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'Mitts' Off

The 2012 presidential campaign is long over, but Mitt Romney hasn’t been forgotten — at least, not by Netflix.


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A partial Six-cess

If you’re searching for an album to play with the top down while cruising down the highway this summer, You Me At Six’s latest album “Cavalier Youth” is exactly what you’re looking for.


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Keeping up with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Most 57 year-old women cannot belt improvised vocals, dance the “Pony” and the “Mashed Potato” on stage and bring hundreds of people in a well-upholstered venue to their feet while wearing a bright silver dress with black fringe. But most 57 year-old women aren’t Sharon Jones.


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Modern Baseball hits home run

Earlier this year, I came across a tweet from emo-rock duo Dads, forecasting Philadelphia indie-punk group Modern Baseball ““will be the blink 182 of our time”:https://twitter.com/wearentdads/status/415349535112986624” With blink-182 ranking as my all-time favorite band, I found the comparison bold — and surprisingly, ultimately true.


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Reviving the rom-com

Rom-coms are my guilty pleasure. Despite its unoriginal, stock formula, my heart still melts watching “Love Actually.” I’m a proud, hopeless romantic with an unabashed belief in fairytales, soul mates and chance encounters.


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'Idiotas' offers few brains

Last weekend’s production of the Spanish play “Idiotas contemplando la nieve,” translated as “Idiots Contemplating the Snow,” marks the 32nd year of Spanish theater at the University of Virginia.


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'Wahlburgers' Flops

I had a hard time believing Mark Wahlberg had his own reality television show when I discovered “Wahlburgers,” the new show that details the life of the actor and his family and the burger restaurant they own: Walhburgers.


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An 'epic' production

With dramatic choir music, eerily colored lights and a stage with a seemingly endless amount of trap doors, the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. spared no expense in its recent production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” creating a show that can only be described as epic.


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A study in 'Shlohmo'tion:

The great tragedy of the evening, to quote a rather unwelcome 3 a.m. text message, was that “nobody could get up and dance.” When the 22-year-old uber-stylish Shlohmo — the stage name of Henry Laufer — loped onto the small, stuffy stage of Old Cabell Hall’s auditorium, he was faced with a crowd which was entirely seated, surely to his dismay.


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Almost overkill:

I’m no stranger to scary stories. At eight years old, my dad introduced me to the twisted mind of Edgar Allan Poe and ever since then I’ve been utterly intrigued by all things dark and mysterious.


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Seinfeld's latest show falters

Comedians. Cars. Coffee. One would think it impossible to ruin these three almost universally appealing things. But Jerry Seinfeld manages to ruin all three in his Internet show, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”


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Morals and mysteries

This past Wednesday, short story writer and mystery novelist Lauren Groff performed a book reading as part of a series sponsored by the English department. Though the excerpts were not entirely captivating, the experience offered valuable insight on the writing process.


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A “Golden” experience

“Portraying the Golden Age,” currently on display at the Fralin Museum of Art, is an understated but inspiring exhibition that highlights intricate portrait-style art from the Netherlands.


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Almost smooth "Sail"ing

“Black Sails,” the new hit show on Starz, cruised into viewers’ homes late January and has quickly become one television’s newest shows-to-watch. The pilot episode was the most popular debut on Starz since the channel’s inception, and a second season has already been announced.


Latest Podcast

Today, we sit down with both the president and treasurer of the Virginia women's club basketball team to discuss everything from making free throws to recent increased viewership in women's basketball.