Homegrown Band Publicity Photo Showdown: Semifinals (pt. 1)
With the Homegrown Music Festival coming up PDD launched a series of polls eight weeks ago, tournament style, to determine which Duluth-area band has the sweetest pic. This week we begin the semifinal round. (more…)
Dirty Knobs – “La Tortue Diabolique”
From the banjo capital of the world (Duluth, Minnesota, USA) comes the newest banjo sensation Banjrone (banjo drone). The sound of a herd of turtles racing across the world, risking their lives, “trampling” all in their path.
This week: turtles, violence and geeks
Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.
Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. for this summer’s Tall Ships Festival.
On Tuesday you can attend a panel discussion on Community Perspectives on Violence in America at UMD.
Trampled by Turtles plays the DECC on Thursday.
Tim Eriksen plays Beaner’s on Friday and then leads a shape note singing workshop on Saturday at the Duluth Friends Meetinghouse.
Get your geek on at the Geek Prom on Saturday at the newest venue in Duluth, the Underground at the Depot.
So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.
Game of Thrones Season 3 Premier
Where can a person go to watch the premier of the new season? Any bars in the Twin Ports with HBO? It’d be great if Zinema 2 could pick this up and have weekly screenings!
Meeting Charlie Parr
Check out the Kiss Kiss Bank Bank page to throw a few euros at this documentary about Duluth’s own Charlie Parr.
There’s also a website for the project at meetingcharlieparr.com and a Facebook page.
Wildlife Rehab “Spring Training”
Below, some news and updates from Wildwoods Rehab. As the thaw comes, we experience what I think of as “Spring Training” — not quite the season opener, but boy, it’s getting busy for our volunteers.
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Jim Carlson: “The Nazis got me again.”
[This post originally contained an embedded video that is no longer available at its source.]
This afternoon Duluth police arrested Last Place on Earth owner Jim Carlson and his son, Joseph Gellerman, on probable cause based on prior sales of illegal controlled substances to undercover police officers.
Both Carlson and Gellerman were transported to the St. Louis County Jail and booked for three counts of fourth-degree sale of controlled substance.
Question about the Egyptian Theatre in Downtown Duluth
My students have questions about the Egyptian Theatre of the Duluth Masonic Center, 4 West Second St., Duluth. “The Egyptian Theater is a unique landmark in the city of Duluth, and its Kimball pipe organ has recently been restored.”
If you have info about construction, performances, and other historical information, please share below!
Vegetarian-ish, garlic eating, natural-remedy-using nonsmokers
From the book Wild by Cheryl Strayed:
Who were those doctors in Duluth anyway? What was Duluth? Duluth! Duluth was a freezing hick town where doctors who didn’t know what the hell they were talking about told forty-five-year old vegetarian-ish, garlic eating, natural-remedy-using nonsmokers that they had late stage lung cancer, that’s what.
Duluth Snowboarding Video
This is a video of Mitch Larson snowboarding all over Duluth and at Mont du Lac. It was created by Higher Base Media. (more…)
Talk nerdier than that, please.
At Nerd Nite the hosts showed the Geek Prom poster on the PowerPoint screen and asked the crowd what was being parodied. For a group that doesn’t miss a reference very often, the audience was actually stumped for a few seconds and I swear I heard a few crickets before someone finally muttered “Talk dirty to me?”
Perhaps the creative arrow missed the target market on this one. Maybe the prom committee will stick to Star Wars references from now on and leave Poison out of it.
Homegrown Band Publicity Photo Show- down: Tim Kaiser vs. the People Say Fox
Tim Kaiser (photo by Matt Blum)
The People Say Fox (photo by Nate Rendulich)
With the Homegrown Music Festival coming up PDD launched a series of polls seven weeks ago, tournament style, to determine which Duluth-area band has the sweetest pic. Last week Snöbarn defeated Peter Pain. This week we ask …
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This poll is now closed. The results were:
Tim Kaiser – 87.1 percent
The People Say Fox – 12.9 percent
Note: Only people who are logged in to their Perfect Duluth Day blogging account are allowed to vote (to prevent people from voting multiple times). To create an account, click here. If you need help figuring it out, click here.
