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Shaw and Tell
Scenes from U Street: 2000 to 2007

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Scenes from U Street: 2000 to 2007

Issue of Mar. 30 - Apr. 5, 2007

News and Features

Columns

  • Lost Man Standing
    In nearly two decades of boxing, Mo Wilson's never missed a round.
    Cheap Seats
  • Unfinished Business
    What will Mayor Adrian Fenty do about Bishop Alfred A. Owens?
    Loose Lips
  • Golden Shower
    Can pee cure toe fungus?
    The Straight Dope
  • Playing Head Games
    Dan gets between a man and a mistake.
    Savage Love

Eats

  • News Bites
    Busboys and Poets mulls a Virginia location, and shuttered restaurant 21 P could sell its liquor licence to pay its debts.
    Young & Hungry

Movies

  • Slow Motion Devotion
    Carthusian monks meditate on God in Into Great Silence; a young man ponders a robbery plot in The Lookout.
    Film Review
  • Quality Time Travel
    Reviewed: Meet the Robinsons
    Film Review
  • That Sinking Feeling
    Terrence Howard plays the coach of an inner-city swim team in Pride; the drama Islander depicts tensions in a Maine fishing town.
    Film Review

Music

Theater

Arts and Events

  • Fight Back Backlash
    Regulatory sweeps in the Fenty era have businessowners crying foul
    Show & Tell
  • The Mod That Failed
    The Corcoran's exhibit on Modernism misses the movement's downsides.
    Gallery
  • Speed Reads
    Reviewed: Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment by Gerald Weissmann
    Book Reviews
  • In & Out: Museums
    Arts
  • Natural Woman
    WETA's Around Town art critic skips town when searching for her own inspiration.
    Artifacts
  • Who's Holocaust Is It, Anyway?
    The Theatre Lab's Holocaust-themed improv class is no laughing matter.
    Artifacts
  • test
    Arts

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