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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
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The evening’s festivities began at 5pm, with Black River Revue playing under Earthrider’s giant tent. Fans trickled onto the grounds throughout the evening, with a reasonably-sized crowd gathered by the time of Charlie Parr’s closing set. Whether inside the tent or outside on the grounds near one of the fires needed on a chilly May evening, fans still had space to spread out as needed. It didn’t quite feel back to normal, but it was obvious that vaccinations are making folks of all ages fe
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Theater by Zoom
The University of Minnesota Duluth’s production of “Love and Information,” directed by Lauren Roth, is a play of bits and blurbs, pieces of conversation the audience is dropped into: a tug-of-war over a secret, a message from an unlikely source, a sister who is technically a mother.
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Playwright Caryl Churchill’s work premiered in London in 2012, and it contains dozens of plotlines and more than 100 characters. Pre-pandemic, it played on a stark, simple set. Now it comes to you within the neat boxes of Zoom. “Love and Information” is available for viewing at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11-14.