on Dunedin Ave. that had all those styrofoam tombstones in the yard at Halloween? Well, we don’t do that anymore. But we did collect all those punny names and epitaphs and put them together on a website that I’d like to share with you. NameThatTomb.com

Feel free to submit your own ideas. Join the graveyard!

choice items:
PA Speakers – $300
Roland VS-890 24 bit digital workstation – $250 – SOLD
Edirol powered studio monitors – $100 – SOLD
American Telecaster (sunburst) – $700
Lots of misc. recording gear
Men’s & women’s clothing & shoes
Dining room table

The Miss West Duluth Pageant is being held tonight. An annual tradition that goes along with this event is me trying to stir up controversy about it.

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Remember that dazzling group of tumblers? They just randomly somersaulted into the nostalgia part of my brain this morning. I can’t remember anymore why the group disbanded. Did the coach move away or something?

MPR story from 2001 here

From the Duluth News Tribune website: The top searched item is “Hells Angles.”

Hells Angels = badass bikers

Hells Angles = badass mathematicians?

But in observance of Bastille Day (yesterday) here is a great little piece of animation and music.

Oldelaf – le Café

Duluth Bayfront Blues Fest 2009 | August 7, 8, 9.

Who are you looking forward to seeing this year?

Anybody have any suggestions on must see artists this year?

Duluth Bayfront Blues Fest 2009

To view 2009 performance lineup on both stages click continue reading below.

Website: www.bayfrontblues.com/
Bayfront Blues Festival Lodging Availability
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A friend told me that show time for the Meat Puppets tomorrow night is now 10pm instead of the previously advertised 8pm. Does anyone know what’s going on? Is Retribution Gospel Choir on at 8 followed by the Puppets or does the whole show start at 10?

Thanks.

Mark your calendar – July 25 – new local art fair at the College of St. Scholastica

Stopover at Woman-Made: Marvelous Things Created by Northland Women on July 25.
This Art & Quality Craft Fair will be held on the last Saturday in July from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the College of St. Scholastica, Somers Lounge, 1200 Kenwood Ave.. in Duluth

This summer event (indoors, so it doesn’t matter what the weather is) will offer locals and tourists a spectacular place to shop for one-of a kind and handcrafted items made by over 25 local artists – all women.

Local made pottery, photography, artwork, clothing, sewn items, calendars, soap, water color art, fiber, books, as well as jewelry. It’s fun to see what moves people and the creativity flow that is alive and well in the Northland. Women-made items are a definite part of the businesses up here in the region and hand-made. Come to the fair and purchase plenty items to take home for yourself or as gifts.

A portion of the vendor fees will be donated to the YWCA Girl Power program.

Wendy
www.greygreen.org/duluthfairs

Lost Cat

My wife and I found this cat in a parking lot along (ironically) Garfield Ave last night. I just brought him to the animal shelter. He was super-friendly and had been de-clawed and neutered. He’s mostly black, with a white chin and “socks” on all four feet. Figured I’d post because I know if I’d lost one of my cats I’d want someone to do the same. At the very least I hope he’s re-adopted.

I am trying to organize a group of follks to go down to City Hall on Friday and take advantage of the Domestic Partnership Registry.  Both same sex and opposite sex couples are encouraged to join us.  If this is of any interest to you please let me know.

In what is perhaps a new low for the Duluth News Tribune, the DNT’s website just posted its first-ever “DNTV Special Report” in which Executive Editor Rob Karwath basically reads the paper’s earlier story about last night’s murder in Duluth’s Central Hillside, apparently as an excuse to show what did not run in either the newspaper or on the website’s text version of the story: a photograph of the crime scene with large pools of the victim’s blood.

In the video, Karwath narrates as the photo appears not just once, but over and over again, interspersed with other photos from the crime scene. Apparently, it is unethical to print the victim’s name at this sensitive time for his friends and family. But it is perfectly OK to showcase photos of the blood that came out of his fatally damaged head.

In addition to the DNTV piece, which at least does not allow comments, there is the text story, which unfortunately has comments open. At the time of this posting, there are 43 comments, which vacillate between racist, asinine comments about the type of person who lives in Duluth’s Central Hillside, and commentary about the shocking disrespect which is allowed to run rampant in our hometown’s newspaper of record.

I ask this, openly of everyone involved with the DNT and the news media in general: Is this how you would have handled this story if the victim were one of your own loved ones? Do you actually think that any of this is ethical?

I’d also like to know what the PDD community thinks of this specific issue. People bitch about the DNT on this site frequently, and even sometimes unfairly. But on this specific topic, I’d like to know what people think.

Personally, I think it’s disgusting. I would link to the video for you, but that would only give them exactly what they are transparently after.

To the Mr. or Miss. who put this note on my car window Thursday night / Friday morning … you’ve got the wrong VW Golf.

Man this note leaves a lot of questions…

Lake Superior Port Cities Inc., publishers of Lake Superior Magazine, will host an Open House on July 16 to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Refreshments will be served during the Open House from 3 to 7 p.m. in the magazine offices at 310 E. Superior St.

There will be drawings for door prizes and those who attend can enter the “Subscription-a-Day” drawings that will continue through August 30. There will also be a Grand Prize drawing, valued at more than $300, awarded on August 31.

The Commemorative Issue of Lake Superior Magazine, which includes a special fold-out poster of a photo by Jay Steinke, will be available at the event and on newsstands shortly afterward.

Those who can’t attend the Open House, but would like to enter the drawings, may drop in any time before the end of August.

Ninety percent of all magazine startups do not survive their first decade, so Lake Superior Magazine plans more than a month’s worth of celebrating . . . that makes it a good time to drop by the office and share the excitement.

