Features
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Milk-ing the Silver Screen
Harvey Milk, one of the pivotal figures in the gay-rights movement, will soon have his brilliant but too-short life and career depicted on the big...
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Bloc Party
Gay liberation was a product of its times. Its birth at the end of the '60s was no accident. By the time street queens and...
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Months to Mark the Years
The idea of Black Gay History is about as far out there as is Gay History Month, and the two curiosities are not unrelated. The...
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The Gold Standard
Mitchell Gold has been busy. Those Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams ''signature stores'' keep popping up, including the local outlet near 14th and Church Streets...
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Irreverent Icon
Some might argue that ''icon'' is too reverent a word to apply to Holly Woodlawn. From Puerto Rico to Miami to Times Square, Woodlawn has...
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Gender-Juggling
Special Agent Galactica is every woman. ''She's a rock chick. She is a '50s dynamo singer. She's pop. She is whatever is necessary,'' says Jeffrey...
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Schedule of Events
All performances at the Church Street Theater, 1742 Church St. NW Prices as noted, otherwise Pay What You Can. September 26 Opening Gala Featuring Holly...
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Classical Music
BACH SINFONIA 301-362-6525 www.bachsinfonia.org The Genius of Haydn -- A festive program exploring a wide range of works by Haydn, including Overture to La Fedeltá...
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Pop, Folk and Jazz Music
THE BARNS AT WOLF TRAP Tina Turner at Verizon Center 1645 Trap Rd. Vienna, VA 703-255-1900 www.wolf-trap.org · Noel Paul Stookey -- the ''Paul'' in...
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Recorded Pop Music
September Who fired Amanda Palmer? Actually, no one. The singer-songwriter and keyboardist is still with the Dresden Dolls; she's just taking a break to release...
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Dance
CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu · Tie Shopping with My Father -- Kathrine Iacono's father was a...
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Museums and Galleries
ART FOR LIFE Carnegie Institute of Washington 1530 P St. NW www.wwc.org/artforlife · The 15th annual reception and art auction to benefit Whitman-Walker Clinic's HIV/AIDS...
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Readings and Lectures
BORDERS BOOKSTORES Various locations www.borders.com · Naomi Wolf -- Give Me Liberty (9/16, 18th & L Streets NW) · Michael Scott -- The Magician (9/16,...
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Fall Arts Preview 2008
James Davis as Juliet (Photo by Todd Franson) When I was a young lad, my father sat me down, looked me squarely in the eye...
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Film
Dates subject to change at the whim of a studio executive. September THE WOMEN -- The long-in-gestation remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic that...
