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- Men’s Basketball Crowd Surges, Team Ends Season on Sour Note
By Alden Detmer The George Washington men’s basketball team (16-13) dropped a heartbreaker 66-68 to Dayton (20-9) Friday night in front of a boisterous home crowd and national TV audience. The loss for the Revolutionaires encapsulates a struggle they’ve held all season long: finding themselves in unlucky late-game situations despite exhibiting one of the best… - CONCERT REVIEW: Lovejoy @ 9:30 Club, 11/22
My friend and I went to see a canceled influencer perform for $6. Unfortunately, he was really good. (A quick take on Lovejoy at The 9:30 Club on 11/22) - 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
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. - PREVIEW: FKA twigs @ The Anthem, 3/18
FKA twigs, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actor, will be joined by Dominican rapper and Queer fashion icon Tokischa at DC’s The Anthem on Wednesday, March 18th, as part of the North American leg of twigs’s Body High tour. - PREVIEW: Depths of Wikipedia Live! @ The Howard Theatre, 3/6
Depths of Wikipedia is bringing its cult-favorite podcast to the stage of DC’s Howard Theatre on March 6th. - PREVIEW: PinkPantheress @ The Anthem, 5/3
PinkPantheress is performing at The Anthem on May 3rd. Her songs rarely break two minutes; they’re built like voice memos, quick and unfinished, the kind of thing you’d record at 2 AM and forget about until it shows up months later. - PREVIEW: Blood Orange @ The Anthem, 3/3
By: Julian Hester UK musician Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) is bringing his Essex Honey Tour to The Anthem on March 3rd, with support from Tariq Al-Sabir and TLF Trio. He released Essex Honey, his first album in nearly a decade, last year, which joins a catalogue of critically acclaimed albums and mixtapes. His alternative… - Complexity: What we lose when we demand consistency
By Dalia Guzman-Perez Why do we simplify each other’s complexity? Is it to make sense of what we can’t understand? To protect ourselves because consistency feels safer than truth? Or does the mind automatically reduce what it can’t hold all at once? That thought popped up while I was sitting with my friend, shivering in… - Why I started ‘Not Another Home Movie’ film festival
By Professor Hanan Daqqa We all need a cultural shift. Our souls are crying for it. Can it start here at the Revolutionary Campus? When I started teaching University Writing at George Washington University, I saw that my bright students could write anything, but they were never taught to tell a meaningful story. They were…