CONCERT REVIEW: Mustafa @ Lincoln Theater, 4/24/25
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CONCERT REVIEW: Mustafa @ Lincoln Theater, 4/24/25

Beneath the intricate chandeliers of Lincoln Theater in DC’s famous U Street corridor, Mustafa’s simply decorated stage featured only spare guitars and ouds. Greeted by a black screen with white text that read Dunya in Arabic script, the audience gradually streamed into their seats as it drew closer to eight. Many attendees draped their keffiyehs over their shoulders or sported clothing in support of the people of Gaza and Sudan, for whom the Canadian-Sudanese artist has consistently advocated for amidst the ongoing genocides.
Thirty-One years of decompression sickness: A review of Radiohead’s “The Bends”
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Thirty-One years of decompression sickness: A review of Radiohead’s “The Bends”

Today marks thirty-one years of decompression sickness. The album's title isn't metaphorical decoration; it's diagnostic. Decompression sickness, the bends, happens when you ascend too quickly from depth, when dissolved gases in your blood expand faster than your body can process them. Nitrogen bubbles form in joints and tissues, in the brain, in the heart. The pain is your body rejecting the transition, refusing the violence of moving between pressures too fast. This is what The Bends understands about existing in 1995, or 2026, or any moment when the gap between what you're supposed to feel and what you actually feel becomes physiologically untenable.
CONCERT REVIEW: Big Thief @ The Anthem, 10/24
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CONCERT REVIEW: Big Thief @ The Anthem, 10/24

Standing on stage and gazing at the packed venue halfway through the set, Adrienne Lenker told us that she was sending us “all the love in her heart,” and that she “could feel all the love in the room.” I honestly believe her. Not one person in the crowd around me wasn’t grinning and staring at the stage with complete adoration in their eyes, myself included.
Top 5 places to break up on campus
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Top 5 places to break up on campus

Love may blossom in DC, but it also likes to die loudly in public. After seeing more breakups than we ever asked for, we’ve noticed some spots on campus are just objectively the wrong setting for heartbreak. So, if your situationship is getting stale, or you just found out your partner’s been “studying” with someone else, follow this guide to the top five worst places to end it all—romantically, of course.