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Martin Puryear at the National Gallery of Art

Minimalism is not easy to get into. Even if you can appreciate beauty in simplicity and purity of form, it’s hard not to be skeptical when you read that a big black rectangle is really a reflection on the nature of our inner and outer selves. The National Gallery’s retrospective of sculptor Martin Puryear’s work, though, woos visitors with displays of graceful shapes and clean lines, without hitting them over the head with lofty, obtuse meanings.

By Katherine Norton August 28, 2008

Get Your Groove on in the Jazzy District

Fortunately for me, D.C. has plenty of stellar jazz, blues, funk, and R&B shows, and the next six weeks are the best time of the year to be a jazz aficionado in the District. Here are three events that you absolutely won’t want to miss.

By Alexander Haddad August 28, 2008

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Dispatches from the Obama campaign

With deepening gloom, I had continued to call people, hoping I’d strike gold and find a volunteer. The next day passed uneventfully. I paced the room, talking eagerly to whoever picked up their telephone. Occasionally, pedestrians would slow down or stop when they saw that someone was walking around inside the office, but they’d soon move on again, and my hopes for a walk-in volunteer would dissipate into the sweltering August air.

By Nick Wertsch August 28, 2008

Critical Voices: Leila, “Blood, Looms and Blooms”

Blood, Looms and Blooms is the most captivating electronica album I’ve heard since The Knife’s Silent Shout, though her latest release “electronica” doesn’t begin to capture the veritable musical circus Leila Arab is orchestrating.

By Traviss Cassidy August 28, 2008

Concert-going munchies

The D.C.-concerting-novice may not know where to seek out the best sources of quick and cheap pre-show energy or post-show replenishment. Here’s a short guide to enhance your concert-going gastatory experience.

By Sonnet Gaertner August 28, 2008

One for the Road: Professorial Potables

In their appreciation for alcohol, students and their teachers find a point of common interest.

By admin August 28, 2008

Campus Theater worth Falling for

Clean House

Nomadic Theater, October 8-12, Walsh Black Box. Tickets are $9.

While this house may be clean, it is filled with emotional baggage. With everything from depression to an affair to an identity crisis, there is much for Matilde, the new Brazilian live-in maid, to do. The only problem is she hates to clean and is on a quest to find the perfect joke. With a comedic spin on the usual dramatic struggles, expect equal parts smart and serious from this Pulitzer Prize finalist play, as well as a number of monologues in Portuguese.

By Vivian Chen August 28, 2008

Hamlet 2-Rollicking Ribaldry

Imagine the most ludicrous, politically incorrect version of High School Musical possible. It would probably look a lot like Hamlet 2, whose cast is led by a Napoleon Dynamite-meets-Zoolander drama teacher (Steve Coogan).

By the Voice Staff August 28, 2008

Beat it: Unexpected Results

Every once in a while, an artist will follow a string of homogenous-sounding records with an absolutely unexpected curveball. Bloc Party are the latest to do it with their breakbeat-influenced, bombastic electronic album Intimacy, which was a surprise release much like Radiohead’s In Rainbows. And it was Radiohead who made perhaps the most famous curveball record over the last decade: released in 2000, Kid A is a blippity bloopity electronic record released after one of modern rock’s most bombastic and powerful statements, OK Computer. But Radiohead was hardly the first band to disappoint fans with high expectations.

By Justin Hunter Scott August 28, 2008

Bias incident in Burleith

Early Saturday night, a group of Burleith residents harassed a Georgetown student and his friend, shouting homophobic slurs at the pair from their lawn. The student they taunted, a senior in the College who wished to remain anonymous, said he was harassed by twelve to fifteen men, all of whom appeared to be drunk.

By Molly Redden August 28, 2008

Curbing Traffic

Georgetown could soon see some relief from its chronic traffic problems. A study by the District Department of Transportation, to be released by the end of the month, gives suggestions for how the neighborhood can better handle vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles.

By Dylan Richmond August 28, 2008

Hardy: Hardly Recognizable

After three years of renovation, Rose Hardy Middle School in Georgetown reopened its new, bright blue doors on Monday. Along with the physical improvements, Hardy may be one of the schools used as a testing ground for a new program in which middle school students are rewarded for academic success.

By John Lawless August 28, 2008

On the Record with John DeGioia

On Wednesday, University President John DeGioia held a sit-down with student reporters, who questioned him about campus news and issues. Below are excerpts from their conversation.

By Will Sommer August 28, 2008

Not so sub-prime

Georgetown and several other area colleges have agreed to a new Code of Conduct for dealing with student loan lenders. The agreement, put together by the D.C. District Attorney, prohibits universities and their employees from profiting from their dealings with student lenders.

By John Cooke August 28, 2008

Saxa Politica: Rankled

What do the numbers 9, 23 and 76 have in common? They’re all rankings Georgetown has received recently. College counselors surveyed by U.S. News and World Report ranked Georgetown ninth, tied with seven other schools; the actual U.S. News ranking kept the University in its 23 spot; and Forbes, the newcomer in this year’s ranking bonanza, sent Georgetown crashing down to 76, behind the likes of Wabash College (12) and Kalamazoo College (57). No, I haven’t heard of them either.

By Kate Mays August 28, 2008

Court to ASK: the wrong answers

After more than 20 years of tutoring and mentoring juveniles in the D.C. court system, Georgetown’s After School Kids program is on hiatus this fall. The program’s five-year contract with the D.C. Superior Court ran out in May and has yet to be renewed, forcing ASK to cancel its programs indefinitely due to a lack of funds.

By Alisha Crovetto August 28, 2008

Features

The New Face of DPS

On January 18, 2003, Kevin Curry, an African-American student at the University of Texas, had been playing the piano in the student union before a fraternity meeting when a white UT Police Department officer approached him. According to Curry, he left to go to his meeting. The officer followed him into a stairwell.

By Will Sommer August 28, 2008

Sports Sermon

Few things are as comforting or nerve-wracking as a clean slate. Just ask this year’s horde of new students, whose current list of collegiate accomplishments is nothing but a rough outline written in the faint ink of ambition and expectation. Three incoming freshmen, though, have been busy making an early mark on the Hilltop this summer.

By Anthony Francavilla August 22, 2008

Georgetown soccer’s lofty expectations

The Georgetown men’s soccer team’s regular season opener is exactly one week away, and head coach Brian Wiese has a problem. But unlike most preseason problems—injuries, inconsistency, confusion—Wiese isn’t particularly worried about his. In fact, his problem may be the envy of the Big East. That’s because the third-year coach’s most pressing issue is what to do with the 10 starters, 19 letter winners and four talented, fast-learning freshmen that make up this year’s team.

By Anthony Francavilla August 22, 2008

Different paths to Beijing `08

Former Georgetown University sailing team member Chris Behm (MSB ‘08) was almost giddy when the Beijing Olympics began this summer. His old teammate, Andrew Campbell (SFS ‘06), was one of two Georgetown graduates to make the U.S. Olympic team, and Behm was more than willing to stay up as late as three in the morning to watch him sail.

By Molly Redden August 22, 2008

Hoyas have holes to fill

The Georgetown Women’s soccer team finished last season with a program record fourteen wins and earned the team’s first ever NCAA tournament berth. This year’s women’s soccer team features some new components but maintains the same lofty goals.

By Liz Kuebler August 22, 2008