Archive for October, 2009

Goldman Sachs’ Profits Defy Reality

WALL STREET: Brock Cutler discusses the bonuses and the false earnings of America’s biggest payout.

LGBT Rights Come Out Into the Open

EQUALITY: Jon Wong recounts the cross-generational progress shown in LGBT marches in Washington DC.

Meat is Not Green, Vegetarianism Is

FOOD: Adrian Wong discusses the habitat destruction, pollution and death involved in meat consumption.

Spoiled Bloggers Need to Report Swag

MEDIA: Neil Thakor challenges a new FTC regulation that attempts to stop conflicts of interests on blogs.

To Die For Love

It’s not really that weird to fall in love with a serial killer…right?

I mean, I watch “Dexter” like it’s my job and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen just about every single “Law and Order, SVU” ever made at least twice. I’ve seen “American Psycho” upwards of 10 times and every time I finish, I fall deeper and deeper in love with Christian Bale.

Wicca-Wicca Witchcraft

On Halloween, kids get the opportunity to dress up and assume another identity. For me, it wasn’t enough to just dress up as a witch; I wanted to be one.

When I was little, my sister and I would pretend we had magical powers like Sabrina, the teenage witch. We wrote a book of rhyming magical spells and rode around on our mom’s vacuum cleaner, like Sabrina did on TV. We dreamed of having magical powers and of discovering an Other Realm through the linen closet.

Pumpkins! Cut Up Their Insides!

These hopeful jack-o-lanterns wait for you to pick them up. The one to the left hopes to become a wolf, the one in the middle hopes to be a Mickey Mouse and the one to the right just wants to be loved. Endless possibilities.

Cooking With the Creeps: Undead Recipes From the Eerie Zombie Chef

Engorged Eyeballs, Butterbeer, and Brittle Bones.

Halloween: It’s A Small World After All

Halloween not only bewitches the United States with trick-or-treating and jack-o-lanterns, this frightful yet delightful holiday has cast a spell on many countries, making All Hallows’ Eve a worldwide celebration. Some of these worldwide traditions have even crept their way into U.S. culture.

Happily Ever After?

Take a moment to think of a fairy tale. You may be conjuring images of prince charming, frog kisses, a castle, a villain or a strong man saving the princess. And they all lived happily ever after.

Russian fairy tales, on the other hand, do not include a princess charming or a beautiful maiden; they include evil old witches who eat children.