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  • Cherries Jubilee

    By on April 30, 2003

    The trees around the tidal basin hit their peak a few weeks ago, but there's one final cherry left to bloom this weekend -- Cherry...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 16, 2003

    IN DA CLUB BABYLON... Finally, we can tell you all about the Queer as Folk Babylon Tour. (I just know you were waiting with bated...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 9, 2003

    TEST DRIVE THE 2003 LeDION... By now you're already as familiar as you wanna be with the 2003 Chrysler LeDion, formerly known as Celine Dion....

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 26, 2003

    NOW IT CAN BE TOLD… In our long wait as the Oscar jury deliberated about pronouncing Chicago last year's best movie, practically every news outlet...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 19, 2003

    QUEER AS PITT... Pittsburgh -- or what passes for it on Showtime -- wants to teach D.C. a thing or two about nightlife. Plans are...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 12, 2003

    MIAMI WINTER MADNESS...Maybe you're just back from Miami and the 2003 Winter Party. Lucky bitch. Or maybe you're just about to leave for Miami and...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 5, 2003

    NORAH REMIXED?... Last summer Norah Jones's record label commissioned a dance remix of her hit “Don't Know Why.” According to a New York Times profile,...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 26, 2003

    GRAMMY SLAP-UP... The Grammy Awards are supposed to celebrate the year's most creative music, not just the year's most popular. But of course the ceremony...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 19, 2003

    LASGO LIVE!… “Follow You,” a song on Some Things (Robbins) sounds remarkably similar to Sonique's “Sky” of a few years ago. Lasgo's version has none...

  • Electro's Generator

    By on February 12, 2003

    Danny Hunt offers an uncharacteristically simple explanation for electro's elevation as our era's most creative dance style. Electro -- or electroclash if you prefer --...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 5, 2003

    LIFE IN PLASTIC... Maybe you remember the warning label affixed to Aqua's 1997 debut album Aquarium (MCA), noting that the Danish quartet's biggest hit, ''Barbie...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 22, 2003

    RUSSIAN GIRLS IN LOVE... It might be, as every music critic writing about them has skeptically suggested, just a gimmick that the Russian teenagers in...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 15, 2003

    DISCO INFERNO… Can you believe it's been thirty years since disco first boogie-oogie-oogied? Well it has, and ABC has come to the rescue to commemorate...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 8, 2003

    Electro Nouveau Various Artists Moonshine Soul Sessions 2 Various Artists Giant Step Records Has this happened to you? A friend asks you to recommend your...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 1, 2003

    There was plenty of good music in danceland in 2002, but it just wasn't selling. So record labels large and small cut back on dance...