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Everyone knows Shopping Period can be a little stressful from time to time. Yes, these ten days of carefree, caution-to-the-wind class hopping are a hallmark of the (not so) New Curriculum. But who are we kidding? More often than not, shopping classes becomes a clusterfuck of epic proportions. We’re here to help – and so too is Jonah Kagan ’13.

With the help of girlfriend Liz Neu ’14, Jonah created bestofBrown.net, a new website that collects information from current students about their favorite classes at Brown. [Read more →]

Hip
YONAS - Midnight City
Symba - Winning Pt. II
Ryan Hemsworth ft. Deniro Ferrar and Shady Blaze - Faith in Something
Logic - Young Sinatra III
A$AP Rocky - Wassup
Cypress Hill and Rusko - Roll It, Light It

R&B
Frank Ocean - Voodoo

Reggae
Cris Cab ft. Mavado and Wyclef Jean - Rihanna’s Gun

Remix
Mr. Fogg (Bondax Remix) - Stay Out Of The Sun
Justice (Ruined by Rick Rubin) - On ‘n’ On

Electronic
Finally Boys - Lunar Lover
Pretty Lights - We Must Go On
Rollz - Capture Me

Indie/Rock/Other
Electric Guest - This Head I Hold
Yukon Blonde - Stairway
Brazilian Girls - Don’t Stop
Memoryhouse - Walk With Me
Races - Big Broom
Phantogram - When I’m Small
Andrew Bird - Eyeoneye
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Either you’ve been living under a rock all break, or you’ve heard that there’s a black and white movie out there that is actually entertaining. This silent film is making a lot of noise as Oscar Night approaches. The Artist is the first English film by French writer/director Michel Hazanavicius and is nominated for 10 Oscars – including Best Picture. The Artist already won the Golden Globe; can they do it again?  Scoring a staggering 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, this may be the best film The Avon shows all semester.  Nothing feels more vintage than sitting in an old style theater, eating popcorn and watching a silent film.  Sounds like hipsta-heaven to me.

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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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