All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Truly Yours
Dear Lena, I have been single for two years now. I'm in my late thirties -- I've found that I'm more serious now than I...
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A Rodeo Hate Crime
Hyper-macho men chase, harass, and brutalize terrified victims. They do it simply for their own amusement, or because they are addicted to the rush of...
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Star Wars
''I am her father, '' booms the familiar sub-bass voice that immediately conjures up sci-fi scenes teeming with Jedi fighters. ''Ethel's her mummy, and I'm...
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A Taxing Appeal
Life is about the yin and the yang. Take, for instance, the booming real estate market in the Washington area. For most homeowners, it's a...
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Outside the Box
Last night I got dumped by my loft. My one, true loft. The loft of my life. I was in Massachusetts for the weekend, inhaling...
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Low Carb at Lower Cost
Like no other people in the world, Americans are obsessed with dieting and staying in shape. While I don't have any studies to back this...
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Teacher's Pet
Jefferson Mays is going to die. The innocent seventeen year-old has been convicted of murder in 1948 rural Louisiana and now he must pay the...
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Naval Maneuvers
Rum, buggery and the lash sail into the Washington National Opera with Francesca Zambello's production of Benjamin Britten's sea-going epic Billy Budd. Alas, if only...
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Hearsay
Crappy weather shuts down the Gay Day at K.D.... Mounting the cowboys at ASGRA's Atlantic Stampede... Hearty laughs galore at Titan... Last Saturday, Hearsay was...
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Viva La Revolution!
In staging Umberto Giordano's twisted tale of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier, Polish director Mariusz Trelinski pulls off an amazingly ambitious and yet always dramatically...
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Wonder Women
David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer Prize-nominated M. Butterfly is, by all reasonable measures, a perfect play. The playwright brilliantly, poetically entwines his story of wants versus...
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Fantasyland
When Ivan Sidorovich Zhukov sends a letter, he doesn't have to walk it to the nearest mailbox down the street, or even search for a...
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Booby-Gazing
It felt so stereotypically lesbian: My partner and I saved our money, conspired with a travel company, got our documents in order, wrote some big...
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Film Preview
SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS WIMBLEDON -- If tennis mixed with love is your preferred tea, then this romance set amid England's prestigious ball-batting event, starring Paul Bettany...
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Art Museum and Gallery Preview
ANACOSTIA MUSEUM & CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE 1901 Fort Pl. SE 202-287-3306 www.anacostia.si.edu Selected Works By William H. Smith -- From the...
