All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Youthful Magic Moments
My family looks great when we're young. I mean, we look good older, too -- my mom, nearing 60, routinely gets mistaken for 10 years...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're gathering the information that's matured under your peripatetic attentions. You're wondering whether you suffer from data overload, or if you'll someday find...
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An Inconvenient Truth
More than one hundred years after Henrik Ibsen penned An Enemy of the People as a tirade against censorship, his message still seems uncannily relevant....
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A Moral Movement
This past Valentine's Day, I had dinner with someone I had been seeing for a little more than two weeks. For a young man, my...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Things are not as they appear, but you can't blame your perceptions, or even the intentions of others. This is one of those...
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Richmond in the Pink
With a vote on a gay marriage amendment looming, and other GLBT issues remaining at the fore of Virginia politics, The Pink Party this Labor...
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Historic Record
Franklin Kameny was, as they say, a pioneer of the early days of the modern gay civil rights movement. Before even the 1969 Stonewall riot...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's unanimous! There are millions of different ways of being, each having personal value, whether we like/agree with those choices or not. Given...
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Alternative Lifestyle
One of my earliest lessons about homeownership in Takoma Park -- a certified Hippie Town -- was that gas-powered lawn mowers are, like, so uncool....
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'Cirkus' Circus
Reading Patti Frazee's Cirkus is like falling from the high wire knowing there is no net below. You know it's going to be painful, there's...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Attention to details now can save you several trips to the well of inspiration when you have to wade back through it all...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Don't despair if your assets are bringing diminishing returns. There's a season for pruning, culling and dead-heading in every aspect of life, including...
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Higher Love
Just so you know, there's nothing even remotely Catholic about Phoebe Rusch's 3/4 of a Mass for St. Vivian. Whatever sanctimonious religious icons the play's...
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Jailbait
When I was 20, I went with some friends to Hilton Head, S.C., for spring break. Someone's parents had a time-share there and we got...
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Gatekeeper Gambit
On July 19, protests were held around the world marking the first anniversary of the hanging of two gay teens, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni,...
