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Religious Pluralism Through Lecture, Prayer and Example
Nearly ten years ago, Georgetown made history by appointing Imam Yahya Hendi and becoming the first university in the United States to have a full-time Muslim chaplain on staff. “It is a bit of a challenge to be the first because everyone is looking up to you and looking to see how you will do,” Hendi says, “let alone at a Catholic Jesuit university.”
Home Away From Home for the Holidays: D.C. Decks Its Halls
Boston has the Santa Speedo Run, Los Angeles hosts the annual Hollywood Santa Parade and New York is home to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, but what captures the magic of the holiday season for a city with such a transitory population as Washington, D.C.? For some, it’s the National Tree Lighting Ceremony that took place on Dec.
The Killers' New Album Slays All Criticism
Forget the new, long-anticipated Guns N’ Roses album. The Killers have created an album that sounds literally out of this world, where fairytale characters meet astronauts and aliens and the ancient world collides with this modern one. With 12 orchestrated, space-trippy dance tracks reminiscent of David Bowie and recent Coldplay, the band’s new sound is instantly appealing. It has
Delta Spirit's Passion Comes Alive on Stage
It’s pushing 5 a.m. and things are getting rough. The last solid stretch of sleep I had was just shy of three hours — and that was two nights ago. Caffeine in a dozen different forms has carried me since then. This last bit of the semester has beaten me halfway to insanity and finals promise to send me the rest of the way. My senses are dulled, and I’m stripped down to next to nothing.
There's No Doubt About It, "Doubt" Delivers
Every time I write a movie review, I have at least one negative thing to say about the film. However, after seeing Doubt, the only bad thing I have to say is that the theater was not nearly as full as it should have been. The acting, the storyline, the camera work, the music — everything was absolutely top-notch.
Giving Thanks for Hollywood's Holiday Classics
Thanksgiving means many things to many people. Obviously, it is a day for two very important things: the extended family you rarely see and the vast amounts of food they all eat. Some people also see it as a time to go on vacation, watch sports, or if you’re like me, enjoy the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Friday, Dec. 5, 2008
Nothing says Christmas like candy canes, presents and life-sized dancing rats. The Washington Ballet will perform the classic “The Nutcracker” this weekend, which is sure to get you in the Christmas spirit as you hum along to the “Waltz of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and other holiday compositions.
Professor Hosts a New Kind of 'T Party'
Take a small black box theater, add roughly 30 audience members, some multimedia elements and a troupe of gender-bending actors, and you’ve got a party. Not just any party, though: “T Party,” a new play from director Natsu Onoda and her Performance and Gender class, which tells stories while pushing the boundaries of gender norms and asking the tough questions.
Seafood Restaurant Is an Unexpected Catch
A typical month of meals at Leo’s includes a few fish options per week: key lime mahi-mahi, cilantro-lime tuna steaks, blackened salmon and beer-battered fish. As with all food marketing, the dishes sound so enticing — at times even exotic. Yet, they almost always disappoint. Overcooked, under-flavored, sometimes a little watery, they make an appetite long for good, well-prepared seafood.
Bring in the Sugar Plum Season With Sweets
During this Thanksgiving break, I found I was much less social than last year. All the schoolwork that I’d had to finish the previous week had finally driven me insane enough to keep me from going to various high school reunions — I did go to one, but only so I could play “Wii Fit” and “Rock Band”.
Fashioning a White House Wardrobe
I find it difficult to say whether the recent presidential election did more harm or good for the women’s rights movement. On the one hand, you had Hillary Clinton who, with her 18 million cracks in the highest glass ceiling, proved that a woman could give any male candidate a run for his money.
Over the River and Into the Minds of the Artists
For those who saw “The Gates” in Central Park during the winter of 2005 and were inspired by their stark beauty, or for those who saw them and wondered how orange curtains could pass as art, the latest Phillips Collection can answer some of your questions.
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Fiery 'Carmen' Brings the True Meaning of Diva Back to Opera
The Thanksgiving Weekend Guide
Snapshots of the Civil Rights Movement
Jam Band Rocks the Digital Highway
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Mediocre Action, Visuals and Plotlines in New Bond Film
Brick by Brick, Cementing the Legacy of Georgetown
Worth Turning on Even When They're off
From Behind the Altar: Students Undergo a Journey of Faith
The Greatest Songwriter You've Heard, But Never Heard Of
HOYA On-the-Go Podcast
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