Hummus has existed in its purest form for thousands of years. In fact, the combination of chickpeas (garbanzo beans), tahini (sesame paste), lemon juice, garlic and olive oil is literally older than God. That’s right-chickpeas were first harvested over 7,000 years ago, more than 1,000 years before monotheism was even conceived! Hummus has persevered and become a timeless classic for good reason: it’s delicious, nutritious, and incredibly easy to make.
Blues music has had a long and storied history in St. Louis, from WC Handy’s “St. Louis Blues” to Chuck Berry’s legendary performances at Blueberry Hill. The modern nexus of blues music in the Gateway City lies downtown on South Broadway, where three standout venues keep the music rolling all week long.
Coming to college in St. Louis, you might know very little about the city-perhaps only that it seemed to have a lot of old, abandoned warehouses and a giant muddy river. But after three years of wandering the city, it gets to feeling like a second home and it turns out to be a pretty amazing place.
Personally, I used to think coffee tasted like dirt. Instead of being this great drink that everyone raved about, I always saw it as tasting more like the ground it was grown in than something that people would actually want to consume.
Space.the final frontier, an object of man’s fascination and wonder since the dawn of time, a combination of galaxies and matter so vast as to be incomprehensible to any who attempt to study it – or rather, a quirky, cosmic restaurant hidden near the Hill with a menu that’s out of this world.
It’s certainly not every night that I go out to eat at a Caribbean restaurant.
Random pairings and Scene reporter Jake Levitas’s musings on what might happen when they go trick-or-treating.
I set out to find out how girls actually spend all their free time. Sarah Coppersmith, a sophomore in Arts & Sciences, agreed to give me an invaluable insight into the secret world of the female: she let me shadow her for the day.
One day, I was in line in Whispers ordering a banana nut muffin, talking to a friend about how much I loved the muffins there. It was then that he said, “Do you know how bad those are for you?” I did not know. I had never considered the fact that muffins, a food purported to be somewhat healthy, could be terrible for you. I soon took it upon myself to find out just how unhealthy my beloved muffins were, and what began as a simple exploration turned into somewhat of a research project – with surprising results.
Was Wash U the disco-hoppin’, party-never-stoppin’, research university in the 1970s that it is today? Not exactly, but it was a center for political and civil rights activism in the Midwest, and was in the midst of developing into a top-tier school. Fall 1970: Wash U was, as one alumnus says, a “very politically charged” campus.
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