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Wine and junk food pairings for Valentine’s day!
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Wine: the best way to get drunk while also maintaining the illusion of class. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, most of us are looking for ways to make ourselves and/or your significant others feel special. But being on a student budget can really narrow down your options — most of us can’t afford to…
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Golden Dough Pie Co is a slice in the right direction
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On Jan. 13, the newest pizza spot on campus, Golden Dough Pie Co., had its grand opening at the Terrace Food Court. This is the latest on-campus dining initiative by Laurier Food Services to create Laurier-exclusive options for students. “It is a brand that is exclusive to Laurier. There’s no other Golden Dough Pie Co.,…
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The Cord taste-tested Wilf’s Presidential Menu
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DEVYN KELLY The name is quite self-explanatory: Dev-ritos Chicken Nachos is prepared with a base layer of cheese Doritos and is topped with Wilf’s cheese blend, grilled chicken, ranch dressing, hot sauce, green onions, peppers, tomatoes, shredded lettuce and served with sour cream and salsa. These nachos were a safe bet as they’re very easily…
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Tea shops of flavours
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The Buzz A cult classic from David’s Tea, this caffeinated blend is perfect for a student who doesn’t want to drink any coffee but may still need that caffeine hit after not getting a full night’s rest. This blend of guarana, matcha and yerba mate as well as white ginseng makes the perfect citrus blend.…
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Halloween candies and chocolate ranked from best to worst
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By most people’s standards, I would be considered too old to be trick or treating. Despite this, my candy preferences are strong and have remained this way since childhood. I probably shouldn’t be critically analyzing each piece of candy I’m given on Halloween, especially because it’s all free. As the saying goes, beggars can’t be…
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Kentucky Bourbon and BBQ brings Southern food to KW
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Kentucky Bourbon & BBQ is the newest addition to the Uptown Waterloo restaurant scene. It soft launched on Sept. 20, and the official grand opening happened this past weekend, on Oct. 4. The modern country-themed bourbon and barbecue restaurant specializes in southern comfort food, and has a respectably-sized menu. “Right now we’ve got 25 bourbons,…
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Why October is the best month
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If I were to conduct a sample census on campus asking students their favourite month, at least 8 out of 10 would say October. October is the most common month depicted in college movies; autumn is simply is setting one pictures when thinking of a university campus. This cannot be by chance; autumn is the…
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Geo’s Anticafe offers a unique experience for students
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With midterms fast approaching, the Laurier Library and nearby cafés will soon be filled with groups of students looking to cram in some extra study time, which means that finding a quiet spot to look over your notes might become a bit more difficult as the semester progresses. Geo’s Anticafé promises to provide an alternative working…
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Shop Sounds holds concert at Kitchener Market
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Not many people can say they’ve been to a concert in a grocery store, but on Sep . 5, the Kitchener Market hosted Shop Sounds: DTK’s grocery store concerts. Shop Sounds is a free intimate three-part concert series organized by the DTK team, Good Company Production and hosted at grocery stores across downtown…
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The cold, hard truth: is Sweet Jesus worth the hype?
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If there’s one thing that I know, it’s ice cream. So, when a new ice cream shop opened its doors just down the road from Laurier, I knew that I had to try it. Sweet Jesus, a fast-growing brand from Toronto, has a new home in the University Shops Plaza. Since the store’s inception, it…
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