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Unrated Bully Documentary Opens Strong Despite Limited Release, Viewing Age Restrictions
This past week, the petition site Change.org hosted a 500,000-signature petition asking the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to remove its “R” rating from...
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Orbo & The Longshots: Rootsy-rock Norwegian-style
The Norwegian quintet, Orbo & the Longshots, just released “Highway Tears,” their new single and video. The band, described as “rootsy rock,” will release its...
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Immigration Equality Files DOMA Challenge, Obama Administration Left Them “No Choice”
Filing what she described as the organization’s “first big impact litigation,” Immigration Equality’s executive director, Rachel Tiven, tells Metro Weekly that the organization was “left...
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The Moody Blues must be on their seventeenth sojourn by now
The Moody Blues, the English prog-rock band, is still around — featuring one member from the original 1964 band and two from the 1967 lineup....
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Joan Osborne “brings it on home” to The Birchmere
“What if God was one of us?” Joan Osborne asked in her 1995 hit. Since then, she’s gone on to tour with the Motown band...
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Priscilla celebrates one-year anniversary, offers 40% off
The Tony Award winning production of Bette Midler’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Musical recently celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway. Adapted from the...
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Dance Place presents the return of Dance Box Theatre
Recipients of the 2010 Metro DC Dance Founder’s Award for Innovation, Dance Box Theatre return to Dance Place with We Are Here, a collaboration between...
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The Black Cat’s Depeche Mode Dance Party
Elector-pop songs of faith and devotion, for the faithful and devoted fans of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher, as spun by local DJs...
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Coverboy: Luke
Growing up in the relatively rural Shenandoah Valley, Luke now lives in Alexandria and is appreciating that the world is his oyster. ''My last trip...
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Pelosi, Hoyer: GOP Move Against “Decorated Veteran … Clearly Exceeds” Authority on DOMA Fight
The ongoing dispute between the House Republican and Democratic leadership over the defense of federal laws banning recognition of same-sex married couples reached a new...
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Romney’s NOM Connection: In 2008, Romney PAC Gave NOM a $10,000 Contribution
In a development reported earlier today by The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, documents provided to Metro Weekly and other LGBT entities show that Mitt Romney’s...
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New Poll on Md. Marriage Equality Shows Close Divide, With Large Number of No Opinion, Undecideds
Another day, another poll showing Marylanders divided over the issue of marriage equality. With the state’s recently passed marriage equality law likely headed to referendum...
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Five Hours with Mario at Gala Hispanic
Spanish actress Maria Victoria Pena gives a solo performance paying homage to Miguel Delibes, one of her country’s leading modern writers, who died in 2010....
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Patti LaBelle at Strathmore
The R&B/pop superstar â€" the original Lady Marmalade â€" returns for two shows after last year’s sold-out engagement. She’ll offer pop tunes, jazz standards, blues...
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Victim of Georgia Ave. Robbery Speaks
Following the March 12 beating and subsequent robbery of a gay man by two separate groups of people in the city's Park View neighborhood, Washington's...
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Gay Days Orlando is booking fast
Mickey, Donald, Goofy and the whole Disney gang will be waiting for you at Gay Days Orlando 2012, but you might not be so lucking with...
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Chris Matthews confronted about having FRC’s Perkins on Hardball
Chris Matthews was confronted recently by Faithful America group members about his decision to have Family Research Council president Tony Perkins appear on his show,...
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Mark Bingham’s mother calls out Carson Daly for joke about gays fighting high jackers
“He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of...
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A gay father on NOM’s anti-family political strategy
“To me the most striking detail was that NOM had budgeted $120,000 for a project to locate children of gay households willing to denounce their parents on...
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When he lived in New York, dancer and choreographer Christopher Morgan would occasionally perform the art world equivalent of go-go dancing for parties at venues...
