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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Cookie Dough Returns To the Farmers Market

Cookie Dough Returns To the Farmers Market

By Alex Prior April 1, 2016

Recently, baked goods company Slender Seven has been garnering attention for its delicious and healthy baked goods by offering its samples at the farmers market and Taste of The Hilltop. Slender Seven...

BROAD GREEN PICTURES

Q&A: Terrence Malick’s Producers Talk ‘Knight of Cups’

By Toby Hung March 11, 2016

There is perhaps no working filmmaker today whose body of work is as divisive as that of Terrence Malick’s. Without a doubt, Malick’s masterful manipulation of filmic reality — from the ethereal...

BUFFALO NEWS, CARLA LEYJA/THE HOYA
Aaron Maybin is on a mission to prove the power of artistic expression. After Baltimore cut its arts and music programs, Maybin launched his own program in the city with a focus on underprivileged and at-risk youth.

Art as Activism

By Kate Kim and Sabrina Fincher February 26, 2016

Aaron Maybin, a former National Football League star, retired from professional football in 2014 to pursue a notable track in art and philanthropy full time, with the mission of encouraging underprivileged...

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In Mask and Bauble’s latest adaptation of the French play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” which runs from Feb. 18 to 21 and 24 to 27, Greg Ongao (SFS ’16), left, plays the titular Hercule-Savinien Cyano de Bergerac and Taylor Rasmussen (COL ’16) plays Roxane.

Cyrano de Bergerac

By Eleanor Tolf and Tom Garzillo February 19, 2016

In its third event of the school year, the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society will bring "Cyrano de Bergerac" to Poulton Hall. Veteran Georgetown actors and new performers alike have worked to stage this...

RCA RECORDS
Formed in 1998, Welsh band Bullet for My Valentine released its fifth record in the last 10 years, “Venom,” in 2015 and will play at the Fillmore Silver Spring on March 1.

Q&A: Matt Tuck Talks Musical Inspiration

By Rhiannon Catalano February 19, 2016

Welsh heavy-metal band Bullet for My Valentine has been around for what seems like forever. Formed in 1998, they released their fifth record in 10 years — "Venom" — in 2015. The band is currently...

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Members of the Black Movements Dance Theater rehearse for this year’s spring concert, entitled “Phenomenal Woman,” which focuses on female empowerment.

Dance Troupe Spotlights Female Empowerment

By Jane Mikus February 5, 2016

For the dancers in Black Movements Dance Theater, the most poignant form of expression is not found in words, but rather in an artistic and deliberate fusion of song and movement. To continue the vision...

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Fourteen paintings by 20th century American abstract artist Ralph Wickiser, including his symbolic depictions of natural scenes and landscapes, are on display in the Spagnuolo Art Gallery in the Edmund A. Walsh Building from Jan. 20 to April 3.

Against the Stream

By Madison Stingray February 5, 2016

Step inside the Spagnuolo Art Gallery in the Edmund A. Walsh Building and behold an autumn forest, replete with bare trees, a dark stream lined with boulders and a ground coated with orange leaves...

LIONSGATE
In director Burr Steers’ adaptation of the 2009 parody novel “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” Elizabeth Bennet, played by Lily James, and Mr. Darcy, played by Sam Riley, find themselves caught in a zombie uprising.

Jane Austen Reinvented

By Eugénie Lund-Simon January 29, 2016

 Jane Austen’s famous opening to the 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice" asserts that "it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...

POSTMODERN FOODS
M Street’s newest organic foods store hopes to transform the way people see nutrition by offering accessible and healthy alternative options.

Organic Food Store Aims to Inspire Healthy Diets

By Eleanor Tolf January 29, 2016

"Whole Foods meets McDonald’s"— that’s how Denise Hicks, the founder of the organic foods store Postmodern Foods, described her latest storefront. Located at 2920 M St. NW, the store is just over...

COURTESY ARIEL PASTERNAK
A farm-to-table concept restaurant, Chaia Tacos uses freshly sourced, seasonal vegetables to make its vegetarian tacos, including the mushroom, creamy kale and potato tacos.

Sustainability, in a Taco Shell

By Austin Hong January 22, 2016

Chaia Tacos, which opened on Grace Street in mid-November, is more than just a hip, trendy taco eatery — it’s a thoughtful, well-executed and delicious advancement in the way that we do food, putting...

CENTRAL MICHEL RICHARD

A Preview of Restaurant Week in DC

By Lupita Humbert January 22, 2016

Broke, hungry students, rejoice: Washington, D.C.’s biannual Restaurant Week is here. From Jan. 25 to Jan. 31, over 250 restaurants in the District will offer special fixed price deals during the week,...

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In the Nomadic Theatre’s new play, Andrew Walker (SFS ’16), left, plays Bruto, a quirky literary agent who persuades his client Tobin Falmouth, played by Greg Keiser (COL ’16), to travel to a small town to defend his controversial book, “The Metal Children.”

The Metal Children

By Kate Kim January 22, 2016

No young adult novelist predicts that tragic events in his fictional story will actually become reality. American playwright Adam Rapp’s "The Metal Children" tells the tale of one such novelist, as...

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