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Oct 13, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Aminah Malik |Brian McMahon |Annemarie Cuccia |Graham Piro
“It is the type of town where you get asked out on LinkedIn.”As 31-year-old Perry Slomnicki summed up in one simple sentence, dating in the District is nothing short of a mess. For its seventh season, Netflix’s Love is Blind is back for another round in the “pods,” this time in the nation’s capital.
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May 22, 2024 | 
syracuse.com | Graham Piro
Graham Piro, of Washington, D.C., is a fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to defending freedom of speech and academic freedom. Popular ideas rarely need protecting, and principles only reveal themselves when they’re tested. It’s only when people utter thoughts that others hate that our collective commitment to free speech is put through the wringer.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Zachary Warren |Graham Piro |Emma Francois |Ajani Jones
Content Warning: This article contains brief descriptions of warfare and political violenceMost Americans have the immense privilege of not knowing what war looks like. They can read every novel, see every documentary, and watch every live television broadcast, but truthfully, they could never imagine what all-out warfare looks like from a first-hand perspective.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Eileen S Chen |Graham Piro |Claire Smith |Ajani Jones
“She’s brought a ludicrously capacious bag,” Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) sniffed at the $2,890 Burberry tote on the shoulder of Greg Hirsch’s (Nicholas Braun) date. The worlds of high fashion, film, and TV have long influenced each other in a feedback cycle that creates, reflects, and responds to social trends and cultural attitudes. 2023 was the undeniable era of “quiet luxury,” an aesthetic that champions simplicity and subtlety over flashy designer branding.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
persuasion.community | Graham Piro
The holiday break cannot come soon enough for some of America’s elite universities. The fallout from the fateful testimony of three top university presidents on Capitol Hill continues unabated. Liz Magill, the president of Penn, has announced her resignation, while Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, has barely survived, and MIT president Sally Kornbluth is under fire from alumni.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Graham Piro |Caroline Samoluk |Claire Goldberg |Madison Cheng
As Priscilla Beaulieu (soon to be Presley) navigates the realms between innocence and infatuation, she gently traces a heart around her and Elvis Presley’s names. This snapshot of girlhood, familiar to so many lovesick teens, subtly foreshadows the romance and entrapment that jointly defines the fabric of their iconic relationship.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Mia Boykin |Graham Piro |Elspeth Campbell |John Szieff
October has begun! Let the horror movie fans crawl out from the underbelly of film nerds and begin their treacherous movie marathons. Whether binging all 10 Saw films or attempting to decode the Stephen King universe, the time is nigh to sink deeper and deeper into your couch until Halloween. Unless you’re a Black horror fan; in that case, you may only have a week’s worth of viewing content that won’t kill you off in the first act or invigorate annoyance at stereotypes.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Ben Jakabcsin |Henry Skarecky |Graham Piro |Roman Peregrino
College football is now in full swing, and while most fans are soaking in the season’s top headlines—the incomparable skill of Caleb Williams, the swagger of Deion Sanders’s Colorado Buffaloes, or the possible return of Texas to football powerhouse status—there’s a group of fans out there that prefer a different type of spectacle. These fans—known as Sickos—seek out the weird and unusual corners of college football.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Ajani Jones |Danielle Guida |Graham Piro |Maya Kominsky
Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault, eating disorders, depression, emotional abuse, and self-harm. Spoiler warning for Heartstopper season twoDefining “love” is an impossible task. From the biblical and philosophical to the romantic and platonic, love has always been a common storytelling thread. When viewed through the lens of queerness, seeking definition becomes even more complex.
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May 2, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Dylan Campione |Caroline H Huang |Graham Piro |Jonny Amon
On this episode of Turf & Burn, co-hosts Caroline and Dylan dive into massive NHL playoff upsets, including the Florida Panthers beating the NHL record setting Boston Bruins in Game 7, the Toronto Maple Leafs finally overcoming their first round playoff drought by beating the Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Seattle Kraken becoming theĀ first franchise in NHL history to earn its first ever series win against the reigning Stanley Cup champions, the Colorado Avalanche.
