Help a UMDuluth student be less broke
Hey a friend of mine/coworker at UMD is competing in a beauty contest of sorts that could win her 5 grand. She’s a hard working kid that went to school here in Duluth. It’d be great if you could go and vote for Keely!!! We all know how five grand could help a poor college student.
Neil LaBute’s (and Julie Ahasay’s) “Fat Pig” opens tonight
The Play Ground hosts this tender, funny and biting look at love by one of America’s hottest playwrights.
directed by Julie Ahasay
with
Jason Page
Allison Hartl
Zachary Stofer
Priscilla Manisto
Dates have changed!!!!!!!!!
Performances are now:
April 16, 17, 18, 23, 25
May 2
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10 at the door or online www.duluthplayground.org
Rubber Chicken Radio Hour, Live at The Thirsty Pagan
The next live broadcast of The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour will be Wednesday, April 29, from 7-8pm at The Thirsty Pagan in Superior, Wisconsin. The show will be broadcast live on KUWS 91.3FM, but being in the studio audience to see how it all comes together is the most fun, and admission is FREE…but you really should buy a pizza and a beer or two.
The Celebrity Guest for this show is Super Dave Anderson from the Northland’s News Center. Musical guest is Jim Madison, guitarist/singer/improvisational musician extraordinaire.
Some of the sketches in this edition of The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour include a behind-the-scenes peek at why Mark Winson decided to leave Mayor Don Ness after only two months, and how Dennis Anderson decides to spice up his newscasts after hearing about the success Pat Kelly had with The Full Monty at the Duluth Playhouse (The Full Denny, anyone?)
Spring Sustainability Fair
Energy, Campus, and Community
April 21 at the UMD Kirby Student Center
10 am-4 pm
Call: 722-SAVE for bus schedules
Informational booths, demonstrations and panel discussions on many topics, with a focus on energy.
Call 722-SAVE for Bus Schedules.
*Panels and Presenters* (Kirby Lounge)
11:00 a.m. Wind Power! Community wind projects in NE Minnesota, and results from wind resource research on the UMD campus: Mike Mageau, UMD Geography and Center for Sustainable Community Development
12:00 p.m. Campus Energy Research – Malosky Solar Array: Andrew Bentley, Brandon Eberle, and Scott Norr, UMD Electrical and Computer Engineering
12:30 p.m. Campus Energy Research – Multiple-Energy Source Integration: Jeron Smith, Tom Soldner, Drew Jensen, David Buszmann, and Paul Weber, UMD Electrical and Computer Engineering
1:00 p.m. Energy: Choices, Issues, and UMD’s Role: Tom Ferguson, 3M McKnight Professor, UMD Elect & Comp Engr
2:00 p.m. Go lean before going green: The role of energy conservation and why it should always come first: Dean Talbott, Residential Program Specialist, Minnesota Power
3:00 p.m. Twin Ports Campus Sustainability Panel: How are Twin Ports universities and colleges addressing sustainability? (UMD, CSS, LSC, UWS)
4:00 p.m. Hartley Nature Center’s Electron-Search for Smart Energy (Near UMD Bus Stop)
*Booths and Presentations*
David Syring’s Anthropology Seminar Class Sustainability Projects
NE Minnesota CERTs
Conservation Technologies
UMD Office of Sustainability
UMD Office of Civic Engagement
True North AmeriCorps
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
Minnesota Power
Jes Durfee Glass Blowing
Outdoor EdVentures
Duluth Community Supported Herbalism
Sustainable Twin Ports
UMD Sustainability Coalition
Cut Loose Creations
MORE???
“Flora the Red Menace” opens at Harbor City tonight
Come see what Emily Parr’s gang of Thespians have been up to: this Kander and Ebb musical served as Liza Minelli’s Broadway debut, and concerns the war between love and politics. Great songs like “Not Every Day of the Week” and “Express Yourself,” sung by the substantial musical talent at Harbor City School, dress up a ’30s-era story of union organizers, Party members, and romance
April 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, at 7 PM; April 26 at 2 PM.
From the Photo Archive | 1979
Thirty years ago, Bud James was one of the custodians at Laura MacArthur Elementary School. All the kids loved him.
