All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Beating's Good-Bye
When Francisco J. Martin was mugged in the Shaw neighborhood a month and a half ago, he was not physically assaulted. ''They only took my...
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Modern Family
Modern families are funny. There's a sitcom that proves it. But the modern family in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right is more than...
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Dream State
Ever had one of those dreams when you couldn't wake up, a dream that seemed to go on forever and ever? Welcome to Inception. At...
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Jolly Holiday
For every Lion King, there is a Little Mermaid. For every Beauty and the Beast, there is a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. There is perhaps...
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Lip Service
Special Agent Galactica is every woman – figuratively. The lip-syncing character whose attire usually entails a pink wig, short dress, heels and subtle makeup, ''channels''...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Nothing is on fire, under fire, or going to be fired. Not in the sense you've imagined. Now you'll want to calm down,...
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Pentagon Pushes Back
In a late Friday afternoon news conference, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell defended the 103-question survey distributed to 400,000 active-duty and reserve servicemembers about the possible...
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Tuesday Attack UPDATED
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is asking the public for information in its investigation of an assault with a dangerous weapon that may have been...
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Questions' Quagmire
The Department of Defense mailed out 400,000 surveys to servicemembers on Wednesday, July 7, with half going to active servicemembers and the other half going...
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Court of Public Opinion
The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan left more questions than answers, since she quite properly refused to prejudge matters that might come...
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Stories of Life
As a transgender woman writing at Feministing.com, I regularly cover trans-related stories. I also critique the almost-always poor coverage from mainstream and even LGBT publications....
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Kagan Ends Hearings
President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, finished testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the evening of June...
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Missing Persons Report
The Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs on June 30 released ''A Report of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Health in the District of Columbia,'' based on...
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Paddling with Purpose
The DC Aquatics Club (DCAC) is preparing to welcome more than 170 swimmers from the mid-Atlantic region for the 19th annual Maryland Swim for Life...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: In a world of subtle, parabolic arches, everything that rises must converge. This much is true. But what does it mean in mundane...
