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PDD Calendar Index: I Know What You Did Last Weekend

PDD Activities Director Oct 22, 2018 No Comments

Tuesday: Take it with You
Wednesday: Boo Bash Skate and Scare
Thursday: Halloween-a-Palooza
Thursday: Uncorked and Tapped for Conservation
Thursday: 122 Conversations
Friday: Choice Unlimited Monster Bash
Saturday: Skalloween 2018
Saturday: DSSO’s New Horizons
Saturday: A Very Merry Bratwurst Halloween

For a complete look at what’s happening today, tomorrow and on into infinity, visit perfectduluthday.com/calendar.

To start planning your haunted mischief, peruse the events in the Halloween category.

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Events

Teach Me Equals: A Clear Cut Oner

PDDTV Oct 22, 2018 No Comments

The experimental “post-classical” band Teach Me Equals was in Duluth in 2014 for a performance at Red Herring Lounge. The next day the duo teamed up with Manny Villanueva and Brandon St. Germaine of the Duluth-based creative video outfit Clear Cut to record three songs performed live for a series of “Oners.”

Part 1: “Lullaby for Piano”
Part 2: “As the Crow Flies”
Part 3: “Dictionary of Imaginary Places”


Music, Videos

Duluth, Minn. – Always Cool

Paul Lundgren Oct 22, 2018 No Comments

This postcard was mailed 110 years ago today — Oct. 22, 1908 — to Ms. A. J. Niles of Viroqua, Wis.

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Mystery Photo #76: 400 block of West Superior Street

Paul Lundgren Oct 21, 2018 2 Comments

The above photo, submitted by Jay Sonnenburg, shows businesses on the 400 block of West Superior Street. At right is the WEBC Radio studio. At left are the Fargusson Building, Manhattan Building and Spalding Hotel.

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City promotion: 1939

Mike Creger Oct 20, 2018 No Comments


History

A Duluth to be Proud Of

DuluthNAACP Oct 20, 2018 No Comments

“I remember the young people on the trip who said, ‘How come we’re not learning this in school? How come we didn’t know that this had happened?’ …it’s an American story.” –Carl Crawford – Human Rights Officer, Duluth to Montgomery Reflections.

We Duluthians are a proud people. We’re proud of our cityscape and the landscape around us. We’re proud of our ability to withstand the cold, even as we complain about it. We’re proud of our ability to move forward, as Mayor Emily Larson expressed in her open letter to the Rolling Stones this past summer. We Duluthians pride ourselves in the fact that we don’t hide from issues but rather actively engage with them. It was this Duluth pride that prompted a new, local podcast from the NAACP.

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History, News and Current Affairs

Ripped at Midget Wrestling in 2008

Slim Goodbuzz Oct 20, 2018 No Comments

[Editor’s note: The NorShor Theatre operated as a strip club from 2006 to 2010, and all manner of amoral activity took place there. For this week’s essay we’ve once again pulled out a relic from the archive of Slim Goodbuzz, who served as Duluth’s “booze connoisseur” from 1999 to 2009. Ten years ago he paid a visit to the NorShor to take in the rasslin’ martches.]

Lovers of the fine arts, like me, know it doesn’t get any better than strippers and midget wrestling. If you can see them both in the same building, and there’s a guy with a backpack who is graciously offering to share his hallucinogenic mushrooms with you, it’s time to chant U-S-A! U-S-A!

Yes, tonight the stars of the Micro Wrestling Federation are bringing their “MidgetPalooza 2009 World Tour” to the NorShor Experience strip club. Of course, it’s still 2008 on my calendar, but it’s probably not a mistake that the year 2009 appears on my ticket in three places. I like to think the MWF is like an auto manufacturer and releases the next year’s line of midgets early, so fans feel like they’re on the cutting edge of wrestling innovation.

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Perfect Duluth Restaurant: Lake Avenue Restaurant and Bar

Lissa Maki Oct 19, 2018 No Comments

Though it’s been lauded in Twin Cities publications for years, surprisingly Lake Avenue Restaurant and Bar hasn’t won any local accolades for its cuisine. Until now.

In Perfect Duluth Day’s poll to name the Perfect Duluth Restaurant, Lake Avenue emerged as the clear winner with 48.3 percent of the vote among the top three.

Co-owner Derek Snyder says he was “super surprised and flattered” his restaurant won the poll.

“A lot of Duluthians still don’t know about us,” he said.

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Duluth streetcar conductresses helped with 1918 fire evacuation

Gina Temple-Rhodes Oct 19, 2018 No Comments

One-hundred years ago today, Duluth was still reeling from the devastating fires of the previous week. The Duluth Herald ran a small article celebrating the efforts during the fire of a relatively new worker in Duluth: a female conductor on the Street Railway.

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Selective Focus: Kip’s Praslowicz’s video blog

Brian Barber Oct 19, 2018 No Comments

This week in Selective Focus, we’re going to tune in to Kip Praslowicz’s YouTube channel. You may remember Kip from such films as “Memory Card Dump #14,” “Memory Card Dump #11” and “The Story of Homegrown 2016.” He’s a prolific photographer, and his YouTube feed is a combination of tutorials on working with film photography, behind the scenes documentaries about his ongoing photo projects, and photographic experiments. Even if you’re not really needing instruction on loading 120 roll film into a decades-old camera, there’s plenty of other wisdom and fun. Here are a few samples along with a brief bit of background from Kip. Take a look, and then “smash that subscribe button.”

KP: Before I did photos, I was into making music. Before I was making music, I was into making weird videos. This was also when I was about 11 and used a big VHS camera with the only concept of editing being by starting and stopping the tape.

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Duluth featured on Supernatural again

DECk37 Oct 19, 2018 No Comments

Last night’s episode of Supernatural took place Duluth, as seen in this featured clip. The episode “Gods And Monsters” aired on the CW network.

This isn’t the first time Duluth has been featured in the long running show. The second season’s “Born Under a Bad Sign” episode had a character who was working at a Duluth bar. Several episodes have featured other Minnesota towns, such as Hibbing and Stillwater.


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Duluth Fall Colors Video (from before the storm)

PDDTV Oct 18, 2018 No Comments

Video by Zack Lowenstein of Twin Cities-based North Skye Aerial Imaging.


Videos

Duluth Ship Canal in Storm and Calm

Paul Lundgren Oct 17, 2018 No Comments

This postcard is either from a century ago or last week.


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Duluth Trivia

David Beard Oct 17, 2018 4 Comments

Below are more items from an old trivia deck I bought at Savers.

1. How far out onto Lake Superior can the light atop Enger Tower be seen?

2. Who was the first postmaster for the Duluth region?

3. How man grain elevators were on Duluth’s waterfront at the turn of the twentieth century?

4. When was the Duluth Peony and Iris Society founded?

5. In what building did JFK speak in Duluth?

6. Who began conducting the DSSO in ‘seventy-seven?


History

Elevators at Duluth

Paul Lundgren Oct 16, 2018 No Comments

Date unknown, artist unknown.


Art, History