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WRGW Music: What We’re Excited for in 2015

It’s January 5th and we here at the WRGW Music Department are just a little bit sick of the cyclical year-end lists penned by **in-touch** music writers and tastemakers who continually peddle the same albums over and over again, with more regard for controversy (Mark Kozelek shout out) than actual substance. Let’s face it – […]
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12/9: The Head and The Heart, PHOX @ DAR Constitution Hall

When PHOX walked on the stage, DAR Constitution Hall was half-full. I say half full, because when the music began, it couldn’t have mattered less how many people were missing, as the joy of the people present made up wholly for it. The warm cascades of indie-folk seemed to make the audience gently sway, as […]
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President Obama and Colbert on the same stage

Sitting in the cold, wind and rain, nearly 1,000 students waited outside Lisner Auditorium Monday to watch one of the final tapings of “The Colbert Report” featuring special guest, President Barack Obama. The president traveled from the White House to George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium to meet with political humorist and pundit, Stephen Colbert and […]
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Former Kerry Advisor Speaks At GW

David Makovsky, a former advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry, spoke to students at the Marvin Center about the current situation in the Middle East on Monday evening. Makovsky specifically focused on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. His message to the students was to not give up and “hold your head high.” Makovsky […]
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Students Hold ‘Die In’ to Join Nationwide Protest

Around 30 GW students braved cold weather and rain to stage a “Die In” in protest of the shooting of Michael Brown and acquittal of office Darren Wilson. Dubbed #GWFerguson, students yelled chants while laying on the ground for four and a half hours to symbolize the amount of time Michael Brown’s body lay in […]
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Grooving on the Vern

The Vern’s black box theater temporally stopped belonging to the University and became property of Emperor Kuzco as his play, The Emperors New Groove, premiered this past weekend. Adapted from the movie of by the same name, director Shira Herald, made it a personal challenge to bring the animation to the stage. “About a year […]
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GW Has Talent

The applause was loud and enthusiastic as 12 acts took the stage last Thursday night to prove that GW’s got talent. The event, sponsored by Program Board and GW Hillel saw a great turn out for an evening of artistic performances. Liz Moses, Executive Chair of Program Board, and one of the coordinators of the […]
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Don’t Miss: Record Store Day Black Friday

Are you stuck in the suburbs this holiday break? Are you already missing the hip happenin’ indie scene of your college town as Turkey Day slowly approaches? Have you, within two days, already exhausted all of the cool places in town to sip on coffee and blog? Well have I got news for you: Record […]