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



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Iron & Wine and Calexico, In the Reins

Critical Voices

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Irving Penn imprints the National Gallery

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

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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.

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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.

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Baked trees

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

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War journalism in black and white

War correspondent Joe Sacco uses a very unconventional medium to examine how the effects of war linger after the fighting ends: graphic nonfiction.

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Lezhur Ledger: Getting Beat with the Fugly Stick

The definition provided for “fugly” reads: “frightfully ugly; of or pertaining to something beyond the boundaries of normal unattractiveness. Example: “That ‘Kabbalists Do It Better’ trucker hat is fugly.”

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Cardiff hijacks your senses on the Mall

Combine that disconnection from reality with the quiet peace of a guided meditation, and you get a rough idea of the sensations delivered by Words drawn in water, a new audio tour of select sites on the National Mall available at the Hirshhorn Museum through Oct. 30.

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The other Chi-Town

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

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Kanye West, Late Registration

Critical Voices

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New Pornographers, Twin Cinema

Critical Voices

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Death From Above rains down on D.C.

Death From Above 1979 has spent the last year taking the indie scene by storm.

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Pyramid 2.0

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

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Spoon, Gimme Fiction, Merge

Critical Voices

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Lezhur Ledger: Graduation Dos and Donts

This one goes out to the seniors, who, if they’re anything like us, are trying to numb the pain of the last few days of classes with a rigorous regimen of malt liquor, hand-rolled cigarettes and crippling self-loathing.

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Still Life shows vivacity of theater program

Long after Christina Ciocca (CAS ‘05) finished reading Emily Mann’s Still Life, the play remained on her mind.

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The Dead Live: Dark Star Orchestra invade State Theatre!

Perhaps no label elicits a more negative reaction from those who are serious about music than “tribute band.”

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Film Festival breeds terrible movie titles

GUTV’s Fifth annual Student Film Festival last Saturday night proved that even without a film program at Georgetown, Hoyas are more than adept behind a camera.

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Cart food

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