last time to plug the show that might ruin yer day.

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Rummage sale

-Hundreds of blank and screenprinted t-shirts
-Polos, sweatshirts, jackets, etc.
- Lots of Boy Scout Licensed apparel and accessories

All Brand New! Priced to Sell

- office supplies and promotional products
- mugs/water bottles
- fun toys and knick-knacks

Come check us out Wed. Aug 19 – Fri. Aug 21 between 10am-4pm everyday

Located behind our offices on 3907 Grand Ave Duluth, MN 55807

Farmers Market at UMD

EVERY WEDNESDAY 2:00-4:30

UMD Kirby Plaza Bus Hub

LOCAL Produce, Music and Artisans!

Contact:

Leah Nelson

nels5131@d.umn.edu

218.940.2138

Ride the Bus or Park for FREE in Lot E!

Campus Map: http://www.d.umn.edu/parking/lots.html

Help us out by VOTING for our Market at: http://www.care2.com/farmersmarket/30208/?refer=13297.14.1245772756.765564

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Ten year’s ago, the hottest chainsaw-weilding band in the country played at Stargate in Superior. For some reason I held on to the poster, even though I did not attend. I did see Jackyl open for Damn Yankees at the DECC in 1992, however.

Did anyone see the Soup Town show? Anyone? Anyone?

Music & Lyrics by: William Finn
Book by: William Finn and James Lapine
Directed by: Andy Bennett

Packed with show-stopping numbers by two-time Tony Award winner William Finn, this funny, touching and powerful musical follows Gordon Schwinn, a composer for a small-time children’s show with dreams of being a big-time composer on Broadway. Currently standing in his way is a lack of ambition, a serious case of writer’s block, and some fluid in his brain that’s trying to kill him. As family and friends flock to his bedside, Gordon racks his ailing brain for a song that might live on after he’s gone.

August 13-15, 20-22 & 27-29 | 8:00pm
Teatro Zuccone: 222 E. Superior St. in Downtown Duluth

$15 Adults | $12 Students/Seniors

Call 218-336-1414 for tickets or visit renegadecomedytheatre.com

Sponsored by Republic Bank, SMDC and Blackwater Lounge

Click for more info..

My boys are fascinated with this discovery they made last night at Brighton Beach.  Our bedtime talk was filled with the possibilities of the other worlds that just might lie at the other end of a tunnel. 

Do you have a favorite culvert in Duluth?  I think we have more exploring to do.

I’ll start. Here ya go. I set the bar low. Go ahead. Jump over it.

OK, kids, it’s time for another PDD contest. The rules for this one are simple.

1) Take the boring image above and doctor it up. Alter it. Manipulate it. Make it something special. Please feel free to use Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, MS-Paint, ImageBuddy, or whatever software you desire to enhance the photo. Heck – print it out, draw on it with markers, and scan it back in for all we care. Just have fun.

2) E-mail your image to contest@perfectduluthday.com by 11:59pm next Sunday, August 16.

The prize is two tickets to see Suzanne Vega at Big Top Chautauqua on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 8:15pm.

We’ll post the winner here next Wednesday morning, along with any honorable mentions.

[a higher resolution version of the photo is available here]

I’m looking for a lead on a 2-3 bedroom apartment or house meeting the following criteria: (1) within 10 minute walk to CSS or (2) along direct bus route (i.e. no transfers). I need the lease through 2009, possibly extending month by month into 2010. email me directly: recovery at css.edu

It started for me today. Anyone else?

My favorite remedies are sleeping 12 hours a day and eating every second that I’m awake. Snorting cromolyn sodium also helps.

Read and discuss.

FB.

People may complain about crime in Duluth, but it appears our sister city to the north is having a really, really bad year.

According to Thunder Bay’s daily newspaper, the Chronicle Journal, the city just recorded its sixth homicide of the year. And we’re only in August. That may give Thunder Bay the highest per-capita murder rate in Canada.

I love visiting up there, but… yikes.

…and after some exciting bowling – everyone is welcome to attend the musical festivities.

Danger Strangers are from CA, Captain Black from TN, High Life and Cars & Trucks represent the home team

Duluth native Frank “Butch” Larson appeared on Wheaties cereal boxes in 1935. Finding one of those boxes after 74 years might be a challenge.

I began my search by calling Suzy Goodsell, manager of internal communications and archives for General Mills.

“We don’t have the box,” she said. “We don’t have an image of the box, we don’t have a microfiche … we just don’t have it.”

Goodsell noted that Larson wasn’t on the cover. She said athletes were featured on the backs of boxes until 1950.

