All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Victorian Nightmare
A stylized Victorian nightmare with lashes of Sam Peckinpah realism and the odd sporran, David Alden's rendering of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor isn't for everyone....
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Are you awakening from a long dream? Or are you falling back into a semi-grounded fugue state? Retain your self-awareness as you progress...
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HUD Secretary Supports Marriage Equality
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan became the first sitting cabinet secretary to announce support for marriage equality, saying on Nov. 15 that...
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Kramer vs. Everyone
Larry Kramer has kept his Cassandra act going for an awfully long time. To summarize: Why aren't you angrier? Why aren't you in the streets?...
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Off-Year Advances
The off-year elections, normally a slow-paced night for national coverage, featured several ballot measures – including Ohio, Mississippi and Maine – that garnered significant attention....
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Clinton's HIV Address
In a major address delivered Nov. 8 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that more than...
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Bloody Business
Can you handle the tooth? Seriously -- as in an Asian restaurant worker's rotted black tooth that's yanked out in the kitchen and finds its...
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Thunder Clap
Get comfortable. Maybe in your couch or favorite chair. I'd recommend organic snacks. A beer, if you're so inclined. And only once you're truly settled...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: If you were in the right place at the right time with the right resources at your command, what couldn't you do? If...
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An Angry Heart
Larry Kramer, with his dog Charley, in his Manhattan home (Photo by Chris Geidner) Since the publication of Faggots in 1978, Larry Kramer has been...
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Judge Oetken
On Thursday, Oct. 27, more than 20 judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York assembled in a special session...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Something unexpected has turned up. Is it throwing a monkey wrench in the works? Is it a call to establish a new paradigm?...
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Country Rose
Forget death and taxes -- the two biggest constants in our world are heartache and the classic sound of Nashville. Luckily for us -- though...
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Seeking Adoption Equality
On Monday, Oct. 31, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act – a bill previously introduced in the House by...
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Going Green
We all know that the Moor of Venice is supposed to be a hothead, but is he supposed to be this flat-out hot, too? In...
