Clancy Ward News Today

Minnesota is more than home to author William Kent Krueger. It’s a central character in most of his books. Kruger talked about it — and about his primary human character, Cork O’Connor — at a special spring Talking Volumes in Duluth earlier this month.

Sister operation Dovetail Cafe and Marketplace is so successful it has overtaken the building's main floor. Organizers hope to find suitable acreage within 30 minutes of Duluth.

Boubville, a three-night pop-up produced by The Embassy collective, is an offbeat complement to the Christmas City of the North's Bayfront light display.

The recent University of Wisconsin-Superior graduate creates work embracing both joy and melancholy. Her upcoming Kruk Gallery show will include eye-popping portraits, a multimedia cake and a pillow fort.

Marah Evans Friday of Homegrown Week saw another night of live performances at Earth Rider Brewery festival grounds for their Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash, and it was Duluth Homegrown Music Festival founder Scott “Starfire” Lunt’s actual birthday, which made everything even more festive. If it seemed as if more people than usual were clad in flannel, blame item #31 from the Unofficial Homegrown Scavenger Hunt task list, “Flannel Day!” The hunt continues through Sunday at 4pm. T...

Christine Dean for KUMD In recent years the mid-point of the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival was dubbed “Westside Wednesday,” with music lovers fanning out to venues from Lincoln Park to West Duluth. This year, Soup Town night came early as Earth Rider Brewery in Superior kicked off their in-person series of shows dubbed “Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash” that will continue through Saturday of Homegrown Week. Feeding Leroy performs at Earthrider Credit Christine Dean for KUMD The eve...

The Monday of the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival traditionally features the Ancillary Arts: poetry, photography, and video. Cory Coffman performs at 2104 Music was the main event, however, at the first event of the evening, another set of live-streamed performances from 2104. Grains of Stars opened the evening, with Kristy Marie and Charlie Parr seated barefoot on the floor, creating droning soundscapes on harmonium and steel guitar for a small in-person audience and the internet. Singer/songw...