Metro Weekly

All posts by Will O'Bryan

  • Urban Empire

    If gay D.C. has an ''A-list,'' David von Storch is certainly on it. Most obviously, he's got the looks and the money. Just ask Men's...

  • Autumn's Athletes

    As the slightest chill creeps back into the weather and the mercury-popping summer recedes, some will no doubt feel a bit more spring in their...

  • Honoring the Dream (UPDATED)

    When the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial is dedicated Sunday, Aug. 28, it will certainly be a national event, if not one that...

  • Due Date

    Since it seems no one was hurt, I'll take the East Coast Quake as simply another sign that our planet is on the move. It...

  • Ebbin Wins Primary

    With the Virginia State Board of Elections offering unofficial results for the Tuesday, Aug. 23, primary elections, Del. Adam Ebbin appears to have won his...

  • Sampson's Strength

    As a little boy, transplanted to D.C. from Evergreen, N.C., Sampson McCormick already loved comedy. It might be a gift today, but it wasn't necessarily...

  • Mortal Matters

    Years ago, a very devout people executed a revolution and overthrew a tyrant. As a matter of strategy, those revolutionaries held onto a handful of...

  • All or Nothing

    It would be overly dramatic to say that Adam Ebbin is in the race of his life. Still, Aug. 23 will be a defining moment...

  • Jersey Boys

    When William Waybourn took the photographs for the D.C. Strokes 2008-2009 calendar, he was able to pose the rowers -- or at least keep a...

  • Industry Insider

    Picture the adolescent boy, game controller in hand, sitting in front of his TV. In some virtual world of impossibly large-breasted women and explosive gore,...

  • Walking the Walk

    It was just a few months ago that CBS war correspondent Lara Logan was nearly killed in Cairo, pawed at by men who each somehow...

  • Marching on Washington

    It may be a year until the International AIDS Conference returns to the U.S. – to D.C., specifically – but the planning is well underway,...

  • Forgo Rodeo

    In years past, this has been the season when the area's LGBT rodeo enthusiasts would begin to make plans for the Atlantic Stampede, the annual...

  • Ending Isolation

    Maybe the term ''friendly visitor'' conjures thoughts of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Long-ago summer blockbusters aside, the term has a far more practical – and noble...

  • GLOV Trainings Grow

    Joe Montoni and Kelly Pickard stepped up in the community as co-chairs of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence in January 2010. Hassan Naveed and A.J....