May 2010 Posts

Duluth Salad Bars in 2010

So since everyone did me right on the cake question on my birthday, now I want to know: Other than Old Country Buffet, is there a restaurant in town that has a salad bar? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.

Duluth Party Bus Recommendations

I am hoping all you wonderful Perfect Duluth Day readers can help me plan the best bachelorette party for my friend! I am in need of suggestions for party bus rentals. The party will be in early June, so I need to get one booked soon. Have you had any wonderful experiences with any local party bus drivers/services?

Homegrown 2010 on KUMD

Once again KUMD 103.3 will feature Homegrown artists Live from Studio A all week long. If you miss a session they’ll be archived at kumd.org.

Monday: North Shore Trio (will be archived shortly)
Tuesday: Shaunna Heckman 2:30pm
Wednesday: Kip Jones 2pm
Thursday: The Bitter Spills 2pm
Friday: TBA

Mark Lindquist has also kindly allowed us to offer an mp3 download of an unreleased Little Black Books track, “True Religion,” on our website during the week of Homegrown.

Happy Homegrown, y’all!

MNTV Short Film Series Call for Entries

Hey all you filmmakers hanging out at Homegrown: It’s time to submit your short films to MNTV 2010! Last year Brian Barber’s excellent Homegrown animation was selected — keep ’em coming! If your film is selected, it will be broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television (TPT-TV) and streamed online, and you’ll be paid $500 in licensing fees.

If you have a film that’s 30 minutes or shorter, please download the submission guidelines and application form at ifpmn.org/mntv. Deadline for submission: June 10, 2010.

Questions? Contact Lu Lippold, llippold @ ifpmn.org, 651-644-1912 x106.

Opening night of Homegrown and people are already breaking out their two-sided, laminated cheat sheets

Anyone interested in stalking Jess Hall this weekend? Here’s where to find her.

Last Chance Bikers: Show Us Your Routes!

Monday, May 3, and Tuesday, May 4, are your last opportunities to show us how bicycling can be improved in your area! Fit City Duluth and the Metropolitan Interstate Council are working together to learn about the habits of bikers in Duluth. At these meetings you will be asked where you currently bike, where you would bike if it was easier, where bike racks should go, and other biking issues, and you will learn why this information is important for Duluth.

Food will be provided! Both meetings start at 6pm:

  • May 3 – Central Hillside Community Center (12 E 4th St)
  • May 4 – Portman Community Center (4601 McCulloch St)

Boo

I was going to crop this, but then I had a idea: Person who can name the most folks gets a free 2009 Homegrown t-shirt. [photo credit: Starfire]

2010 Homegrown Tags (UPDATED)

Once again, Homegrown has begun, and once again, all you numbskulls will be out there flashing your fancy digicams and/or tapping at your mobile devices, cataloging all the craziness as it happens. And as always, it’s important to properly tag your stuff so that everyone else knows that it exists.

Keeping with the tradition of years past, let’s all use the following tags:

Homegrown Twitter hashtag: #HG10 #HGMF10
Homegrown Flickr tag: homegrownmusicfestival2010

I would also recommend tagging your Flickr photos with HG10 since it’s easy to do and it doesn’t hurt to apply an additional layer of taggish re-enforcement.

I’ll post here again tomorrow with the ever-growing Flickr slideshow of everyone’s shots. Here are links to slideshows from previous years, to get you excited: 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

Happy Homegrown! Raise your glass, submit your banner photos, stick your tongue out, tell Gomez what to do.

In honor of the Homegrown Music Festival, Perfect Duluth Day is again featuring a week of photo banners related to Duluth’s annual celebration of rawk and/or roll devil music. (What that means is, the images you see at the top of this page — from May 2 to 9 — will be photos from Homegrown.)

If you want to submit a banner, it’s not too late. We can add new ones throughout the week. Just follow the same guidelines generally used to submit a banner.

Good Ol’ Random History

I stopped by Amazing Alonzo the other day and picked this beauty up for a cheap 6 bucks. Packed full of weird facts and stories of history dating back to Moses. Topics range from how we used to treat the mentally ill, crime and punishment (including mass executions of heretics and misconceptions of the guillotine), cocaine cough drops, and did you know that the French had a fascination with enemas well through the 19th century?! Seriously good read. Pretty certain they don’t have another copy, but search for it.

Rubber Chicken Radio Hour is on the air!

Featuring Rockin’ Johnny Rocker, Morning Drive Homicide Detective
Father Stu, Naked City Hall and more general silliness.

Broadcast live from the Shack in Superior on KUWS 91.3FM.

Friday, May 7 at 7pm
Celebrity Guest: Matt Perrine from the Budgeteer News
Musical Guest: River (Ryan Jordan and Paul Vogel)

Be a part of the live studio audience for just $5.

(218) 213-2780, RubberChickenTheater.com.

Hippie Dick is a genius

Musical weaponry and optical gear by Dick Rosvall, on display at Respect Your Mother EarthFest.

A Homegrown Story

I always get a kick out of some of the band names in Duluth’s huge music family. After looking at this year’s lineup, came up with this little tale, using every single name listed for Fri./Sat. and pitting them against each other:

It was the battle of Rawk vs. Roll. Electric vs. Acoustic. And it all started at a park in Duluth one day in early May, Circa A.M.

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!