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



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Try your potluck

Steak Out – a biweekly column about eating leisurely

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Concert Calendar

Saturday, Jan.28 – Wednesday, Feb.8

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James Bond meets Bad Santa

“Two things that taste better in Mexico: margaritas and cock.” That is the kind of shocking but funny line that perfectly captures what Julian Nobel in The Matador is all about.

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Wallace’s _Lobster_ traps readers

It would not be an overstatement for me to say that David Foster Wallace is the most important, or at least smartest, writer working today.

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_The Trestle_ is all water under the bridge

After watching the play, the audience might be thankful that this is the first time the two groups have worked together.

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No dress is an island

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about dressing leisurely

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He’s got a secret… lots of them.

Frank Warren’s Post Secret is not the typical blog of personal rants and essays.

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The life story of a P.I.M.P

Get Rich or Die Trying is a semi-autobiography based on superstar rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s life.

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Barely making rent

Drag queens, drug addicts, and AIDS patients are just a few of the various uncanny characters in the movie Rent.

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Free lunch, anyone?

Steak Out – a bi-weekly column on food

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Tucker Max takes you to hell

Tucker Max is not your typical internet celebrity.

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Ben Folds goes orchestral in Bethesda

When the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra took stage at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda last Thursday, they were greeted with an audience clad in t-shirts and jeans rather than the usual black ties.

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He’s Bob Saget, bitch!

The man who showed up at George Washington University’s Auditorium Tuesday night was someone entirely different than Full House’s Danny Tanner.

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Numbers brighten up Oberst

There’s very little that hasn’t been said about Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst’s diva behavior this year.

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Making unitards hot

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

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_Guantanomo_ takes no prisoners

A tall barbed wire fence and Muslim detainees lying down on several cots greet the audience as they walk into the Studio Theater. Welcome to Guantanamo Bay Prison.

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Super Furry Animals get rabid

At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, I walked into a very empty 9:30 Club and met a slightly confused, very bedraggled Welshman.

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Life in _The Boondocks_ gets animated

The Boondocks, adapted from Aaron McGruder’s syndicated comic strip, is full of slightly absurd humor that satirizes black and white stereotypes, as well as many other facets of American culture that happen to be … well … stupid.

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Buttering up

You Taste Like A Burger – a biweekly column about eating leisurely