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

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Diplomacy via aesthetics

The Cultural Institute of Mexico is a mecca of artistic diplomacy, uniting American and Mexican culture not through politics but through creative expression and community involvement.

By the September 22, 2005

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Oktoberwear

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the September 22, 2005

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Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary

Critical Voices

By the September 22, 2005

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Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights

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By the September 22, 2005

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DangerDoom, The Mouse and the Mask

Critical Voices

By the September 22, 2005

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Blackalicious, The Craft

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By the September 22, 2005

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Getting Close-r to the gallery scene

As a person who is fairly ignorant of the D.C. art scene, the Chuck Close exhibit opening at the Adamson Gallery left me much more enlightened than one would expect.

By the September 15, 2005

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Maher rules you out

When I bought my copy of Bill Maher’s New Rules, the clerk who rang me up assured me that the subject matter was “hysterical, yet poignant.”

By the September 15, 2005

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Future imperfect

The moment the end credits roll in a Wong Kar Wai film, audience members are momentarily silent. But at the end of 2046, one is left with a sense of aesthetically inspired awe and a consciousness of loss.

By the September 15, 2005

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Reykjav?k comes to Bethesda

Reykjav?k came to D.C. last Sunday, and they brought their muumuus.

By the September 15, 2005

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Longing for Schnitzel

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

By the September 15, 2005

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Concert Calendar

Sunday, 9/18 – Wednesday, 9/28

By the September 15, 2005

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Sex, lies and gardening

The subject matter is all too familiar to us here at Georgetown: a young British couple moves to Africa.

By the September 8, 2005

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Summer Movie Roundup

Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Aristocrats, Broken Flowers, and Murderball

By the September 8, 2005

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Creaming your jeans

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the September 8, 2005

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Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow

Critical Voices

By the September 8, 2005

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Iron & Wine and Calexico, In the Reins

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By the September 8, 2005

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Irving Penn imprints the National Gallery

Photography resonates with a larger audience than any other modern artistic medium.

By the September 1, 2005

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O Show brings first years drama, screaming

First years either greatly enjoyed or were greatly put off by this year’s O Show, the joint theater production by all of the on-campus theater groups for New Student Orientation.

By the September 1, 2005

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Jean Genies

The key to China’s booming economic growth has been the creation of several free trade zones where industry, and particularly clothing manufacturing, can take root.

By the September 1, 2005