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Dylan brings it back home in tonight’s Duluth show
A collection of Dylan books. We get a half dozen authors of Dylan books or documentaries visiting Hibbing every year. Martin Pulaski, Creative Commons license Tonight Bob Dylan and his band, along with Wilco, My Morning Jacket and the Richard Thompson Trio, will perform at the Bayfront Festival Park on the waterfront of Dylan’s birthplace,…
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Here’s what you won’t see: thousands of floating candles
This is cool, but will not happen. (Kernz & Kompany) Looking ahead to the Sept. 21-23 hot-air balloon festival slated for this September in Duluth, Minnesota, event organizers quickly retracted a June 11 press release touting the launch of thousands of wax-fueled paper luminaries into the sky over Lake Superior as part of “Le Festival…
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Dylan tickets moving fast, but not cheap
This Robin Washington column from Sunday’s Duluth News Tribune shows that the tickets for the July 9 Bob Dylan concert at Bayfront Park in downtown Duluth are selling well, but that some remain if you head down to the DECC to get them. He also raises an important point, something that concert-goers in Minnesota have…
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Paul Bunyan slasher pic gets Duluth showing
“Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan” was reviewed by Christa Lawler of the Duluth News Tribune today. The movie will enjoy a weeklong run at the Zinema 2 on Superior Street in downtown Duluth. I’ve actually watched the movie now and will post a review when a northern Minnesota showing is scheduled further. Apparently,…
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Campaign seeks to name Duluth street after Telly Savalas
Who loves ya’ baby? Did you know that Telly Savalas, best known as Kojak on 1970s and ’80s TV, once lived in Duluth, Minnesota? It’s totally true. And now a Facebook effort to get Duluth to name a street after the lollipop-loving character actor is underway. When I was a small child I was left…
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Bob Dylan to play Duluth this summer
News just broke that Bob Dylan will return to his birthplace of Duluth to play at Bayfront Festival Park on July 9. WDIO reports: An announcement has confirmed that Bob Dylan & His Band will come to Duluth and play at Duluth’s Bayfront Festival Park on Tuesday, July 9. The concert begins at 5:30 p.m.…
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Duluth’s Bob Dylan sculpture project launches Kickstarter
A small scale rendering of the sculpture image. Today sculptor Tom Page and his organization launched the Kickstarter page to raise funds to put a Bob Dylan-themed sculpture. The art would be placed in downtown Duluth, the city where Dylan was born, just down the road from Hibbing, the city where he grew up. I…
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Duluth to remove iconic downtown bricks
Workers install bricks on Superior Street on Oct. 6, 1985. From the Duluth News Tribune “News Attic.” When I was a tiny little kid I remember seeing all the hubbub on the news about Duluth putting in bricks along a key downtown chunk of Superior Street. As an Iron Range tyke who only knew Duluth…
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See the ‘Dylan by Duluth’ sculpture concept
Last Sunday I talked about a new Bob Dylan sculpture project in Duluth in my preview of northern Minnesota’s Dylan Fest and Dylan Days (starting today!) Here’s a sneak peak at the sculpture, which was unveiled at a preview yesterday: The “Dylan by Duluth” website launches Monday, with a Kickstarter raising funds for the project…
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Advanced tech predicts Ojard’s replacement at Duluth port authority
Today it was announced that Adolph Ojard, executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority, is retiring. Shipping is a big deal in the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, a vital transportation artery for the mining industry of the Iron Range and many agriculture and manufacturing interests. It’s important that we know…
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North Country Dylan Celebration starts today
For fans of Bob Dylan, the northern Minnesota music scene or those who just wonder about the connection between the world’s most influential living musician and the back woods, mining towns and blue collar city of his youth, well, we’ve got you covered. Today Duluth begins its annual Dylan Fest. A series of events continue…
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Duluth adds ‘cool train’ to milieu of arriving transportation antiquities
Milwaukee Road 261 This Saturday at about 3 p.m. the Milwaukee Road 261 stream engine will pull into Duluth with about 500 passengers and a heaping load of history. The Duluth News-Tribune reports that the train’s appearance for “National Train Day” might well be regarded by railroad enthusiasts with the same fervor as this summer’s…
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Hibbing, Duluth team up to honor famous son Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s northern Minnesota heritage is in no doubt, but invariably there are squabbles over who really gets to claim Dylan. He was born in Duluth, where he lived until he was six. The family then moved to his mother’s Iron Range hometown of Hibbing where he was raised and graduated high school. So technically,…
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Duluth’s Homegrown Music Festival opens today
Today brings the start of the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival, a week-long music extravaganza displaying the deep and growing music scene of northern Minnesota. Tomorrow night brings Trampled by Turtles, but really, you can find great music every night and day. If I were the kind of person who went to things, this is the…
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Want a job in northern Minnesota? Try Northland Job Fair
This Wednesday, April 17, the Northland Job Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the DECC Paulucci Hall in Duluth, Minnesota. Fifty of the largest employers in northern Minnesota will be on hand to take applications and meet job seekers. The Minnesota Workforce Center will be there to assist with resumes…