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

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Lezhur Ledger: Smashing pumpkins … with catapults

Get out your trucker hats, stonewash denim and handlebar mustaches: it’s time for the World Championship Punkin’ Chunkin’.

By the November 10, 2005

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_Paradise Now_

Paradise Now presents an oddly romanticized view of suicide bombing, subject matter usually seen through the eyes of a documentary or news camera.

By the November 10, 2005

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_Jarhead_

jar-head- n. a U.S. Marine. The high and tight hair cut characteristic of each Marine causes their heads to resemble a jar; it is an empty container to be filled with orders and values.

By the November 10, 2005

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_The Squid and the Whale_

As a chronicle of divorce, Noah Baumbach’s debut film The Squid and Whale is worth its weight in gold.

By the November 10, 2005

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Burt Bacharach gets down & dirty

Burt Bacharach talks with Voice Leisure Editor Chris Norton about his new album At This Time, the first political album of his career.

By November 3, 2005

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_Shopgirl_ beats out the chick flick crowd

The old truism that the movie is never as good as the book proves happily untrue in the case of Shopgirl. The movie captures the tender, heartfelt nature that made Steve Martin’s novella a best-seller.

By the November 3, 2005

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Remain in “Light”

Sean Scully’s paintings, on display at The Phillips Collection, are based on a trip he made to Mexico some 20 years ago and the sumptuous shades of the Mayan ruins he encountered there.

By the November 3, 2005

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DJ Muggs and GZA, _Grandmasters_

Hip-hop vets GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan and DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill have teamed up in the strongest display of coastal unity since DJ Muggs dropped Soul Assassins in 1997.

By the November 3, 2005

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Akron/Family and Angels of Light, _Akron/Family and Angels of Light_

The year 2005 will go down as the year of the obscure folk-band collaboration.

By the November 3, 2005

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Halloween blues

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the November 3, 2005

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No joy in Elizabethtown

Those lured in by director Cameron Crowe will not find an ounce of originality in this mediocre Garden State imitation.

By the October 27, 2005

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Vibes and IMAX

Among the swankiest entertainment options in the District, the Friday night IMAX cinema and jazz music at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is an improbable yet ingenious combination.

By the October 27, 2005

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Lez’hur Ledger: The ghosts of … Farragut Square?

When I realized that Halloween in college would be all about bobbing for beer cans and a pageant of risqu? costumes, I started to miss the eerie element of late October.

By the October 27, 2005

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Ben and Jerry’s funky, chunky forgotten flavors

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

By the October 27, 2005

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Concert Calendar

Saturday 10/29 – Tuesday, 11/8

By the October 27, 2005

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Doing Nothing, and doing it well

Mask and Bauble’s production of Much Ado About Nothing dabbles in deception that is both playful and malicious.

By the October 20, 2005

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Vinyasa with Mick Jagger and Ad-Rock

How could I not be intrigued by such a combination of my three great loves: sweat, contortionism and rock?

By the October 20, 2005

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O Street Special

Walking into the basement of 2020 O St. is like walking into a nightmare, making for an unintentionally terrifying experience for the Halloween season.

By the October 20, 2005

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Animal Collective, Feels

When a band’s members dress up as animals and adopt aliases like Panda Bear, terms like “pop” and “accessible” become relative at best and useless at worst.

By the October 20, 2005

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Silver Jews, Tanglewood Numbers

In one of the most highly anticipated indie rock releases of the year, Silver Jews frontman and brilliant lyricist David Berman has reunited with guitarist Stephen Malkmus of Pavement and a dozen or so other musicians to craft a classic comeback album.

By the October 20, 2005