Not a fan of KUMD?

Well, I am. They gave me a chance to sit around with my better half for two hours a week listening to music and talking smack on air. Don’t care for their programming? Listen to The Funhouse tonight — Wednesday — from 7:00 to 9:00 and we promise to either change your mind or put you off KUMD permanently.

Plus, this week is the Funhouse Fun Drive with sponsorship gifts including CDs and the ever-coveted 10 screening pass for the Zinema 2, so you Current Lickers have the chance to put your money where your mouth is.

xoxo

Duluth Party

Heads up. June 11 & 12. Yonder Mountain String Band is playing at Big Top Chautauqua that weekend, so expect more shenanigans than normal. Advance crew heads out Wednesday. Too Many Gartbands plays Tommy’s Friday AND Saturday night.

I need a ride into town Friday and Saturday night.

Live 2 Play silent auction carryover — Homegrown tickets and CDs


Last Saturday’s Live 2 Play concert featured a silent auction that raised a couple thousand bucks for youth music and hockey programs. One item from the silent auction is still up for bid …

* Two weeklong passes to the Homegrown Music Festival and two Homegrown CD compilations.

This package has a $66 value. Bidding reached $30 on Saturday, and then someone bid $100. No one bid after that, but the person who bid $100 never showed up to claim the items. Since this person also scribbled an unreadable name on the sheet and a number to a phone that no one answers, it seems only appropriate to reopen the bidding.

The starting bid is $30, the second-highest from Saturday. Do I hear $35? $35 anyone? C’mon folks, it’s a good cause, do I hear $35? This silent auction ends today at 4 p.m. Use the comments to this post to place your bid.

Breaking Glass releases new video

“Ease Back” is the first single from Breaking Glass’s inaugural Shatterproof CD.  These up and coming rockers from Esko play a variety of original and classic rock tunes. This music video was produced by FitzPhoto as part of a prize package from winning the 2009 Duluth-area Battle of the Bands contest, put on by Junior Achievement.

Breaking Glass will be performing at the Battle of the Bands Kickoff Party on Saturday, April 17, at Hell Burgers in Canal Park.  Showtime is 8 p.m. 

The band will also be opening the Battle of the Bands with a special performance at the DECC on Sunday, April 18, at 2 p.m., followed by the battle, featuring 12 area high school garage bands.

Bedrock Bar / Tom’s Junkyard / Roby’s Bar & Lounge / Slippery Saloon / The Amber Flow — Timeline of a West End Bar

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The post “Minnow Swallowing Contest in Duluth” led to a discussion about where the Amber Flow Bar was located. The answer quickly emerged … 2023 W. Superior St.

Time for a little tavern genealogy …

Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy @ Rex Bar w/ the Evening Rig

Minneapolis’ Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy to perform at Rex Bar Friday, April 16, w/ special guests the Evening Rig

It’s a whole new ballgame in Minneapolis

Time-lapse video by MPR’s Laura Gill

Hip Hop Helps Homeless

News release from the College of St. Scholastica:

On April 23, Hip Hop and Human Dignity students at the College of St. Scholastica will throw Hip Hop Helps, a party to benefit Life House, a Duluth organization that serves homeless teenagers.

Your Old Socks Could Be Recycled As These Cute Mice

The darn!sock mice are reproducing rapidly this spring.  Please save your old wooly winter socks.  See this previous PDD post for more details.

photo by Matthew Beier

Public Input Needed for Bicycle Routes

If you ride your bicycle in Duluth, here is your chance to help improve the existing bike route network! On March 8, the Duluth City Council unanimously approved a Complete Streets resolution that would help instruct city engineers on how to design roadways for all users, instead of just for automobiles.

The Vagina Monologues at UMD

Friday and Saturday, April 16 & 17 – 7pm
$5 for students, $8 for non-students
Proceeds benefit the Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault. (pavsa.org)

Presented by V-Day UMD, UMD Women’s Resource & Action Center, UMD Kirby Program Board

The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women’s stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery. Performed by UMD students.

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1961-1968 racing in Hartley Park

Twelve-year-old Harold “Bo” Conrad won the 1963 Duluth race where Hartley Nature Center is today and went on to win the All-American Soap Box Derby Race in Akron, Ohio, where there were 75,000 people watching.

Lift Bridge changes

From MinnPost:

Duluth considering new lift bridge plan that would limit openings for small vessels

Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge may be in for a new schedule that will mean small boats may have to wait.

Duluth’s Graffiti Graveyard

Video by Nathan Treanor.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone Opens Thursday

DMCP PosterAn incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. This wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, will amuse, delight and move you. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

Renegade Theater Company and Lori Pietsch State Farm Insurance present Dead Man’s Cell Phone, opening this Thursday at Teatro Zuccone. The show runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays at 8 pm through May 1. For tickets, call 218-336-1414 or log on to www.teatrozuccone.com

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