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

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Digweed: raving in Amsterdam

I’d like to start off this piece with a disclaimer: I’m not a big rave or techno fan. I’m from New York City, where plenty of my friends are deeply... Read more

By the April 26, 2001

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Blaxploitation: the American new wave

The past several years have seen a resurgence of interest in the American blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Spanning from the since-clich?d Shaft to the slapstick comedy of Rudy Ray... Read more

By the April 19, 2001

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Career ops in club promotion

Walking through campus the other day, I spotted a team of two promoters in the distance, rapidly approaching me. Now, while I can completely understand the functional role that club... Read more

By the April 19, 2001

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Erasers of love: an Underworld edjoomacation

We are in the midst of another de facto British invasion. Like the French to, well, just about everyone, American frontiers are buckling to foreign intrusion, not in the form... Read more

By the April 19, 2001

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Pal Joey delivers

Musicals are usually the coy, sappy ordeals your grandmother likes. Luckily there are a few entertaining and flavorful exceptions worth noting. Mask and Bauble’s final attempt at dazzling the campus... Read more

By the April 19, 2001

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GUDC: warming up

The Walsh Blackbox Theater buzzes with activity as the Georgetown University Dance Company rehearses for its upcoming Spring Performance. A mix of students wrapped in layers of sweaters dart back... Read more

By the April 19, 2001

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Bizarre Ride Continues

Hip-hop was never quite the same after The Pharcyde dropped their 1992 debut Bizarre Ride II: The Pharcyde. The goofy record was honest in its themes; in an era when... Read more

By the April 19, 2001

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Memento: Murder in the fourth dimension

The first lecture in any intro to cinema course would mention that film, by definition, challenges our notions of time and space. The process of movie-making necessarily involves constructing an... Read more

By the April 5, 2001

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Best Pace Yo’self

In the weeks until the next issue of The Voice, DC will be packed with some of the coolest shows we’ve had the pleasure of seeing all year. Like that... Read more

By the April 5, 2001

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Still teenbeatin’

There is no more celebrated adolescent rite of passage than the “Sweet Sixteen” party. A celebration of all things teenage??hot rods, lip gloss and knee socks jump to mind; it... Read more

By the April 5, 2001

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It’s Showtime

Tastings are nice. You get a little sampling of a lot of different foods. You can try things you’ve never tried before and revisit dishes that you’ve always loved. This... Read more

By the April 5, 2001

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Lezhur Ledger

It is less than sixty days to graduation and you don’t have a job, a plan or even a clue. Bills are mounting, parents are complaining and the Tombs is... Read more

By the March 29, 2001

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Shuggie gets the last word

The story could be the centerpiece of any independently-minded musician’s propaganda program, really. Label misunderstands brilliant artist, leaving his masterpiece to languish in obscurity. Decades later, the record is finally... Read more

By the March 29, 2001

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The aroma of fun

Maybe it was the opening of the movie that made me watch?the images of typical Valentine’s Day gifts being thrown into a dumpster. Maybe it was the prospect of watching... Read more

By the March 29, 2001

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When a horse isn’t a horse: Equus

Karl Marx once said that religion is the opiate of the masses. Yet even at a Catholic university like Georgetown, a lot of the students percieve religion and god as... Read more

By the March 29, 2001

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The boy with the arab strap

The best measure of a DC-area nightclub’s import, or at least its funding, is to check the size of its ad in the City Paper. Ever heard of the Luna... Read more

By the March 29, 2001

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Portrait of the Artist as a prisoner

A man dives off a dock behind a police station into the wind-whipped Carribean Sea. A grainy, shuddering Castro articulates upon the finer points of revolutionary necessity while his beard... Read more

By the March 22, 2001

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A Brassy Blonde

Ever since Blondie’s “Rapture” dropped as one of the first recorded rap tracks, rock bands have had valid reason to lay claim to hip-hop. The pollinization has run both ways;... Read more

By the March 22, 2001

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The Shiny Bald Guy

This article exists because every year many of us fool ourselves, for just a few weeks, into thinking that the Oscars are something other than a huge joke. Beautiful people... Read more

By the March 22, 2001

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I call you a foo’ to yo’ face

No, I did not attend “Mr. T. Tells It Like It Is” this past St Patrick’s Day. Instead I was insulted (and rightfully so) by one of four singers of... Read more

By the March 22, 2001