Baby, it's cold outside! Doesn't a heaping plate of pasta, with either vegetarian sauce donated by Chester Creek Cafe or a meat sauce donated by Pickwick, sound delicious right now? You're in luck! The Grant School 4th Graders have been working hard all year to raise funds to send the entire class (43 kids and a few brave adult chaperones, not including me) to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in March. The class is hosting a spaghetti dinner fundraiser Friday evening, from 5-9 pm at Peace Church. The spaghetti dinner will be served from 5-7 pm, and from 7-9 pm, there's going to be some amazing entertainment, including storytelling by Elizabeth Nordell, and a performance by the band "Clear," with special guest Rudy Perrault, from UMD's music department. This is a great thing, you can feed your tummy, and contribute to a good cause, all at the same time. And it beats having to buy those damn candy bars my kid has been peddling. . . .

Posted by CK at 05:46 PM | Permalink | 0 comments
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Been trying to run my guitar through my computer. I've a USB interface (M-audio) but still getting annoying latency, reading about it seems to suggest I need a new, better soundcard. Does anyone have a good recommendation for something that may work but be relatively inexpensive? (Windows, XP)

Posted by edgeways at 04:23 PM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by edgeways
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Posted by adam at 03:05 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by mevdev
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A photo that pretty much speaks for itself:

DNT | Grandma's Brag Book | January 30, 2008

That kid's got some serious 'tude.

Posted by Barrett at 11:38 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by benajnim
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Posted by clip at 11:35 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by jamie
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Our friend Dean took this a few days ago, shortly before leaving Antarctica:
"Clouds from open ocean of McMurdo Sound spill into the eastern reaches of Victoria Valley." [map].

Posted by The Big E at 07:10 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by zra.
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Sorry I had to drag you into this.

Posted by Kokes at 03:56 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by The Professor
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Was watching Wrongfully Accused last night and aside from it taking place in Minnesota there's a scene where Leslie Nielsen is getting on a prison bus to get hauled away and everyone is given name tags and someone has one that says 'the Duluth Strangler'.

Looked it up on Google but nothing came up. Anyone know anything about....The Duluth Strangler?

Posted by sharksattack at 02:28 PM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by McNixon
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Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Annual Memorial Lecture 2008

“Foreign Policy Development and Presidential Candidates”
Presented by Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale
Thursday, January 31, 2008
1:30 p.m. in the Weber Music Hall, UMD
Overflow seating in the Singer Room
Free and open to the public!
Free reception following lecture

Chancellor Kathryn A. Martin and the Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International Studies proudly present a lecture by former U.S. Vice President and U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale on Thursday, January 31 at 1:30 p.m. in the UMD Weber Music Hall. Mondale's speech, titled "Foreign Policy Development and Presidential Candidates", is the Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Annual Memorial Lecture 2008.

Walter Mondale, drawing upon his vast political experience, will explore the foreign policy problems that the United States is experiencing in a turbulent world. Reviewing the pluses and minuses of working alone versus working with others, Mondale will evaluate the foreign policy stance taken by leading contenders in the race for the presidential nominations. More information about Walter Mondale can be found at the UMD News webpage, http://www.d.umn.edu/news/2008/January/08-A.html.

There is also an article about the lecture in today's DNT.

Posted by Purple at 10:06 AM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by purple
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CHESTERTON, IN: Single-digit temperatures brought a scene right out of the movie "A Christmas Story" to two students at Jackson Elementary School on Friday morning.

The two fourth-grade boys, who served flag duty to raise and lower the flag for the school, stuck their tongues to the flagpole and spent the rest of the day in pain and embarrassment.

"The nurse called us and said the boys' tongues were bleeding," said Billie Dempsey, mother of Gavin Dempsey, who celebrated his 10th birthday Friday.

"The nurse asked them, 'OK, who double-dog dared who?' But they weren't admitting to what they did and said they just bit their tongues. When she told me there were a couple of layers taken off, I thought, 'Oh no, he's on flagpole duty,'" Dempsey said.

When she arrived at the school, her son admitted to what he did.

"My tongue still sort of hurts from what I did. I decided to try it because I thought all of the TV shows were lies, but turns out I was wrong," Gavin Dempsey said.

Karen Alexander, mother of James Alexander, laughs when asked about the event.

"I thought it was pretty silly of him. I asked him where he got the idea, and he said 'The Christmas Story.' I can't believe he did it, but they learned their lesson," she said.

James said he plans on eating a lot of ice cream to help nurse his wound.

"When you're young, you're just messing around," he said.

Billie Dempsey said the school nurse could not recall having an injury like this at the school.

"You don't think your own kid would do something like this," she said with a laugh.

Posted by tamara at 09:35 PM | Permalink | 10 comments, last by jamie
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ahhh I love winter school cancelations

Posted by baci at 12:54 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by edgeways
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Only 10 minutes left in my shift, but I had time to skim through this useful site: GovernmentAttic.org.
Lots of government documents, including the often hillarious FCC complaints - check out this gem someone called in on the Simpsons.

