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

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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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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

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By the September 29, 2005

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Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene

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By the September 29, 2005

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Low pudge fudge

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

By the September 29, 2005

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Baxter deserves to be ditched at the altar

A Baxter is pleasant, nerdy, timid and supremely uninteresting. He is, above all, a wimp. In short, he is not someone you want to watch an entire movie about.

By the September 22, 2005

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Breaking down the breakup

Tomorrow night at the Black Cat, D.C.’s last great local rock band, Q And Not U, will play their final show.

By the September 22, 2005

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Diplomacy via aesthetics

The Cultural Institute of Mexico is a mecca of artistic diplomacy, uniting American and Mexican culture not through politics but through creative expression and community involvement.

By the September 22, 2005

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Oktoberwear

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the September 22, 2005

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Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary

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By the September 22, 2005

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Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights

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By the September 22, 2005

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DangerDoom, The Mouse and the Mask

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By the September 22, 2005

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Blackalicious, The Craft

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By the September 22, 2005

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Fear and Loathing at CMJ

There’s a certain point during a live show-when the bassist drops his instrument on the stage in front of you, falls down in his beer and starts yelling-when you know whether or not you were made for rock music.

By the September 22, 2005

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Getting Close-r to the gallery scene

As a person who is fairly ignorant of the D.C. art scene, the Chuck Close exhibit opening at the Adamson Gallery left me much more enlightened than one would expect.

By the September 15, 2005

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Maher rules you out

When I bought my copy of Bill Maher’s New Rules, the clerk who rang me up assured me that the subject matter was “hysterical, yet poignant.”

By the September 15, 2005

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Future imperfect

The moment the end credits roll in a Wong Kar Wai film, audience members are momentarily silent. But at the end of 2046, one is left with a sense of aesthetically inspired awe and a consciousness of loss.

By the September 15, 2005