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

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We don’t live here anymore: a wife-swappin’ good time

Adultery is a touchy theme, no?

By the September 9, 2004

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Promoting architectural awareness

Soup can sculptures, gentrification walking tours and workshops

By the September 9, 2004

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Fun for the ritalin generation:D.C. short film festival

The D.C. Short Film Festival offers 37 films this weekend, ranging “from a 56-second horror film to a 23-minute drama,” festival creator Jon Gann said.

By the September 9, 2004

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Striking the chords of compromise

“My brother got this dog named Midnight from a drug dealer,” bassist Justin Shuster (CAS ‘05) said, “and renamed it Roger. We put ‘em together.” And thus was born Midnite Roger.

By the September 9, 2004

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Critical Voices

The Voice reviews Bjork and Kings of Convenience

By the September 9, 2004

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Better than Marriage: Family Jewels

Your my butterfly, sugar, baby

By the September 9, 2004

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Maria full of heroin

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

By the September 2, 2004

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Lez’hur Ledger: Scavenger hunt

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

By the September 2, 2004

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National Gallery digs Islamic artifacts

Current exhibit promotes awareness of Islamic culture through chalices, tapestries

By the September 2, 2004

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O Show brings theater to first-years

O Showtastic!

By the September 2, 2004

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Better than Marriage: Media in the classroom

Forget PowerPoint presentations. Bring XBox into the classroom.

By the September 2, 2004

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Two weeks worth of leisure-time activities

Your leisure guide for the next two weeks

By the September 2, 2004

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

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

By the September 2, 2004

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Orozco’s reflections of reality

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

By the August 26, 2004

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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.

By the August 26, 2004

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Better than Marriage: Trash Talkin’

One woman, an airplane and a trashy magazine.

By the August 26, 2004

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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.

By the August 26, 2004

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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.

By the August 26, 2004

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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.

By the April 29, 2004

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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.

By the April 29, 2004