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

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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

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Numbers brighten up Oberst

There’s very little that hasn’t been said about Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst’s diva behavior this year.

By the November 17, 2005

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Making unitards hot

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the November 17, 2005

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_Guantanomo_ takes no prisoners

A tall barbed wire fence and Muslim detainees lying down on several cots greet the audience as they walk into the Studio Theater. Welcome to Guantanamo Bay Prison.

By the November 10, 2005

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Super Furry Animals get rabid

At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, I walked into a very empty 9:30 Club and met a slightly confused, very bedraggled Welshman.

By the November 10, 2005

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Life in _The Boondocks_ gets animated

The Boondocks, adapted from Aaron McGruder’s syndicated comic strip, is full of slightly absurd humor that satirizes black and white stereotypes, as well as many other facets of American culture that happen to be … well … stupid.

By the November 10, 2005

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Buttering up

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

By the November 10, 2005

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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