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Just hit mute

It has become a sad, yet common occurrence for the NFL that players’ shenanigans between games dominate the news more than their play on the field.

By the December 2, 2004

Sports

The Sports Sermon

Welcome to a special Bowl Championship Series edition of Blind Date.

By December 2, 2004

News

Sacrifice fly

Baseball’s imminent arrival in D.C. is practically preordained-the mayor and majority of the D.C. Council support it.

By the December 2, 2004

Leisure

Kinsey puts the fun back in sex; Lithgow foiled again

In one of the most outrageously funny scenes in the new movie Kinsey, the professor Alfred Kinsey has a casual conversation with his wife and daughters about the physical nature of sex.

By the December 2, 2004

Leisure

Earnestness not too important after all

It seems ironic that the titular lesson of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest has been ignored in the play’s new Arena Stage adaptation.

By the December 2, 2004

Leisure

The Futureheads, Futureheads

Once upon a time, circa 1966, there were pop rock bands with a fascinating gimmick: one person would sing and then an entirely different person would sing.

By the December 2, 2004

Leisure

Street’s Disciple, Nas

Nas has been trying since 1994 to regain the mix of urban grit and brilliant wordplay that made his debut, Illmatic, an instant classic.

By the December 2, 2004

Leisure

You Taste Like a Burger- Fat-Elvis’ Love

I had no choice. By the end of our five fabulous days of Hurricane Isabelle last year, New South’s vending machine was nearly empty.

By the December 2, 2004

Editorials

Home improvement

For sophomores and juniors who plan to live on-campus next year, the wait to choose their housing is over.

By the November 18, 2004

Editorials

Red light special

A bill to extend the expiration date of cameras on red lights in several Northern Virginia communities was rejected on Monday by the Virginia House of Delegates.

By the November 18, 2004

Editorials

The Funny Third – You’ve got the fever, we’ve got the cure

This week a star-studded coalition of health-related campus organizations surprised the University by coming out with a strong anti-Influenza policy.

By the November 18, 2004

Editorials

By the numbers and Direct quote

90 Number of American casualties in Iraq in the first 17 days of November. 5.53 Average number of soldiers killed per day in November. 1211 Number of American soldiers killed... Read more

By the November 18, 2004

Sports

Will there be a second Thompson dynasty?

Upon his arrival Thompson immediately sought to create an environment that would signal how different 2004 would be.

By the November 18, 2004

Sports

Behind the scenes with Bill Shapland

In 1973, Georgetown looked nothing like it does today.

By the November 18, 2004

Leisure

What in Tarnation could be more depressing?

Jonathan Caouette’s debut film Tarnation, acclaimed for being the first film made entirely with Apple computer program iMovie, details Caouette’s troubling upbringing and the continuous decline of his small-town Texas family.

By the November 18, 2004

Leisure

Sideways: divorce, depression and pinot noir

What do I have in common with a middle-aged balding man from California?

By the November 18, 2004

Leisure

There’s more shakin’ with the South Asians

Every year since its inception nine years ago, Rangila has sold out Gaston Hall. Is the show worth the hype?

By the November 18, 2004

Leisure

Early Christmas

Walking down M Street with a friend on Sunday afternoon on my way to Barnes & Noble, I found myself with an extra spring in my step, a nicer demeanor towards strangers and a particular attention to small children and dogs of all shapes and sizes.

By the November 18, 2004

Leisure

Voice Obituaries

It seems appropriate that Voice Leisure do our part to properly memorialize the recently deceased.

By the November 18, 2004

Sports

Hoyas robbed in OT by Pirates in Big East Semifinals

After making it to the brink of its first Big East finals appearance since 1999, the Georgetown men’s soccer team fell just short against No. 18 Seton Hall on Friday evening, dropping a heartbreaking 1-0 overtime contest.

By the November 18, 2004

Sports

The Sports Sermon

In this week’s edition of ESPN’s The Magazine, former Ohio State running back, Maurice Clarett, speaks about the rampant NCAA abuses that led to his suspension this year.

By November 18, 2004

Features

The making of Boxers and Ballerinas

Georgetown graduates Brit Marling and Mike Cahill directed Boxers & Ballerinas, a documentary about Cuban youth in both Cuba and Miami. Along with the film’s producer, Nick Shumaker, also a Georgetown alum, they gambled on an evolving idea that took them, over the course of two years, to a marketable, full-length documentary.

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

Thanksgiving debunked

Like many Americans, you’re probably looking forward to the government-sanctioned gluttony fest known as Thanksgiving.

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

Congratulations, You’re an Asshole

“He’s an asshole… You’re so much better than him.” Almost every woman has heard it once.

By the November 18, 2004

Voices

Bow wow… letters from the dog park

Yesterday the biggest dog in the neighborhood, a six-year-old Great Dane named Salisbury, tried to mount my friend’s Jack Russell pup.

By the November 18, 2004