Where will you hide this weekend?
With the impending Grandma’s Marathon, where is the best place to hide?
Rolling Ruts: Inexpensive Golf Just Outside Duluth
If you aren’t particularly good at, or enthusiastic about, golf it’s hard to justify paying about $17 for nine holes, plus another $9 to rent clubs (especially if you’re paying for the whole family.)
Rolling Ruts offers the answer to casual golfers’ prayers. It’s basically free. (more…)
Comedy Olympics at the Playground!
Renegade Comedy Theatre is proud to announce the return of the Comedy Olympics, the Northland’s original improvisational comedy powerhouse!
Renegade’s new Comedy Olympics will coincide with the grand re-opening of the Teatro Zuccone later this summer, but you can catch a sneak preview of the show during a two-week run at the Playground theatre in the Tech Village in Downtown Duluth. The sneak preview opens tonight, June 19th and runs Friday and Saturday nights until June 27th. All shows at 10:30 pm.
Tickets are only $5 for an evening of high-caliber hilarity!
Solution for Iron Range economy
I’m no expert, but I came across this and I would guess that $20/gallon taconite pellets would turn the Iron Range economy around in a hurry? I haven’t done the math but I’m pretty sure this deal looks like a winner!
Factuals
Just saw this band at the thirsty pagan. Brought me back to when I grew up. Cover tunes, but are they something you can’t do. Great guitars. People carried tables out for dancing great guitar work, both from Barry and Jim. you could wish you could play so good. Hot rod you would like them.
Molly Spaun, owner of Molly’s Bar on Tower Avenue in Superior
Has anyone else had the pleasure of speaking to Molly Spaun about prohibition and prostitution in Superior during the 1920s and ’30s? I did, but my memory is clouded. She tells stories of speakeasies and debauchery. It was a lawless time and fascinating history about the Twin Ports.
Fun workout helping out: Sat 6/27
Hi
We need a few volunteers on our next food distribution day for our 100% volunteer-run non-profit food buying club. The semi will come to the Mariner Mall in Superior over by the theatres on Saturday June 27 at 8:30 AM. It takes about 45 min to unload the pallets and bring them into the storefront we use that day. The produce assortment is then pre-packed into recycled plastic grocery bags for distribution that afternoon. All said, it would be 2 hours of service. Other volunteers, many who are seniors and cannot lift boxes of food, come in around 10:30 to prepare orders to be delivered to senior apt buildings and other homebound people, as well as 300 other households who come to the Mall to pick up their order. SHARE is open to everyone– no age or income requirements. Anyone interested in helping??
Karen
Grace Press Design Cards Now at the Duluth Farmer’s Market
Lovely and Unique Grace Press Design Cards are for sale at the Duluth Farmers Market (14th Ave E and 3rd St) on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7:00a.m.-12:00. Local designer Sara Curwin’s mindful designs and hand embellished paperkraft assure to delight your every occasion greetings! It is always great fun at the Market!
Organics
I wish to educate Duluthians on the importance of eating organic and would like to show people who are already eating organic a great resource that can help give you more of a selection of USDA certified organic foods because as you know (or should know) all (so called) ORGANICS are not created equal. Would anyone be interested in a meeting in Duluth on organics and a free organic food tasting? If I get enough people interested I will find a place to hold it or if you would like to host it in your home you can get some organic food free! Please let me know if you just want more info. Thanks, Vicki
Will to Murder event at Glensheen
Wednesday, June 24 the publisher and authors of Will to Murder will launch the fourth edition of their book at Glensheen, the historic Congdon estate.
Two seatings are being offered at the following times:
First seating 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Second seating 8 – 9:30 p.m.
Each seating is $20 per person in advance and $25 at the door. Friends of Glensheen are offered a discounted rate of $15.
Please call (218) 726-8910 for tickets
Guys and Dolls Jr. at the Duluth Playhouse
The Duluth Playhouse presents “Guys and Dolls Jr.,” an evening of song, dance and fun for families! You remember the song “Luck Be a Lady,” right? Well, this is that show! It’s presented by the children’s theater summer intensive camp on the playhouse’s main stage, and the cast is all kids.
Thursday & Friday, June 25-26 at 7 p.m.;
Saturday, June 27 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.;
Sunday, June 28 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: call 218-733-7555 or visit www.duluthplayhouse.org.
Students: $7 Adults: $9
Only five shows!
Father’s Day
Some father’s day notes …
I read this great book (above) to my daughter at the dentist’s office yesterday. Working with fathers for my “real” job, I notice these things like how medical offices are decorated and set up, many are very friendly to mothers (great), but some are a little daunting for dads (too bad). It’s wonderful that in addition to providing great quality and accessible health care, the Lake Superior Community Health Center also makes an extra little effort like this to make dads feel comfortable and welcome at their kids’ appointments.
I read a lot of books for kids and adults about dads, this book was really great I had never seen it before. I think it would make a good father’s day gift for a dad of school age kids, or one who appreciates crafty art like Steve Jenkins’ paper cut images in the book ….
Did Marilyn Manson rip off Bone Appetit?
People are speculating that “Running to the End of the World,” a song off Marilyn Manson’s latest album “The High End of Low,” bears an uncanny resemblance to our beloved hometown heroes’ seminal ballad, “Drive Away.” Stick with this story: Controversy (and hilarity) are bound to ensue.
Duluth Art Institute presents Smithsonian Institution’s Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 18th from 5-7pm
Free and open to the public
Grab a friend and come to the Depot (506 W Michigan St. Duluth) for a rarely seen and mesmerizing portrait of our solar system’s diverse worlds and their moons.
Oldschool.
Bain News Service photo c. 1913
Pretty sporty. Reminiscent of Soviet combat snowmobiles in basic concept.
Duluth Party on Madeline Island 2009
Isolate the hole, people. Isolate the hole. (more…)
coming august 09
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jr0Sr_O6oY
website will be up soon but if interested in staying on top of what is coming up at the new twin cinema, become a fan of the zinema 2 facepage.
Park Point tunnels?
I don’t know if this has been addressed here before because I just discovered the site. I’ve heard the urban legend about a tunnel under Park Point that was used during prohibition to smuggle Canadian spirits into the Twin Ports, avoiding the usual protocol involved in bringing them in through the Superior or Duluth entries. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?
My proposal: Superior-to-Skyline Run
It’s Grandma’s Marathon week, so runners will be flooding into town for the long, rolling race along the shore of Lake Superior. It’s an iconic setting and an iconic race.
I’ve wondered a few times since moving here, though, if there should be another iconic running race in Duluth, one that celebrates another facet of Duluth like Grandma’s celebrates the lake. My proposal: A run from the shore of Lake Superior to the top of the hill. Call it the “Superior-to-Skyline Run.” Short, simple and steep. Let’s start crowning Duluth’s Kings (and Queens) of the Hill.
Free Chamber Music Concert
Sacred Heart Music Center will play host to part of the Three Bridges International Chamber Music Festival with a free concert on Tuesday June 16 at 7:30 pm.
I have had the pleasure of recording all of the concerts during this festival and have been very impressed by the quality of the participants. Some world class players are involved and hearing them play in the acoustical space of Sacred Heart should be a treat. Even if you aren’t normally a classical music fan you owe it to yourself to check out this show.
Postcard from First Street
This is one of the ways I see the city I love. I saw the shoes hanging from the wire, the clock tower, and that brilliant blue sky and I needed a picture. (more…)
