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Student celebrations super-size Super Bowl XL

By Mia Steinle | February 2

The spectacle of Trojan athletes fighting for glory, aging rock stars fighting for paychecks and overpriced commercials fighting for airtime is an event that many share amongst friends. As the Super Bowl turns 40 this Sunday, these epic battles will play out against the backdrops of student-run parties.

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'Student of color' is exhibited at National Gallery

By Sarah Alsgaard | February 2

C?zanne was a student of color. Vibrant blues and intense greens are generously applied to the canvas, mainly through the use of a palette knife. Colors became such a focus for his works that he began blurring objects together in order to emphasize the color rather than the actual objects, thus making the paintings abstract.

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Past meets present at Arts Center

By Sara Gama | February 2

Old and new forms of photography combine to form a thought-provoking new exhibition at D.C. Arts Center. Photographer Bruce McKaig relies on both pinhole cameras made from paint cans and digital cameras to capture information about a setting over an elapsed period of time.

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Resistance gets organized at AU

By Jen Turner | February 2

Gaggles of activists representing a myriad of ideas will return to the AU campus this weekend for the National Conference on Organized Resistance. The annual conference is slated to take place from this Friday to Sunday in a celebration of topical awareness, social justice and revolution.

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Former D.C. bus driver sings jazz, vocalese

By Ben Lozovsky | February 2

Imagine listening to a seasoned jazz musician rip into a bebop solo so sizzling and smooth it makes your senses tingle. Close your eyes and play along. Try and picture the sweat bouncing off the performer like the notes that leap through the air. See if you can hear the mesmerizing melodies go up and down, bringing you through joy and sadness, taking your emotions on a sensory experience unlike any other.

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Don't rush to judge after first time

By Blair Bryant Nichols | February 2

Some people believe in love at first sight. Others only believe in lust at first sight. Some people think that first impressions are the most important. Others think that any negative or positive assumed upon a first meeting can be reversed over the time it takes to get to know someone.

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Slap bass and a slice of history

By Dave Wilezol | February 2

Any sensible discourse on the jazz world begins with the Federal City. While jazz originally had its inceptions in the rugged, rural sounds of great Mississippi Delta bluesmen like Charley Patton and the wily riffs of Memphis's W.C. Handy, the nascent art form finally found its first roots amongst the African-American community of Washington, D.

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The Best of 2006: Part Deux - fun and then some

January 30

Exactly one week ago, The Scene brought you a brief run-down of the most awesome things to look forward to in the coming year. But that revealed that there's so much more to look forward to! Thus, enjoy this second installment of the Best of 2006. 6. "Factory Girl" - coming in September Imagine a movie about Andy Warhol's Factory starring Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller and Hayden "Star Wars" Christensen in which not one, but TWO members of Weezer play bit parts as the Velvet Underground.

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Sex toy soiree

By Melissa Beal | January 30

Tupperware, Longaberger Baskets and Pampered Chef equipment are the traditional products around which groups of women gather to pine over and purchase while munching on miniature cheesecakes and cucumber sandwiches. Now these in-home sales-slash-parties are moving out of the kitchen and into the bedroom.

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Daily helping of veggie-friendly eating

January 30

Vegetarians, perk up your ears! The historic Shaw district in Northwest D.C. has been making major commercial gains over the past few years, so while you struggle over the ethical dilemma of gentrification, enjoy the savory veggie-friendly cuisine of up-and-coming eatery, Vegetate.

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Veggie-friendly eating

By Marissa Newhall | January 30

Since almost all D.C. eateries serve up at least a few meat-free options, the District is a great place to go green. Check out these other vegan- and vegetarian-friendly restaurants - in all parts of Northwest D.C., and all serving up their fare for $13 or less - sure to please omnivores and herbivores alike.

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Danish graphic novel hits the stands, disappoints

By Michael Reichenberg | January 30

"Marlene" is your typical graphic novel, except erotic sex scenes have replaced the entire plot. What plot remains deals with a series of murders revolving around a very sexually active woman named Marlene. It's up to super cop Michael Joergenson to find the murderer.

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To do this week

By Erie Meyer | January 30

It's easy to stay on campus and watch ATV all night. It's easy to go to the Black Cat or the Malt Shop. It's easy to go see the plays at The Greenberg Theater that some lit professors count for extra credit. Well, the following things are easy to do, too - they just haven't been done to death yet.

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The hit list

January 30

1. Haircuts More people need haircuts and that's the honest truth. If you are sporting ANYTHING that even RESEMBLES a rattail or mullet, more power to you, but at this point it's just not a statement of individuality at all. Please ask that girl or guy down the hall with the clippers to chop that stuff off for you and then you can come to the next party.

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Music notes

January 30

Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins "Rabbit Fur Coat" (Team Love) Sounds Like: A decidedly secular white southern spiritual, and with twins! A- Jenny Lewis is the asymmetrical haircut dude's dream girl and the indie grrl's goddess, and has managed to convince about half the population that hot pants might possibly be cool again.

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Deerhoof stomps the Black Cat

January 30

By BEN LOZOVSKY Eagle Contributing Writer On Saturday evening at around 11, the Earth stood still and the Black Cat sat down. Not to say that the venerable old Washington landmark took a knee; rather the confused but enthusiastic crowd at D.C.'s premier indie venue was coaxed by a foursome of dancing beauties called Leg & Pants Dans Theatre into an Indian-style campfire romp.

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'Annapolis' can't muster the troops with plot holes, acting

By Jeff Lambert | January 26

Donnie Wahlberg has never had a successful film career like his younger brother, Marky Mark, of New Kids on the Block fame. And Donnie's role in the navy/boxing/coming-of-age drama "Annapolis" isn't going to bring him out of his brother's Calvin Klein billboard shadow.

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