Fun workout helping out: Sat 6/27
Hi
We need a few volunteers on our next food distribution day for our 100% volunteer-run non-profit food buying club. The semi will come to the Mariner Mall in Superior over by the theatres on Saturday June 27 at 8:30 AM. It takes about 45 min to unload the pallets and bring them into the storefront we use that day. The produce assortment is then pre-packed into recycled plastic grocery bags for distribution that afternoon. All said, it would be 2 hours of service. Other volunteers, many who are seniors and cannot lift boxes of food, come in around 10:30 to prepare orders to be delivered to senior apt buildings and other homebound people, as well as 300 other households who come to the Mall to pick up their order. SHARE is open to everyone– no age or income requirements. Anyone interested in helping??
Karen
Grace Press Design Cards Now at the Duluth Farmer’s Market
Lovely and Unique Grace Press Design Cards are for sale at the Duluth Farmers Market (14th Ave E and 3rd St) on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7:00a.m.-12:00. Local designer Sara Curwin’s mindful designs and hand embellished paperkraft assure to delight your every occasion greetings! It is always great fun at the Market!
Organics
I wish to educate Duluthians on the importance of eating organic and would like to show people who are already eating organic a great resource that can help give you more of a selection of USDA certified organic foods because as you know (or should know) all (so called) ORGANICS are not created equal. Would anyone be interested in a meeting in Duluth on organics and a free organic food tasting? If I get enough people interested I will find a place to hold it or if you would like to host it in your home you can get some organic food free! Please let me know if you just want more info. Thanks, Vicki
Will to Murder event at Glensheen
Wednesday, June 24 the publisher and authors of Will to Murder will launch the fourth edition of their book at Glensheen, the historic Congdon estate.
Two seatings are being offered at the following times:
First seating 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Second seating 8 – 9:30 p.m.
Each seating is $20 per person in advance and $25 at the door. Friends of Glensheen are offered a discounted rate of $15.
Please call (218) 726-8910 for tickets
Guys and Dolls Jr. at the Duluth Playhouse
The Duluth Playhouse presents “Guys and Dolls Jr.,” an evening of song, dance and fun for families! You remember the song “Luck Be a Lady,” right? Well, this is that show! It’s presented by the children’s theater summer intensive camp on the playhouse’s main stage, and the cast is all kids.
Thursday & Friday, June 25-26 at 7 p.m.;
Saturday, June 27 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.;
Sunday, June 28 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: call 218-733-7555 or visit www.duluthplayhouse.org.
Students: $7 Adults: $9
Only five shows!
Father’s Day
Some father’s day notes …
I read this great book (above) to my daughter at the dentist’s office yesterday. Working with fathers for my “real” job, I notice these things like how medical offices are decorated and set up, many are very friendly to mothers (great), but some are a little daunting for dads (too bad). It’s wonderful that in addition to providing great quality and accessible health care, the Lake Superior Community Health Center also makes an extra little effort like this to make dads feel comfortable and welcome at their kids’ appointments.
I read a lot of books for kids and adults about dads, this book was really great I had never seen it before. I think it would make a good father’s day gift for a dad of school age kids, or one who appreciates crafty art like Steve Jenkins’ paper cut images in the book ….
Did Marilyn Manson rip off Bone Appetit?
People are speculating that “Running to the End of the World,” a song off Marilyn Manson’s latest album “The High End of Low,” bears an uncanny resemblance to our beloved hometown heroes’ seminal ballad, “Drive Away.” Stick with this story: Controversy (and hilarity) are bound to ensue.
Duluth Art Institute presents Smithsonian Institution’s Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 18th from 5-7pm
Free and open to the public
Grab a friend and come to the Depot (506 W Michigan St. Duluth) for a rarely seen and mesmerizing portrait of our solar system’s diverse worlds and their moons.
Oldschool.
Bain News Service photo c. 1913
Pretty sporty. Reminiscent of Soviet combat snowmobiles in basic concept.
coming august 09
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jr0Sr_O6oY
website will be up soon but if interested in staying on top of what is coming up at the new twin cinema, become a fan of the zinema 2 facepage.
Park Point tunnels?
I don’t know if this has been addressed here before because I just discovered the site. I’ve heard the urban legend about a tunnel under Park Point that was used during prohibition to smuggle Canadian spirits into the Twin Ports, avoiding the usual protocol involved in bringing them in through the Superior or Duluth entries. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?
