Kim and Kris signed this ball during the short spell in their relationship when things were going well.

​Perhaps the only thing in 2011 that was a bigger failure than the Minnesota Twins' season was the marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, so the Twins' latest promotion is strangely appropriate.

Our local MLB club is auctioning off a baseball adorned with the signatures of Kim-Kris Hump-dashian, with the proceeds going to charity. The opening bid is (gulp) $250, with subsequent bidding in $25 increments.

So, for the approximate price of one of the napkins at the Kim-Kris wedding, you can own a sad piece of American celebrity culture -- but at least you'll be contributing to a worthwhile cause!

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Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries: The end of the Great American Love Affair.

​Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, the couple that stole America's heart and ate America's brains, are officially, finally done.

The news broke today via TMZ, which has since obtained (read: got faxed from Kim's publicist and/or her mom) the official divorce filing. In those fateful pieces of paper, signed by Kim herself, the split is explained as being the result of "irreconcilable differences."

Given that those differences have emerged after only 72 days of wedded bliss, we can only assume that the major difference between Humphries, a native Minnesotan, and Kardashian, who was born on the internet, cropped-up just moments after they tied the knot in a two-hour television special.
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Your sign is safe.

​Your zodiac sign may be safe after all, no thanks to the Minnesota Planetarium Society.

Its members had horoscope fans frothing over a claim that everything we knew about the zodiac was off by a month. Powerful, obsessive Scorpios were seemingly and suddenly reduced to indecisive, gullible Libras.

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Everything you think you know about zodiac signs is wrong.

​So there you are, thinking that you've been a passionate, mercurial and obsessive Scorpio your whole life and boom, now you're a Libra. A Libra! Indecisive, gullible, self-indulgent.

For this news, and for completely upending those worthless pick-up lines you've heard in bars all these years, you can thank the Minnesota Planetarium Society. They've decided the Zodiac is wrong.

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Brother Ali has breakfast with Gary Schiff.

​Brother Ali wants you to know that he's not giving up his day job for politics, even though he's been lending his time of late to politicians like Mayor R.T. Rybak, congressman Keith Ellison and gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza.

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​Regular readers know we like to take a poke at all the drunks, criminals and boobs who regularly make headlines in our neighboring state of Wisconsin. Not in this post, though. No, here we want to take a moment to note the passing of a genuine cultural icon with bona fide Wisconsin roots.

Donald Goerke, the man who brought SpaghettiOs into the kitchen of every self-respecting American parent who never knew Italian food from a wet sock but wanted their kids to eat dinner, has died. He was 86 years old. And although he lived out a big portion of life elsewhere, he was born in Waukesha.

An employee of Campbell's for 35 years, Goerke worked in the marketing division of its Franco American brand in the 1960s when an "a ha!" moment led him to utter the unforgettable phrase, "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs."

So here's to you, Donald. We chose the "Os."

​Bell bottoms? Check. Bandanas? Check. Eight track player? Check. Illegal substances and paraphernalia? Well ... does a bootleg Grateful Dead tape count?

Whatever, man. Pass the munchies. Cheech and Chong are coming back to town, making a stop at the State Theater on March 26. Tickets go on sale through Live Nation on Nov. 20.

Here's some classic stoner video humor. Watch what happens to the Ajax...

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Do you and your lawfully wedded spouse fight like drunken Irishmen over the stupidest things? And would you like your petty family squabbles broadcast for all the world to see? Then by all means get yourself to the Mall of America on Saturday and Sunday, September 26 and 27, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and meet with the producers of a new NBC show called The Marriage Ref.

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Hey, at least we've got something going for us. We made it on the Sitcom Map of the United States! In other words, we have some pop culture cred and that's how one places value these days. The map shows where major U.S. sitcoms are set.

Yes, we made it on the map for The Mary Tyler Moore show. The show centers on Mary Richards who moves to Minneapolis when she is 30 and newly single. She applies for a job at a TV station and ends up an associate producer.

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We all love our hometown hero, the notorious little guy with endless sex appeal spit out through guitar solos and hip gyrations. But we still find it fascinating when everyone else goes nuts for him and the gossip makes it back to the Twin Cities.

Prince played two private shows in New York City this weekend at the Gansevoort Hotel. Celebrity sightings were abundant and Prince's weird requests (humidifiers in every room and blacked out windows) were easy to track down. Check below the jump for all the juicy details.

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