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  • Truly Yours

    By on February 26, 2003

    Dear Lena, I am a forty-something transgender living in D.C. I have a very good job, my own home, etc. I guess you can say...

  • Shipshape

    By on February 26, 2003

    With dishes both unusual and comforting, the cuisine of Thai Tanic rewards those who take chances A couple years ago, 14th Street wasn't exactly the...

  • Slay Ride

    By on February 26, 2003

    Theater Alliance serves up meaty drama on H Street, while GMCW hams it up across the river Showing guts:Dunn and Mendenhall (Photo by Bruce Robey)...

  • Orchestral Maneuvers

    By on February 26, 2003

    If anyone can get away with a techno remix of such revered American orchestral music as Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, it's Jonathan Sheffer. ''I don't...

  • Membership's Privileges

    By on February 26, 2003

    In the mid 1980s, D.C. was hit by one of the biggest snowstorms in its history. Nearly seventeen inches of snow shut down the federal...

  • Rites of Passage

    By on February 26, 2003

    A few weeks ago, Olivia told me in no uncertain terms that girls can't marry girls. Tempted though I was to pat her down for...

  • Fly Guys

    By on February 19, 2003

    Photo Illustration: Michael Wichita Russ Capps In rural Missouri, gay high schooler Howard Crabtree wants nothing more than to get together a group of friends...

  • Game Over

    By on February 19, 2003

    It's the end of the world as we know it, and Beckett doesn't feel so fine Scraping by: Terrill (Photo by Bruce Robey ) Where...

  • Cautious Optimism

    By on February 19, 2003

    ''Make no mistake: This is a big deal, a good thing,'' Bill Clinton said last week, praising the new $15 billion international AIDS initiative President...

  • Unfriendly Skies

    By on February 19, 2003

    With all the drama over terrorism and airport security since September 2001, it's easy to forget that plain old-fashioned homophobia can also ruin a good...

  • Upscale Downtown

    By on February 19, 2003

    Great American cuisine with an emphasis on freshness and imagination is given a new spin downtown. There's always excitement when a new restaurant opens, especially...

  • Truly Yours

    By on February 12, 2003

    Dear Lena, Love your column, but I have to disagree with your advice to the coffee shop manager who got dissed by the Capitol Hill...

  • The Wait Is Over

    By on February 12, 2003

    Plugging the new rapid HIV Test in his meeting with the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV/AIDS on January 31, President Bush couldn't help but sound...

  • Care to Comment?

    By on February 12, 2003

    Apparently some community activists are taking their holiday vacations in February. That's what the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) seems to be suggesting by...

  • Where the Heart Is

    By on February 12, 2003

    A few months ago, I had occasion to take issue on these pages with an action of my hometown city council, which voted against a...