All posts by Doug Rule
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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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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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Hail to the Chefs
Want to know the percentage of D.C. chefs supporting marriage equality? Among those chefs food writer David Hagedorn asked to be part of Chefs for...
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Nina's Legacy
Meshell Ndegeocello isn't living in the past. She says the present is far better. ''I was reading the Nina Simone I Put A Spell...
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Diva Delights
''We've nicknamed it the Beef Jerky Dress around here,'' laughs Kathryn Wat, chief curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She's referring...
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Pink Passion
Lady Gaga may be the reigning diva for many, or most, of those in the younger gay generation. But if they'll only reconsider, there is...
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Life and Deathfix
''I'm in good health,'' says Rich Morel, adding with a laugh, ''I'm going to make it through the weekend.'' Morel is in better health –...
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Piece of His Heart
''I remember listening to Janis Joplin's Cheap Thrills album, and listening to 'Summertime' over and over and over again -- it just...
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Show Explorer
''Playing that role early on in my career actually helped me to come to terms with myself,'' Antonio Vargas says of playing Paul in a...
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'Brel' Done Well
Jacques Brel's ''Ne Me Quitte Pas,'' usually translated in English as ''If You Go Away,'' stands as one of the best songs ever written, holding...
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Hope Star
Chris Griffin characterizes his latest play as a ''confused Caucasian'sploitation musical.'' ''Vanilla Latte,'' he explains about the lead character, ''is this white tranny who thinks...
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Bunny Hop
''I just DJ, hop around, go clubbing and enjoy everything,'' says DJ Cottontail. ''I don't really have to do much. I'm a bunny!'' More to...
