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The Daily Shocker: Fat Can Be Fit

The Daily Shocker: Fat Can Be Fit

• Recent studies show that it’s the lack of exercise, not body fat, that’s unhealthy.
• Experts break down the health pros and cons of drinking.
• Disappearing man reappears five years later, claiming amnesia when arrested for fraud.
A gasoline tanker explodes in Everett, Massachusetts, leaving cars and buildings ablaze.
• Burglars in East… Click to read more

COED Guide to Shaving

COED Guide to Shaving

If you still haven’t got the hang of stroking your palms against a smooth cheek each morning, you probably still have a lot to learn, old boy. Take a look at these shaving tips to get the smooth finish.

Avoid shaving first thing in the morning. Your face would still be puffy due to the fluids that collect in your face tissues over a night’s sleep, and the perf… Click to read more

Brew Review: Old Milwaukee

Brew Review: Old Milwaukee

Blech. Even writing about Old Milwaukee conjures up visions of pit-fires down at “The Quarry” back in high-school.
(Oh, Iris – come back to me, my darling…)
It’s funny: I’m a big-fan of cheapo beer when the mood hits, but Old Milwaukee just turns my stomach. Maybe it’s that I’ve been weaned on the skunked… Click to read more

Refresh After a Workout with…Beer?

Refresh After a Workout with…Beer?

After a grueling workout at the gym, the only thing I want is a glass of ice old water…or a deep tissue massage and an hour in the sauna – but let’s be realistic here. And as much as I enjoy cocktail hour, the most unappealing after-cardio treat would have to be alcohol.
Apparently, I should consider changing my tastes. A new study suggests that BEER a… Click to read more

Brew Review: Yuengling Traditional Lager

Brew Review: Yuengling Traditional Lager

Yuengling, the yeast from the east. Not many west-coasters have experienced the cheap-yet-digestible taste that America’s Oldest Brewery provides.
Similar to Coors in its smoothness Yuengling is a staple of Northeastern frat-parties and post-college keggers. Its neutral taste hardly offends, with decent head and a nice honey-grain finish. G… Click to read more

Brew Review: Red Stripe

Brew Review: Red Stripe

All of this Halloween talk and fall weather had me reaching for one beer last night: Red Stripe. A summer-styled lager in the near-winter month of October? Why not?
Red Stripe Jamaican beer is known for its spiced flavor and smooth finish. This lager has a large stable of enthusiasts due to its unique taste and stubby bottle. The famous Red Stripe “bitte… Click to read more

Brew Review: Miller Chill

Brew Review: Miller Chill

Ever heard of a “chelada”? Not enchilada, although those are really rad…but that’s neither here or there.
A chelada is a Mexican style of beer that’s flavored with lime and salt (Corona with salt, basically). The drink is popular in Mexico and Costa Rica but has yet to become a hit in America. The day where cheladas are popula… Click to read more

World of Warcraft Intervention

World of Warcraft Intervention

I believe the song from the South Park movie goes, “There are times when you get suckered in, by drugs and alcohol and sex with women. But it’s when you do these things too much that you become an addict and have to get back in touch.”
Mr. Mackey left something out of that little ditty: the video game World of Warcraft.… Click to read more

Beer Pong Champions: Meet Your Next Best Friend

Beer Pong Champions: Meet Your Next Best Friend

If I was still in college right now, I’d be peeing my pants with excitement over this awesome new development in alcoholism.
The Portopong!
Yes, yes, the summer is almost over (10 days and counting) but if you have access to a pool and a group of fun-loving friends, the Portopong is where it’s at. What college student doesn’t love a good game of pong? And in… Click to read more

The Daily Shocker: Radcliffe, Daniel Radcliffe

The Daily Shocker: Radcliffe, Daniel Radcliffe

Harry Potter (otherwise known as “Daniel Radcliffe”) may be in negotiations to be Young James Bond in a film based on the Young Bond books by Charlie Higson. If it all pans out, Radcliffe will have the daunting task of playing a young adventurer out to defeat the forces of evil in an adaptation of a successful book. Here’s to not being pigeon… Click to read more

How Not to be the Class Wallflower

How Not to be the Class Wallflower

Alright, what the hell, you’re in this four-hundred person lecture and just your luck, you can’t spot a single familiar face. Now what?
Spend the rest of the semester in studying solitude? Stalk a TA to answer all your simple assignment questions? Maybe you’ll just skip every class and hope your professor puts the notes online.
OR, you could grow some balls an… Click to read more

Sex, Drugs, and College: How to Party Safely

Sex, Drugs, and College: How to Party Safely

With the return of classes comes the return of dorm hookups, frat parties, beer pong competitions, and keg stands. It’s all fun and games, until someone loses an eye!
I don’t mean to get all Mom on you, but all of us have had at least one partying experience that ends in waking up with a hangover, vowing, “I’m never drinking again. No, seriously. Never ag… Click to read more

Great Sex: A Matter of the Mind

Great Sex: A Matter of the Mind

Fill in the blank: the bigger the ______, the better the sex.
Get your minds out of the gutter, guys and gals.
Apparently, a big, healthy brain is the underground key to a steamy sex life.
In a recent article, Dr. Daniel Amen claims that sex—for the most part—occurs in the brain, specifically the part of the brain considered “the seat of orgasmsâ€? which h… Click to read more

Yo Xzibit… Pimp My Dorm

Yo Xzibit… Pimp My Dorm

When I started college, I thought my digs were pretty sweet. It was a private school so of course it was nice compared to most state schools I had looked at.My roommate and I had a TV, stereo, window AC unit, mini fridge and an illegal microwave. I mean, what else did two girls on the verge of the most exciting adventure of their lives need??
Apparently everything.… Click to read more

How Do You Prefer to Binge Drink?

How Do You Prefer to Binge Drink?

Have you always imagined beer being a juvenile drink of choice? You know, the first thing you are able to buy with a fake id at the convenience store and the mainstay of colleges across the nation?
I always imagined a “mature” adult being the one to order vodka on the rocks or some sort of hardcore liquor. Well, it’s time for all of us to throw th… Click to read more