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Fantastic Fat Tuesday Festivities

Amanda Ippolito

Amanda Ippolito offers ideas of recipes to try and events to attend in celebration of Mardi Gras.

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Pinterest's rise into social networking big leagues

Shawna Gillen

Shawna Gillen explores social networking's newest addition, Pinterest.

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Sexual Healing: How to fearlessly level-up your sex life

Rachael Shockey reviews the website http://MojoUpgrade, a free, interactive sex survey to help open up communication between partners.

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Sexual Healing: Dealing with White Stuff This Winter

In the swiftly approaching frigid months, blow jobs can double as an exhilarating way to warm up and as a wallet-friendly holiday gift. There exists a great deal of social pressure for givers of blow jobs to swallow their partners' semen, but the reality is that it is a choice that should be left entirely to oneself. Full story

Steps to Clean Out the Throttle Body Under Your Car’s Hood

The words throttle, accelerator and gas pedal are all common synonyms that refer to the same car part; but one term implies a false connotation about its function. "Gas pedal" is somewhat of a misnomer, according to http://howstuffworks. Full story

Tell-all Tips for Ideal Interns

Starting in high school, students are told how to succeed and how to make a career for themselves. No one tells them how to get there, just what needs to get done and what needs to be accomplished to get the inevitable j-o-b after graduation. Full story

The Quest for Asian Cuisine in the Hudson Valley Ends Here

Weekends are too short for a college student to find time to enjoy themselves. Sleeping in leads to fewer opportunities to go out and indulge in food at a new restaurant, especially if a Red Fox plans on hitting the bars. For me, the journey to find a restaurant for my old-school Vietnamese family to eat this upcoming May ends at Wappinger Buffet in Wappingers Falls, N. Full story

Black People: On Putting XX(X) in Hip-Hop.

In a recent interview, Nicki Minaj shared her perception of the nature of hip-hop, and said, "You can't come into this business thinking it's all about music. It's a business." Popular rappers know this, underground and indie rappers know it, but women seeking to broach the predominantly male arena of hip-hop are intimate with this truth in an entirely different way. Full story

Black People: On the Pursuit of Nappyness

Hair does not equal feminine identity. Hair is, in fact, only one of the many things that help society gauge "femaleness." But in a society where femaleness means assimilation to a Eurocentric ideal of beauty, and also to a submissive nature, is there any room for the Afro? Hair is an aspect of identity many women are made to confront. Full story

Sexual Healing: Making a grown-up decision about Gardasil

Rachael Shockey weighs facts and opinions on preventative human papillomavirus vaccines.

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Sexual Healing: T’is the Season for Sweetened Sensuality

The Halloween season has many of us desperate to relive the thrill of receiving pounds of candy for the price of a vampire costume from Target and a cute, toothless smile. No matter how awesome The Chance promises to make its Halloween bash this weekend, it's difficult not to envy those who, come Monday night, will be getting dropped off costume-clad at the private, gated neighborhoods (the Halloween goldmines) in their towns, where the tenants hand out jumbo-sized Crunch bars and smaller candy bars by the fistful. Full story

Black People: On fried chicken

There is very possibly an elephant in the room. Or, more appropriately, a bucket of chicken. But who else is there in that room? You know it. If you've ever walked by a Popeye's, or been privy to a few recent and very strange domestic and international public disasters, you know it. Full story