For more information, call 888-BIG-LAKE (888-244-5253) or log on to www.lakesuperior.com.

Tuesday, July 14
12 noon

Brown Bag Lunch Lecture with representatives from the Marshall Alworth Planetarium

FREE

Slip away from work and learn a thing or two about the universe. Join staff from the Alworth Planetarium as they guide you through an exploration of your planetary neighborhood.

I’m looking for a leisurely afternoon or evening, weekly or monthly, Texas hold ‘em game in the Duluth area. I love the game.

sidewayseight @ charter.net

er..yeah mom, be sure to knock next time.
excerpted from this master piece .

First time canoeing on the Brule River. Stones Bridge landing to Highway 2.

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Three recent observations on the “greening of Duluth” Or green positioning, anyway.

Note: Over the last couple of days I have realized that the things we do and say online really matter, even if it’s just meant as a fun tirade or rant, the tone can be very easily misinterpreted and send a distorted message. I think that happened with this post. I have taken out almost all of my own notes and commentary as they obviously missed the mark and were possibly misleading. Plus, all along, even as I was planning this, I really wanted the focus on the images, anyway. Words got in the way.

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During the month of July, it has become my good fortune to be able to share my art with a wider audience. The venue is The Venue @ Mohaupt, which includes offices and a nice large room for art openings and other special events. Thanks to the invitation of Martin Sawinksi (3Five Designs), who is a strong supporter of the creative arts in Duluth, more that 130 original pieces are now installed.

The paintings, drawings and mixed media pieces will be at 2024 West Superior Street thru the end of July. A special Open House will be held on Tuesday, July 21, from 6 – 9 pm and all lovers of the arts are welcome.

First Hand Experiences is primarily a presentation of recent paintings and drawings in the modernist style, but includes a variety of pieces from my early development. My first art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art in my early elementary school years established patterns of observation that have remained with me to this day. The show is both fun and, at times I hope, thought provoking.

For more info, visit http://www.facebook.com/thevenueduluth?ref=ts

Since much of my work has been created for the purpose of illustrating my blog, you might want to check that out, too, and catch a glimpse of a few things that are currently hanging at The Venue.

Tim, good interview with Jason Davis “On the Road.”

Full Story here:
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S1022431.shtml?cat=206

Get your monster on and support Nukewatch with DJ Focus. 10pm. Come as your favorite mutant or biologist. The bar is mixing up glowing martinis, and we’ll have a toxic barrel photo booth and prizes for most creative, most realistic and most uncomfortable costumes. Freewill donations at the door will help Nukewatch raise hell about the military waste in Lake Superior.

My girlfriend just got back from traveling around Guatemala. I’m really glad to have her back and all, but it seems that while she was there, she dropped my ipod into a limestone pool and fried it. However, like a great girlfriend, she bought me a brand spanking new 120g Ipod when she returned home. I suggested that we share the Ipod, since my old Powerbook only has 80g of memory as it is and we both have a lot of music.

Here’s the problem, pt. 1: she has a PC and I have a Mac. This means we can only have the Ipod hooked up to one of our computers. My solution was to have all of her music store on an external hard drive that we could connect to my laptop, but I’m not sure if Itunes recognizes those songs and allows them to be put onto an Ipod without adding them to your library and, thus, my Powerbook’s hard drive.

Is there some simple solution that I am over looking here (besides getting a laptop with a larger hard drive, which isn’t all that simple)?

Any help would be much appreciated.

It is a dual recital featuring:

Trumpet – Blake Peterson
Clarinet – Louise Buckley

at the Pilgrim Congregational Church (4th St & 23rd Ave E)
7:30pm Friday July, 10th (tonight!)
FREE!

Because you don’t have anything better to do on a Sunday night at 7pm.  $12 cover.   And also because Bev needs YOU.

The 51st Annual Duluth International Rowing Regatta is this Saturday, July 11. We expect about 300 athletes from around the Upper Midwest and Canada to be competing in one of the best regattas of the season.

The ‘best seats in the house’ are at the start line out in the water! We need volunteers to take two hour shifts out on each of the ‘stake boats’ to hold the bow of one of the rowing shells as they line up to start.

If you know of anyone willing to come down and spend two hours out on a small dock watching the excitement of the rowing races please have them contact below. We will get them signed up for a shift.

Debra McLaughlin,
Duluth Rowing Club
Phone: 218-590-1891
E-mail: nlcst@charter.net

Anyone interested in seeing some great rowing races please come down to Park Point to the Duluth Rowing Club at 3900 Minnesota Ave.

Myself, another father, and 4 kids are planning a trip to Voyageurs National Park in early August. Any advice on entry point, camp sites, places of interest, etc. would be appreciated.

I took a walk through downtown Duluth yesterday around 5am and was struck by the ambient smells that a lot of buildings give off when there are no competing smells coming from cars, people, etc.

• The Kozy Bar & Apartments smells like stale booze. This should surprise no one.
• Pizza Lucé smells like stale cigarettes. This isn’t exactly surprising, but disappointing. You want it to smell like their delicious pizza. It’s hard to say which smells worse — the Kozy or Lucé. I guess that’s open to interpretation.
• Angela’s Bella Flora is the best-smelling building in the downtown area.

You are invited to an Open House and unveiling of the YWCA Herstory Wall highlighting 116 years of perseverance by area women.

The permanent museum quality display is on exhibit at the new administration offices of the YWCA at the Building for Women, 32 E First St.

Please join our Board and Staff for tours of our new offices as well. Hors d’ oeuvres will be served.

Thursday, July 16, 3:30-6PM

Admission is free.