Events Posts

St. David’s Day Open Reading 2010

The Spirit Lake Poetry Series presents its 14th annual St. David’s Day Open Reading.

Saturday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m., at Somers Lounge, College of St. Scholastica

Anyone is welcome to participate. Readers must limit themselves to three minutes.

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Forum: The Copenhagen Debacle and the Fight for Climate Justice


Sunday, February 28, 7 PM, Center for Just Living, College of St. Scholastica Tower Hall

Runaway climate change threatens the entire human species with annihilation. Join a presentation and discussion of why efforts to halt global warming to date have failed and what needs to be done.

Sponsored by Lake Superior Socialist Action, P.O. Box 16853, Duluth, MN 55806. For more information contact (715) 394-6660 or [email protected].

10W40 at Pizza Luce

$5 cover, but to put it in perspective … you’ll still spend less at Luce then the Rex when it comes to beer … just saying.

Informational Picket

What: Informational Picket

Who: Lake Superior News Guild and supporters

When: Thursday, Feb. 25, noon to one

Where: In front of the Duluth News Tribune, 424 W. 1st Street

Why: The members of the Lake Superior Newspaper Guild would be glad to take a pay cut, but what we want in exchange from the paper’s owners, Forum Communications, is protection of jobs. Instead of working with the Guild, however, the company continues to lay off workers and diminish the quality of the paper. Help us send a message to Forum management that the Guild is more than willing to sit down at the bargaining table to achieve the savings the company desires in exchange for saving jobs here in Duluth. Tell the company that what it’s done to your newspaper is wrong. If you value having a newspaper in Duluth, please come out and support us. If you can’t make it, feel free to send an email to Forum owner Bill Marcil at [email protected] to let him know you’re concerned about the paper and you support the Guild’s efforts.

Cover: Free!

Sixth Annual H.O.T.D.I.S.H. Bakeoff

Sixth Annual H.O.T.D.I.S.H. Bakeoff
March 27, 2010
Peace Church, 1111 N. 11th Ave. E.
5:30-7pm Bakeoff (food, judging, prizes, repro health and justice political updates)
7pm Pamela Means (www.pamelameans.com benefit concert.

The Ragbirds coming to Duluth tomorrow!

The Ragbirds, the infectious global groove band from Ann Arbor MI, are coming to Duluth tomorrow, Feb. 25, for a show at the Rex. One of the busiest touring bands from Michigan, the Ragbirds have performed 200 shows a year in 26 states, and Japan, and have played Rothbury, 10,000 Lakes Festival, Summercamp, Wookiefoot’s Harvest Fest, and many more! Female violinist fronted, and full of upbeat and danceable positive gypsy, African, and folk-rock groove, we’re excited to be playing our first Duluth show! Please come out and spread the word!

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Lundgren better be funny…

I’m in the mood for funny … so Paul Lundgren’s Happy Hour better be funny … dammit.

Paul Lundgren - Open Mic @ Carmody Irish Pub - HG08

What: Paul Lundgren and poet Ryan Vine share the stage
When: Tonight @ 6pm
Where: Teatro Zuccone

Think about showing up. Paul’s mom would like it if you did.

Help make the Twin Ports more bike and pedestrian friendly

The Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council is launching a new Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee. This committee will advise the region’s transportation leaders and advocates on bicycle and pedestrian issues and opportunities that are faced in the Twin Ports.

The kickoff meeting is this Thursday, Feb. 25, from 6-7:30pm at the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission. More info at www.dsmic.org.

Looking for cheap entertainment?

Tonight!
Tiny Moving Parts
The People Say Fox
Lions&Creators
Leif Hinkel

5 p.m. | $4 | all ages
The Encounter | 201 E. First St.

Come have some fun and enjoy the positive vibes and jones soda, etc., etc.

Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles on KUMD and @ Pizza Luce w/ TBT

For some reason this Minneapolis gypsy, folk super-group has yet to set foot in Duluth but the wait is finally over. A regular main-stay at Minneapolis venues such as the Cedar, the Dakota and First Avenue, tonight they open for Trampled By Turtles @ Pizza Luce. It will be hard to follow last night’s opening performance by Minneapolis roots-rockers A Night in the Box, though Michelle & co. will certainly cease your attention. Trampled By Turtles really loves their regional bands, supporting numerous, young, up and comers including A Night in the Box, Johnson Family Band, Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank and many more.

Storytelling/Poetry Open Mic Night

Monday, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Teatro Zuccone

Cheryl Skafte IS Don Ness!

Cheryl Skafte as Don Ness.
John Munson as Rockin’ Johnny Rocker, Morning Drive Homicide Detective.
Christa Lawler as Christa Lawler. And music from Sara Thomsen.

That’s a lot of entertainment for just five dollars.

The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour, broadcast live on KUWS 91.3FM this Thursday at 8pm. (But all the fun is had in the live studio audience at The Shack in Superior…) Call (218) 213-2780 for tix.

Wilco (the city) = Duluth

Wilco’s fog show in Duluth was the equivalent of two young lovers waiting out a downpour in a phone booth (if the weather wasn’t so bad we’d still just be holding hands).

I loved that show – the fog, the ore boat, the Brewhouse beer, the unseasonable cold, and a band who seemed to thrive in the elements.   It was perfect because it was such an authentic Duluth experience and Wilco seemed to appreciate it every bit as much as we did.

It seems to me there something special going on between Wilco and Duluth, a sense of connection between band and city.  Duluthians recognize and appreciate the authenticity, the talent, the lack of pretense – it’s all those qualities that we see and expect from our local rock stars (Al, Mimi, Charlie, Turtles, Jerree, Tony B, etc).

So, here’s the deal, since there is nothing in the Charter that strictly prohibits me from doing so, I’m going to officially proclaim Wilco as an honorary Duluth band.  I need your help to define exactly what that means…

1)  We need to come up with some sort of “official trinket” that represents their honorary Duluth band status

2) We need to present the ground rules for being a Duluth band – with power comes responsibility

3) What are the special perks to being a Duluth band in good standing?

Obviously, they would now be eligible to play Homegrown (we’ll have to remind them that registration closes at the end of February).

Thanks for your help.

It’s Time to Talk About It: Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week at UMD

Calendar of events:

Monday, February 22:

Classroom Seminar: The Biological Basis of Sex Differences in Body Shape.  Presented by Colleen Belk, Department of Biology.  Chemistry 150, 3-3:50pm.  Join us for this classroom lecture and discussion as part of the Biology of Women course.

Wilco is sold out – Win tickets here

Did you come to party, Duluth? I know you did.

Tickets to Friday night’s Wilco show at the DECC Auditorium are sold out. If you’d like to win tickets from PDD, here’s how:

If you went to the foggy, rainy 2007 concert at Bayfront Festival Park, share your favorite memory of that show in the comments. If you didn’t go, maybe you have a good excuse for missing such a sensational show, so share that.

At some point either tonight or tomorrow, I’ll pick a winner from those who comment.

(Oh, and I know the audio is crappy on the embedded video, so you don’t need to comment about that.)

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