Congratulations to the Harbor City Roller Dames for being chosen to host the 2014 WFTDA Division 2 Playoffs, Aug. 15-17.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Christmas events are in full swing and you can get see all our listings right here.

Sing along to Handel’s “Messiah” with an orchestra at St. Scholastica this Tuesday.

You can celebrate the Solstice with cross-country skiing and a bonfire at Spirit Mountain this Wednesday.

On Thursday you can hear the Rose Ensemble at Sacred Heart or Anonymous Choir perform Neil Young at Teatro Zuccone.

The Minnesota Ballet performs the Nutcracker this weekend, Friday through Sunday, at the DECC.

The Duluth Dolls return for an all new burlesque cabaret at Tycoons with their show, “Naughty or Nice,” on Saturday.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Christmas is getting closer, and there are a lot of related events listed right here.

This week Amnesty International invites you to “Write for Rights” for human rights in general and the unjustly imprisoned in particular. There will be a table set up at the Multicultural Center at UMD Monday through Friday.

The Walker Art Center’s curated collection of cat videos will be shown at Zinema 2 on Tuesday as part of their Explorers Club series.

You can see what U of M graduate students in  landscape and architecture think Duluth’s future might look like when they display their projects and take feedback at Clyde Iron on Wednesday.

Cars & Truks, Haley Bonar, Mary Bue, Southwire and many other bands give their tributes to one of Duluth’s signature bands, Low, when Duluth Does Low at Sacred Heart on Thursday.

You’ve seen the video here on PDD, now see the review! How the Grinch Shut Down Christmas or I Saw Rudolph Twerking Santa Claus is Rubber Chicken‘s sixth annual holiday revue at Spirit of the North Theater in Fitger’s. It opens on Friday and it runs through New Year’s Eve.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Monday, Monday, Monday at Duluth City Hall! It’s a city planning double header with public meetings to discuss revising zoning regulations and street improvement back to back! Get your civics on! Update: The street improvement meeting has been postponed due to snow.

And, speaking of double headers, the Harbor City Roller Dames are hosting a double header on Saturday at the DECC.

“Dear Mr. Watterson,” a film documentary about Calvin & Hobbes and its creator, Bill Watterson, is showing on Tuesday at Zinema 2 as part of the Explorers Club series.

Four plays open on Thursday: “Peter Pan” opens at the Duluth Playhouse and runs three weekends, “Compleat Female Stage Beauty” opens at UMD and runs two weekends, and “The Odyssey” opens at Harbor City Theater and “Yes, Virginia” opens at Denfeld, both running just this weekend.

And, as we enter into the holiday season, you can track Christmas events right here.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Want to make the old Nettleton School into a paintball course? A Buddhist temple? A cereal museum? Let the Duluth City Planning Commission know at the public meeting tonight at Old Central High.

The UMD Women’s Hockey Team takes on the Russian National Team at Amsoil Arena on Tuesday.

Thursday is Thanksgiving with free dinners being served at the DECC and at Faith UMC in Superior.

The Duluth National Snocross starts Friday and runs through Sunday at Spirit Mountain.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

What’s that high pitched sound coming from Sacred Heart tonight? That would be the Vienna Boys Choir.

What would you do if you found a spiral notebook containing a harsh, vindictive and poorly spelled 20 page break up letter? Turn it into a one act play with original music by Brian Ring? That’s what Jonathan Manchester did and Everything You’ve Done That Hurt Me opens this Thursday at the Teatro Zuccone and runs for two weekends.

All the people are going to be “nice-sicle” on Friday for the annual Christmas City of the North Parade and that means, yep, you can start tracking Christmas events on the calendar, including Pepperkakebyen, the Festival of Trees and the opening of Bentleyville, all this week. Leave all the grinchy comments you desire below.

To work off that rage, you can go to Shine Mixed Martial Arts at Clyde Iron on Saturday or go across the bridge and shoot something. Don’t you feel better now?

