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  • Natural Borin' Killers

    By on March 31, 2004

    I can think of no good reason to recommend that you buy a ticket to see the Coen brothers remake of The Ladykillers. Unless, of...

  • Olympia's Spirit

    By on March 31, 2004

    Ask Olympia Dukakis if she's as strong a woman as the characters she typically plays in the movies, and the Oscar-winning actress cocks her head...

  • Kissing to be Clever

    By on March 24, 2004

    ''There aren't a lot of shows you can do with a group of one hundred twenty five men,'' says Jeff Buhrman, Artistic Director of the...

  • Merce Cunningham: Dance Master

    By on March 24, 2004

    ''I'm not interested in the idea of retiring. That doesn't attract me at all. '' Dance fans, you can breathe a sigh of relief. At...

  • Resurrection

    By on March 24, 2004

    It's been almost two decades since I last watched George Romero's 1978 cult classic Dawn of the Dead, a pinnacle achievement for both the hit-and-miss...

  • Missionary Positions

    By on March 17, 2004

    C. Jay Cox's Latter Days is a powerhouse that grabs your heart and wrenches and wrenches away. Who knew that Cox, author of Sweet Home...

  • Unhappy Together

    By on March 10, 2004

    It's fitting that Todd Phillips has been tapped to direct a spoof of The Six Million Dollar Man. Fitting because Phillips appears intent on mooring...

  • Hot Spot

    By on March 3, 2004

    It's 8:15 p.m. on a Friday night at the 18th & U Duplex Diner and the joint, as they say, is jumpin'. The bar area...

  • Bloody Pulpit

    By on March 3, 2004

    Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ can be summed up in a single word: obsessive. The movie, which concentrates on the final twelve hours...

  • Holiday Road

    By on February 25, 2004

    In order to fully enjoy Eurotrip, you need to be willing to completely shut off your mind and relax as you soak for ninety minutes...

  • Closed for Business

    By on February 25, 2004

    Nob Hill, the oldest gay bar in Washington and one of the oldest black gay bars in the country, closed its doors on February 1,...

  • Hair Cuttery

    By on February 11, 2004

    There are great haircuts. There are terrible haircuts. And then there are those haircuts that are so profoundly mediocre that they go virtually unnoticed. Those...

  • Giving Voice

    By on February 4, 2004

    Members of the LGCW in rehearsal. (Photo by Todd Franson) ''One of our guiding principles is that every voice matters. And that's very true in...

  • Vive la Chomet!

    By on February 4, 2004

    French animator Sylvain Chomet's The Triplets of Belleville is one of those movies that so thoroughly envelopes you in its own world, so thoroughly commands...

  • Torso Envy

    By on January 28, 2004

    If movies were air, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton would qualify as helium. Not that one expects substance from romantic comedies, but Robert Luketic's...