It was three o’clock in the morning, and after having spent hours conversing in French and sipping French wine with other students, my words in French were leaving my mouth in much the same fashion that boulders leave mountains. That’s when I decided it was time to go to bed.
Like few others in rock history, Tony Wilson was a genuine impresario. He possessed a personality so charismatic and larger than life that, without him, his show?the legendary and influential Factory Records?could not have gone on. Thanks to Michael Winterbottom’s new film 24 Hour Party People, Tony Wilson comes fully out of the shadows of Factory’s great bands to take his place next to Bill Graham in the pantheon of rock’s great promoters.
Georgetown Football Head Coach Bob Benson has pushed back naming a starting quarterback until this weekend, after the team scrimmages against Shepherd College, a highly-ranked Division II team Saturday. The spot was left vacant after Sean Peterson’s graduation in the spring.
Knives wrapped in silk. That is an Aimee Mann song. Beautifully harsh, each one conceals the most piercing lyrics within catchy melodies and Mann’s unique voice. Who knows how many times she has been jilted or what romantic tragedies have befallen her? We would, however, like God to bless each and every one of them.
The creation of a new senior administrator position to oversee the University’s emergency response plan marks the latest development for the University’s Emergency Response Team. Other changes since the group was formed last September include increased visibility of Department of Public Safety officers and restricted access to on-campus buildings.
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Most Georgetown students come to the District?and leave?without ever knowing that go-go, a form of music that has united three generations of black Washingtonians, exists. If not for a chance exposure, Nick Shumaker (CAS ‘01), one of the creators of The Pocket, a documentary about D.
Warning: What you are about to read might sound like the sentimental ramblings of a college senior trying to hold on to his glory days as they slowly come to an end. But it’s not.
College is an awesome time and it goes by too quickly and as a senior you will sit wondering how you got to your final year without realizing where it all went.
Prague by Arthur Phillips Random House, $24.99 In his posthumously published memoirs of life in 1920s Paris, Hemingway wrote, “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death.
For about a decade now, we have continued to hear about Major League Baseball’s labor woes. It seems Baseball Commissioner/Antichrist Bud Selig’s sagging mug has been on the television weekly complaining that teams are losing money, contraction must occur and that the Expos are better off in Reykjavik than Montreal.
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