Posted by Bad Cat! at 10:53 PM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by Lucie B.
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the hog damage collective has a couple of lovely practice rooms for rent in our spacious complex. $250 pays all the bills. covered garage load in on the first floor. convenient locale. infinite networking possibilities with some of duluth's finest/ne'er do well musicians. this could be the big break your band has been looking for. don't be a fool. email me.

gregcougar@gmail

Posted by GREG COUGAR CONLEY at 08:49 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by adam
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How long?

Posted by ironic1 at 08:07 PM | Permalink | 4 comments, last by BCookie
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Posted by dubz at 07:43 PM | Permalink | 1 comment by tamara
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Has anyone ever used the service www.couchsurfing.com? We're doing a trip to the UK in March and we're looking for the best way to save money while also meeting locals. With the current exchange rate, it's expensive to even stay in a hostel. I saw a few Duluthians listed on the site but wanted to see if anyone had firsthand experience.

Posted by they once called me king neal at 05:03 PM | Permalink | 9 comments, last by Anne
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State of MN Caucus finder: http://caucusfinder.sos.state.mn.us.

Posted by adam at 04:21 PM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by tamara
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I had to do it. These are very limited edition. Available only at.

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Sometimes you can just tell when absolutely no preperation was put into an episode. This is one of those times. On today's show:
-Lew Latto is a phony
-Peggy Anderson is a mouth-breather
-The Ness's are ugly turds
-Dennis Anderson is a pimp
All this and more! Enjoy!

www.dannydoesduluth.com
or
www.lewlattolive.com

Posted by DannyDoesDuluth at 12:14 PM | Permalink | 11 comments, last by Johnny Rodd
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A great friend with awesome dogs needs a rental this June/July of 08. Anyone have suggestions? she can be emailed at machoism@hotmail.com. I know one good folks of Duluth can help her out.

Posted by Kitty Brand at 09:14 AM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by tamara
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Under the title: "Is it possible to have a new location for the Kozy or Norshor?"

"...Yes, it could even mean drinking at tables outside of liquor establishments. It means we are allowing serving liquor at restaurants, liquor stores, liquor in strip clubs, and liquor in grocery stores. What’s next? Moving the Cozy and Norshor to Lakeside?"

Ok, so that's straight shill FUD.

Future reference: errant speculation a journalist makes you not. -- "By allowing liquor licenses, we are allowing multiple uses of the licenses. The same license used for the Cozy is used for the Norshor. By passing liquor licenses “wily nilly”, we are inviting multiple liquor licenses in our community. Is this possible?"

• it's spelled Kozy.

• NorShor and Kozy have separate liquor licenses. The Orpheum Nightclub and the NorShor Experience may share the same license, since they are in the same physical building, but I doubt it.

• Duluth is over the state of Minnesota formula for liquor licenses. This is due to the population decline from the 80s. The formula is based on population, but the local municipality has final say about issuing more or less licenses.

• Don't confuse bar/restaurant liquor licenses and liquor stores.

• Stop watching the Dateline with Stone Phillips, it makes all you old bats paranoid and disoriented: "Will businesses be putting bars on the windows in the future?"
  

That said, you can think whatever you want about the Liquor in Lakeside issue. Just don't say dumb things that are not true. Send your thoughts to the city council: council [at] duluthmn [dot] gov.

Posted by adam at 04:44 PM | Permalink | 92 comments, last by The Duluth Policeco Department
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A cute little otter chewing on a fish near the deck at Fitger's on Saturday at around 2:30pm...

Posted by Toneman at 12:00 AM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by tamara
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Blowing bubbles for the pretty mermaids...

The pretty mermaids in the "live" diorama...

Posted by Toneman at 11:18 PM | Permalink | 9 comments, last by tamara
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Posted by tamara at 05:04 PM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by tamara
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With respect to Mr Bowie, I couldn't locate a vid clip, but this audio should suffice...

Posted by in.dog.neato at 08:36 AM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by tamara
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I going to go out and look at things .
I think we should do a solar intersection at Lake and Superior includeing one of those trees. We should do it with DCB and DS . You know right with left . We could do it with music

Posted by Frank at 08:58 PM | Permalink | 13 comments, last by tamara
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We put our gingerbread house on the back deck for critters to eat, and this pine marten hopped up to it today. We live in Duluth, not far from Hartley Field.
Now I'm thinking I should scrape off all the candy.

Posted by Beverly at 07:59 PM | Permalink | 17 comments, last by tamara
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[via MNSpeak] I present to you the isolated David Lee Roth vocal track from "Runnin' With The Devil."

Enjoy.

Posted by Starfire at 11:40 AM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by tamara
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Hey, folks! Chris Correia from Duluth Solutions here. I'm looking for folks to discuss books online on the Duluth Solutions discussion forum.

Are you part of an existing club or group which currently meets face to face and is interested in, or willing to, expand your discussion to include other people online? Are you someone who is interested in connecting online to discuss books with others?

