Duluth Photographers Guild Photography Exhibit Closing Reception
(photo by Emily Rose)
Come on down for a last look at the DPG’s wide variety of photographic styles at the Duluth Photography Institute, 405 E. Superior St. on Saturday, April 30, from 5-8pm. Feel free to use the parking lots behind the building off of Fourth Avenue East. Call Brian at 218.393.2468 if you have any questions. Feel free to get more information at duluthphotographyinstitute.com or flickr.com/groups/duluthphotographersguild.
Dining Out For Life!
Amazing Grace Bakery and Cafe’ invites you to Dine Out on Thursday, April 28. Between 4 and 9 pm, 15 percent of all sales go to fight AIDS.
Bridge to the Community Homelessness Event at UMD
Tuesday April 26, 6pm,
UMD Kirby Rafters
Free, Open to the Public, Refreshments Provided.
Join Liz Kuoppala, Executive Director of MN Coalition for the Homeless, and representatives from CHUM, Life House, PAVSA, and Lutheran Social Services for an evening focused on the critical issue of homelessness in Duluth and Greater Minnesota. Hear directly from local service providers, learn about current legislative priorities, find out how you can become a local advocate. Come be a part of the solution!
UMD Dinner With Champions!
Please join UMD athletes and coaches for the inaugural Dinner With Champions! Connecting University and community together to celebrate student athletes, Wednesday May 4th, 2011 at the DECC. To learn more and purchase your table and/or tickets, go to www.umdbulldogs.com. Event sponsored in part by APEX, Minnesota Power, Duluth News Tribune, Essentia Health and Maurices. Last chance to buy tables or tickets! RSVP by April 28th!
Stream Beastie Boys’ Hot Sauce Committee Two
Here is the new Beasties album “The Hot Sauce Committee Part Two” (dropping May 3 on Capitol) for your afternoon listening enjoyment!! Stream away! I am digging it. Click continue reading to stream. (more…)
End National Poetry Month with a Bang, not a Whimper
Very proud to report that the Twin Ports sees the end of National Poetry Month out in grand fashion.
Friday, April 29th, 7pm| Jim Dan Hill Library UW-S: Reception & Booksigning by poet George Gott, Emeritus UW-S, for his new book The Willow Tree and Other Inclinations: Poems from the Lake
Saturday, April 30th, 7:30pm | Somers Lounge CSS: Spirit Lake Poetry Series reading by former national poet laureate, Ted Kooser. Don’t miss this living legend of Midwestern Verse!
Monday, May 2nd, 6:30pm| Teatro Zuccone: as part of Homegrown Music Festival, there will be an evening dedicated to a Homegrown Poetry Showcase
These are all sure to be great events – make as many as you can; look forward to seeing you there!
Food from Scratch for the Zenith of the Unsalted Sea: Creating a Local Food System in Early 20th Century Duluth
How do you create a locally harvested food system for a city of 100,000? This question is being asked presently in Duluth and the broader western Lake Superior region as well as in many other cities across the United States. It was also an urgent local question a century ago. (more…)
Where in Duluth?
As a thank you to Starfire for establishing the “Where in Duluth” category link, I figured I should contribute. Do your best.
An Evening with DeAnna Cummings: Arts for Social Change in Minnesota
Monday, April 25
6pm, UMD Kirby Rafters
Free, open to the public, refreshments provided.
DeAnna Cummings, executive director of the Minneapolis-based arts organization Juxtaposition, has been involved with using the arts and culture for positive social, political, and economic change at both grassroots and policy levels. Join Ms. Cummings as she speaks about, and displays examples of, her work utilizing the arts for positive social change in MN, and discusses how they can be used as a powerful tool to engage young people, build community, and promote positive social, legislative, and economic change.
Juxtaposition Arts is a community based education, entrepreneurship, and professional development organization for young artists, committed to being an active contributing community member, and extending its work to the city, state, and Midwest region. Ms. Cummings is also curator of the Art of T&A: Truth and Activism and one of six women who founded B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop.
Ecological Restoration
This Wednesday, April 27, starting at 7 PM at Hartley Nature Center (3001 Woodland Ave.) Paul Hlina, owner of Leaning Pine native landscapes who has spent many years growing native plants, preparing, planting and maintaining native plantings of all sizes, and conducting related research will talk on some more philosophical aspects of why and how we undertake ecological restoration.
