Not a fan of KUMD?
Well, I am. They gave me a chance to sit around with my better half for two hours a week listening to music and talking smack on air. Don’t care for their programming? Listen to The Funhouse tonight — Wednesday — from 7:00 to 9:00 and we promise to either change your mind or put you off KUMD permanently.
Plus, this week is the Funhouse Fun Drive with sponsorship gifts including CDs and the ever-coveted 10 screening pass for the Zinema 2, so you Current Lickers have the chance to put your money where your mouth is.
xoxo
Duluth Party
Heads up. June 11 & 12. Yonder Mountain String Band is playing at Big Top Chautauqua that weekend, so expect more shenanigans than normal. Advance crew heads out Wednesday. Too Many Gartbands plays Tommy’s Friday AND Saturday night.
I need a ride into town Friday and Saturday night.
Live 2 Play silent auction carryover — Homegrown tickets and CDs
Last Saturday’s Live 2 Play concert featured a silent auction that raised a couple thousand bucks for youth music and hockey programs. One item from the silent auction is still up for bid …
* Two weeklong passes to the Homegrown Music Festival and two Homegrown CD compilations.
This package has a $66 value. Bidding reached $30 on Saturday, and then someone bid $100. No one bid after that, but the person who bid $100 never showed up to claim the items. Since this person also scribbled an unreadable name on the sheet and a number to a phone that no one answers, it seems only appropriate to reopen the bidding.
The starting bid is $30, the second-highest from Saturday. Do I hear $35? $35 anyone? C’mon folks, it’s a good cause, do I hear $35? This silent auction ends today at 4 p.m. Use the comments to this post to place your bid.
Breaking Glass releases new video
“Ease Back” is the first single from Breaking Glass’s inaugural Shatterproof CD. These up and coming rockers from Esko play a variety of original and classic rock tunes. This music video was produced by FitzPhoto as part of a prize package from winning the 2009 Duluth-area Battle of the Bands contest, put on by Junior Achievement.
Breaking Glass will be performing at the Battle of the Bands Kickoff Party on Saturday, April 17, at Hell Burgers in Canal Park. Showtime is 8 p.m.
The band will also be opening the Battle of the Bands with a special performance at the DECC on Sunday, April 18, at 2 p.m., followed by the battle, featuring 12 area high school garage bands.
Bedrock Bar / Tom’s Junkyard / Roby’s Bar & Lounge / Slippery Saloon / The Amber Flow — Timeline of a West End Bar
The post “Minnow Swallowing Contest in Duluth” led to a discussion about where the Amber Flow Bar was located. The answer quickly emerged … 2023 W. Superior St.
Time for a little tavern genealogy … (more…)
Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy @ Rex Bar w/ the Evening Rig
Minneapolis’ Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy to perform at Rex Bar Friday, April 16, w/ special guests the Evening Rig
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It’s a whole new ballgame in Minneapolis
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Haf70090_M&feature=player_embedded
Time-lapse video by MPR’s Laura Gill
Hip Hop Helps Homeless
News release from the College of St. Scholastica:
On April 23, Hip Hop and Human Dignity students at the College of St. Scholastica will throw Hip Hop Helps, a party to benefit Life House, a Duluth organization that serves homeless teenagers.
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Your Old Socks Could Be Recycled As These Cute Mice
The darn!sock mice are reproducing rapidly this spring. Please save your old wooly winter socks. See this previous PDD post for more details.
photo by Matthew Beier
Public Input Needed for Bicycle Routes
If you ride your bicycle in Duluth, here is your chance to help improve the existing bike route network! On March 8, the Duluth City Council unanimously approved a Complete Streets resolution that would help instruct city engineers on how to design roadways for all users, instead of just for automobiles.
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The Vagina Monologues at UMD
Friday and Saturday, April 16 & 17 – 7pm
$5 for students, $8 for non-students
Proceeds benefit the Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault. (pavsa.org)
Presented by V-Day UMD, UMD Women’s Resource & Action Center, UMD Kirby Program Board
The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women’s stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery. Performed by UMD students.
1961-1968 racing in Hartley Park
Twelve-year-old Harold “Bo” Conrad won the 1963 Duluth race where Hartley Nature Center is today and went on to win the All-American Soap Box Derby Race in Akron, Ohio, where there were 75,000 people watching.
