Maria Bamford grew up in Duluth, “where we got a library shaped like an ore boat and cinnamon rolls the size of your head”
New clip from Twin Cities Public Television’s “MN Original.”
New clip from Twin Cities Public Television’s “MN Original.”
Now that it quit raining and we have sun and heat, please help spread the word about dogs in cars. Twice already I’ve seen dogs locked in cars; one with windows barely cracked and another closed tightly. Next time, I’m calling the cops.
And while I’m on the animal rant, what is it with dogs in the backs of pick ups but not in a kennel? It outta be illegal!
A couple rock shows happening at Teatro Zuccone in July:
Teatro Zuccone
July 10
7pm – $5 – All Ages
BNLX (Twin Cities – Electro-Rock duo)
The Surfactants (Twin Cities/Duluth – New-Wave Rock)
Albino Ghost Monkey (Rice Lake – Solo 8bit/chiptunes)
Teatro Zuccone
July 24
7pm – $5 – All Ages
Grey Matador (Twin Cities – Rock)
The Surfactants (Twin Cities/Duluth – New-Wave Rock)
Humanoid (Duluth – Solo Experimental Indie Rock)
Renegade improv comedy follows both shows.
I know Duluth rock legends Low are constantly receiving honors and critical acclaim for their music but it doesn’t get much more impressive than this: Robert Plant (yes, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant) is covering two Low songs from The Great Destroyer (“Silver Rider” and “Monkey”) on his upcoming album to be released in September. So cool, quite an honor!
Source: Billboard.com
Robert Plant Returns To Americana With Band of Joy
In case any of you have been wondering where the heck I disappeared to in the past couple of years (or have been relieved because of it), I’ve been helping develop a 155-acre organic farm in Randall, MN.
By the time our summer/fall season is done, we’ll have planted around a million and a half seeds (phew!) of pretty much everything you can think of. A lot more info is available at our website: farmofplenty.com.
We don’t have a pickup site in Duluth yet because we’re about to burst as it is this year with all the local shares we’ve received thus far, which has been nothing short of awesome. Anyhoo, take care everyone, check out the site if you have time and I hope to see you next time we’re in town!
-Christian McShane
Monday, June 21, at the Duluth Art Institute Depot site. Tour the galleries and the National Geographic “In Focus” exhibit for free at 6:30, then head down to the Zelda theater at 7:30 for a free screening of the 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
I was having a conversation with a young friend of mine today and I said Duluth is not a progressive city. But you have to look at what you have said. So I retract that and will clarify.
At the forefront of Duluth doing what I would call progressive thinking is the organic farm movement. There are good urban gardeners and also friends of ours that moved out into the country who are now raising and selling their produce. And we have an up-and-coming arts and music scene. Beyond that it slips away.
The question would be: What is a progressive city? Obviously something is lacking for me. I’d like to see a kick the jams hit on making Duluth sustainable. And what does that mean? The first thing to do when there is a big task is do the first thing right. And because I think this town lags in any sort of alternative energy program. This is a purely symbolic gesture with some overtures of functionality.
Let’s put a fund together, I pledge 50 dollars and we research and get the best solar with windturbine street light and put it on Lake and Superior. You make that intersection run under it’s own power and I’ll take off my hat to ya.
What would that do? If you could make it work it would prove you could do it. It would give a visible indication of what you could do. What is hardcore sustainability? Air, water, food. What is citywide sustainability? Much bigger deal, but it would make a progressive community.
Locally grown talent this weekend
At Sara’s Table
1902 E. Eighth St.
218-723-8569
Papa Roach Duluth
The Papa Roach concert in Duluth tonight has moved indoors. They are playing at Clyde Iron Works. http://www.paparoach.com/news/12012
http://www.clydeparkduluth.com/clyde-park-events.shtml
Should be a good show!
Clyde Ironworks
2920 West Michigan St
Duluth, MN 55806
The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank are playing the incredible outdoor amphitheater at Lucius Woods in Solon Springs — 30 minutes down Hwy 53 from Superior.
Saturday, June 26 | 7 p.m.
Join Turbo Rathvon, James and Younger, and the Real McCoys Saturday, June 19 at the Twins Bar. Show starts at 10. No Cover. Getting drunk and listening to indie-rock is way more fun than hanging around Canal Park after the race and you know it!
With special guest Kip Jones
Saturday June 26, 2010 7:30 pm
$10 in advance $12 at the door
Tickets online at sacredheartmusic.org or at the Electric Fetus
Featuring Chan Poling of the Suburbs, John Munson from Semisonic and Steve Roehm of Electropolis in their Duluth debut performance.
How did this story not make the PDD headlines?
The recent post about the 1917 Ripsaw article regarding booze and filth in Superior, Wisconsin got me thinking about this quote from one of Anthony Bukoski’s short stories. I posted it here on PDD back in August of 2003, but I think enough time has passed for us to revisit it.
“The entire city of Superior, my neighborhood included, is a classroom for the study of failure. The curriculum for the Study and Analysis of Heartache comes from our citizenry’s heavy drinking. We’re Scandinavians, Slavs, and Indians of all makes and models. The curriculum is also tied to our living on the shore of the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Superior alters our weather for the worst, makes us ugly. Step out the door, see old newspapers blow down the streets in a lake wind, wipe dust from your eyes, go to the Palace Bar, Isle of Capri, Captain Cliff’s Night Club, Lost in the ’50s, Al’s Waterfront Tavern. Find the locals lined up for an eye-opener at eight in the morning, and that, to a sensitive former academic like me, is Hard Knocks. When you can’t find work and need to get yourself more depressed, listen in the hallway of your run-down flat for the neighbor guy to strike his wife or she him. Add gray skies. Add fog, and in winter and into late spring, throw in bitter cold, and that’s how it is in Superior, Wisconsin, at the Head of the Lakes. Every day I take a refresher course in how to be a loser.”
— Anthony Bukoski, “A Philosophy of Dust”
The Northland Anti-War Coalition is collecting donations of tools and building materials for Cuba as part of a nationwide challenge to the 50-year US blockade. The aid will help ongoing efforts to rebuild some 500,000 homes damaged during the 2008 hurricane season; and send a collective statement against Washington’s cruel and failed Cuba policy.
Provided our aid isn’t seized by US border agents, it will be received and distributed by a non-governmental council of Cuban religious leaders.
Pastors for Peace, the group sponsoring the blockade challenge, will visit Duluth on July 6. Between now and then, you can leave donations at the Duluth Labor Temple (2002 London Road) or Peace Church (1111 N 11th Ave E). We can use almost any new or gently used carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and masonry tools/supplies, as well as new safety equipment (dust masks, etc). You can check out a complete needs list and details here.
