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ECO Provides Earth-Friendly Options
March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For a home store, Eco is surprisingly soothing. Instead of a harsh smelling stack of vinyl, there’s a small shelf of flower-scented lotions. Instead of an aggressive, warehouse-white color scheme, there are calming, earth-tone pastels. Instead of mass-produced, environmentally destructive building materials, Eco provides “Environmentally Conscious Options” (hence the store’s name). And according to owner Julie McDonnell, choosing those options is easier than ever.
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Events Of The Week
March 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Boxing, bluegrass, and Larry the Cable Guy—is it country week in the Twin Ports? Not if you like ballet or classes about personal growth. There’s really something for most tastes in Duluth~Superior, and once again, you’ll find plenty to keep you occupied this week.
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Cooking With Deb: Not your mama’s mac and cheese
March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As children of the 70s, boxed mac and cheese was a staple in our home. The box contents filled us with wonder that a little packet of orange powder could become creamy orange cheese. Even my granny, who butchered her own chickens and grew her own herbs, succumbed to the processed ease of boxed mac and cheese.
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A Letter from The Cotswolds
March 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
If you’re considering a trip to England, London is often the destination of choice. But there are charming villages throughout England that give you a different type of vacation and can provide a much-needed respite from the stress of everyday life. The Cotswolds is such a place.
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Scaling Ice: A Strange and Local History
March 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We human beings amuse ourselves in such strange and silly ways. We seek out danger, concoct exhausting endeavors, and invest our surfeit of time, money, and self-regard in recreation that amounts to re-creation of adversity.
We justify resource-sapping flights, road trips, and gear; we consume far more than our fair share of calories; we trample more terrain than we’re willing to admit; all to identify ourselves as runners, cyclists, skiers, backpackers, surfers, sailors, paddlers, climbers, or practitioners of other pursuits. We’re pointlessly adventurous fools. No different, really, from folks who get high through shopping, eating, or most other distracting obsessions. The universe, if it notices, laughs equally at us all.
Living Well
Top Doctors 2010
March 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For the second year in a row, Duluth~Superior Magazine sent a survey to local physicians asking which of their peers they would choose to treat their loved ones. The results are in: the best of the best, chosen by their peers.
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The One in Heels: Go Coral for Spring
March 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Occasionally, with the change of seasons, fashion gets on a color kick and the clothes, accessories and make up are all about that color. This spring is one of those seasons. This spring is all about the CORAL.
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Snapshot: David Ross
March 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
David Ross has served as president and CEO of the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce since 1997. So what does he think about life, love, and happiness?
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Features
Our Cultural Paradise
To look at a map, you might think Duluth~Superior would be isolated, cut off from the heartbeat of culture. But you would be wrong. Our orchestra, ballet, and visual arts are a powerful combo—so powerful, in fact, that you might completely rethink the idea of a “small town”. Dear visitor? Prepare to be dazzled.
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Where’s The Beef? Great Twin Ports Burgers
The Norwegians have their lutefisk, and the French have their frog legs. Americans? We love our burgers. Put warm, chewy beef on a lightly-toasted bun, and magic begins to happen. Conjure up some American charm of your own at these three Northland burger hubs.
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Stop the Racquet!: Racquetball in the Twin Ports
Two weeks ago, I found myself engaged in an athletic competition with a man over the age of seventy—and I lost. I not only lost, but I scarcely managed to salvage one point in a match to fifteen points. I am a young person, and a decent athlete at that. How, then, did I find myself in the depths of such embarrassment? It was racquetball I was playing, and on the racquetball court, age does not matter.
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How To Give A Gift
The greatest gift,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “is a portion of thyself.” That’s all well and good, but most people on our list want presents. But finding just the right thing can be a puzzle. We’ve all heard stories that make us go “aww”—the jewelry given by candlelight, the long-lost heirloom found again, the red bike under the Christmas tree. Here are a few ideas for making your gift-giving memorable this holiday season.
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The Don Ness Story
At age 34, Don Ness is still considered by some to be a boy wonder – surprisingly young to be the leader of Minnesota’s fourth-largest city. “I run into people on a regular basis who used to be a babysitter and changed my diapers,” Duluth’s new mayor says with a smile, embracing with modesty a typecast he must be growing weary of. Climbing the couch next to him is his daughter, Eleanor, about to interrupt and ask him to read her a story. His son, James, is upstairs sleeping. Ness is clearly on the other end of the diaper changes these days.
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Opinion & Commentary
Cooking With Deb: Not your mama’s mac and cheese
As children of the 70s, boxed mac and cheese was a staple in our home. The box contents filled us with wonder that a little packet of orange powder could become creamy orange cheese. Even my granny, who butchered her own chickens and grew her own herbs, succumbed to the processed ease of boxed mac and cheese.
Featured App – White House Blog
The White House Administration has made its latest move to keep connected with we the people through the White House iPhone app. This free application is available at the iTunes App Store. The Official White House app provides news, press briefings, blog posts, and archived video of events and speeches.
At The Movies: Wonderland, Wild Things, and Wizards (Oh My)
Another Oscars has come and gone. I’m just now removing my head from the sand after my very poor 15 out of 24 showing from my previous prediction posts. There were so many wonderful moments from the telecast, and many of the nominated and winning films are increasing their exposure. If you get the chance, be sure to head on over to the Zinema theater to catch Jeff Bridges’ now Oscar golden performance in Crazy Heart. Also two Best Picture nominees are new on DVD this week: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire, and Up in the Air.
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Breaking News
Bring Google To Duluth~Superior
Google is considering Duluth~Superior for an experiment that would cost us almost nothing and bring us a huge amount of business. They want to wire up one community with new fiber-optic network, which would increase Internet speed 100-fold. HELP US WIN!
SMDC Pharmacies Receive Award for Environmental Stewardship
The St. Louis River Alliance recently honored SMDC Health System with its 2009 Environmental Stewardship Award.
Dianne Witten, Director of Retail Pharmacies, and Dick Spehar, Director of Acute Care Pharmacies, accepted the plaque during an awards ceremony. SMDC’s pharmacy staff members were nominated by the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District for their role in medication collection events at WLSSD’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility.
A few months after beginning our Subscriptions for Soldiers program, we received the following moving letter from the front. The free subscriptions, which are available for all active military members, have made it around the world…
Duluth Police investigate stabbing
Duluth Police are investigating a stabbing late Sunday that sent a 33-year-old Duluth man to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening stab wound.
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