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'Monumental' disaster

The last movie I watched about Nazi Germany was “Inglourious Basterds” — and unfortunately, I preferred Quentin Tarantino’s fictitious World War II account to George Clooney’s story based on actual events.


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“Monsieur Lazhar”

After several wonderful films shown around Grounds, this year’s French Film Festival closed with a particularly inspiring, 2011 Academy Award nominated film, “Monsieur Lazhar.” This film depicts the lives of a class of Montreal elementary school students after their teacher commits suicide in the classroom.


SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 09:  Bronze medalists the United States figure skating team (L-R) Meryl Davis, Charlie White, Gracie Gold, Ashley Wagner, Jeremy Abbott, Jason Brown, Maria Castelli and Simon Shnapir celebrate during the flower ceremony for the Team Figure Skating Overall during day two of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Iceberg Skating Palace onon February 9, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.  (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
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Team event barely skates by

The Winter Olympics are in full swing, bringing with them intense hockey games, crazy ski jumping and enticing rounds of speed skating. I’d argue the most eye-catching event, though, is figure skating.


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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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