In the comments to this post, explain in one sentence why you should win two tickets to see Rubber Chicken Theater’s Evil Dead: The Musical.
The winner will be chosen later today — maybe around 3pm … maybe sooner. We’ll see how it goes.
The 3rd Annual Chester Bowl Wine & Beer Tasting and Silent Auction will be held Saturday, Nov. 6 from 6pm to 9pm at the Midi Restaurant in Fitger’s Brewery Complex.
Our Hillsider intern, Sam Elmquist, attended a presentation about Domestic Violence. Here is his post.
Power and Control Wheel
October is nationally recognized as violence against woman awareness month. In honor of this I attended a presentation about physical violence against women, more particularly about a women’s shelter here in Duluth called Safe Haven. The shelter works with men, women, and children involved in abusive relationships. Safe Haven provides a safety net which allows women caught up in abusive relationships to come and stay at the shelter, hopefully allowing them the time they need in order to try and settle themselves as individuals. Specifically they give these women a place to stay and time to figure out what it is they want to do.
Various support groups help them realize the situation they are in and give them the chance to relate with other women who are going through similar circumstances. The shelter offers women looking for help up to thirty days to figure out what it is they want to do, this is not necessarily a time limit because the shelter is willing to make exceptions for women who need more time and are seriously committed to change.
Read the whole post here.
Thinking about doing the Birkie – or any other Nordic races this winter? Or do you simply want to make your XC skiing a bit easier? Team CXC Vertical Limit will be at Skihut this weekend kickin’ the k-nowledge.
Friday Oct. 22, 7:30 pm
Sacred Heart Music Center
201 W. Fourth St.
$20 advance/ $25 at the door
Tickets online at sacredheartmusic.org or the Electric Fetus
Nice trip down memory lane with some snapshots of Young at Heart Records from 1996 and recollections to fill them out. The pictures themselves are just snapshots, as I said, but upon close examination they do capture the feel and the spirit of that place nicely. I just wish there were more of them. Click the image to go to the post and see it all in context.
I miss the days when the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce headquarters was next to the Last Place on Earth. That was synergy at its finest.
The photo above is from roughly 1993 1996. Last Place hadn’t quite finished moving in. I think the two were neighbors for at least 10 years before the chamber hightailed it to First Street.
Friday, Oct. 22, 1-4pm
Saturday, Oct. 23, 1-4pm
Looking for something to do with your kids without emptying out your wallet?
Keep them active, their imagination running wild, and enrich their lives with art, with a free day at the Tweed! The whole family can discover art adventures taking away confidence, enthusiasm and shared memories. Stop by anytime between 1 and 4 for museum games, art activities, stories, and refreshments for all ages!
The 2010 Taste of Hermantown is set for Thursday, Oct. 21 from 5 – 8 p.m. at the Shrine Building (5152 Miller Trunk Highway). Admission is $15 or free for children 10 and under. All proceeds benefit the Hermantown Community Fund, an affiliate of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation. Tickets can be purchased at the door or the National Bank of Commerce – Hermantown location.
At Hartley Nature Center this Wednesday, Oct. 20, @ 7 p.m. — an aquatic invasive species presentation on VHS and Asian carp: An in-depth look at how these two invasive species are affecting U.S. waters, will be presented by Marte Kitson, a program specialist at Minnesota Sea Grant.
Right here in Duluth, Minnesota.
You might recognize Darren Danielson as co-host of WDSE-TV’s Almanac North program.
I’m thinking about getting an LCD projector for work. It needs to be portable, but not compact – I don’t plan on taking it on a plane. My application is primarily marketing presentations, not heavy on video or high end graphics. I’ll be using it about twice a month. Any recommendations for makes, models or vendors?
Right on time, the partridge are back in my crab apple tree. They have been here ever since I moved in. They move to my feeder come winter (I put out cracked corn for them) and beat a path through the snow (I can see their little heads poking up above their snow-bank path as they come, which gets taller as winter progresses). I love it that some things never change.
One day, years ago, I went out to my rental cabin to clean and noticed white poop everywhere. I mean everywhere! (I didn’t go out to clean for days in between rentals.) I looked around and saw a little window broken out, (actually in). So I looked closer, and saw a partridge sitting on the sofa. We blinked at each other. He let me pick him up, and set him free outside. Me and his prodigy have been friends ever since.
