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Exhibits | Sites Unseen
A Labor of Brotherly Love
The George Washington Masonic Memorial is superior to the Washington Monument in many ways. One is that it’s open. “Here’s our earthquake damage,” deadpanned the guide...
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Exhibits | Sites Unseen
Faithful Reproductions
The premise behind the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America makes sense: Provide full-scale replicas of sacred sites for those who can’t make it abroad. This Epc...
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Film | Riffs
Sick World
In “Contagion,” opening Friday, attractive doctors (Kate Winslet among them) fight a fictitious pandemic. Here are more cinematic bugs you can’t catch (proba...
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Exhibits | Sites Unseen
Sites for Sore Eyes
D.C.’s big-name museums have a lot to offer in the summer months. The threat of being trampled. The threat of trampling someone else. Views of tall people’s heads....
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Fit
Cheer Leaders
Hurraw! Balm is the cosmetic equivalent of that guy who’s good at everything but who’s not hateable, because of all those orphanages he built. The vegan, organic, cruelty-free, kosher, handmade, fair-trade brand recently added Moon Balm a...
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Fit
Guinea Pig
Can’t handle the truth? Take a picture of your food with the new iPhone app Meal Snap ($2.99), which “auto-magically” determines calorie counts. The interface is simple yet polished: Point, shoot, wait for three to five minutes for ...
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Television
On the Air, Out There
Hollywood is remaking British TV shows faster than our royalty-ruled friends can create new ones. In true American fashion, when one region’s resources are thoroughly depleted, we simply find a new spot to suck dry. Concepts from Israel, Denmar...
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Fit
Easy to Swallow
Pharmaceutical companies have a captive audience. If you need Celexa, Propecia or any other drug with a meaningless name that sounds either soothing or Latin, you have to choke it down whether it’s uncoated, pointy or tastes like weed killer sm...
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Best of 2010
Best Museum
The NGA’s collection spans what our mom calls “stuff that looks like real life” to the giant swaths of paint on canvas about which ignorant people say, “My kid could do that.” Also, there’s gelato. No Way. Way!: We...
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Blog Log
Kanye Not a Walmart Shopper
» “Kanye, just like you I am shocked! An album titled ‘Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ with a bare nipple on the cover was banned from Walmart? You don’t say! Who could have foreseen that?” — Thefrisky.com is more sho...
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Blog Log
American Mom
» “IF THE ROLE SHE PLAYED on ‘Beaver,’ was later satirized with the knowing cynicism of our age, [Barbara] Billingsley‘s acting should be remembered as first-rate, as an embodiment of a time that was perhaps more innocen...
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Food & Drink
Short Order
Cryptographer cooks will enjoy deciphering the 140-characters-or-less recipes in this wee tome, which includes a 17-page glossary and a symbols chart. Even those well-versed in Twitter may find author Maureen Evans’ directions baffling, but onc...
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Arts
Fall Arts Preview 2010
Frozen Over Nothing quite communicates the commodification of childhood like appending “ON ICE” to the title of any treasured story. “The Velveteen Rabbit … ON ICE.” See? But if any giant corporate entity can successfull...
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Books
Coming to a Book Near You
In a world where movie adaptations corrupt the imagination (picture Harry Potter, not Daniel Radcliffe), book trailers — videos for would-be bestsellers — were inevitable. Is this bad? Good? Silly? “I think on the whole they’r...
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Home
Widget Wrestling
Picture Shiloh Jolie-Pitt with a tail. That’s how upset we are by exquisite gadgets saddled with grotesque cords, crass stands and clunky charging bricks. “A strip was fine when we just had lamps. Now we have all these interestingly shape...
