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February 8, 2012 OpinionCityCampusSportsEntertainmentLocal Verse

V-day 2012

I really don’t like the color red – especially when it comes heart-shaped. I don’t like the type of chocolate that comes in layered trays. I don’t like watching strange...

Be a Darling, Share a Clementine

Every year, it seems that more disillusioned souls love to crap on Valentine’s Day. The holiday’s Scrooges get away without one ghostly, reforming visit. In fact, having...

Winners and Losers

WINNER: Napoleonland theme park; French people like crushing historical reenactments, too The best way to rival Disneyland? Stage daily reenactments of the battles of Waterloo...

February 1, 2012 OpinionCityCampusSportsEntertainmentLocal Verse

When I Grow Up...

Last week I had my thirtieth birthday. It’s weird to say out loud and even weirder to see written down and even weirder still that it actually happened. My twenties are over....

A Day Unplugged

If you’re reading this on Wednesday, Feb. 1, maybe it’s because you’ve caught wind of today’s “No Internet” challenge, and you’re desperately looking for something...

Winners and Losers

LOSER: Samuel Smith; brewing company suspends couple for serving too much beer Pete and Debbie Gibson, landlords of the Junction Inn Pub at Royton, near Oldham, Greater...

January 25, 2012 OpinionCityCampusSportsEntertainmentLocal Verse

Apology Letter to Dog Owners

Dear beloved dog owners, I am writing in apology to all you out there, in our great city, from the deepest, truest part of my heart. Fellow dog owners, I am sorry. If my...

Wasted Words

My Scrabble board is being held hostage. A few nights ago, my neighbor invited me over for what I thought would be an innocent night of chatting and drinking. I walked...

Winners and Losers

LOSER: German man; claimed dog strangled his wife A 50-year-old man from Düsseldorf, Germany was convicted of manslaughter after his wife was found strangled to death in the...