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Super Furry Animals get rabid

At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, I walked into a very empty 9:30 Club and met a slightly confused, very bedraggled Welshman.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Life in _The Boondocks_ gets animated

The Boondocks, adapted from Aaron McGruder’s syndicated comic strip, is full of slightly absurd humor that satirizes black and white stereotypes, as well as many other facets of American culture that happen to be … well … stupid.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Buttering up

You Taste Like A Burger – a biweekly column about eating leisurely

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Lezhur Ledger: Smashing pumpkins … with catapults

Get out your trucker hats, stonewash denim and handlebar mustaches: it’s time for the World Championship Punkin’ Chunkin’.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Georgetown falls in BE quarters, hopes for NCAA

The Georgetown men’s soccer team came up short in their quest for a Big East Championship this past week, losing in a blowout to No. 7 Connecticut after squeaking by Villanova last Thursday.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Hoyas fall below .500 and out of playoff picture

The Hoya football team saw their playoff hopes erased last Saturday as they were rolled over by Lehigh.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

GU loses two

The Georgetown University women’s volleyball team dropped their final two home games of the season this past weekend to two of the Big East’s more elite clubs.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

The modern fredo

Hittin’ the back nine – A weekly take on sports

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

The Sports Sermon

What do you say to someone who is the NFL’s only three-time MVP (1995-1997), who is second in league history in touchdowns (391), second in completions (4,500), third in attempts (7,300) and second in yards (51,798)?

By John Cantalupi November 10, 2005

_Paradise Now_

Paradise Now presents an oddly romanticized view of suicide bombing, subject matter usually seen through the eyes of a documentary or news camera.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

_Jarhead_

jar-head- n. a U.S. Marine. The high and tight hair cut characteristic of each Marine causes their heads to resemble a jar; it is an empty container to be filled with orders and values.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

_The Squid and the Whale_

As a chronicle of divorce, Noah Baumbach’s debut film The Squid and Whale is worth its weight in gold.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Kaine wins Virginia governorship

Democratic candidate claims victory in 2005 election

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

GU officer loses as delegate

Georgetown graduate and former University employee Earnest W. Porta Jr. (SFS ‘86) ran and lost in Virginia’s House of Delegates elections Tuesday.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

GU sponsors meditation conference

Med Center hosts discussion of spirituality and medicine

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Students petition to re-open Darnall

After half a semester with only one dining hall on campus, students have had enough.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Rosa Parks honored

Georgetown honored deceased civil rights activist Rosa Parks with a memorial service Monday night.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Rangila rush

Waiting in line for an hour or more may no longer be the norm when buying tickets for Rangila.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Who’s got issues?

City on a Hill – bi-weekly column on D.C. news & politics

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Features

Notes from the Underground

24 Hours in the tunnels

The first thing you notice is the hissing. As you step through the yawning metal door marked “Do Not Enter” into the network of heating maintenance tunnels beneath the center of campus, the steam pipes all around you emit a high, insistent whine punctuated by the occasional blast from a half-open valve. The path ahead stretches off into close, humid darkness on one side and the incandescent glare of naked light bulbs along a long, narrow corridor on the other. The passages are just barely wide enough for one person to walk through at a time, and they stretch onwards until the other end is little more than a smear of glowing color and shadow.

By the Voice Staff November 10, 2005

Burt Bacharach gets down & dirty

Burt Bacharach talks with Voice Leisure Editor Chris Norton about his new album At This Time, the first political album of his career.

By Chris Norton November 3, 2005

_Shopgirl_ beats out the chick flick crowd

The old truism that the movie is never as good as the book proves happily untrue in the case of Shopgirl. The movie captures the tender, heartfelt nature that made Steve Martin’s novella a best-seller.

By the Voice Staff November 3, 2005

Remain in “Light”

Sean Scully’s paintings, on display at The Phillips Collection, are based on a trip he made to Mexico some 20 years ago and the sumptuous shades of the Mayan ruins he encountered there.

By the Voice Staff November 3, 2005