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

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Doing Nothing, and doing it well

Mask and Bauble’s production of Much Ado About Nothing dabbles in deception that is both playful and malicious.

By the October 20, 2005

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Vinyasa with Mick Jagger and Ad-Rock

How could I not be intrigued by such a combination of my three great loves: sweat, contortionism and rock?

By the October 20, 2005

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O Street Special

Walking into the basement of 2020 O St. is like walking into a nightmare, making for an unintentionally terrifying experience for the Halloween season.

By the October 20, 2005

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Animal Collective, Feels

When a band’s members dress up as animals and adopt aliases like Panda Bear, terms like “pop” and “accessible” become relative at best and useless at worst.

By the October 20, 2005

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Silver Jews, Tanglewood Numbers

In one of the most highly anticipated indie rock releases of the year, Silver Jews frontman and brilliant lyricist David Berman has reunited with guitarist Stephen Malkmus of Pavement and a dozen or so other musicians to craft a classic comeback album.

By the October 20, 2005

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Period pieces

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the October 20, 2005

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Machinal is no bacchanal

In a world of black and white, Helen Jones wore navy blue. This simple detail goes to the core of Nomadic Theater’s powerful new play.

By the October 13, 2005

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Organic place

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

By the October 13, 2005

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October Concert Calendar

Thursday, 10/13 – Friday, 10/21

By the October 13, 2005

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Familiar comfort in Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker has everything one would expect from a movie about a high school outcast: the inspirational teacher, disorienting camera shots of suburban dystopia and Sundance Film Festival accolades. But stay patient, because the movie showcases acting that is brilliant in its simplicity.

By the October 13, 2005

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Hollywood and GWU show Proof of greatness

David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Proof delves into the idea of brilliance on the brink of insanity and its repercussions for broader society.

By the October 13, 2005

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Aussies spill the gluten-free beans

It seems diners at Leo’s aren’t the only ones having a hard time finding something to fit their tastes. Architecture in Helsinki trombonist Gus Franklin laments that trying to find gluten-free vegan offerings at the Pennsylvania Interstate IHOP is an equally frustrating venture.

By the October 6, 2005

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Wallace and Gromit take the big screen in style

You’ll definitely laugh and you just might cry, but you will certainly enjoy yourself.

By the October 6, 2005

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Born Yesterday proves just as lively today

“A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing,” one character says in Arena Stage’s latest production.

By the October 6, 2005

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The thrills of Violence

When family man Tom Stall’s uninteresting small town life is upended by an attempted robbery and a group of Philadelphian mobsters, his past, or someone else’s, comes back to haunt him.

By the October 6, 2005

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Eco-friendly fashion

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the October 6, 2005

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Corpse Bride not stiff at all

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride exhibits the masterful blend of fun and macabre that we’ve come to expect from this director.

By the September 29, 2005

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Homage through assassination, Liz Taylor & soup

For many, the name Andy Warhol instantly brings to mind New York, Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans, but but as the recently opened exhibit at the Corcoran gallery demonstrates, his work spanned a much wider range of ideas and emotions.

By the September 29, 2005

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Well-lighted Wood

Everything is Illuminated doesn’t make any pretense of conventionality in its approach to that most clich? topic in modern art: the Holocaust.

By the September 29, 2005

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Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better … With Franz Ferdinand

Critical Voices

By the September 29, 2005