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Middle Eastern Eatery Offers Mediocre Mezza Plates

By Yiwen Hu February 21, 2014

With its rich variety of unique flavors and spices, it’s hard not to love Middle Eastern food. Me Jana, located in Arlington, may not do as much justice to the cuisine as hoped, but is still worth...

GBD Fails to Deliver on Chicken and Donut Concept

By Meagan Wang February 21, 2014

Utilizing old deep frying baskets as lampshades and serving drinks in mason jars, GBD is a stereotypically hipster dining spot, conveniently located in DuPont Circle. Specializing in fried chicken...

Drawing a Virtual Boundary

By Nicole Jarvis February 21, 2014

The world today is weird. We have taken our desire to share, to relate to others and to form relationships toward entirely unfathomable levels. It started with our generation — the so-called “millennials.”...

Flourless Fast Food for Students on the Go

By Christina Wing February 21, 2014

Georgetown’s nonstop environment quickly fills students’ schedules with little free time to eat or sleep. Whether it’s a hectic class schedule, bouncing between group meetings or commuting to an...

Corrupt to the Core

By Victoria Edel February 14, 2014

There’s something perversely appropriate about performing “Richard III” — one of William Shakespeare’s bloodiest and most political plays — just a block from the Capitol Building. Shakespeare’s...

The ‘V’ Word

By Victoria Edel February 14, 2014

College students have sex. Older generations shake their finger at hookup culture while students themselves grapple to make sense of it all. Maybe they’re looking for love, connection, pleasure or...

Worlds Apart

By Lindsay Leasor January 31, 2014

Elaine Ding (SFS ’15) sits in the Cawley Career Center surrounded by her peers, waiting for an information session to start. Similar to other Georgetown juniors, Ding is starting to consider her postgraduate...

Beauty of Byzantium

By Nicole Jarvis January 24, 2014

For many students, their knowledge of the history of art begins with the pristine marble of the Greco-Romans and jumps straight to the developments in realism and perspective that dominated the Renaissance....

Behind Solomon’s Story

By Joseph Kuperschmidt January 24, 2014

Now nominated for nine Academy Awards, “12 Years a Slave” has had a profound effect on critics and audiences alike. The film tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man kidnapped and forced...

Intoxicating Scorsese Film Idolizes Greed

By Alex Horton December 26, 2013

3.5/5 stars The obnoxious and vulgar stock traders at the notorious Stratton Oakmont firm only quiet down to hear founder Jordan Belfort speak. The high-pressure traders are worthless without telephones,...

A Technological Love Affair, ‘Her’ Is Alarmingly Realistic

By Joseph Kuperschmidt December 25, 2013

5/5 stars At this very moment, Siri waits to be utilized by millions of iPhone users across the world. But Siri will stay waiting, as people play Candy Crush or choose Google to find the closest...

Showy Crime Comedy Pays Homage to the ’70s

By Sami Rahman December 24, 2013

5/5 stars David O. Russell’s American Hustle is an authentic and enthralling crime comedy-drama that explores the corruption, deception, lust and power that pervaded the 1970s and one of the most...

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