Coming Up: Polka, Chili, Inline Skating
The PDD Calendar is officially launched! It’s a good week for it too, with many noteworthy events going on around town. Here are a few highlights:
Wednesday, Sept. 14
Lindsay Mac and the Boom Booms perform at Sacred Heart Music Center.
Thursday, Sept. 15
The United Way hosts its 20th annual Chili Cook-off at the DECC with 40 different chilies competing. Later in the night, Dead Man Winter performs at Pizza Luce.
Friday, Sept. 16
The second annual Oktoberfest kicks off at Bayfront Park, running through Saturday with beer, food, and lots of polka. Also, Duluth Underground Bass debuts its dubstep style with four local DJs in the Kirby Ballroom at UMD.
Saturday, Sept. 17
The NorthShore Inline Marathon brings a variety of family fun to Canal Park, in addition to the 26.2-mile inline skating race. Meanwhile, the Chester Bowl Fall Fest features 100 vendors in the scenic park.
There’s a lot more listed in our new calendar so get out there and enjoy your town!
It must be time for me to break out my annual United Way Chili Cook-off advice for rookies:
1) Don’t wear a jacket or sweatshirt to this event. It’s a crowded room with 40 different kinds of chili being cooked. It gets hot. Shorts and a T-shirt is the way to go.
2) It’s best to go with someone you don’t mind sharing food with. Instead of the two of you getting two portions of everything, just get one portion and share. If you like that particular chili, get a second portion. If you don’t, move on. You don’t want to waste a lot of time and stomach on a chili you don’t like, because there are many that you will like if you can get to them before they run out.
Re: Chili – also, skip the chilies you know you won’t like. We have a strict no fruit and/or white chilies. Its too many to try them all – yet we never give up!
Re: Calendar – This is so awesome! I have complained ever since I moved here that I always find out about all the cool stuff that happens here on the news after the fact. Nice work PPD.
By the way, Thursday is the Brewhouse’s 16th anniversary, so all that United Way chili should be washed down with a couple brews.
Master Brewer Dave Hoops has two special beers releasing for this event:
* Cherry Batch — made with Door County, Wis. cherries. This is a seasonal at the Brewhouse and generally doesn’t last long.
* Batch 3000 — the Brewhouse’s 3,000 batch of beer! It’s a Belgian-style black saison brewed with pale malts, chocolate malts, Belgian yeasts and crushed black peppercorns.
Cherry Batch, yay!
Another Chili Cook-off tip:
The Pedestrian Slip Bridge that connects the DECC to Canal Park is not working … as usual. So, you know, plan to walk around the slip, unless city crews actually manage to fix it today.
Oh, and another thing: The PDD Gimmick Canopy returns to Fall Fest on Saturday. Stop by and grab a bumper sticker.
It looks like fun!!!
And those deep-fried-whatever-they-ares look delicious.
Paul, good job on the calendar; it’s awsomeness!
This just in:
Avenged Sevenfold is playing Amsoil Arena with Hollywood Undead, Asking Alexandria and Black Veil Brides on Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 23, at noon, through Ticketmaster.
Tickets are $44.75 for the floor and $39.75 for the bowl, plus $2 venue facility fee.