Where to find fresh fish in Duluth
My wife and I are new to Duluth and I’m looking for the best place to purchase fresh fish for Easter. I haven’t a clue where to start. Help please.
Am I just stupid, or are the Interstate Parking Lot Automatic Systems difficult?
I used an Interstate lot in downtown Duluth today thinking it would be a nice solution to not having quarters or cash and also not knowing how long my meeting was going to run. As is often the case in Duluth, I was unable to read my spot number and was also unable to read the spot number for the neighboring spot due to snow and ice. So I paid for 2 hours of parking using my license plate number. About five minutes before my two hours was up I called the 866 number listed on the receipt to extend time.
Problem number one encountered is that the receipt listed two lot numbers. On the top portion of the ticket, it says Lot 2561. On the very bottom of the ticket it says “to extend time at location 3110.” When I called the 866 number I was unsure which number was supposed to be entered.
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Southwire in City Pages
Recorded this past year, the eight hymn-like folk spirituals on Southwire’s self-titled debut come alive via Small’s plaintive and soulful vocals, a mix of lyrical spoken word and booming singing from Larson, and the timeworn instruments used to compose the songs.
Full City Pages article:“Southwire champion gospel folk”
Info on March 30 show at Sacred Heart: “Southwire CD Release Concert“
New Duluth Drone from Dirty Knobs
Duluth’s own drone/dark-ambient unit Dirty Knobs (me) is hoping to release his (talking about myself in the third person) next album A Disenchanted Snake as a double vinyl package sent around the world (Hello, Italy!). You can watch the video, hear some clips and read a lot more about it (and past Dirty Knobs stuff) here on Kickstarter.
The Duluth Local Show on Local Current
I’m happy to say that I’ve been given the chance to share some Duluth music with a much wider audience than can hear my current radio program on KUWS. (And by “Duluth music” I mean everything from the Iron Range to the South Shore.)
The show will air on the Local Current stream on Wednesdays (starting tomorrow, March 27) at noon and will be rebroadcast on Thursdays at 11 p.m. and Saturdays at 6 p.m.
In order to put on the best local show I can – I’m gonna need your music if you’re in a band. We’ve got some 180+ acts playing Homegrown this year alone and I can tell you that I don’t have recordings from more than half of them. This is a call to bands from the region to send me your CDs/vinyls and/or high-quality digital downloads for me to potentially play on the Duluth Local Show.
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Recent comments feature klunky right now
You may have noticed the little section on the left column that highlights which posts have new comments you haven’t read has been malfunctioning. We know this, and we are working on it. (And when I say “working on it,” I mean going skiing and thinking about it occasionally.)
The problem started over the weekend, when a new plugin was installed to speed up the time it takes to load the homepage. Fix one thing, another one breaks. That’s how it goes.
Marc Gartman’s Fever Dream to release first video on March 28
Hear samples and “like” Marc Gartman’s Fever Dream on Facebook.
New Two Beat Band record
My part-time Duluth group, Two Beat Band, has a new EP out today. Stream the whole thing online, or download the tunes and album art for $5. Also, we’ll be playing the Saturday of Homegrown at Pizza Luce before Southwire and Cars & Trucks. I hope you like it. –Jordan Taylor
Is the Duluth News Tribune taking potshots at special education?
The DNT has run two recent articles on special education in our public schools. Both articles seem to be to be blaming the current overcrowding and school budget crisis on special education costs. (more…)
KUMD’s the Basement on mtvU
KUMD’s student-run programming, the Basement, will be featured on mtvU’s College Radio Countdown beginning tomorrow. We’ll celebrate our national television debut with a premiere party on Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30-9:00 pm in the UMD Lake Superior Hall Lobby.
KUMD students produced a fun one-minute video to introduce the mtvU audience to KUMD and Duluth; it starts with a broadcast from a local ice fishing house. The video will introduce our ten video picks of songs that represent the sound of the Basement, including two Minnesota artists, Trampled by Turtles and Polica.
In addition, KUMD’s Music Directors picked five local videos to be featured on mtvU’s tumblr; our first pick, Brian Barber’s brilliant video for the Black-eyed Snakes’ “Rise Up,” has already been posted and more will follow each day this week.
In the Duluth area mtvU is available on digital cable channel 327 and the show will also be available online at www.mtvu.com.