Because I was so young then, my memory of Mr. James is fuzzy. What I do remember is that he used to sing all the time, whether it was at assemblies or just randomly in the halls while cleaning up puke. I don’t remember if he was good at singing, or if he was just a ham, but it was great either way.
Every kid should grow up with a singing janitor. Thank you, Mr. James.
Great Music Saturday at Beaners
This Saturday two of my favorite musicians, Danny Schmidt and John Hermanson (of Storyhill, Alva Star, and The Hopefuls), will be playing in the round with third artist Chris O’Brien at Beaner’s Central.
Go check them out; pack the place!
Cost: $15 (for three FANTASTIC musicians)
Showtime: 8pm
looking for digital video!
heya folks. basically here it is. the keep aways want your videos! we’re trying to compile good video for our performance at homegrown for an electronic press kit. anyone going to have their cameras ready? i’m going to be recording most of the homegrown shows i go too and would love video of our set friday may1st at 2am. dont worry about sound quality. i’ll be adding the audio from the board recording in post. i’d like more than one angle if possible. so if you’re going to be there and would like to contribute, we’d love to hear from you.
from vader with love,
dubz
So you think you’re a geek??
*MAD* bonus points who can tell me what “GNDN” stands for. No Googling!!
TNG switch plate covers
Children’s Health Fair
Sponsored by the Duluth Children’s Museum
When: Saturday, May 9th from 1 to 4pm
Where: Duluth Depot Great Hall
Depot admission price gives you access to the Health Fair and the Duluth Children’s Museum.
The event is free for Duluth Children’s Museum members.
The Health Fair will feature:
Information booths
Story time
Puppet show
Family yoga mini-classes
Drawings for free memberships
It’s 1773.
I spied the tea party today in Duluth. Actual tea was put into the harbor, loose and packet form. My question is: What public employee is gonna clean it up without people paying taxes anymore? I’d post a few pics but I’m not finding the upload button. Help?
Get yer Geek On!
Geek Prom is only three days away!
Are you feeling appropriately geeky/nerdy/dorky?
- 56 Geeks – how many flavors of geek are you?
- Dork Yearbook – vintage geeky photos celebrating the truly dorky among us
- The Geek Code – only those who know the secret can see how geeky you truly are
- Geek Monthly – show your mailman just how nerdy you are ($6.00 off with code “2da3”)
- Geek Test – do you even qualify to be a geek?
- Nerd Merit Badges– super nerdy badges to proudly display your geekiness
- Pathetic Geek Stories – real life geek humiliation in comic form
- Think Geek – where to spend all of your geeky dollars
- xkcd – these stick figures know all about math and geeky subculture
Poetry Discussion at Northern Lights Books
Tomorrow, Thursday, April 16th, 7PM, Ryan Vine and I will be hosting a reading/discussion on contemporary poetry. Our rules for the evening: Non-famous, Non-local & Non-dead. Bring in a poem by your favorite poet who meets the criteria above – we’ll have a sharing of poems read aloud. And also bring in your questions. We’ll be speaking of where we go for information on new poets and poetry, reviews, magazines, websites, etc. We’ll also speak to our impressions on some current trends in poetry. Any other contemporary poetry concerns you want to bring up will be very welcome!
See you there (if you’re not at the DECC)!
7pm, Thursday, April 16th, Northern Lights Books & Gifts 307 Canal Park Drive
(if you sign up for our newsletter at https://norlights.com by noon, Thursday, you can print off a poetry coupon Thursday evening)
A Gen Y life in a Greatest Generation place
Hi folks. My name is Aaron Brown and this is my first post here. I run a blog up on the Iron Range called MinnesotaBrown.com and wrote a book called “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” that came out recently.
This Friday, April 17, my “Don Quioxe de l’Iron Range” tour returns to the Twin Ports. I’ll be giving a lecture and reading from the book during a special appearance at the Manion Theater in the Holden Fine Arts Building on the campus of my alma mater University of Wisconsin at Superior.
I like Superior. It reminds me of the Iron Range and enjoys some of the same reputation for some of the same reasons. It’s a blue collar place that grew quickly about 100 years ago with a huge influx of immigrant workers. Now the critics call it dirty and downtrodden, but I think there’s a charm in its gritty ways. Like many Range towns, they combat their foes with a dazzling logo. I write often about the same ideas in regard to the Iron Range. In any event, UWS is a fantastic small liberal arts public university and I’m proud to return as an author instead of as an out-of-work grad student.