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Tonight there’s a discussion on the medical use of marijuana in Minnesota at UMD.

There is still lots of theater going on in town with Guys & Dolls opening at Marshall on Thursday and Memory of Water opening on Friday at UWS. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Frozen, and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove continue their runs.

Hartley Nature Center celebrates its tenth anniversary on Thursday with an open house.

Give to the Max Day is Thursday to encourage people to give to their favorite charities. Any you want to promote? Link it in the comments below.

Chris Monroe opens a new exhibition, “Look Again,” at Red Mug Coffeehouse on Friday.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival comes to town with two different presentations on Saturday and Sunday at Marshall.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Tuesday is Election Day with four City Council seats and four Duluth School Board seats up for grabs as well as two School District Questions. Find out where your poll is and, if you aren’t registered already, you can register at the poll.

Winter is coming! Get ready for cross country skiing with dryland training at Chester Bowl this Wednesday.

Lots of theater going on this week with Frozen opening at The Underground and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove opening at UMD this Thursday. Continuing their runs, An Ideal Husband is at CSS and Renegade‘s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is at the Teatro Zuccone.

Feeling a need to run around without hardly any clothes on in a socially sanctioned event? Donate your clothes to Goodwill and then run around in your skivvies in the Nearly Naked Mile at UWS on Friday.

Starting next Saturday you can start asking people in blaze orange, “Got your deer yet?”

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Halloween is upon us in full force! How do you celebrate? Where are you going or what are you doing this year? Any costume pics you want to share?

There are a few things going on this week that aren’t directly related to Halloween.

Undecided about how you are going to vote in the City Council race? There is a City Council Candidate Forum at City Hall on Tuesday.

Renegade‘s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a rock musical about our 7th President, opens at Teatro Zuccone this Thursday and runs for three weekends.

You can have breakfast in a bank vault on Friday at the Torrey Building because … reasons.

While you are at All Souls Night at the Depot on Saturday, that laughter you will be hearing from below you in The Underground will be from Rubber Chicken‘s Live Read of the Princess Bride.

And you get an extra hour to sleep in on Sunday because of the time change. Don’t forget to “fall back” an hour.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

There’s a whole lot of Halloween going on in this town this week with haunted ships, shacks, houses, a terror train and a scary aquarium.

Ever want to learn to curl? The Duluth Curling Club is holding Curling Clinics on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Give your input on the reconstruction of Superior Street at a community meeting at Greysolon Plaza on Tuesday.

Zinema 2 continues its “Silent Film, Loud Score” series with Portrait of a Drowned Man scoring L’Inferno, a 1911 silent film based loosely on The Divine Comedy on Friday and Saturday.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.

Here’s a sampling of what you have to look forward to this week on the PDD Calendar.

Check out all of the Halloween happenings on the calendar, including Zombie Fest on Friday at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, the Haunted Shack at Buffalo House starting this weekend, and a “Not So Scary” Concert for Kids by the DSSO at Denfeld on Saturday.

When I walk into a planetarium the first thing I think is “drum solo.” Well, maybe not, but apparently that’s what Gene Koshinski thought, cause he’s doing a percussion set at the UMD Planetarium on Tuesday accompanied by a planetarium show.

Katherine Boo, writer for The New Yorker and The Washington Post, talks about poverty in India at Mitchell Auditorium on Wednesday.

Your last chance to visit the Lincoln Park Farmers Market at the Harrison Community Center this season is this Thursday.

In theater news Die Fledermaus, Johan Strauss’ comedic operetta, opens at UMD on Thursday and runs through Sunday, A Wrinkle in Time opens at the Duluth Playhouse on Friday and runs two weekends, and Rubber Chicken is doing the Chicken Hat Plays again this Saturday at the Harbor City Theater in which a team of writers, actors and directors create eight new short plays in 24 hours.

So what are you doing this week? Can we tag along? Any upcoming events that you want to promote? Let us know.