Month: November 2010
Lady of the Lake Warhammer Tournament
I don’t play, but I know an opportunity for cool pictures when I see it. The Lady of the Lake Warhammer Tournament was held at Dragon Port Games and Comics Saturday. (more…)
Kozy fundraising event Sunday night at Chester Creek Cafe
Music change: Terrol and Jane will be in the wine bar from 7 to 8:30pm. Other bands will be in the dining room as previously posted. Spaghetti dinner is at 7pm, not 6.
We have some great stuff on tap and in the auction (could always use more) there are some beautiful things. This is gonna be so fun!
Select Images from Denfeld’s 1938 Oracle
Fly high, Duluth! Senior Ralph Eisenach takes a running broad jump.
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Farmers Market Festival of the Season
Saturday, Nov. 20, is the Festival of the Season at the Duluth Farmers Market from 10 till 3. Lots of local artists and small businesses including wild rice, smoked fish, chocolate truffles, wreathes and garland, soaps and lots more. This is always a fun event, so dress warm and come on over — 14th Ave. E. & Third St.
Blasted!
Anyone have a sandblaster they might let me borrow for an afternoon?
Yet another new Lion or Gazelle EP
Lion or Gazelle is celebrating Friday by offering another new EP, Teaching Pilots English. This is a collection of some early four track demos that trend a little more on the experimental side than the previous three releases. Stream it or download it for free on the Bandcamp site.
Duluth Photography Institute Grand Opening
Food. Drink. Prizes. Entertainment. Great photography. FREE. Can it get any better than this? Come to the Grand Opening of the DPI on Saturday, December 4th from 4-8pm. Local photographers including featured artists Larry and Linday Dunlap will exhibit work in the gallery. 405 E Superior St. Suite 140. For more info, call Brian at 393.2468 or go to www.duluthphotographyinstitute.com
Biggest Challenge for Journalists is Not Slanting Headlines
“Biggest challenge for Kozy fire victims is finding shelter for the long term.”
“Biggest challenge for Kozy fire victims is finding new housing.”
“Biggest challenge for Kozy fire victims is finding digs for this winter, and the future.”
“Biggest challenge for Kozy fire victims is finding new accommodations that fall within income and professional requirements, as well as meeting preferred geographical placement and/or a proximal bus lines and/or with parking (and Wi-Fi wouldn’t hurt).”
“Biggest challenge for Kozy fire victims is finding new “bad area” to set up cardboard boxes from which to commit [perceived] continued nefarious crimes and victimize the upstanding, white citizenry of Duluth.
Maybe it’s just me. Link to original story.
New video about CHUM in Duluth
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9xnlyBHcc
PDD Troll Zone
Welcome to Perfect Duluth Day’s complaint department, hyperbole center and personal grudge factory. This is a post created for all the Internet trolls who are eager to bog down threads on this website with combative diatribes. It’s also a place for people who can’t stop themselves from responding to those trolls and suddenly become, quite frankly, more annoying than the trolls.
Has one of your comments been removed lately? Did you bitch about it in the comments? Was that comment removed too? Well now you can bitch about it again, here! And it probably won’t be deleted this time!
Although PDD has detailed policies about what types of posts and comments are permitted, the moderators have created this page — where almost anything goes — for two reasons:
1) Let’s face it, a lot of people thrive on bickering and need a place to blow off steam.
2) Most people can’t stand bickering and would like fewer distractions from the other threads on PDD.
So here it is, an open forum for exaggerations and personal attacks. Have fun. (Or should we say, “Go shove it up your Minnesota-nice-hole, you jerkwad”?)
New Lion or Gazelle EP
After an interminable two weeks since their last EP, Lion or Gazelle present their latest, Let’s Do Milli Vanilli Dance Moves & Forget About This Shit. As usual, downloads and streaming are free from the Bandcamp page or on Facebook.
Also, the band will be on 91.3 KUWS tonight at 10pm with Walt Dizzo. Tune in to hear some live tunes and an enlightening interview.
Cats in the Window of the Kozy
I took this photo of a couple cats in the window of a ground level apartment in the Kozy on the morning of April 18th, 2008.
Duluth Photographers
Anyone have any recommendation for a local photographer? My wife would like a family portrait for Christmas, and I’d like to make her a happy woman.
Tamarack Dance Association Presents:
Another old-timey barn dance on Saturday, Nov. 20.
