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Baxter deserves to be ditched at the altar

A Baxter is pleasant, nerdy, timid and supremely uninteresting. He is, above all, a wimp. In short, he is not someone you want to watch an entire movie about.

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

Breaking down the breakup

Tomorrow night at the Black Cat, D.C.’s last great local rock band, Q And Not U, will play their final show.

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

Diplomacy via aesthetics

The Cultural Institute of Mexico is a mecca of artistic diplomacy, uniting American and Mexican culture not through politics but through creative expression and community involvement.

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

Oktoberwear

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the September 22, 2005

Features

Cleaning up the Anacostia

The public image of the Anacostia River as a sewage-ridden repository for pollution has tended to overshadow the river’s vast ecological diversity and vibrant life.

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary

Critical Voices

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights

Critical Voices

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

DangerDoom, The Mouse and the Mask

Critical Voices

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

Blackalicious, The Craft

Critical Voices

By the September 22, 2005

News

Daly solicits student proposals

MSB dean launches new plan for business school future

By the September 22, 2005

News

Initiative to go for the Rhodes

A new name, but the John Carroll program goes on

By the September 22, 2005

News

Living Wage’s success continues beyond the gates

The Living Wage Coalition may have declared victory over the University last spring, but they haven’t stopped fighting.

By the September 22, 2005

News

Professor lives sweet in chapel penthouse

Tucked away on the fifth floor of LXR Hall, Ortiz lives a quiet existence in what was once the chapel of Georgetown University Hospital.

By the September 22, 2005

News

Seven-truck fire

Five fire engines, a ladder truck and a rescue team were dispatched to McDonough Gymnasium last night at about 11:00 p.m.

By the September 22, 2005

News

Nutrition facts

A healthy new addition will be available at Leo J. O’Donovan’s starting this week: a dietician.

By the September 22, 2005

News

It’s been so long

Saxa Politica – bi-weekly analysis of on-campus news

By the September 22, 2005

Leisure

Getting Close-r to the gallery scene

As a person who is fairly ignorant of the D.C. art scene, the Chuck Close exhibit opening at the Adamson Gallery left me much more enlightened than one would expect.

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Maher rules you out

When I bought my copy of Bill Maher’s New Rules, the clerk who rang me up assured me that the subject matter was “hysterical, yet poignant.”

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Future imperfect

The moment the end credits roll in a Wong Kar Wai film, audience members are momentarily silent. But at the end of 2046, one is left with a sense of aesthetically inspired awe and a consciousness of loss.

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Reykjav?k comes to Bethesda

Reykjav?k came to D.C. last Sunday, and they brought their muumuus.

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Longing for Schnitzel

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

By the September 15, 2005

Leisure

Concert Calendar

Sunday, 9/18 – Wednesday, 9/28

By the September 15, 2005

Editorials

Blocking up the driveway

More parking could become available in the Georgetown neighborhood. First, the Advisory Neighborhood Commission must make the right decision.

By the September 15, 2005

Editorials

Fencing in freedom

On Sunday’s anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the Pentagon sponsored the “America Supports You Freedom Walk.” Superficially a stirring patriotic display, the event became a crass attempt at memorializing that fateful day.

By the September 15, 2005

Editorials

Sweeping the Constituiton under the rug

The continuing detention of Jose Padilla without criminal charges is an indefensible affront to civil liberties and an unreasonable bow to the pressures of terror.

By the September 15, 2005