Minnesota Wine Exchange Review

Bob L Jun 22, 2013 1 Comment

I spent last Friday evening at the Minnesota Wine Exchange for the first time.  It is a fantastic place to enjoy Minnesota wines and beers right in the center of Downtown Duluth (Lake Ave & Superior St.).  If you’re interested in sampling wines, you can purchase a “flight” consisting of three glasses, each filled 1/3 full with a different wine for the reasonable price of $5. 

If you’re hungry, there are appetizers and sandwiches which I plan on trying some day soon when I go there for lunch. If you want to relax and enjoy conversation with friends, this is the place to go. Background music for listening with local art exhibited on two levels for viewing. The  paintings of the late John Peyton are currently being displayed.

This is a locally owned business selling Minnesota products which is a win-win situation. If you haven’t been there, I would encourage you to try it. The day I went there was a perfect Duluth day indeed!


Recommendations, Restaurants

Beaver Relocation in Downtown Duluth

David Beard Jun 22, 2013 3 Comments

This beaver was in the downtown Duluth area, near the on-ramp for the adjacent freeway. Farzad from Wildwoods captures it. It is later released outside of town by a creek. Video courtesy of Duluth PD Officer Jayme Carlson.


Videos ,

Zoo News

David Beard Jun 22, 2013 No Comments

From Lake Superior Zoo: We are very sad to announce that one of our wolves has died. “Cohen,” who was on loan, along with his brothers “Capone” and “Dillinger” from the Wildlife Science Center in Columbus, MN was euthanized after emergency exploratory surgery on Tuesday, June 18.

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News and Current Affairs, R.I.P.

Does anyone have any info on the Craft Brew Village in September?

nicolai Jun 21, 2013 1 Comment

On the Bayfront Festival Park website it lists one of the 2013 events as Craft Brew Village, Sept. 20-22. The Hot Air Ballon Festival is also going on at the same time. Just curious if anyone has any more information. That weekend coincides with the official start of Oktoberfest in Munich, so I’m wondering if this maybe is Fitger’s Oktoberfest.


Events

Tree Planting in Duluth

LollDesigns Jun 21, 2013 No Comments

Almost exactly a year after the historic flood, we found the timing to be refreshingly ironic as we set off on our annual tree planning exercise. Employees from Loll Designs, Epicurean, and Intectural all joined to plant trees in four areas around Duluth (Amity Creek, Hartley, Kingsbury Creek, and Featherstone Drive). As it is known, erosion from stream beds were hit hard from the flood and we saw that first-hand as we sought to plant and rehab those areas.

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Outdoors, Photos , , , ,

Placing Literature in Duluth

Paul Lundgren Jun 21, 2013 3 Comments

Check it out: Placing Literature is a new website that maps scenes from novels that take place in real and familiar locations — like, you know, places in Duluth, as shown above. On the site you can zoom around the map worldwide and add new points of literary interest. (The hot spots right now are New York, California, around Lake Superior and the Orient.)

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Art

Stormy and beautiful by the lake

Lucie Amundsen Jun 21, 2013 No Comments

Whipping water and big waves this early morning at Glensheen Mansion on Lake Superior.

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Photos

Water

frank nichols Jun 20, 2013 8 Comments

As some of you know, I have long been interested in storm-water retention. Looking at these pictures of the flood, I am going to once more enter into the fray. I do not do this seeking anything, it just seems to be a common sense thing to do on so many levels. This is what I think. Take it for whatever you want. One small thing you could do.

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Recommendations

Flood Damage/Recovery

Paul Lundgren Jun 20, 2013 3 Comments

This little MPR piece with Derek Montgomery’s photos is the coolest.

Before and after photos: 2012 flood damage, recovery in Duluth, northeast Minnesota

Follow the link to see the flood photos from a year ago, then click on the image to transform it to a post-flood 2013 image.


Photos

PDD Band Publicity Photo Showdown: Teague Alexy vs. Tangier 57

Paul Lundgren Jun 20, 2013 3 Comments

Back in April, Perfect Duluth Day launched a series of polls, tournament style, to determine which Duluth-area band had the sweetest pic. Tangier 57 won the championship, and, now that the post-Homegrown grace period is up, must defend its title.

The challenger:

Teague Alexy (photo by Joshua Priestley)

The reigning champions:

Tangier 57 (photo by Patrice Bradley)

Which band has the better publicity photo?

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This poll is now closed. The results were:

Teague Alexy – 54.5 percent
Tangier 57 – 45.5 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.


Music, Polls

I thought I saw a squatch!!! What is Bigfoot Music Productions?

Bigfoot Jun 19, 2013 No Comments

For a while now, people have been asking what Bigfoot Music Productions actually is. So, we thought we would take a minute to provide a little clarification so everyone can fully understand what we are doing.

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Music

Dylan ticket

quirtep Jun 19, 2013 6 Comments

I have a ticket to the Bob Dylan show at Bayfront, but won’t be able to make it.  I’ll sell it at a reduced price.  Bob Dylan on sale.  Please make a fair offer, and it’s yours.


Music

Amazon cuts off Minnesota affiliates

David Beard Jun 19, 2013 18 Comments

News release from “Shelf Awareness.” Do you think this has more than anecdotal Duluth impact?

Amazon cuts off Minnesota affiliates

With Minnesota’s online sales tax law due to take effect July 1, Amazon has played a familiar card by cutting ties with 5,200 members of its Associates program in the state, the Pioneer Press reported. The online retailer has previously taken comparable action in other states that passed similar legislation.

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News and Current Affairs

Solitude Hill – Woodlawn Cemetery

Paul Lundgren Jun 18, 2013 7 Comments

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This tiny old cemetery is about three miles off of Tower Avenue in Parkland, a town south of the city of Superior and east of the town and village of Superior, near the Nemadji Golf Club, at the end of Cemetery Road.

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Ennyman Reviews Sol Fest: “Plein Air Painters and Ayla the Mermaid Take Sol Fest Over the Top”

David Beard Jun 18, 2013 No Comments

From the Ennyman:

“The setting, as I noted previously, was spectacular, the weather cooperating with enthusiasm. And the performers, as anticipated, were not only determined to make Sol Fest a spectacle, they were accompanied by some wonderful embellishments. I refer here to the plein air painters and Ayla the Mermaid…

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Art
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