Arts + Entertainment
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Pop Love
It's funny how freeing coming out can be. Though Mika only officially came out as gay a few months ago, after he had already completed...
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Horse Play
{Warhorse (Photo by Brinkhoff Mogenburg)} Christopher Mai is a dancer by training, and has done some previous work with puppets. But for his latest role?...
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Unfilmable
If there's anything worth praising in Cloud Atlas, the colossal adaptation of David Mitchell's nesting doll of a novel, it's the spectacle. Directors Tom Tykwer,...
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The Partying Dead
If in the days after Halloween you still aren't ready to let the ghouls and grossness go – or if you still want to dress...
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Vampire Barre
''It's been loosely referred to as the Rocky Horror Show of ballet,'' jokes Michael Pink. ''It comes back and back again because it sells out....
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Seasonal Scares
If there's a perfect time to read The First Male, the fifth novel from local gay author Lee Hayes, that time is now. Published in...
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Almost Like Clockwork
Anthony Burgess came to loathe so intensely the one piece of literature he's best known for, a few years before he died he created a...
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Dishonor Above All
In a world dominated by tightly scripted first-person shooters, rigidly focused platformers and set-piece sandbox games, boundaries are a frequent occurrence and annoyance for the...
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Babs Is Back
Barbra Streisand sounds as great and glorious as she did in her heyday on her new offering, Release Me. Of course, that's because most of...
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Rose Colored
''I always say I'm the president of the Bette Midler Changed My Life Club,'' jokes Amanda McBroom, who early in her career wrote ''The Rose.''...
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Funny Mann
For the record, Aimee Mann doesn't do windows. That's despite what you may have seen on Portlandia. In the IFC sketch comedy show, the rocker...
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Ghost Story
Catherine Aselford and her colleagues occasionally hear eerie, unidentifiable sounds while working out of Old Town Alexandria's Athenaeum. No one's sure who, or what, exactly...
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Testosterone and Other Toppings at Vitruvian Gallery
”Testosterone and Other Toppings” is the latest exhibit of male figurative art at the gay-owned Vitruvian Gallery, but this time the art comes from a...
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Mavis Staples is coming to The Hamilton
Chicago-born gospel great Mavis Staples got her start in her family band the Staple Singers and has gone on to sing with everyone from Ry...
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Mock the Vote’s Pre-election Comedy Showcase
Brian Parise, winner of the 2011 Pardon the Pundit Political Comedy Competition, hosts this showcase featuring three politically minded comedians: Jordan Carlos, Stephen Colbert’s black...
