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Country Gold: Miranda Lambert, tonight at Merriweather
She may have only come in third during the first season of the USA Network’s Nashville Star, in 2003, but Miranda Lambert is arguably the...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth 35th Anniversary Print restores missing 20 minutes
Nicolas Roeg’s dazzling, visionary sci-fi allegory, The Man Who Fell to Earth stars, David Bowie in his cinematic debut. The pop icon played a space...
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Synetic hosts The Second City
The Second City, Chicago’s legendary comedy theater troupe, stops by Virginia’s Synetic Theater to regale the audience in some of the best sketches, songs and...
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What if Candy Darling met Dorothy Day?
Mongtomery County’s Unexpected Stage Company lives up to its name with the show that kicks off its second season, David Johnston’s Candy and Dorothy. When...
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DOJ Tells Court It “Continues to Defend” DADT, Seeks Reinstatement of Law “By the Close of Business Tomorrow”
The Department of Justice filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Ciruit in the Log Cabin Republicans v. United States...
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American Airlines backs ENDA, again
American Airlines announced this week that it formally submitted a letter to U.S. Congressional leaders stating its continued support for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination...
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Confirmed: Chris Colfer leaving Glee at end of next season
Chris Colfer, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith will all be graduating Glee next year. We’re sorry to see him (them) go. Extra had this interview...
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Get a preview of The Fillmore Silver Spring
The Fillmore Silver Spring — a new venue we’re extremely excited about — is scheduled to open in September. But they just opened an official...
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Pop! goes 2ndstage
Keith Alan Baker directs Pop!, a madcap musical murder mystery that peeks into Andy Warhol’s infamous Factory, as written by Maggie-Kate Coleman with music composed...
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Survive at Freddie’s and raise funds for ASGRA
The drag queens of Freddie’s Beach Bar in Arlington present Survivor Freddie’s, a fundraiser for the Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA). The queens raising...
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Birds of a Feather at The Hub
The Hub Theatre presents the world-premiere production of gay humor writer Marc Acito’s Birds of a Feather, an inspiring story about families and the bird-brained...
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Team Work
As general manager for the past 14 years, Joey Oldaker, known as Joey-O, helped shape many memories of the club originally known as Badlands. But...
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Farewell to Badlands/Apex
Metro Weekly put out a call to the community to offer its own memories of Badlands/Apex. What follows are a selection of the responses that...
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Thanks for the Memories
What do you remember about Badlands and Apex? ''When I started at Badlands in 1993 there were two walled-in alcoves where the main bars [off...
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White House Briefing: Bond, Bankruptcy, Immigration and Obama
In today’s White House briefing both Metro Weekly and Kerry Eleveld with Equality Matters got in questions about LGBT issues, with Eleveld following up on...
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GLAAD Withdraws Support for AT&T’s Proposed Merger with T-Mobile
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today submitted a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) withdrawing its support for AT&T’s proposed merger...
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Season of Discontent
Way back in the early summer of 1992, I spent many of my young activist days hanging out in the ACT-UP DC office where things...
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Marriage Wars
Part Two of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act ''Given your stated and longstanding opposition to...
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Maryland Marriage Coalition
LGBT rights organizations joined forces at Baltimore City Hall on Tuesday, July 12, to launch Marylanders for Marriage Equality, a coalition that seeks to secure...
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Lawsuit Settled
This week, Sean Bugg, president of Jansi LLC, publisher of Metro Weekly, confirmed that Jansi, along with Isosceles Publishing Inc. and Randy Shulman, reached a...
