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Tossing the salad

I heard a joke in a commercial once that said: "We're so broke, we got married just for the rice." At the time that I saw this I was probably still in high school, worrying more about whether my pants were tight enough than about my financial future.


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Talking sex scenarios

Some hit up the pages of Cosmo or turn on Dr. Sue, but all the mysteries and specificities of sex can't be answered by such far away and impersonal sources.


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Gaga for Gaga

The FameInterscope RecordsReleased October 28, 2008Grade: A As strobe-lit ecstasy bounces with the beat and epilepsy turns pandemic, uppity club-kids and post-bumped socialites bow in the presence of their platinum blonde deity, Lady Gaga.


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Sidelines

Buffalo's election night showing has high ratingsAccording to Time Warner Cable, last Tuesday's football game versus Miami (OH) was the biggest non-election program on cable.


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Make the Pro Bowl meaningful

NFL fans across the country might be saying "aloha" to Aloha Stadium soon. The home of the Pro Bowl, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, will more than likely be empty of any professional football in the next few years.


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Watch the abbreviations

Imagine reading a novel with the first words written as, "I c u prob dnt no me." For someone who is a frequent text messenger and user of abbreviations this may be a legible sentence, but not everyone is on board with the functions of new technology.


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Exhibit X: literature and the community

Good news for those desperately yearning to find that Buffalo is not, in fact, a culturally dead city-the Exhibit X Fiction Series is now in its 5th year of welcoming writers, students and the community to participate in literature readings and events.


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Bone Palace Ball-assist

As the hardcore musical classification watched its heart beat into different genres, a phoenix rose from these interspersed ashes strewn on the streets of Davison, Mich.


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An evolving legend

R&B superstar John Legend has certainly evolved, switching up his eminence with his third and most recent album Evolver.


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