Nostalgic for talking toys

What is it about nostalgia that attracts audiences? The afternoon showing of Toy Story & Toy Story 2 in 3D I attended last weekend was filled with teenagers and young... Read more

By Chris Heller October 8, 2009

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Prisoners’ poetry

Not many people would expect to hear spoken word at a venue whose main decorative object is a big, Hebrew version of the Ten Commandments carved into white stone, but... Read more

By Sean Quigley October 8, 2009

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Suffer for Fashion: Frank fashion

Half a century ago, in a Kerouac-style journey across prairies and fruited plains, Robert Frank photographed the inhabitants of the recently confirmed most powerful country in the world. Last Tuesday,... Read more

By Keenan Timko October 8, 2009

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Critical Voices: The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

Never been to a Flaming Lips concert? Don’t worry—now we’ve got Embryonic. The band’s latest release solidifies their image as an improvisational experiment in sound. Clocking in at over 70... Read more

By Joshua Sizer October 8, 2009

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Critical Voices: Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights

Lightning Bolt do not live up to the imagery evolved by their moniker. In fact, Lightning Bolt is more like the accompanying thunder than a swift discharge of energy—a bellowing... Read more

By James McGrory October 8, 2009

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Pandora’s box

If you’ve ever been on a ten-minute car ride, you’ve come to that sad but unavoidable conclusion: the radio sucks. Commercials are obnoxious, the mix is never quite right, and... Read more

By Leigh Finnegan October 8, 2009

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High Fidelity: A gleeful future

“Foresight” became an operative term this at Georgetown this week, as the Future of Music Coalition (“a national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse musical culture”) held its... Read more

By Daniel Cook October 8, 2009

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Telling the future

Twenty years ago, the “Future of Music” was compact discs (remember those?). Ten years ago, the “Future” was all about mp3s, Napster, and peer-to-peer file sharing. Curious about the future... Read more

By Chris Heller October 1, 2009

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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

By Mary Newman October 1, 2009

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Gervais’s Invention won’t change the world

I lie a lot. I don’t think I lie too much (and of course I never lie to you, devoted readers), but I do lie enough to get by. I... Read more

By Brendan Baumgardner October 1, 2009

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Bottoms Up: On the Cheap

Like most college students, I’m a cheap son of a bitch. There are very few times that I’ll open my wallet for anything that isn’t an absolute necessity. Having said... Read more

By Dan Newman October 1, 2009

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Out of Yates and into the Wild

After a month of sedentary college life, you might be looking at your waistline and wondering where your slim summer physique went. It’s understandable that the prospect of trekking up... Read more

By Sarah Crum October 1, 2009

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Critics, critiqued

Nowadays, we as listeners don’t stroll to the closest magazine stand, pick up the latest Rolling Stone, flip through the pages, and decide what our next music purchase will be.... Read more

By James McGrory October 1, 2009

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Sushi sticks its landing

When the Voice last checked up on Sticky Rice in January 2007, it was, in writer Chris Norton’s words, a “gutted brick rowhouse skeleton.” The Atlas District restaurant still is,... Read more

By Cyrus Bordbar October 1, 2009

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Critical Voices: The Mountain Goats – The Life of the World to Come

The Mountain Goats as we knew them are dead. In deference to that and Life of the World to Come’s Biblical theme (each song is named after a Bible verse),... Read more

By Will Sommer October 1, 2009

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Critical Voices: A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head

When was the last time you’ve gone shoegazing, losing yourself in a detached and introspective state, with any and all hostility far from your mind? There’s a reason why this... Read more

By James McGrory September 24, 2009

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Critical Voices: La Roux – La Roux

This year, L is for La Roux. Not the rock-synth hybrid of Ladyhawke, or the overproduced pop sound of Little Boots, and definitely not the overexposed Lady Gaga. With a... Read more

By Swedian Lie September 24, 2009

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Short circuit

Once a year, experimental electronic artists from across the globe convene in the heart of D.C. for the Sonic Circuit Festival. In its ninth season, the Sonic Circuit Festival (which... Read more

By Joshua Sizer September 24, 2009

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High Fidelity: Gold sounds

Perhaps you’ve heard of that band. You know, the one that’s reforming for a big reunion tour in 2010. Yeah, that band. “The most important American band of the Nineties”... Read more

By Daniel Cook September 24, 2009

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Culottes for you lots: Fashion weak

Twice a year, the fashion elite gathers to celebrate fashion in four cities—New York, London, Milan and Paris. For an almost endless, whirlwind month, designers, stylists, makeup artists, and editors show us what we should be wearing, now and in the coming seasons, parading from show to show in an ever-changing array of expensive outfits to prove exactly how important and stylish they are.

By Kathleen Simone September 24, 2009