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  • 2012 Coverboy of the Year: Aaron Lee Smith

    Aaron Lee Smith recently shot some hoops with a buddy's 8-year-old son. At least, he attempted to. ''I was trying to dribble, trying to do...

  • Coverboy First Runner-Up: Rich McPherson

    {Rich McPherson (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Rich McPherson tends dance to his own tune. He's got the drive and the discipline, matched by an independent...

  • Coverboy Second Runner-Up: Tim Warguleski

    {Timothy Warguleski (Photo by Julian Vankim)} If you look up the word ''blunt'' in the dictionary, finding a picture of Metro Weekly Coverboy Tim Warguleski,...

  • Remembering Armando Montano

    Those who knew Armando ''Mando'' Montano, who appeared in Metro Weekly as the Aug. 11, 2011, Coverboy, were dealt a shock in June when the...

  • Winter Travel

    The so-called holiday season is just the beginning of winter. The D.C. days might start getting the tiniest bit longer by Dec. 22, but that's...

  • Desert Diamonds

    In the 1960s, five men who defined cool took Las Vegas and Palm Springs by storm. The Rat Pack's Frankie, Sammy, Joey, Dean and Peter...

  • Snow Hope

    Let's just say it: The 2012 ski season was crap. Ski resorts across the country received some of their smallest amounts of snowfall in recent...

  • Don't Miss the Boat

    Once winter really takes hold, when the cold wind chafes cheeks and the thickest layers can't keep out the chill, that's when Washingtonians really want...

  • Jet Set: Winter with Chi Chi LaRue

    Chi Chi LaRue is one busy drag queen. From small-town beginnings in Hibbing, Minn. – where he was better known as Larry Paciotti – to...

  • Calendar of Events: Winter Travel 2012-2013

    December Pied Piper Christmas and New Year's CruiseCaribbean, via New YorkCunard Queen Mary 2Dec. 22-Jan. 3piedpipertravel.com Mega G5Taipei, TaiwanDec. 29-Jan. 1g5-taipei.com January Arosa Gay Ski...

  • Veteran Activist

    Allyson Robinson has never been one to take the easy route. She applied three times before being accepted to West Point. And when she came...

  • King of Pops

    Steven Reineke once played trumpet in a college production of Pippin. Decades later, Stephen Schwartz, the composer of Pippin, sat at Reineke's piano in New...

  • It's Your g.life!

    Brigadoon – the story of the magical Scottish village that appears out of thin air every hundred years – comes to mind. Or maybe it's...

  • g.life University Class Schedule

    PERSONAL/FAMILY LIFE10:30 a.m. Tipping the Scale – Work/Life BalanceKen White, Signal FinancialEleasa DuBois, Tight Body MakeoverJulie Gray, Profound ImpactTom DiGiovanni, Energy Coaching Associates11:30 a.m. Financial...

  • The Choice?

    When Joe Biden appeared on NBC's Meet the Press May 6, many expected the former senator from Delaware, long known for his penchant for gaffes,...