Too often in the pursuit of being macho we men think we must stand solitary against the challenges of life, only making things more difficult and proving ourselves fools. Don’t go it alone, build your team and become the best you can be.
Every month Primer Magazine is recognizing a different individual for their accomplishments, cultural significance, and general awesomeness. This month: Lenny Bruce.
Every month Primer Magazine is recognizing a different individual for their accomplishments, cultural significance, and general awesomeness. Since February is Black History Month we decided to step up the honors for the month recognizing a new subject once ever week. This week: Jimi Hendrix.
Whether you actively participated as a kid or not, the effects of scouting on the lives of young boys is readily visible all across the country. Today we celebrate the amazing contribution of scouting on the birthday of it’s founder, Robert Baden-Powell.
In the 1960 Olympics an Ethiopian ran a marathon barefoot, and won. We submit to you Abebe Bikila, a man of great determination and strength.
Every month Primer is recognizing a different individual for their accomplishments, cultural significance, and general awesomeness. Since February is Black History Month we decided to step up the honors recognizing a new subject once ever week. This week: Gordon Parks.
Every month Primer is recognizing a different individual for their accomplishments, cultural significance, and general awesomeness. Since February is Black History Month we decided to step up the honors for the month recognizing a new subject once every week. This week: Jim Brown.
Ryan is normally the life of the party, but some nights he calls it off, stays in alone to dick around on the internet or play video games, and then feels anti-social and guilty for ditching his friends. Is something up? Our expert Brooke weighs in.
Making good on that new year’s resolution to tone your body and prime your health doesn’t have to involve an expensive gym membership and a crazy amount of free time. Simply modify a few habits and add some simple exercises — even if they’re at your desk — into your busy day, and you’ll notice a major difference.
A lot happened in this decade that didn’t involve September 11, Britney Spears, Tom Brady, or iPods and it’s high time we all remembered that.
Back-handed compliments and snide little notes left to be found later seem to be the only way people can communicate unhappy feelings these days. Whether with the family, at work, or online we’ve got the techniques for dealing with those people in your life unable to just say it to your face.
Between the shopping, family and traveling, the holidays can end up being even more stressful than they are relaxing. Sneak away and have a laugh with these five great time wasters.
Every year there are cool movies. Some are huge mega-blockbusters; some are art house flicks that become cult classics. Some are really, really, amazing movies. And then there are these movies. Movies that aren’t really bad, they just aren’t as good as the fan boys in frat houses they’ve collected over the last 10 years would have you believe. These are the 10 most overrated “cool” movies of the last 10 years (In order of overratedness)
You’ve been playing the game he created ever since your first Game Boy, but do know anything about the man who invented Tetris, one of the greatest and most widespread games of all time?
It’s a question common to many a beauty pageant contestant. “If you could have a meal with any person from history, who would it be?” Well, we’re posing that question again here, only the answer this time isn’t going to be Abraham Lincoln.
Every time Grandpa starts talking about the “good old days” you smile politely while thumbing through Twitter on your iPhone. After all, what was so great about political turmoil, four channels on the TV, and no internet? Check out all the things he was accomplishing at your age and you’ll realize the times are only as good as the men that live in them.
The cute receptionist doesn’t love you, your dream job is years away while you’re toiling away making a few bucks above minimum wage, and your car is 15 years old and failing. If your life isn’t plated in gold in your mid-twenties, welcome to the club called life — this isn’t a crisis, it’s the fun part.
Walking away from the hallowed education grounds of college, you’d expect to have just finished learning a bevy of lessons about life, when really, the real teaching is just about to begin. Here are five things most of us have had to learn the hard way.
Forget lucky coins, magical boxer-briefs, or a crusty rabbit’s foot, because your luck is about to change. Whether you’re cursed in finding opportunities or prone to strike-outs with beautiful women, the key to finding your lucky charm is a mixed bag of opportunity and hard work.
Times get tough and adversity affects everyone, but if you’re looking for someone to swaddle you in cashmere and tell you it’s going to be okay, you’ve come to the wrong place. Things aren’t going to get better unless you get proactive about improving your life. Money woes? Girl problems? Toughen up, doughball, because you’re the first and last line of defense when it comes to getting your life back on track.
Like most men in their mid-twenties you’ve probably got a ton of drive but little direction. You know you’re destined to do great things but what those great things are you just can’t figure out. What you need, my friend, is a purpose and we’re going to show you how to find it.
So you don’t smoke. That’s great! But if any of these three seemingly mundane activities are part of your daily routine, you may be putting yourself or others in danger just the same.
We’ve all seen and heard him. He’s at a party, telling dirty jokes and talking about his weekend in Reno with a pair of strippers — twins! Or he’s having a very personal phone conversation, and everyone within shouting distance can hear him. Yes, we’ve all seen him, we’ve all heard him. But could it be that some of us have also actually … been him?
To outsiders, New York is a strange place – part Broadway glamor, Wall Street hustle, and a dash of big city crime. To those who live there, it’s an even stranger mixing of varied cultures, contempt, love, and confusion. Ride along with columnist Kevin MacLean as he travels New York by subway in search of common ground with the city and the patience to love it.
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