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This is not real life

Maybe the whole idea of there being a difference between “real life” and some other form of existence is just a lie we’ve got to rise above. Maybe I just need to grow up.

By February 26, 2009

Voices

Museums of the mind: finding yourself through art

There is no need to come to the Met—or any museum—equipped with an itinerary, a list of works you absolutely must see. You may never find what you are looking for, and you may never leave the hall of white walls and whispering people.

By February 26, 2009

Sports

Cardinals chip away at the Hoyas’ NCAA hopes

Ever since showing tantalizing promise with victories over Memphis and Connecticut, the Hoya faithful have waited for their struggling team to live up to their early season potential. As the season winds down, it looks like that may never happen.

By February 24, 2009

Sports

Marquette hits GU where it hurts

The 25th anniversary of Georgetown’s 1984 national championship was celebrated at Saturday’s game, and the Hoya legends that showed up to the event provided a stark juxtaposition to the current squad. With their... Read more

By February 23, 2009

Leisure

The Class stands and delivers

Let’s be frank: the movie industry needs another white-teacher-inspires-racially-diverse-class flick like Suge Knight needs another fried Twinkie. Perhaps, then, the astonishing appeal of Laurent Cantet’s The Class—which was released in... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Cookin’ up some comfort

If complicated culinary concepts like “pancakes” and “tuna melt” give you a headache, you’ll appreciate the huge, full color pictures that adorn every other page of George Duran’s new cook... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

An Eye on race

After watching the Black Theater Ensemble’s production of The Bluest Eye, I left the Black Box Theatre with the conclusion that no one should ever read Toni Morrison’s books—they must... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Paine brings the pleasure: straight to your G-spot

Sick of reading Thomas Paine’s seminal pamphlet Common Sense? If so, you’re in luck, because apparently Mr. Paine spent the last 232 years getting his M.D. and researching the art... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Artists in ‘Dialogue’ speak up

The National Museum of African Art is easy to miss. Tucked behind the Smithsonian Castle, the low-profile museum is often overlooked by sightseers jonesing instead for T-Rexes, airplanes, and presidential... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Ring around Smithsonian

“Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission” offers a mesmerizing photographic retreat within the typically flashy and crowded National Air and Space Museum. Quite literally tucked away at the end... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Black Friday

As television ratings for the four major networks slip further and further into the boob tube abyss, certain things about the TV industry have been operating differently than in the... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

All my loving

Time for a pop quiz: Which band released 12 studio albums in eight years, sold a total of 545 million records two years after breaking up in 1970, but have... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Critical Voices: Asobi Seksu

After the critical success of their 2006 breakthrough , Citrus, Asobi Seksu have tweaked their lush, layered formula on Hush. Much of this new album indulges a colder, more reserved... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Critical Voices: M.Ward

M. Ward’s latest release Hold Time is as much an album about loneliness and tragedy as one about religious hope and love. Throughout the album, the crooner’s tender, country voice... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Leisure

Critical Voices: Morrissey

The best time to listen to Morrissey is the morning after you were much drunker than everyone else you went out with the night before. You don’t know the details... Read more

By February 19, 2009

Features

GUSA Senate: the Few, the Proud

"Senate debates are usually controlled by about six people," Johnny Solis (SFS ‘11) said. The five others are members of what Solis only half-jokingly calls "the ‘Bro' clique": not exactly Senate elite, but powerful, vocal senators who often see eye-to-eye.

By February 19, 2009

News

GUSA Senators M.I.A.

After weeks of struggling to maintain quorum at its meetings, the Georgetown University Student Association Senate will have to replace eight of its chronically absent members and fill one seat that no one ran for in the fall.

By February 19, 2009

News

SCUnity splits from GUSA

The Student Commission for Unity announced in a press release on Sunday that it was cutting its ties with the Georgetown University Student Association. Brian Kesten (COL `10), SCUnity’s chair, cited problems collaborating with GUSA while advocating for the eight recommendations that the SCUnity board formulated based on their research.

By February 19, 2009

News

Magis causes row with neighbors

“I live on 35th St. ... and I’m a chronic complainer,” Eugenia Kemble, a resident of West Georgetown, announced. The other 20-or-so people in the Off-Campus Life Resource Center at the corner of 36th and N streets chuckled, and the introductions continued.

By February 19, 2009

News

Wireless coverage unsatisfactory

More than 80 percent of students feel “unsatisfied” or “very unsatisfied” with on-campus wireless access, according to a survey conducted by Interhall last semester. Approximately 1,696 students responded to the online survey.

By February 19, 2009

News

SFS-Q getting new headquarters by 2010

The Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar is in the process of constructing a new building that will include academic office space, classrooms, a library, and other facilities to accommodate up to 450 students. The building will allow the University to gradually increase enrollment at SFS-Q, which now stands at approximately 150 students.

By February 19, 2009

News

5¢ bag fee for D.C.?

Paper and plastic bags will soon cost District consumers five cents, if legislation proposed by D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) on Tuesday passes. Most of the revenue from the fee will go the Anacostia River Clean-up Fund.

By February 19, 2009

News

D.C. United moving

Officials representing D.C. United announced their plans to construct a new soccer stadium in Prince George’s County, Maryland at a press conference on Monday.

By February 19, 2009

News

City on a Hill: Power to the peons

If your internship has you feeling like you’re not a person, that’s because legally in the District of Columbia, you aren’t. As one New Jersey college student discovered in December when she tried to bring a sexual harassment suit against her employer, unpaid interns in D.C. currently have no right to sue their boss for harassment or discrimination.

By February 19, 2009

Sports

Women hope to repeat

Women's lacrosse preview

By February 19, 2009