USA Today reports Google Fiber is considering three new cities for its high-speed Internet service: San Diego, Irvine and Louisville.
Don’t worry, Duluth is in line for a new project: Google Chopped Liver.
USA Today reports Google Fiber is considering three new cities for its high-speed Internet service: San Diego, Irvine and Louisville.
Don’t worry, Duluth is in line for a new project: Google Chopped Liver.
Annie Dugan, untitled
Harvest is the time to reap what we’ve sewn, and to stow our goods for the difficult days ahead. It’s the time to decide what merits entry into our sod huts, and what is left to the elements. Often this is based on a degree of conformity to norms, on a willingness to fit in, and to play along. We decide what’s suitable to sustain us, cede diversity to the predictable, and leave the rest to wither on the vine.
First 30 seconds is from the North Shore. Click and drag to pan the video line-of-sight.
Part three of our conversation with Robb Berry, who has been collecting toys from cereal boxes since he was a kid in the 1970s.
See Part One — Honeycomb Hideout: Robb Berry’s Basement Cereal Box Museum
See Part Two — Cereal Brands: The Good, the Bad and the Sugary
Lutsen Ski Resort began erecting a new $7-million gondola on June 23. It should be operational by the 2015-16 ski season. Above you can see they are sticking with the iconic red for the new eight-passenger gondola, which will speed up the gondola lines.
Part two of a conversation with cereal box collector Robb Berry of Duluth, who fills us in on some of the stories behind the development of cereals that have come and gone through the decades.
See also Part One — Honeycomb Hideout: Robb Berry’s Basement Cereal Box Museum
Part Three — Prize Inside: Cereal Toys and Premiums Through the Decades
Keep in mind:
District candidates will appear on the ballot only in the specified districts. Duluth City Council District 5 represents West Duluth and neighborhoods farther west. Duluth School Board District 2 represents the Endion, Congdon, Chester Park and Kenwood areas.
Hidden away in a West Duluth basement is a one-of-a-kind museum — Robb Berry’s cereal box collection. He has been collecting cereal toys and premiums since he was a kid in the 1970s, and started collecting boxes shortly after that.
Unfortunately, Berry’s basement is not open to the public. But if you’re interested in the vast history of cereal, he also manages the Cereal Boxes and Prizes Archives 1900-Present Facebook page, where collectors and enthusiasts share their finds and questions about the hobby.
PDD was granted access to the catacombs that hold Berry’s collections. He is a fountain of information, so we present this special PDD Back-to-School series in three parts this week. Grab the milk, a spoon and a bowl and enjoy.
Part Two — Cereal Brands: The Good, the Bad and the Sugary
Part Three — Prize Inside: Cereal Toys and Premiums Through the Decades
Cloud Cult comes back to the area for the Twin Ports Bridge Festival at Bayfront Park on Sept. 11. Craig Minowa talks about some big surprises for the group’s return.
The summer is over, and there is so much music I heard that I have not yet written about here.
The most complicated performance of the summer, for me, was watching Tim Kaiser and Robot Rickshaw at Beaners. (All the videos that follow are not the performances I saw, but just tasters.)
It was a study in noise and the relationship between noise and music.
Here’s a bit of what you’ll find on this week’s PDD Calendar:
The 2015 United Way Chili Cook-Off is heating up the DECC, the Duluth Art Institute is opening three new exhibitions, a man named Achilles will play his trombone at Weber Music Hall, Tony Dierckins presents his book on the famed Congdon estate, the Twin Ports Bridge Festival hits Bayfront Park and George Thorogood will bring his message of bad-to-the-boneness to Black Bear Casino.
Instrumental post-rockers Portrait of a Drowned Man and three other bands will rock R.T. Quinlan’s, the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra kicks off its latest season, the Engwalls Corn Maze opens to the public, the 2015 Lake Superior Harvest Festival is happening at Bayfront, 5k runners get stuff thrown at them during the UV Splash Color Dash and Big Top Chautauqua folds up their tent for the season.
With a fused spine and partially paralyzed legs, Paul Hlina hiked the entire Superior Hiking Trail on crutches in 1995. He is credited as the first person to through-hike the trail, which at the time spanned almost 200 miles. It’s about a 300-mile trail today.
Sharon Needles at Bayfront Park during the Duluth Superior Pride Festival.
Mr. Roberts Restaurant and Resort in Pengilly will be featured in this Sunday’s edition of the New York Times. Duluth-based writer Robert Lillegard reviews the “surprising new flavors” chef Sarah Master has brought to the lakeside eatery. The article was published online today:
In Minnesota’s Iron Range, Midwestern with a modern twist
Master is a Pengilly native who left her position as executive chef at Minneapolis’ Café Barbette to form a business partnership with Dan Beckwith, opening their restaurant and resort in early June.
