• Build-A-Bear announces “After Dark” collection 

    Chantel Rodriguez Staff Writer cvr5570@psu.edu  St. Louis toy company Build-A-Bear Workshop announces the ‘After Dark’ line exclusively online for adults with stuffed animals in pajama attire sipping bubbly.  In the first ads released through their Facebook page, you see a stuffed lion wearing silk boxers with a single rose and a side of multiple glasses…

  • Book Banning Efforts in the U.S. 

    Lydia Glenn News Editor lmg5921@psu.edu Book ban efforts in the U.S. have recently been spreading like wildfire. Concerned parents and conservative politicians have been pushing lawmakers to pull books from public school libraries.  In Wyoming, a county prosecutor’s office was considering charges against library employees for stocking books like “Sex is a Funny Word” and…

  • Oreo Balls

    -1 package original Oreos -1 package cream cheese -3 c. milk chocolate chips   Food Processor Method: Line an 18×13 in. baking sheet with wax paper or parchment paper Place 36 Oreos in a food processor (entire cookie, do not remove cream filling) and pulse to fine crumbs Add cream cheese to food processor, pulse…

  • Letter from the Editor – Drew

    Hello! My name is Drew Donofrio and I am the newest Features Editor, but some of you may know me as the Cheese Wiz last semester. Now I’m back baby(bel) and chedda than ever. I’m in my freshman year here at Behrend and was pretty much forced to join due to my undying admiration of…

  • Cheese

    Drew D’onofrio Editor-in-Cheese dcd5412@psu.edu Good day, cheezits and cheesettes, and welcome back to Drew Dishes. Due to being severely snowed in and a heavy workload, I unfortunately could not get a hold of a cheese of the week for the past few newspapers. I am truly sorry. However! Over the course of the rest of…

  • BCNR’s astounding second album

    Nathaniel Clark Staff Writer nuc5002@psu.edu On February 4, British rock band Black Country, New Road released their second studio album Ants from Up There. This release follows the band’s debut album For the first time from 2021 and accolades said album received. Released exactly a year after BCNRs first album, Ants from Up There comes…

  • Beacon Beats

    Dance Macabre – Ghost Numb Little Bug – Emmy Behold It’s the End of the World -The Suicide Machines I See You – MISSIO Feel Something – James Young Hellboy – Horizon Concorde – Black Country, New Road City of Gods – Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, Alicia Keys Always New Days Always – Grace Cummings…

  • Super Bowl Half Time Show

    Courtney Balcombe Creative Editor clb6264@psu.edu SuperBowl LVI had an interesting lineup for this season’s halftime show, including a nostalgic reminder for all ages of the rap and hip-hop genre of the early 2000s. The lineup included Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Mary J. Blige. The stage set up was four different little…

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