Perfect Duluth Day

Ripped at Shooter’s Saloon in 2002

[Editor’s note: For this week’s essay we’ve once again pulled out a relic from the archive of Slim Goodbuzz, who served as Duluth’s “booze connoisseur” from...

Seeking information on late local musician Lew Orsoni

I recently opened up an old binder of burned CDs and came across a much loved recording I had forgotten about attributed to Lew Orsoni. It sounds like a live...

Postcard from the Opening of Navigation Season

This undated postcard shows a freighter entering the Duluth Shipping Canal at some point in the early 1900s. The caption on the back of the card reads: Opening of...

Selective Focus: Emily Koch

Left: Photograph of Emily Koch. Right: “Self Portrait” 20×28. Oil on wood panel. Emily Koch is a surrealist painter from Duluth. She studied fine art at the...

Homegrown Music Festival Field Guide 2022 has arrived

The 24th annual Homegrown Music Festival is less than a month away. The 100-page Field Guide is off the presses and will be available at Duluth-area bars, restaurants...

Selective Focus: Aaron Kloss

Aaron Kloss is a Duluth-based landscape painter with a distinctive, contemporary style. He draws inspiration from the natural world, particularly North Shore forests and...

PDD Quiz: March 2022

See how many of this month’s headlines you remember with this week’s current events quiz! The next PDD, coming your way on April 10, will look ahead to the Homegrown...

Stock Lake Superior with Seals and Orca Whales: A Modest Proposal

Explore Superior found this post on Perfect Duluth Day…we’re not certain if this gentleman is serious or if this is satire. Nonetheless, and interesting...

Postcard from Lookout Point

“Lookout Point” is probably meant in a generic sense in this postcard, as in “a lookout point.” And if the illustration is based on what a specific piece of Lake...

Lake Superior Magazine 2022 Photo Contest Winners

Duluth’s Like He took first place in the Maritime category of Lake Superior Magazine‘s 27th Annual Photo Contest for “The Departure from Duluth.” Numerous...