Art Sorority for Girls: Archive

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May 26th

May 20th

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“I was starting from zero in terms of rebuilding a social circle—so, a lot of...”

– This and other Sorority tales, online now at DCist.

May 7th

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May 1st

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Apr 23rd

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Write it down so I can read you Write it down and I’ll believe you Sing it louder — I can play it Don’t make me say it Don’t make me say it Half a decade out, the face-clawing, soul-gouging, heart-exploding new album by Dan Fishback is upon is. Get more.

Mar 31st

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Today is the 2012 deadline for submissions to Fort Reno, the annual summer concert series for D.C.-area bands. Each applicant is required to write a statement explaining who they are and why they want to play the Fort Reno stage. Here’s what I came up with. My name is Daoud Tyler-Ameen. I’m a 27-year-old New York native, and a resident of the District of Columbia as of early 2011. Art...

Mar 20th

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Mar 12th

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Mar 11th

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Mar 3rd

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Feb 27th

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Feb 26th

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Feb 13th

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Feb 10th

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Jan 30th

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Resolved: There are wrong ways to be semi-nude.

Thumbs down for ladies: Shirtless and bra-less with jeans. Thumbs down for dudes: Shirt up top, nothing below. Shirt plus undies is approved for both. (Dudes must remove socks.) Thoughts?

Jan 22nd

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Jan 14th

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Before I forget: The songs I listened to most in 2011. You may note a theme. Land of Talk, “It’s Okay” (2008) Rediscovered on shuffle, quickly deployed as my go-to “late-night stroll to think about the future and stuff” soundtrack. Superchunk, “Digging For Something” (2010) Purchased the day I moved to D.C., listened to intently on the train. Was...

Jan 4th

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2012

I missed a lot of marks. I blew a lot of deadlines. I did an awful lot of worrying. And I learned some things. Here’s the one that stands to be most valuable to me this year, from an August Times article about decision fatigue: “Good decision making is not a trait of the person, in the sense that it’s always there,” Baumeister says. “It’s a state that fluctuates.” His studies show that...

Jan 1st

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It’s good practice for creative folks to hang around people who do the thing they do, but better. My boy Lars Gotrich (real name, no gimmicks) is really, really good at listening to music, and crossed my path in a year when that very skill — one I’d taken for granted for my entire existence — seemed to be slipping through my fingers. He doesn’t know it yet, but we’ll be...

Dec 28th

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