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  • Do These Five Things for Valentine's

    1. Give as Good as You Get It can be bought, it can be made. Regardless, a gift at Valentine's Day is like tipping --...

  • Don't Do These Five Things for Valentine's

    1. Don't Procrastinate We'll tell you right up front: If you're reading this during the mid-afternoon of Feb. 14, you might as well skip on...

  • Love, Actually

    As a result of the play Next Fall, Chris Dinolfo came out to his dad. ''I actually came out to my dad and my stepmom...

  • Close Up

    In the intimate, delicately wrought period drama Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close transforms herself into a 19th century Irishman who is concealing the fact that he...

  • Albert's Champion

    (continued from ''Close Up'') METRO WEEKLY: What a remarkable motion picture. I was engaged and moved by it on every possible level. Let's talk a...

  • The Opposite of Albert

    METRO WEEKLY: Though they share a similar circumstance, Hubert is the polar opposite of Albert. What was your approach to the character? JANET McTEER: Apart...

  • Scruffy Songster

    ''It sounds like I talk about it all the time: I'm Twitter obsessed! Like a Kardashian!'' For the record, Aiden James only brought up Twitter...

  • Swimming in Style

    This may come as a shock to some of you, but Simon Doonan is no longer the Creative Director at Barney's. He's now officially the...

  • Family Ties

    George Hamilton is in the midst of a storytelling frenzy. ''I was back on the Concorde from London,'' recalls the Hollywood icon, ''and Kirk Douglas...

  • Cruz Control

    ''I won't be specific,'' Wilson Cruz says, ''but there's a show on television right now, a fairly new show, that wanted me to come in...

  • Creating a Conference

    It's not quite a quarter century, but the 24th year of Creating Change comes so very close. And Sue Hyde, the current director of the...

  • Folking Around

    For the record, Cheryl Wheeler is not an ''angry dyke.'' No matter what the Westboro Baptist Church says. ''Well,'' she says, ''I do get angry...

  • Top Gear

    If you've picked up the scent of leather, it's not coming from the reins of a horse-drawn carriage – at least not till D.C. gets...

  • The Great Hall

    The Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend's Exhibit Hall is a beast all its own. It's where the leather and kink diehards cross paths with the weekend's spectators....

  • Mr. MAL 2011’s Three D’s

    What a year it's been, and Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2011 Doug ''D'' Pamplin couldn't be happier. From his base in Pittsburgh, Pamplin has taken the...