All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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A Light Fantastick
What would make life easier for all involved would be saying that Arena Stage's new production of The Fantasticks is…fantastic. It's a headline writer's dream...
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All in the Family
There aren't many playwrights who can speak to us in an exceptionally accessible, relevant and funny voice while simultaneously, almost insidiously, delivering a dark, querulous...
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House party
What once started as a Victorian Christmas Home Tour in Logan Circle more than 30 years ago has evolved to become the Logan Circle House...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Suddenly the stupidity reaches critical mass and pops like a zit whose time is at hand. This is both a good thing and...
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Criticism Continues
Chris Farris of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) feels like an afterthought. He was given only three days to prepare to speak at a...
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A Stinging Defeat
Following one of the most dramatic and emotional discourses thus far in the gay marriage debate, the New York Senate voted 24 to 38 today...
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Two Decades and Change
The last time the United States hosted the International AIDS Conference, leading researchers were discussing ''combination drug therapy'' as the likely future of HIV/AIDS treatment....
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Editing for Inclusion
The Metropolitan Police Department is slated to review hate-crime reports for 2008 in an effort to include a new category noticeably missing from Mayor Adrian...
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Dito encounters a pile of boys. Hearsay starts a dictionary.
Hearsay chum Dito “Chew Toy” Sevilla recently posted the following on his Facebook account: Dear Everyone at Cobalt — except for the guy in the...
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Trans Target
Montgomery County is a little more trans-inclusive today thanks to Dr. Dana Beyer. The transgender activist, who works as the senior policy advisor for Montgomery...
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Road Weary
The long and winding road leads... well, I don't know where. In The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy's recent short novel, it seemingly leads to...
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Lights! Camera! Fraction!
Apparently, all the world is not just a stage, it's a soundstage. As You Like It Over at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall,...
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Victorian Plunge
When a play arrives emanating even the vaguest whiff of the avant garde, even a theatergoing stalwart, finger poised over the ''buy tickets'' button, may...
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Merry Markets
It's the season of giving, and for those who survive ''Black Friday'' -- notoriously the busiest shopping day of the year -- it remains the...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: There's a blurring and a softening of boundaries. What once was solid now develops porous qualities, like rock subjected to the gentle force...
