November 2019 Posts

Cloquet’s Northeast Bar & Grill calls it quits

Nov 08, 2019 No Comments

The Northeast Bar & Grill, also known as NE BBQ & Smokehouse, formally announced its closure on Facebook today. The last day of business was Oct. 12.

“We so loved our patrons and are so very sad to end the business that we loved so well,” part of the message read. “Unfortunately, we are receiving more inquiries now than we ever did while in business. That said: If you love a place, support it and patronize often. We have several surviving businesses in town that need that type of support.”

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R.I.P., Restaurants

Dave Mehling – “Big Time Sadness”

Nov 08, 2019 No Comments

Duluth native Dave Mehling has a new album on the way — Beach Boy. Here’s the video by Ben Abrahamson for the first single.


Music, Videos

Emily Haavik & the 35s – “Take Me to the City”

Nov 08, 2019 No Comments

Duluth native turned (Twin) city girl Emily Haavik has a new video, produced by AMPonStage, featuring a new song recorded at Underwood Recording studios in Minneapolis. The video also features another Duluth native, Dave Mehling, on guitar.

Haavik is opening for Matthew Mayfield at First Avenue’s 7th St Entry on Dec. 10.


Music, Videos

A Video Tour Inside Old Central’s Clock Tower

Nov 08, 2019 2 Comments

This video offers another horological nerdout session inside the Historic Old Central High School clock tower, this time brought to you by videographer Paul Scinocca.

“Not many of us get to see what makes this clock tower tick,” Scinocca writes on the YouTube description. “Sorry, had to say it. I was actually on site for a work project, lucky for me the tower is in part of the project.”


History, Videos

Selective Focus: Amnicon Falls State Park

Nov 08, 2019 No Comments

For this edition of “Selective Focus,” we share images from Instagram of Amnicon Falls State Park, located about 20 miles southeast of Downtown Duluth.

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Views from Duluth’s Point of Rocks circa 1898

Nov 07, 2019 1 Comment

The six photos in this post are all from Detroit Publishing Company, and appear to have been shot on the same date — unless someone with a keen eye can call out evidence to the contrary. They are generally labeled as scenes from “the Bluffs,” which is an area of Duluth that later became known as the Point of Rocks. These photos appear to have been shot in a part of Point of Rocks that is known as Central Park, at the eastern-most part of the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

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Monthly Grovel: November 2019 Edition

Nov 07, 2019 No Comments
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In the past year — from November 2018 through October 2019 — the PDD Calendar published 7,960 Duluth-area events. Each one was edited by a human being before the “publish” button was pushed.

It’s a tremendous amount of work to keep up with all the submissions from the more than 1,000 organizations that have sent us info about their concerts, plays, bunco tournaments and lutefisk dinners. That’s why once a month we set our dignity aside and remind readers how much we appreciate their financial support.

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Random

Trampled by Turtles – “Fake Plastic Trees”

Nov 06, 2019 1 Comment

Trampled by Turtles tackle a Radiohead cover.

From Sigourney Fever, a Trampled by Turtles EP of covers, available Dec. 6.

Track list:
1. “Pocahontas” (Neil Young)
2. “Ooh La La” (Faces)
3. “Our Town” (Iris DeMent)
4. “Keep Me in Your Heart” (Warren Zevon)
5. “Fake Plastic Trees” (Radiohead)


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LibraryCon at LSC

Nov 06, 2019 No Comments

I was all-out nerd at Lake Superior College today, where the Erickson Library hosted LibraryCon.

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Art, Events

The Slice: Grand Portage Trail

Nov 06, 2019 No Comments

Karl Koster, park ranger at Grand Portage National Monument, explains how the Grand Portage Trail connected people and commerce during the fur trading era.

In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.


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Duluth 2019 General Election Results

Nov 05, 2019 No Comments

Emily Larson will serve a second term as Duluth Mayor. There will be three new city councilors: Derek Medved, Roz Randorf and Janet Kennedy. Paul Sandholm is new to the school board.

Duluth Mayor
Emily Larson – 13,340 | 63.65%
David Nolle – 7,509 | 35.83%
Write in – 110 | 0.52%

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News and Current Affairs, Politics

Duluth Trivia Deck Sampler #27: Gas and Water Edition

Nov 05, 2019 No Comments

Another trivia card from a board game purchased at Savers.

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History

Darling Drive – “At a Loss”

Nov 04, 2019 No Comments

Darling Drive, the solo acoustic music project of Enrique Aguilar, released the song “At a Loss” on the 2014 album Shipwrecked. The song mentions Duluth, and depending on how one interprets it there might also be a reference to the city of Superior or Lake Superior.

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Music

Wild, a spoken-word musical tribute to weasels, inspired by an encounter in Chester Park

Nov 03, 2019 No Comments

A celebration of the weasel family (mustelids) inspired by an encounter I had with a least weasel in the deep woods portions of Chester Park Ravine, which led to a re-reading of Annie Dillard’s essay, “Living Like Weasels.”

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The Richardson Brothers Podcast: New Episode

Nov 02, 2019 No Comments

This week: “SuperDuluth, the Living City,” a hallucinatory vision of the city awakening in a dream of light and water.


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