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!
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.
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!
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.
As a thank you to Starfire for establishing the “Where in Duluth” category link, I figured I should contribute. Do your best.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Looking for a math tutor for my daughter. 1 to 2 sessions a week. Any math majors want to earn a few extra $. Cheers
Meet at Spirit Mountain main chalet at 11! See you there!
LakeVoice journalists Ethan Walker and James Stitt drove to Angora to visit with birdhouse maker Daniel Rankin.
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.
