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By The Numbers: Analytics and Sports

Today, it is impossible to read an article about sports and avoid having a bunch of numbers thrown in your face. In the last ten years, the way that sports... Read more

Leisure

Damage Control: Creative destruction hits Hirshhorn

Look straight ahead: it looks like a jar of cookies from afar, but as you get closer, you find them to be a sickly green-blue color. To the right is... Read more

News

City on a Hill: Politicking the Campus Plan

With the Zoning Commission’s hearings for the 2010 Campus Plan only weeks away, students may have noticed some serious saber-rattling from D.C.’s legislative branch.

Voices

The kids aren’t all right

I’ll come right out and say it: Children repulse me. They frighten me. They make me anxious. Babies all look the same, and they are all ugly. Toddlers are praised for doing ordinary things like speaking and waving. Children have a comment and a question about everything. And adolescents—if YouTube sensation Rebecca Black has taught us anything—are totally self-absorbed and completely lacking in any sense of shame. Each stage of development brings with it new things to annoy me.

Sports

Backdoor Cuts: Don’t stop believin’

After the New York Jets upset playoff victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday, Jets linebacker Bart Scott was tracked down on the field for an interview. The outspoken defender didn’t mince words. “Anybody can be beat,” he yelled. “Felt great. Poetic justice."

Leisure

The American Art Museum’s greatest hits

Walking in to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s newest exhibit can be an overwhelming experience.  Called Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the exhibit initially comes... Read more

Features

The Voice Turns 40!

The Voice has reached middle age. This month, after decades of free exercise of our free speech, Georgetown University's weekly newsmagazine turns 40. To celebrate, we've collected some of the best, most controversial, and most entertaining work of our young history.

Leisure

Hamlet 2-Rollicking Ribaldry

Imagine the most ludicrous, politically incorrect version of High School Musical possible. It would probably look a lot like Hamlet 2, whose cast is led by a Napoleon Dynamite-meets-Zoolander drama teacher (Steve Coogan).

Sports

Bleeds of glory

A bloody trail twisted from one end of the rink to the visiting bench in the Buffalo Sabers’ HSBC Arena on Sunday night. But this macabre remnant was not nearly as disturbing as the sight of a dazed Richard Zednik leaning heavily on a teammate and clutching at his neck, which had just been cut open by the errant skate of another teammate, Ollie Jokinen. For the fans present, and even for those who watched in horror at the slow-motion replays that followed, it was one of the most terrifying sports accidents in recent memory. But for a recent Georgetown grad, Jokinen’s skate-blade may have sliced a little too close to home.