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May 30, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sofia Kemeny |Cole Kindiger |Eileen Miller |Eileen S Chen
Leisure Wild is not exactly the first word that students would use to describe Georgetown. More likely than not, it does not even crack the top 10 descriptors (ambitious, academic, and elitist are perhaps some of the terms that make up this hypothetical list). However, to Georgetown alumna Lana Nauphal (CAS ’19), the term “wild” defined life and love on campus.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eileen Miller |Eileen S Chen |Allison Reagan |Hailey Wharram
It is 9 p.m. on a Wednesday in the middle of March and creative director Lucy Zhang (COL ’26) is untangling the significance of a project that demanded much of her time since the beginning of the school year. Students, like Zhang, took time away from schoolwork to write and learn a two-act script and original music. They spent midterms season in the basement rehearsal rooms of Davis Performing Arts Center (DPAC) as well as countless hours practicing and perfecting songs, scenes, and choreography.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eileen Miller |Claire Goldberg |Hailey Wharram |Amanda Yen
If you think technological advancements have already made our world a touch too dystopian for your liking, reading Bora Chung’s short stories will either leave you feeling relieved that the worlds she depicts are merely fictional or shuddering at the thought of what our future might hold. Your Utopia, the South Korean novelist’s latest collection, contains eight delightfully strange science fiction stories translated into English by Anton Hur. Published in the U.S. in Jan.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eileen Miller |Brynne Long |Paul James |Emmy Buck
From Jan. 25 through 28, one D.C. theatre bearing a striking resemblance to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre presented four shows inspired by the Bard’s works. Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library, The Reading Room Festival offered a variety of talks and events over the course of four days, with each day headlined by a new show.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eileen Miller |Maanasi Chintamani |Kulsum Gulamhusein
With expensive equipment, a need for a body of water, and a history tied to elite English private schools, rowing—often grouped with sports like polo, golf, and sailing—has historically been seen as the recreation of the upper class.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eileen Miller |Jack Townsend |Graham Krewinghaus |Aashna Nadarajah
Co-founders of the Satanic Temple Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jerry spoke about their mission and activism on Oct. 16 in the HFSC Idol Social Room. The event was met with controversy, but was intended to bring a diverse group of voices to campus and spark conversation, according to Georgetown University Lecture Fund organizers.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
frontrunnermag.com | Eileen Miller
Signe Baumane calls romantic love, “the most overhyped human emotion.” Her latest film, My Love Affair With Marriage, also concerns itself with love, but takes a more cynical–and humorous–outlook, drawing on Baumane’s own philosophy towards and experiences with love. My Love Affair With Marriage follows its protagonist Zelma as she navigates sex, love, and womanhood, as she comes of age in the Soviet Union.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
frontrunnermag.com | Eileen Miller
Every summer, the front pages of newspapers around the world are filled with images of wildfires. Burning through millions of acres of land a year, these unstoppable forces of nature are one of the most prominent faces of the climate crisis. Much of the news coverage is focused on the regions most prone to wildfires–and the regions most known to have them. But fires burn even in places one wouldn’t expect.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
frontrunnermag.com | Eileen Miller
After being diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease, filmmaker Ken August Meyer found himself reexamining the works of 20th century Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, who had suffered from the same disease. Meyer’s documentary, Angel Applicant, chronicles his journey with the systemic scleroderma and the relationship he developed with the later works of Klee as he grew to relate to them on a new, deeply personal level.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
frontrunnermag.com | Eileen Miller
When you hear the phrase “homeowner association,” what do you picture? Perhaps it is a council of stuffy suburbanites making rules on everything from the height of front lawns to the accepted color tulips allowed in one’s garden. Or maybe it’s the fine imposed for breaking one of those sometimes reasonable, sometimes pedantic rules.
