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

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Proletarian art for the bourgeois taste

Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec grace the moving new public display at the Phillips Collection with works that speak to each other in a visual dialogue that is more powerful than words.

By the February 16, 2006

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Hot on a budget

Eat my skort – a biweekly column about dressing leisurely

By the February 16, 2006

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This raisin won’t wither in the sun

Between the often perfunctory educational experience of Black History Month and the scores of elected officials scrambling to score points eulogizing the death of Corretta Scott King, it is refreshing to witness a work as trenchant and genuine as Raisin in the Sun.

By the February 9, 2006

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Imagine, me, you and a non-traditional love

Although the love story between the two women is questionable, the film boldly addresses the possibilities of homosexual relationships with comfortable humor to cushion the controversial subject.

By the February 9, 2006

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Making friends at Good Guys

It’s Thursday night, and I am preparing to go where no Voice writer has gone before. With whiskey in my belly and a male friend in tow, I am off to Good Guys strip club.

By the February 9, 2006

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Not so super commercials

The Super Bowl has seduced viewers with advertisements greater than those of everyday primetime television.

By the February 9, 2006

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Crêpes With A Snap

Steak-Out – a biweekly column about eating leisurely

By the February 9, 2006

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Brilliant sensations of color

If you’ve ever read “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats and wondered what the phrase “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” would look like in oil on canvas, look no further than Cézanne in Provence.

By the February 2, 2006

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Stop-animation, Charles Manson style

Before the opening credits even begin to roll, the words “YOU HAVE BAD TASTE” flash on screen. You have to respect a movie this honest.

By the February 2, 2006

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Super chile bowl

Throwing a successful Super Bowl party is lots of fun and nearly effortless. Most people will simply be looking forward to drinking a ridiculous amount of beer and yelling obscenities at the television screen.

By the February 2, 2006

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Prefuse 73, _Security Screenings_

Critical Voices

By the February 2, 2006

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Belle and Sebastian, _The Life Pursuit_

Critical Voices

By the February 2, 2006

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The sole truth

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the February 2, 2006

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Just a taste of visual art at Georgetown

The new art exhibition in Walsh may not be Georgetown’s biggest art show, but for what it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in diversity.

By the January 26, 2006

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Another play about a dysfunctional family

Nothing really happens in The Subject Was Roses, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth your time.

By the January 26, 2006

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Pocahontas plus pedophilia

The film retells the colonial legend of Pocahontas, but provides more historical accuracy and, consequently, more edge than the standard tale that audiences are familiar with.

By the January 26, 2006

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Try your potluck

Steak Out – a biweekly column about eating leisurely

By the January 26, 2006

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Concert Calendar

Saturday, Jan.28 – Wednesday, Feb.8

By the January 26, 2006

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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.

By the January 19, 2006

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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.

By the January 19, 2006