All posts by Doug Rule
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Flamenco Male Call
Edwin Aparicio is testing the waters, trying to shift perceptions about flamenco. ''American audiences are used to seeing the typical company with lots of...
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Good Bad Girl
Rihanna is a bad, bad girl. At least that's what she has noted on several occasions since her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad, released...
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Jersey Score
Am I in the right theater? That's what you might wonder as Jersey Boys opens when an African-American performer launches into a hip-hop number. In...
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Broadway Carols
''I was the first gay Scrooge they ever had,'' says Michael Sharp, who starred in Kathy Feininger's A Broadway Christmas Carol when it was originally...
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Review: LMFAO party rocks through town
Is LMFAO a fad? Well, if the dance-rap crew that goes by the Internet acronym doesn’t prove to have staying power, it’s at least taking...
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Jay Brannan Could Be a True Folk/Pop Star
Why isn't Jay Brannan more of a true folk/pop star? Certainly the gay community could use more of the sort. There does seem to be...
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Transcendent Disco
''The great irony is the fact that we're so associated with the gay dance world and the queer scene -- we're actually pretty much...
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Lasting Value
''Sometimes I'll look into the audience and I'll see people crying,'' says Suzanne Vega. ''Or I'll talk to someone after the show and they tell...
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Desert Oasis
''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...
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Shopping Spree
''I go every year and do lots of shopping. It's one of my favorite events,'' says Monica Jeffries Hazangeles of Stathmore's Museum Shop Around. And...
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Acting Out
'There were no men not wearing dresses in show business,'' says Jason Stuart, referring to Hollywood 20 years ago when he first contemplated coming...
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Tribal Journey
Someone once called DJ Paulo a ''pots and pans'' DJ. ''People who don't understand what I do and who don't understand rhythm as much, they...
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Soap Box
Growing up in a small town in central Florida, Kalup Linzy was obsessed with soap operas. ''In high school, I ran track and watched the...
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Heartfelt Tribute
Holly Twyford almost chokes up recalling the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, when fear and death ran rampant. ''I still have a kind of...
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Band Camp
DC's Different Drummers: Symphonic Band (Photo by Rob Mesite) Have you ever seen classical musicians lip-synch to pop songs – in drag? ''You're seeing members...
