Events Posts

This week: books, opera, vibrators and shredding

  

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

The Huskies have a double header tonight at the Wade against the Mankato MoonDogs because of rain yesterday.

Need cheap reads for the summer? The annual Library Book Sale runs Tuesday through Thursday at the Duluth Public Library.

You’ve argued about it here, now you can see the final product at the Zinema 2 on Tuesday. Duluth Is Horrible makes its world premier with the filmmaker and cast available for Q&A.

La Traviata, the latest offering of LOON, shows Thursday and Saturday at the Superior High School.

Get stimulated at the Teatro Zuccone! Renegade‘s In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play opens on Thursday and runs three weekends.

Four miles of other people’s stuff! The Park Point Rummage Sale is Friday and Saturday.

Need something shredded? Who doesn’t? There’s an Eco Shred-a-thon at Clyde Iron on Saturday.

Sunday is Father’s Day, so do something nice for your dad. You could take him to a showing of Blazing Saddles at Zinema 2, Chicago at the DECC, Bob Mould at Grandma’s Sports Garden, a race at Proctor Speedway, or a Cribbage Tournament at Burrito Union. He’ll just be happy you remembered.

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

Volunteer for Rhubarb Fest

The ninth annual CHUM Rhubarb Festival will be held on June 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 11th Avenue East and London Road. There will be a delicious array of rhubarb delicacies, including hundreds of pies, muffins and crisps, as well as rhubarb brats and burritos. There will also be a variety of games and crafts, live musical performances and a silent auction. Admission is free! All funds raised will support CHUM’s programs, which provide basic needs services for homeless and marginalized members of the community.

If you would like to get involved with the festival as a volunteer, contact Mary Schmitz, CHUM development director, at mmschmitz @ chumduluth.org or 218-720-6521; or Mary Jaecklein, Rhubarb Festival volunteer coordinator, at cjaecklein @ gmail.com or 215-863-7826.

Japanese interpreter needed for Twin Ports Bridge Festival

The Twin Ports Bridge Festival is hosting Dr. Masaru Emoto this year. A Japanese interpreter who is familiar with Quantum Physics is needed. Do you fit the criteria or know someone who does? The festival is July 5 and 6. Learn more at TwinPortsBridgeFestival.com. Please contact Jodi Christensen if you are able to help out — jodi @ yoganorthduluth.com.

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Dylan coming here July 9 and from the DNT article: Dan Russell, executive director of the DECC – which manages Bayfront Festival Park – estimated that the park has a capacity of 12,500. There are no chairs allowed at the event. Russell wasn’t sure whether to expect it to sell out.

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This week: folk dancing, chamber music and carnage

  

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

If you’ve been attending the weekly International Folk Dancing on Mondays it’s moving to Temple Israel for the summer. If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?

It’s the beginning of June so why not start planning for next season’s cross-country skiing season? Meet Tuesday at Hartley.

The Three Bridges International Chamber Music Festival has events at Sacred Heart and Weber on Tuesday and Saturday this week and more next week.

It’s live music and fresh produce every Wednesday outside Kirby Center during the summer at the UMD Market Day.

God of Carnage shows how thin civility is at the Duluth Playhouse this Thursday and runs two weekends.

Kirov brings his live comedy talk show from UWS to the Underground on Friday.

Lumpy G and Lawrence Lee are the new quizmasters at the Sunday night Carmody Pub Quiz as John Lee departs. Godspeed, John Lee.

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

Mystic Moon Festival and Camping

Mystic Moon Festival and Camping is a three-part series of events located in North Central Wisconsin under the full moon, stars, and sun, encompassing a 600-acre plot of land with plenty of room for camping and recreation. The first part in the series, June 21 to 23, features 48 hours of non-stop Electronic Dance Music presented by the creators of DS Frequency’s Aura series, the 2011 and 2012 beach “Luna Parties,” Wrekt Records and Groove Shop North.

Save the Date — June 29 — PDDX

Trampled by Turtles and Atmosphere play Bayfront Park on June 29. If you are nerdy enough, you also know that is the date Perfect Duluth Day will be ten years old, and we always have a snappy little PDD b-day shindig. So we’re tying them together.

Announcing …

PDDX: Perfect Duluth Day’s Tenth Birthday / Trampled by Turtles & Atmosphere Pre-Concert Party

This week: belly dancing, local films and baseball

  

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

It’s Memorial Day. Go visit a cemetery.

