GW Closed Monday, Dec. 21 [snOMG]

Good news for any of you GW employees reading our blog tonight instead of checking your own email.

Via the GW InfoMail system:

The George Washington University will be closed Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Designated employees should report to work. All other employees need not report.

The snowpocalypse of 2009 continues!  Enjoy sleeping in tomorrow, GW staff.  For those of you who live in FoBo too, get on out and enjoy the snow, take some pictures of your fluffy white liberator (and share them!)

Sartorial Saturday: Raas Chaos Edition

raas02Just a remind that Raas Chaos is today! Check the website for a neat little into video (warning: auto-play) set to Wale’s Chillin’. Teams from all over the East Coast are going to be here tonight.

Teams performing are:
New York University
Columbia University
Purdue University
Indiana University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Pennsylvania
Virginia Commonwealth University
With exhibition performances by The George Washington University and the Rhythmaya School of Dance.
The winning team gets $2,500 and a competition spot in the Raas All-Stars national competition in Dallas, TX, so the stakes is high. Raas Chaos is also one of the biggest, most hyped, and best raas-gharba competitions in the country, and the GW team is pretty awesome (so awesome that they kept winning their own competition until moving into the exhibition category (and also when they lost in 2005 to RPI)). The competition is hosted by GWU’s South Asian Society, and was started in 2001.
While many people are probably more familiar with the South Asian dance style of bhangra, Raas/Gharba dance involves moves with dandiyas (shown in the photos), or small batons, as well as clappingraas03. They dance to traditional music that’s more often than not mixed with hip-hop beats, creating a unique blend of old and new.
Tickets can be found at Ticketmaster or the Lisner Box Office. Doors open at 6:30 pm, show starts at 7 pm.
More on the GW Hatchet.
And the Raas Chaos Twitter.
Thanks to Seeta for the photos of last year’s GW team in action!

Weekday Roundup

Happy Monday, readers! Not a lot of thrills this week, but some good events for the career-minded among us.

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Colonial Invasion, Awesome or Awful?

That magical time of year has finally come when you can barely drive along H Street, lines run out-the-door at all the area Starbucks, and generally cute but often overdressed eager young college students run amok all throughout FoBo.  That’s right, all week and especially this weekend, George Washington University students will be arriving to begin or resume their college careers.  There’s pros and cons for sure, and always some hilarity,  so what do you think about it? Are you excited to see all the students back, are you one of them, or do you prefer FoBo sans students?  Vote in our poll and explain yourself in the comments.

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Summer Restaurant Week!

Destination DC and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington have finally deigned to post what restaurants are participating in Restaurant Week. RW is from August 24-30, and the list is here, and Open Table is here. T

A complete run down of FoBo (and maybe a couple “downtown”) restaurants, or view them all on a Google map.

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