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1 month ago | 
georgetownvoice.com | Elaine Clarke |Chris Almeida |Isabel Shepherd
On Saturday, Feb. 15, Prospect Records, Georgetown’s student-run record company, and D to Z Presents, a student radio show, hosted a benefit concert for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The concert, hosted in the Leavey Center’s Bulldog Alley, included performances from local D.C. band Pinky Lemon and student bands Wonk, Sense Memory, and Baltimore Avenue. The show drew over 100 people in attendance and, through ticketing and donations, was able to raise over $1,000 for MAP.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Nikki Farnham |Kevin Ruano |Isabel Shepherd
Sabrina Carpenter’s “‘give a fucks’ are on vacation.”Ahead of her Coachella debut this past weekend—a feat in and of itself, given the elite status of the music festival—the 24-year-old singer-songwriter released a single the night before. “Espresso” falls perfectly in line with Carpenter’s current brand. She’s Gen Z’s latest pop princess, embracing femininity in her music, glittery, delicate sense of style, and the diva-like confidence that defines her stage presence.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Amber Xie |Nathan B. Barber |Isabel Shepherd |Maanasi Chintamani
DTS returned for a sixth season on Feb. 23, bringing viewers back behind the scenes of the fast-paced and illustrious world of Formula 1 (F1) racing. The documentary series, which has covered every season of the sport since 2018, gives viewers a taste of what life is like for drivers and team owners off the track.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
sfs.georgetown.edu | Isabel Shepherd
On March 14, longtime tech journalist and alumna Kara Swisher (SFS’84) returned to Georgetown for a conversation with AOL co-founder Steve Case about her new memoir, “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.” The book traces the three decades she spent covering technology for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York magazine and the tech news site she founded with Walt Mossberg, Recode.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Isabel Shepherd |Ajani Jones |Tina Solki |Cole Kindiger
Don’t let the demure stage name fool you: Shygirl is anything but shy. Since 2016, the London-born singer, rapper, and DJ has been steadily crafting a catalog of vulgar, fiercely danceable club bangers. A longtime collaborator with experimental pop producer Sega Bodega, Shygirl takes the essence of the most exciting subgenres of electronic and pop music—from jungle to hyperpop—and dials them up to the max, creating songs that are feverishly hedonistic.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Tina Solki |Ajani Jones |Cole Kindiger |Isabel Shepherd
“We love y’all, we love y’all, we love y’all—we want you to get it right.” While accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter used his speech to criticize the Recording Academy—the voting body that selects the annual recipients of the coveted Grammy awards.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Isabel Shepherd |Maanasi Chintamani |Gabriel Mendoza |Sofia Kemeny
The data is in: 69% of Georgetown students are planning on proposing to one another this Valentine’s Day. If you find yourself among this sizable crew, we at Halftime urge you to forego the passé proposal spots of yesteryear (Dahlgren quad, the waterfront, the jumbotron at Cap One). To help you lovebirds out, we—the Georgetown community’s foremost experts on all things love and romance—compiled a list of the most special and memorable alternative locations.
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Feb 4, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Isabel Shepherd |Rhea Banerjee |Juliana Vaccaro |Maanasi Chintamani
Faye Webster and Lil Yachty might seem like unlikely collaborators; despite Yachty’s psych-rock turn in 2023 with Let’s Start Here., his trap-forward sound is miles away from Webster’s easy-listening indie-country discography. But the pair have an endearing origin story: the two Atlanta natives were before they drifted apart as adults. In the years since their schoolyard days, both have established themselves as dynamic creative forces.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Isabel Shepherd |Maanasi Chintamani |Lou Jacquin |Sarah Watson
Under stark fluorescent lighting, a rowdy crowd packs into an old warehouse, cheering enthusiastically for the hulking man in a menacing costume standing atop the wrestling ring at the center of the room. The mighty Gigántico, as this wrestler is known in the world of lucha libre, thunders back and forth across the ring as the twinkling opening piano riff of “I Will Survive” plays out.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
sfs.georgetown.edu | Isabel Shepherd
As the 2023 school year begins, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service is excited to welcome 13 new faculty members to our community: Ekin Birol, Melinda González, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Nader Hashemi, Adam P. Liff, Jonathan Lincoln, Emily Matson, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Vanessa Watters Opalo, Jackson Perry, Christi Smith, Titilola Halimat Somotan, and Yuri Zhukov.
