Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Fully Baked

    Washington is a vibrant and dynamic city. For four years in recent history, however, some of D.C.'s pizzazz was muted, hidden behind a pall of...

  • Girl on Film

    Summer may be over, and so is 1987. With Dirty Girl, you can revisit both. It's hot, dismal and dusty. It's the end of the...

  • Pride Placements

    Capital Pride, the organization responsible for the annual LGBT event of the same name, announced changes to the board and staff this morning, which were...

  • Strike Against The Center

    Michael Sessa, president of The Center, D.C.'s LGBT community center, and David Mariner, the executive director, reported today that The Center suffered an attack of...

  • Center Soiree

    With a new venue and a few other tweaks, the 2010 fall reception for The Center, D.C.'s LGBT community center, may be the organization's grandest...

  • City Offering Safety Event

    Amid a backdrop of ongoing violence aimed at the LGBT community, the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs has announced a Public Safety Open House event...

  • After Party

    For 13 years, the 1409 Playbill Café has catered to the theater crowd and neighborhood regulars at the vibrant intersection of 14th and P Streets...

  • Centaurs Celebrate Franson

    It's not often that the Centaur Motorcycle Club bestows its Bikeus Award. ''The last time it was given, seven or so years ago, was to...

  • Double L Win

    Now in its 13th year, the Mr. Double L Leather Contest wrapped up Sept. 17 with one of Rehoboth Beach's own, Allen Lerch, taking the...

  • Date with Delgaudio

    In a recent fundraising letter from the Falls Church-based Public Advocate of the United States, which bills itself as an organization that ''lobbies to fight...

  • Montgomery Co. Mensch

    In his 2006 novel, Hard, Wayne Hoffman presented a gay 1990s Manhattan struggling to strike a balance between ''safer sex'' and ''sex positive.'' With his...

  • NBJC Takes the Hill

    Following on an annual outing begun last year, the National Black Justice Coalition will be returning to Capitol Hill next year for ''Out on the...

  • Local Killed in Texas Accident

    Brian McKernan, 44, known to many in the area for his years of substance-abuse work at Whitman-Walker Health, was killed Sept. 6 in Austin, Texas,...

  • Arrest Made in Trans Shooting

    The Metropolitan Police Department announced this morning that an arrest has been made in the case of a transgender woman shot in the early hours...

  • Answering the Call

    As America prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, emotions may run high. Many in the D.C. area have memories...