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



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Fenton photos show innovation, imperialism

The title of the first exhibition in the National Gallery of Art’s new permanent photography gallery is appropriately titled “All the Mighty World.”

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Chocolate or stereotypes? An easy choice

Oh my God, you guys, isn’t eating great?

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Better Than Marriage

Maybe it’s the lack of the Bush administration’s anti-freedom agenda, or maybe it’s the decriminalized bud, but for whatever reason, Canada has been spawning exciting new music over the last few years.

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Pygmalion brings a girl up from the gutter

Theater patrons rush into the rain, frantically trying to find cabs and stay dry, while a modest flower girl attempts to earn enough change to see herself through the night.

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Ana Mendieta smears Hirshhorn with inspiration, blood

A film projects the image of a woman standing still with her arms spread against a wall, slowly sliding her body down and leaving red paint smears of what appears to be a birth canal.

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Mission of Burma escapes its certain fate

For a rock band to still be alive, let alone functional, 25 years after beginning is astounding.

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Team America is no A-Team

OK, we get it: America is bad. We don’t care about the rest of the world. Bush is evil. Enough already.

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Better Than Marriage

New York magazine recently ran a cover story on what they called “the blurry teen pill culture,” describing the lifestyle of New York City teenagers who use black market antidepressants and their friends’ Adderall to survive school and enjoy their Friday nights out on the town.

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Love, Tolstoy, and cigars in Anna of the Tropics

It’s doubtful that many living people have had the experience of falling in love in a 1920’s Cuban cigar factory in Florida.

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I half-heart huckabees

Some movies need to be reviewed in terms of their college-ness.

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Drag nuns in D.C.

Leather-clad dominatrixes, ultra-conservative Republicans and cross-dressing nuns come together this week for the 14th annual Reel Affirmations Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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Critical Voices: Frank Black, Frank Black Francis, 4AD

Charles Thompson devised the stage name of Black Francis from a combination of a few family names.

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Critical Voices: Q And Not U, Power, Dischord

Since the release of its first album, No Kill No Beep Beep, in 2000, Q And Not U has steadily made a name for itself as one of D.C.’s best punk bands.

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Better than marriage: Chinese buses

Any Georgetown student who doesn’t live in some corner of the Northeast Corridor most likely has, at some point, gone to visit one who does.

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Calder and Mir?: modernism with a friendly twist

“You stud” and “A slap on the butt to you” characterized the trans-Atlantic postcard exchanges between Joan Mir? and Alexander Calder, a Spaniard and an American whose artistic cooperation and firm friendship spanned oceans, decades and even a world war.

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Aunt Dan and Lemon will make your sensibilities pucker up

Looks can be deceiving in Mask and Bauble’s first production of the year, Aunt Dan and Lemon.

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Portrait of the revolutionary as a young man

Even if you are unfamiliar with the name, you almost certainly know the image.

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Rockstar camp

Somewhere in the West Virginia hills there exists a camp.

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Better than marriage

Gossiping is known to win friends fast and lose them faster.

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Shaun of the Dead eerily funny

Trying to classify Shaun of the Dead is nearly impossible.