Perfect Duluth Day

Last Chance Bikers: Show Us Your Routes!

Codie May 02, 2010 1 Comment

Monday, May 3, and Tuesday, May 4, are your last opportunities to show us how bicycling can be improved in your area! Fit City Duluth and the Metropolitan Interstate Council are working together to learn about the habits of bikers in Duluth. At these meetings you will be asked where you currently bike, where you would bike if it was easier, where bike racks should go, and other biking issues, and you will learn why this information is important for Duluth.

Food will be provided! Both meetings start at 6pm:

May 3 – Central Hillside Community Center (12 E 4th St)
May 4 – Portman Community Center (4601 McCulloch St)

Events, Outdoors, Sports

Boo

adam May 02, 2010 11 Comments

I was going to crop this, but then I had a idea: Person who can name the most folks gets a free 2009 Homegrown t-shirt. [photo credit: Starfire]

2010 Homegrown Tags (UPDATED)

Barrett Chase May 02, 2010 4 Comments

Once again, Homegrown has begun, and once again, all you numbskulls will be out there flashing your fancy digicams and/or tapping at your mobile devices, cataloging all the craziness as it happens. And as always, it’s important to properly tag your stuff so that everyone else knows that it exists.

Keeping with the tradition of years past, let’s all use the following tags:

Homegrown Twitter hashtag: ~~#HG10~~ #HGMF10
Homegrown Flickr tag: homegrownmusicfestival2010

I would also recommend tagging your Flickr photos with HG10 since it’s easy to do and it doesn’t hurt to apply an additional layer of taggish re-enforcement.

I’ll post here again tomorrow with the ever-growing Flickr slideshow of everyone’s shots. Here are links to slideshows from previous years, to get you excited: 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

Events, Music, Photos Geeky, Homegrown Music Festival

Happy Homegrown! Raise your glass, submit your banner photos, stick your tongue out, tell Gomez what to do.

Paul Lundgren May 02, 2010 No Comments

In honor of the Homegrown Music Festival, Perfect Duluth Day is again featuring a week of photo banners related to Duluth’s annual celebration of rawk and/or roll devil music. (What that means is, the images you see at the top of this page — from May 2 to 9 — will be photos from Homegrown.)

If you want to submit a banner, it’s not too late. We can add new ones throughout the week. Just follow the same guidelines generally used to submit a banner.

Music

Good Ol’ Random History

Danecdote May 02, 2010 3 Comments

I stopped by Amazing Alonzo the other day and picked this beauty up for a cheap 6 bucks. Packed full of weird facts and stories of history dating back to Moses. Topics range from how we used to treat the mentally ill, crime and punishment (including mass executions of heretics and misconceptions of the guillotine), cocaine cough drops, and did you know that the French had a fascination with enemas well through the 19th century?! Seriously good read. Pretty certain they don’t have another copy, but search for it.

History Books

Rubber Chicken Radio Hour is on the air!

Rubber Chicken May 02, 2010 No Comments

Featuring Rockin’ Johnny Rocker, Morning Drive Homicide Detective
Father Stu, Naked City Hall and more general silliness.

Broadcast live from the Shack in Superior on KUWS 91.3FM.

Friday, May 7 at 7pm
Celebrity Guest: Matt Perrine from the Budgeteer News
Musical Guest: River (Ryan Jordan and Paul Vogel)

Be a part of the live studio audience for just $5.

(218) 213-2780, RubberChickenTheater.com.

Events

Hippie Dick is a genius

Paul Lundgren May 01, 2010 5 Comments

Musical weaponry and optical gear by Dick Rosvall, on display at Respect Your Mother EarthFest.

Art

A Homegrown Story

Shane Bauer May 01, 2010 4 Comments

I always get a kick out of some of the band names in Duluth’s huge music family. After looking at this year’s lineup, came up with this little tale, using every single name listed for Fri./Sat. and pitting them against each other:

It was the battle of Rawk vs. Roll. Electric vs. Acoustic. And it all started at a park in Duluth one day in early May, Circa A.M.

Join students from five colleges in solidarity with UMD students at Monday march/rally

h8snowtires Apr 30, 2010 44 Comments

Racism in Minnesota? Really? In the wake of a Facebook scandal that has rocked the UMD community, students and community members will join together on Monday, May 3, as a united community standing together against all forms of racism. UMD students will make a 4-mile march beginning at 10 a.m. at the Washington Center and ending at Kirby Plaza, UMD.