January 2014 - Page 4 of 76 - Perfect Duluth Day

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

What will this week bring us? We’ve endured snow, frigid cold and ice. What’s next? Well, we all survived so we could see the season three premier of Sherlock tonight with a preview screening at Teatro Zuccone.

Tuesday you can get your civic duty on with a special election in the east and Mayor Ness speaking at the Kitchi Gammi Club on the future of Duluth.

It’s a busy week in the Parr household this week. You can see Charlie Parr at Fitger’s on Wednesday and then you can see his other half, Emily Lanik Parr, star in Good People at The Underground starting on Thursday and running for two weekends.

You also have a chance, only on Thursday, to see an encore performance of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove at UMD before they take the show to Lincoln for a regional competition.

Get yourself a white russian and watch a special midnight screening of The Big Lebowski on Friday night at Zinema 2.

There are several events this weekend related to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, including a talent show at Duluth East on Friday and a worship service at St. Mark AME on Sunday.

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

Events

Don’t bother adjusting your antenna … KDLH is having transmitter issues

Jan 13, 2014 7 Comments

If you’ve been throwing your antenna around the room since the first segment of 60 Minutes on Sunday, give up. KDLH channels 3.1 and 3.2 are experiencing a transmitter outage. Engineers are working on it.

Update: You can temporarily pick up KDLH on channel 6.3 while technicians continue work to solve the issue.

News and Current Affairs

Duluth neighborhood boundaries?

Jan 12, 2014 21 Comments

I was just thinking, of course Duluth itself has clearly defined boundaries, but how about all the neighborhoods within? You always kind of know about where you are, but where does say the Heights turn into Kenwood or Norton Park turn into Morgan Park, etc. Are there even really boundaries? Thoughts?

Uncategorized Queries

Jan. 12 road conditions: Ridiculously icy

Jan 12, 2014 4 Comments

Above is the scene on Mesaba Avenue Sunday morning. (Photo by Dave Diercks.) Freezing rain turned streets into hockey rinks.

Below: Blake and Jeremy road surf on Third Street near Mesaba Ave.

News and Current Affairs, Videos

Ice Boulders

Jan 11, 2014 No Comments

We’ve had a lot of awesome ice-sheet events on Lake Superior, but I can’t say we’ve had smooth, round boulders. This video by Bob Smitka shows ice boulders on the Lake Michigan shore at Glen Arbor from the polar vortex days.

Videos

Nominations close Feb. 1 for Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards

Jan 10, 2014 No Comments

Celebrating books about northeastern Minnesota published in 2013. Send one book plus $25 nomination fee to UMD Kathryn A. Martin Library. Winners will be announced May 22.

26th annual NEMBA call for nominations

Art Books, Library, Literature, UMD

Mayor Ness named Person of the Year by Twin Cities Business magazine

Jan 10, 2014 2 Comments

Twin Cities Business magazine has named Duluth Mayor Don Ness the 2013 Person of the Year. Editor-in-Chief Dale Kurschner wrote in a statement that Ness “stood out for outstanding leadership that has strengthened our state’s economy, business opportunities and culture.”

2013 Person Of The Year: Duluth Mayor Don Ness

This is the first year Twin Cities Business has designated a Person of the Year.

News and Current Affairs Don Ness

Someone wrote a headline like this once and it was shared on Facebook. Then something amazing happened …

Jan 10, 2014 2 Comments

Do you miss the days on Facebook when all the clickbait headlines your friends shared were numbered lists?

Fish Fountain

Jan 09, 2014 No Comments

Videos Creepy, Weird

Perfect Album of 2013: Ryan Van Slooten’s Victory March

Jan 09, 2014 No Comments

With at least 50 albums released by Duluth-area musicians in 2013 — including Low, Retribution Gospel Choir, Trampled by Turtles and Charlie Parr — Ryan Van Slooten’s third solo work had to be considered a long shot in a poll to choose the best local album of the year.

Well, Van Slooten can begin his Victory March; the upset is complete.

Rock your ice beards in Ibanuary: Six wicked ice beards

Jan 08, 2014 12 Comments

Move over Movember and make way for the Ibanuary (Ice Beard January). January is definitely ice beard season and this year is certainly no exception. With the full-on Polar Vortex there is no better time to show off your ice beard awesomeness. Above are six wicked ice beards … well five, and one pretty weak ice beard of mine.

Post your best ice beards in the comments!

Outdoors, Photos Creepy

Couple of “streaming” videos from the cold

Jan 07, 2014 No Comments

This second video is much less lovely and mildly NSFW.

Art, Videos Weird

Poll: Best Album of 2013 (Final Ballot)

Jan 06, 2014 No Comments

According to previous PDD polls, the top three Duluth-related albums of 2013 are: Christoph Bruhn’s Weekends on the Frontier, Southwire’s self-titled debut and Ryan Van Slooten’s Victory March. The voting so far has been close, so we’ve set up this final showdown. Follow the text links above to listen to the albums on Bandcamp, then make your choice below.

What was the best local album of 2013?

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This poll is now closed. The results were:

Ryan Van Slooten’s Victory March – 45 percent
Southwire’s self-titled debut – 31.9 percent
Christoph Bruhn’s Weekends on the Frontier – 23.1 percent

Music, Polls

Networks of art, history, laughter

Jan 06, 2014 No Comments

The weekend was full of immersion in networks of art, history and laughter.

On Friday, I went to the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids for the “Bridge” exhibit.

The exhibit is remarkable, and negotiations are under way to bring it to Duluth. From the text, the exhibit is “the result of two years spent documenting the stories of people affected by 2007â€²s I-35 bridge collapse by photographer Vance Gellert.

January 2014 Posts

Duluth/Superior in the New York Times

This week: two Parrs, a sleuth and a dude