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

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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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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

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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.

By the January 19, 2006

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Tortoise & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, _The Brave and the Bold_

Critical Voices

By the January 19, 2006

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No dress is an island

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about dressing leisurely

By the January 19, 2006

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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.

By the December 1, 2005

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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.

By the December 1, 2005

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Free lunch, anyone?

Steak Out – a bi-weekly column on food

By the December 1, 2005

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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.

By the December 1, 2005

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Tucker Max takes you to hell

Tucker Max is not your typical internet celebrity.

By the November 17, 2005

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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.

By the November 17, 2005

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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.

By the November 17, 2005