Archive

The R.A. Dickey Trade: The Creation of This Year’s Contenders

If you told me after the 2013 MLB season that in two years, the ALCS would include the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays, and the NLCS would feature... Read more

By Nick Gavio October 22, 2015

Unpacking the ‘Snapfu’

Assuredly, most football fans have already had the treat of watching what may have been the dumbest play in sports history, which occurred during the Indianapolis Colts’ 34-27 loss to... Read more

By Jay Benjamin October 22, 2015

Homeland Season Five, An Irregular Start

The fifth season of Homeland picks up two years after the gritty, action-packed last episodes of season four. After the horrors she went through in Islamabad, Carrie Mathison finds herself... Read more

By Caitlin Mannering October 22, 2015

Leisure

Bridge of Spies Finds Extra in the Ordinary

Although Bridge of Spies is set during the Cold War, it is a surprisingly timely film. Director Steven Spielberg’s new release repeatedly challenges the legal representation of enemy combatants, a... Read more

By Graham Piro October 22, 2015

Leisure

Critical Voices: Thank Your Lucky Stars, Beach House, Sub Pop

It’s been a prolific past month for the Baltimore-based band, Beach House. Their newest release, Thank Your Lucky Stars, dropped just a few weeks after the group released another full-length... Read more

By Michael White October 21, 2015

Sports

W Marks the Spot: Women’s soccer looks for win against Pirates to gain ground on first-place DePaul

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (9-5-1, 3-1-1 Big East) gets set to take on the Seton Hall Pirates (2-11-2, 1-5-0 Big East) this Thursday at Shaw Field to close out... Read more

By Alex Boyd October 21, 2015

Liebegott and Chatelain talk gender and LGBTQ identity in the media

On Oct. 20, the LGBTQ Resource Center hosted the event “The Tipping Point in Transgender Popular Culture,” a conversation about the challenges of representation for female and genderqueer writers in... Read more

By Cassidy Jensen October 21, 2015

Happy Back to The Future Day, McFly

Today, October 21st, 2015, is one of the most anticipated in film-geek history. It’s the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to in the classic Robert Zemeckis film,... Read more

By Graham Piro October 21, 2015

Hoya Hoops Madness: Fun for Everyone (Plus 2 Chainz!)

1984 was a year of many things. There was a wall dividing Berlin, George Orwell’s vision did not quite ring true, and the Georgetown University Men’s Basketball team won the... Read more

By Claire Smith October 21, 2015

Reactions to First College Basketball Poll

If you’re itching for leather through nylon like me while the rest of the country is still fixated on the pigskin, Thursday was the first day of a five-month-long Christmas... Read more

By Santul Nerkar October 21, 2015

Scream Queens is Pure Fun

What do you get when you cross American Horror Story with Glee? Quite literally, Scream Queens. FOX’s newest hit is the concoction of the same writer-producer team (Ryan Murphy and... Read more

By Sarika Ramaswamy October 21, 2015

The Cubs’ Unlikely Chance to Make History

It’s official. The Chicago Cubs, who have not won a World Series in over a century, are well into the National League Championship Series. For the first time since 2003,... Read more

By Tyler Walsh October 21, 2015

Higher Edge: Challenging Without Triggering

“I don’t believe in trigger warnings,” my professor tells the class, proud of her refusal to succumb to the excessive coddling of college students. The problem with the discussion around... Read more

By Lara Fishbane October 20, 2015

The Weekly List: Country Songs for Country Haters

One of the most clichéd responses to the question, “What type of music do you like?” is “Anything but country.” Before I saw the light, I too was in this... Read more

By Jay Benjamin October 20, 2015

Sports

Volleyball Road-Trip Roundup: Hoyas come up short against Xavier and Butler

The Georgetown volleyball team (8-14, 2-7 Big East) fell to the Xavier Musketeers (10-8, 6-2 Big East) 3-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-18) and the Butler Bulldogs (6-15, 3-6 BIG EAST)... Read more

By Joe Pollicino October 20, 2015

The Ice Cream Flavor You Deserve

“I love ice cream” is not a shocking, special, or compelling statement. I would be far more concerned if someone stated the opposite than if someone simply confirmed what I... Read more

By Brian McMahon October 20, 2015

Panel on women and climate change discusses women’s agency, looks forward to Paris climate conference

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security (GIWPS) hosted a panel Oct. 16 that discussed the role women play in combating climate change and the importance of women’s agency in... Read more

By Ryan Miller October 19, 2015

Vandaveer: A Local Group Finds Its Folk

In a world of over-autotuned, synthetic music, folk is a genre often overlooked by the average listener. Washington DC started group, Vandaveer is in an active battle to defy this... Read more

By Claire Smith October 19, 2015

Sports

Two Much Too Soon: Women’s soccer ties Marquette after surrendering two-goal lead

The Georgetown women’s soccer team (9-5-1, 4-1-1 Big East) tied the Marquette Golden Eagles (6-6-4, 3-2-1 Big East) 2-2 after overtime Sunday afternoon to remain tied with St. John’s (12-2-1,... Read more

By Alex Boyd October 19, 2015

The Genius of Jürgen Klopp

As the 6’4’’ German strode into the press conference room, a tangible wave of excitement swept through the crowd of eager reporters. It was October 9, 2015, the day that... Read more

By Brendan Pierce October 19, 2015