I'll set up a specific discussion board on Duluth Solutions for each book that clubs/groups/people want to discuss. My hope is that people are interested in expanding discussion of books and ideas to a broader group than those people with whom we naturally or usually associate.

Contact me at chris@duluthsolutions.com if you are interested or have any questions

Posted by Chris Correia at 10:40 AM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by tamara
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Posted by Barrett at 02:00 AM | Permalink | 12 comments, last by tamara
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"Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."

--Anonymous [08.01.21]

It's nice to see those wacky guys at the CDC and their friends are still keeping up the good fight.

Posted by adam at 03:57 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by tamara
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Posted by adam at 03:52 PM | Permalink | 8 comments, last by tamara
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Via Blogumentary.

[P.S. He's OK.]

Posted by Barrett at 03:29 AM | Permalink | 9 comments, last by tamara
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Posted by ian at 04:52 PM | Permalink | 26 comments, last by tamara
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What's everyone doing this weekend?

Posted by Barrett at 11:50 AM | Permalink | 19 comments, last by tamara
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Did you notice those things

Posted by Frank at 11:11 PM | Permalink | 21 comments, last by tamara
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Today on the Duluth News Tribune's website they had a hilarious title for an article. Here is the screenshot.

Posted by SaumZ at 03:34 PM | Permalink | 7 comments, last by ironic1
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I'd like to encourage everyone to support the Duluth Playhouse by going to see "The Trial of Goldilocks," which is running Thursday and Friday evenings this week, two afternoon performances Saturday, and a Sunday afternoon final show. This show is funnier than Cats, and there are some really excellent performances by this city's finest child actors, including my own daughter, half of a chair that Goldilocks sits on and breaks. Pat Castellano and Jean Sramek are directing "The Trial of Goldilocks," so you know it's going to be brilliant!

Posted by CK at 11:54 AM | Permalink | 5 comments, last by ironic1
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Change To Win Minnesota invites you to join with fellow union members and interested parties at the

Duluth Precinct Caucus Training!

Thursday, January 24, 2008
6:00-7:30PM
Duluth Labor Temple Hall A
2002 London Road
Duluth, Minnesota

• Want to go to Precinct Caucuses but don’t know how it works?
• Been to your Caucus but want to learn more about becoming a delegate to the State Convention?

Join us on January 24th where we explain the process and ways for you to make sure we endorse candidates who will stand up for working families!

Call Katie Gulley 651-204-4146 or email katie@changetowinmn.org to RSVP or with questions!

The Change to Win Minnesota unites over 140,000 working Minnesotans. Change to Win Labor Federation was founded in 2005 by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, SEIU, UNITE HERE, UFCW, LIUNA, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and the United Farm Workers. Visit http://www.changetowinmn.org for more information.

Posted by tamara at 11:22 AM | Permalink | 1 comment by ironic1
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Friday, February 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Free
Somers Hall, College of St. Scholastica

Denise Duhamel will read as part of this year's Warner Reading Series at the College of St. Scholastica.

Author of 13 collections of poetry, Duhamel has been hailed as one of poetry's most "raucous and unstoppable young voices." Her poems have been featured in over 50 anthologies, including several of the Best American Poetry series, and have appeared in nearly every significant literary journal published in the United States.

A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Duhamel has received numerous awards for her work. Her most
recent titles are Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh, 2005) and Mille et un sentiments (Firewheel Editions, 2005). She is currently an associate professor of English at Florida International University.

Posted by Paul Lundgren at 10:55 AM | Permalink | 1 comment by ironic1
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Photo of Wesly Ngetich by Sjixxxy.

Story from the DNT.

Posted by Barrett at 02:37 AM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by susan holmes
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holy crap was juno one of the worst movies i've ever seen. if you take take obscure boring indi music, vintage t-shirts, made-up phrases, and a desire to make garden state 2, put them in a blender and pour the said contents onto paper, you basically have the "i'm too cool for you" trite guano that is juno. good god, give me the accents in fargo over the dialogue in juno any day.

please discuss. and feel free to make up your own "hipster" phrases.

Posted by they once called me king neal at 10:03 PM | Permalink | 19 comments, last by silly goose
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Posted by in.dog.neato at 07:58 PM | Permalink | 11 comments, last by ironic1
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/52904685@N00/2146586273/

Posted by Tomasz at 07:44 PM | Permalink | 3 comments, last by ironic1
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One Firkin of Lake Superior Special Ale will be offered for your enjoyment at Hell's Kitchen in Canal Park.
It will be tapped at 4pm Tuesday January 22nd. $3 pints until it's gone. This traditionally made and served beer has been dry hopped with extra Cascade hops.

Posted by dbrewing at 02:33 PM | Permalink | 2 comments, last by ironic1
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Israel announced today that they plan to install 500.000 recharging stations and battery swap stations in the next 18 months for electric cars being made by Renault . Peres sets goal to be over oil in 10 years thru the use of electric cars and solar power

Posted by Frank at 11:08 AM | Permalink | 6 comments, last by ironic1
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Posted by baci at 10:48 AM | Permalink | 12 comments, last by bodycast
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