All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Classic Verdi
When serving up poignancy, there cannot be contrivance unless it is intended. In any other form, its presence will dull and deflate the impact of...
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Coming Unglued
Walking along U Street Northwest on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, there is little sign that the neighborhood was on fire forty years...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You'll say what you have to say with feeling. You'll feel what you have to feel with turbo-charged intensity. You'll drive home for...
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Wine before beer, how queer…
Hearsay remembers its first like it was last weekend, and no, it doesn’t mean mutual lollipop licking at the Fireplace — though there’s no better...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Can things simultaneously heat up and cool down? Is it possible for something going backward to make forward progress? Chaos physics aside, yes,...
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Marathon Man
The phrase ''he's running a marathon'' is very often followed by ''why?'' Understandably so. Training for and competing in a marathon involves endless hours of...
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History Making
For lucky students, there is one teacher who touches their minds in a special way that opens the world of knowledge to them and changes...
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Uncommon decency
In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail...
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Out in the Open
A lack of resources inspired Bruce Weiss, former executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), to join forces last summer with a...
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State of the World
On March 11, the State Department released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007. A compilation of the LGBT- and HIV/AIDS-related portions is...
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High Rollers
''Winner, winner, chicken dinner.'' It's more than hungering for a simple meal that drives a group of MIT students to Vegas every weekend, but it's...
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Calling on Rhee
Students at D.C.'s public high schools who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual were four times more likely to attempt suicide over the past year,...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round Up: You knew what you were getting into, but weren't into dialoguing with your inner parent on the day. Does this mean that...
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Last Word
''First of all, no one's sexuality is anyone's business. It is not even my mother's business. I practice celibacy to give to my God.'' --...
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The Damned
In a recent metro-area school production of Don Quixote, parents were shocked and dismayed when teenage members of the audience greeted a fellow classmate's performance...
