Blackeyed Snakes-Red Star Show
The theme for tomorrows Red Star show will be “outer space” . It edged out “naked” by just a few votes, probably due to concerns about cold weather. Music to start around 1030 or 1100. We hope to see you there Barbarella….
ps Baci, initiate countdown, go fer launch
Chester Creek Park Sweep
Dan Proctor will be leading the Citizens for Chester Creek Park in a spring clean up of the park this coming Saturday, May 1 at 9 a.m.
all volunteers are welcome and will get 1/2 off their breakfast burrito and drink and a CCCP Tshirt.
One of the first shopping malls in the United States — Lake View Store in Morgan Park
Lake View Store – Morgan Park – Duluth, MN
Minnesota has had a long history of firsts for shopping malls. It must be the long, cold winters keeping us on the forefront of the indoor shopping experience. Duluth’s Morgan Park Lake View Store being noted as one of the first indoor malls, Southdale Mall in Edina the first post-war enclosed mall and, of course, the Mall of America the United States’ largest and most visited mall in the world.
The Lake View Store in Morgan Park was built in 1915 and had two levels and a basement. There was a butcher shop, clothing, hardware, furniture, a pharmacy and a department store with groceries, and a general store. The top floor had a bank, dentist office, barber shop, hair salon, hat shop, billiard room and auditorium. The basement had an ice-making plant which made eight tons of ice per day for the mall and for Morgan Park residents and a shoe store. Wiki has more info.
Images courtesy of Wolfsonian – Florida International University
Exp. Tues. @ The Venue
8-11 pm
be there or…
be at Sacred Heart or Blue Crab.
Tuesday night should have our own kickball team–Dada approach. TimK, could you build a backpack van de graaff generator with blinky lights and a vaccum attachment by noon on Saturday? We’ll need it for the game (Buenos Aries, 1941).
Got an opinion on the Old Jail?
Tonight is your last chance to make your voice heard to those who will make the decision: the Duluth City Council.
The Duluth Heritage Preservation Commission has denied a permit to St. Louis County to demolish the Jail, which is protected from demolition under Duluth law as a landmark building. The County is appealing this decision, and the only way for the Council to overturn it is to essentially break Duluth law, which would establish a precedent that puts all of our historic assets at risk.
The appeal is on tonight’s City Council agenda. If you have something to say about the building’s demolition (on either side of the issue), you get three minutes to make your point.
I am biased to the Jail’s preservation (I write and publish Duluth history books and sit on the HPC), so I also encourage those who don’t wish to speak but who want to see the Jail saved simply show up to show support.
You can learn more about the issue in a letter to the Editor in today’s DNT penned by Richard Moe, a Duluth native and the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/118713/.
Kid’s Spring Garden Extravaganza!
Come one! Come all! To the first annual Kid’s Garden Extravaganza! 
Start your own seeds! Music and Games! Worm composting!
Garden Art! Make Bread! Chickens!
Wednesday, April 29th
Anytime between 4pm-7pm
at:
The Damiano Center
206 W 4th Street
Duluth MN 55806
For Information Call:
Katie at the Duluth Community Garden Program
218.722.4583
Resonance: The Odyssey of the Bells – April 29th
You are invited to attend a screening of the documentary film Resonance: The Odyssey of the Bells from 7-9PM on April 29th hosted by the Alworth Institute. Please mark your calendars and forward this invitation to others. This screening is part of the Alworth’s “International Lecture” series. Resonance shows Duluth in a positive light as it highlights the city’s efforts after WWII to mend the scars of the war and re-humanize a former enemy through the return of a centuries-old Buddhist temple bell considered sacred to the Japanese. Discussions will revolve around how a historical documentary like Resonance acts as a reminder of how citizen action plays a crucial role in restoring positive relations with former enemies in the wake of war. A 30-minute version of Resonance will be screened and followed by director Q/A. (more…)
Let Peace Shine (Duluth 2009) video
Here’s a video my husband and I made for the Men as Peacemakers film festival. It won 3rd prize. YouTube seems to be making it a little darker, sorry.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8TwE3ceoE
Train knowledge
For those who want to be in the know, I’d highly recommend the meeting at the Depot from 4-7 Wednesday. From 4-5, the plans for a transportation mecca downtown will be discussed. From 5-7, the talk is the Northern Lights Express passenger train. A lot is happening right now and I’d like to see many more people informed on the project and end this “it’s just another Amtrak” talk or “not my money” plaint. We subsidize roads and other travel options and never expect a return. While the rail gets up and going with significant public investment, it is being planned as a self-sustaining operation. Anyway, come to the meeting, get informed. The NLX has a Web site: www.northernlightsexpress.com
Sacred Heart Experimental Tuesday
* 7 p.m. – Tim Kaiser
* 8 p.m. – Rivulets
* 9 p.m. – Sight Like December
HOMEGROWN HOMEGROWN HOMEGROWN HOMEGROWN
May 2nd Campaign Rally & Dance – Robert Wagner for City Council – District 2
‘Thrilla’ – Dance event and campaign rally for Robert Wagner – District 2 City Councilor Candidate
‘A New Outlook on City Government’
Vote Spud!
I spotted this sign along Wisconsin Highway 13 between Ashland and Mellen a few weeks ago, right before the spring elections in Wisconsin.
