All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Oh, Henry
It's good, but it's not great. We're not talking, of course, about the timeless music from Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe or the original George...
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Force of Nature
Arena Stage's new production of Cabaret is a force of nature -- a thunderstorm that starts as the rumble of gin-fueled laughter and ends with...
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Paging Mark Foley
As October surprises go, the Mark Foley IM imbroglio is the Washington scandal that keeps on giving. Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned abruptly on Sept....
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Puppy Love
New moms and dads and parents-to-be are often taken aback and a little incredulous when I offer, excitedly, to babysit. They think I'm being polite....
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Material long deferred rises up and confronts issues of self-control, passion and obsession --but in a good way. There's more and deeper yet...
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Life Choice
It's a brave move to stage Sophie's Choice as an opera, considering the popular culture stature of both William Styron's original novel and 1982's star-filled...
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Destiny's Child
From the first glimpse of the diminutive Owen Meany, a boy with oversized ears and screaming blond hair, we know he's more than a little...
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Fish Tale
The end of childhood is a rite of passage to be delayed and then mourned. It's the moment when we no longer view the world...
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Letters to the Editor
As a gay resident of Dupont Circle, I am very pleased to have such an active Dupont Circle Citizens Association (DCCA) that protects our neighborhood...
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A Clear Course
There's something about Minnesota U.S. House candidate Michele Bachmann that sets me off. It's not just her homophobia, which causes her to claim with serene...
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Player Two
I'm fresh off a round of Shadowgate and I'm wired. I just drank two Presidente longnecks just to bring me back down to level. I'm...
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What About Poly?
Not long ago, hundreds of progressive academics and activists issued a manifesto calling for health care and jobs for all, universal peace, an end to...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You could tune in to the sense of structure that's been welling up in your life. You could resolve to be more productive,...
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It's Alive!
Of all the classic horror stories, from dark and gothic to gruesome and bizarre, perhaps no one tale has survived more incarnations than Mary Shelley's...
