August 2013 Posts

This week: drag shows, brain damage, campfires and frickin’ lasers

Aug 26, 2013 No Comments

  

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

I bet you’ve been hankering a good ol’ fashioned laser light show synched to classic rock in a planetarium with a fog machine thrown in, haven’t you? Well, you’re in luck! There’s a series of Classic Rock Laser Light Shows at the UMD Planetarium tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Tonight kicks off with “Dark Side of the Moon.”

Charlie Parr appears at the Underground on Tuesday in a new series of music and conversation shows called “Song, Interrupted.” It’s like a concert with liner notes.

Pride Festival kicks off Thursday with the Mayor’s Reception at the Depot and runs through Sunday with music, a wedding tent, a parade, a 5K, a drag show, a boat cruise, a train ride, a worship service… and the pride goes on and on and on.

“Who Am I, Again?” is a one-man show about brain damage showing one night only at the Teatro Zuccone on Friday.

Break out the s’mores! Rachael Kilgour, Brothers Burn Mountain, Evergreen Grass Band and others gather around the campfire at Camp Miller for a fundraising concert on Saturday.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.


Events

Log in to PDD via Facebook

Aug 25, 2013 4 Comments

If you’ve wanted to create a post, add a comment or participate in a poll on PDD, but felt that creating an account would be a nuisance, well, now you can log in through your Facebook account with a simple click.

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Duluth Cable and Internet Providers

Aug 25, 2013 7 Comments

I’m trying to figure out costs for living in Duluth. I am wondering which cable and internet provider most people use there. I see there is Comcast and Charter, their prices look different but I am wondering if one of them is better than the other as far as customer service, functionality, etc.


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Mr. Nice in: Blooper Reel

Aug 25, 2013 1 Comment

Your weekly Nice. NSFW.


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It looks like a land dispute

Aug 25, 2013 1 Comment


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Video Auto Play

Aug 23, 2013 No Comments

Apparently, because of some changes at YouTube, some videos on PDD have been autoplaying under some circumstances, in some browsers. That should never happen, and we apologize profusely if it has happened to you.

Please, if you ever open a page on PDD and a video starts playing without you asking it to, e-mail help @ perfectduluthday.com with a note about what video it is and what browser you are using and we’ll either fix it or take the post down.

That’s our PDD no-auto-play guarantee, for what it’s worth.


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Moving to Duluth, wondering about people and bad areas

Aug 23, 2013 29 Comments

I just accepted an engineering position in Duluth and I will be moving there from Grand Forks in the next few weeks. Can anyone tell me if there are many young professionals there around my age (26)? Also what are some areas I should avoid living in? I noticed a lot of the homes on the hill look pretty run down. What I would like is an apartment in the west side of town or on the hill. Other than that I enjoy the outdoors during all seasons so I think its a good fit there, just wondering about the people and areas.


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Poll: Best New Restaurant

Aug 23, 2013 No Comments

After some careful analysis, we developed a list of nominees for Best New Restaurant in the Duluth area. Now we ask you to pick your favorite.

What is the best new restaurant in the Duluth area?

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This poll is now closed. The three top finishers, in alphabetical order, were:

Pak’s Green Corner
7 West Tap House
Tycoons Alehouse & Eatery


Polls, Restaurants

My Close Call at the Deeps

Aug 22, 2013 2 Comments

I had a foolish close call cliff-jumping, but got it on video. Here’s the bone-chilling tale of hubris and naked luck: hottest day of the year but the lake was ice cold so I went to the cliff-jumping swimming hole on Lester River known as the Deeps. I’d made a video there before of jumping from up high, but I hadn’t jumped from the highest point yet, so I tried it.

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Pirate Pizza

Aug 22, 2013 10 Comments

There’s a new covert pizza alternative operating out of a secret location on Goat Hill here in Duluth. Pirate Pizza delivers home made pizza from a home made oven with largely local ingredients to your door via a motorbike that once, according to the pirates, “used to run contraband around the Gaza strip.”

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Restaurants

Video Archive: 1988 Denfeld Hockey

Aug 22, 2013 6 Comments

Part of the Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament experience is the creation of a cheesy music video highlighting the school and the team. The Hunters did not disappoint with this clip. Yes, there are all the mullets and protruding bangs you would expect, along with plenty of guitar air-jamming.

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Hello, Duluth People

Aug 22, 2013 2 Comments

This is Jeff Cork, some guy who used to live in Duluth but then moved to a beautiful St. Paul suburb. I have a handsome brother named Jason Cork.

Anyway, I’m turning 40 in a few days and we’re going to have a fun party because that number ends with a 0. The party will be on August 30 at some bar called McCarron’s Pub in Maplewood. Sexhawk is going to be playing! Bone Appetit played at this spot when it was a dive called Dean’s. They added some taps with Irish beer and put shamrocks all over the place, and now it’s miraculously converted into a pub. There’s also a burger place attached. Irish burgers, I assume.

Soooooo… Duluth people should come and say hi and listen to some rawk music while drinking beers or whatever. I promise that it will be a super fun time unless you’re some kind of jackass who hates having fun times. In that case, you should hang out in the parking lot.

Hope to see you there!

Jefffffffff


Events, Music

Where on the North Shore? Boundary Islands, Pigeon Bay Kayaking

Aug 21, 2013 9 Comments

Boundary Islands, Pigeon Bay Kayaking Trip, Grand Portage, MN


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Loll Designs – Job Opening!

Aug 20, 2013 No Comments

We have an opening here at Loll! The position is Customer Service Representative and the complete job description is posted on Minnesota Works. See Job ID #7331340.


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Best New Restaurant Nominees

Aug 20, 2013 46 Comments

Two weeks ago, we announced Duluth Grill won our poll for Perfect Breakfast Restaurant. Now we’re wondering which restaurant among the newbies you like best.

Before we open the voting, of course, we have to establish a list of nominees. What qualifies as a new restaurant? Well, these are all fairly new:

Shorty’s Pizza and Smoked Meat (Superior; Aug. 2013)
Citys 58th Street Diner (Superior; June 2013)
Canal Park Brewing Co. (Nov. 2012)
7 West Tap House (Oct. 2012)
LeeAnn Chin (Oct. 2012)
Noodles & Company (Sept. 2012)
Pak’s Green Corner (Aug. 2012)
Grizzly’s Wood-fired Grill (Canal Park location; May 2012)
Giant Panda (Feb. 2012)
Oriental House II (Jan. 2012)
Tycoons Alehouse & Eatery (Dec. 2011)
Azteca’s Mexican Grill (Dec. 2011)
Vitta Pizza (June 2011)

What territory are we talking about? Anything in Duluth or 10 miles of its border — so new restaurants in Superior, Hermantown, Proctor and the various bordering townships all qualify; Two Harbors and Cloquet are out of bounds.

So, the only question we’re really asking here: Are there any good nominees we didn’t think to include in the list above?


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