Lift Bridge changes
From MinnPost:
Duluth considering new lift bridge plan that would limit openings for small vessels
Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge may be in for a new schedule that will mean small boats may have to wait.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone Opens Thursday
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. This wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, will amuse, delight and move you. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Renegade Theater Company and Lori Pietsch State Farm Insurance present Dead Man’s Cell Phone, opening this Thursday at Teatro Zuccone. The show runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays at 8 pm through May 1. For tickets, call 218-336-1414 or log on to www.teatrozuccone.com
Full Circle Superior Fundraiser
In a couple of weeks, veteran naturalists Mike Link & Kate Crowley will embark on an 1800+ mile walk around Lake Superior to promote both freshwater conservation and the benefits of physical activity for good health. Their journey begins on April 29.
In the meantime, you can help them raise funds for their journey by attending the Full Circle Superior fundraiser at the Great Lakes Aquarium on April 16 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Music will be provided by the North Shore acoustic duo the Sivertones, and wine and cheese will be available. Guests may bid on items at the silent auction and purchase Full Circle Superior t-shirts.
Mike and Kate will give a brief presentation about their upcoming journey, and will also have time to chat with those who attend the event.
Sponsors of the event include Bellisio’s, the Great Lakes Aquarium, and Lake Superior Magazine.
There will be no charge for parking in the aquarium lot for the event.
For more information, visit www.fullcirclesuperior.org.
Genre
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rqdEahBos
Barn Dance Saturday
The phrase, “Give your corner your left hand and back to your partner for the right and left grand,” may evoke painful memories of a junior high fitness class.
However – this Saturday at the Duluth Art Institute at 8pm the music will be very much live and the caller will certainly not be wearing a whistle.
Music by Four Mile Portage
Minnow Swallowing Contest in Duluth
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3LePItHnuo
St. Patrick’s Day, 1980. Quite a party in the West End.
Homegrown
Third week into Homegrown, get’s a little more evident every day. Gotta hand it to you kids. Great job. Only thing I would like to see is the old folks get playing to. They’re too late this year, but next year. Many of them can play too. It is amazing how much music is in this town.
Trinity of Spring: 2010 Edition
PortLand Malt Shoppe has been open about two weeks.
Gordy’s Hi-Hat has been open about three weeks.
A & Dubs is still boarded up.
As you all know, it is not officially spring until the full trinity of seasonal favorites is open. Anyone with an inside track on when A & Dubs will open, please report. The number listed in the phone book “has been disconnected or is no longer in service.” Don’t worry, I think it is normal for A & Dubs’ phone to be disconnected out of season. It usually opens in mid-May.
Of related interest:
* Hacienda del Sol will open its outdoor courtyard on April 14.
* West Duluth Diary Queen is open.
Giving back a little love to PDD
OK, PDDers, I’m the professor who suggested that Perfect Duluth Day was one good resource to tap into ideas in the community. Well, I thought I’d share a couple stories the students have done so we can try to make this relationship a little more reciprocal.
First, my favorite about the Joy Laugh Club, which I know many of you are aware of, but was new to me. And, of course the video. I’ve just got to believe some of these people are PDD members.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovm4ijI-Bwk&feature=player_embedded
The students also did a series of articles based on randomly calling people in the phone book. Here is one of my favorites about a woman’s experience with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, and another about a local sled dog racer. And, for a bit of nostalgia, a nicely written (I think) article about Seven Bridges Road.
Actually, there are bunch more. There is some good stuff on that site. You should check it out.
So, they are doing more than just posting requests on Perfect Duluth Day, but your suggestions and this site in general are, in fact, a great resource for this community.
…by the way, do any of you have suggestions on what I should teach next week? I could use some ideas. Oh, that’s right, I’ve got a guest speaker from Perfect Duluth Day (seriously) coming to class. Thank goodness.
What? Really? You still make people get a key from you to use the toilet? Really?
I don’t use convenience store toilets very often, so I’m no expert, but I do use them from time to time and I must say it’s been quite a few years since I’ve had to get a key from the cashier. I thought that practice died long ago.
Well, today the Plaza SuperAmerica reacquainted me with ol’ procedure. And the key wasn’t attached to a small piece of wood or a plastic tag; it was attached to a friggen Frisbee.
So, what am I supposed to do when I get inside, since I can’t put the key in my pocket? Am I supposed to wrestle my dork out with one hand? Because there’s no surface wide enough to set this key down except in the middle of the sink, on the floor or balanced on the door handle. I could maybe wedge it into the condom machine, but if it falls out it’ll land in the toilet.
Am I too much of a germaphobe or are restroom keys disgusting?