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

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Critical Voices: Drake – So Far Gone EP

You’ve probably heard Drake and his song “Best I Ever Had” at least once, if not two or three times an hour this summer on most pop radio stations. This... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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Hello, reruns

The television DVD set hasn’t been around for a long time, but in its short lifespan, it has changed drastically. Initially, the DVD set of a television series was merely... Read more

By September 10, 2009

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Miyazaki and the animated bowl of delights

The magic of Hayao Miyazaki is impossible to describe in a straightforward plot summary. I can only write “magic” or “bowl of delights” so many times, and it won’t really... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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After these previews: the fall in film

If, like me, you view the world through the prism of Zac Efron, and if summer is the season for Zefron to be in big budget star vehicles with his... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Cowabunga: The Voice satisfies your late night pizza craving

Every Georgetown student faces difficult food choices: Booey’s or Wisey’s? Weekly or block meal plan? Snaxa or Vittles? Each has its own ardent defenders, but generally disagreements will pass politely.... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Bottoms Up: Secret drunk

As classes begin, don’t waste the few remaining weeks of warm weather that we have left on books and papers­—midterms aren’t until October. One of the best ways to take... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Witness at the Kennedy Center: Georgetown student theater on display

Miranda Rose Hall (COL ’11) identifies herself as an indulgent writer—the kind who wears socks and drinks tea while she works. Those details are telling: her work is as comforting... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Dress up your dorm room

Now that you’re in college, you have much more than a sad, small locker with which to act out your fantasy of becoming an interior decorator. Decorating your college room... Read more

By the September 3, 2009

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Critical Voices: Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3

Jay-Z has an unfortunate habit of releasing half-assed, guest-filled victory laps following great albums. After The Blueprint came its overlong, overreaching sequel. After The Black Album came Kingdom Come, often... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Expressionism in the District

The Smithsonian’s Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Phillips Collection, a private art gallery near Dupont Circle, are partnering for a two-part discussion of the work of Philip Guston... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Low Fidelity: The end of another Empire

“What came first, the music or the misery?” John Cusack asked the camera as embittered and lovelorn record storeowner Rob in the ever-endearing 2000 film High Fidelity (not to be... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Critical Voices: Polvo – In Prism

When Polvo split in 1998, they had carved their own distinctive niche into the hodgepodge of mid-90s alt-rock. With their noisy and dissonant but oddly melodic riffs, Polvo’s sound owed... Read more

By September 3, 2009

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Culottes for you Lots: School supplies

Some people follow football or the stock market or Congressional politics; I follow fashion. The colors, the shapes, the possibilities—fashion is creative expression for the artistically challenged. Like Legos, you... Read more

By August 28, 2009

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While we were out: a summer arts retrospective

The dark days of summer film Maybe it’s the desire to get out of the heat, or the fact that kids are busy not thinking about everything they learned in... Read more

By the August 28, 2009

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Hitler had it coming

Inglourious Basterds is more Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly than it is The Dirty Dozen or Guns of Navarone.  Don’t... Read more

By August 28, 2009

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So long, summer reruns

Following last year’s underwhelming crop of freshman TV series, nearly every network is looking to rebound in the ratings. A number of new and returning shows will be fighting to... Read more

By August 28, 2009

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Artistic Egg-cellence

Photographer William Eggleston captures typical Southern scenes in landscapes and social snapshots, but unexpectedly introduces an intimacy with the American South. Eggleston escapes a replication of the standard iconic imagery... Read more

By August 28, 2009

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High Fidelity: The golden age

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the golden age of music consumption. Assuming you own a computer, have an Internet connection, and know how to use Google correctly (that’s right, Google,... Read more

By August 28, 2009

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Arctic Monkeys – Humbug

“What came first, the chicken or the dickhead?” seems a rather odd question from an evolutionary standpoint, but from the mouth of the Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner, it seems fairly... Read more

By August 28, 2009

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Off of the Prairie, into D.C.

Though Fratelli la Bufala (loosely translated as Buffalo Brothers) is best known for its Buffalo meat dishes and buffalo milk mozzarella, the scent of sweet cheese won’t be the first... Read more

By April 23, 2009