dr. King and all those who have been silenced in the struggle for equal rights. We will meet at the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial at 5:30pm then march silently to the federal building where we will be greeted with music and will hold a vigil.
Vocal Jazz Cabaret – “Workin’ 9 to 5”
April 7-9, 7:30 pm
Clyde Iron Works
2920 W. Michigan St., Duluth
A new venue serves up hot vocal jazz entertainment with dinner option at Clyde Iron Works. Dinner includes Italian Pasta Bar with homemade penne pasta with alfredo and marinara sauces, Italian sausage, meatballs, and grilled chicken, classic garden salad with balsamic vinaigrette and fresh baguettes. Price includes pasta bar, beverage and gratuity; dessert may be purchased separately at the event (wood-oven baked New York style cheesecake.) If selecting the dinner option, please note dinner seating is general admission with eight per table with dinner served from 5:45 pm – 7 pm.
Lake Effect and Chill Factor
Tina Thielen-Gaffey, director
Concert only: Adult $15, senior/student $10, UMD student $5 Dinner & concert: Adult $35, senior/student $30, UMD student $25
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Hear it first on LakeVoice
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The [Food] Game is Fixed
You have one more week to enjoy Eat Downtown! The Greater Downtown Council-sponsored event, with 19 participating restaurants, is back this year.
The DNT describes the program here.
Kate and I at ate J J Astor — an amazing dinner, including blackberry salad, for me a pressed chicken, for her walleye with grapefruit and bleu cheese salad, for me a chocolate pudding for dessert, for her an orange olive oil cake. Amazing. Also of note: the happy-hour specials at the Astor are at least competitive with other local happy hours. We had never seen the bar added in the remodel before; it (and the whole space) is awesome.
Bellisio’s was awesome both for the company (M., S., and L.) as for the very filling mix of a caprese salad (the highlight of my meal), various pasta dishes, and tasty gelato.
Being a tourist in your own town is sometimes one of the best ways to rediscover your love for it. Try a local restaurant today. And note: some of the restaurants with more modest aims have a “two for twenty” menu in the evenings.
Rollerdames
It’s Saturday. My wife has a cold, and I get “the look” when I suggest that I might go out and leave her shivering under blankets.
So I’m not at the bout between the Harbor City Rollerdames and whomever they are playing tonight. [It doesn’t matter whom — they will be crushed.]
If you have results, please post here. Go Rollerdames!
Rachael Kilgour – “He’ll Save Me”
[This post originally contained an embedded video that has been removed from YouTube.]
Big news about the North Shore
Recent developments may have a big impact on Duluth businesses. Would you patronize the “Norwestshor Theater”? Keep your checking account at “Northwest Shore Bank of Commerce?” You might just have to.
Gitchee Gumee Brewfest tickets for sale
I have two tickets to the Gitchee Gumee Brewfest for Saturday for sale. Worth 80 bucks. Only asking for 50 bucks. Call ASAP 218-349-0681.
“Strike a Pose; There’s Nothing to it.”
Vintage Vogue: A Century of Chic
Saturday, April 9, 5 p.m.
Glensheen, the historic Congdon estate
Tickets | More information
A benefit for Glensheen and the Douglas County Historical Society
Fasten your fashionable seat belt; this runway will transport you from the 1900s to the 1970s, one fabulous outfit at a time. A station tour of Glensheen, refreshments, and a silent auction (checks and cash only, please) add to the fun. And it’s a fundraiser of historic proportions: money raised will be used for the Douglas County Historical Society and Glensheen.
West Duluth Porcupine Hotel
On Wednesday I saw this porcupine high at the top of a tree on Raleigh Street, feasting away on bark. Then on Thursday there were two of them (one up high, one down low). (more…)
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.
Downtown Duluth Office Space
Help!
I am looking to relocate my small office to another spot downtown. Somewhere in the area of Lake Avenue a few blocks east or west would be great. Any good ideas? I’m not super picky, but want some good light and clean, etc. Currently spending about $200 a month so I am also hoping to stay in that range.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
“Take Me Out To The Ball Game” was written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer in 1908. These images were shot the same year to help sell the song to the public.
The singer in the video is Edward Meeker, one of Thomas Edison’s technicians. This is how they sold music (sheet music, specifically) back in the day — kind of an early form of music video. These were called illustrated songs. An “illustrator” would stand on stage and sing the song while glass slide images portraying the song’s storyline were projected on a screen. Anywhere from 12 to 16 slides were produced for a song. The last slide was usually the chorus text so audience members could sing along. In this version, I’ve enhanced the chorus with slides from other baseball songs. Illustrated songs were often part of vaudeville and early movie theater programs. Notice the giant wad of Cracker Jacks Katie Casey is enjoying. That’s how it was sold back then.
Watch out, Playhouse!
If “all the world’s a stage,” The Hillsider is going to one up you by acting out the plot of an Arthur Miller work, in real time and space. From this morning’s constant contact update:
*In the spirit of April Fool’s, and with all respect to the Hillsider and Mr. Lohman, who provide an invaluable service to the city by helping to glue us all together as a community.
B2B Advertising Sales
Real Estate Delivered Twin Ports LLC is looking for quality salespeople.
This is a local sales position with a local company; the selling area is Duluth/Superior and surrounding area. We are looking to fill this position ASAP
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Sad, but precious
This illustration probably won’t help much in finding the dog, but it pulls at the heart strings more than the ones with photographs do.
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
Daytrotter in Wrenshall?
Why isn’t anyone talking about this? I ran across it by accident and I think it’s awesome. (Though I’ll sadly be out of town.)
Barnstormer 4 | Tuesday, April 26
Featuring Sondre Lerche, Guards, and the Romany Rye
Free Range Film Festival Barn in Wrenshall
Heaven Nowadays: Review of the Duluth Playhouse Production of Chicago
The gin may not be cold (or available), but the dancing is certainly hot in the Duluth Playhouse’s production of Chicago. Set in a Prohibition-era Windy City, Chicago is inhabited by irredeemable (yet likable) hucksters and hustlers, all dancing for their lives. The bondage-lite costumes and the spare, gritty set only rarely hint at the Jazz Age, but that’s just as well: the story at the heart of Chicago, about crime, corruption, sensational journalism, the cult of celebrity and all that jazz, feels contemporary and relatable. (more…)
Science Night
Next Friday is Science Night at UWS. Bring your kids, it is always a good time. Mine (age 5 and 8 ) have been asking when the next science night is since about this time last year.
Friday April 8, 2011 from 6-9pm
Wessman Arena on UWS’s campus (this is a new location since our science building is under renovation). Hosted by the UWS Students of Science Club.
Admission is FREE! Come see demonstrations, look at displays, enjoy yourself and learn a little!