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Hunting for a Home
Through her love of cats, Laura Goodman found the love of her life. ''I fell in love with my partner when she came...
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The Pets Issue
Some might argue that animals don't belong in close confines with humans, that the wild is more suitable for paws, fins, beaks and claws. While...
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Greg Zehnacker's Death Hits Beyond Green Lantern
Greg Zehnacker, co-owner of the gay bar Green Lantern and a longtime fixture in the D.C. area's nightlife scene, died in his sleep Tuesday morning,...
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Magazine: 2014-02-20 edition (PDF)
Metro Weekly – 02-20-14 – Pets Issue by MetroWeekly
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From Feral to Forever
One of the knocks on the door last Halloween was not trick nor treat. It was a representative from the Humane Society holding the downstairs...
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Mixed Messages
Leave it to Virginia to throw a wrench in my wedding plans. This was to be the year that my husband, Cavin, and I took...
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Winter escapes: Check out Palm Springs and Key West
That rodent Punxsutawney Phil says there are many more weeks of winter left in the season but that doesn’t mean you have to sit around...
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Two K-98.3 DJs admit to hoax surrounding mother’s nasty refusal of a birthday party invite from two gay dads
“We were attempting to spur a healthy discourse on a highly passionate topic, but we made a mistake by misleading our listeners into thinking that...
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Looking into the Human Genome Project at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum
Thanks to the work of the decade-long, $3 billion Human Genome Project, human society has gained much greater insight into our bodies and our health....
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Kronos Quartet coming to the Smith Center
Former artists-in-residence at the University of Maryland, the eclectic classical contemporary group the Kronos Quartet join in concert the famed Malian vocalist Hawa Kasse Mady...
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Cryfest: The Cure vs. The Smiths Dance Party at the Black Cat
The Black Cat hosts Cryfest: The Cure vs. The Smiths, one of its popular DJ-driven battle-of-the-bands dance parties, and this one may actually be a...
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Beaches — from book to movie to musical at Signature
Yes, it’s true: Signature Theatre presents a world premiere musical adapted from the 1985 novel Beaches, best remembered as the 1988 weepy film starring Bette...
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Actress Ellen Page shares emotional coming out: ”I am gay… I’m tired of hiding.”
Hollywood actress Ellen Page spoke at a Human Rights Campaign conference for gay, bi and transgender youth on Friday, Feb. 14. She offered her support and sympathy...
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Film notes; Tim’s Vermeer, Amelie and Oscar-nominated shorts
Teller, of the comedy duo Penn & Teller, directs the documentary Tim’s Vermeer, co-produced by the duo’s Penn Jillette, which follows a Texas-based inventor who...
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As marriage equality victories stack up, sights remain on Supreme Court
Last June, when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act defining marriage as between a man and a...