I talk a lot about the challenges facing Gen Y professionals in rusty places like the Iron Range. As a fifth generation Ranger I’ve learned to love the place and its potential, but bang my head on many walls along the way.
The lecture begins at 2 p.m. and will be followed by a book signing and what the university is calling “light refreshments.”
My blog explains more about the book and the travails of modern life on the Iron Range. It’s part humor, part politics … if there is, in fact, a difference.
Thursday at the DECC
Jimm Gaffigan Thursday at the DECC … I’m all a flutter.
5 bedroom, 3 bath, view of bocce courts
Several years ago I took my kids to the playground at Wheeler Field. We went into the clubhouse for a bit, and I read the signs that explain the history of the place and the Wheeler family. We went back outside, and I got into a time-traveling kind of mood, imagining moving away from the places I know for this vast wilderness, running a pioneer’s household without the help of other women, giving birth to babies here. This mind trip was made easier by looking at the huge, wooded hill behind us. “This is what it would have looked like to her, too,” I imagined.
But that’s not the case anymore. I was there on Tuesday, and saw this house being built. It’s too late for me to take a “before” picture, but I looked it up on google maps. I can’t see where the road to the house would be, but I guess it’s connected to Skyline.
I don’t usually feel like development is bad. My house is on developed land, right? Who am I to tell someone else they can’t have a house, too? But being witness to the first sticking-out-like-a-thumb house on this hill makes me sad. I suppose by the time my kids are grown, the hill will be full of houses.
Homegrown Banners
Hey kids, we know you’ve got ’em, and we want to see ’em. Turn your best Homegrown photos into PDD banners. We’ll try to rotate Homegrown-specific banners during the Homegrown Festival. Same rules apply, the image must be 960 pixels wide by 167 pixels high. Don’t stretch or squish the image to make it fit, that always looks bad. The Perfect Duluth Day logo will be added by PDD’s art department. Or, if you’d like, you can add it.
E-mail if you want the Photoshop template with the logo
E-mail your banners to [email protected], and we’ll start organizing them.
Also, a reminder, the banners go up on Flickr eventually. If anybody wants to add info about their shots in the Flickr comments, that would be cool.
Zen Identity @ The Cove 1991
The complete Zen Identity @ The Cove 1991 concert can be found on my YouTube Playlist Channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=62E766DCB8926E8E .
Feel free to leave comments and carry on the discussion about this great band at that location.
Enjoy!
~Dan
Your Turn to Serve!
The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council is Seeking New Board Members
The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council is currently accepting applications from individuals wishing to serve on its Board. The following four Board positions will be open as of July 1, 2009: the Student Ad Hoc position, the Lake County position, and two At-large Board positions. The ARAC serves individual artists and non-profit arts organizations who reside in the seven counties which make up the Arrowhead Region: Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis. (more…)
The Score Bar Olympics
Come play bags toss, beer pong, wii bowling, & darts to compete for the title of the ultimate drinking team! Teams consist of 4-8 people & the entry fee is $5 per person. Includes First Beer Pitcher Free!
Sign up at Score or call 218.623.6706 for details
Needed
A couple jugglers (amateur is ok) and mimes for HG performance. I’ll pay you 10 bucks.
218.340.8835
Happy 100th, West Duluth Masonic Temple
Euclid Masonic Lodge 198 was dedicated on March 31, 1909. State Grand Master Eugene Swan presided over the services. About 800 people attended.
One hundred years later, it appears vacant and up for sale. The location is 611 N. Central Ave. (more…)
Television Confusion
My beloved 13 year-old television is on its last legs. I bought it on sale for $90 at Shopko when I moved into my first apartment all by myself. It’s a great little tv and it will enjoy being turned into a tele-quarium when it goes to the final analog wave in the sky.
With that, we are in the market for a new television. I have the converter box and antenna. We don’t have cable or satellite. I have no idea what kind of a television to get or what the difference is between them, other than size. I need recommendations and a television geek guru. I’m looking to spend not more than $500. Help, please?