Movie review: ‘Battleship’ entertains with interesting plot, characters — and plenty of action

“This could be like Columbus and the Indians,” a nerdy radio astronomer worries. “Except we’re the Indians.”

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A&E Notes: Help with the Big Top Chautauqua tent raising

Book Awards announced at UMD

Six authors were honored out of 47 nominees. Winning authors took home a $200 cash prize, engraved glass plaque and 100 Awards seals.

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Best Bets: Lamont Cranston performs at Grandma’s Sports Garden

Longtime Minneapolis-based blues band Lamont Cranston headlines “Spring into the Blues,” a mini blues showcase at 8 p.m. Friday at Grandma’s Sports Garden.

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Best Bets: Three local breweries put their individual spins on one beer recipe

Three local breweries will provide evidence of how style and craft differ from brewer to brewer during the Twin Ports Collaboration Session Ale, where one recipe gets three interpretations.

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Best Bets: Boydz Revivel performs at Temple Israel fundraiser

The band Boydz Revival returns to rock the temple from 7-11 p.m. Saturday at Temple Israel Synagogue, 1602 E. Second St.

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Duluth Dylan Days events

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CD review: Rivera’s violin skill hasn’t aged a bit

When you think back to that mid-1970s era and Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue and the accompanying albums like “Desire” and “Hard Rain,” almost as captivating as Dylan’s writing or singing voice were the searing violin lines of an unknown crimson-haired beauty named Scarlet Rivera.

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Best Bets: Indie folk band ‘The Pines’ perform at Sacred Heart

The Pines: Recommended if you like an indie folk band with marrow-chilling vocals and a spare atmospheric sound that might include banjos or ambient sounds from a keyboard.

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Best Bets: Markand Thakar returns to DSSO for ‘Dramatic Passions’

The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s music director returns for his first concert this year during what has been a season-long tryout to find his replacement.

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Best Bets: Enjoy an evening of steampunk

“An Evening of Steampunk” is an event that incorporates artists’ modern takes on Victorian Age technology, clothing and concepts.

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Best Bets: ‘Desire in Duluth’ concert featuring Scarlet Rivera at UMD

It’s about to get real Dylan-y in these parts, starting with “Desire in Duluth,” a show featuring one of the famous Duluth native’s former band mates, violinist Scarlet Rivera.

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• Best Bets: Indie folk band ‘The Pines’ perform at Sacred Heart
• Best Bets: Three local breweries put their individual spins on one beer recipe
• Best Bets: Enjoy an evening of steampunk
• Best Bets: Markand Thakar returns to DSSO for ‘Dramatic Passions’
• Best Bets: Lamont Cranston performs at Grandma’s Sports Garden
• Best Bets: Boydz Revivel performs at Temple Israel fundraiser
• Duluth Dylan Days events
• Dylan’s violinist brings ‘Desire’ to Duluth
• CD review Rivera’s violin skill hasn’t aged a bit

Dylan’s violinist brings ‘Desire’ to Duluth

Scarlet Rivera was a teenaged violinist craving something beyond the traditional Mozart and Beethoven when she was intercepted in the summer of 1975 on a street in Greenwich Village by a famous musician with a question.

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• CD review: Rivera’s violin skill hasn’t aged a bit
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.38 Special booked for Duluth concert

The band known for the hits “Hold On Loosely,” “Caught Up in You” and “Second Chance” plays June 28.

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