How 'Mamma Mia!' cured my aversion to ABBA (MinnPost)

Hennepin Theatre Trust President/CEO Tom Hoch and I did not like ABBA in our younger years. Then, 10 years ago, the jukebox musical “Mamma Mia!” premiered in London’s West End, went on to Broadway and around the world, and eventually landed on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis.

Professor X Chair Dispenses Vodka, Announces Presence with Arduino Sounds and Smoke [Wheelchairs] (Gizmodo)

# wheelchairs This fully-functional wheelchair comes complete with, well, everything I could possibly think of that's necessary for something to be called a Steampunk Professor X chair. Vodka cranberry dispenser? Yes. Booming Arduino/Adafruit sound effects? Sure! Working smokestack? Why, yes! More »

Sharpshooter Annie Oakley's great-niece says legend is off mark (Detroit Free Press)

Bess Edwards, 88, still has a lot of work to do. She is determined to stamp out legends and half-truths about sharpshooter Annie Oakley, her great-aunt, who was born 150 years ago.

What's So Great about Hand-Made? (in News) (The Tyee)

Whether it's dog biscuits or sealskin parkas, creating items by hand builds culture and communities.

Children aren't reality TV spectacles (The Observer)

Shows like the recently canceled Jon and Kate Plus Eight achieve success by depicting children in all their cute glory. But one of the Gosselin children, Mady Gosselin, is continually depicted as a demon-spawn progeny: slapping, screaming, and engaging in other less-than-cute behaviors.

A Place to Call Home (Rivals.com via Yahoo! Sports)

The Hoosier sports tradition is one of the proudest in the collegiate ranks, and what happens on the field has...

Action-figure Abbott went missing in the NT (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

For a few hours last night grave fears were held for the Federal Opposition Leader.

Good Neighbor Insurance Helps Newly Retired Women Take On The World (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Retired women are spending more money on forms of international travel that are increasingly active and even dangerous. Good Neighbor Insurance has found that these women want good and reasonably priced international travel insurance. In order to help them select the best insurance suited for their preferred style of travel and life abroad, Good Neighbor has put together insurance options for ...

Thousands Still Lack Power After Northeast Storm (WCBS-TV New York)

Frustration turned to resignation Saturday for hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast struggling to survive another day waiting for utility crews to restore electricity after powerful storms socked the region with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds. The region was left to deal with the fallout of gusting winds that created near-blizzard conditions this week in what was the ...

Greener Gadgets 2010 Attracts Green Designers, Innovators and the Latest Green Technologies (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

ARLINGTON, Va.----The Greener Gadgets 2010 Conference, produced by the Consumer Electronics Association ®, concluded Thursday in New York City, highlighting the latest green designs and innovations in consumer technology.