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Is It Worth It to Go the Distance?

Is It Worth It to Go the Distance?

By Lindsay Lee and Lindsay Lee September 6, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lUVLJr-WrQ&feature=c4 When you're about to leave for college, there are a lot of important decisions to make: what you're going to major in, who you're going to room...

Japanese Restaurant Shows off Its Chops

By Jerrod MacFarlane September 6, 2013

4/5 stars $$ Big dinners — the kind where more than eight overeager diners descend upon one table at one restaurant for one night — are perilous. However, as a good friend prepared to go...

Campus Groups Take on the Summer

By Kim Bussing August 30, 2013

Washington, D.C., may not be known as the city that never sleeps, but that title is easily deserved by its students on the Hilltop. The Georgetown population is one that works tirelessly to improve...

Alpine Expression

By Margie Fuchs August 3, 2013

Every morning I wake up in a different European city, depending on which direction I’m facing and how tangled I am in my sheets. If I’ve had a bad dream or I’m particularly restless, I’ll wake...

Avoiding Love in a Hopeless Place

By Merjan Bubernack August 3, 2013

If I had a stamp in my passport for every D.C. embassy I’ve visited through my time as a scene reporter, I’m pretty sure I’d be on par with those first-class business travellers on their fourth...

Alternative Band Fails to Enchant Listeners With Third Album

By Connor Valaik August 2, 2013

Sometimes I question why I like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, a new-age, hippie-ish band, so much. I’ve never thought of myself as a hippie. I certainly would not have been part of the...

Selena Gomez Debuts More Mature, Dance-Worthy Hits

By Zach Gordon July 26, 2013

Child stars have a tendency to star to lose it as they blossom into adults. Whether they get mixed up in drugs (Lindsay), rebel against their parents (Miley) or just go insane (Amanda), it sometimes...

Sara Bareilles Returns With a More Somber Sound

By Julia DeCicco July 19, 2013

When California native Sara Bareilles moved to New York City this past year, she was seeking inspiration that would help her avoid musical monotony. It seems that the magnetic, bustling streets of...

Orange Is the New Black’ Breaks the Mold

By Kim Bussing July 18, 2013

If Netflix is best at anything, it’s doing what you least expect. First, it released “House of Cards,” a political thriller so addicting that it garnered a troupe of fans without ever airing...

Riveting Novel Spans Generations and Countries

By Victoria Edel July 16, 2013

A few weekends ago, I headed home to New York for my mother’s birthday. While there, I made a point of seeing “Once”on Broadway — partly because it’s based on one of my favorite movies (of...

Of Markets and Monsoons

By Eng Gin Moe July 15, 2013

Everyday around 5 p.m., my mother and I take a stroll to a local market half a mile away from our home in Yangon. Although there is a large supermarket chain just a street away, I prefer the small stands,...

‘The Storyteller’ is a Complex Summer Page-Turner

By Kim Bussing July 8, 2013

Jodi Picoult is back. You might not be familiar with the name, but you’ve undoubtedly heard of the tearjerker My Sister’s Keeper and19 Minutes, the story of a high school shooting, which...

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