All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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The Long Haul
Although director Paolo Micciche is known for some adventurous productions, his rendering of Verdi's Macbeth is more a long and rather creepy dream. It's precise...
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Hearsay
Lost Longings... Last weekend was Mother's Day, but Hearsay was in more of a daddy mood. Oh, don't worry: Hearsay made time for mother on...
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Listen Up
It's been too long since we heard anything good from the Cranberries. Remember them? Think back to the '90s and some of the Irish band's...
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Safe Haven
At 22, Gramoz Prestreshi says he now has a reason to live. ''I'm in a safe country,'' he says, ''I can be just who I...
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On the Red Carpet
One in Ten, the organization that has produced the Reel Affirmations film festival in Washington for the past 16 years, among other events, raised over...
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Horoscope
05-17-07 Horoscope Heavenly Round-Up: Look around you. Look, look, look -- but don't touch anything you don't want to pay for. This is a great...
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Theater Alchemy
When you live in a city like Washington, D.C., whose primary commerce is fact, or as is sometimes the case, the manufacture of truth, it...
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Time Misspent
Is there anything more dreadful than running into that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend you just can't stand? Now there is. At least the unexpected ex sighting...
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Still Cooking
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when and where Barbara Cook kicked off her long and varied career. The Broadway legend, who lives in New York...
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Czech Mate
Who knew a 19th century Czech opera could be as riveting and edgy as anything you're likely to catch on HBO? Thankfully, the Washington National...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's a long and winding trail, no question. Yet you're receiving information faster than you can find a place to put it. You're...
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Tale of Two Mommies
Janet Jenkins has been fighting for visitation rights to her 5-year-old daughter, Isabella, for more than three years now. Throughout her ongoing custody battle with...
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Whitman-Walker high school essay contest
What can you do to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in your community? That is the question Whitman-Walker Clinic is asking high school students (between...
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Crosscurrents in 2008
Gore Vidal once said that God is a convenient fiction. The same can be said of ''gay community.'' Despite the common tendency to generalize based...
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The Kids Are All Right
Unlike the past two years, it didn't rain. And by midday, there was an exuberant mood and plenty to see and do at the 11th...
