Reading Time: 2 minutesTonight, catch the latest Beerfest Battle of the Bands at the Lunenberg Pub & Bar (14 Waller St.), where every Thursday, local bands compete to win $500 in cash and prizes. This bar is only steps away from campus, making it a student hot spot any night of the week. Your vote determines the winner, admission is free, and an added incentive, the musical battle is complemented by $2 beers.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesConfession: I was a card-carrying, drive-thru working, fry-salting employee of McDonald’s from 2005–2010. I worked for the fast-food restaurant all throughout high school, and always picked up shifts during the December holidays as a university student. I don’t think I ever officially quit—I still have my uniform and could probably call the manager tomorrow and ask for shifts. I haven’t forgotten how to do the job—trust me, no one can ever unlearn how to work at McDonald’s.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMyth: Low-fat or low-carb diets are the way to go: busted
No. The body’s preferred energy sources are the unrefined carbs which can be found in fruits, vegetables, and grains. It’s the processed grains we want to avoid, like in pastas and pastries. A low-fat diet is discouraged, as many of the low-fat products on the shelves remove the fat and replace them with sugar.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat follows is a list of the city’s most mammoth meals, daunting dinners, and enormous eats. We challenge you to chow down.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen she’s not busy making sandwiches at the Red Apron (564 Gladstone Ave.) or recording albums with local bands like Zebrassieres, she’s hosting a YouTube show—Eva Bee’s Jamboree—that features Ottawa musicians cooking with local ingredients.
Reading Time: 3 minuteshe richness of life comes from taking chances, and although not every unique, local restaurant you choose will be a winner, I guarantee the good experiences will outweigh the bad. It is simply naive to decide on Swiss Chalet because you want to avoid risk.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo help us improve on a classic, we enlisted Jamie Stunt, head chef at Oz Kafe (361 Elgin St.) and recent silver medallist at the Canadian Culinary Championships. We challenged him to create a more delicious version of the bright orange mac and cheese by adding only five additional ingredients to the mix. In his own words, his leftover KD casserole is “actually pretty fucking good!”
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuite simply put: the food options on our campus are embarrassing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHe’s been in the food industry for decades: he owned his own restaurant, Willie’s Café, in London, Ont., for nine years, and has worked at some of the top restaurants in Europe and North America, including The French Laundry in Napa Valley, The Fat Duck in England, and Casa Bella in Kingston. I sat down with Van Dyk, who’s currently going on his third year as a culinary arts instructor, to talk about what it means to be a restaurant reviewer.
Reading Time: 8 minutes“A lot of the time when you’re in jail, you get selfish,” my dad said to me. “The selfish feeling is that you wish you could see your family. You miss them so much and you just want that comfort. In actuality, I had to think of your feelings too. I wasn’t worried about you missing me, or whatever else, but actually fearing for me. Had you guys come to Millhaven and seen that shit, it would’ve scared you. It would’ve kept you up at night. It was the smell—it all smelled like metal.”
Reading Time: 9 minutesHere, the Fulcrum looks at dietary choices, like eating organic, local, and seasonal, and seeks to understand how the snacks and meals we choose impact the world around us.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat do our identities—mine as transgender, femme, Asian, and his as white and cisgender—have to do with it?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe key to making a great X-rated video is to keep it light and simple. Sometimes a blurry clip showing a muffled blow job can be sexy, but let’s just say you’ll want to do your sex acts justice. So what do you need to know?
Reading Time: 3 minutes…they fell short of the Harlequin perfection I had dreamed up.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is the possibility of falling in love with someone that made me decide to keep my virginity; that day I locked my vagina shut and threw away the key!
Reading Time: 3 minutes I met this guy. If someone had written me a letter listing his credentials, I would’ve said, sounds great, but no thank you. He was, for starters, non-monogamous.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m bored with shaved balls and bare vagines. I dare you to get creative with your pubic hair styles—your next hookup will thank me.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdam enters the room, sighs, kneels at the foot of the couch, and rips Hannah’s bottoms off for her. After begrudgingly putting on a condom, he grabs her waist, pulls her ass towards him, and attempts to initiate anal sex.
Reading Time: 3 minutes After the first hour, though, it really started to pick up, and by the climax right around the three-hour mark I was completely enthralled. And then my girlfriend ruined it
Reading Time: 5 minutesCindy Gallop gave the Fulcrum the lowdown on her experiences as an entrepreneur, her thoughts on porn, and how you can make 2.5 million bucks doing what (or who) you love.
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe Fulcrum partners with Wicked Wanda’s to bring you our reviews and recommendations on porn, playthings, and products.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecycling bins seem to be everywhere at the University of Ottawa—you can sort and dispose of paper, metals, plastic, and glass on nearly every floor of every building. But what about compost bins?
Reading Time: 7 minutes“Yup, it looks like herpes.”
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe asked students to come up with some of the best lessons they picked up in first semester that they plan on carrying into the winter one.
