The organizers of Zombie Pub Crawl have officially broken into the record books. Earlier this week, one of the event's founders received an email from Guinness announcing they set the new world record for "Largest Gathering of Zombies," with 8,027 at Midway Stadium in St. Paul before the October 13 ... More >>
The empty state mental hospital in Fergus Falls, a sprawling castle-like building, is in danger of demolition unless a developer is found by December 14. So the building's advocates, who call themselves Friends of the Kirkbride, gathered around the six-block-long building Saturday in a group hug to ... More >>
What do we want? BRAINS! When do we want 'em? .....BRAINS!That's right, the time is nigh for throngs of eager young partiers to don their rattiest zombie apparel for the 7th annual Zombie Pub Crawl, which for the first time this year will expand to cover both St. Paul's Lowertown neighborhood and ... More >>
2 Live Crew are one of the headliners at this year's ZPCAnyone who tried to set foot on the West Bank last year during Zombie Pub Crawl can tell you that the once modestly sized bar crawl has gotten a bit too big for its britches. What started as a 150-person tour of Northeast bars later moved to ... More >>
Since its inception as an advertising gimmick for a shoe wax company, Twister has come a long way. Almost 50 years later, it's been played by 65 million people, and everyone from Johnny Carson to Keanu Reeves to Taylor Swift has been tied in knots on its colorful game board. Here are some of the ... More >>
Paragon/TeabonicsKeeping us infromed.A lot of stories fly across our radar here at The Blotter on any given day. We never know what's coming next, and we're never really sure what readers are going to latch onto -- with a few notable exceptions. With that in mind, here's our Top 10 list of ... More >>
There's a moustache down there, somewhere.The Minnesota Wild broke two records in November, and they didn't have to raise a stick for either of them. The Wild raised $28,270 through donations and ticket sales during Movember, an annual charity event that encourages men to grow mustaches to r ... More >>
If there's a Guinness record for "most pop artists performing on a pop single," it's probably held by "We Are The World" or its lame-ass sequel from earlier this year. But "All of the Lights" - the fourth single from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - boasts a longer and more random guest list t ... More >>
Every facet of popular music has legends, figures that shaped the landscape of a particular genre; rock has Jagger and Lennon, country has Williams and Cash, hip hop has Blow and KRS-1. But, in terms of dance music, it's harder to identify the cornerstones. Penchants for anonymity, mu ... More >>
This weekend twins, triplets, quads, and their families will make a pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio for the Twins Days Festival. In deference to this celebration of multiples, we've put together a list of some of the most memorable twins. Some are famous because they're beautiful, others for th ... More >>
Igor dwarfs First Lady Michele Obama at a photo opLife around us shorter folks must be a bit of an ordeal for Rochester's Igor Vovkovinskiy. Ducking through doorways, folding into cars, finding clothes that fit and pointing the shower head up, not down. But, owing to the fact he's 7 feet 8.33 ... More >>
Yes, including that time he played in a refrigerator box for 10 hours.
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Erotic Specialist Patrick Strait makes history with 222 nakeds
Pigs are celebrating SpongeBob's birthday in style. A local company awards the world's largest cupcake to a farm.
The All-Terrain Vehicle Association of Minnesota broke the Guinness World Record for Longest ATV Parade this weekend. The parade totaled 1,632 ATVs in Silver Bay.
Somewhere, Mark Mallman just spat out his soup.
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Should House Dueling Pianos' bar manager, Chris Raph shattered the Guinness World Record for fastest bartender Thursday night with a list of 662 cocktails poured in 60 minutes.
Watch Chris Raph attempt to break the current world record for most cocktails prepared in 60 minutes--tonight!
Want to be part of a new Guinness Book of World Records attempt? Head over to Shout House Thursday night as bartender Chris Raph tried to take the world record for most cocktails prepared in 60 minutes.
And we couldn't be more proud ... even if he isn't a native.
Chris Chike, a.k.a. IamChris4life, is the Jimi Hendrix of the plastic ax
Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records.
Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)
Meet Janek Schaefer, master manipulator of the wheels of steel
From the great outdoors to your oven
The Polish brothers claim an intimate connection to the story of Twin Falls Idaho
No job? No personal hygiene? No permanent address? No problem. Today's rare-book trade is the sort of wild treasure hunt that can transform an ordinary hobbyist into a full-time bottom feeder.
