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Photography

The Big Picture

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

Voices

Sunshine boy goes to hell

Sounds of giggling and squealing are leaking through the hall as the couple next door play around with the vibrating, coin-operated bed. I’m sitting in my room at the Hotel 69 doing homework, automatically making me the biggest loser in the building. It doesn’t matter that everyone else in the building is porking an aging hooker, it still has to be more fun than memorizing characters from a textbook by the dim lamplight.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

News

Protect aliens

This country functions according to the concept of federalism. It’s pure enlightenment theory, straight out of Montesquieu-the separation of powers is essential to democracy. One of the powers our founding fathers gave to the federal government was the creation and enforcement of immigration law.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

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Power trip: check.

I left my dignity in Dahlgren fountain.

And your bra.

The deal was I run through the fountain, you make out with me. Damn you.

Not the magic formula you expected? Life is like that.

“Serenity Now?” “No, Sterility now!!” “The Amish?” “No, the office!”

Seniors work? Jay isn’t feelin’ it.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

Voices

Missing the veteran

Massive blocks of concrete are toppled into a giant heap, thick wires stick out at strange angles and bright blue Port-a-Potties outline the ruins. The site is entirely unrecognizable. The debris of Veteran’s Stadium, piled several hundred feet high on the asphalt, amounts to an estimated 70,000 cubic yards of material.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

Leisure

Galloping through Foxfields

According to its official website, Foxfields is one of the handful of steeplechase horse races sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association. It is also, according to Georgetown students, “a total shit show,” “a day of drunken debauchery,” and “just a whole lot of beer.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

Voices

Spearhead with Mommy

“No thank you,” my mother said politely declining the joint a scrappy twenty-something stoner offered her. To some, it might seem bizarre to have complete strangers offer your parents drugs. By this point in the evening, though, nothing could faze me.

If someone had predicted this situation a mere week earlier, I would have bet my very life against them.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

Leisure

Film-festation

For some inexplicable reason, the likes of 13 Going On 30 or The Alamo may not be enough of a draw for some to venture down to good old Loews of K St. If this is the case, this spring’s crop of D.C. film festivals offers up a huge range of options to sate your cinematic cravings.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004

Voices

Enslaved by Zara

I see it. I am on a path toward it. Nothing will deter me now. With arms shaking under a load of acrylics and wool knits, I look straight ahead and imagine myself there-at the red and orange clothing rack across the room. The obstacles ahead present a challenge: meandering customers with wandering eyes, glancing at the shiny white walls in search of the perfect evening ensemble, a smart suit or a sales associate to assist them with their shopping needs.

By the Voice Staff April 29, 2004