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Interview with Ben Chan, MMUG ’05
For years Midnight Mug employees have been puzzled by the mysterious paintings hidden behind the soda machines. On a sunny Friday afternoon I sit in Midnight with the paintings in front of me,...
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Are you a Midnight Writer?
Do you procrastinate by writing poetry? Do you write analytical essays with the flair of a novella? Dickens, Faulkner, Kerouac, and Twain are alright, but are you convinced that you’re the next big...
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Interview: Tucker Cholvin, Winner of the UG Arts Scholarship
<<During Spring 2012, Uncommon Grounds selected awarded three Hoyas the UG Arts Scholarship, which encourages students every year to submit their visual or performing arts contributions and...
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Midnight Writer Scholarship: Read The Winning Works
At long last, the Midnight Writer Scholarships have been awarded! After reading 169 incredible submissions, the judging committee was hard-pressed to narrow it down to only four winners, which...
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2012 UG Arts Scholarship Winner: Tate Tucker
<<During Spring 2012, Uncommon Grounds selected awarded three Hoyas the UG Arts Scholarship, which encourages students every year to submit their visual or performing arts contributions and...
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Interview with the Mastermind Behind “Chalk Weezy”
If you walked through Red Square in the past few days, you may have noticed the most amazing thing ever. By which I of course mean the phenomenally accurate chalk drawing of Lil Wayne. You may have...
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UG’s Weekly Open Mic Night: Gideon Grove
Every Tuesday night at 7:30 PM, Uncommon Grounds has the pleasure of hosting live musicians, whether they be Georgetown students or homegrown local DC talent. Yesterday, UG customers welcomed the...
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Uncommon Ground’s Art Scholarship Winner: Catherine Farr
Welcome to the first of three posts on the recent winners of the UG Art Scholarship! Read below about the beautiful necklaces you’ve seen hanging in UG – creations by College senior Catherine Farr. I...
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Profile of a Poetry Thesis: Spotlight on Senior Adam Greenberg
When did you start writing poetry? The fall semester of my sophomore year I took “Intro to Poetry” with Professor Mark McMorris, who eventually became my advisor for my thesis project. McMorris’s class...
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A Literary Guide to Washington D.C.
So you get to Georgetown, classes haven’t really started yet, and you get the insatiable desire to just skip all the intro events and go read in your new room. But first you need a good book – maybe a...
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My name is Alex, and I’m from Long Island, New York. Towards the end of November, I was awarded the UG Art Scholarship for my submission of selections from Cataphora, an 80,000 word novel in...
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Breaking in to the D.C. Arts Scene: A Guide for Newbies
Hollywood is in the middle of a love affair with D.C. Shows like House of Cards, Homeland, and Scandal glamorize the bureaucratic suit-and-tie District lifestyle, transforming mundane Metro rides and...
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LIT SPIT: Hannah Kaufman
Merriam-Webster defines literature as, “written works (such as poems, plays, and novels) that are considered to be very good and to have lasting importance.” Urban Dictionary defines spitting as, “To...
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The A to Z of DC Art Galleries
Tourists and locals alike flock to D.C.’s art galleries as they offer up some of the world’s finest and most well known works. Below is a list of some of the nation’s and the world’s top art galleries....
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LIT SPIT: Taylor Bond
Merriam-Webster defines literature as, “written works (such as poems, plays, and novels) that are considered to be very good and to have lasting importance.” Urban Dictionary defines spitting as, “To...
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LIT SPIT: Sean Stempler
Merriam-Webster defines literature as, “written works (such as poems, plays, and novels) that are considered to be very good and to have lasting importance.” Urban Dictionary defines spitting as, “To...
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Midnight Mug Artist Spotlight: Laura Ryals
Here, at the Midnight Mug, artists can hang their artwork on the wall for all students and visitors to see. I recently had the chance to sit down with our first artist, Laura Ryals, and ask about her...
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Skin Deep: Tattoos and Body Art at Georgetown
Arianna Calabrese is never naked. And Walt Whitman is never fully dead. The two come together in the most unlikely of ways, in a creamy combination of ink and flesh directly above her right hipbone....
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Oscar Buzz: Tales of Taboo
This season’s oscar buzz hums in harmony to a female sound of otherwise unspoken stories. So far the highest praises have been sung about films that combine the soul of an indie and female stardom for...
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