In her third and final column describing her bone marrow donation, Alanna Schubach covers the details of her operation and the uncertain outcome of the recipient.
"Ladder 49" is unique in a very fundamental way. The goal of most movies is to form an attachment between the main character and the audience so that the conflict of the film transcends the actor and inhabits the audience. But the purpose of "Ladder 49" is to put Jack Morrison up on a pedestal as representative of all courageous firefighters. The entire movie provides reverence for him.
Tucked away in a residential neighborhood near AU is the Kreeger Museum, which displays the varied collection of David Kreeger, a former chief executive officer of GEICO, and his wife, Carmen. David used the wealth he amassed to build up the artistic community in D.C.
Scene music writers briefly cover new releases from Young Buck, Holly Golightly, Four Square, Mark Lanegan Band, Phil Collins, and Denim and Diamonds.
The steady beat of the bass shakes the basement of McKinley, bouncing off the walls and mixing with the vocal track. The voice on the recording is smooth and alluring, beckoning to all who descend the stairs to the recording studio. The facilities seem simple and bare. But in the basement audio tech studio, a group of college-aged students prepares a CD that could potentially launch multiple solo careers in the music industry.
Ross Nover's Not Quite Wrong comic for October 4, 2004.
As a text, Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" is an exercise in restraint, about the subtleties of interaction between husband and wife and parents and children. As a theatrical production at the Kennedy Center, it is an exercise in using comedy to galvanize that restraint, which lends tenderness to some scenes and triviality to others.
Carrie Moskal's Nerdspeak comic for October 4, 2004.
On Good Charlotte's second release, "The Young And The Hopeless" the band grew up some and made their mark on mainstream music by addressing a teenage diary's worth of issues partnered with great, catchy pop-punk. In the band's latest offering, "The Chronicles of Life and Death," the band has become much more serious and introspective.
It was the hippest wake in Washington. Kegs were wheeled in from the back room, bodies were pressed four deep against the bar, regulars spilled outside to Florida Avenue. Visions - the independently-owned movie theater where everybody knows your name - was dead, and hundreds of people came to pay their respects last Sunday.
In few instances do actors in a film rally around a common purpose greater than publicizing their careers. But the cast of "Ladder 49" is different.
I was recently at a kegger attended by hundreds of freshman. I did not do this on purpose. As you should know, I am totally against underage drinking (ha, ha). To make things more fun, it was a theme party. A Catholic school theme. Good times. I actually went to a parochial school, but I never had any experiences with jungle juice or even girls with pigtails. What a shame.
You would never imagine that people would be so easy to fool. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are surrounded by paraphernalia related to their organization, the Yes Men: T-shirts, stickers, Vote for Bush pamphlets and credentials for the Republican National Convention.
A mosh pit at a Von Bondies concert? While it may seem unlikely, since the band isn't known for the hard rock usually associated with moshing, this is exactly what happened at the band's concert Sunday night at Fletcher's Bar in Baltimore.
Millie & Al's 2440 18th St. NW Metro: Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan (Red Line) A For anyone in the mood for a night away from the clubs, Millie & Al's is the place to go. On any given night, visitors can watch sports on any one of their four big-screen TVs and listen to its favorite tunes on the jukebox.
Instead of the typical listing of shows featuring indie "it" bands, the best of pop punk and radio-ready adult contemporary, the 9:30 club is taking a night off from its usual three-act music shows on Tuesday to present something less than usual. WEDrock, an event put on by the gay rights coalition Freedom to Marry, is a different kind of show altogether.
It's amazing where you can get if you just act like you're in charge. "The Yes Men" chronicles the conferences that Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are invited to, under the assumption that they are representing the World Trade Organization, where they deliver bogus presentations that are meant to show the true agenda of the WTO as they see it.
RALEIGH, N.C. - There we were. Sixth row back, right hand side. The screen suddenly went blue, flickered and then the credits began to roll: A&E Biography, The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. "Check out that dumb broad," an inebriated freshman yelled from the back of the bus.
"The Motorcycle Diaries," a raw and visceral film that is truly one of the year's best, offers the notion that self-recognition can only come as a result of the unselfish desire to honestly know your nation and its people.
Solutions by The State News
