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

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Iñárritu soars to new heights with Birdman

The theatre, the theater, what’s happened to the theater? Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new film, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), undertakes a satirical meta-analysis of theatrical performance. Michael Keaton... Read more

By October 22, 2014

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Exorcise your nightmares on M Street

After Homecoming this Saturday, it will be easy to reach the level of inebriation required to traipse around town in a costume without feeling like a massive tool. Don your... Read more

By October 22, 2014

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Bienvenue to Chez Billy Sud

Lovers of unpretentious, French food classics may have been disappointed when Georgetown mainstay Cafe La Ruche closed this past summer, but the tradition is alive and well in the Canal... Read more

By October 22, 2014

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Idiot Box: Amazon Prime your social commentary

It often seems like the only thing families have in common is their final initial. Many of us are familiar with these pervasive dysfunctional families, if not ambivalent members of... Read more

By October 22, 2014

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Critical Voices: Annie Lennox, Nostalgia

Like any good hipster, Annie Lennox has brilliantly appropriated some of the most loved songs of all time for her new album, Nostalgia. Over the course of her career, Lennox... Read more

By October 22, 2014

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Critical Voices: Cold War Kids, Hold My Home

I would have said that Cold War Kids did a fantastic and appropriate job of promoting their new album, Hold My Home, if its content wasn’t so dull. The singles... Read more

By October 22, 2014

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Mask & Bauble calls Inherit the Wind to the stand, delivers expert testimony

The Mask and Bauble Society’s first show of the semester, Inherit the Wind, “all comes down to the right to think, and the right to express those thoughts,” said Matt... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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Foxcatcher grapples with a violent legacy

Georgetown students are well acquainted with the influence of legacy, and the dangers of unchecked wealth, a theme taken up in director Bennett Miller’s latest film, Foxcatcher. The film tells... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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Phillip’s neo-impressionism exhibit points to symphonic transcendence

As its melodic name may suggest, Paul Signac’s “Setting Sun. Sardine Fishing. Adagio.” depicts a fleet of thin sardine boats bobbing like musical notes on a sea of blues and... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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Under The Covers: “Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!”

The virtue of the word “feminist” is still a contentious topic. I’ve heard friends say that the term implies misandry and that the history of feminism is racist—many women of... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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Reel Talk: Documentaries present an inconvenient truth

There’s something sublime about watching a film. The experience can take you to a fantastic world, removed from reality—a world with lessons and closure. One that is finite. Documentaries certainly... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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Critical Voices: Yellowcard, Lift a Sail

Though occasionally blown off course, Yellowcard’s new album, Lift a Sail, elevates punchy rock ’n’ roll sound with melodic ballads. On their ninth studio album, they maintain allegiance to classic... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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Critical Voices: OK Go, Hungry Ghosts

Almost a decade after OK Go’s chart-topping “Here We Go Again,” the indie-rock treadmill choreographers take another go with Hungry Ghosts. Though the band initially appears to trade in its... Read more

By October 16, 2014

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In The Red and Brown Water churns Yoruba lore at Devine Studio

Oya, the goddess of wind and lightning in Yoruba mythology, summons the spirits of change and tumult with deep inhalations. Alluding to her divine namesake, Oya, the protagonist of In... Read more

By October 9, 2014

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Hummus House dips into Georgetown

Complete with faux-ivy crawling over the brick walls and ceiling, Sabra’s brand new pop-up restaurant, Hummus House, initially appears to be a traditional Middle Eastern eatery with a modern twist. ... Read more

By October 9, 2014

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One Chance merits encore

It’s fitting that a movie about a man’s ability to sing opera at the top of his lungs lacks subtlety. One Chance tells the (somewhat) true story of Paul Potts,... Read more

By October 9, 2014

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Idiot Box: TV’s moral insurgency

Politics and television are hardly strangers—the drama, intrigue, and pantsuits of the former are often perfectly suited to the latter, if a tad exaggerated. The challenge of political TV is... Read more

By October 9, 2014

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Critical Voices: Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!

Steve Ellison’s You’re Dead! infuses hard jazz with a labyrinth of clacking, psychedelic guitar pedals and hip hop drum kits—not your average Darnall elevator tunes. In an interview with Rolling... Read more

By October 9, 2014

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Critical Voices: SBTRKT, Wonder Where We Land

SBTRKT’s new album, Wonder Where We Land, glides us through magnificent atmospheres of edgy textures and abstract synths, but, in the end, misses its landing. Straying from his groovy EDM... Read more

By October 9, 2014

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Let them eat cupcakes: Yury Urnov modernizes Marie Antoinette

If you were built to be nothing more than a political toy, what would you do in the face of a life-threatening revolution outside your palace gates? The Woolly Mammoth... Read more

By October 2, 2014