February 23, 2006

I’ll admit I’ve been disappointed with Fox’s treatment of its viewers this season, from the abrupt cancellation of the unsolved mystery-drama “Reunion” to the neglect of the brilliant and underappreciated “Arrested Development.” But, as always, spring brings opportunities for a fresh crop of shows that may potentially offer redemption. A few words of advice for […]

At 8:45 on Monday night, GW’s campus is just as one would expect it to be. But, a mere 15 minutes later, it is desolate. Why are students boarding themselves up? It can all be attributed to one show, or rather, one man: Jack Bauer. Since its inception five years ago, Fox’s experimental “real time” […]

Posted Thursday, Feb. 23, 6:15 p.m. Pops Mensah-Bonsu missed the first three games of the season and will miss the last three games of the season. The No. 6 Colonials will be without Mensah-Bonsu for at least a couple of weeks after the senior standout suffered a partially torn meniscus during Wednesday night’s game against […]

Ten minutes into “The Boys of Baraka” (ThinkFilm Productions), a startling fact is displayed in stark white letters against a black screen: “76 percent of black boys in Baltimore do not graduate from high school.” With this statistic, we are thrown into the harsh world of Richard, Romesh, Montrey and Devon, the young subjects of […]

Caf? Saint-Ex 1847 14th St. N.W. This week brought me back to a number of my favorite bars in D.C., but it also took me to Caf? Saint-Ex, which has officially been placed on my ever growing list of bars I vow to return to before the looming graduation date of May 21. Located a […]

You think you never sleep? Try staying awake for 13 years. Bethany Palmer (Jeanine Serralles), the insomnia-ridden protagonist of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s new play, The Velvet Sky, has been awake since her son was born 13 years ago. Beth’s life is a constant vigil in an attempt to save her son’s eyes from the Sandman (Rick […]

Here’s the truth about Fox’s new sitcom “Free Ride”: the commercials for the show are pretty funny, but that’s about it. “Free Ride” follows recent college graduate Nate Stahlings (newcomer Josh Dean) as he makes the transition from University of California-Santa Barbara back to small-town Missouri life when he decides to move back in with […]

“Freedomland” is a detective film that addresses racial inequality. Had Natalee Holloway been black, would the search for her have lasted as long, and been as extensive? Based on the best-selling novel by Richard Price, this film about a missing child would assume that answer to be no. In two neighborhoods of New Jersey, a […]

If you have $5 $5 – Fairy tales aren’t kid stuff for the Washington National Opera. Its two free performances of the opera “Hansel and Gretel” on Thursday and Friday aren’t even recommended for anyone younger than a teen. The show will be presented at the Inter-American Development Cultural Center, 1330 New York Ave., NW. […]

A discovery made more than halfway around the world is creating splashes at GW. Professor James M. Clark, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, was part of a team that discovered a fossil of the earliest-known ancestor of the famed Tyrannosaurus Rex during a dig in the Wucaiwan area of northwest China in 2002. […]