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

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Don’t mask this bauble, baby

Peter Shaffer’s play, Amadeus, explores the most crippling fear of any artist: the fear of mediocrity. When a person cares to share an art––an expression of his humanity––he does so... Read more

By the January 25, 2001

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Electric Bugaloo

I received an e-mail from an old friend the other day, who had written to tell me that he had just spotted a troubling Kenneth Cole billboard in his hometown... Read more

By the January 25, 2001

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Honoring Women’s Creativity

Recognizing the importance of women’s contribution to American visual culture is the basis for “Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference,” currently on exhibit at The Bard Graduate... Read more

By the January 18, 2001

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Winter break movies: worth our salt?

by the Voice staff Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, Fox) This movie, which sadly, will most likely win the Oscar for best picture, ought to have been left on its own... Read more

By the January 18, 2001

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D.C.’s guide to modern architecture

by Kate Greenberg Welcome back to the Nation’s capital. After a month of vacation, I began to realize that the Hollywood sign and California modern homes of my native Los... Read more

By the January 18, 2001

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Dan & tha Damaja

Touching down in DC this Saturday night will be a hip-hop show like no other: Jeru the Damaja on the mic with Dan the Automator doing deck duty. At first... Read more

By the January 18, 2001

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Pu ert mj?g falleg

Sound, light! … words on paper … over-heard speech … the cat??you saw it … a dog … you realized! Sensations??out of context??grow new limbs. They cease to be actualized... Read more

By the January 18, 2001