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  • Alien Visitation

    By on July 11, 2013

    Right now, Washington is awash with tourists. They're trying to take in too much in too little time, and will end up getting at least...

  • The fun. Activist

    By on July 11, 2013

    ''It's all fun. and gay 'til someone loses their rights.'' The phrase comes from a T-shirt sold by the rock band fun. on its website...

  • Amusing Klymaxx

    By on July 11, 2013

    Back in the mid-'90s Bette Midler took inspiration from Bernadette Cooper for her popular Diva Las Vegas revue. ''They love me, they hate me, but...

  • Call Girl

    By on July 11, 2013

    Carly Rae Jepsen is responsible for the song of summer 2012. Maybe you remember it, the one with the unforgettable music video in which, as...

  • Scientific Songwriter

    By on July 11, 2013

    ''A lot of the stuff that they're making fun of is actually things that I like about Portland,'' says Chris Pureka, referring to the IFC...

  • Good Fortune

    By on July 6, 2013

    ''I'm trying to make it good fortune and not bad fortune,'' Emily Fortune Feimster teases about the family name that she uses as her first...

  • Righteous Return

    By on July 3, 2013

    ''I grew up in Texas, I grew up scared for my life at times,'' says Joshua Vogelsong. ''I've had my life threatened, I've been beaten...

  • Catch John Grant Tonight at U-Hall

    By on June 28, 2013

    Sinead O’Connor cries out the lyrics right alongside John Grant on Grant’s aching song “Why Don’t You Love Me Anymore?” The song is about exactly...

  • Don’t Miss The (Show) Boat on Two Classics

    By on June 28, 2013

    Got a hankering for a classic musical? It’s pretty easy to get a fix around this theater-loving town. Generally there’s at least one classic being...

  • Hints from Arvind: Wolf Trap’s Future

    By on June 28, 2013

    Maybe this weekend you’re headed to Wolf Trap to take in the National Symphony Orchestra’s multimedia show Frozen Planet in Concert. Or R&B great Anita...

  • Macklemore Raises Up Gay Rights in Hip-Hop

    By on June 28, 2013

    Is there a hot new pop act more gay friendly than Macklemore & Ryan Lewis? At the least the Seattle hip-hop duo has definitely given...

  • A Single Man

    By on June 28, 2013

    Boy, do people really get hung up about getting hitched. It wasn't that long ago when gay people were effectively immune from a lot of...

  • Edith Windsor, Cher Top off New York Pride

    By on June 27, 2013

    Every year New York Pride is a highlight of annual pride season, toasting LGBT rights and equality in the birthplace of the movement. But this...

  • Leader of the Pack

    By on June 27, 2013

    Arvind Manocha remembers his first record collection. For a first-grader, already pretty impressive. In the Manocha mix: Queen's Live Killers, Donna Summer's On The Radio:...

  • Don't Miss the Boat

    By on June 20, 2013

    Deep into Act 1 of Anything Goes, two listless gossipmongers groan that there's nobody famous aboard this voyage of the cruise ship the S.S. American....