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January 2004

Leisure

Get Lost

This past Saturday, three friends and I set out on a quest to find the District’s best record stores. By “quest” I mean we had a list of five shops located on various state, numbered and lettered streets. By “best” I mean establishments other than national chains such as FYE.

By the January 29, 2004

Leisure

The Unicorns are people too

February and March are shaping up to be a couple of excellent months for concerts in D.C. The Shins are playing two shows at the Black Cat, Super Furry Animals have an evening at the 9:30 Club, Atmosphere is coming back and there are a few band-packed weekends in March that will make indie-rock fans go crazy.

By the January 29, 2004

Features

Projecting Fluff

COVER BY SHANTHI MANIAN Walking into Professor Sandra Horvath-Peterson’s classroom, you won’t see anything unusual. Some students pull out notebooks and rifle through pages, while others remain engrossed in lunch conversations. Standing by the podium, Horvath-Peterson chats easily with her students, who are quickly filling up the large ICC classroom.

By the January 29, 2004

News

Georgetown avoids RIAA subpoena

NEWS BY LAUREN TANICK Georgetown University has escaped the latest round of lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group for civil liberties on the Internet.

By the January 29, 2004

Voices

Reconsidering civil war

War has been the name of the game for humanity’s most recent spin around the sun. American soldiers have been sent to oust a dictator from the lands of wind and sands, and democratic battles are being waged against Iran and North Korea. Never before has an entire continent made a concentrated and personal attack on a leader in the way that Europe threatened Bush with steel tariffs.

By the January 29, 2004

Sports

Sports Sermon: Coaches as future insurance salesmen

When did coaching become such a health hazard? An occupation that pays millions of dollars and brings fame, fanaticism and glory for victories seems like the last place I’d want to be right now. In the span of two days, two of the winningest college and NBA coaches came down with dangerous health and occupational conditions.

By January 29, 2004

Leisure

Travel ‘Through the Lens’

It’s never easy to summarize one hundred years. For National Geographic, a magazine translated into 20 languages and read by over 40 million yearly, this task involved paring down the 10.5 million published and unpublished images in the society’s archive-a priceless record of world history-into 250 images.

By the January 29, 2004

News

University drops apparel contract

NEWS BY VANESSA MACHIR The discovery of workers’ rights violations in a Lands’ End factory in El Salvador prompted Georgetown University not to renew its contract with the company this year. Lands’ End, whose contract with Georgetown expires this January, was responsible for manufacturing apparel bearing the Georgetown University logo.

By the January 29, 2004

Sports

Super Brawl? Pats and Cats lack claws

If this Super Bowl week proved anything, it’s that the Northeast won’t be hosting the big game until global warming takes it up a notch. The domes and US hotspots are in firm control of the game to the extent that I’m waiting for St. Thomas to be awarded the 2009 prize.

By the January 29, 2004

Voices

Wesley and me

VOICES BY JASON MAURICE Jan. 17: “Welcome to Manchester, where it’s a balmy 16 degrees. Anything you leave on the plane will be divided among the flight attendants.” And thus the cheery Southwest crew introduces Ariane and me to New Hampshire, where we are spending the weekend with our friend Hillary, the Women’s Outreach Coordinator for Wesley Clark.

By the January 29, 2004