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Leisure

Mexx showcases new line of Euro clothes, mid-price champagne

As I stumbled down to M Street in my four-inch stiletto heels and Old Navy jeans for European clothing store Mexx’s opening night fashion show, a scene from Zoolander flashed through my mind.

News

Sadness and exuberance on Tuesday night

A small band of frustrated Georgetown Democrats in Sellinger Lounge surrounded an inflatable doll of George W. Bush and began to pummel him, kicking him across the room, punching him in the face and knocking him down. Their actions were all in vain.

News

Clements replaces Glick as Georgetown’s ANC representative

Brett Clements (CAS ‘07) was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission on Tuesday, replacing Mike Glick (CAS’ 05), who has represented Georgetown University campus residents to the committee for two years.

News

City on a Hill: Resist defeat

Our news columnist thinks America has made the wrong choice once again.

News

GU groups unite to discuss new hate-crimes web site

The Georgetown University Student Association sponsored a forum Wednesday night to discuss issues of bias and to raise awareness about a new hate-crime-reporting web site.

News

New details uncovered on Georgetown junior’s drowning

Four weeks after the Oct. 8 drowning of Georgetown junior Robert Tremain, details surrounding the case still remain a mystery.

News

Junior awarded fellowship

Last month Nichiren Rashad Jones (SFS ‘06) was named a Pickering Fellow, as part of a prestigious fellowship funded by the U.S. State Department.

Leisure

Zutons: Who Killed The Zutons

In an age where music reissues, throwbacks and tributes seem more prevalent than creative innovation, it’s easy to become jaded.

Leisure

Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins

Pavement’s sloppy, unwashed introduction to the world at large came with their now-classic 1992 debut Slanted and Enchanted, which established them as the definitive ‘90s indie rock band.

Leisure

Avedon’s “Democracy”

“I’ve worked out of a series of ‘no’s’,” photographer Richard Avedon once said.

News

Students let loose pies in Red Square

Escape Coordinator Samantha Buchan and Chaz Perin (CAS ‘05) receive a pair of pies in the face as part of the A-E-Pie Throw, sponsored Wed. by AEPi, GU Black House,... Read more

Features

Finding Common Ground

The four-block radius in which Friedman lives-between Prospect and O streets and 33rd and 35th streets-has epitomized University-resident relations in the past year.

Voices

Another day, another penis

One of the biggest differences between Havana and Washington D.C. is the number of penises that can be seen in public on an average day.

Voices

The lady’s man always wins

As the presidential race comes down to the wire, both candidates seem to have recognized just how important it is to win the female vote.

Voices

Voice Fiction: We hate eskimos

This week in Behind the Music: “What Went Wrong?” We take a look at one of rock’s most notorious duos of the latter half of this year.

Leisure

A Primer for quantum mechanics, confusion

Primer is a twisted, massively confusing new thriller about time travel.

Leisure

The truly lazy do it on a Segway

Touring the D.C. area before graduation may be a “G-town college experience,” but when it comes down to it, remarkably few students actually want to take the time to cross that off their list.

Leisure

Fenton photos show innovation, imperialism

The title of the first exhibition in the National Gallery of Art’s new permanent photography gallery is appropriately titled “All the Mighty World.”

Leisure

Chocolate or stereotypes? An easy choice

Oh my God, you guys, isn’t eating great?

Leisure

Better Than Marriage

Maybe it’s the lack of the Bush administration’s anti-freedom agenda, or maybe it’s the decriminalized bud, but for whatever reason, Canada has been spawning exciting new music over the last few years.

Features

Are you racing? The Voice goes drag!

Two Voice staffers get spiked.

News

Several more residences closed in wake of fatal fire

In a continuing wave of housing inspections, two more basement apartments were closed this week by building inspectors, while a building housing several George Washington University students was closed Tuesday, according District of Columbia Department of Consumer Affairs and Regulations and University Officials.

News

Sexual harassment hits the streets

A Georgetown student was victim to an indecent exposure this week, in the first reported sexual harassment incident this semester.

News

Students donate to help fire survivors

Led by a group of housemates, the Georgetown community came together to assist the five students whose house burnt down in a fire that killed their roommate, Daniel Rigby (MSB ‘05).

Editorials

Georgetown unites for neighborhood safety

The administration’s response to the recent off-campus housing crisis has been admirable.