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Reviews and think pieces on music, movies, art, and theater.

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N’awlins jazz

This Friday in McNeir Auditorium, Jason Berry (COL ’71), will return to Georgetown to discuss his newly reissued Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II, which provides a comprehensive look at the evolution of jazz, rhythm and blues, and soul music in the Crescent City.

By September 24, 2009

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Lez’hur Ledger: Partying with the Jackal

In the age of man, few names stand out as true pillars of social progress. Socrates. Napoleon. Einstein. Men who grab history by the throat and—against all odds—wrestle it to submission. Hot, sweaty submission. Claude Jackal is one of those men.

By September 24, 2009

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It’s raining food, hallelujah, it’s raining food

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the feature-film directing debut by How I Met Your Mother’s executive producers, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, faces a problem of articulation.

By September 24, 2009

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Gender-bending art

Within the stark walls of the Hillyer Art Space, a hole-in-the-wall exhibition site in Dupont Circle, Susan Serafin seeks to explore the small but significant moments where we judge and... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Lez’hur Ledger: Cupcake catastrophe

A Georgetown student in search of cupcakes has many pricey options. Georgetown Cupcake offers a cornucopia of cake and frosting choices, but at $2.75 each, satisfying a serious cupcake craving... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Spin some discs with D.C. record stores

With digital music players, streaming internet radio, and file sharing services, our generation has greater access to music than any before us. But even with the ability to hear millions... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Fight this Generation

As its title would suggest, Belarus Free Theatre’s production of Generation Jeans at the Davis Performing Arts Center puts all varieties of denim pants at the center of its story:... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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For your Information!

If you spend tireless nights fantasizing about what Matt Damon would look like if he put on some weight and grew a beefy moustache, you might want to sit down.... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Bottoms Up: New Student Dis-orientation

I went in to pick up my t-shirt and wristband last Thursday evening, anxious to start the most highly-anticipated week of a senior’s fall semester, Senior Dis-Orientation. A week of... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Low Fidelity: Clap your hands say what?

“What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare in Romeo & Juliet, perhaps referring to the linguistic restrictions in defining something. But who is this “Shakespeare” character anyway, and what does he... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Critical Voices: Why? – Eskimo Snow

Why?, the indie/folk/hip-hop “project” of Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf, an Orthodox Jewish backpack rapper from suburban Ohio, makes music that is harder to describe than the man himself. The closest musical... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Critical Voices: Girls – Album

San Francisco is a near-mythical place. Sure, part of that might its druggy reputation, and from the beat poets and hippies who once roamed the Haight-Ashbury—but, really, it’s about music.... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Velociraptors at Verizon Center

We are a generation raised on dinosaurs. As current college students, we were the perfect age to be scared senseless by Jurassic Park years ago, and for those of us... Read more

By September 17, 2009

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Multicultural chicken delight

Nando’s is a restaurant with an identity crisis. Founded in South Africa by Portuguese immigrants, it serves a unique brand of chicken with a distinctive Mozambican influence. Though it’s a... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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Off the Hilltop and into the Distict: delightful day trips for the daring

Botanical Gardens You might overlook the Mall’s U.S. Botanic Gardens (take the Blue/Orange Metro line to Federal Center), figuring that plants are lame and you’d rather see the Spirit of... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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Lez’hur Ledger: Polo, meet punk

No one ever cracked his head open on the I-shaped metal beam, I had been assured. I was at the Corpse Fortress, a house turned punk rock venue in Silver... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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Extract eludes expectations

Mike Judge knows stupid. In fact, he’s made a career out of reminding us that our neighbors, family, friends, and co-workers are painfully dumb. Dumb enough to make American Idol... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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Culottes for you lots: Bobo a go-go

Senior year means big things on the horizon for me. I’ve been doing a lot of growing up and changing over the past few years as I prepare to enter... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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High Fidelity: A ticket to ride

By the time you pick up this paper (or read it online), millions of children, adolescents, adults, and seniors worldwide will have congregated in dens, dorms, living rooms, and basements... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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Critical Voices – Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Part II

Just going by the album cover, which features Raekwon and partner-in-crime Ghostface Killah recreating the unforgettable pose they struck 14 years ago on the front of their original classic, Only... Read more

By September 10, 2009