“If you come up with anybody who has it, we would be very interested in getting at least a scan of the package just to be able to add to our collection,” she said. “We kind of pride ourselves on having most of the boxes through the years … especially the Wheaties, there’s some early ones that just got missed and we don’t have that particular one.”

Larson graduated from Denfeld High School in 1930 and went on to star as an end for the Minnesota Gophers. His team was the undefeated National Champion in 1934. (The photo above was shot outside Denfeld in the fall of 1929 and appeared in the 1930 Denfeld Oracle.)

Coinsidentally, General Mills recently purchased a suite at the new TCF Bank Stadium where the Gophers are expected to play this fall, so archivists had just looked for the Larson box when I asked about it.

“We pulled all of the Wheaties packages that had anything to do with Minnesota Gopher football or any athlete that attended the University of Minnesota. We just did this yesterday, and we have several from the ’30s, but not Frank Larson. I just had a researcher go back and double check and she said it’s one of the ones we don’t have.”

So, is it out there somewhere? Perhaps time will tell.

“It’s likely someone has it stashed in their garage,” Goodsell said. “Who knows?”

This man has had an enormous impact on my life, I’m a little speechless so won’t even try. We’re playing 16 Candles tomorrow at MITP, just so you know. Wanna come down and celebrate that life/grieve a little with us?

Rainn Wilson (who plays Dwight on NBC’s “The Office”) recently alerted his nearly two million followers on Twitter that he found Dink Tank’s “total devotion to McConnaughy (sic) and “Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past,” Hysterical.”

So, just in case you missed it the first time we posted it, here’s the video again. This time with a fresh smelling seal of approval from a guy we think is pretty damn hysterical too. In fact, way more so.

Matthew McCounaghey\’s Biggest Fans…Dink Tank

I was contacted by a very nice Brazilian girl named Mariana who wants to continue her high school education here in Duluth for 2009-2010 school year. She was an exchange student at Mesabi East last year, and did very well. Unfortunately, the visa she was on last year expired and cannot be renewed. She can come back on a different visa to attend a SEVIS-qualified high school (i.e. Marshall or any Duluth Public School), but she needs a host family. A stipend for the host family is part of the deal. If you can help, or know someone who can, please contact me by e-mail: nbs @ twinportslaw.com, or phone 625-8765. Thanks very much!

Three kids are playing or doing whatever in their backyard. I can’t see them, I can only hear them because they’re all yelling at each other.

Suddenly, the voice of what is likely the father drowns them all out with, “You better shutup all that screamin’!”

I’m not questioning this parenting method at all; I’m just telling the story as a fan of irony.

(Additional irony is that this follows the “Peaceful Waves” post. Serenity now!)

Peaceful Waves off of Wisconsin Point

Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009
7-9 p.m., Barnes & Noble at Miller Hill Mall

Northland CORE hosts “Homeschooling Information Night” and will lead a discussion with experienced homeschooling parents. Topics will include Minnesota laws, registering students with local school districts, methods of homeschooling, testing, support groups or whatever else comes up! www.northlandcore.org

they got the digits wrong though..it’s 103.3 not 100.3
7 to 9 p.m. every wednesday on KUMD…

apologies for the self-promotion but i am not sure who else is gonna promote this nonsense.

cheers!
tim

This house at 738 N. Central Ave. in West Duluth was ripped down yesterday to make way for the new Laura MacArthur Elementary School. I think the new school will be great, and I have no particular reason to be sentimental about this house or any of the others on the block, but there’s something that punches me in the gut when I watch a house get smashed to bits. (more…)

Friends of the Duluth Public Library
Annual Grand Used Book Sale

Aug 18-21, 2009

Come get bargain books, DVDs, videos, CDs, vinyl and more at the annual book sale held at the Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St. Hours for the sale are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Aug 19 and 20 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the bag sale on Friday, Aug 21. The sale is open to Friends members only on Tuesday, Aug 18 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. There will be a special handicap-accessible shopping time from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Wed, Aug. 19. Book categories include children’s books, fiction, biographies, cookbooks, nature, and much more. People can join Friends at the book fair or on-line at www.duluth.lib.mn.us/CS/Friends.html.

A silent auction will be held on the library upper level during the book fair and will have rare and unique books.

On Saturday, Aug 22, there will be a Book Fair at the Barnes & Noble at the Miller Hill Mall. Purchases made on that day will help to raise funds for the Friends of Library. The support voucher can be picked up at the book sale, at the library, or on-line at www.duluth.lib.mn.us/CS/Friends.html.

Farmers Market at UMD
Every Wednesday 2-4:30
UMD Kirby Plaza Bus Hub
Local Produce, Music and Artisans! (more…)