My proposal: Superior-to-Skyline Run
It’s Grandma’s Marathon week, so runners will be flooding into town for the long, rolling race along the shore of Lake Superior. It’s an iconic setting and an iconic race.
I’ve wondered a few times since moving here, though, if there should be another iconic running race in Duluth, one that celebrates another facet of Duluth like Grandma’s celebrates the lake. My proposal: A run from the shore of Lake Superior to the top of the hill. Call it the “Superior-to-Skyline Run.” Short, simple and steep. Let’s start crowning Duluth’s Kings (and Queens) of the Hill.
RIAA In Duluth
Ars Technica coverage of the trail can be found here.
Free Chamber Music Concert
Sacred Heart Music Center will play host to part of the Three Bridges International Chamber Music Festival with a free concert on Tuesday June 16 at 7:30 pm.
I have had the pleasure of recording all of the concerts during this festival and have been very impressed by the quality of the participants. Some world class players are involved and hearing them play in the acoustical space of Sacred Heart should be a treat. Even if you aren’t normally a classical music fan you owe it to yourself to check out this show.
Postcard from First Street
This is one of the ways I see the city I love. I saw the shoes hanging from the wire, the clock tower, and that brilliant blue sky and I needed a picture. (more…)
Children’s Items – Rummage Sale
Friends of UMD Children’s Place is holding a rummage sale. Avoid the Park Point chaos this Saturday, June 13 from 9-3 at 136 West Anoka St. (Directions: Arrowhead to Woodland. Left (North) on Woodland. Left on Anoka.) We have Children’s Items Only!
- Tons of clothing for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool aged kids
- Toys of all kinds
- Strollers, slings, carriers
- Booster seats, potty chairs, baby bath tubs, diaper pails
- Lots more!
Many familes have donated items, and all profits will be dontated to the UMD Children’s Place. Items are priced to sell and most merchandise will be 50% off after 2pm. Come check us out!
Who, what, when, where, why and Howard
I have some questions about various “Howards” in the Duluth area, and I’m hoping someone on PDD can provide the answers:
1. What is/was the “Old Howard Mill” referred to in Old Howard Mill Road?
2. Why does Old Howard Mill Road have two parts so far apart (see Google map excerpt above)? One segment is north of Glenwood Street, and the other is across the Northland Country Club and a bit farther, in what would be… the Congdon neighborhood? Hunters Park? Not quite sure. In any case, why the gap? They don’t even seem to line up.
3. Howard Gnesen Road: It goes up to Gnesen Township, so that half makes sense (Gnesen Township was named for a city in Poland, by the way). But what does the Howard refer to? Is there a connection to the Old Howard Mill?
I think that exhausts my Howard question file. Can anyone out there provide some info?
You Gotta Go
It’s quilters vs. poets in the ultimate face-off in Duluth. This weekend, see the po-po-poetry take on the stitch-stitch-stitchers in what promises to be a fight to the death. Watch as quilting bees are disrupted with spoken word jams with gangs from each side rumbling over the merits of hands-on artistry vs. word assembly. It’s tactile vs. fragile. Quilts against quatrains.
It all starts Thursday when the heavyweights of QuiltCon and PoCon square off. Beatrice Ludden takes on Rainbow Star. Val Struthers takes her needle against Will Strom’s pen.
It all leads to the ultimate showdown Saturday night when the machines take center stage for an inhumane stand-off: Stitcher 2000 vs. Thesaurus Rex. Be there as lines and threads are crossed with any means necessary to come out on top.
It’s all at the DECC, and in the alleys after dark. Take a stitch in rhyme and see this mixed arts extravaganza melee. Limited engagement, only in Duluth.
Rebooting without Consent
Umm, yeah…
Windows Vista decided to reboot my system without my consent mid-game (Yes I’m a late night gamer geek). So let’s look at this for a second. What if I were running a 2 hour crunching program, or working on an important spreadsheet? No terrible offense, MS, but your promises are half-assed.
BTW, do you have those TPS reports done?
Looking for an apartment
If anyone knows of a one-bedroom apartment for rent for either July (preferably) or August please give me a heads up. A decent efficiency or studio would work too. Looking for something east of 6th. Ave. E. $400-600. N/S, no pets OK.
Thanks!
kokes