December 2024 Posts

Selective Focus: Boubville 2024

Dec 14, 2024 No Comments

Boubville — not at all to be confused with Bentlyville; that would never happen — is a winter celebration that takes place on a property in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood. In addition to the musicians performing, some of the artistic experiences this year include an interactive phonebooth called “Bent-to-Boub InterOpterative Phones” by Swertyman, “Ghosts of Dinners Past” by Annmarie Genuisz, “Silent Crude” projections by Allen Killian-Moore, a gift shop to peruse, a blacklight forest, an interactive electronic instrument made by Digetic and Ginger Juel, and more. Collected here are some snapshots captured by Jess Morgan at the first two nights of the 2025 spectacle.

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Notorious Last Place on Earth owner Jim Carlson granted clemency; drug trafficking sentence ended early

Dec 14, 2024 No Comments

Jim Carlson talks to a television reporter in front of his head shop, The Last Place on Earth, on Sept. 16, 2011. (Photo by Paul Lundgren)

A Duluth head shop owner convicted of federal drug trafficking charges more than a decade ago will have his sentence commuted in a sweeping clemency order issued by President Joe Biden Dec. 12.

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Duluth on Chalamet’s lips

Dec 13, 2024 No Comments

Duluth keeps getting mentioned in the publicity tour for the Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown. At the 6:53 mark in the clip above Timothée Chalamet says, regarding singing live-to-camera in the film, “The worst thing we could have done with a Bob Dylan biopic is sanitize it, to make it sound clean … This is a man from iron ore country, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Hibbing, Duluth.” Not that Minneapolis is so dirty, but OK.


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Alan Sparhawk, et. al. – “Vaster Than Empires”

Dec 13, 2024 No Comments

“Vaster Than Empires,” the new Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross track featuring Duluth’s Alan Sparhawk, appears in the recently released film Queer. The version embedded here is an alternate cut.


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How should I feel about “A Solid Brass Christmas”?

Dec 13, 2024 1 Comment

I snagged a ton of cassettes at Gabriel’s Used Bookstore. I wanted them because they were uniform in their design. They were, in other words, a “collection,” and I love being able to look over a collection.

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Finding Minnesota: Enger Tower

Dec 12, 2024 1 Comment

WCCO-TV‘s John Lauritsen talks with Duluth historian Tony Dierckins about Enger Tower.

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More Duluth Show Case Company ads from the 1920s

Dec 12, 2024 3 Comments

The advertisement above is from a 1920 issue of Hardware World magazine. Apparently hardware stores were tucking a lot of merchandise into boxes and drawers back then instead of displaying as much of it as possible, so the Duluth Show Case Company emerged as an innovator in retail-store cabinet manufacturing.

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EmbalmingEva – “Unclean”

Dec 11, 2024 No Comments

West Duluth is ground zero for the latest EmbalmingEva music video, shot at the Jade Fountain and under the bright lights of the Korner Store.


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The Slice: Utility Box Art in Duluth

Dec 10, 2024 No Comments

The Utility Cabinet Artwork Program is a Duluth Public Arts Commission project that seeks to beautify the city’s utility boxes.

In its series The Slice, PBS North presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.


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Indecent Proposal – “Glow”

Dec 09, 2024 No Comments

The latest video from Duluth band Indecent Proposal was shot an Enger Tower and other nearby locations. It stars Rylee Kuberra and features the video work of Capture Chaos Productions.

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Chalamet in Minnesota on Dylan Film

Dec 08, 2024 No Comments

Duluth comes up throughout.


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Video History of the Duluth Armory

Dec 07, 2024 No Comments

From local architecture enthusiast channel Arches and Columns, pulling from local sources including Duluth Urbex.


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North magazine expanding in 2025

Dec 06, 2024 No Comments

Duluth real estate agent Tracy Ramsay published the premiere issue of North at the start of 2024. The lifestyle magazine will increase its territory beyond the Duluth area in 2025 to include northwest Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and parts of North Dakota.

Duluth realtor-turned-publisher Tracy Ramsay and her team are preparing to release the second issue of North magazine. The new lifestyle publication premiered in January, featuring articles about homes in the north country, local culture and more.

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Steve Solkela & Party Marty – “Carol of the Bells”

Dec 05, 2024 No Comments

Accordionist Steve Solkela performs the popular Christmas song “Carol of the Bells” with Party Marty working the guitar and wine glasses.


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Torment – “Die Alone”

Dec 04, 2024 No Comments

Duluth band Torment is releasing a new EP, The Pain, on New Year’s Eve at Pizza Lucé. The “Die Alone” video was recorded and edited by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording in Minneapolis.


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