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Admit it — classroom matters.

You really want to take a class in the new Metcalf Auditorium, especially if you had a class in the old one, but you have no interest in CLPS. Or perhaps you have been trying to find an excuse to spend time in the Granoff Center. Or maybe you just really like Smitty B 106.

Whatever the case, you may have been frustrated that Banner will not let you search for classes by room. But it’s cool, we’ve got a solution for you!

All you have to do is check out this wonderful page on the Registrar’s website. It lists the classrooms for every course this semester. Then use the “find” feature on your web browser to find the classroom you’re looking for, and that will give you all the results. For example, searching for “Metcalf Chemical Laboratory AUD” — their name for Metcalf Auditorium — will show you that if CLPS just isn’t your thing, you can always take Bio 50 (Cell and Molecular Biology), Applied Math 65 (Essential Statistics), Soc 17 (The Family), or Soc 162 (Globalization and Social Conflict).

It’s a mystery why Banner doesn’t do this, but then again, Banner doesn’t do lots of things…

Sexction, a column titled with a gratuitous “C” debuts this semester with a shorter, leaner name: Sextion. You’re welcome.

These eight resolutions will help balance your love life and improve your skills in the bedroom. A must for the cold season that awaits!

1. Work out – probably on your list of resolutions already, exercise is great for both you and your partner. Psychologically, it will boost your self-esteem and help you feel better naked. Physically, it will help you get strong and limber to try new positions and gain stamina to last longer. The hormones don’t hurt either. Working out helps release important hormones like testosterone, which gives you the urge to get feisty pronto. As one of my friends says, “Every time I work out, I just want to go back to my dorm and have sex with my boyfriend!”

2. Journal – When you find yourself freaking out about a partner, you can write about it instead of embarrassing yourself and texting him/her (come on, you know you shouldn’t!). [Read more →]

Earlier this month, celebrity chef Paula Deen revealed that she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2008, at which point all Americans replied with a collective “told you so.” Although she has encouraged Americans to “practice moderation, y’all,” you butter believe Deen won’t abandon the recipes and enthusiasm that have made her a culinary legend. Can’t stop, won’t stop.

Even if her zeal for life were to diminish with her diagnosis, some hilarious genius created Paula Deen Riding Things to immortalize Deen’s jaunty and playful spirit. This blog places Paula Deen in various scenes beyond her Southern kitchen in which she, you guessed it, rides things. Check it out, y’all.

A new semester means new friends, new classes, and, sadly, a reminder of the harsh reality of capitalism. Some businesses, no matter how close they may be to our hearts, must fail. Our winter break has given us three changes to the Thayer street food scene, all of which will have to prove their worth to Brown students in the near future:

To almost no one’s many students’ complete lack of surprise, Toledo (or its brief successor Thayer Pita Pockets) has closed its doors. Though I only once got to enjoy one of their infamous “pizza cones” – albeit in their brief second life as “pita pockets” – Thayer street will surely miss this unique delicacy and I will miss the classic challenge of preventing cheese from oozing out the bottom of the cone. Indeed, it’s tough being the 3rd pizza restaurant in a 2-pizzeria market. Expect (only slightly) longer lines at Antonio’s and Nice Slice. [Read more →]

Hall Pass, a Farrelly brothers comedy released last year, opens with a shot of the Providence skyline. Though the movie was not in fact filmed in Little Rhody, they set the scene. What makes it even more clear? The shot of Jason Sudeikis masturbating in his car on the John street. How. Did. They. Know?!

Our homies are much more elusive.

Well, pin a rose on your nose!

I’m starting to think a writer for Travel + Leisure had a pretty scarring trip to Providence. While offering no real explanation as to why Providence is unwelcoming and unpleasant, the magazine named our very own city 18th on its rankings for Rudest City in America. Earlier this year, we were ranked #6 in T+L’s Strangest City list. Now that’s rude.

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Men’s basketball fell to No. 23 Harvard 68-59 on Saturday.

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It’s a brand new semester. Which means that, while it’s time to go buy and sell your classes and wait in long mail room package lines to get boxes of books you know you probably won’t end up actually reading, you actually have plenty of time. Which means you and all those friends you need to catch up with can come out to cheer on your fellow Bears in various sporting events.Here are all the home games this weekend:

Friday, Jan. 27

Women’s ice hockey takes on the Big Green at 7 pm. The team is currently .500 after going 3-2-2 over winter break. They are currently in eighth place, the last playoff spot. This is a team that only won three games all season last year.
Men’s basketball also battles the Big Green at 7 pm. Unlike the female icers, the break didn’t treat the b-ballers to kindly. They went 1-6. [Read more →]

The College Hill Troll Community, a Facebook page created a month ago, has seen a meteoric rise in the number of hits in the past few weeks and currently has over three hundred “likes.” It is a haven for Internet trolls and troll-lovers and boasts an extensive collection of Brown related Internet memes that are generated by both the page’s admins and other individual contributors. So waste your shopping period away by either consuming the memes already up there or thinking of new ones to contribute to other people’s time-wasting. Pay it forward.

Oh, puns.

At first listen, Toronto-based crooner LIGHTS didn’t turn me on. Her debut album, The Listening, reminded me more than anything of the saccharine sludge at the bottom of a weak and poorly-stirred cup of coffee. Think breathless Zooey Deschanel laid over Owl City’s insipid beats.

Her sophomore effort, Siberia, released Oct. 4, is something else entirely. The record, featuring Vancouver hip hop artist Shad and electrofunk outfit Holy Fuck, is lyrically adventurous and more raw than her radio-ready premiere.

Lights, née Valerie Poxleitner, was born in Timmins, Ontario, the daughter of missionaries. BlogDH read spoke with the Juno Award-winner about touring, comic books and her beloved keytar, Russell.

LIGHTS plays at The Met Jan 29th (tickets here).

BlogDailyHerald: So you used to be in a metal band. Tell me more!
Lights: The metal band is really funny because it was when I was 17 or 18 and I didn’t sing or anything — I just played guitar. I was playing around in a bunch of different bands … the metal band was called Shovelface.

BDH: Can I find Shovelface’s music online?
L: Thankfully, no. It was on the cusp of anything other than dial-up. [Read more →]