While we’re all sitting around our tables with our family, enjoying good food and giving thanks for everything we’re blessed with in our lives, masses of people will be working their shifts in retail. Even though our hearts go out to them, it gives the rest of us something to[Read More…]
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CTCF: Sweet potato mash recipe
Confessions of Two College Foodies, run by Cal State Long Beach foodies and best friends Nicole Mynott and Johnny Newnes, share one of their many traditional and simple recipes for tomorrow’s feast. If you can’t stand the heat and pressure the night before Thanksgiving, then scramble to the grocery, find the ingredients[Read More…]
5 ways students find time to work out
College life is a balancing act. Between going to classes, working shifts and actually having a social life, it’s difficult to set aside time for the gym. We talked to Cal State Long Beach students who regularly work up a sweat and asked them how they manage to fit in[Read More…]
Is an open marriage the way to avoid divorce?
Hot Topic: We’ve all heard by now that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are getting a divorce. Demi’s publicist released the celebrity news to ABC News last week. Demi heard from a bird that her hubby’s been double dipping, and she’s not having that! You go girl! But what I[Read More…]
House protects corporations in classifying pizza as a vegetable at schools
If pizza is classified as a vegetable, then same-sex marriage should at least be given the same respect and be constitutionalized. Both issues are arguable, but they follow the same logic. The pizza issue, however, is prioritized as Congress voted last week against the Obama administration to downgrade the nutritional[Read More…]
Originality is dead: NBC benches ‘Community’
NBC sent the internet into a frenzy on Monday when it announced that it will be changing its Thursday night comedy lineup. Critical favorite, but ratings disaster “Community” will be benched mid-season and replaced with new episodes of “30 good.” Showrunner Dan Harmon has mastered his circular eight-step plot, changing the[Read More…]
The pope-imam kiss for tolerance campaign angers the Vatican
Hot topic: Pope Benedict XVI is pissed! A photo of the pope locking lips with a top Egyptian imam might not be the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Roman Catholic Church. The United Colors of Benetton, however, felt it was a perfect scene to depict[Read More…]
Former porn star reads to first and third grade students
Educators and porn aficionados, this ones for you: Retired porn star Sasha Grey has caused a stir with her visit to Emerson Elementary School in Compton to read to first-and-third-graders, according to the Huffington Post. “Spent the am with Read Across America Compton, reading to the sweetest 1st[Read More…]
Spotted on The Beach allows students to confess crushes anonymously
Maybe you’ve been through one of the following scenarios before: A sweet guy held the door open for you, but you were too nervous to say anything to him. A cute girl is in the library, but you don’t want to seem too creepy by approaching her. The first post[Read More…]
Album woos and boos: ‘Take Care’ by Drake
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, many of our favorite traditions are upon us. There’s the carving of the turkey, the demolition of gravy and stuffing and the arrival of a newly leaked Drake album. Maybe that last one isn’t a tradition yet, but with Drake’s sophomore album Take Care sharing the[Read More…]