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

The Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a DFL Congressional Candidate Forum on Tuesday morning at the Play Ground with all three candidates — Jeff Anderson, Tarryl Clark and Rick Nolan — in attendance.

The Duluth Playhouse Youth Repertory Theatre has not one, not two, but three shows in production starting this week! They will be performing William Shakespeare’s As You Like It starting Wednesday, Little Women: The Musical starting Thursday, and Rent: School Edition starting Friday.

Chaperone Records, Duluth’s newest record label, has its launch party in the Zeitgeist Arts Building on Friday.

The Bayfront Blues Festival runs Friday through Sunday, with a special tribute on Saturday to the recently departed Big Walter Smith, featuring Jimi “Prime Time” Smith & the Groove Merchants.

The first of two Table to Farm events sponsored by Chester Creek Cafe is being held this Saturday at Birch Point Gardens in Saginaw. It’s a prix fixe meal with food from the farm to your plate served al fresco.

The Art in Me arts festival in Lester Park is Sunday with a variety of art projects available for your budding artists.

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

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

If you haven’t seen a Huskies game yet this season in beautiful Wade Stadium you are running out of chances. Fortunately the Huskies are hosting the Waterloo Bucks at the Wade tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Go Huskies!

Spirit Valley Days kick off this Wednesday with a parade on Thursday and a street dance on Friday featuring Hairball.

Mary Bue launches her new album with a concert at the Teatro Zuccone on Thursday.

Chess is in the air. Can you feel it? Grand Master and two time U.S. Champion Alex Yermolinsky is coming to town for a lecture on Friday to be followed by a tournament on Saturday and Sunday.

Next weekend is a good time to be up the shore in Two Harbors with BradFest and the Kayak Festival going on, not to mention their spiffy City Band.

And, the cherry on the sundae of this coming week, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers hit the Bayfront Stage on Sunday capping off the Bayfront Jam Music Festival.

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

Basketball and Art Camps open today, but if you are just figuring this out, you are probably too late.

The Explorers Club series of films starts at the Zinema 2 this Tuesday with Restless City.

On Wednesday the Duluth Community Garden Project is offering a class at the Damiano Center on cooking beets from the garden and other gardening and cooking tips.

This week is your last to see Hair and Side Show and both are getting great reviews.

The Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra featuring Paul Bagley and Jonas Benson plays this Thursday at Weber Music Hall.

Want to see independent films in a big barn? Well the Free Range Film Fest runs Friday and Saturday with a bushel basketful of farm fresh films.

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

Charles Ross brings his one man presentation of the Star Wars trilogy (you know, the original one… the good one… the only one that matters) to the Teatro Zuccone this week starting on Tuesday. The $20 ticket price also lets you into entire week’s activities celebrating all things nerdy, including an 8-bit Nintendo Tournament, a special Star-Wars-related Nerd Nite, Dink Tank at the Movies and geek-themed improv from Renegade. Call it “Geek Week.”

Lyle Lovett plays the DECC on Friday.

Moondance Jam runs this coming Friday through Sunday in Walker, Minnesota with performances by Kid Rock, John Fogerty, Heart, Grand Funk Railroad and many others.

There’s a celebration of beer and local brewers on Saturday at the Bayfront at the All Points North Summer Brew Fest with performances by the Black-eyed Snakes, the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank and others.

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

(PS – This calendar editor is out of contact for the next week, so if you submit an event now, be patient.)

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

Today the Prisoner series ends at the Zinema 2 with an accompanying Nerd Nite.

Thursday Hair opens at the Playhouse and Side Show opens at the Harbor City International Theater for three week runs. Both promise to be great shows that will probably sell out, so get your tickets right away.

Also on Thursday Chris Monroe opens an exhibit at the Duluth Art Institute and A Peace of My Mind opens in the Zeitgeist Atrium.

Movies in the Park launches its season on Friday with Captain America in Leif Erikson Park.

It’s a hootenanny at the Wrenshall Barn Dance Weekend runs Friday through Sunday out at the Free Range Film Barn.

Get your gyro fix at the Taste of Greece Saturday and Sunday at Marshall School.

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

(PS – This calendar editor is out of contact for the next two weeks, so if you submit an event now, be patient.)

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

If you are still glowing from the Wilco concert you could practically live at the Bayfront Stage this week with the Hairball concert on Tuesday, the Fourth Fest on Wednesday, and Bridge Fest on Saturday with a special extra day of Bridge Fest featuring Trampled by Turtles on Sunday to raise money for flood relief.

If you are looking for an alternative to Bayfront this Fourth of July you could head up the shore to Two Harbors where the Two Harbors City Band has its traditional July Fourth concert as well as performing Thursdays during the summer.

This is also the closing weekend for Superior Story, a locally written and produced comedy playing at the Play Ground.

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

And, by the way, this calendar editor is going to be in infrequent contact with the internet for a few weeks, so if you have events you want to publicize for July I kindly suggest you submit them now.

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

Duluthians are stepping forward to rebuild our community after the flood. Volunteers are needed at Chester Bowl tonight. Do you know of other organized clean up activities? Let us know.

Coyote releases their new album on Thursday at the Teatro Zuccone and, before he permanently skips town, you can see Marc Gartman play solo at Fitger’s Brewhouse on Wednesday.

Le Cirque Rouge Cabaret & Burlesque Show, founded by Duluth native Amy Buchanan, plays at the Teatro Zuccone on Friday and Saturday.

