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Minneapolis top city on fun list
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis 10-29-2003
According to a Cranium Inc., the City of Lakes is the most fun city in the whole country, way ahead of apparently more boring places like Las Vegas (25th in fun) and New York (41st in fun).
 St. Paul and other local cities can claim a piece of the award, too, because the survey lists "fun city" amenities that aren't all in Minneapolis, such as the Minnesota Wild, the Mall of America and the state's 10,000-plus lakes.
At the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Conservatory on Tuesday, Mayor R.T. Rybak will receive the "fun city" designation from Richard Tait, chief executive of Cranium Inc., a company based in Seattle (10th in fun).
The game manufacturer commissioned the fun-city list from Bert Sperling, who did "Best Places to Live" reports for Money magazine before spinning off his own ratings business.
The fun-city rankings were based on an analysis of such things as sports teams, restaurants, shopping malls, boat ownership, theaters, toy stores and the amount of money spent on recreation.
Minneapolis, according to Sperling's report, "has more theaters than Boston, more parks than Denver, more golfers per capita than any other city in America — and, with 10,000 lakes in the state, Minnesota has more coastline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined."
Two California locales were right behind Minneapolis. Orange County came in second for fun while San Jose was third. Dead last on a list of 56 cities was Niagara Falls, N.Y.
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