From Paul: “I will discuss the idea of long term ecological restoration from the perspective of seeking out the balance between natural and human ecosystems. Whose goals are we achieving, human derived or nature driven goals? How do our human experiences, aesthetics, belief systems impact our restoration experiences. I also will discuss there is no such thing as a no-maintenance restoration. But that maintenance allows one to broaden and deepen the connection with your space. As in native traditions, it turns the space sacred, instead of a burden to conquer. There will be a lot of what I’ve learned over the years, about a continue march in living lightly on this planet.”
Join this great conversation organized by the Arrowhead Wild Ones Chapter and Hartley Nature Center.
Matinee Musicale presents the Copper Street Brass Quintet
Copper Street Brass
Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 7:30 PM
At Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2310 E. 4th St.
Tickets: Adults $20, Seniors $18, Students $6
These five brilliant young musicians have nine degrees, dozens of academic recitals, a few hundred jazz gigs, and countless concerts between them. They’ve also got style, substance, and a flair for innovation.
Some guidance for PDD from John Waters
I caught film eccentric John Waters on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me today. He had some good advice, based on his life and work in Baltimore:
“If you learn to celebrate what everyone else hides about your community, you can have success.”
Keep up the good work, Duluthians!
Duluth endurance cyclists leave mark in Trans-Iowa
From left Charlie Farrow and Tim Ek (who, along with Jason Buffington and Jeremy Kershaw make up the Death Before Dishonor group) at last year's Trans-Iowa. Note the headlamps because they will be riding all night.
Two of Duluth’s strongest endurance cyclists completed an amazing feat today in Iowa. The Trans-Iowa is a two-day, 300-mile bike race on mostly gravel backroads that starts at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning and finishes when you either cross the finish line or quit, which many people do. To win, you have to pretty much ride without stopping for a little more than 24 hours. (more…)
Math tutor wanted
Looking for a math tutor for my daughter. 1 to 2 sessions a week. Any math majors want to earn a few extra $. Cheers
Birdhouses: ‘The women say they look so cozy’
LakeVoice journalists Ethan Walker and James Stitt drove to Angora to visit with birdhouse maker Daniel Rankin.
Empty Bowl, good feeling inside
17th annual Empty Bowl
Tuesday, April 26 – 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The Depot, 506 West Michigan Street, Duluth
Empty Bowl benefits Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank, providing food for more than 3 million meals annually to people in need throughout northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. $15 includes a handmade bowl and a simple, delicious soup meal.
Game Night at Collector’s Connection
Collector’s Connection used to be cramped, a place to stall while my wife wandered the mall. No longer! It’s become a destination. Last night, my wife and I played two games with a charming young couple of students and the Host, who did an excellent job of teaching us how to lose gracefully. The evening was free, though I bought a comic on the way out! (more…)
Slumber party report needed
Action at Yarn Harbor -- Not Slumber Party
Did anyone attend the “Slumber Party” at Yarn Harbor?
The next one will be May 13th. More info about Yarn Harbor is here.
Seems like a lot of money…I thought “we” were broke?
This is from the upcoming City Council Agenda for 04/25/11
$450,000 for computers? I suppose they have to keep up with the $800 chairs each councilor has. Anyone who works in technology / retail, does this seem like a lot of money?
11-0191R – RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH CITON COMPUTER CORPORATION FOR THE PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF LENOVO COMPUTER HARDWARE (LAPTOPS) AND RELATED EQUIPMENT AS NEEDED IN YEAR 2011, NOT TO EXCEED THE BUDGET ALLOCATION OF $150,000.
11-0194R – RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR, INC., FOR COMPUTER HARDWARE AND RELATED PRODUCTS AS NEEDED IN YEAR 2011 NOT TO EXCEED THE BUDGET ALLOCATION OF $100,000.
11-0196R – RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH SOFTWARE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL (SHI), INC., FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE AS NEEDED IN YEAR 2011, NOT TO EXCEED THE BUDGET ALLOCATION OF $200,000.
you can view the whole thing here
duluthmn.govHomegrown 2011 tickets on sale
Advance Homegrown tickets now on sale only at the Electric Fetus.
Friday or Saturday $15
Weeklong passes $25
Be the first on your block. Or something.
Call for Photos – Homegrown Photo Show
For those of you who have been waiting and wondering… will there be a Homegrown Photo Show (it was inadvertently left out of the schedule)…
The answer is YES. (more…)
Spirit Mountain Snowboard Video
Some shots up at Duluth’s local hill, Spirit Mountain.
Video Sessions with Charlie Parr and the Fontanelles
New local videos from North Shore Sessions featuring Charlie Parr & Lane Prekker, and the Fontanelles.