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One Chance merits encore

It’s fitting that a movie about a man’s ability to sing opera at the top of his lungs lacks subtlety. One Chance tells the (somewhat) true story of Paul Potts,... Read more

Leisure

Idiot Box: TV’s moral insurgency

Politics and television are hardly strangers—the drama, intrigue, and pantsuits of the former are often perfectly suited to the latter, if a tad exaggerated. The challenge of political TV is... Read more

Leisure

Critical Voices: Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!

Steve Ellison’s You’re Dead! infuses hard jazz with a labyrinth of clacking, psychedelic guitar pedals and hip hop drum kits—not your average Darnall elevator tunes. In an interview with Rolling... Read more

Leisure

Critical Voices: SBTRKT, Wonder Where We Land

SBTRKT’s new album, Wonder Where We Land, glides us through magnificent atmospheres of edgy textures and abstract synths, but, in the end, misses its landing. Straying from his groovy EDM... Read more

Sports

The Sports Sermon: Scare them silly

Head to any peewee sports practice and the coaches will be emphasizing the values of hard work and sportsmanship to their young charges, instilling in them the upstanding values of... Read more

News

University considering third-year meal plan requirement, GUSA to challenge

Georgetown’s Dining and Auxiliary Services is considering a possible expansion of the meal plan requirement to juniors in an effort to accommodate additional students living on campus. Flex Dollar-based options... Read more

Sports

Full Court Press: Sports culture needs a makeover

Over the last few months, the growing conversation surrounding Ray Rice’s brutal and cowardly assault of his then-fiancée and current wife, Janay Palmer, has nearly broken the NFL and its... Read more

Sports

Hockey continues winning ways

Many of Georgetown’s sports fans are well aware that the National Hockey League starts back up this week. What they may be less aware of is the continued success of... Read more

Sports

Crimson paints over Blue and Gray

In front of a sold-out home crowd of 2,504 fans, the Georgetown football team (2-4, 0-1 Patriot League) fell to Harvard (3-0, 1-0 Ivy League) 34-3 in a game much... Read more

Sports

Women’s soccer snatches late victory from Providence

After 88 minutes of scoreless play, the Georgetown women’s soccer team (8-2-3, 3-0-1 Big East) were headed for extra time against the Providence Friars (5-6-2, 1-3-0 Big East) when senior... Read more

Voices

Carrying On: Humanity’s good nature revealed in marathons

It was an impossibly perfect day. The April air was cold against perspiring legs and raw against expiring lungs. The entire city of Boston was in the streets, offering encouragement... Read more

Voices

The man in the mirror: Feeling the pressures of adulthood

Attention Georgetown students and faculty: I don’t like the way I look. Crazy, groundbreaking, and all-around unheard of, I’m sure, but bear with me. Ragging on one’s own physical appearance... Read more

Voices

Pigeonholing ‘typical’ Hoyas should not unify student body

We all know the image of the typical Georgetown student. He comes from a northeastern prep school. He wears flip-flops when it’s warm and boat shoes at all other times.... Read more

Voices

Excessive, aimless workloads displacing creativity on the Hilltop

          I was passively scrolling through Tumblr with five reading assignments open in adjacent tabs when my roommates asked me when I was going to bake... Read more

Halftime Sports

Raising the Specter of Corruption in Serie A

I am writing this because I am bitter. I am bitter about a league that has been diminished by corruption.  I am bitter about the blatant disparity with which teams... Read more

Halftime Leisure

Latest Who, "Kill the Moon," Tries a Little Too Hard

Doctor Who has proven in the past that it can be a scary show. Despite its origin as a program for children, the show has evolved significantly over the course... Read more

Halftime Sports

The Chaos of Week 6 in College Football

The sixth week of the college football season contained all the marks of excitement, including marquee matchups featuring top teams, a successful Hail Mary pass, record-setting shootouts, and upsets. Lots... Read more

Halftime Leisure

Tea in DC: The Caffeine-Rich DuPont Circle

If your are dissatisfied with the lack of proper appeasement of your caffeine addiction in the greater Georgetown area, let me suggest a journey for you. Take an extremely pleasant... Read more

Halftime Sports

Rooting for L.A.’s Other Basketball Team

Because I am likely one of the only Los Angeles Clippers fans you’ll ever know in your lifetime, I’ll be the first to admit it-being a Clippers fan can be... Read more

Halftime Sports

The NFL Thermostat: Week 5

HOT 1. New York Giants Offensive Rookies This comes in part from my own bias for my hometown team, as several rookies have helped contribute to their team’s success this... Read more

Halftime Leisure

Gone Girl is Mostly Successful

You might know David Fincher, director of such films as Seven, Fight Club, and The Social Network. You probably also know Gone Girl, the 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn that... Read more

Halftime Sports

A Game Worth Watching: The NBA Preseason

June 16th, 2014 marked one of the saddest days of the calendar year. Suffering and despair came over our souls as we went from the highest of highs to the... Read more

Halftime Sports

NBA Preview: Pacific Division

In a conference full of remarkable talent and promise, the Pacific Division offers a peculiar mix of potential and weakness. Los Angeles Clippers At the top of the Pacific are... Read more

Halftime Leisure

The Empire Strikes Out: Star Wars loses Expanded Universe

What ever happened to artistry? It’s a legitimate societal concern given the omnipresence of 140-character Twitter screeds and Buzzfeed articles that pare life down to short, consumable, forgettable numbered lists.... Read more

Halftime Leisure

New Hendrix Biopic Emerges from the "Purple Haze"

  Music biopics have a tendency to rear toward hagiography, as the stars they depict often end up falling into the stereotype of tortured genius or underdog who bucked the... Read more