WDSE-TV presents this one-hour documentary on Bobby Aro, the famed 1950-90s Northern Minnesota disc jockey, singer/songwriter and entertainer who put St. Louis County’s Highway 7 on the map. Aro’s Finn-glish novelty songs are well known throughout the Finish communities of the United States and Canada.
January 25, 2015
- Low releases The Great Destroyer. (Video by Starfire.)
- The Twin Ports Music and Arts Collective closes.
- Nutty Meg’s closes.
- Eric Ringsred and his son Miles plan to open a drinking establishment called the Cider House at the old Snyder’s Superstop. (It never happens, and instead Dubh Linn Irish Pub opens there in 2006.)
- The Red Star Lounge is under construction at the Fitger’s Brewery Complex.
- Mike Neal opens Splash Beach Club in the former Western Tavern. It briefly serves as Duluth’s only alcohol-free weekend dance club.
- Management of the NorShor Theatre transfers from Chip Stewart and Craig Samborski to J.P. Rennquist.