Paul Lundgren Posts

Could any of these gals still be around?

Feb 20, 2010 4 Comments

OldDenfeld1919

As you can see, this picture is dated 1919. The girls look to be of elementary school age, so maybe one of them is still around today.

The location of the picture is the old Denfeld High School on Central Avenue, which is now Laura MacArthur Elementary School. There must have been elementary classes in the old Denfeld, or these are just random kids from the neighborhood, because none of them look old enough to be in high school.

The old Denfeld/MacArthur building will be torn down after the new MacArthur is built, but hopefully the old house in the background will keep on keepin’ on.

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Cross City Trail in Duluth — Connecting the Munger Trail and Lakewalk at last

Feb 18, 2010 19 Comments

The links below are to PDF files of maps showing proposed routes for the Cross City Trail, connecting the Willard Munger State Trail with the Duluth Lakewalk.

Page 1 – 75th Avenue West to 66th Avenue West area
Page 2 – 66th Avenue West to Central Avenue area
Page 3 – Central Avenue to Ramsey Street area
Page 4 – Ramsey Street to 40th Avenue West area
Page 5 – 40th Avenue West to 29th Avenue West area
Page 6 – 29th Avenue West to 18th Avenue West area
Page 7 – 18th Avenue West to Mesaba Avenue area
Page 8 – Mesaba Avenue to the Lakewalk area

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Outdoors

Storytelling/Poetry Open Mic Night

Feb 17, 2010 No Comments

Monday, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Teatro Zuccone


Art, Events

“Bitch, I want some Sammy’s Pizza”

Feb 16, 2010 10 Comments

I’ve been enjoying the latest addition to the Songs with “Duluth” in the Lyrics or Title list. It’s called “Duluth Minnesnowta” by the hip hop act Good Knight (Alex Knight on vocals; Mike Ward is DJ).

Visit the group’s MySpace page to listen to the Duluth song and three other tracks.


Music

“The medal drought is over!”

Feb 16, 2010 8 Comments

Has anyone found video online of Duluth’s Chad Salmela at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games calling the exciting finish to Sunday’s race? For the first time in 86 years, an American won an Olympic medal in Nordic combined.

There’s a transcript on SportsFeatures.com.


Sports

Duluth’s Tentative Good News

Feb 16, 2010 43 Comments

So, which are you most excited about?

* Duluth being in the running for ultra-high speed Internet access.
* Duluth being in the running for a plant making wind turbine tower tops.
* Plans to finally connect the Munger Trail and the Lakewalk.
* The recent interest by developers in creating student housing at the old Armory on London Road.

What are the odds-makers saying? Can Duluth nail down all four of these? Even one would be awesome. I’ll bet we get at least two.


News and Current Affairs

MPR interview with Mayor Ness – Duluth tries to land high-speed Internet via Google

Feb 16, 2010 5 Comments

The mayor of Duluth is ready to throw his city’s hat in the ring for a new Google experiment to test ultra-high speed Internet access.

MPR’s Steven John talks to Don Ness about his city’s plan.


News and Current Affairs

Wilco is sold out – Win tickets here

Feb 15, 2010 32 Comments

Did you come to party, Duluth? I know you did.

Tickets to Friday night’s Wilco show at the DECC Auditorium are sold out. If you’d like to win tickets from PDD, here’s how:

If you went to the foggy, rainy 2007 concert at Bayfront Festival Park, share your favorite memory of that show in the comments. If you didn’t go, maybe you have a good excuse for missing such a sensational show, so share that.

At some point either tonight or tomorrow, I’ll pick a winner from those who comment.

(Oh, and I know the audio is crappy on the embedded video, so you don’t need to comment about that.)


Events, Music

A Special Valentine from Rachael Kilgour and Paul Lundgren to All Y’all

Feb 14, 2010 6 Comments

Rick Boo is totally comfortable with this song. It is not sitting well with him.


Videos

Threaded Comments – Aborted

Feb 13, 2010 9 Comments

As explained in this post, Perfect Duluth Day experimented with threaded comments for a few days. The benefits of it seemed to be outweighed by the complications of it, so the experiment is now over and comments are back to working like they used to.

Since previously threaded comments are now unthreaded, we hope it won’t create too much confusion to readers who haven’t been following along.


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Sympathy for the Ball Slasher

Feb 13, 2010 7 Comments

Below is video footage from last Wednesday’s “Paul Lundgren Happy Hour” at Teatro Zuccone. As a primer for the video, you might want to read my latest column.

Props to Dean Vogtman and Dan Fitzpatrick, videographers extraordinaire.

Click here for info about next week’s Happy Hour.


Videos

Threaded Comments – This is only a test

Feb 11, 2010 22 Comments

Those of you who are regular PDD readers may have noticed that the comments have changed to allow threading — so you can respond directly to one comment rather than having it appear several comments below the one it is relevant to.

PDD administrators turned this function on today to see if it works good or crappy. We might get rid of it right away. We might keep it and tweak it to work better. So try not to fall in love with it or hate it too much.


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Denfeld and Ordean – DNT nails it

Feb 11, 2010 13 Comments

I think today might be the third time the Duluth News Tribune has editorialized that Duluth’s two high schools (when the long range facilities plan is complete) should be called Denfeld and Ordean. (‘Denfeld,’ ‘Ordean’ preserve past, discourage east-west divide.)

I couldn’t agree more, and I wish the school district would finally put this issue to rest. Are you with me, people?


News and Current Affairs

Can this hot dog get more Facebook fans than Bone Appetit?

Feb 11, 2010 6 Comments


Music

They’re like a marauding street gang today

Feb 10, 2010 29 Comments


Outdoors