Come early and stay late:
7:30 – two-step, honky-tonk dance lessons
8:00 – old-time dance with the Red Pine Resonators
10:30 – two-step dancing with Orienta Car Wash
More details at tamarackdance.org
Introducing the Everyday Duluth 2011 photo calendar by Naomi Yaeger-Bischoff
- June top collage page from Everyday Duluth Calendar 2011
Hi, Naomi Yaeger-Bischoff here. It’s soon holiday gift-giving season, and also the time of year to get calendars for next year, so it’s time for me to put an official post on Perfect Duluth Day about a personal project I put together to showcase my photography, the Everyday Duluth calendar. (You could say this is a shameless plug.)
Here is the story behind the calendar.
See a link to see a pdf of the calendar Everyday Duluth Calendar 2011 Naomi Yaeger
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Share some art.
Announcing the 10″ project. My walls are bare and I don’t have enough interesting art to hang up. Help me decorate it with your prose/paintings/photos/digital art/fabric art/decoupage/ransom notes etc.
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Kozy Benefit: Sunday, Nov. 21, at Sara’s Table/Chester Creek Cafe
Hey all, we’re getting this in gear and need all of your help. Music is coming along and now we would like to see if any local artists would be willing to come set up and donate any or all portions of their sales to the Kozy residents fund. This will be a great night helping out our fellow community members and lots of fun!! Christmas is coming, let’s do double duty! You can call Alicia or Carla to get a space on Sunday night to help out with this effort … 724-6811 Thanks!
Kozy Fire: Let’s Do Something Together
Can we put a fundraiser together between now and Sunday? Here is what Chester Creek Cafe will do:
1.) Set up a bank account to receive donations to Kozy residents.
2.) Take the 7pm to 10pm shift for a multiple site benefit – we clean out the “library” room for concert-style seating and prepare a “Spaghetti feed” type meal to be sold for (say) $15 to $20 — all of which will go to the Kozy fund. Any donations of clothing or other stuff will be available for Kozy residents. Kozy residents will also get a free meal that night.
3.) We will give any participating musicians and performers (Fire spinners?) a $15 gift certificate and a free meal.
Can other restaurants take the later shifts – like we all move down to the Brewhouse or Burrito Union at 10pm and then finish up at Luce at midnight?
Those places would offer a similar deal? What do you all think?
Restaurants? Musicians?
Let me know if this is doable.
Fire at Kozy Apartments
Kozy Bar burning in downtown Duluth
A News Tribune reporter on the scene said the upper floors are fully engulfed and it appears the building could be completely destroyed.
Via DNT
“Murder House” condemned
Apparently the “Murder House” in West Duluth has been condemned. I walked by today and noticed some of the crazy signs on the property have been taken down. The neighbor said the place is going to be demolished.
Where’s the best place to watch the Christmas City of the North Parade?
Where’s the best place to watch the Christmas City of the North Parade? I usually watch it from home, in front of the fire, on TV, with a hot toddy. You?
Moral Ground
Thursday, Nov. 18, 7pm
UMD Library, 4th floor
Michael Nelson will share some interesting essays from his newly edited book on the ethics of climate change. The book has essays from a wide range of thinkers … Wendell Berry to bell hooks to Barbara Kingslover. There will be lively discussion and music from Duluth’s own Rachael Kilgour. It should interesting to probe ideas regarding our human responsibility in the face of this daunting situation. Bike on over!
Video Archive: Duluth’s Lake Place Park — “the park in the sky” — under construction
From KBJR-TV, Oct. 25, 1990.
[Note: This video was removed by the YouTube user.]
You’ll notice the headlines from 20 years ago seem to mirror those of today. Before Barbara Reyelts’ piece on Lake Place Park, which starts 2 minutes into the video, you’ll see the president refusing to raise taxes, gas prices rising and ramp closures on local freeways.
Among the commercials at the end of the video is one for the late Senator Paul Wellstone, who back then was campaigning to replace Rudy Boschwitz.
Financial Concerns Info Session
Northern Communities Land Trust is hosting a financial resources workshop for folks who are concerned about their financial situation and/or having trouble keeping up with monthly bills. This workshop is free and open to the public.
Financial Concerns Info Session
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 6-7pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
1108 E. Eighth St.
(one block below 8th Street Video)
Pizza and childcare will be provided (RSVP required)
Presentations will be given by representatives from Lutheran Social Services and Comfort Sytems specifically regarding what resources are available and what steps to take if you have either already fallen behind or are concerned about falling behind on your monthly mortgage, credit, or utility bills.
For any questions or to RSVP please e-mail jackie @ landtrustduluth.org or call (218) 727-5372 ext 214.