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Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams star in The Vow, released Feb. 10. McAdams character loses her memory, forcing Tatums character to try to win her back. Photo courtesy www.usatoday.com.

‘The Vow’ doesn’t deliver as promised

By Lucy Chen February 15, 2012

The latest installment of romance movies with Rachel McAdams, titled “The Vow,” arrived Feb. 10, but it was essentially an update of her 2004 film “The Notebook,” another movie in which she lost...

Sophomore Jack Jobst, lead guitarist for the last years winning band Lockhouse 8, performed at Battle of the Bands last year. Jobst and the rest of the band hope to repeat this year. Photo by Annie Russell.

Students band together to fight cancer

By Lucy Chen February 14, 2012

With guitars, drumsticks and microphones in their arsenal, these mercenaries of modern rock are preparing for the fight of their lives in the name of a worthy cause. The second annual Battle of the...

Runners take a 1.5-mile trip on the Photo by Gigi Silver.

Participants bare all for children’s tumor research at Cupid’s Undie Run

By Lucy Chen February 12, 2012

Participants in the Cupid’s Undie Run yesterday took off more than their clothes — they also stripped down their wallets for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. The third annual Undie Run attracted...

Photo courtesy Rachel Bird.

Photo of the Day: February 12

By Lucy Chen February 12, 2012
Sophomore Rachel Bird won the second Photo Club contest last week with this photo. The theme was portraits.
Photo courtesy Dale and the Zdubs.

Alums form Dale and the ZDubs, release EP

By Lucy Chen February 11, 2012

Since alumni band Dale and the ZDubs formed over this past fall, it’s brought some serious funk to Bethesda. In the past few months, Dale and the ZDubs has performed at Bethesda restaurants like Wing...

Graphic courtesy www.bethesda.org.

Imagination Stage hosts seventh annual ‘Play in a Day’

By Lucy Chen February 10, 2012

In the span of 24 hours, a space shuttle orbits the earth 16 times, a season of the TV show "24" comes to an end and six original 10-minute plays are written, rehearsed and performed. The seventh...

Junior Ali Foreman (left) and Emma, one of her host sisters, enjoy a beautiful day by Hout Bay. Foreman and the other exchange students have also visited a wildlife park and Robben Island, among other excursions. Photo courtesy Ali Foreman.

South Africa: Oh, the places you’ll go

By Lucy Chen February 9, 2012
It's been only two and a half weeks since my last post, but in that time, I've experienced more than I could have ever imagined through visits to a wildlife park, the prison that held Nelson Mandela and a leadership camp.
Senior Sam Harman (center) speaks on a panel at a bullying symposium Feb. 4. The countys Office of Human Rights sponsored the event. Photo by Liam Knox.

Senior speaks at bullying symposium

By Lucy Chen February 8, 2012

Senior Sam Harman discussed bullying in schools as part of a panel at a symposium Feb. 4 sponsored by the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights and Committee on Hate/Violence. Many community members...

WUSA9 News airs party footage in underage drinking series

WUSA9 News airs party footage in underage drinking series

By Lucy Chen February 3, 2012

As part of its series "WASTED: Young and Using," WUSA9 News aired Feb. 2 a segment that includes video of a student's Dec. 10 house party, in which the police cited about 35 students. Students seen in...

Dancers perform a traditional lion dance during a Chinese New Year parade in D.C.s Chinatown Jan. 30. The dragon is especially fitting this year, as its the year of the dragon. Photo by Annie Russell.

Chinatown parade celebrates the year of the dragon

By Lucy Chen February 1, 2012

Families of all ethnicities swarmed the sidewalks, smiling and pointing at the Chinese Princesses and the children performing martial arts moves, while street vendors sold firecrackers, whose resounding...

Brittany Norwood sentenced to life in prison without parole

By Lucy Chen January 29, 2012

Brittany Norwood was sentenced to life in prison without parole Jan. 27 for the March 2010 murder of her Lululemon Athletica Bethesda coworker Jayna Murray. Norwood was found guilty of first-degree...

The 9:30 Club at the intersection of 9th and V Streets hosts some of the most popular concerts in the area. This semester, bands like Augustana are playing there. Photo courtesy www.nytimes.com.

Upcoming concerts this semester

By Lucy Chen January 29, 2012

Out with the old and in with the new — musically, at least. Many bands are performing early this year with new singles and new albums, and the Black & White can help you choose the best concerts. ...

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