This weekend you can switch up your normal routine by attending Washington D.C.'s premier performing arts venue at the best possible price: free. All it takes is a love for something different and the motivation to march down to The Kennedy Center for an afternoon.
It's sad but true - some people are simply not blessed with the ability to dance well. Like Elaine from "Seinfeld," they struggle to master even the simplest of moves, drifting awkwardly to the beat and causing others to look on with amusement or shock. But the rhythmically challenged should not give up hope just yet.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more." -Macbeth The Shakespeare Theatre's season opener is a dark, ominous and potentially unlucky play. Referred to as "The Scottish Play" by those in the ever-superstitious theatre industry, Macbeth is known to bring bad luck to theatre companies that perform the play, or anyone who quotes it.
In an early key scene from "Bright Young Things" (Revolution Films), the impoverished and indebted Adam Fenwick-Symes, on the wisdom of a shady horse-racing tip, casually hands over nearly all his money to an intoxicated stranger. This act of unforgivable stupidity caused me to stop caring about Adam.
3295 M St. N.W. For the first Thursday night of fall semester, I had plans to go out big and head to one of the promo events in true Bar Belle style. However, my plan hit a road block when I became quite inebriated at the wee hour of four in the afternoon.
What do the following have in common: A necrophiliac, the Consortium of Underwhelming Gentlepersons, a kidnapped Guatemalan baby, the Christ, the Antichrist, Michael Phelps and endless, deviant, filthy Thurston jokes? All were topics of Generic Theatre Company's annual 24 Hour Play.
Singer/songwriter Pat McGee came down with a bit of a cold after his Fall Fest performance last Saturday. "It's been a long week of really early morning flights, traveling and just sort of running myself down," he said. For the past five years, he and his band have taken few breaks from the road, averaging about 250 shows per year.
If attendance, rather than intensity, is the measure of a great concert, then Fall Fest 2004 was an unqualified success. Despite being held two weeks earlier in the semester than in the past, this year's Fall Fest broke the event's attendance record with nearly 4,500 people on hand.
On stage and hopping around on one foot, Mo Rocca mulls an audience question with increasing anxiety. An audience member has asked him to make up a funny bogus life story on the spot. "I feel the need to satisfy you," he said. "And yet I find your request very strange.
Caffeinated Rock What happens when you fuse caffeinated beverages with live music in a chill and comfortable atmosphere exclusive to the GW community? To find out, the Mount Vernon Programming Council will host its fourth annual Mount Vernon Coffee House Music Series this Friday night.
He smiles as he stands up to greet you-all six-foot-five-inches and 270 pounds of him. After shaking his hand, it's easy to notice how his frame dominates the office, but not in an intimidating way. By his sheer size, it's hard to imagine he was the smallest child in his family.
Today, GW students grieve the loss of yet another member of the campus community. Even though the cause of death has yet to be confirmed, the possibility that this tragedy marks another student suicide highlights the paramount need of the Walker commission - charged with evaluating University response to student deaths - to release its report and implement quantifiable changes to the status quo.
Each generation has an event so central to its consciousness that its collective memory uses the moment as a prism through which to transition from emotional adolescence to adulthood. These events - almost exclusively stemming from a profound national tragedy - awaken a generation to something greater than their own self-interest.
On March 25 of last year I wrote, "The nation of France has been the topic of many discussions due to its refusal to support the American invasion of Iraq and one would think that their spineless actions would have saved them from becoming a target of Islamic terrorism.
Bush or America In Gary Livacari's Hatchet column ("Kerry doesn't get it," Sept. 7, p. 4), we can see the dogmatic and divisive rhetoric that has created such a terrible divide in this country. Rather than engaging in legitimate forms of political debate, George W.
Thursday Interviewing Workshop Learn how to prepare for an effective interview 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Marvin Center 308 Sponsored by the Career Center Hazing and the effects of illegal alcohol and drug use Students and guest speakers discuss the consequences of destructive behavior 7 to 8:30 p.
University to commemorate 9/11 In commemoration of the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Student Association is holding a candlelight vigil Saturday. The vigil will begin at 8 p.m. at the University Yard and will include speeches from University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg and SA President Omar Woodard.
The article "ZBT looks to return to GW" (Sept. 7, page 1) misspelled the name of the APES liaison, junior Brian Koffler.
by Robert Lintott Hatchet Reporter With another hurricane approaching Florida after Charley and Frances plowed through the state over the last two weeks, many Floridian students are keeping a nervous eye on their homes. Hurricane Frances, which struck late Saturday night and continued to devastate Florida into Tuesday, has killed more than 14 people and has left more than six million people without power.
Alcohol-related hospitalizations at GW are slightly down from early fall last year, according to numbers released by the Center for Alcohol and other Drug Education. According to CADE, there have been six hospitalizations since the beginning of the semester, compared with seven over the same period last year.
GW-TV is preparing to provide students with new programming this year, as it enters its first full school year of operation. The network, which is student-run and works in conjunction with the School of Media and Public Affairs, kicked off its first year on air Nov.
Drug Law Violation 9/2 - Thurston Hall - case closed University Police officers responded to Thurston after Community Living and Learning Center staff requested a room search. UPD discovered five grams of marijuana and a bong. Referred to Student Judicial Services Liquor Law Violation 9/6 - Guthridge Hall - case closed UPD officers observed a male, who is not a GW student, vomiting on himself inside the building.
A shuttle bus inexplicably rolled down a hill and overran a ledge near the Acheson Science Building at the Mount Vernon Campus Tuesday night. No injuries were reported from the accident, which was the second involving an MVC shuttle bus in the last week.
Updated Thursday, Sept. 9, 3:14 p.m. Sophomore Susan Shin died Wednesday afternoon after jumping from the eighth floor of the Elise Apartments building. A computer science major, Shin, 19, of Ashland, Ohio, was an active member of the Engineers' Council and the Association for Computer Machinery.
University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg will not disburse more money to a student voting initiative that has already received $5,000 from his office.
A new 24-hour 7-Eleven in the basement of Mitchell Hall may spell convenience for students with the midnight munchies, but it could also affect business for other after-hours food providers.
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