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Seven reasons why gay marriage should be banned!

Sex Change World Premiere

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Check out the trailer for this world-premiere comedy written by local playwright Andy Bennett. The show opens this Thursday, Aug. 5, and runs through the Aug. 21.

Also check out the Gender Bender Karaoke Contest following our closing night show, talk-backs with the artists after Thursday night, and Renegade Improv every night after the shows at 10:30.

Charlie Parr live on the Mississippi

Charlie Parr performs “Mastodon” live on the Mississippi river for MPLS.TV’s weekly live performance series, “City of Music.”

Minnesotans are ill-tempered tweeters

The above video shows the mood of the United States over a two-day period as interpreted by various words used on Twitter. Green indicates a good mood, red indicates a foul mood, and pale yellow indicates the middle area. The size of the states scale up and down according to how many tweets were posted at that particular time.

As you can see, Minnesota rarely makes it out of the red. There are a few times when it sneaks into the yellow, but for the most part, we are a grumpy people, at least according to our Twitter activity and this study.

Speaking of which, here’s the official website. You’ll notice that the poster version of the data shows Minnesota tinged with a bit of green in the very early morning, indicating that on certain days, at around 6am, we apparently can drum up a tiny amount of positive spirit on the internet.

Two Winter Days in Duluth

Spirit Mountain’s Timber Twister Alpine Roller Coaster

Video by Dan Hartman.

RunCenter: Goucher and Flanagan in a verbal sparring match

Duluth native Kara Goucher and her Olympic teammate Shalane Flanagan are friends and training partners … or are they?

Seagulls on Wisconsin Point

Minnesota Skipping Club

Maria Bamford grew up in Duluth, “where we got a library shaped like an ore boat and cinnamon rolls the size of your head”

New clip from Twin Cities Public Television’s “MN Original.”

Duluth’s Lingering Shame: Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Lynching

Below is the complete text of a story from the June 7, 2000 issue of Duluth’s Ripsaw newspaper.

Duluth’s Lingering Shame
Eighty years ago Duluthians carried out one of the most horrific acts this region has ever seen. How did it happen? Have we changed?
By Heidi Bakk-Hansen

They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight

— From Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row”
 

On June 15, 1920, a mob of 10,000 lynched Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton and Elmer Jackson at the corner of First Street and Second Avenue East in Duluth.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty on the Daily Show talking about his undersized schtick

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Karl Spring interviews Alex Giuliani at Clyde Iron Works Restaurant

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Fred Tyson Doing What He Wants to Do on Madeline Island

Good luck on the Howard Stern Show, Freddy.

Clouds Over Rice’s Point

Time-lapse video of clouds drifting over Rice’s Point in Duluth during a roughly one-hour period.

“Notice that each dies a swift death as it reaches Lake Superior,” the videographer notes on YouTube. “No convection, no cloud. That water is cold in May!”

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