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Dungeon Party In Utah!

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Awkward news out of Park City, Utah: this year’s annual Dungeon Party can’t be held in the dungeon. It’s closed for repairs. The good news is that the dungeon will be back, uncomfortable as ever, in the spring of 2009, once the Park City Historical Museum finishes fixing up the place. The dungeon is what [...]

This Is What Happens When You Mess With Lincoln’s Log Cabin

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Well, that didn’t take too long. Nine days ago, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich did the unthinkable and shut down Lincoln’s Log Cabin — and a big Indian statue as well — claiming that the money wasn’t available to keep them open. T-h-e g-o-v-e-r-n-o-r i-s a c-r-o-o-k, this Lincoln’s Log Cabin souvenir seems to be semaphoring… [...]

Makeover For Minnesota’s Killer Wolf

Monday, December 8th, 2008

For years a lone wolf nicknamed “Old Three Legs” worried the citizens of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. He ate chickens, mostly, but some believed that he was a potential child-chewer, and his knack of not getting shot made him more fearsome. “Hunting parties of hundreds could not bring him down,” reads a lurid report on WDAY-TV, [...]

Miami To Get Massive Orange Rubber Spiky Thing, Maybe

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Miami wants to develop a downtown arts district, but it has a problem: there’s an ugly sewage pumping station in the middle of it, and it’s too expensive to move. So the city announced a design contest to make the sewage station artistic. 143 proposals were submitted, most of them attempts to gussy up the [...]

Museum of The Weird – Closing, Or Not

Friday, December 5th, 2008

The Museum of the Weird in Texas is closing and selling off most of its unique exhibits. No, not that Museum of the Weird in Texas. The other Museum of the Weird in Texas.

Duck Luxury at The Peabody

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The Peabody Ducks — five mallards that parade through the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee — already had it pretty sweet. Their job is to swim in the hotel’s lobby fountain and provide camcorder and camera fodder for goggle-eyed visitors. And they never end up on the Peabody’s dinner menu. But the mallard mascots’ lives [...]

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