Voice Staff

The staff of The Georgetown Voice.

Leisure

Sleep When You’re Dead

A resident of Georgetown for decades, Mrs. Colette English returns to Richmond every other month to visit the community of friends and acquaintances she left behind there and to comment on the city’s creeping southernness and decay. The traffic is “interminable,” she broods, now accustomed to the assertive driving of Washington.

By the January 22, 2004

Features

Seeking Asylum in Southeast

COVER BY SONIA SMITH Each weekday morning, John Hinckley, Jr. walks down the meandering road from the John Howard Pavilion to Building CT-6, where he works as librarian and archivist in the medical library. Here he sits among the stacks of psychiatric journals and medical textbooks, doused in florescent lighting, archiving documents and reading at his leisure.

By the January 22, 2004

News

We All Recall

It has been over three months since California Governor Gray Davis was ousted in an unprecedented recall election. Now, there is another recall effort afoot right here in the District. A citizens’ group calling themselves “Save our City” has organized an effort to unseat D.

By the January 22, 2004

Leisure

Nothing Shrouds ‘The Fog of War’

LEISURE BY LAUREN GASKILL Robert McNamara playing himself, outbursts of the director’s voice off-screen and montages that blend historical and artistic images make “The Fog of War” different from other, dry documentaries. Accompanied by the urgent and innovative score of Philip Glass (“The Hours”), McNamara recalls his wartime exploits with prompts from director Errol Morris.

By the January 22, 2004

Sports

Oh, Courtland! Senior slams Johnnies

SPORTS BY CAMERON SMITH Of all the things said by Coach Craig Esherick in his nine minute press conference following the Georgetown’s stirring last second victory over St. John’s on Tuesday night, perhaps the most important was, “Guys made plays.” A comment conspicuously absent from the past two Hoyas squads, the claim was echoed by what Esherick called, ” the best performance of his career,” from senior forward Courtland Freeman.

By the January 22, 2004

Leisure

‘Station Agent’ has unusual charm

The film “The Embalmer,” 2002’s stand-out dwarf movie, stars a middle-aged dwarf who lures a tall, youthful cook into helping with his seemingly innocent taxidermy business. What begins as a innocuous business deal balloons into orgy, intrigue and murder. This dwarf defines campy.

By the January 22, 2004

Sports

Hope and courage behind the bench

Over the course of the past season, Head Football Coach Bob Benson was forced to deal with a number of difficult on field challenges from many of Division I-AA’s top teams during a daunting schedule. As tough as these trials were, they were nothing close to those he faced away from the field after the birth of his first child on June 18.

By the January 22, 2004

Leisure

Old 97’s finally on the road again

Across the country, the announcement of concert dates caused patient fans to snatch up tickets. No, the frenzy was not the usual clamoring, but rather the result of three years of anticipation. Out of a seeming hibernation, alt-country sensations the Old 97’s are returning to the stage to give fans a taste of old and new, likely hits.

By the January 22, 2004

Sports

Hoyas topple top-25 Tech

Georgetown enjoyed another stellar week of Women’s Basketball, as the team took No. 21 Miami into double overtime on Jan. 14th, then overwhelmed No. 19 Virginia Tech at home on Jan. 17th, giving ever-emotional Coach Knapp his first victory over a ranked opponent in seven seasons.

By the January 22, 2004

News

GU grad involved in deadly D.C. crash

NEWS BY DAN JOYCE and VIN MCGILL A recent Georgetown graduate slammed into the back of a car carrying five passengers on Sunday night, killing a student from American University. Shelly Wentworth (NHS ‘03) is free on bail and faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.

By the January 22, 2004