More Tweedy for Less Bucks
Problem: Too Many Tweedy’s
I have too many Jeff Tweedy tickets than required. The show is tomorrow (Tuesday, March 29), 7:30pm in Rochester, Minn.
Solution: I am offering the tickets at nearly half off … say, $25 each … for the best music related haiku (as judged by Paul Lundgren).
Haiku entries accepted until noon on Tuesday, March 29.
In Need of Rakes (again)
It’s that time of year where I’m in need of your retired steel-tined leaf rake. It cannot be plastic or bamboo- it must be steel. I chop the tines off for thumb piano keys and I need a whole lot of them for a music program/workshop I’m doing later in the spring. If your rake is missing all but one of it’s tines, I’ll still take it. You can contact me through yelling loudly or the internet thingy.
Duluth Hash House Harriers
I’m looking to see if we have an established HHH group in Duluth? If not we should it started up!
Return of the Cheerleader
After nearly a year’s hiatus The Cheerleader is back and crankier than ever.
Integrity, Character and Psychology @ UMD Ethics
Two upcoming discussions sponsored by the UMD Center for Ethics and Public Policy. Free and open to the public March 29 and April 4.
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Duluth Surfing Footage from CBS News
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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.
To those who know Bill
Message from Bill Meier:
“I’m in Vietnam and my e-mail and Facebook are shut down. Please tell anybody that cares I am doing great and only suffer from a bad case of too much sun. Lumpy or Lefty, please Facebook my mom and tell her the same.”
Poems about Pizza and Farm Equipment
Poems about Pizza and Farm Equipment is a Spirit Lake Poetry Series event featuring two writers:
Michelle Matthees has three collections, “Served” “Outside” and “Junket.” She was a 2009 Jerome/SASE Emerging Writer and her work has been in “The Bloomsbury Review,” “Hayden’s Ferry Review,” “PANK,” “The Bellingham Review” and other journals.
Joyce Sutphen grew up on a farm near St. Joseph, Minn., and that is the impetus for her collection “First Words.” She also wrote “Naming the Stars,” which won a Minnesota Book Award and “Straight out of View,” which won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize in 1994. She has been a guest on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”
Go see it.
What: Poems about Pizza and Farm Equipment, featuring poets Michelle Matthees and Joyce Sutphen
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 26
Where: Teatro Zuccone, 222 E. Superior St.
Tickets: Free and open to the public
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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Low at Harbor City Theater
Low will be performing Thursday, April 14, 8pm at the Harbor City School Theater located at 332 W. Michigan Street. Tickets are on sale at the school and at the Electric Fetus. $12 general admission.
Friday! (3/25) ‘Farmers Take the Stage’ at Amazing Grace Cafe
Please join us for a fun-filled night of musical and variety talent presented by members and supporters of the Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association!
All proceeds go directly toward the work of the Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association.
HCRD is Back in Black, on the Track!
Women’s flat track roller derby is once again going to rock the DECC as the Harbor City Roller Dames are “Back in Black, on the Track!” Saturday April 2. HCRD will return to the DECC’s Pioneer Hall to take on the Mississippi Valley Mayhem (La Crosse, WI).
A portion of the bout’s proceeds will benefit the YWCA’s Spirit Valley Young Mothers Program. There will also be a pre-bout performance by the Twin Ports Elite Cheer Squad.
Doors open at 7pm, roller derby action starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are $10 plus any applicable fees and are available at the DECC Box Office, Ticketmaster.com, or Ticketmaster outlets. Children 10 and under are free with paid admission.
Harbor City Roller Dames is the Northland’s original women’s flat track roller derby league and currently in the middle of their second season. For more information about HCRD please visit harborcityrollerdames.com or find them on Facebook.
Friends of DPL Mystery Night
Friends of the Duluth Public Library Mystery Night
Friends members only
$18 per person, prepaid reservation required
Guest speaker: Brian Freeman
Duluth Public Library Green Room
April 1, 6-9 p.m.
Low on KUMD
Excited to hear the new Low album? KUMD 103.3 will be playing cuts from C’mon throughout the day today. It comes out April 12.
Rocking Out Autism at Clyde Iron Works
The Autism Association of Northern Minnesota is hosting its annual “Rocking Out Autism” benefit concert at Clyde Iron Works on April 10. Doors open at 7 pm. This all-ages show will feature Retribution Gospel Choir, Uprising, Eeriearq and the What Four. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased at Music-Go-Round, Goin’ Postal or online at autismassociationofnorthernmn.org. All proceeds will benefit the Autism Association of Northern Minnesota and its mission to raise awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorders and provide support for people on the autism spectrum and their friends and families here in the Northland.
Saturday at R.T. Quinlan’s
Three Bands / $4 / 10PM / RTQ’s
Fontanelles
Three Song Sunday
Pictures of Then (MPLS)
Hope to see you! Pictures of Then is fresh of (on?) tour and back from Austin. Real nice guys, real great music – if you’re fans of Dr. Dog, ELO or Modest Mouse I’m sure you’ll enjoy their pop psych rawk!
An Evening of Art: Furniture Music
I posted about a week ago about the exhibition titled Furniture Music which will be held at the Old European Bakery in Duluth, and I just wanted to write an update.
The event will be held on Friday, March 25, from 7 to 10pm, during which there will be free food, beer and best of all … art!
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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?
4th Street Arts
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth is beginning an arts-based revitalization along East 4th Street. The first step in this exciting process is by adding new artist-designed banners along the corridor and replacing the existing banners. NHS will be paying a commission to the selected artist(s) as well as the fabrication of the winning design. Visit the news tab on nhsduluth.org or click here. Any additional questions, contact Dan Ollhoff with NHS at (218) 727-8604 ext. 207 or email him at dollhoff @ nhsduluth.org.
What’s Obamacare? It sounds icky.
Another from our Rep.’s crack staff:
Cravaack Statement on Anniversary of Obamacare
(Washington, DC) – Today, U.S. Congressman Chip Cravaack (MN-8) released the following statement on the one year anniversary of Obamacare being signed into law:
“Today marks the one year anniversary of Obamacare being signed into law. Obamacare puts government between doctors and patients; is harmful to our job creating entrepreneurs and small business owners; and has been ruled unconstitutional in federal court. Despite broad opposition from the American people, the Obama Administration and their allies on Capitol Hill used every procedural trick in the book to ram through their nearly 3,000 page partisan health care takeover.
“Since then, report after report has shown Obamacare will cost significantly more than we were told, kill jobs, raise taxes, expand government control, and increase the cost of health care for northeast Minnesotans. In response, my colleagues and I in the House passed a simple, two-page bill to repeal this legislation and begin the process of replacing it with true reforms that will expand coverage while at the same time cutting costs to consumers. I will continue to fight against the folly of Obamacare and for common sense solutions to issues within our health care system.”