Somebody tell them to turn down their music at Leif Erickson and/or Bayfront Park. I live above Skyline and it’s been driving me insane. And while they’re at it, get off my lawn.

I know Chester Creek runs UNDER the armory. Why is water running out of this pipe? Is there a stream of water the third floor too? What is the source of this water?

U.S. Poet Laureate for two years, winner of the Pulitzer Prize … yes, tonight is the night you can hear him read for free! Come to Somers Lounge at CSS. The reading starts at 7:30. Free music and refreshments.

Join the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs for the Tea Time silent art auction and open house on Thursday, May 5, from 4-7pm. The silent auction will be held at the Center for Nonviolence at 202 E. Superior St. and will showcase all varieties of local art: felting, rosemaling, print, ceramics, jewelry, photography, paintings, and more! A tea leaf reader will be on hand to tell what your future may hold and many varieties of eclectic teas and gourmet desserts will be available. Spoken word, live music, and stories from adult and child survivors of domestic abuse will be featured throughout the evening. Show your support for this important community resource!

I’m looking for a Duluth-area photographer that wants to go to the Dominican Republic around February 2012. I’m gettin’ hitched down there and need someone who’s willing to eat and drink all they want for a few days and snap some photos of my family, friends, myself and my beautiful wife-to-be. The only qualifications you need are to have experience in professional photography and to know how to keep up with some fun people that want to get down in paradise.  Comment to leave info to set up a meeting i.e. phone number, e-mail, website to your portfolio.

Hey folks, we are playing a last minute gig at R.T. Quinlan’s this Friday night with some neat Twin Cities bands. Aaron Gall and the Likely Story (hopefully the official permanent name) will be headlining the gig with a full lineup including washboard, sax, trombone, accordion and more!

Come check out the hype before we finish up New Band Night on Sunday, May 1, for Homegrown!

Carmody will be releasing their new home brew “Dead Cat Ale” to coincide with Renegade Comedy Theatre’s after show party. So come on down and mingle with stars of the stage, taste the new brew and enjoy some solid American music.

The BBC Orinoco slipped out of Duluth this morning at first light. Was the Ukrainian/Filipino crew concerned about ANOTHER pirate attack? Turns out the same boat and crew were attacked just six months ago on the Arabian Sea.

Lots more details here.

Paging Johnny Depp.

Duluth Farmer’s Market
14th Ave. E. and Third St.
Open 7am to noon

The first edition of Lois Hoffbauer’s Farmer’s Market Update arrived via email today. I thought I’d share.

Get on the email list and she’ll keep you posted as to what’s happening each week at the market: what’s in season, when to plant, and all the good stuff you want/need to know.

Cheers!
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Photography of the Heavens: Secrets of Night Photography
with Astro Bob King
Wednesday, May 11, 7pm

For more information and to register, please click here.

Brought to you by the Duluth Photography Institute.

I’m guessing this will be an easy one. But seriously, this many of you can’t make that turn?! I must not suck enough at driving.

Tangier 57 at the Red Star, Friday, May 6, 11 PM

Thursday, April 28, 8:30 p.m.
$5 ($4 with non-perishable food item) 21+
Rex Bar at Fitger’s

Join MPIRG for a fun night of music benefiting a great local organization — Churches United in Ministry. CHUM provides core social safety net programs which include emergency food, shelter, advocacy, and outreach to over 7,000 hungry, homeless and low-income people each year. Hope you can join us to support this great organization!

Set-list:
Solidarity Hymn
Uprising
Lazaret
The People Say Fox
Blue Water Dance

Open to everyone; over $1,500 in prizes!

Enter the Duluth Photography Institute‘s first annual 2011 Photography Contest. Five categories. Early bird registration discount ends soon.

By popular demand, we chose Big Daddy’s Burgers as the next location in our “Breakfast in Duluth” series. Because it’s located next to Arthur’s Formal Wear in the Piedmont Plaza, we considered renting tuxedos so we’d look good while scarfing down our omelets, but unfortunately that wasn’t in the budget, so we kept our regular clothes on and, as usual, looked like a couple of fools.
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The pomp of musicians, and why we care
Jill Lawful
Associated Press

DULUTH–Poor Kristen Jacobs. She’s not just marrying a local singer. She’s marrying us all.

Once upon a time, Duluth citizens gazed upon their rock musicians from afar. Not any more.

Members of the band Sexhawk are now Hollywood-style mega-celebrities — their cellulite, receding hairlines and boozy nights out subject to the same relentless scrutiny as other A-listers.

(Story continued on page 4A with details about what kind of cake will be served at Hot Rod’s wedding. Look below the fold for a chart with important details like what time it will be in Abu Dhabi or Hong Kong when Hot Rod’s parents arrive at Sacred Heart.)

Damage Boardshop over on 1904 W. Superior St. submitted a quick shop edit to Transworld Snowboarding‘s website for its Neff: East vs. West shop video contest.  For all of you metal fans they used a song by Class of ’86 and edited without all the foreplay, getting straight to the point and making it last a little over 2 minutes (which is totally normal for most of those guys.)

Everyone can vote one time (tracked by I.P.) so if you really like it and you’re at work go make your rounds on all the desktops!  If you don’t like it STFU and make your own last-minute edit.

Place your vote at snowboarding.transworld.net.

