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Death Cab for Cutie rides into Merriweather
For a decade now, Seattle-based Death Cab for Cutie has been an enormously popular alt-rock band whose silly name actually captures its sound: cute but...
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Small Works at Washington Printmakers
“The 14th Annual National Small Works” competition contains 30 prints from artists across the nation, all approximately 13×13 in size. Running concurrently is the solo...
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Studio Theatre does some housecleaning
The Studio Theatre hosts its Annual Garage Sale on today, Saturday, August 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale features items from 2010-2011...
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CHAW presents DHS Pinafore
Every summer the Capital Hill Arts Workshop presents a different Gilbert and Sullivan production in partnership with the GLBT Arts Consortium. This year brings a...
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Arlo Guthrie + the NSO = Unbeatable mix
Emil de Cou conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in a Wolf Trap performance with folk legend Arlo Guthrie along with the eclectic ensemble Time for...
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Tickets on sale now for Moby at the Fillmore Silver Spring
Mary J. Blige’s inaugural concert next month at the Live Nation-owned Fillmore in Silver Spring sold out in minutes last Friday. The venue just announced...
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WARL’s nonstop pet adoption weekend
The Washington Animal Rescue League hosts a special nonstop adoption event this weekend as a way to kick off its participation in the national ASPCA’s...
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Fire Island’s Ascension Dance Benefit
The largest party of its kind on Fire Island, Ascension benefits the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, among other charities, and attracts 5,000 revelers...
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Mitt Romney joins effort to overturn District’s gay marriage law, add Constitutional ban
Mitt Romney, the current leading candidate among the 2012 Republican Presidential hopefuls, has signed a pledge created by the National Organization for Marriage (NOMBlog PDF). It...
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The Big Game
For those who don't know already, I suppose I need to come out publicly. I am, of course, a gamer. I don't mean that I'm...
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Snark on a Sinking Ship
The outcome of the tea party's invented crisis over the national debt ceiling remains uncertain as I write on Monday morning, but one thing is...
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Bridge Builder
The National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization, and the Gill Foundation, which advocates for LGBT equality, joined to honor...
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Three Sirens
Will Lady Gaga or Britney Spears dethrone Madonna in the 9:30 Club's diva dance battle this Saturday, Aug. 6? They just might. ''I don't know...
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Pack Mentality
Pixie Windsor started her business in Adams Morgan, and still loves living in that neighborhood. But…. ''MidCity is just really what's happening right now,'' says...
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Book It
''It's so rare these days that we have the opportunity to celebrate LGBT literature,'' says David Mariner of The Center, D.C.'s LGBT community center. ''We've...
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Kelly's Dilemma
Kelly Rowland is a tease. Take a few headlines over the past year as evidence. ''Kelly Rowland Tries Disco for Third Album.'' ''Kelly Rowland's Album...
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Jersey Boys
When William Waybourn took the photographs for the D.C. Strokes 2008-2009 calendar, he was able to pose the rowers -- or at least keep a...
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Game Theory
Some people play to escape. Some people play to belong. Some people play to experience virtual worlds of fantasy, others play to explore realistic recreations...
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Industry Insider
Picture the adolescent boy, game controller in hand, sitting in front of his TV. In some virtual world of impossibly large-breasted women and explosive gore,...
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Putting the Gay in Games
Among people who don't play video games, there are plenty of misconceptions about gamers. And among LGBT people who don't play games, David Edison says...