I got a kick out of so many things about the sign – the use of “Spud” as the primary name, the (afterthought?) addition of “AKA Ryan Collins,” the use of scrap wood and (probably) leftover purple paint, nailing the sign right on a tree trunk… Small-town, north woods campaigning at its best. Well, except for that whole nailing to a tree trunk thing. I’m not a big fan of that.
Apparently Spud won a seat on the town board (scroll to the bottom). Godspeed, Spud – I hope you serve the Town of White River well.
Help out at Homegrown!
Hey beautiful Duluthians! Homegrown ’09 starts tomorrow and we still need volunteers to help staff doors. Our biggest need is for Homegrown Friday. If you can help email Jen at [email protected].
Poetry Month Finales
Today, Saturday, April 25th: 3-5pm Reading and Reception for Duluth-Area High School Poets! Listen to emerging voices, help yourself to some free refreshments and chat about poetry! Mitchel Hall Auditorium, free and open to the public. One of Jim Johnson’s Duluth Poet Laureate initiatives!
Spirit Lake Poetry Series 7:30pm Anishinaabe poet, Al Hunter, will read from his two books of poetry (and maybe more!) Spirit Horses and Recklessness of Love. Reading is at Somers Lounge at St. Scholastica – free and open to the public, refreshments to follow!
Monday, April 27th, as part of the Arts Night in the Homegrown Music Festival, Devin McKinnon will be hosting a poetry showcase with the Cosmic Pit Orchestra serving as house band. A really great lineup of tremendous talent – you won’t want to miss! 8pm at Teatro Zuccone!
And since there were people unable to make the contemporary poetry discussion with Ryan Vine, I wrote up a summary of the talk: Poetry Talk at Norlight Lit Life
Happy Last Days of Poetry Month!
Bob’s Basement Sale 3: The Blowout
My basement + tons of vintage clothes(and knick knacks I’m getting rid of cuz I’m moving this week) + Saturday, 10-4 + fresh-squeezed lemonade + (your snarky comment here)= My final attempt to get people to come buy my cool stuff. Hopefully, persistence pays off.
For the Little People: The mysterious miniature village on Madeline Island
I used to always hear stories about a mysterious fairy village on Madeline Island. Supposedly someone built an entire little village out in the woods somewhere. Every time I’m on the island, I bike down a fire lane or back road I’ve never been on before hoping to take a peek, but I’ve never found it.
Has anyone actually seen it and can attest to its existence?
Duluth’s Piper Building
Mysterious Surveyor Type Outside Piper Building
When I was growing up my mom used to take us to the St. Vincent DePaul store in this building, next to our church, Sacred Heart, which was still a place of worship in those days. (more…)
Indoor Golf Outing: Reading and Book signing at Northern Prints Gallery
Phil Fitzpatrick will read from and sign copies of his new book, A Beautiful Friendship: The Joy of Chasing Bogey Golf on Sunday, April 26 from 3-4:30 pm at the Northern Prints Gallery, 318 N. 14th Avenue E across from Burrito Union.
Koo Koo Kanga Roo
Koo Koo Kanga Roo is a musical duo from the Twin Cities. They promise to get the crowd involved in their choreographed dances and sing-along choruses and typically described as the Beastie Boys meets Sesame Street. Koo Koo will be performing this Wednesday, April 29th along side local Duluth rock trio, The Real McCoys.
The Event will take place in the Rafters on the University of Minnesota Duluth Campus at 9 pm
FREE for UMD students/$5 Non-UMD
Check out the Late Night Kirby website for more details www.d.umn.edu/kirby/latenight
Koo Koo Kanga Roo / The Real McCoys
Homegrown’s Experimental Tuesday
Shana David at the Blue Crab, Tuesday April 28
Homegrown’s Experimental Night
9:00 – 9:20 Original Tunez, piano, vocals and cuteness
9:20 – 9:25 Quick break
9:25 – 9:45 Michael Jackson Mini-Set
Cheeeeeck it out! Click on the creepy pic and then scroll down for more info on Shana D.
Spreading seeds
Say.. does anyone have one of those grass seed/lawn aerator/spreader thingambobs I could borrow for a week sometime in the next month or so? We are slowly trying to convert our lawn to almost exclusively clover and one of those would totally rock.
Please and thanks.
Duluth-area Auto Salvage
For the benefit of the general public, I’m sharing the results of today’s research project, entitled Which Junkyard Will Take My Useless Old Car and What Will They Give Me For It?
There are several places that will take your car if you strip the gas tank off, drain all the fluids, etc.
If you want someone to take it as is, the closest place to Duluth is Calvary Auto & Salvage in the Rice Lake Township (4825 Rice Lake Road | 723-1294).
A little farther away is Chesney Auto Salvage in the Fredenberg Township (6250 Beaver River Road | 721-4874).
Both offered $50 for my 1990 Ford Taurus, on the conditions that I deliver it to them and bring the title. (more…)
old Mac cord?
My old mac cord (non-magnetic) gave it up. Does anyone have an old one they’d be willing to sell cheap? I’m in a pickle – once the battery goes on this, I’m done.
[email protected]
Growler Review
It’s no secret that Fitger’s Brewhouse beers are outstanding, but what happens when you mix a bunch of them together?
Having recently had 11 different Brewhouse beers available at an event, I was faced at the end of the night with many growlers that had less than an inch of beer left. So a consolidation into one growler seemed like the best idea.
The answer to the question at hand is this: If Wildfire Lager is one of the beers involved in the mix, the mix will taste like Wildfire Lager.