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Switch Hitting

Mid-November, the time for post-season play for fall sports has lost some of its magic on the Georgetown campus. With the men’s soccer season at an end and no play-off appearance from football, spectators and fans might be temped to move onto winter sports. There is, however, still something to celebrate this fall.

By November 15, 2007

Leisure

Parlez-vous Malajube?

Mathieu Cournoyer, bassist in the Montreal-based indie rock outfit Malajube, joined the Voice for a phone interview to talk about his current tour, band and future plans.

By November 15, 2007

Leisure

East meets West

Alvin Lau, a performance poet armed with a B.A. in poetry from Columbia College Chicago and a love of hip hop, is sure to pop-lock his way into your heart with an earnest energy to match his moves.

By November 15, 2007

News

Millions stolen from city tax department

Two city tax officials were arrested last Wednesday for allegedly stealing tens of millions of dollars in what law enforcement officials called the largest fraud in District of Columbia history. The full extent of the scam is not yet known, but it has already resulted in the resignation of four top officials in the Office of Tax and Revenue.

By November 15, 2007

News

Finding humanity in technology

In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, a group of tech-savvy citizens created the Katrina People Finder, a website that helps family members of New Orleans residents locate their loved ones. The project suffered from mass input problems as millions of e-mails flowed into the server until an anonymous good samaritan corrected the problem.

By November 15, 2007

News

Diplomat talks Mideast

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations discussed instability in the Middle East as “the defining issue of our time” during a Wednesday speech in Gaston Hall.

By November 15, 2007

News

Breaking barriers in journalism

Raghida Dergham caught her break as a journalist in 1979 when she interviewed President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines. Looking down at her after the interview, he told her she could not make it as a journalist.

By November 15, 2007

News

GU alcohol policy still a working group in progress

Two months after the University’s announcement of a new alcohol policy was met by uproar among students, the working group formed to address their concerns will meet for the first time today.

By November 15, 2007

News

City on a Hill: Don’t drop the flag fee

When Mayor Adrian Fenty announced cabs would switch from the zone system to meters, D.C. residents rejoiced without considering the effect this change would have on taxi drivers. The Washington area’s disregard for taxi drivers was on display again when commuters complained about D.C.’s new $4 flag drop fee. Instead, passengers should recognize that the flag fee is necessary to help taxi drivers transition from the zone system to the meter system.

By November 15, 2007

Leisure

A man to man with Girl Talk

Known for mash-ups that combine small parts of many popular songs, Gregg Gillis is a rising star in the world of dance music. He’s also coming to Georgetown Saturday night, and we caught up with him for a quick interview in advance of the show.

By November 15, 2007

Features

Find Your Place

By 2 a.m., the Blisspop Dance Party had finally fizzled out. Discarded bottles and decorations were strewn across the floor of the 9:30 Club. Weary-eyed concertgoers chatted softly, soaking in the wee hours of Sunday morning as they eyed their watches. Only a few tenacious partiers seemed ready for another round.

By November 15, 2007

Crosswords

Crossword Answers

By November 15, 2007

Voices

Carrying On

The biggest disadvantage of being raised by my single father was having to eat his cooking. My father and I both viewed cooking as a mysterious, unfathomable process on par with raising a child from the dead or constructing a nuclear submarine using nothing but a hatchet. There was something vaguely suspicious about it, and we avoided it at all costs.

By November 8, 2007

Voices

Gyrating hunks, not courtside dunks

My friend didn’t have to work the Championship game and managed to obtain two floor seats. The significance of this game was lost on me. I made other plans. Instead of opting to watch ten tall, athletic men compete in a basketball game, we decided to watch 15 tall, athletic men strip, dance and gyrate like helicopter propellers. I picked my friend up from work and we stumbled out of Madison Square Garden and downtown to Club Avalon, home of the USA Hunk-o-Mania Show. (God bless America.)

