Month: December 2009
Perfect Duluth Day’s Best Videos of 2009
It’s like watching TV, only smaller, choppier and more frequently produced by amateurs — here it is … Perfect Duluth Day’s Best Videos of 2009. (more…)
Park Point Park cabin?
On the hiking trail at the end of Park Point, there’s an old cabin on the harbor side. Does anyone know the story behind this cabin? I read that there used to be several “settlers cabins,” perhaps this is the one remaining settler cabin? I can also of course speculate about blacklisted Finnish bachelors, but I suspect folk on PDD know the real story.
Disney vs. Wilco (Wilco lost!)
I have great seats (Balcony B, Row C, 7 & 8) for Wilco on Feb. 19. With fees, I paid $81.50 total. My five-year-old and I were set … and pumped … to go, but now we’re off to DW for that week. I’d love to break even on the deal. Let me know if you’re interested.
tom @ voller-berdan.com.
Speaking of Winter Coats
What do you do with your winter coat if you go to a crowded bar to celebrate the New Year? Pile it onto the coat rack that’s built to hold six coats but is loaded up with twenty and ready to fall at any moment? Throw it on the floor in the corner and hope for the best? Keep it on and sweat like crazy? Leave it in the car and suffer through the walk?
Opinions on winter clothing
Thought I’d check here to see if anyone has any suggestions.
I’m looking to replace my ‘ol generic JCP winter coat with a “high quality” brand. Had been looking at Canada Goose but I’d like to stay away from down filled coats because of the cleaning issue. Anyone got anything they’ve found that really does the job with warmth along with a water repellant and/or water proof exterior? I realize warmth is relative but shoot some suggestions. Thanks.
MPR Remembers Bill Holm
Minnesota poet, essayist, memoirist and musician Bill Holm died earlier this year. (See PDD post from Feb. 26.) This MPR program features highlights from a tribute held at the Fitzgerald Theater on April 14, with Robert Bly, Emilie Buchwald, Barton and Ross Sutter and so on. Also, many clips of the man himself.
Lake Superior Brewing wins Gold Medal at World Beer Championships
Lake Superior Brewing Company‘s Oktoberfest won a gold medal at the World Beer Championships.
Not sure why I feel like the resident apologist for Lake Superior Brewing especially since I’ve never tasted the stuff but … somehow I am a big booster of this gem of a Duluth business and I was very glad to see them get some recognition. Who knows? Maybe this is a stepping stone to better and better things for them and our fair Lincoln Park. Congratulations Dale and boys.
CASDA Dance to End Abuse
CASDA New Year's Eve Party
R.I.P. Lakeview Castle Duluth
Word on the street is the Lakeview Castle will be closing it doors.
Treasures of the Earth – Green Art & Goods Fair
Treasures of the Earth – Green Art & Goods Fair. Held at the Unitarian Church, 835 W. College St., Duluth – March 27, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A variety of local artists will have booths showing what they are making out of local natural materials (wood, stone, bark, fiber) or recycled material. There will also be a nature photography and nature art section at the fair. These earth friendly and earth inspiring items make great additions to your home, cabin or as gifts throughout the year. Come shop. You will find many creative and unique items at this fair. Local made is the way to go. If you are a Twin Ports artist who uses recycled materials or natural materials in your work and would like to participate, contact [email protected].
For more information go to wendyupnorth.com.
Walt Dizzo presents Best Music of 2009
This happens Tuesday, Dec. 29. I may also be joined in studio or by phone from special guests. We’ll see what happens…
Northern Howl and Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sacred Heart Music Center
$10 at the door or online at www.sacredheartmusic.org
All ages
Jeremy Dick, New Years Eve at Carmody Irish Pub
Jeremy writes music to please and inspire those he loves (a perpetually growing list) and to help him to remember his own life. At best each of us sleeps 8 out of 24 hours each day of our life. Subtract the forgotten years of childhood and the fog of senility and we’re left with about 50 years waking time. Most of that time we spend engaged in autopilot-type tasks and we can’t even remember what we ate for lunch 48 hours ago. Or did we even eat lunch? Who knows? Performing live music is the way Jeremy makes himself uncomfortable enough to remember a night forever. And a night full of friends and laughter and love is worth remembering. Some Mountain Dew types call it ‘feeling more alive’. Jeremy would settle for living more of his feelings.
Boxing Day 2009 Sledding Conditions: Horrible!
Today’s report is from Lincoln Park. It was well packed down yesterday, and frozen rock-hard today. So, the speed on the way down is totally out of control, and the ride is full of solid bumps that threaten to permanently damage one’s sphincter ani externus muscle. (more…)
You don’t bring a gun to a snowball fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMrhiBwF4MU
Does anyone feel like throwing snowballs around 1 at Lake and Superior today? Just don’t bring any guns.
Another song for the season…
“Auld Lang Syne” performed by Coyote, recorded at Hog Damage Collective.
Happy Holidays!
-jerree
p.s. Save the date… Saturday January 9th, 2010
Coyote CD Release show at Teatro Zuccone 
Yoda hockey Christmas booze snow goon
Merry Christmas. Let’s have a contest. The person who posts the best snow goon before midnight Sunday wins two tickets to Wilco at the DECC on Feb. 19.
UPDATE: Or maybe the slushy snow will all freeze after this is posted, making it impossible to build a snow goon and forcing this contest to be scrapped.
Merry Xmas-A tradition.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVKk3EHfP7Y
Duluthmas
Does anyone have a key to the armory? I figure all of us non-native Christmas refugees could set up camp there and have our own non-family celebration. I’ll bring the Charlie Brown tree. Who knows the Linus speech? I recall driving 60 miles to Mankato during the Halloween blizzard to make it to an old college roommate’s house, knowing we wanted to be in the old neighborhood for four days of snow fun. It took 3 hours. I was younger, stupider, and perhaps not now as motivated to take on the weather with my car. Home is an hour south of the TCs. A string of 43 straight appearances will be broken. Lamentations?
Christmas lights in Duluth
This is our third winter in Duluth (so we still consider ourselves newbies) and we’re wondering if anyone could recommend a good neighborhood/area for Christmas light displays or recommend a good route. (Please be specific; I get lost easy, especially downtown.)
Thanking you sincerely in advance,
the NewKid
Baby genius
Overheard in Target, 10 p.m. Dec. 22 amid Christmas shoppers. I probably wouldn’t have thought this was so funny before I had kids.
Indignant college-age woman to second indignant college-age woman:
“It’s just so, like, what a freakin’ 6-month-old would say!”