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



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T.G.V.P.A.C.B.W.U.

(The Georgetown Voice’s Peforming Arts Center Bi-Weekly Update)

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Maria full of heroin

American director creates moving portrayal of young Colombian woman’s life as a drug mule

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Lez’hur Ledger: Scavenger hunt

Voice Lez’hur scavenger hunt: Find the clues, win a child!

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National Gallery digs Islamic artifacts

Current exhibit promotes awareness of Islamic culture through chalices, tapestries

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Better than Marriage: Media in the classroom

Forget PowerPoint presentations. Bring XBox into the classroom.

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Orozco’s reflections of reality

Mexican photographer’s simple images convey complex ideas at the Hirshhorn Museum

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“Garden State” better than the Garden State

“Garden State” walks a well-worn path: a long absent, brooding, twenty-something loner returns to his troubled family to make peace with his relatives and, subsequently, himself.

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Better than Marriage: Trash Talkin’

One woman, an airplane and a trashy magazine.

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The hottest albums you missed over the summer

Sick of Lil’ John’s platinum fronts? Here are seven album recommendations from our music gurus to overcome the doldrums of pop radio.

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Lez’her Ledger

D.C. is home to restaurants both good and evil, cheap and pricey, but the problem with being a student is obvious: we can’t quite afford the good, pricey ones.

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Film-festation

For some inexplicable reason, the likes of 13 Going On 30 or The Alamo may not be enough of a draw for some to venture down to good old Loews of K St. If this is the case, this spring’s crop of D.C. film festivals offers up a huge range of options to sate your cinematic cravings.

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The Incomplete Triangle, Lansing-Dreiden, Kemado

The three surfaces of the case for The Incomplete Triangle fold to form an equilateral triangle, and, naturally, the skewed white lines on each surface form a triangle as well. Oh, no-is this another avant-garde, experimental concept album by some art school drop-out? The accompanying biography reads, “Lansing-Dreiden is a company that sees no distinction between art and commerce-or anything else.”

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Madvillainy, Madvillain, Stones Throw

Every once and awhile an album comes around that is so highly anticipated that it seems impossible it can live up to the hype. Most of them don’t. But for every 10 or 15 disappointments (see Beck’s Sea Change or Belle & Sebastian’s Fold Your Hands Child …), there emerges one album that delivers on its promise.

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Upcoming Shows

Black Cat-1811 14th St. 9:30 Club-815 V St. N.W. Nation-1015 Half St. S.E.

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WGTB Recommends

The WGTB Music Department and Voice Leisure have collaborated on a list of 15 albums coming out this summer to tide you over until you get back to campus.

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2004 World Championship for Global Hegemony

Voice Leisure, in conjunction with Martha Stewart, now hiding out in Leavey 424, presents the 2004 World Championship for Global Hegemony. Submit your completed brackets to Leavey 413 to win a cash prize.

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Galloping through Foxfields

According to its official website, Foxfields is one of the handful of steeplechase horse races sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association. It is also, according to Georgetown students, “a total shit show,” “a day of drunken debauchery,” and “just a whole lot of beer.

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“Kill Bill Vol. 2′ rampages

Quention Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown breathed new life into stagnant genres with ironic reverence and a distinct presentation. The director, who himself imitates old films with refreshing originality, has his own host of mimics (ahem, Guy Ritchie) who put the cinematic pieces in place but miss what that makes Tarantino’s work challenging and delectable.

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Scott Herren dicusses transition between genres

Just as mainstream rap production is dominated by the likes of Timbaland, Kanye West, and Dr. Dre, the underground is ruled by RJD2, Madlib, and Prefuse 73. The last is the glitch-hop moniker of Atlanta native Scott Herren, director of the Eastern Developments label and creative force behind the world-folk project Savath & Savalas, who played at the Black Cat last Wednesday.