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O’Keeffe blooms at the Phillips

The Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction exhibition opening this week at the Phillips Collection will radically redefine the way people view the iconic artist. O’Keeffe becomes youthful, revolutionary, and full of contradictions.

By Sara Carothers February 4, 2010

DeLillo gets to the Point

If you read reviews of any of Don DeLillo’s last four novels, you are certain to find the critical buzzword “post-Underworld.”

By James McGrory February 4, 2010

Some Hoyas cheer, others make music parodies

When junior guard Austin Freeman scored 28 points in the second half to lead the Hoyas to an amazing comeback victory over Connecticut, it was a performance for the ages, one that deserved to be immortalized in song. Most would consider that slightly hyperbolic, but not Chris Tiongson (COL ’89).

By Tim Shine February 4, 2010

Mel versus mobsters

A disclaimer: Edge of Darkness is not a rock opera based around Bruce Springsteen’s fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town.

By Brendan Baumgardner February 4, 2010

D.C. band bangs out beats

It’s dark at the Rock and Roll Hotel—a grungy H St. club in the heart of the Atlas District and Rob Pierangeli, the front man of Casper Bangs, is urging the crowd to come closer to the stage.

By Eric Pilch February 4, 2010

The Sports Sermon

My alarm starts blasting at 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Just as I set my phone down, my roommate’s alarm sounds. He wakes up and we look at each other with a shared sense of purpose. It’s time—this is the day of the Duke game.

By Adam Rosenfeld February 4, 2010

Q&A: Demetri Martin

Comedian Demetri Martin spoke to the Voice earlier this week about his joke-creation process, comedy, and the upcoming second season of his Comedy Central show, Important Things with Demetri Martin.

By the Voice Staff February 4, 2010

Women down St. John’s

When getting knocked down, good teams seem to always find a way to get back up. Chumbawumba’s mantra was appropriate for the women’s basketball team facing St. John’s on Tuesday night—less than a week after the Hoyas squanderd their 16-game winning streak with an away loss to Marquette.

By Nick Berti February 4, 2010

The ethics of Super Bowl advertising

Was there ever really a time when athletes could be considered paragons of morality? Years before Tiger Woods slept with every cocktail waitress in the greater Orlando area, the American public gave up trying to look up to sports stars as role models. And between Janet Jackson’s nipple, Prince’s giant penis-guitar, and any beer commercial ever, the Super Bowlbowl should have even less moral credibility.

By Dan Newman February 4, 2010

Critical Voices: Lil Wayne, Rebirth

Pushed back 10 months from its original April 7 release, Lil Wayne’s Rebirth is finally here. We waited for it, knowing pretty well what was coming our way.

By Nico Dodd February 4, 2010

Hoyas get trapped by USF

There was one word that summed up Georgetown’s performance against South Florida Wednesday night: foul. The No. 7 Hoyas (16-5, 6-4 Big East) couldn’t hit their foul shots, saw their star big man sunk by foul trouble, and were left with a foul taste in their mouths after blowing a nine point halftime lead to lose 72-64 to the unranked Bulls (15-7, 5-5 Big East).

By Tim Shine February 4, 2010

Critical Voices: Beach House, Teen Dreams

Following the release of Beach House’s second album, Devotion, in 2006, lead singer Victoria Legrand retreated

By Justin Hunter Scott February 4, 2010

Backdoor Cuts: Look-alikes

“My geekiness is getting in the way of my nerdiness,” the comedian-philosopher Patton Oswalt once said. Standing sleeveless in the upper student section last Saturday with a sixteen ounce sports beverage in hand, I came to a similar conclusion about two things that I cherish dearly: sports and politics.

By Jeff Bakkensen February 4, 2010

Paralysis on the operating table: Awake and afraid

On January 3, while many of you were still celebrating the new decade with themed parties or family vacations, I was preparing myself for a routine tonsillectomy. Aside from getting my wisdom teeth out, this was my first surgery, so I was not quite sure what to expect—other than a really sore throat and lots of ice cream.

By Kate Imel February 4, 2010

Bottoms Up: Take one down, pass it around

In 1980, sixteen men were pulled from the North Sea an hour and a half after their fishing vessel had sunk. The frozen fishermen headed below deck

By Sam Sweeney February 4, 2010

Protesters’ pro-life arguments prove ill-conceived

A quarter of a million activists descended on D.C. this past weekend to advocate for the sanctity of human life. As a liberal vegetarian seeking to understand the nuances of the pro-life argument, I ventured down to Constitution Avenue—notebook in hand—to question the marchers in the 37th annual March For Life.

By Andrew Zipperer February 4, 2010

Islamic studies: The jihad against ignorance

But as I perused the January 7 issue while home over winter break, one article caught my attention. It was Cal Thomas’s column, “Administration reluctant to call a war a war” that caught my attention. The piece, notable for both its absurdity and a rather unflattering reference to Georgetown, demonstrates not just the ignorance of one small-minded small-town man, but a frighteningly widespread misunderstanding of Islam.

By Brittany Schulman February 4, 2010

Rub Some Dirt on It: Studying, one nap at a time

For most college students, sleep looks like a poor substitute compared to caffeine. Sleeping wastes precious time,

By Sadaf Qureshi February 4, 2010

Crosswords

Crossword 1.28.2010 Solution – “Gray Out”

By the Voice Staff February 3, 2010