February 8, 2007

It’s no accident that the Apples in Stereo had to add the “Stereo” to their name to avoid sounding too much like the Beatles’ record label – with their bright harmonies, catchy guitar hooks and “woah-oh-woah” lyrics, the Apples in Stereo just sound a heck of a lot like the Beatles, period. “We’re doing music […]

Bea, one of the characters in “Breaking and Entering,” doesn’t understand the concept of metaphors. She should consider herself lucky, because her world is filled with some real clunky ones – not to mention all the awkward similes and inept analogies. Director and writer Anthony Minghella (“Cold Mountain”) is making a statement about communication in […]

February isn’t known for being a great month for live shows, but fortunately a lot of great artists are visiting D.C. this month on rare winter tours. Yeah, we’re all still sad about missing Justin Timberlake last Friday at the Verizon Center, but luckily there are plenty of shows you can see this month that […]

As the women’s basketball team moves into the top 10, athletic officials have a lot to be happy about. There’s just one big letdown. “If I can be blunt, the only disappointment is that students don’t come,” Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz said about game attendance. The Colonials moved into the top 10 this week […]

Marshall’s 2524 L St. N.W., Washington D.C., 20037 What’s a drinker to do on a Tuesday night when the pretty young things at McFadden’s have turned you down and the tables at 51st State have all filled up? If you’re a salt-and-pepper forty-something with a short-term memory problem and a big credit limit, you head […]

The writing is on the wall at Xavier – literally. When talking about the Musketeers – for years the cream of the crop in the Atlantic 10 – Karl Hobbs mentions the jerseys hanging on the wall of Cintas Center in Cincinnati. They commemorate the 13 former Xavier players that have found their way on […]

If you have $5 Pocket it and take in some cinema at the Black History Month Film Festival, sponsored by William C. Smith and Co. On Monday at 11 a.m. you can see “Stormy Weather,” a 1943 musical featuring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. On Tuesday at 1 p.m., catch “Carmen […]

Professor W.M. Kim Roddis teaches at GW, but in a way, she instructs students across the nation every day. Roddis, an expert on civil engineering, developed software that thousands of students use in scores of engineering programs around the nation. She developed a CD in response to her observation that engineers are often visual learners. […]

The GW’s men’s basketball game Saturday comes under a set of unusual circumstances. The Colonials (15-6, 6-3 Atlantic 10) are playing to avoid its first three-game losing streak since the 2003-2004 season, when the team lost four in a row. The game is also on national television (ESPN2) and Smith Center is sold out, both […]

I was vibrating and almost falling. People to each side of me on the wooden bench were jumping up and down at different times, so I couldn’t keep my knees straight. In fact, standing up in the middle of a bouncy inflated castle filled with six-year-old kids who’ve eaten too much sugar would have been […]