All posts by Doug Rule
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Extreme Celebration
Next week, Abel Aguilera, the celebrated gay circuit veteran known as DJ Abel, will turn fifty. So naturally Ric Sena is throwing him a big...
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Mixtape Master
''Coffee is my vice,'' laughs Matt Bailer. ''I literally drink coffee when I'm DJ-ing at Nellie's. It's kind of the running joke around there.'' Bailer,...
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Punk-Funk D.C.
Did you know? Washington, D.C., circa the 1980s was a hotbed of pop music, helping germinate two very distinct strands of sound. There was hardcore...
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Pushing Forward
''This time we're really excited because we get to be in an actual theater,'' Mara Levi says. The past two years at the Atlas Intersections...
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Dancing Bears
'' was pretty much just bears in bars,'' Matt Bearracuda says of the bear scene in San Francisco. ''It was a little too conservative and...
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The Best Medicine
Nearly 10 years ago comic Suzanne Westenhoefer told Metro Weekly she had quit smoking, in part because of the Mautner Project. ''I'm not going to...
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Coming Around Again
''I'm, out of my mind. It's taking me over,'' Rich Morel sings in the bridge of ''Low Lying Dreams.'' And the song might have the...
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Spring Rites
''It's kind of just this dangerous, lurking area that's sort of vaguely reminiscent of a carnival.'' Technically, Daniel Alexander Osach isn't describing New York's Black...
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Paige Turns
Ask Elaine Paige to reflect on her legacy, and she responds expressing awe. ''Well, it's fantastic really, isn't it?'' she says. ''When I look back...
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Haunted House
IT'S ALMOST AS hard to describe why The House of the Spirits at GALA Theatre is so satisfying as it is to document the presence...
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Magical Metamorphoses
Mary Zimmerman is a professor at Northwestern University, and her show Metamorphoses had its genesis as an academic exercise there nearly two decades ago. But...
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Going Weill
''I'm not sure the new generation really knows who he is, or his place in musical theater history,'' Abel Lopez says of Kurt Weill. The...
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Wigging Out for Charity
''Fifteen years ago when I came out, my parents had a really hard time with it, particularly my mother,'' Jack Jacobson says. But now? Things...
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By Design
Douglas Burton has spent well more than a decade focused on showcasing and celebrating the latest designs and designers. ''I'm passionate about design, and I...
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Visions of Love
Harvey Milk was famous for, among other things, imploring gay people to come out. Milk knew the power of visibility. He's not alone. That's not...
