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13 Nov 2009

M Shanghai Bistro is Majorly Tasty

My stomach has always been a pissy little bitch, and it keeps getting more intolerant as I get older. I can’t eat cake for breakfast like I could when I was 19. The magical combination of grease and salt in bad Chinese food makes me feel like I’m growing a

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11 Nov 2009

Blow Off Some Steam: Go Bowling for FREE

As a zen-like way of letting out some rage, my roommate and I took turns throwing an avocado into the air and trying to slice it with a saw. Then he taped a target to the bathroom door, and we spent a half an hour shooting our staple guns at

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09 Nov 2009

Samosa Crawl and FREE Chuck Klosterman Reading

Have you ever woken up and thought: “Damn, I really wish I understood what is was like to be a hunter-gatherer, but the closet thing I can do in New York is dumpster diving. Or foraging through a park, but I don’t feel like fighting pigeons and ferrel cats over

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06 Nov 2009

House of Diehl's Style Wars

You probably have an umbrella that you’re keeping out of spite. It popped backwards the first time it was in a wind gust, and you keep using it because you can’t bring yourself to buy a new one. Stop using that shitty umbrella to protect you from the elements, and

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04 Nov 2009

Unstill Life: FREE Theater! FREE John Hodgeman Reading!

Unstill Life, an Night of Original Plays “Theater” can mean a lot of things, ranging from something the creepiest guy on campus invites you to see to a group of talented local actors performing interesting and funny material. Thankfully, Unstill Life is a collection of plays by Craig McNulty that

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02 Nov 2009

The World's Biggest Connect Four Championship

One Christmas in high school, my cousin, who was six at the time, asked me in her sweet little kid voice if I wanted to play Connect Four. I spaced out for a second while were were playing, and the next thing I knew there were black and red checkers

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30 Oct 2009

Skip Times Square, Go to Jimmy's Corner

My older sister wanted to see Times Square. We stepped out of the subway station, and walked in silence for about five minutes as we dodged tourists. She stopped and looked around at the flashing signs, the creepy glow in the air and the onslaught of brand name logos, and

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