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

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Sex, lies and gardening

The subject matter is all too familiar to us here at Georgetown: a young British couple moves to Africa.

By the September 8, 2005

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Summer Movie Roundup

Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Aristocrats, Broken Flowers, and Murderball

By the September 8, 2005

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Creaming your jeans

Eat My Skort – a biweekly column about fashion

By the September 8, 2005

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Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow

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By the September 8, 2005

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Iron & Wine and Calexico, In the Reins

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By the September 8, 2005

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Irving Penn imprints the National Gallery

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

By the September 1, 2005

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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.

By the September 1, 2005

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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.

By the September 1, 2005

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Baked trees

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

By the September 1, 2005

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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.

By the August 25, 2005

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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.”

By the August 25, 2005

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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.

By the August 25, 2005

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The other Chi-Town

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

By the August 25, 2005

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Kanye West, Late Registration

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By the August 25, 2005

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New Pornographers, Twin Cinema

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By the August 25, 2005

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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.

By the April 28, 2005

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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.

By the April 28, 2005

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Pyramid 2.0

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

By the April 28, 2005

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Bruce Springsteen, Devils and Dust, Columbia

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By the April 28, 2005

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Spoon, Gimme Fiction, Merge

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By the April 28, 2005