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The Weekly List: Halloween Edition 2015

That time of year is once again upon us. Candy, pumpkin, and sexy cat outfit sales suddenly go through the roof, and everyone here at Georgetown prepares for a night... Read more

By October 26, 2015

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Halftime Reviews: Arms Around a Vision by Girls Names

Girls Names has brought post-punk revival their third album, Arms Around a Vision. They have composed a melancholy, introverted perspective that shows a distinct departure from the style of their... Read more

By October 23, 2015

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Halftime TasteTest: Vittles Finds

On today’s episode of TasteTest, we find the weirdest food items available at Vittles. Then we eat them in front of a microphone. Our selection for this podcast is the... Read more

By October 23, 2015

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Homeland Season Five, An Irregular Start

The fifth season of Homeland picks up two years after the gritty, action-packed last episodes of  season four.  After the horrors she went through in Islamabad, Carrie Mathison finds herself... Read more

By October 22, 2015

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Happy Back to The Future Day, McFly

Today, October 21st, 2015, is one of the most anticipated in film-geek history. It’s the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to in the classic Robert Zemeckis film,... Read more

By October 21, 2015

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Scream Queens  is Pure Fun

What do you get when you cross American Horror Story with Glee? Quite literally, Scream Queens. FOX’s newest hit is the concoction of the same writer-producer team (Ryan Murphy and... Read more

By October 21, 2015

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The Weekly List: Country Songs for Country Haters

One of the most clichéd responses to the question, “What type of music do you like?” is “Anything but country.” Before I saw the light, I too was in this... Read more

By October 20, 2015

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The Ice Cream Flavor You Deserve

“I love ice cream” is not a shocking, special, or compelling statement. I would be far more concerned if someone stated the opposite than if someone simply confirmed what I... Read more

By October 20, 2015

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Vandaveer: A Local Group Finds Its Folk

In a world of over-autotuned, synthetic music, folk is a genre often overlooked by the average listener. Washington DC started group, Vandaveer is in an active battle to defy this... Read more

By October 19, 2015

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Halftime Reviews: V by Wavves

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nathan Williams, lead singer of the San Diego based band Wavves, described the band’s new album: “If it’s cold outside and you listen to... Read more

By October 16, 2015

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Halftime Brunch Bracket: Mark’s Duck House

There’s escaping the Georgetown bubble, and then there’s going to Mark’s Duck House. For those of you who really, REALLY need to leave our polished college town behind, have I... Read more

By October 16, 2015

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The New Prince Of Georgetown: A Evening at the Mr. Georgetown Pageant 2015

The weekend of October 3rd, hurricane Joaquin hit the Washington D.C. area. On October 9th  D.C. found itself in back to back weekends of torrential downpour as the sky opened... Read more

By October 15, 2015

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The 250: The Lion King

The Halftime Staff breaks down a childhood favorite.

By October 15, 2015

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The Weekly List: Classic Coffee Shop Tunes

Greetings and welcome to another edition of Halftime’s the Week List! We are now in a time of pumpkin spice, colorful leaves on the trees, and apparently hurricanes (all the... Read more

By October 14, 2015

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Halftime TasteTest: “SmallBites”

Halftime TasteTest is back! And this time, we have a compilation of ultra-mini-pods, called “Small Bites,” where our writers try different foods from around the DC Area and give live... Read more

By October 13, 2015

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QI : Quite Interesting, Quite Entertaining

A garishly dressed Stephen Fry sits sandwiched between panelists, asking the simple question, “How many moons does the Earth have?” Alan Davies presses his buzzer, and it releases the sound... Read more

By October 9, 2015

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Structuring Creativity: an examination of the simulation game

On October 7th, Fortune.com released a report explaining why virtual reality is about to majorly hit mainstream markets. Future plans for virtual reality headsets range from users playing around in... Read more

By October 9, 2015

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“The Quality of Light” by Pete McCutchen, Touchstone Gallery

After only a few minutes of conversation with photographer Pete McCutchen at the opening of his newest show, “The Quality of Light,” it is wildly apparent that he is no... Read more

By October 8, 2015

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The 250: The Silence of the Lambs

Internet Movie Database, a website for everything movie-related, is a frequent go-to for us Halftimers. From upcoming releases to information on the stars of cinema, the commonly known site IMDb... Read more

By October 8, 2015

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Taste of Georgetown: a foodie paradise

Last Saturday, in the midst of this weekend’s hazy, overcast and generally gloomy weather, there was some light and warmth on K Street under the bridged Whitehurst Freeway. Taste of... Read more

By October 7, 2015