Features
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From the Publisher
Note: This letter from the publisher is, in large part, referring to the printed version of Metro Weekly magazine. The year was 1997. The month,...
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A Man for All Seasons
This time last year -- as in other years past -- there was a holiday-season ''smackdown.'' Once again, voices on the right warned of the...
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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...
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David Phillips
David Phillips started to feel stress as time drew near for the Coverboy of the Year contest. ''Particularly the last three or four months. I've...
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Mitchell Nedab
There is a good possibility that Mitchell Nedab usually has two things on his mind -- well, three if you count the 24-year-old's nonchalant approach...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