Louis Jenkins and Mark Rylance will be reading poetry from Nice Fish and taking questions at the Teatro Zuccone on Tuesday.

The Duluth Superior Film Festival opens on Wednesday at several venues and runs through Sunday.

SocialCon 2013 is a social networking conference at Greysolon on Thursday.

This weekend the Amsoil Speedway opens for their summer season on Friday and the first ball of the Duluth Huskies 2013 season gets thrown out at Wade Stadium on Saturday.

You want dance? Desert Journeys, a belly dance concert, plays at the Washington Gallery on Saturday and Black Label Movement at Mitchell on Saturday and Sunday.

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

Berserkon Day I: An Intimate Experience

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Day 1 of Berserkon was quiet… intimate…  Fox21 has the story, although this is not the “first ever” — just first at the DECC.  There were smaller events at Norway Hall, for example, in the early 2000s.

What is North by North?

Can someone tell me what North by North is?

Help the East High Key Club

Hey PDDers, the East High School Key Club is organizing a plant sale to help out the First Witness Child Advocacy Center. The Plant Sale is Saturday, May 25, starting at 8 a.m. And they need some donations of plants ASAP! Got any extra perennials? Hand them over! You can either email funds4roots @ gmail.com or you can drop off any donations of plants tomorrow morning from 6:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. at the Leif Erickson Rose Garden parking lot. Every penny raised will go to First Witness’ Roots of Hope emergency fund. Thanks and sorry for the last-minute plea.

The Key Club plant sale is part of the Duluth Flower and Garden Society’s 2013 plant sale at the Rose Garden.

This week: freewheeling, berserking and cross-dressing

  

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

We’re celebrating Bob Dylan’s birthday this week and, among other things, there will be a film fest on Tuesday at Red Star and the Freewheelers (aka the Boomchucks) will be doing Dylan covers on Wednesday at Fitger’s.

Kevin Kling will be featured at the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards on Thursday at UMD.

Go poke around a big mansion for free on Friday during Community Day at Glensheen.

Berserkon rages in the DECC Friday through Sunday with three days of gaming.

The sliding scale of gender identity will be on display at the Gender Blender Fashion Show at Teatro Zuccone on Saturday.

And brush off your washboard ’cause it’s the Annual Battle of the Jug Bands at Amazing Grace on Sunday with an open stage on Saturday.

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

Awesome second annual Bike to Work Day with Mayor Ness

Great event, fun ride and good job to Healthy Duluth for making it happen!

It was great to see former Congressman Oberstar, Mayor Ness and a whole pack of cyclists rolling down to Valentini’s!

This week: road construction, steampunk and burlesque

  

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

There are only two seasons in Duluth, winter and road construction. Apparently winter is over. Many new projects begin today.

Nerd Nite is back on Wednesday with presentations on Max Headroom, biking and The Shining in their new venue, the Underground.

The Steampunk Spectacular exhibition of fashion, music, craft and anachronistic fun runs Thursday and Friday at the Depot.

Miss Homegrown? Western Thaw promises 18 bands in 2 venues over 3 nights – Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The Duluth Dolls are back with a new neo-burlesque show, Calendar Girls, playing Friday and Saturday at the Teatro Zuccone.

And if you’re looking for big names, Sheryl Crow is playing Black Bear Casino on Friday and Willie Nelson is playing Grand Casino Mille Lacs on Saturday.

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

This week: an opera about the moon, erotic haiku about a whale, and one ring to rule them all

  

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

Today the Playhouse presents some of its young talent in the 360 Showcase at the Underground.

If you didn’t see Charles Ross perform his one man take on Star Wars last year, well, you missed out. Don’t miss out on his One Man Lord of the Rings this week, running Tuesday through Sunday at the Teatro Zuccone.

Erotic haiku based on Moby Dick? That’s what local poets Kat Mandeville, Jayson Iwen and Chad Faries promise to deliver on Wednesday at Adeline’s.

The comic opera The World of the Moon plays at Weber Hall on Thursday and Friday.

Wise Fool Shakespeare presents The Merry Wives of Windsor, a rollicking comedy, at the Scottish Rite starting on Friday and running for three weekends.

Put out your non-perishable food for your postal carriers to pick up on Saturday for the postal service’s annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

Sunday is Mother’s Day and, in case you haven’t made plans, Glensheen Mansion is offering tours and meals for you and your mom.

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