Changes for tonight!

9:15: Exiles @ Sacred Heart

9:30: Fever Dream @ Pizza Lucé

9:30: The Surfactants @ R.T. Quinlan’s

The Duluth East Daredevils are at the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis, and are ranked 5th going into the second day of qualification matches. Robots!

Image and stickers available courtesy of your friends Bratwurst.

Homegrown Radio is up and running! Listen to all your local favorites online.

Also: an expanded “Homegrown: the History” is now available — 3,700 words longer than the published Field Guide history.

And a PDF of the Field Guide is also online.

Patrick McKinnon’s Poetry Motel released Don’t Know Shit on Bandcamp the other day.

Google Fiber – Duluth, it looks like your next best bet will be Austin, TX. You should consider moving there. I’ll help you pack.

Via Ars Technica.

Finally had time to prep Chris’ t-shirt art. This is the art for the band, volunteer and pre-sale shirts.

Umm.

Ask the City of Duluth to use eminent domain to claim vacant houses for our affordable housing stock.

openhouseduluth.blogspot.com

From Ars Technica:

Jammie Thomas-Rasset has been fighting a recording industry lawsuit accusing her of sharing music using the now-defunct peer-to-peer network Kazaa for the better part of a decade. In 2007, a jury found Thomas-Rasset liable to the tune of $222,000 for sharing 24 songs. She appealed the verdict, resulting in two more trials that each produced even larger jury awards. These higher figures were thrown out by the courts, but last year, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the $222,000 award.

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Part-time Minnesota Public Radio grant-funded position – until June 30, 2013. 

“The Duluth Local Show Host will work with The Local Music team to create a two-hour show focused on Duluth’s local music artists and scene that will air on Local Current each week. The host should be able to curate the music for the show, produce and host the show, and deliver a .wav file each week to the Local Music Assistant. The format will include 11-13 songs per hour with multiple breaks occasionally including interviews or live recordings. The host will also be responsible for contributing to The Local Current Blog and The Local Show as well as maintain a presence in social media platforms.”

The Homegrown Music Festival is seeking photos from the 2012 festival for use in the Field Guide. Large, print quality photos, please — most camera phone photos are not going to cut it.

Please send photos / more information / mailing address for discs: transistormag [at] gmail [dot] com.

Thank you, fans!

When is the Friday night 2AM Jambox snowboard video in the Central Hillside going to get posted? Six people pulling a snowboarder back on a bungie to go off a makeshift ramp onto a dumpster, over a wall, and down to the old Daugherty Hardware parking lot. Awesome. Props to the snow removal guy in the Bobcat that freaked them all out until he explained he wanted to help them move snow for a better landing.

“Bev’s Jook Joint for sale or lease.” Bev Robinson – jjointmusic [at] yahoo [dot] com.

From the DNT — “Local view: Video-gaming convention not a good idea for Duluth”:

“Bringing a scaled-down version of Indiana’s Gen Con convention to Duluth would only increase the amount of violence to which Duluth is exposed. Is increased violence something we really want to willingly welcome into Duluth?”

• Don’t mix my 7 Wonders or Talisman or Pathfinder in with your Skyrim, or whatever.
• Go watch Mazes and Monsters.

Your opinion piece is maddeningly uninformed and you should feel bad.

There is a Kickstarter project running right now to fund “an entirely epic gaming convention taking place in the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center over Memorial Day weekend.” Board games, RPGs, wargames, TCGs, LAN gaming, celebrity guests and contests. Project closes December 22.

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This is too stupid to not let go unnoticed: Welcome to UMD. Again.

I don’t want to argue, but Caroll Spinney was a shoo-in for the
2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Minnesota 5th District House Rep., Keith Ellison, hosted an Ask Me Anything on Reddit today.