Homegrown Band Publicity Photo Showdown: Semifinals (pt. 1)
With the Homegrown Music Festival coming up PDD launched a series of polls eight weeks ago, tournament style, to determine which Duluth-area band has the sweetest pic. This week we begin the semifinal round. (Click on any image to see it larger.)
Semifinal #1:

Breanne Marie (photo by Katlyn Kretzchmar)

Tim Kaiser (photo below by Matt Blum)
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This poll is now closed. The results were:
Breanne Marie – 51.4 percent
Tim Kaiser – 48.6 percent
Semifinal #2:

Dead Guys (photo left by Nate Rendulich)

Tangier 57 (photo below by Patrice Bradley)
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This poll is now closed. The results were:
Tangier 57 – 78.9 percent
Dead Guys – 21.1 percent
Next week:
The Tisdales vs. Southwire
Charlie Parr vs. Snobarn
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After two days of extended voting due to an initial tie, Breanne Marie has emerged as the victor over Tim Kaiser. Meanwhile, Tangier 57 cruised to an easy win.
So our first quarterfinal is set: Breanne Marie vs. Tangier 57 (starting April 17).
Now I know what Romney feels like…
I blame the singularity for all this. We’re observing the results of an experiment before we conduct the experiment. Please, Paul for all that is scared on this great Earth, do not let the quantum entanglement unravel.
Is the bottom photo an island campsite in the BWCA? As a young person I camped at a site that looked exactly like that.
Boulder Lake