Mountain biking at Mont du Lac
Mont du Lac Recreation has been building mountain bike trails that are amazing. Last summer a shuttle was offered to take riders from the bottom of the trails to the top. This summer promises to be an amazing one as well, with shuttle dates to be announced.
Homegrown T-Shirt 2013
Finally had time to prep Chris’ t-shirt art. This is the art for the band, volunteer and pre-sale shirts.
This week: fonts, cats and ides
Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.
Today Sarah Brokke opens a new exhibit at Zeitgeist Arts or you could go to a gallery discussion at the Duluth Arts Institute.
On Tuesday you can get all sans serif at the Zinema 2 with a screening of Helvetica, the last movie in their Gary Hustwit design trilogy.
What should we do with Rockridge Elementary? You can chime in with your ideas on Wednesday in an open meeting at Portman Community Center.
Cats opens at the Duluth Playhouse on Thursday and runs for two weekends. Also opening that night is How I Learned to Drive at UMD and it runs through the end of the month.
Friday is the Ides of March and in Duluth that means a series of concerts where bands pay tribute to their musical influences. The series starts on Friday at Lake Avenue Café and heads to R. T.’s on Saturday and concludes next Friday at Pizza Lucé.
Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day and there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate, including:
- A film festival and concert at Clyde Iron in support of Second Harvest Food Bank
- A whole weekend’s worth of celebration at Dubh Linn
- A party at Sir Ben’s
- A ceili dance at St. Paul’s in support of Loaves and Fishes
So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.
Minnesota All Hockey Hair Team 2013
Yes, this weekend marked the crowning moment in Minnesota high school hockey — the opportunity to rank the best flow from the state tourney. Duluth and Hermantown were well represented on 2013 All Hockey Hair Team. (more…)
I am so sick of people using Skyline Parkway outlooks as dumpsters…
The latest asshole person to do so? Someone with bundles and bundles of Budgeteer papers and ads that decided to toss them off the overlook (for unknown motives; I’ll keep my hypothesis to myself). As I was walking my dog today I stumbled upon this disgusting site.
Help me smoke meats
I want to build this barrel smoker I found on Reddit, but I don’t know where to find a 55-gallon food-grade drum. Since everyone was very helpful with my sticker question I figured I would tap the PDD well again.
Popular Mechanics: Build Your Own Smoker From a 55-Gallon Drum
Where in Duluth?
Bonus points if you can figure the swatch of land that the heart covers. I’m stumped on the scale there, but at a minimum I’m thinking Proctor and maybe Esko and a township or three.
LakeVoice publishes second issue of spring
After several weeks of preparation, LakeVoice News published its first issue of the semester Feb. 28. The issue features the kickoff of LakeVoice’s Photo-A-Day project, video and audio pieces, and local issues stories produced by UMD journalism students. Since its launch, LakeVoice has published a second issue that includes a “Duluth on Ice” section, which features the history behind area hockey rinks.
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Everyone in the arts was out last night
There were openings at Ochre Ghost, Washington Gallery, and Prøve. I spent the night at Prøve listening to Snöbarn.
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Local artist is IFP new media finalist
Catherine Meier, new media artist and local filmmaker, is a finalist for the Independent Filmmaker Project New Media Project Grant. Only one of these is awarded for the whole state. (more…)
Duluth writing scene
I am interested in looking into and meeting some writers who are either from the Duluth area originally or still live here. Got any ideas?
Hey everyone! Just wanted to say thank you if you helped me find these amazing people! Take a read =)
https://www.lakevoicenews.org/duluth-writing-scene-is-exploding/
Rivulets – “I Don’t Want to be Found”
Rivulets is the musical outlet of part-time Duluthian Nathan Amundson. The new video is directed by Adam Barnick.
Minnesota Point in Solarized Mode
If you miss those summer days strolling the end of Minnesota Point while under the influence of psychedelic drugs, perhaps this video will help.
Homegrown Band Publicity Photo Showdown: Dead Guys vs. Mary Bue
Dead Guys (photo by Nate Rendulich)
Mary Bue (photo by Ryan Dahlberg)
With the Homegrown Music Festival coming up PDD launched a series of polls four weeks ago, tournament style, to determine which Duluth-area band has the sweetest pic. Last week the Tisdales defeated Ryan Van Slooten. This week we ask …
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This poll is now closed. The results were:
Dead Guys – 61.5 percent
Mary Bue – 38.5 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.
Old Duluth Photos on Shorpy
While watching Lost Duluth 2 on WDSE-TV (great show!), I wanted to pass along some awesome old photos that have been scanned in very high resolution and submitted to the wonderful archive site shorpy.com. Anyone who likes looking at good historic photos of Duluth will love these large images. Most of these were taken in 1905 and were published by the Detroit Publishing Co. using glass negatives.
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Has anyone recently looked at the Unfair Campaign?
There are a bunch of posts promoting radical leaders who advocate racial genocide on the Un-fair Campaign’s Facebook page! Yipes! Is this what Duluth has come to?
Rich Mattson’s Sparta Sound
If you’ve heard enough about the Duluth music scene, maybe it’s time to read up on the Iron Range music scene. The Current recently profiled Rich Mattson’s Sparta Sound.
This week: umlauts, empathy and robots
Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.
Mayor Ness will deliver the State of the City via video tonight. People are gathering to view the virtual mayor at Clyde Iron. Rumors of the mayor doing the Harlem Shake during the State of the City are unconfirmed.
Osmo Vänskä has little else to do being shut out of his orchestra, so he’s bringing his clarinet and umlauts to Mitchell Auditorium on Tuesday.
You can cultivate a little empathy at UMD on Wednesday and learn about diversity from two white women. Clearly I need to take this workshop.
I, for one, plan to welcome our new robotic overlords at the FIRST Robotics Regional Competition, running Thursday through Saturday at the DECC.
Text, a text based art exhibition, opens at the Prøve on Friday.
So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.
Snow coming
We have been warned. Frankie the DIY Weatherman is watching this storm from Nova Scotia.