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

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Ballad of Jack and Rose: Day-Lewis avoids sleeping on the couch

Chances are that Daniel Day-Lewis (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) was in for the third-degree if he turned down a part in The Ballad of Jack and Rose, written and directed by Rebecca Miller, his wife and the daughter of acclaimed playwright Arthur Miller.

By the April 14, 2005

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Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit fun, syphilis-tinged

Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters and paintings rode the wave of change breaking in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.

By the April 14, 2005

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Cilantro: not just fake weed anymore

Walking down M Street, you might catch a glimpse of a small white sign advertising Cilantro, the only tapas bar in Georgetown.

By the April 14, 2005

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Baking School

You Taste Like A Burger – A rotating column about eating leisurely

By the April 14, 2005

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Sin City: a bucket-full of blood-soaked fun

I was never much of a comic book reader as a kid. But after years of watching friends read violent and dark comics, I decided to give them a chance, and I fell in love.

By the April 7, 2005

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Spot-on performances make for a deadly Assassins

Just as every hero has his villain, politicians have their assassins.

By the April 7, 2005

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Fiery Furnaces less frightening than name suggests

In anticipation of their show this Friday at the 9:30 Club, Voice Leisure called up Matthew in Brooklyn and talked about his favorite music, touring and the difficulties of recording an album with your grandmother.

By the April 7, 2005

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Manzana Lift

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

By the April 7, 2005

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Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Aesop Rock

In anticipation of his show Tuesday, April 12 at the 9:30 Club, Voice Leisure called Ian Bavitz up in New York to talk about the stress of a rap career, the pains of transcribing and his feelings on touring.

By the April 7, 2005

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No fun in the Summertime

“Long” is the first adjective that comes to mind.

By the March 31, 2005

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Allen fails to connect with Melinda and Melinda

Once upon a time, Christopher Columbus helped show cartographers that the earth is round and that an explorer could not just fall straight off the map.

By the March 31, 2005

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Beck, Guero

Critical Voices

By the March 31, 2005

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Yo La Tengo, Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003

Critical Voices

By the March 31, 2005

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Waiting in vain

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

By the March 31, 2005

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Surviving Iraq in Gunner Palace

In September 2003, director Mike Tucker and his co-director and wife Petra Epperlein moved into the bombed-out former “love shack” of Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday Hussein, to document the lives of the soldiers involved in the Iraqi conflict.

By the March 17, 2005

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Cake column

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

By the March 17, 2005

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The Kills, No Wow

Critical Voices

By the March 17, 2005

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The Decemberists, Picaresque

Critical Voices

By the March 17, 2005

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Global Hegemony: The Battle for World Domination

The Bracket

By the March 17, 2005

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Les Choristes: the Dead Poet’s Boys Choir

Writing a review of the new French film Les Choristes is a difficult task; not only can I not pronounce a single name, the movie also seems to have borrowed every character and plot twist from at least five previous, probably better films.

By the March 3, 2005