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The new film "Anything Else" is reviewed from the male point of view.
The comedic worlds of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Hollywood glitz and glamour have collided into a modern show, "Shakespeare in Hollywood." The world premiere of the play by Ken Ludwig opened Friday at the Arena Stage's intimate Fichandler Theatre.
A feud between two houses stretching back for 1,000 years, two families are torn apart by a love too powerful to die. Len Wiseman's "Underworld" is a fast-paced amalgam of Shakespearean love affairs, the choreography of "The Matrix" and the cinematography and story of "Blade."
"This is why we are alive." The first words on Andrew Wilkes-Krier's (Andrew W.K.'s) sophomore release, "The Wolf," posess more power in this single string of words than in the entire pontifications of Dashboard Confessional's soppy soul. So simple a statement, yet so monumental, like the image of the girl in red that juxtaposes the black and white for less than a minute in Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, "Schindler's List."
You can only imagine how many young women fainted at the sight of the new Kate Spade boutique that opened on M Street. The 1,200 square-foot space houses the famous collection of nylon, leather and suede bags that have become a staple in almost every woman's daily life.
The new film "Anything Else" is reviewed from the female point of view.
I have a small bone to pick with one of the sororities here at AU - Alpha Epsilon Phi. Well, I have nothing against the AEPhi's in particular. I know a few of them, and they all seem to be pretty swell people. And their mascot is brilliant. The giraffe. Giraffes have many of the qualities that a group of young, educated women would want in a mascot.
Many students shy away from contemporary art because they feel they cannot understand it. "Gyroscope," the new exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum, rearranges its more than 40 piece collection of contemporary art to ease the public's nerves about viewing modern art.
Smoky, dark and full of rosy-cheeked, blurry-eyed patrons - not much different from any bar in any town, except for the short guy belting out Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" an octave too low as he balances a beer and a microphone and his friends heckle him from a nearby table. Yes, it's a karaoke bar.
Here's a good question: Why is there a topless kid, who may or may not be enjoying one of the finer moments of a drug trip, spastically flailing around the unfortunately half-full 9:30 club on a Saturday night? The answer is Maceo Parker, arguably one of the best funk musicians of our time.
It's the "Year of the Spider"; at least that's the name of Cold's 2003 release. But judging by the crowd in D.C. on Sept. 13, calling it the year of the boar might be more accurate. Cold played as part of the Nintendo Fusion Tour with Evanescence and Revis at Nation.
Music reviews from The Eagle music desk: MXPX, My Ruin, Sondre Lerche, SouthFM, Twisted Method, From Autumn to Ashes
This week in Nutrition News, advice on keeping from bulking up during your fist semester in college.
Dan Zak, columnist abroad for the Eagle, writes about the pervasive attachment to beer in Prague.
From the ancient Greeks to the mighty Romans, every culture has had its myths, and the student culture at AU is no different. Naked dances around a pagan god idol, Goldie Hawn antics and secret government maneuverings are part of the fabric of AU myths and rumors, some of which can be put to rest.
Coming off of a three-month binge of explosions, death, destruction and mayhem, it is refreshing to see that some directors choose to step away from overbearing eye-pleasers into the light of good cinematography.
In front of a nearly sold-out audience at the 9:30 club on Sept. 9, Mogwai reminded its fans what good music should sound like.
Sex and Sensibility is a weekly column that rotates between Emily Jacobs (left) and Allison Weil (right). Weil offers insight into relationship issues while Jacobs explores sex.
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