Videos
Making it Up North: Sol Café
From the vibrant immigrant neighborhoods of Houston to the tech offices of a software engineer, Chef Antony Gor has always been guided by one thing: the power of nourishment. Now, he’s brought that vision to Duluth with Sol Café.
Making it Up North is a PBS North series that explores stories of creative artists, artisans and entrepreneurs engaged in honing their skills, following their passion and realizing their dreams.
Great Lakes Shipping 2025 Highlight Reel
The drama. The action. The suspense. Yes, it’s a Great Lakes shipping highlight reel, featuring 2025 scenes from Duluth, Superior, Two Harbors, Silver Bay and Marquette.
Ian Alexy – “Don’t Hesitate”
Duluth’s Ian Alexy nabs footage from the century-old film Don Juan for his latest music video. The track “Don’t Hesitate” is on Alexy’s new album The Tao of Ian.
Making it Up North: Misisipi Mike Wolf
Musician and poster artist Misisipi Mike Wolf shares the story of the journey that took him from the music-filled porches of the Gulf Coast to the creative community of Duluth.
Making it Up North is a PBS North series that explores stories of creative artists, artisans and entrepreneurs engaged in honing their skills, following their passion and realizing their dreams.
Rich Mattson and the Northstars – “Rendezvous With a Star”
The latest from Rich Mattson and the Northstars, “Rendezvous With a Star,” is from the band’s album Wake Up Songs, due out later this month.
Austin Castle – “Something Real” (The Lagom Session)
Austin Castle and friends perform “Something Real” at Lagom Builders Supply in Duluth. Castle released a new album, Timeless, in January.
Skating the big lake
I saw ice houses out there so I got my skates.
Dopey tune on a junky guitar
I’ve become an old man who putters around in the garage. Or the basement — the garage is really cold right now. I built a guitar out of garage stuff.
Making it Up North: Northern Waters Smokehaus
Northern Waters Smokehaus founder Eric Goerdt shares the journey of turning a lifelong passion for food preservation into a cornerstone of the Duluth community. From the early days of an “honor system” cooler and a coffee can for cash to employing more than 75 people today, Goerdt discusses his obsession with detail, his “northern spin” on the traditional deli, and why sustaining people is just as important as sustaining the land.
Making it Up North is a PBS North series that explores stories of creative artists, artisans and entrepreneurs engaged in honing their skills, following their passion and realizing their dreams.
Chad Elliott – “Minnesota”
“Iowa’s Renaissance Man” Chad Elliott has released an updated version of his song “Minnesota” with a video referencing the unrest in Minneapolis. The original version of the song appeared on his 2007 album Humbled at My Door. Kathryn Severing Fox, Elliot’s bandmate in Weary Ramblers, adds viola and harmony.
Making it Up North: North Shore Sauna
PBS North journies to Park Point on the shores of Lake Superior to spend time with Chad Lipka and Dustin Efrainson of North Shore Sauna, a Duluth based company reimagining what sauna can be. They create portable sauna tents with accessibility at the heart of everything they do.
Making it Up North is a series that explores stories of creative artists, artisans and entrepreneurs engaged in honing their skills, following their passion and realizing their dreams.
Best Lynx Footage from Voyageurs National Park
The latest video from the Voyageurs Wolf Project is a montage of some of the best footage of lynx shot in the past year or so. The clips were captured in Voyageurs National Park, about 100 miles north of Duluth.
Making it Up North: Y-ker Acres
PBS North has rebooted its series Making it Up North, which explores stories of creative artists, artisans and entrepreneurs engaged in honing their skills, following their passion and realizing their dreams.
The premiere episode of the new digital series profiles the Stamper family and Y-Ker Acres, located about a dozen miles southeast of Duluth in the town of Twin Lakes. The farm is home to heritage-breed beef and pork, raised on open pasture.
Pink Marlena – “Ishpeming” and “Akiing”
Pink Marlena, aka Makwawigwamikwe Marlena Boedigheimer, has a new album, Ishpiming, set for release Jan. 16 during a performance at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center. (more…)
Pronoya – “Pull Me Closer to the Flame”
“Pull Me Closer to the Flame” is from Pronoya‘s 2025 EP All for the Sun. The video is directed and edited by Cristian Pastrana of D/E Design & Studio. It was shot at Pizza Lucé by Pastrana with additional camerawork by Austin Sherzberg.
Wizardstone – “People People”
From the great forests and lakes of northeast Minnesota comes Wizardstone, the musical alter ego of Chuck Olsen, who hopes the video for the song “People People” can “help envision the world we want to live in.”
Ingeborg von Agassiz – “Poison”
A new original song from Duluth’s Ingeborg von Agassiz.
Ian Alexy – “Healing Me”
“Healing Me” is the new music video from Duluth’s Ian Alexy. The track is on Alexy’s new album The Tao of Ian.
Video: Ice Climbing at Quarry Park
“The Frozen Photog” Adam Jagunich recently visited Quarry Park in West Duluth, capturing scenes of ice climbers ascending the 100-foot manmade cliff at the former quarry, which became a city park in 2016.
Perfect Duluth Day’s Best Videos of 2025
From the multitude of videos posted to PDD, here’s the annual handpicked collection that stood out in 2025. (more…)
Berzerk Blawndz – “Santa is Injured”
Berzerk Blawndz released a new Christmas album, Go Berserk This Christmas!, in early December. The post-Christmas release of the music video for “Santa is Injured” tells the story of how St. Nick was unable to deliver presents this year, so the band did the job using Steve Solkela’s minivan.
Vincent Gargiulo’s Fantastic
San Francisco-based writer/director Vincent Gargiulo was in Duluth in 2013 shooting his short feature Duluth is Horrible. A segment from his next feature, Vincent Gargiulo’s Fantastic, was also shot in Duluth. “I Found Myself Stuck in an Experimental Film,” featuring Kat Mandeville, starts at the 4:55 mark in the embedded video above. (more…)
Hauliwood Dreams – “Finns in America”
Duluth’s Steve Solkela partners with Maria Voltaine, Miska Kajanus and Jaakko Manninen to form the Finnish-American novelty band Hauliwood Dreams for this parody of Kim Wilde’s 1981 hit “Kids in America.” The “Finns in America” lyrics are by Voltaine.
Trailer: Ish Meets a Mermaid
Duluth artist Jonathan Thunder’s new movie, Ish Meets a Mermaid, is in the submission process for the national film festival circuit. The story invovles an artist in a slump who meets a mysterious woman from a realm beneath Lake Superior and finds success in the last place he ever expected — death.
Steve Solkela – “En Etsi Valtaa, Loistoa”
Steve Solkela performs the Christmas song “En Etsi Valtaa, Loistoa” or “I Seek Not Power, or Glory,” composed by Jean Sibelius. He dedicates the song to the recently departed Rev. Martti Hyhkö of Ontario, Canada. (more…)