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Lady Gaga Concert Review [PHOTOS]

Jen Jacobs — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:00:04 +0000

Lady Gaga’s Born this Way Ball stormed the Xcel Energy Center last night. Don’t believe the critics. Here’s what really happened. Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball took over the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul last night and I was lucky enough to be part of the 15 thousand plus crowd and I had [...]

How to Help Victims of Hurricane Sandy

Jen Jacobs — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:05:15 +0000

The folks behind the Occupy movement are actually doing some good and you can join in. The Occupy movement last year didn’t do much to help their cause and in fact, residents of Lower Manhattan that I know and that I talked to said all they did was make a lot of noise and create [...]

Election 2012 – Where's Your Polling Place and Who's On Your Ballot

Jim Maurice — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:02:23 +0000

Where do I vote? What’s going to be on my ballot? Click to learn more. Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says you can get prepared to vote, by visiting a special website — mnvotes.org. Ritchie says the website also has links to the candidate’s websites, and information on the amendment questions. Most polling locations [...]

Who is 'The Dust Lady'?

Jen Jacobs — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:46:35 +0000

There were many indelible images burned into our memories on September 11, 2001. For me, this picture said it all. Who is the woman in this picture? What was she doing that day? Did she make it out alive? The woman in the picture is Marcy Borders, an administrative assistant at a bank branch on [...]

Olympics Update – Day Seven

Jen Jacobs — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:46:31 +0000

The U.S. won eight medals yesterday and in the process, history was made. How many of them were gold? How is the movie The Hunger Games playing in to the London Olympics and how is Ann Romney’s horse doing? Team USA won eight medals yesterday and six of them were gold! The swimming pool was [...]

Olympics Recap – Day Five

Jen Jacobs — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:30:24 +0000

More records were broken yesterday, basketball drama, a hilarious story about a kayaker, which school has won the most medals, which Olympic athlete do you look like and who won medals yesterday and what’s the medal count? The Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics topped the ratings heap. Forty million people watched. Did you? [...]

Great Displays of Olympic Sportsmanship

Jen Jacobs — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:46:51 +0000

The Olympic spirit seems to reignite every four years along with the flame on the torch. As the Games are now underway in London, let’s look back on a few displays of extraordinary Olympic sportsmanship. Berlin, 1936 As Adolf Hitler looked on, German long jumper Lutz Long set an Olympic record in the preliminaries to [...]

Olympic Recap – Day Four

Jen Jacobs — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:56:32 +0000

Why NBC is taking heat for their coverage, who played the stunt Queen Elizabeth, how much Paul McCartney got paid for the opening ceremonies, who’s the latest to get the boot, who were those independent athletes, how many medals did the U.S. men’s swimming and gymnastics teams win yesterday and what’s the medal count. NBC [...]

The Best Apps for Enhancing Your Olympics Experience

Jen Jacobs — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:30:15 +0000

If you’re an Olympics junkie and can’t get enough, but can’t watch at work, don’t want to go to a bunch of different places to get your information, or maybe it’s blocked at work, you still have your smart phone. Here are some of the best apps to enhance your Olympics watching experience. NBC Olympics [...]

Call Me Maybe – The Olympics Version [VIDEO]

Jen Jacobs — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:11:12 +0000

Michael Phelps ruled the 2008 Beijing Olympics and now it looks like this may be Ryan Lochte’s year. Check out this super fan’s parody video of Call Me Maybe, Call Me Lochte. The U.S. Men’s Swimmers took silver over the weekend in the 4 x 100m relay, by the way. You can keep an eye [...]

Random Facts About the United States Olympic Team

Jen Jacobs — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:39:15 +0000

The Olympics have already started…sort of. Here are some random facts about some of this year’s U.S. Olympic team. The United States delegation is made up of 530 athletes. There are 269 females and 261 males and that’s only because our men’s soccer team didn’t make it. We will be competing in 246 of the [...]

Random Facts About the London Olympics

Jen Jacobs — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:47:25 +0000

The opening ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympic Games is coming up on Friday. Here are a few random facts about the London Olympics. In the summer of 1858, there was a smell that fell over the city. It was untreated sewage in the River Thames that nearly incapacitated London. That event inspired Parliament to [...]

Sherman Hemsley Has Died

Jen Jacobs — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:38:51 +0000

Sources are saying that actor Sherman Hemsley has died. According to gossip website TMZ, actor Sherman Hemsley has died. Sherman Hemsley, best known as George Jefferson made quite the name for himself in the oft-controversial show All in the Family and was the star of his own sitcom The Jeffersons which also starred Isabel Sanford as [...]

2012 Teen Choice Awards Winners List

Jessica Sager — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:43:28 +0000

Teens get a bad rap as being a pretty angsty, hormonal bunch — but they’re also smart, fun and kind of awesome, so it only makes sense that the 2012 Teen Choice Awards followed suit. With nominations for everyone from Justin Bieber to Nicki Minaj to Zooey Deschanel, some frontrunners are predictable: Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and hostess with the mostess Demi Lovato are favorites for all of their categories, though for some of them they’re actually competing against one another!

Andy Griffith's Cause of Death Released

Jen Jacobs — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:48:28 +0000

Show biz legend and one of my favorite television cops of all time, Andy Griffith died earlier this week at the age of 86 and his cause of death has been released. The death certificate says that Andy Griffith died of a heart attack. He actually suffered the heart attack about a day before he [...]

Ashton Kutcher-Mila Kunis An Item or Not ?

Mark Alan — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:39:48 +0000

We Love the gossip, especially when it comes to Hollywood

Remembering the King of Pop

Jen Jacobs — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:06:35 +0000

Today marks three years since Michael Jackson died. I have always, always, always loved MJ and was mesmerized by his dance moves. I played the Thriller album over and over and over again and no matter how many times I watched the videos, I was never able to figure the moves out. Well, thanks to YouTube, that's changed.

How to Survive a Flood

Jen Jacobs — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:13:41 +0000

With all of the flooding going on in Duluth and several communities in the St. Cloud metro being on the river, I thought, “What would I do if I were caught in a flood?” Here’s what I found. I live near the Mississippi River, but it would have to be like 200 feet above flood stage [...]

Are You My Mommy? [VIDEO]

Jen Jacobs — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:35:00 +0000

I read and re-read that book when I was a kid, but this video is like the book come to life. Watch as a baby duckling follows this guy around a park. It’s the most adorable thing I’ve seen in a while. As much as the guy tries to run, watch as the duckling tries [...]

Junk Food Advertisements Banned During Kids' Programs

Jen Jacobs — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:49:11 +0000

Michelle Obama is on a crusade to end childhood obesity. She tried to sink Captain Crunch, outlaw pizza and change our school lunch menus. Now, one company has jumped on board and is banning advertisements that sell junk food during some of their programs. Disney made the announcement that they were banning junk food advertising [...]