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  • All is Unfair in Love and War
    Our World

    All is Unfair in Love and War

    Iraq is not a place for lovers. This war’s purpose was to be the stepping-stone for a major change in the Middle East. It was not to last more than six months and while no one ever expected it to be easy, it was not supposed to last this long.

  • Clean Up Your Act!
    In Love

    Clean Up Your Act!

    In a relationship, when one person is a neat freak and the other is a slob, it is seemingly impossible for one person to always meet or exceed the other’s standards. 

  • Keeping Long-Distance Love Alive
    In Love

    Keeping Long-Distance Love Alive

    When the partners go their separate ways, the death knell sounds, and the relationship dies. But, is it the distance killing the friendship, or something else altogether?

  • Bringing the Heat Back into a Cooling Relationship
    Advice

    Bringing the Heat Back into a Cooling Relationship

    By keeping the communication lines constantly open with your lover, you can rekindle the passion easily and most importantly, with sincerity.

  • Successful Solitude
    In Love

    Successful Solitude

    When you have grown accustomed to being one half of a couple, parts of your individual self have the tendency to disappear into the background. Spending time alone can help you to regain the elements of your life that make up the individual you.

  • Romantic  Gifts on a Budget
    Gifting Suite

    Romantic Gifts on a Budget

    Fear not! The economic crisis doesn’t have to take all the fun out of the romance! Here are some solutions to finding the perfect gift at the perfect price!

  • Venus Unbound: Free Love Amongst the Radicals
    Power Couples of the Past

    Venus Unbound: Free Love Amongst the Radicals

    Modern horror movie buffs might be surprised to know that no one exemplified this spirit of “free-love” radicalism as much as the author of the classic Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and its inspiration, her virtuoso poet husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. And, as bizarre as it may seem, it was this couple’s very fascination with the cryptic and the undead that helped keep their open relationship healthy and alive.

  • How to Play…
    In Love

    How to Play…

    Try these simple tips to keep the heat in your relationship, even when you are on other sides of the globe.

  • Surviving A Broken Heart
    In Love

    Surviving A Broken Heart

    Your first time? Oh, sweet darling! It will be okay. Just know that it will. Yes, it does feel like you are going to die. It hurts. Really, really bad. However, fear not! Listen to others who have gone through it before, and have not only survived, but come out stronger and the better for it! There are thousands of reasons those we love leave us, but only one result for all of them. A broken heart. It will heal. Here’s how.

  • Blue Ribbon Bakery
    Restaurants

    Blue Ribbon Bakery

    Sorry Magnus, but since we covered the other two restaurants on the corner of Downing and Bedford, we would be remiss not to cover Blue Ribbon Bakery, as well. We were looking for a new brunch place to go to. Zagat, while rating Blue Ribbon Bakery very high, made the comment: “If you can get a seat”.