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Concert Review: Regina Spektor

By Sarah Dieter March 31, 2017

Some critics say that gone are the days when musicians created their own music, dreamed up their own lyrics and provided their own accompaniment. Songs are now mainly produced for mass culture, with...

FESTIVAL GNAOUA ET MUSIQUE DU MONDE

Festival Explores Gnaoua Identity

By Jose Villalobos March 31, 2017

The Gnaoua Festival Tour 2017 stopped in D.C. on the night of Mar. 18 for a much-awaited performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Before the show, Hicham El Kebbaj, the artistic coordinator...

COURTESY SKYDANCE MEDIA

Movie Review: ‘Life’

By Kathryn Lenihan March 31, 2017

★★☆☆☆ Director Daniel Espinosa brings extraterrestrial life on Mars to audiences in “Life,” in which a rapidly evolving life form that could lead to mass extinction on Earth threatens...

BLEECKER STREET MEDIA

Movie Review: ‘The Lost City of Z’

By Ben Macher March 31, 2017

★★★☆☆ In “The Lost City of Z,” director James Gray’s adaptation of the eponymous book is a tremendous depiction of obsession and the drive to find truth in human history. In contrast...

ON TAP: Crafting A Refreshing Classic

ON TAP: Crafting A Refreshing Classic

By Anna Jorgensen and Jackie Liang March 31, 2017

Nowadays, soft drinks have lost their natural touch. What began in 17th-century Europe as a carbonated drink with natural flavors like lemon juice and honey has now become artificially colored, flavored...

GU Arts Week Celebrates Creativity

GU Arts Week Celebrates Creativity

By Meena Raman and Dani Guerrero March 31, 2017

As students passed through the weekly farmer’s market on Wednesday afternoon, many were happily surprised to find themselves serenaded by Georgetown a cappella groups. Watching the Saxatones and...

HIGH-FUNCTIONING FAILURE: An Unhappy Guide to Health

HIGH-FUNCTIONING FAILURE: An Unhappy Guide to Health

By Alex Mitchell March 31, 2017

Ah, spring, the season before bikini season. It is a time of cherry blossoms, light sweaters and mailed legal citations asking that I stop wearing my collection of bikinis. It is also the season in which...

20 Years Later: A Q&A With Director Danny Boyle

20 Years Later: A Q&A With Director Danny Boyle

By Dani Guerrero March 30, 2017

“First there was an opportunity, then there was a betrayal.” Twenty years have gone by since Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) left Edinburgh. Much has changed, but just as much remains the same....

ASYLUM RECORDS

Album Review: ‘Number 1 Angel’

By Jane Mikus March 24, 2017

★★★☆☆ Listeners might recognize her as the featured artist on a number of pop tracks that once dominated the charts. She sang on “I Love It” by Icona Pop and Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,”...

THE ROYAL

Restaurant Review: The Royal

By Sarah Dieter March 24, 2017

501 Florida Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 | Cuisine: Colombian | $$ | ★★★★☆ As a small restaurant tucked into a townhouse at the center of the historic Le Droit Park neighborhood near Howard...

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

Album Review: ‘American Teen’

By Jesus Rodriguez March 24, 2017

★★★★★ The ordinary coming-of-age narrative common to the albums of seasoned artists finds its way onto “American Teen,” the sharp debut album of 19-year-old soul singer Khalid. His ability...

COURTESY BAILEY BRADFORD

Nomadic Theatre Brings to Life the Trial of Judas Iscariot

By Dani Guerrero March 24, 2017

From Georgetown’s cocurricular student theater group Nomadic Theatre comes the exceptional “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.” Based on the play by Pulitzer Prize-winning Stephen Adly Guirgis,...

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