• Not sure what to buy your parents this Christmas? For gifts that will both please and impress, check out the Voice’s Top 10 Movies and Albums of 2007. Britney fans, be forewarned: Blackout, despite its fitting title, didn’t make the cut.
• Men’s basketball proves that 36 minutes of neck-and-neck play doesn’t mean much if you can’t hold out for the last four minutes, Tony Francavilla reports. Better luck next time, ‘Bama.
• President DeGioia’s working groups are taking a dream initiative and making it a reality, with plans for an LGBTQ center opening in fall 2008 well on their way.
• Also in News, Juliana Brint gives us a glimpse inside an emergency Ward 5 community meeting as she explains the hubbub over a plan to close 23 of D.C.’s public schools.
• Two study days not enough for you? The Voice’s editorial board agrees.
• Darfur may be slipping out of the public eye, but that doesn’t mean the atrocities or efforts of groups like STAND have abated. Tim Fernholz tells us what Georgetown’s Student Anti-Genocide Coalition is up to and what the U.S. and Georgetown can do to help.
• Got a fever and the only prescription is some delicious Peruvian chicken? Sara Carothers has just the thing for you.
• Ira Glass doesn’t have a monopoly on poignant, sometimes humorous vignettes. The Voice staff throws down the gauntlet with some holiday tales of their own.

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-Sam Sweeney, Blog Editor