All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Heart of Bling
Feeling a tad lackluster in the set department, director/designer and costumer John Pascoe's interpretation of Puccini's Manon Lescaut seems to have lost some burnish since...
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Mega Networking Returns
Come if you're new to the area. Come if you're looking for business connections. Come to see old friends and make new ones. Come to...
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Solicitor General Files Fair-minded DOMA Brief
The new media were ablaze on the evening of Feb. 22 after U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli filed a brief in United States v. Windsor...
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Fundraising on Fear
''No I honestly don't . Sorry, but I don't,'' proclaimed Diana Medley, the now infamous Indiana special education teacher....
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Valentine's Wishes for Musto and More
Valentine's Day traditionally brings several pages in newspapers' classified sections featuring tiny black hearts followed by romantic messages. Perhaps it's a blessing that print editions...
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The One Who Got Away
If there is a way to think of Margaret, the indefatigable protagonist of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, it might be with the words of columnist...
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LGBT Merchants Spread the Love
As Valentine's Day approaches, many gay couples are looking for something that will put a little extra ''wow'' into the season of romance and love....
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Local Heroes
A wolf in sheep's clothing, Thornton Wilder's Our Town lulls with its gentle, sometimes humorous, depiction of small-town New Hampshire life in the early 20th...
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Linas Garsys' artwork for Blowoff
{Chicago (Photo by Linas Garsys)} {IBR Weekend: San Francisco (Photo by Linas Garsys)}
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Zach
Chris Brown told us in his hit single to ''Turn up the music – I need it in my life.'' That holds for Zach, too,...
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Stepping Up on HIV/AIDS
One main benefit of a small business is that it is personal, which extends to the causes and charitable giving in which many business owners...
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Obama's Invitation to Activism
President Obama's second inaugural address charted a confident mainstream agenda for his second term. In doing so he rebuked hostility toward science, defended the social...
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‘Gomer Pyle’ actor Jim Nabors married to male partner after 38 years
Hawaii News Now reports that actor Jim Nabors married his partner, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle two weeks ago. “I’m 82 and he’s in his 60s...
