Selective Focus: Kirsten Aune’s North Coast Fashion

Ann Klefstad Jul 03, 2021 No Comments
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Kirsten Aune Textiles outfit

Kirsten Aune has lived in Duluth for a number of years, working in textile and garment design. She has a fashion show upcoming in her new showroom, Kirsten Aune Textiles, at 12 N. 21st Ave. W., in the heart of our blessedly reviving Lincoln Park Craft District. It goes down July 17, with two showings, one at 4 p.m. and one at 5 p.m. Most of the fashions being shown will be for sale or can be custom ordered. Mary Mathews, a master sewer, will be modeling her own creations out of Aune’s fabric. The showroom is stocked with household items as well as clothing, and Aune notes that you can order custom printed fabric by the yard there as well.

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Back at it

Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) Jul 02, 2021 No Comments

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Video: Pictured Rocks cliff face plummets into Lake Superior

PDDTV Jul 02, 2021 1 Comment

Jahn Martin and Brad Gustafson, along with two other passengers, were on a pontoon boat in the area between Miner’s Beach and Mosquito Beach at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula last week when a 200-foot cliff face collapsed and slid into Lake Superior. The resulting waves put the boaters into panic mode, but everyone came out unscathed.

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Outdoors

David Munyon – “Coffee in Duluth”

Paul Lundgren Jul 02, 2021 1 Comment

The song “Coffee in Duluth” is not available on the internet, but we nonetheless note its existence on Perfect Duluth Day … just because that’s what we do.

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Music

Chuck Haavik – “Still Raining”

PDD News Sieve Jul 01, 2021 No Comments

Duluth’s Chuck Haavik has released his second song. “Still Raining” is “a lament from the Summer of 2020,” Haavik said. It’s available for download on Bandcamp.

The track is mixed and mastered by Dave Mehling, who also plays Hammond B3 Organ, bass and drums.


Music

Video Archive: Duluth Bridge Tournament of 1978

PDDTV Jul 01, 2021 No Comments

Duluth’s bridge tournament in 1978 drew players from North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. Mary Ellen Miller had the story for KBJR-TV.


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Northern Rhythms

PDDTV Jun 30, 2021 1 Comment

Explore natural landscapes of the Duluth area through music with this new WDSE-TV production. Northern Rhythms features local musicians playing everything from country to jazz to classical, in places that inspire them, from deserted mine pits to soaring vistas to popular beaches.

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June of ’71: UMD’s medical school gets initial accreditation

Paul Lundgren Jun 30, 2021 No Comments

The University of Minnesota Duluth’s medical school took its first step toward academic accreditation 50 years ago. The June 30, 1971 Duluth Herald reported that Dr. Robert E. Carter, medical school dean, announced a letter of “reasonable assurance of academic accreditation” had been received from the Joint Liaison Committee on Accreditation of the American Medical Association Council on Education and the American Association of Medical Colleges.

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The Slice: Cynthia Faith’s Animal Eyes

PDDTV Jun 30, 2021 No Comments

Duluth painter Cynthia Faith combines art and social justice to present messages of peace, kindness and love.

In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV 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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The Nemadji Review, Vol. 10

PDD News Sieve Jun 29, 2021 No Comments

The tenth issue of the Nemadji Review, the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s literary journal, was released in May and a new website was launched. The publication was previously available only in print, but the 2021 issue can be viewed and downloaded online as a PDF file.


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Happy 18th birthday to us!

Paul Lundgren Jun 29, 2021 No Comments

What’s inside the PDD picnic basket? Treats for you, that’s what. Join us on the deck at Boreal House tonight at 5 p.m. for Perfect Duluth Day’s 18th birthday party.

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Events

June of ’71: Sheriff wants upgrades to county jail

Paul Lundgren Jun 29, 2021 No Comments

The St. Louis County Board was asked by Sheriff Greg Sertich to extensively remodel the county jail 50 years ago. The June 29, 1971 Duluth Herald reported the proposed project included jail office and roof work; providing remote control televisions, air conditioning and security lighting; installing a metal detector in the lobby and other items such as plumbing and electrical upgrades.

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Kip’s White Whale: Daddy, Jesus and Dale Earnhardt

PDDTV Jun 28, 2021 No Comments

Duluth photographer Kip Praslowicz tells the bizarre story of a long lost song.


Videos

Exploring the car and boat at the bottom of Lake Ore-be-gone

PDDTV Jun 28, 2021 No Comments

YouTube user “MNduro USA” explores the east side of Lake Ore-be-gone, the flooded mine pit in Gilbert, about 60 miles north of Duluth.


Videos

June of ’71: Leo Spooner wins Reidar Lund golf tourney

Paul Lundgren Jun 28, 2021 No Comments

Fifty years ago Duluth’s Leo Spooner won his third Reidar Lund Skyline Memorial Golf Tournament at Enger Park. The victory came on June 27, 1971, and was reported in the June 28 issue of the Duluth Herald.

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