​Duluth natives Low love Democrats as much as you do. They'll be showing just how much tomorrow at Painter Park, where the DFL is hosting a Blue BBQ to celebrate progress (and summer, obviously) with musical guests Low, the Gated Community and the Middle States. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., you can exercise your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of musical happiness with the good peeps of the DFL.

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Unless you regularly hang out at Irish pubs, you might not be aware that the Twin Cities has a diverse and flourishing Celtic music scene. But that may soon change thanks to this local website and podcast, which is set to serve as a hub of information for fans and newbies interested in the genre.

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Don't know who Perez Hilton is? Well, he just may be the most controversial, detested, and popular celebrity blogger out there today. No, "controversial celebrity blogger" is not an oxymoron.More >>

Local music blog Culture Bully has embarked on its first blogathon. Site founder Chris DeLine has pledged to post a new entry at least once an hour for 60 hours straight, beginning this morning at 10 a.m. The reason? To raise money for Twin Cities schools. Culture Bully has teamed up with Donor's Choose, a national charity that helps public schools to raise money for supplies. DeLine says the plan is to drive traffic to his site and raise awareness of Donor's Choose; readers can check out the Culture Bully donation page here.

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The Star Tribune carries a story recommending Muxtape today, a day after the site got shut down over copyright concerns.

The print edition makes no mention of the shutdown, which occured as the newspaper was going to press, saying "the site is still going strong six months after its launch." That sentence now been changed on the web version of the story:

There have been questions over the legality of Muxtape in the six months since it launched, and, in fact, the site shut down Monday night, saying, "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA."

People plan their own birthday parties, weddings and holiday gatherings, so why not their own funeral?

That's what Minneapolis friends Sue Kruskopf and Nancy Bush thought when they started a website aimed at Baby Boomers gearing up to kick the bucket who want to plan their own way out.

Just like Pringles packaging mastermind Fredric Baur wanted his ashes put in the can that made him rich; Boomers want their funerals to be so unconventional they’ll wake the dead, says Kruskopf.

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The stork paid a visit to the Voog household last night, as Anacam subscribers can attest. Minneapolis performance artist/professional naked person Ana Voog gave birth to a 6 lb. 6 oz. baby girl named Lili, a child whose arrival was fretted over and celebrated by those who peer daily into Voog's life via the 24-hour live camera she's been exhibiting her life through for the past decade. And while the preceding months have had rough patches of worry in which Voog and her boyfriend drafted plans for letting family members with more conventional lives raise the baby, in the end, it all came down to a father, a mother, and an in-home birthing pool with a webcam trained on it. Mazal Tov!

Check it out here. The "sleek, blue, modern...unnavigable" joke seems a little too easy. And besides, it's actually not bad.

METAPHOR is a new online magazine that covers the world of performance poetry. International in scope, the cyberjournal is the pet project of Pioneer Press reporter Matt Peiken. Peiken, who wants the 'zine to be "the Rolling Stone of performance poetry (that is, when Rolling Stone was relevant)," kicks off the first week with interviews of Andrea Gibson and Ed Mabrey, and a piece about Latino poets that includes the Doomtree collective's own Dessa.