I also heard a rumor if you vote and run into the owner at any local establishment that serves alcohol (e.g. Carmody, Lucé, Black Woods) he’ll buy you a shot of Patron.

Sat. May 7, 2011
Fargo Moorhead Derby Girls
S. Pioneer Hall, DECC – Duluth, MN

Harbor City Roller Dames

Michael D. Linn, UMD Linguistics professor and friend, celebrated his retirement this week. Linn is most famous, perhaps, for work in the Linguistic Atlas of our region. Mike is the reason that we know that the unique mix of ethnic communities in the Range produced more than 30 identifiable dialects. Maybe equally importantly, he explained (to me, at least) the ways that labor in the mines was fragmented and weakened when work groups were mixed together of people who did not speak the same language. No common language, no ability to organize unions. [Today, it seems, we are separated by a common language that keeps us from organizing. That's my opinion, not Mike's.]

Mike taught intro linguistics, topics in linguistics, and applied linguistics for teachers. I’m sure many teachers in Duluth learned their trade from Mike. He also taught writing. If you have any memories of Mike you’d like to share, comment below.

More info about Mike, including some indication of how he will spend retirement, can be found here

Annual Asian Cultural Show: ImaginAsian Hosted by UMD’s Asian Pacific American Student Association. Join us in a night of Asian arts, cultural performance, and delicious Asian cuisine. Admission: $10 (admission includes dinner and a show). For more information, please contact Hli Vang at 218-726-6335 or at vangh@d.umn.edu

UMD Kirby Ballroom
Saturday, April 30th
6:00 p.m.

The Superior Public Library book sale runs 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

More info

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…or in some cases, in the eye behind the camera lens.

We have had some amazing pictures submitted to us that capture Duluth’s beauty in even the most unexpected places.

Check out our most recent slideshow: Boats, Bikes and Bulldog Pride

Do you have photos you would like to be published in our Duluth’s Week in photos? Submit them to lakevoicenews@gmail.com. Show Duluth residents the beauty you find in Duluth.

- LakeVoice News is a weekly online publication produced by UMD journalism students. The stories are reported on and written by students, but the content is for the community. If you have a story idea or would like to submit photos you can email us at lakevoicenews@gmail.com.

Wanna feed the hungry, eat spaghetti and listen to a bunch of “comics” rip apart an ‘ol lesbo, then reel in horror as we give Carolyn an open mic to retort?

Wednesday, April 27, Pizza Luce, 7:30 p.m., $15, (+21)

Homegrown Allstar Returnz

Homegrown The Theme

It’s that time of year again, the time when we magically change the secret folder that makes random silly pictures appear at the top of the PDD page. We’re looking for your Homegrown photos! So follow the same guidelines for submitting photos, but send us Homegrown-related images. You know, people drinking beer, playing rawknroll, hanging out, scans of your long-form birth certificate, and so on. We’ll rotate homegrown images during next week’s festivities.

The first paragraph of the story below (from 109 years ago today — April 27, 1902, Duluth News Tribune) might as well be about the Homegrown Music Festival, which represents itself with the chicken logo at left.

It is said that when the chicken raising microbe once enters the human system there is no known remedy — the victim must succumb to the inevitable. With some it is a fad and with others it is both business and pleasure but those belonging to the latter class are by far the more numerous.

This article also connects to the subject of creating a locally harvested food system, which pops up often on Perfect Duluth Day (most recently with the post “Food from Scratch for the Zenith of the Unsalted Sea”) so I’ll present it in its entirety.

Since the old newspaper article is difficult to read in this format, PDD will give away a weeklong pass to Homegrown to the first person willing to typeset it with reasonable accuracy and paste the full text in a comment to this post.

And now … here’s the rest of the story …
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I really like the orchard thing. I’ve always said the food folks were ahead of the game in Duluth They understand a basic truth. I don’t like typing here. I want the box back.

The Overman Room at the Temple Israel Synagogue, 1602 E. Second St. in Duluth, has been remodeled. The new carpeting, solid hickory dance floor and other features will be showcased during a dance party on Saturday, May 7, from 7 to 11 p.m., featuring live music by Boyd’s Revival. Admission is a donation of $20 and an optional item for the food shelf. Tickets will be available at the door.

Boyd’s Revival is a rock and blues group organized by Gary Boyd. He recruited ex-cop Mike Adelson, Duluth jewelers Jack Seiler and Dave Blustin, accountant Greg Goldman, and food rep Jeremy Rogenovich to form the band.

Saturday, April 30, 2-4 p.m.
All ages welcome!
Free and open to the public.

What do you see?

Artists interpret the world in many ways. Explore the museum with a family activity guide to discover a variety of works of art, participate in a large group drawing activity, and create your own art work to take home.

More info…. contact Susan Hudec, Museum Education, 218-726-8527, shudec@d.umn.edu

Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota Duluth
1201 Ordean Court
Duluth, MN 55812

 
(photo by Emily Rose)

Come on down for a last look at the DPG’s wide variety of photographic styles at the Duluth Photography Institute, 405 E. Superior St. on Saturday, April 30, from 5-8pm. Feel free to use the parking lots behind the building off of Fourth Avenue East. Call Brian at 218.393.2468 if you have any questions. Feel free to get more information at duluthphotographyinstitute.com or flickr.com/groups/duluthphotographersguild.