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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Stag party no fun for Georgetown

Empty seats were not hard to come by Saturday afternoon at the Verizon Center for what looked on paper to be an easy blowout victory for Georgetown against the Stags of Fairfield.

Leisure

One Fish Two Fish no more fish

One Fish Two Fish suffers from a severe case of culinary attention deficit disorder. The restaurant offers almost every type of Asian dish you could think of, from standard Chinese take-out fare, to udon, Singapore rice noodles, pho, bubble tea and sushi. While I was excited to find a place that served all of my favorite foods under one roof, I was apprehensive about the extreme levels of variety. Multitasking doesn’t usually yield the best results, and this restaurant is no exception.

Leisure

It really is “All in the Timing”

Three days before Friday’s scheduled opening for Mask and Bauble’s “All in the Timing”, the mysterious process of assembling a theatrical production was underway in Poulton Hall. A girl walked by carrying a ladder and called to someone across the hall, “Oh, don’t worry, we found a bucket of chains.” The cast lounged around, putting on and taking off costumes, telling complicated stories about making out with the lights off. Tyler Spalding (SFS ‘08), the producer of this whole venture, wasn’t there yet, and it seemed he was the only one who knew what was going on.

Leisure

Deadbeats

Clunky genre tags are often a source of confusion. “Post-punk” and “post-rock” are the epitome of vague (there’s a reason we don’t call lunch “post-breakfast”), and the term “new rave” is as despicable as most of the music that scene has produced. “Dubstep,” an offshoot of the UK Garage scene, likely provokes similar head-scratching—especially among American listeners. The genre purports to combine dub—reggae’s reverb-soaked offspring—with a type of electronic dance music known as 2-step, a subgenre of UK Garage. To these ears, the dub claim is a stretch, but the dance-music influence is spot-on: while dubstep isn’t a sure recipe for getting sweaty bodies on the dance floor, it is built upon the same microscopic clicks and booms that define house music.

Leisure

A new tune for Burns

Several months after Radiohead challenged the way music is sold by self-releasing the download-only In Rainbows, the film industry has followed suit. Purple Violets, the latest movie by writer/director Ed Burns (The Holiday, The Brothers McMullen) passed on a theater run and was released directly to iTunes on November 20 with a price tag of $14.99. While it’s not as revolutionary as Radiohead’s offering—it doesn’t allow users to choose their own price—it nonetheless opens up an intriguing new possibility for independent films hoping to find a larger audience.

Leisure

Dylan biopic all there

I’m Not There is fantastic, in all senses of the word, exploring one of the most alluring stories in modern American history—the rise of Bob Dylan.

News

Saxa Politica: Secondhand smoke out

Whenever I leave Lauinger after laboring within its stuffy walls for hours, I look forward to the fresh air that should greet me as the sliding doors open. Instead, I have to cough my way out of the building due to the ever-present clusters of smokers.

News

Liberating gender

“I don’t think many of us imagine Jane Hoya kissing other girls, unless it’s in a Joe Hoya fantasy,” former GU Pride President Shamisa Zvoma (MSB ‘08) said during the panel discussion “Deconstructing Jane and Joe Hoya: Gender at Georgetown,” on Tuesday.

News

Living with AIDS in Washington

Being an HIV-positive gay man in Venezuela “was like you had a scarlet letter on your forehead,” said Miguel Aguero (SCS ‘11) “The new generation, people under 20, didn’t live through the first cases and the paranoia and the fear. People would say, ‘You’re going to hell and this is your ticket.’”

News

Filming Afghanistan

A screening of a documentary about a young Afghan boy turned into a heated debate yesterday as the film’s director discussed the invasion of Afghanistan.