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(11/02/06 5:00am)
Concert films are, by their nature, a tough sell for the mainstream. For a band to produce one, it must have the mass appeal a concert film demands. Otherwise, it'll end up on the discount shelf at Best Buy next to the $5.99 Kiss retrospect.
(03/30/06 5:00am)
There was a moment during British folk-punk troubadour Billy Bragg's Monday night encore at the Birchmere when all his previous informed political statements and insights into love culminated with belting "Hey! Hey! Hey!" from "Richard," track three on his 1984 debut album "Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy." It was a "take notice" appeal; a rousing yelp all the Bono pleas in the world couldn't match.
(12/05/05 5:00am)
When we last left Iron & Wine, it had just finished a sparse acoustic set in Dublin, Ireland ("Iron & Wine subdue Dublin," Nov. 8, 2004). In the year since then, Iron & Wine - brainchild of native Floridian Sam Beam - covered that ubiquitous Postal Service song "Such Great Heights," which was subsequently used in the "Garden State" soundtrack and an M&Ms commercial, and teamed up with eclectic Arizona collective Calexico - say that 10 times fast - for "In the Reigns," a five-song EP.
(03/17/05 5:00am)
Any band that can count both Dave Grohl and his mom among they fans must have major crossover appeal. That holds true for veteran Irish rockers Ash, except when it comes to crossing over oceans.
(02/28/05 5:00am)
Graduate student Will Owens, 25, and his girlfriend, Am? Brewster, 25, revel at the Graduate Council's Masquerade Ball Friday night at the National Press Club. More than 200 students enjoyed an hors d'oeuvres buffet, including dim sun, quesadillas and phyllo dough with goat's cheese. Organizer Nicole Byrd said attendees had a good time.
(02/03/05 5:00am)
Congress needs to act now and reform Social Security to ensure its existence for younger Americans, President George W. Bush said last night in his State of the Union address. This is Bush's first address since Sept. 11 that focused primarily on domestic issues.
(01/31/05 5:00am)
Republicans say Democrats want to apply Band-Aids to a lethal wound while Democrats say Republicans want to perform brain surgery for a headache.
(01/27/05 5:00am)
AU inched up a spot over last year to No. 12 in a national ranking of colleges and universities whose alumni joined the Peace Corps.
(01/13/05 5:00am)
An extended cricket match may have saved the life of Saji Prelis.
(11/08/04 5:00am)
DUBLIN -- The fairly lengthy beard of Iron & Wine - stage name for Florida native Sam Beam - is deceiving. It adds a good 15 years to his thin, early-30-something frame, but also compliments and reinforces his nearly tangible imagery and wise-beyond-his-years lyrics.
(03/22/04 5:00am)
The Get Up Kids
"Guilt Show"
Vagrant Records
Pop Rock
(02/12/04 5:00am)
American voters are hungry for and expect indicators, such as in a sporting event, in media coverage of the Democratic presidential race, said David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation magazine, at Tuesday night's American Forum in Ward 1.
(12/08/03 5:00am)
The General Assembly, the student body legislature, passed a bill Friday night that makes the Women's Initiative a fully recognized department within the Student Confederation ending months of contentious debate, GA Speaker Gordon Simonett said.
(12/04/03 5:00am)
When Art Garfunkel, of '60s folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, called "Kathy's Song" a song of "sweet nostalgia" at Sunday night's sold-out show in Toronto, the same could have been said of the entire evening.
(11/20/03 5:00am)
A female student was grabbed by an unknown assailant last night in an apparent sexual attack in the garden adjacent to the amphitheater, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
(11/17/03 5:00am)
Public Safety is re-evaluating the safety of AU after five reported sexual advances on campus since August, four within the past two weeks.
(11/13/03 5:00am)
The Student Confederation, along with Greek Life and the Washington Wizards, presented a check for $10,000 to the Children's Miracle Network Tuesday night at "AU Night" at the MCI Center.
(11/06/03 5:00am)
The College Republicans and College Democrats campaigned for candidates throughout the Eastern United States while an informal poll of AU students revealed troubling voter apathy.
(11/03/03 5:00am)
Susan Clampitt was relieved of her duties as executive director at WAMU Thursday after The Washington Post exposed a financial deficit and morale problems at AU's public radio station, said Todd Sedmak, director of AU Media Relations.
(10/27/03 5:00am)
The innovation of new ideas in medicine, engineering, computer science and other fields is essential for America to integrate itself into an increasingly global economy, New York Gov. George Pataki told an audience of 800 AU students, parents, faculty and staff Saturday night in Bender Arena.