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

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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.

By the October 21, 2004

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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.

By the October 21, 2004

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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.

By the October 21, 2004

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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.

By the October 14, 2004

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I half-heart huckabees

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

By the October 14, 2004

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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.

By the October 14, 2004

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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.

By the October 14, 2004

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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.

By the October 14, 2004

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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.

By the October 14, 2004

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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.

By the October 7, 2004

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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.

By the October 7, 2004

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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.

By the October 7, 2004

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Rockstar camp

Somewhere in the West Virginia hills there exists a camp.

By the October 7, 2004

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Better than marriage

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

By the October 7, 2004

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A fond farewell

The suicide of beloved singer-songwriter Elliott Smith last fall shocked and saddened fans everywhere.

By the September 30, 2004

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Shaun of the Dead eerily funny

Trying to classify Shaun of the Dead is nearly impossible.

By the September 30, 2004

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Nicotina has Diego Luna, and that’s about it

Smoke permeates Nicotina, Hugo Rodriguez’s middling second film.

By the September 30, 2004

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A motive to shake your money maker

Michael Pearsall (MSB ‘06) and his band Motive are learning the sacrifices that come with putting together a successful rock/pop band.

By the September 30, 2004

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Straits of Malaya offers food and fun

As temporary residents of the District, many Georgetown students have little knowledge of the history of classic but below-the-radar area restaurants.

By the September 30, 2004

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Ramones barely survive to see the end of the century

If there’s a lesson to be learned from End of the Century, a new documentary about punk rock forefathers the Ramones, it’s that sometimes it sucks to be a rock star.

The Ramones, in distilling rock and roll in the early ‘70s with speeding, sloppy guitars, simplistic lyrics and an intensity matched by few bands before or since, deserve much of the credit for the creation of punk rock.

By the September 23, 2004