Month: October 2014
Bent Paddle 14° ESB wins medal at Great American Beer Festival
Duluth’s Bent Paddle Brewing won a bronze medal in the Extra Special Bitter category at the Great American Beer Festival this past weekend in Boulder, Colo. Presented by the Brewers Association, the Great American Beer Festival is the largest commercial beer competition in the world.
This year 268 medals were awarded in 90 categories covering 145 different beer styles. A group of 222 beer experts from 10 countries evaluated the 5,507 commercial entries from 1,309 breweries.
Fitger’s Brewhouse is a past medal winner, taking home a bronze in the American-Style Sour Ale category in 2012 for its Fitger’s Framboise and another bronze in the French- and Belgian-Style Saison category in 2004 for its Farm House Reserve.
Photo Tour of Nopeming
Photographer Andrew Perfetti has posted an interesting series of photos of his time “discovering the abandoned hospital on the hill.”
For background, there’s a history of Nopeming on Zenith City Online. Also, check out Substreet’s “The Nopeming Stories: Recollecting a Century of Use and a Decade of Abandonment.”
This week: debates, rivalry and belly dancing
Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.
As election day approaches here are some opportunities to see candidates discuss their views:
- Poverty forum with candidates from several local races at Trepanier Hall tonight.
- District 7B State Representative Candidate Forum at Morgan Park Community Rec Center Tuesday hosted by the League of Women Voters.
- Eighth District Congressional Forum at the Duluth Playhouse hosted by the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. (Note: Registration for this forum is not open to the public.)
- District 7A State Representative Debate at UMD on Thursday.
Want to learn Swedish? There are classes for beginners and intermediates at the Nordic Center starting this Tuesday.
Renegade Theater Company presents Grace, a play about an evangelical Christian couple having a crisis of faith, at the Teatro Zuccone on Thursday and it runs three weekends. There will be talk back sessions hosted by yours truly after the show on Thursdays.
Let your colors fly. The Duluth East Greyhounds host the Denfeld Hunters at Ordean Stadium on Friday.
Mystical Nights features area dancers at Weber Hall this Saturday.
There are also a few Halloween themed events this week, including Boo at the Zoo and a Zombie Pub Crawl.
So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.
Fred Tyson – “Free Man”
Sometimes larger creative projects beget smaller ones. Here is one such instance. Submitted for your viewing pleasure, a music video for Fred Tyson’s “Free Man,” captured on a cross-country road trip while shooting for the feature film Half Super. What’s captured in the tag at the end can only be explained as the late-night result of three guys punch-drunk from a dozen days together in a small car. Enjoy.
Oh, and Fred has no idea about this. So happy birthday, Fred! What?? It’s not Fred’s birthday you say? Nonsense, every day is your birthday when you’re Fred Tyson!
Duluth Mystery Photo #20: Who was F. W. Miller?
He had a house on Park Point. That’s all we know.
Last One Leaving Duluth Billboard – Myth Confirmed!
This (in)famous billboard has been discussed many times, but it seemed there was never any conclusive evidence of it’s existence, until now.
Mayor Fedo was able to dig up a copy from his records, thus solving the mystery of the billboard that kicked Duluth while it was already down.
- Duluth News Tribune – Former mayor confirms existence of Duluth’s fabled ‘turn out the light’ billboard
- Minnesota Public Radio – Duluth’s ‘Turn Out the Lights’ billboard confirmed