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  • Wide Awake

    ''Spring Awakening'' at the Kennedy Center Spring can really hang you up the most. It was in the spring of 1989 that Sen. Jesse Helms...

  • Fantasia Factor

    Ironic that word of James Frey’s new multi-book deal should be in the news at the same time The Color Purple is hitting the stage...

  • Hormonal Harry

    Hogwarts homework assignment: Re-watch (or re-read) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. If you don’t, you’re going to be utterly lost because there...

  • Straight Eights

    I’m not really big on cars. And before visiting with the Straight Eights, the local chapter of the Lambda Car Club International, my knowledge of...

  • Great Gay Gathering

    Rob McGuire (Photo by Yusef Najafi) Organizers of the second annual ''Bring Your Own Everything Family Picnic'' were pleased with the comfortably sunny weather on...

  • Life Preservers

    While the recession may have left the District of Columbia Aquatics Club (DCAC) more than $4,000 short of its fundraising goal for this year's Maryland...

  • Gay Puree

    Brüno is like anal bleaching: You can't believe anyone would actually do it, the thought of it makes you cringe, and you're happy that it's...

  • Ad Lib

    Topics of discussion aren't set in stone when meeting the Ad Lib group on Wednesdays at the Cosi in Dupont Circle. On the night I...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: It's hot. It's hazy. It's hard to know what to do. And this isn't the weather we're talking about. There is chaos under...

  • Sowing Success

    The authors of the Dallas Principles, a proposed set of core values for achieving LGBT equality, have been criticized for their invitation-only meeting at a...

  • 10-Year-Old Boys

    With ''leather boys'' from as far away as Korea in attendance, the DC Boys of Leather celebrated its 10th anniversary last weekend with a ''run''...

  • The Blair Michaels Project

    She was a Capital Pride Hero this year. Maybe next year is Blair “I’ll Do Anything for a Crown — Anything!” Michaels’ year to be...

  • WTF is WTF? We’ll know July 2…

    While you’re out there web surfing, Hearsay strongly urges you to click here and check out the hip, frantic, eye-popping clip for WTF?, a new...

  • This town’s got talent to export…

    Did you happen to watch America’s Got Talent last night? If so — and if you didn’t blink — you should have seen a couple...

  • Guns and Roses

    Why do we always go for the bad boys? Is it the thrill of danger, the excitement of living on the edge, or simply that...