There will be cake. Friday marks 9 years of this little local idiosyncratic blog. Happy birthday, Perfect Duluth Day! See the people behind the avatars and raise a glass or two at Tycoons.

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

Local summer camp programs are starting up. Here’s a rundown of what’s starting this week:

• Teen Art Camp: Mixed Media Madness
• Teen Art Camp: Photographic Creations
• Boys’ Basketball Shooting Camp

Make a hat! You’ve read about Emily Moe’s hat class here and in the DNT, now you can start making your own hat on Tuesday.

The acronyms among us are busy:

• CHUM (Churches United in Ministry) is having their annual Rhubarb Festival on Saturday and, in preparation for that, there’s an artisan jams, preserves, and condiments cooking class today.
• LOON (Lyric Opera of the North) presents The Mikado on Thursday and Saturday. Rumor has it that Ko-ko’s “little list” of people he’d like to execute has been customized and localized for this production by the fabulous Jean Sramek.

In case you needed more art in your life head out to Park Point for their 42nd Annual Art Fair this Friday and Saturday.

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

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

It’s like a literary Easter egg hunt! The Duluth Public Library Annual Book Sale begins Tuesday and goes through Friday. Break out those elbow pads and queue up.

Sing-along with Dr. Horrible and Buffy at the Joss Whedon Sing-along at the Zinema 2 on Wednesday.

Maria Bamford comes home to Duluth this week and performs at Mitchell Auditorium on Thursday, but you can also see her hobnobbing with Jeff Anderson at a fundraiser on Tuesday at the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe.

And, oh hey, so this next weekend there’s this quaint little foot race going on. Grandma’s Marathon runs this Saturday, so pull out your lawn chairs and renew your acquaintances with your pals who live on London Road. You can head down to the Big Top in Canal Park for music Friday and Saturday by Haley Bonar, G. B. Leighton, Retribution Gospel Choir and more.

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

Tuesday the 30th season of Chester Creek Concerts kicks off with McKinnis’ Kitchen.

Two plays by Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, open this week at the Teatro Zuccone. Williams wrote Summer and Smoke first, but wasn’t satisfied with it, so rewrote the same basic story in Nightingale. The Renegade Theater Company is presenting both in repertory fashion and lets you decide.

Goodbye, Blue Skies, an exhibit of work by Emma Rustan, opens at the Washington Gallery on Friday.

On Saturday you can Walk for Animals with Animal Allies down at Bayfront and you can get your gyro fix at Twelve Holy Apostles Greek Orthodox Church’s annual fundraiser.

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

Today is Memorial Day and that means cookouts and a big, old fashioned parade.

The Huskies have their home opener at the Wade on Wednesday! And if you can’t make that, they play the St. Could Rox again on Thursday.

The Duluth Superior Film Festival opens on Wednesday as well and runs until Sunday playing at various venues.

The Royal Family opens at the Duluth Playhouse on Thursday and runs for two weekends.

And you can polka until you can’t polka no more at the Chmielewski International Polka Fest running Friday through Sunday at Black Bear Casino.

To round out the week on Saturday Rubber Chicken Theater is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan with a live reading of the script at the Fitger’s theater featuring such luminaries as Mayor Don Ness, George Kessler, John Munson, Lawrance Bernabo and Brian Matuszak as James Tiberius Kirk himself.

Or, if you prefer, belly dancing. Desert Journeys is a showcase of belly dancing this Saturday at the Harbor City International School Theater.

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

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

Duluth Dylan Fest dominates the calendar this week with many events in several venues, including a film fest, a panel discussion about Dylan’s legacy, and a concert on a train.

Tuesday you can laugh till it hurts at Laughing to Keep from Crying, sketch comedy inspired by our health care system at the Play Ground.

On Wednesday you can network about networking at the Zenith Social Media Marketing Conference downtown at the Holiday Inn.

It’s sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson in reverse. A family with two small girls live aboard their sailboat in the Great Lakes and Atlantic for a year. The book release of “Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids” by area writer Katya Gordon is this Thursday at the Fitger’s Bookstore.

Area writers and performers converge on the Teatro on Friday for another edition of Zenith City Tales with the story telling theme being about education this time around.

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

Today kicks off the free Monday showings of The Prisoner at the Zinema 2. It also kicks off Mondays with the Mayor. Coincidence? I think not. March into the mayor’s office and tell Don, “I am not a number!” I dare ya.

Speaking of numbers, ever wonder what that Donald and Daisy Duck salt and pepper set that’s been gathering dust in the back of your liquor cabinet was worth? Find out on Wednesday at the Antique Appraisal at the Depot. Also on that day the Wednesday Sailboat Races return to a great lake very near you!

On Thursday you can grab the Brewpub Bus and go to Tycoons, Thirsty Pagan and Carmody and taste three takes on the same ale recipe. And if you happen to see some people decked out in Victorian neofuturist garb, it’s not that you drank too much, it’s the Steampunk Expo at the Duluth Art Institute with the afterparty at the Rathskeller.

Saturday you can help clean up the St. Louis River and then watch our Roller Dames clean up in their match against the Bemidji Babe City Rollers. See what I did there?

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When you are scrolling down the Perfect Duluth Day Calendar and you see the “more” prompt there can often be a lot more to see. We’ve started adding videos to a lot of events, especially for bands and movies, to give you a better idea of what it’s about. Here are a few things that are coming up in the next week…

Brutal Beauty screening at Clyde Iron tonight