By November 8, 2007

Editorials

Increase financial perks for filmmakers

The lack of sufficient economic incentives makes it financially unfeasible for most productions to film in D.C. for an extended period of time. The District should increase these incentives in order to give the local economy a boost and let lesser-known neighborhoods get their share of screen time.

By the November 8, 2007

Editorials

Keep the District’s gun ban alive

The Supreme Court should take Fenty’s case and uphold the constitutionality of the District’s gun ban.

By the November 8, 2007

Editorials

Don’t show GUSA the clubs’ money

GUSA already has significant control over student activities funding, including the final say, but it should not take over SAC’s job of allocating money among individual clubs.

By the November 8, 2007

Voices

Never stop exploring

The thump of the chopper’s rotors is deep, felt more than heard. I look out the window and see swirls of snow flying away from the chopper’s side, down the 11,000 feet of mountain slope hanging beneath us. In the distance, the Grand Tetons reach up toward the sky. Next to me are my brothers, Cameron and Graylan, and my dad; like me, they’re helmeted, goggled and gloved, boots buckled tight against their feet, jackets zipped to the top. We look like the Tenth Mountain Division, but we’re not soldiers. We’re skiers.

By November 8, 2007

Leisure

Wristcutters: A Love Story

I really wanted to love Wristcutters. It’s populated with actors I adore, and the idea seemed charming. If they could make it work, it would be so beautiful. It is beautiful, and the actors really are that cool. But I had to settle for, “I liked it a lot, most of the way through.” I hate artistic disappointment.

By November 8, 2007

Leisure

Good eats pho cheap

Hiding behind a gas station, just a 10-minute walk from the Rosslyn Metro Station, is Vietnamese cuisine’s gift to the poor college student: Pho 75.

By November 8, 2007

Leisure

Critical Voices: Daft Punk, Alive 2007

Daft Punk manages to be all things to two people: the drunken partygoer and the electronic music aesthete. Providing aural brain teasers for the latter and a chance to discover new rump-shakers for the former requires some serious Venn diagram technique. Alive 2007, a live album recorded in Paris last June, is a worthy addition to that sweet overlap.

By November 8, 2007

Leisure

Deadbeats

Girl Talk is coming to Georgetown. No, not female chatter, but the “mash-up” artist the University will host on November 17. Girl Talk intertwines syncopated hip-hop passages and indie-rock morsels... Read more

By November 8, 2007

Features

Spotlight on the District

On a quiet Georgetown morning last week, the block of 35th street between M and Prospect, usually packed with cars, was bare. Two men dismantled the street signs at the bottom of the cobble-stoned hill, apparently impervious to the possible consequences. On the other side of the street, three men huddled in front of the former Dixie Liquor, one relating a story that somehow involved Martin Sheen.

Then Hollywood arrived.

Trucks carrying thousands of dollars of camera, sound and lighting equipment rolled in. A crew of camera men, production assistants, electricians and numerous others swarmed the area. Several Metropolitan Police Department cars and officers stationed themselves at the top of the hill to seal off the block and control the crowd. Then, to the crowd’s delight, George Clooney appeared on the set, sweaty and bearded but instantly recognizable.

By November 8, 2007

Sports

Men’s soccer season ends on low note

After an exciting run that clinched a Big East Tournament berth for the Georgetown men’s soccer team, the Hoyas fell short on Wednesday night to the South Florida Bulls in first round action in Tampa. On Saturday, the Hoyas ended their regular season against the No. 9 Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in a thrilling match that was the last at home for seniors Mike Glaccum, Joe Devine and Richard Diaz. It also pitted Head Coach Brian Wiese against his former team.

By November 8, 2007

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Through the joint efforts of middle-school social studies teachers and Mel Gibson’s nuanced filmmaking, the ancient Mayan blood sport Pok-A-Tok has become infamous as the most brutal athletic pursuit in history. Modern day rugby, found right here on Georgetown’s campus, however, may just give the fellows from Chichen Itza a run for their money.

By November 8, 2007