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B n’ the Spice Cabinet funks it up at Bent Paddle Saturday night.

String
Feb. 13-22
Zeitgeist
Raina is determined to find the great love found only in poetry and it arrives as a pizza delivery boy who flunked high school English. Duluthian Jessica Lind Peterson’s play had its world premiere at UMD in 2003 and was a runner-up for the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award.

As She Likes It
Feb. 14-23
Uptown Mall (former Payless Shoes location)
Stages of the Range Players presents an anthology of short plays in which Shakespeare’s female characters boldly take center stage for the first time. Familiar characters such as Ophelia, Juliet, Gertrude, Katherine and even the Bard, Shakespeare himself, find themselves in new scenarios.

Love Is …
Friday, Feb. 14, 7 pm
Saturday, Feb. 15, 2 pm
Big Top Chautauqua, Bayfield
Ed Willett leads the Blue Canvas Orchestra featuring Tom Mitchell, Danielle Diamond, Phillip Anich, Vince Osborn and James Shafstall up close and personal at The Backstage.

Rachel Kilgour, embalmingEva
Friday, Feb. 14, 7:30 pm
Sacred Heart
Valentine’s Day concert with the Duluth singer-songwriter Kilgour, grand prize winner of the 2015 international NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition. EmbalmingEva is a synth duo featuring Jesse Hatten and Gala Wright.

John Gilbert Memorial
Saturday, Feb. 15, noon
The West Theatre
The venerable journalist wrote about sports and cars spanning two decades at the Reader before passing away at age 82. A graduate of Duluth Central High School, he spent 30 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, was a radio personality and published books about hockey.

B n’ the Spice Cabinet
Saturday, Feb. 15, 7 pm
Bent Paddle
Minneapolis funk-pop original band that includes a lively horn section and intricately smooth vocal lines and harmonies. The band pulls influence from artists such as Stevie Wonder, Sara Bareilles and Lawrence, to name a few. Dance the night away with this soulful, high energy band.

Ojibwe Storytelling Night
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 6 pm
UWS Yellowjacket Union Shippar Family Atrium
Michael Charette (Laughing Fox), an artist, musician, writer, performer and a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe), enhances his stories with flute music and storytelling performance.