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The Glean

Bad for your health: sweat lodges and deadly nurses?

By Max Sparber | 10/19/09
PLUS: A dancing chicken sells pizza,a ventriloquist gets government assistance, and a Target costume becomes a political tool.
Business Agenda

Ex-Medtronic CEO Bill George says 100-hour work weeks won't lead to success

By Dan Haugen | 01/20/09
As America celebrates its new president, it's a good day to ponder what makes a great leader. The Motley Fool interviews former Medtronic CEO Bill George as part of a series of conversations on leadership. One-hundred hour work we
Business Agenda

London amusement park operator buying Underwater Adventures at Mall of America

By Dan Haugen | 12/11/08
The owner of some of Europe's largest tourist attractions has purchased Underwater Adventures Aquarium at the Mall of America, according to a press release. Senior executives of London-based Merlin Entertainments a
Community Voices

Adoption: It's about love -- and loss

By Michele St. Martin | 12/10/08
It is a cold morning, the coldest yet this season, and I throw on my long, warm coat. It's a coat to snuggle down into: thick black plush, with lavish faux fur lapels and cuffs.
Minnov8

Great (Meerman) Scott! What a social-media breakfast!

By Minnov8 | 11/04/08
The monthly meeting of the Social Media Breakfast of Minneapolis-St.Paul, held at the PartnerUp Headquarters, also known as Deluxe, was anchored by author/marketer David Meerman Scott last Friday.
Arts & Culture

David Byrne and Brian Eno: The Best Talking Heads

By Britt Robson | 10/10/08
David Byrne's Talking Heads created the "New Wave" music of the late 1970s, a brainy, DIY, art-rock alternative to both the SoCal solipsism of The Eagles and Jackson Browne and the punk nihilism of The Sex Pistols and The Dead Boys.
Arts & Culture

Club-hopping one way to gauge nation's nervous mood

By Jim Walsh | 10/06/08
The cover photo of this week's Time magazine has been lurking in the psyche of America for the past two weeks: A bread line, circa 1931, buttressed by the headline "The New Hard Times." Whether or not that's overstating things by the liberal media e
Sports

RIP, Jim McKay, at his best in both triumph and tragedy

By Steve Aschburner | 06/09/08
Growing up in Chicago, a city of stick-and-ball sports as well as big shoulders, I came late to ABC's "Wide World of Sports." Compared with a steady diet of Cubs, Bears, White Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls, "WWOS" was an acquired taste, and those early
Politics & Policy

Delta prez careful, conciliatory in latest Capitol hearings on Northwest

By G.R. Anderson Jr. | 05/05/08
In what was at least the third round of hearings at the Capitol regarding the Delta-Northwest Airlines merger, Delta President and CFO Ed Bastian came to St. Paul from Atlanta this morning. His appearance was a noble, if symbolic, gesture.
Community Voices

Before the wrecking ball, a few questions

By Randall Carpenter, Robert Cowgill and Barry Hans | 04/28/08
The recent news that the board of Minnesota Film Arts has finalized a deal to sell the Oak Street Cinema to a developer isn't surprising, but it sure is heartbreaking.