Videos
Modest Home Makeover
Last summer/fall, the Extreme Makeover Home Edition TV show came to town to build a new home for the Huber family in South Range. It was a wonderful thing, but several commenters on this website wrote that those efforts should continue without all the TV cameras and didn’t need to be so extreme.
A little something called Modest Home Makeover was started around that time, with the goal of raising $150,000 to build a new home for Rick & Brenda Hallfrisch. Fox 21 News did this story about it …
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bficTDGp_hw&feature=player_embedded
I bring this up now because volunteer meetings and fund-raising events are coming up soon. You can read about all of them at modesthomemakeover.com.
Duluth home-movie footage from 1938
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKkFZFya_M
This 8mm home-movie depicts a 1938 fishing trip to Duluth.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WomRBtHElFM&feature=related
P.O.W. David Wheat’s return to Duluth
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U60XKjmiQw0&feature=player_embedded
A tip of the hat to Andrew Krueger at the News Tribune Attic for spotting this Feb. 7, 1973, WDIO-TV broadcast on YouTube. Nice to have you back in the attic, Andrew.
David Wheat, many of you may remember, was a prison mate of John McCain’s in North Vietnam and campaigned for him in 2008.
This video includes cameos by pre-toupée Dennis Anderson and Mayor Ben Boo, among others. An hilarious ad for “Pringle’s Newfangled Potato Chips” is at the end.
Anyone around here see this last night?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vaRHF30xQ
Video from an Iowa sheriff’s deputy’s dashboard camera, about 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Breaking Glass releases new video
“Ease Back” is the first single from Breaking Glass’s inaugural Shatterproof CD. These up and coming rockers from Esko play a variety of original and classic rock tunes. This music video was produced by FitzPhoto as part of a prize package from winning the 2009 Duluth-area Battle of the Bands contest, put on by Junior Achievement.
Breaking Glass will be performing at the Battle of the Bands Kickoff Party on Saturday, April 17, at Hell Burgers in Canal Park. Showtime is 8 p.m.
The band will also be opening the Battle of the Bands with a special performance at the DECC on Sunday, April 18, at 2 p.m., followed by the battle, featuring 12 area high school garage bands.
It’s a whole new ballgame in Minneapolis
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Haf70090_M&feature=player_embedded
Time-lapse video by MPR’s Laura Gill
1961-1968 racing in Hartley Park
Twelve-year-old Harold “Bo” Conrad won the 1963 Duluth race where Hartley Nature Center is today and went on to win the All-American Soap Box Derby Race in Akron, Ohio, where there were 75,000 people watching.
Duluth’s Graffiti Graveyard
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAnghwJorvo
Video by Nathan Treanor.
Genre
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rqdEahBos
Minnow Swallowing Contest in Duluth
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3LePItHnuo
St. Patrick’s Day, 1980. Quite a party in the West End.
Stuff I Like
My house, the alley, a train.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSElE6UsTUk
Why Google Should Choose Duluth
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KsvScO_gTM
Satan’s Nightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asrjkvRIEvQ
Video ad created to promote Duluth as a Google Fiber candidate.
Actor: Kevin Craig
Idea, filming: Ben Marsen
Editing: Ben Marsen, Paul Broman
Trampled by Turtles TV Special @ Teatro Zuccone
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Thursday, March 25
Social at 7PM in the atrium lobby of the Zeitgeist Arts Building.
Concert screening at 8PM in the Teatro Zuccone live theater.
This event is free and open to the public. Limited seating available.
Drink specials!
To celebrate the launch of The Playlist a new PBS show celebrating the local arts scene, we will be screening the full PBS concert edit of a live Trampled by Turtles show (with band interviews) recently recorded at Pizza Luce in Duluth.
People attending will have a chance to win two free tickets to one of the TBT shows @ First Avenue in Minneapolis in April!
The Play-List on WDSE/WRPT helps you connect with loads of regional arts opportunities with a weekly show on PBS. Starting April 1, Thursdays at 9 PM, watch for live music in the studio every week, behind-the-scenes tours with area theater companies, visual and literary artists, arts events and more. Submit your ideas on our website at theplaylistonline.org
What’s on your playlist? Also check us out on Facebook.
Retribution Gospel Choir – “Workin’ Hard”
New video from Duluth’s hardest working band.
Mr. Nice in: Death From Above
Featuring the Keep Aways.
This is the maiden voyage of the Gonzo Science youtube channel, the Gonzonomicron.
Hibbing calls for Bob Dylan to come home
The Iron Range Tourism Bureau has a new website called comehomebob.com.
Google Bike
Google biking. Very rad.
Sen Al Franken Resurrects “Duluth Answer Man” to Support Twin Ports Google Fiber
MARCH 10, 2010 – Minnesota Sen. Al Franken has joined The Google Twin Ports Fiber Initiative by resurrecting his Duluth Answer Man clips.
Duluth’s campaign combines a fun and creative grassroots campaign with a very serious effort to build a strong business case for bringing Google Fiber to the Twin Ports.
The Duluth Answer Man campaign was produced in the mid 80s by the Duluth Convention and Visitors Bureau, known today as Visit Duluth. The series ran in the Twin Cites market as the summer tourism campaign for Duluth.
Countdown to spring
The ski hill at Chester Bowl is scheduled to stay open through this weekend, but it looks like Mother Nature may not be patient and cooperative. Already this weekend, the creek started flooding the bottom of the hill. So if you’re interested in taking or watching a waterskiing run at the Bowl, today might be your day. The lift is open from 4:30 – 8:30 tonight (Monday 3/8). The next scheduled day the lift is open will be Thursday, but that’s a long way away. Lift tickets are $5 at the concession stand. While you’re there, pick up a nifty Chester Bowl Hoodie or long-sleeve T-shirt at the concession stand.
“The Process” and Nathan Ness
Duluth native Nathan Ness appears in the new film The Process, which premieres March 20 at the Suburban World Theatre in Minneapolis. (more…)
“Theives Like Us” – Duluth screenings
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meTLvNpGDs0
“Thieves Like Us” is a feature-length action comedy (Jackie Chan style) made for about $3,200. There are two screenings at the Duluth Playground — March 5 and 6 at 7:30 pm.
The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Jarrod Crooks, and actor/producer Daniel Quaile of St. Paul-based Film Under 5, a production company with the goal of showing “that if you get creative, write a good story, and work your butt off, you can make a feature film for under $5,000.”
High Volt Rustler – “Spinning”
Duluth band High Volt Rustler performs “Spinning” live in studio at KUMD.
Duluth in Winter on a Fixie
This YouTube video has gotten a decent amount of traffic recently. Check out the icy hills of Duluth from the saddle of a fixed-gear bicycle.