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2nd Annual Home & Design Weekend
The real estate firm Washington Fine Properties celebrates design and home furnishings offered by merchants on or near 14th Street NW and including free in-store...
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Cylindrical Cinema
Kerry Brougher doesn't think architect Gordon Bunshaft or other developers of the Hirshhorn Museum anticipated that the circular, donut-shaped building, completed in 1974, would one...
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Nightclubbing
Roxann Rowley wasn't struck by lightning, but a similar experience sparked her dance career. ''I was hit by a car crossing the street,'' Rowley explains,...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You can wake yourself from the dream state into which you've fallen. You can extricate yourself from the web of suppositions and innuendoes...
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Tickets on sale Saturday for that lollipop quintet, One Direction
One Direction, the British boy band — and not the California pop group, suing Simon Cowell and co. for stealing their already established name —...
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Stick in the Eye
Whether or not we are hard-core political junkies, most of us in the LGBT community share some common understandings about politics as it relates to...
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HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.
Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...
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Marriage Matters
Internalized homophobia is commonplace. You could say it's the result of powerful marketing – repeated catch phrases, sermons and punditry reinforcing a notion that gay...
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Signs of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.
A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers –...
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Sweet 16 in Dupont
While Youth Pride Day may have gotten its start in Dupont Circle, there was much more room out of the way down at P Street...
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GLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary
The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with...
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Mercy McKay
''I often think, 'Where's Rosie when you need her?''' laughs Nellie McKay. Rosie O'Donnell was nowhere to be found last year, after the New York-based...
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Broadway Rock
Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of...
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Global LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection
London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some...
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National LGBT News Briefs: Campus, Catholics and Cops
Pitt Bathroom Policy Contradicts City/County Nondiscrimination Codes A University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) facilities policy contradicts that of the city and county in which the university...
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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...
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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...
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Bully for 'Bully'
There's no such thing as an honest documentary. Any one, told in any way, will be twisted and tacked into place by a filmmaker's intentions....
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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...
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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...
