All posts by Doug Rule
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Lovely Lianne
''Actually, I expected nothing and I was pleasantly surprised,'' says Lianne La Havas, when asked about her success as a singer-songwriter. Only 23 years old,...
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Flock of Foul
''There is nothing in the world as amazing as something that is neither completely clear, nor completely unclear,'' goes one of the morals imparted in...
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Theater Booster
''By several different measures, Washington is the nation's largest theater community outside of New York,'' says Buzz Mauro. ''It's a great theater town, but it...
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Fully Lodged
Right before Halloween 2010, Ryan Dryden and Joe Velasquez, a gay couple, opened The Lodge, a gay bar outside Hagerstown in western Maryland. But The...
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Charm City Leather
''It makes everybody laugh,'' says Andrew McCarty of COMMAND MC. This weekend, his Maryland leather organization hosts its annual Mr. Maryland Leather contest as part...
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Dirty Truth
Right now there's a freestanding toilet in a remote section of the third-floor stage at Studio Theatre. There's also a lot of dirt on the...
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Lover's Return
''The ladies love me,'' Alice Smith says after being asked about gay fans. And why is that? ''It's because I'm sexy,'' the singer-songwriter says with...
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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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Rooms with an Election View
Next Tuesday night, Nov. 6, promises to offer plenty of live drama and entertainment, especially in this political city. And this town's LGBT and LGBT-friendly...
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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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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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Fashion Fetish
It may take place the Saturday before Halloween, but the costume party at L'Enfant Café near Adams Morgan is ''not full-on costume,'' explains Chord Bezerra....
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Your Guide to Halloween Nightlife in D.C.
UPDATE: The 17th Street High Heel Race has been rescheduled. The new date is Thursday, November 1, from 6-9 p.m; on 17th Street NW between P...
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Good Humor Honor
Last night, Kristen Chenoweth and Lily Tomlin led the honors at the Kennedy Center for Hollywood's preeminent cute and clever comic, Ellen DeGeneres. The occasion...
