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Guide To: Dinner and a Movie

By Jeff Lambert | August 16

Memories of my first party at AU: "Hey, what's your major?" "Are you a freshman?" "I've got some great Dave bootlegs up in my room." There are better ways to spend your evenings with that cute new classmate you're looking to impress than at the party those weird dudes are offering you a ride to.

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Guide To: Creepy D.C.

By Mia Steinle and Laura Schuetz | August 16

With Smithsonian's American History Museum closed for renovation, we're now free to explore the darker side of American history with these lesser-known treasures. Best of all, these peculiar pieces of history sit practically in our own backyard, away from the touristy hustle of the Mall.

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Guide To: Concert Venues

By Donny Sheldon | August 16

D.C. is kind of like the little sister that has a crush on her hip, older sister Baltimore's boyfriend and pushes away the nerdy best friend that wants to be something more. Except the boyfriend is a lot of national tours that skip over D.C., and that nerdy best friend is plenty of good concerts (who needs the Virgin Festival, anyway?) that the city does land.

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Guide To: The Masonic Library

By Kristen M. Powell | August 16

When most AU students get off at the Dupont Circle and U Street/Cardozo Metro stops, they are there for the nightlife. However, there's another reason to head to the area: the House of the Temple of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite. The Scottish Rite is a Mason affiliated organization, like the Shriners.

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Guide To: Movies on the Cheap

By Stephen Tringali | August 16

For each independent step a college student takes, he or she can expect to shoulder a new burden. All those independent steps-living without parental authority and, well, that pretty much sums it up-are coupled accordingly with new burdens. One such burden is that which comes with living on your own cash reserves, not your parents'.

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Guide To: Red Line Restaurants

By Iliana Imberman Berkowitz | August 16

Tryst Caf? 2459 18th St. N.W. Metro: Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan In the heart of the good-eats megalopolis known as Adams Morgan lies arguably the coolest coffee shop in the district, Tryst. Tryst provides sustenance for all of us who are sick of the homogenized flair of chain coffeehouses.

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Fort Reno Marks 40 Years of Summer Concerts

By Hilary Crowe | June 21

After lookouts at Fort Reno saved the nation's capital from Confederate siege more than 150 years ago, it currently hosts the past, present and future of what really put D.C. on the map: music. The highest point in the city (taller than the Washington Monument) is home to the musical highlight of the summer - the Fort Reno Concert Series.

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Bjork Charms California With New Songs, Flags

By Iliana Imberman Berkowitz | June 21

It is a rare opportunity to see Bjork, the strange and indulgent Icelandic music queen, perform. This year, the talented and much-adored icon only played eight shows across the United States to promote her newest album "Volta," which was released May 8. In a metallic gold dress and headband and similar silver leggings, Bjork gallantly strode onto the stage at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif.

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Obscure Music Fests for Warped Tour Vets

By Donny Sheldon | June 21

This summer, rather than wasting away at the community pool or collecting dust on the couch, why not hop a plane to Europe (or elsewhere in the States) to attend a music festival no one's ever heard of? Here are four festivals for the weary Warped Tour veteran.

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Top 10 Reasons You Hate D.C. Summers

By Lauren Gardner | June 21

1. Finding an internship. You finally figured out where you're crashing or who you're subletting from for the summer. Problem is, you submitted about 40,000 applications for internships in March, and no one has responded to you yet. Uh, oh. 2. You see Hill interns all day, every day.

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Comics Industry Breaks Down Gender Barrier

By Ruben Luong | June 21

Comic books filled with images of blood and carnage are generally not meant for the squeamish. For this reason, there was a time when most women didn't read most comic books. But Rebecca Head, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and an employee at the Fantom Comics store on Wisconsin Avenue, is an example of how comics have gradually appealed more to women who cringe at gore-laden frames of art.

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Online Music News Sources Spur Move to Web

By Donny Sheldon | June 21

Modern strides in technology have not only altered the way that we purchase goods, book travel and monitor the news, but they have also changed the way that we listen to and criticize music. Now more than ever, people are turning to the Net to provide sage musical guidance.

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Film Series Offers Classic Cinema

By Stephen Tringali | June 21

The always idyllic pastime of sitting beneath the starry sky of a cool summer night and of watching a classic film among other movie-lovers can once again be enjoyed at Screen on the Green, a free film festival held Monday nights on the National Mall between July 16 and Aug.

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'Ocean's' Delivers Style, Skimps on Substance

By Stephen Tringali | June 21

"Ocean's 13" embraces the "style over substance" ethos like no other film before it - except maybe its two predecessors. Characters still talk in half sentences, almost as though one already knows just how the other will respond. Plot points continue to fly by at such high velocity that, if any holes were present, the audience wouldn't know any better.

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Top 10 Ways to Beat the Summer Heat

June 21

It's summer. It's humid as a malarial swamp. Your apartment is about as unpleasant as the sweat lodge my uncle Marty built in his backyard when he "found his spirit guide." Fear not, reader- you can get wet without coaxing R. Kelly into your bedroom with a video camera.

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Punk band reunites for high-profile benefit shows

By Cameron Conway | April 30

A number of factors made the April 28 Dismemberment Plan concert at the Black Cat mindbogglingly significant to D.C. independent music. One factor is that the Dismemberment Plan is the best musical secret D.C. has ever kept. Although flirtations with major label Interscope Records occurred while recording its third album, the Dismemberment Plan remained with D.

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'Freedom Toast' roasts politicians left, right on Capitol Hill

By Heidi Davis | April 30

Ever wonder what the world would be like if Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were contestants on "American Idol?" Or how about John McCain picking his political ideology on a politically incorrect version of "Deal or No Deal?" How about President Bush having his own children's show? At the premiere of the Freedom Toast's performance "Freedom Roast," that is exactly what the audience got to experience.

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