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  • Chris Pichola

    Chris Pichola will be heading into uncharted waters when he steps aboard an Atlantis cruise in February to celebrate his 21st birthday -- not just...

  • Wicked Cool

    Imagine the typical rock-and-roll cover band. There might be some big hair, a few tattoos, and some die-hard groupies. And the whole scene looks pretty...

  • It Starts with Human

    For every 100,000 D.C. residents in 2004, 179 were diagnosed with AIDS, the highest rate in the nation. Out of the total D.C. population of...

  • Family Feast: Cross Cultural

    Cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner for my in-laws last year, things were going perfectly up until the point when I sliced off the tip of...

  • Family Feast: Food for Thought

    You probably wouldn't expect to eat Ghormeh Sabzi on Thanksgiving Day. And unless you're Persian, you probably have no idea what the hell Ghormeh Sabzi...

  • Family Feast: T-Day, My Way

    The first Thanksgiving dinners I remember were the most conventional. My family was still a nuclear one, living in suburban Springfield. Thanks to my Irish-American...

  • Big Business

    Irwin Drucker, a program director at IBM who is charged with locating GLBT-owned businesses for the technology giant's supply chain, remembers what it was like...

  • Soul Searching

    ''Back away from the blog.'' That's hard for Andrew Sullivan to do, even if his partner and fiancé is the one asking him to do...

  • Calling All Voters

    All good things must come to an end — even when ”good” is a somewhat relative term. So it is that on Tuesday, Nov. 7,...

  • From the Bottom Up

    At the intersection of P and Ninth streets NW, there is evidence that the gay gentrification of Logan Circle may be creeping ever eastward. On...

  • Looking Down the Road

    It's no shocker to many gay activists that Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., who is running for reelection, ignored a questionnaire on gay related...

  • A Dominion Decision

    While D.C.'s election stories may have burned brightest back in September, the states that surround the nation's capital have taken up the torch for closely...

  • Be Heeled!

    Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. She's busy fighting for her title as Washington, D.C.'s fastest high-heel runner, for the third consecutive year. ''I'm a...

  • Petrifying Parties and Ghoulish Galas

    If you had a hard time picking out a costume for Halloween, get ready to make another difficult decision: where to go. This year, D.C.'s...

  • A Homo Haunting

    There are any number of icons that pop up at Halloween. Skeletons, jack-o-lanterns, ghosts and witches readily come to mind. And though none is particularly...