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What Rocks? Tommy Lee

When most Georgetown students hear the name Tommy Lee, they probably think of Mötley Crüe—specifically Pamela Anderson’s video camera-totin’ sweetie—but the Hoyas’ intense centerfielder is about to let Georgetown know who the real Tommy Lee is.

By February 26, 2009

Sports

Citi Sliders

Much has been made of Citigroup’s plans to retain naming rights to the New York Mets’ new stadium despite the company’s recent financial woes. The current deal, which was inked in 2006, calls for Citi to pay the Mets $20 million a year for the next 20 years. More than a few members of Congress have expressed displeasure at the prospect of continuing to fund the deal with part of the $45 billion of taxpayer money allotted to Citi as part of stimulus packages. Two New York City councilmen even went so far as to suggest that the new park should be called Taxpayer Field, in honor of those who are actually footing the bill.

By February 26, 2009

Leisure

Engaging theatre

For all the drama kids who can’t get no play, the Folger Center has come up with an innovative way to get your bard on with ENGAGE, a new discount... Read more

By February 26, 2009

Leisure

Poetic diplomacy

Are you an ambassador for a small nation? If so, you’re probably the only person in D.C. who knows about the Small Nations Poetry Readings, now in its fifth year... Read more

By February 26, 2009

Voices

All I need is my bicycle

Last summer, I soaked up Amsterdam for a few days during my oh-so-cliché summer-before-starting-college Euro Trip. I already know what you’re thinking, but believe me: what tickled my fancy most was not the vendors of sexual fantasy nor the urbane denizens of those “coffee shops”, but rather something much more wholesome: the bicycles.

By February 26, 2009

Page 13 Cartoons

Recessions take money and might even humble souls

I have given up on the idea of working to become wealthy, or to become powerful; I will work simply to do good, and to do well. If I may grow rich in the pursuit, so be it.

By February 26, 2009

Voices

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