All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Truly Yours
Dear Lena, I am a ''newbie'' to the whole gay scene. I am only 17, but I am going to be 18 in a few...
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Modern Marvel
How do you know when you're having a good time at the theatre? You're smiling ear to ear, from curtain rise to curtain fall, check....
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You Shouldn't Have
A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...
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Hearsay
The unauthorized scoop on the new Mr. DC Eagle... Shopping till dropping, then dancing... Is 26 really that old? Yes, it is... Did anyone else...
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Dickens Nouveau
Just when you thought you knew Ebenezer Scrooge and his shopworn miserly antics, just when Charles Dickens seemed a safe bet for an evening filled...
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Web of Receipt
I have a confession, a very un-American confession. I hate shopping malls. Can't stand them. I hate trying to find parking, hate pushing through hordes...
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Equal Opportunity
Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...
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Earnest Melodrama
When Molly Smith invites Everett Quinton, renowned alum of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company, to direct The Importance of Being Earnest at Arena Stage, it's...
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Suit Your Shelf
There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...
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'Our Heroes: A 20-Year Journey of AIDS Through Our Eyes'
Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library 901 G St., NW Multiple exhibits through Dec. 31 LaQuis Harkins, ''And So Goes a Nation'' poetry reading 6:30-8:30...
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Triumphant Trio
Here's a little secret: if ever there's a time to bum rush a box office, it's now. Get tickets while you still can to Aaron...
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Checks and Balances
Your check is no longer in the mail. For time immortal, check writers have taken advantage of what's known as the ''float.'' The float refers...
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First Class
In the coldest stretch of Iowa winter during my last two years of high school, there was a bittersweet part of each day: walking outside...
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Hooray for Jaleo
With the craze for tapas showing no sign of letting up, Washingtonians have a particularly good venue for enjoying it. I'm always glad to return...
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Hearsay
Taint nothing like the real thing, baby... Amateurs ultimately rule the night at Wet... What Hearsay wants of Cookie... Last Sunday, Hearsay stepped quietly into...
