Sean Quigley


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Side A/Side B: Kid Cudi vs. Cee Lo Green

Maligned by East Coast hip-hop classicists but embraced by hipsters and alt-rockers, Kid Cudi’s debut album was part of an important paradigm shift in rap music. Swapping Timberland boots and braggadocio for skinny jeans and emotive introspection, Man on the Moon: The End of Days marked the beginning of a more melodic, emotional era for rap music.

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An Exercise in Understanding: Judaism at Georgetown

In 1968, Georgetown University became the first Catholic institution in the country to employ a full-time rabbi when it hired Harold White, a 36-year-old ex-military chaplain, as a Jewish Chaplain and Lecturer in Theology. But it was not so he could lead Georgetown’s Jewish students.

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Critical Voices: Diplo, Blow Your Head, Volume 1: Diplo Presents Dubstep

Adam Wentz, better known as DJ Diplodicus or Diplo, has made a career out of combining the freshest and most exotic styles of dance music from all over the world into his own brand of danceable party music.

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Ugly edifice of evil of praiseworthy beacon of learning?

We are all lucky enough to attend a school with a truly beautiful campus. And yet, tucked in the corner of our picturesque front lawn, beneath the austere and regal façade of Healy, lies the squat, angular Lauinger Library—a gloomy, gray structure that looks more like a decrepit Soviet housing project than a comfortable place to study.

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Joseph Palacios: Keeping faith in the fight for gay rights

Last week, the official founding of Catholics for Equality sent a ripple through the Catholic community. The group, an LGBT rights organization aiming to mobilize Catholics in favor of same-sex marriage, has already been denounced by several Catholic leaders and outspoken members.

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An unholy, laugh-less Funeral

Let’s get this out of the way first: Death at a Funeral isn’t funny.

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Let’s tame! That! Shrew!

There’s little subtlety to be found in The Taming of the Shrew, Mask and Bauble’s last production of the semester, which opens in Poulton Hall on Thursday night.

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Critical Voices: Method Man, Ghostface Killah, and Raekwon, Wu-Massacre

At first glance, it’s tough to tell whether Wu-Massacre is a triumph or a half-baked disappointment.

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Traverse-ing 18th Century lust and innuendo

The Georgetown University Theater and Performance Studies Program’s latest production, the D.C. premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Grace of Mary Traverse, is not for the faint of heart.

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Critical Voices: Das Racist, Shut Up, Dude

When “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” blew up on the music blogosphere last summer, it provoked a firestorm of controversy—depending on who you asked, it was either insipid, repetitive drivel or witty, inventive joke rap.