Game Informer continues to grow while other magazines shrink.

​The market for print magazines in shriveling, according to a report released Tuesday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. During the fourth quarter last year, single-copy sales of consumer magazines declined by nearly 10 percent compared with the year before.

But one Minneapolis-based magazine continues to buck the trend and grow. Compared to 2010, Game Informer's paid circulation increased an astonishing 48 percent. To put that in context, of the 10 largest magazines in the world, Game Informer was the only one to grow by more than even one percent last year.

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Mpls' social media job market is very solid.

​Social media has revolutionized the way we publish and disseminate information. No longer are journalists ink-stained wretches trying to put together a story before a print deadline -- now we're more like carpal tunnel-plagued pixelheads trying to be the first to tweet the latest scoop.

But, if you're someone looking to make a living as a blogger, online marketing manager, or social media strategist, what cities are the best places to look for work? Well, if a healthy job market and solid salary potential are your motivators, then All Twitter -- "The Unofficial Twitter Resource" -- has just the list for you.

The online publication recently compiled the Social Media Strategy Guide, and it turns out that Minneapolis isn't such a bad place to be for us pixelheads after all.

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​For its latest listicle, "Where the Hot Babes Are," Men's Health Magazine asked all the single ladies in the U.S. to put their hands up, and counted the 10th most in fair St. Paul.

According to their calculations, the Saintly City beat Minneapolis by a long shot for the number of well-educated, gainfully employed hotties living la vida sola.

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Looking for a romantic getaway? Forget Paris. Go to Wisconsin.

​Move over Honolulu, see you later San Francisco -- if you're looking for romance, the place to be is La Crosse, Wisconsin. And if that doesn't work for you, go to Green Bay.

Or so say the folks at Redbox. The movie rental company recently compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Romantic Cities in the country based on the number of romantic comedies rented in 2011.

And don'cha know, the Upper Midwest dominates the list. Wisconsin is ridiculously well represented with four cities, Iowa with two, and Mankato clocks in at number 10. Apparently drinking beer, eating cheese, and watching romantic comedies is a more popular date activity than you might think.

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Something seems fishy about all these lists.

​It seems like there's another "city superlative list" every week (the latest making the odd claim that we're the "13th most lesbianish"), so we decided to try to put them all together into one comparative infographic.

These studies are popular with readers, hence their proliferation. Many of them were one-time studies. Some corroborate each other, as with Forbes' assertion that we are the most relaxed metropolitan area, while Portfolio.com asserts that the Twin Cities are the 3rd least stressful.

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If the recent lists are to be believed, MSP is slightly more gay than lesbian.

​Minneapolis-St. Paul is the 13th "most lesbainish" metro in the country, according to Jezebel's first-ever ranking of lesbian hot spots.

Jezebel doesn't explain the list's methodology, so take it for what it's worth, but the Twin Cities gets kudos for our abundance of piercing-laden bicycle chicks, Carleton College (how is Carleton more of a lesbian haven than St. Kate's?), and a certain championship-winning professional basketball team.

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We eat wheat, therefore we stay young.

​A new study concludes that the Twin Cities are one of the best metropolises for staying young -- and we don't even need Botox to fend off father time.

The study, put together by the Real Age website, ranks MSP as the fourth best metro to remain youthful, behind San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, respectively.

Real Age gathered information from more than 28 million people and determined the rankings based on lifestyle choices. Summarizing the methodology, Real Age co-founder Michael Roizen, M.D., said that "cities with the lowest stress are basically the youngest. Stress, smoking, diet, exercise -- all four of those seem to go together."

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St. Paul: Lots of colleges, but declining literacy.

​Instead of creating a new food and beverage tax to help fund a Vikings stadium, perhaps the Ramsey County Board should invest in libraries.

The annual Central Connecticut State University literacy study ranked Minneapolis as the third-most literate city in the country in 2011, behind only Washington, D.C. and Seattle.

St. Paul? Things are apparently going to hell in a handbasket on that side of the river, as for the first time since 2005 the capital city fell out of the top ten, all the way down to 12th overall.

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Best Buy: More hated than Walmart? 24/7 Wall St. thinks so.

​Best Buy has been receiving a lot of negative publicity lately, and that trend continued when 24/7 Wall St. published its list of the 10 most hated companies in America.

Using an algorithm including factors like consumer satisfaction, customer care, pricing of products and services, brand impressions, present earnings, and profit forecasts, the investment analysis publication pegged Best Buy as the sixth most hated company.

Perhaps the list should be taken with a grain of salt, however. Somehow, Walmart didn't crack the top 10.

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North Dakota has a bar and three women. Legendary.

​By now, you've no doubt heard about North Dakota's new "Legendary" ad campaign, which markets No-Dak as a state of skanks ready to have sex with any Tucker Max-clone willing to sit in a window and drink beer.

But that's not the only thing Legendary about North Dakota. You don't get a nationwide reputation as The Sexiest State in the Union™ just by rounding up three trollops in pastel dresses willing to stand outside the window of the only beer garden in town.

Which is why the North Dakota Tourism Board has taken the logical next step in its marketing campaign and released this list of the sexiest, most erotic -- dare we say, "Legendary?" -- sights to see in North Dakota.
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