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What Grinds Our Gears: Bean sprouts
Peak Web January 30, 2025By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture and Sports Editor I always get odd looks sent my way whenever I choose to pass on the bean sprouts at any pho restaurant. The people I go most often with already know the story, but to newcomers, the question is always the same. “Why don’t you eat bean sprouts with your pho?” It’s a complicated answer. One time when I was a kid, I went out for pho with my family. Everything seemed normal — I got my usual kids meal, my parents asked the staff if they could cook our platter of…
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Kevin Morby brings the Media Club to its feet
EIC June 17, 2016An intimate night of music at the Media Club started with Jaye Bartell, a solo act featuring only Johnny Cash-style vocals and exquisite finger-picking skills on an acoustic guitar. Bartell’s voice was deep and soothing, despite also sounding melancholic. He…
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Lotus is the pride of East Richmond
EIC February 15, 2016Bon appetit everyone, it’s Bartosz, the new meat correspondent for Food Fight! Previous meat expert Jess Whitesel has moved onto taking the newspaper editor world by storm, so I have been given the impossible task of taking her place. However,…
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