Places to work out in Fargo

Anytime Fitness, Planet Fitness and the Wellness Center

If you are feeling out of shape and need to find a fitness center that works right for you, there are plenty of options out there. The Fargo area is littered with gyms all over town, each of them offering unique benefits, but choosing the right fitness center is easier when you know the facts about them.

Protesting against orange

As a Latina with naturally tanned skin, I'm all for using bronzer and summer tones to accentuate the warm palette on the face. However, sometimes females tend to overuse foundation and tinted moisturizer, which makes them look orange instead of making them look naturally tanned.

Parents Television Council going after ‘Pants’

Never known to shy away from controversy, MTV is used to pushing the envelope. Home to shows such as "16 and Pregnant" and "Jersey Shore," it is no surprise that the Parental Television Council has had issues with the network. Last year, the PTC went after the network's new show "Skins," successfully getting the show pulled off the air after only one season.

An international student’s experience

A Chinese perspective of American arts and entertainment

"Why are you guys so serious about it? It is just a game!" During a simulation of saving slaves through the Underground Railroad, seeing the scared "slaves" and the passionate "slave owners," I, positioned as a "slave," couldn't help suspecting if I was really in the Civil War era.

How to stop binging

Tips on what to do when it happens

New Year's came and your resolution was to lose those pounds and get ready for beach season. Then came Valentine's Day, and you went crazy by eating everything from candy to heavily loaded foods at restaurants. Maybe it had nothing to do with Valentine's Day and you just had a day where you ate a whole bag of chips and drank a 24-pack of Mountain Dew.

DJ Vincent Favard’s underground Fridays

Week 9: Nero

Every Friday, DJ Vincent Favard introduces an upcoming underground electronic artist to NDSU students. After DJing and producing music for 7 years in Europe, he now moved to NDSU to study education. He is one of the electronic music references of the Fargo-Moorhead area and is going to share his passion for underground music throughout weekly presentations of his favorites underground producers.

The charms of chocolate

A little bit of chocolate history

What makes chocolate such an intuitively perfect gift for Valentine's Day? The sweets' history and its chemistry offer a more complex answer than one might guess. Travel thousands of years back to the Aztecs, where the upper class believed drinking chocolate restored strength and wisdom.

Body language

Having interest in someone romantically around the time of Valentine's Day is nothing new, but pursuing that interest can get quite complicated. With flirting being the most common way to spark your attention on the person you have been thinking about, sometimes finding the words to express is daunting.