Jay Gabler

The 47th annual event will explore the past and present of life on the waves of Lake Superior. Next year's conference will be a special commemoration of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The play about a team of teenage girls takes place during a series of pre-game warmups. Student actors have been practicing their fancy footwork.

The annual Split Rock Lighthouse beacon lighting again attracted hundreds, while a Canal Park conference looked to the future.

Also this week: UMD Dungeons & Dragons panel, New Standards at Sacred Heart, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra plays Bruckner, Bent Paddle art show and Homegrown Mixer.

Singer-songwriter Mara Lovejoy is also a music composition student at the University of Minnesota Duluth, with an "extraordinary" voice and an ability to blend genres.

They don't call it the Christmas City of the North for nothing. If you make it to all 15 of these festive events, even old St. Nick will be jealous.

A guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" sold for $350,000, while other items related to that song went for four- and five-figure prices.

Images by the late photographer Dick Bancroft are now permanently displayed at the college after a donation from family members including explorer Ann Bancroft, his daughter.

Tuesday's concert at Amsoil Arena, with Loverboy opening, saw frontman Kevin Cronin feeling optimistic about the future of the band, the world and Duluth.

The Duluth singer-songwriter is co-starring with Minnesota storytelling legend Kevin Kling in a show at Zeitgeist while putting the finishing touches on a memoir.