Best Bets: Big Wave Dave at Glensheen – Duluth News Tribune
DULUTH — Most of this week’s recommended activities are indoors, which may be safer bets given how much rain we’ve been getting. If the weather’s fine, though, Glensheen’s pier is calling your name!
Clint Austin / File / Duluth Media Group
It’s a time-tested Duluth truism: if you want to start a party, call Big Wave Dave and the Ripples. They’ve played just about every stage in town, and rocked it each time with their horn-powered blasts of rhythm and blues. The group will play Glensheen’s pier on Wednesday, July 23. The opener, Born Too Late, will be almost as big a draw, so don’t be late (whenever you were born) if you want to grab some prime picnic real estate on the mansion grounds
(glensheen.org).
Jay Gabler / 2022 File / Duluth News Tribune
Zeitgeist’s throwback summer screening series, in partnership with Blacklist Brewing, continues Wednesday, July 23 with “The Jerk.” Carl Reiner’s 1979 comedy provided Steve Martin’s first cinematic starring role, its title inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot.” Janet Maslin, writing in the
New York Times
when the movie was released, called it “by turns funny, vulgar and backhandedly clever, never more so than when it aspires to absolute stupidity.”
Audiences ate it up, and the $4 million lark ended up outgrossing a $34 million James Bond space movie, “Moonraker.” How wild (and crazy) is that?
(zeitgeistarts.com)
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
Contributed / Peter J. Sieger
On Thursday, July 24, the 39th season of the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra concludes with a diverse program at UMD’s Weber Music Hall. The concert will include a dodecaphonic symphony by Arvo Pärt; a composition for handbells and orchestra featuring Strikepoint; and music performed side-by-side with students from the orchestra’s Quartet Project
(lakesuperiorchamberorchestra.com).
Mario Kart with live music
Jay Gabler / Duluth Media Group
Video game music has progressed far beyond the eight-bit earworms that soundtracked Super Mario Bros., but that dogged little plumber still gets a lot of the best tunes. On Friday, July 25, Duluth Cider is hosting a Mario Kart play session with the game up on a big screen and the music performed live by D-Town Driftway, “Duluth’s premiere Mario Kart 8 live band.” Whether you get down to Electrodrome house or the winds of Shy Guy Falls, your soundtrack will be set
(facebook.com/duluth.cider).
Contributed / DAI
On Thursday, July 24, the Duluth Art Institute will host a free Art Night Out event at the organization’s downtown gallery space. Artists Charvis Harrell and Heidi Wanzek will discuss the shared themes of reclamation in their work now on display. According to an event description, “Heidi Wanzek explores our fragile, evolving place within the cycle of life and death in her show ‘Within the Threshold,’ while Charvis Harrell reframes history and identity through a Black perspective in his show ‘The Games We Play'”
(duluthart.org).
Contributed / Minotaur Books
On Saturday, July 26, two authors are visiting The Bookstore at Fitger’s to sign copies of their new novels.
From 12-2 p.m., Woodbury writer Ann Schreiber is presenting her debut novel, “Emily’s Next Chapter,” a “later-in-life romance” about middle-aged single parents who form a connection that they strive to nurture even as they continue their journeys of self-discovery.
From 3-5 p.m., St. Paul author David Housewright will be at the bookstore with another installment in his series featuring Rushmore McKenzie, an “unofficial P.I.” In “Them Bones,” McKenzie is on the trail of — wait for it — a stolen dinosaur skull. The ankylosaurus head could fetch a fortune on the black market. Can McKenzie save it for science?
(fitgersbookstore.com)
Arts and entertainment reporter Jay Gabler joined the Duluth News Tribune in 2022. His previous experience includes eight years as a digital producer at The Current (Minnesota Public Radio), four years as theater critic at Minneapolis alt-weekly City Pages, and six years as arts editor at the Twin Cities Daily Planet. He’s a co-founder of pop culture and creative writing blog The Tangential; he’s also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Minnesota Film Critics Association. You can reach him at [email protected] or 218-409-7529.
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