Kathryn Brand

Leisure

Eating in: late night for the lazy

It’s 2 a.m. and I’m two pages into my 10-page econ paper. My mouth feels like sandpaper and my forehead’s dripping sweat. I can’t leave the room, but I can order from DC Snacks.

By March 1, 2007

Voices

From D.C. to a dung hut

If you had predicted freshman year over dinner at Leo’s that I would join the Peace Corps, I would have laughed till ginger ale shot out my nose. Then I would tell you about a trip my family took to Kenya when I was seven. I ate gazelle, chased baboons, and enjoyed myself thoroughly. But, visiting a Masai village, my brother pointed at the walls of the dung huts and told me just what dung was. Shit? I was in the Business School freshman year, and though I didn’t know what I wanted to do after, my plans in no way included a dung hut in Africa.

By February 15, 2007

Leisure

Sexy food

As anyone who saw Varsity Blues and Ali Larter’s whipped cream bikini can attest, food can be very sexy. But, as anyone who’s ever had a boyfriend who talks with his mouth full or had a propensity for poppy seed bagels can argue, food and love are not always a good mix. There is a difference between your food being yummy and you being yummy.

By February 15, 2007

Features

The Jesuits’ Slaves

“Can a man serve God faithfully and posess slaves?” Brother Joseph Mobberly, S.J. asked in his diary in 1818. “Yes,” he answered. “Is it then lawful to keep men in servitude? Yes.”

By February 8, 2007

Leisure

Aspargus fritter and ice cream, please

Fusion has become a trendy label, with everything from French-Indian fusion at IndeBleu to Asian tapas at Raku. But ‘fusion’ is a vague term, used to describe a wide range of the marriages of many different techniques, ingredients, and flavors.

By February 1, 2007

Sports

Controversial sign leads to apology

Most of the record number of students who lined up at McDonough Gymnasium earlier this year to collect their men’s basketball season ticket packages hardly noticed the cover. Recent complaints, however, have revealed a sign in the background of the cover that some have construed as homophobic.

By January 25, 2007

Leisure

You Taste Like a Burger: The Food Olympics

a bi-weekly column on food

By January 18, 2007

Voices

A true patriot’s priorities

Five golden rings, four calling birds … three American fryers … two turtledoves and a partridge in a pair tree.

By January 18, 2007

Sports

Soccer standout staying in Washington

As the senior forward and co-captain of Georgetown’s soccer team, it is only natural that Ricky Schramm has been dreaming of starting in the English Premier League or Spain’s La Liga since he began playing soccer at the age of five.

By January 18, 2007

Leisure

Veggie porn and human tofu

You Taste Like a Burger: a bi-weekly column about food

By December 7, 2006