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  • 2012 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel

    The Next Generation Awards are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington-area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts, activism,...

  • The 2012 Next Generation Awards

    As a community, it is vital that we understand our past so our history can be told. But if we hope to see change come...

  • Dining Out for Life 2012

    Food is universal. We have the technology to reduce our necessary daily intake of calories to a few ounces of liquid. That might be an...

  • Family Restaurant

    For the latter half of the 20th century and now moving dependably into the 21st, Annie's Paramount Steak House has offered a warm welcome to...

  • Hunter's Beacon

    Steven Hunter's first job as head chef was at Perry's in Adams Morgan. ''I was there when they started the drag brunch,'' says Hunter, who...

  • Light Touch

    Washington is an international city, overflowing with embassies and other global institutions. That's not to say, however, that the District is brimming with Old World...

  • To Serve, with Love

    ''I collect them like baseball cards – I know all their names, I know their styles,'' teases Sonya Boring. She's talking about drag queens. ''I'm...

  • A Complete Guide to Dining Out for Life 2012

    A complete guide to all participating restaurants as of press time, by neighborhood, including meals and what percentage of each bill will be donated to...

  • Bully Pulpit

    Last month, Bully was fighting for its life. After being handed an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America -- effectively ruining any...

  • Street Wise

    Growing up in suburban Maryland, the most dangerous element in young Cyndee Clay's life may have been going to public school. Hers was a conservative...

  • Kahn Bravura!

    Ask Michael Kahn if he's happy and here's the response you'll likely get: ''Last night, I was walking around the house and I said to...

  • Unchained Arias

    Joey Arias is one strange fruit. That's true not just because the gay male performance artist gained some fame a couple decades ago singing –...

  • Born to Puppeteer

    When Basil Twist saw Joey Arias flirting with his puppets, he knew it was fate. ''They had so much chemistry together,'' Twist says. ''The puppets...

  • Dance: Spring Arts 2012

    ALDEN THEATRE McLean Community Center 1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, Va. 703-790-0123 mcleancenter.org/alden Limited Visibility — A World Premiere by CityDance’s resident dance company, Christopher K....

  • Art: Spring Arts 2012

    1708 GALLERY 319 West Broad St. Richmond, Va. 804-643-1708 1708gallery.org Oscar Munoz: Ambulatorio – Black and white aerial photographs of artist’s hometown of Cali, Colombia, are installed...