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LGBT Issues @ the Briefing: ENDA and DADT
In LGBT news from today’s White House press briefing transcript: Q: One of the President’s goals has been the passage of the Employment Nondiscrimination...
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With Obama’s Announcement, the Dynamic Shifts
President Barack Obama filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission today to begin his re-election campaign. Although expected, the move shifts the conversation...
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Hot Pick: Photograph 51
Anna Ziegler’s new drama Photograph 51, chronicles the frenzied chase to find the DNA molecule’s structure by focusing on Jewish female scientist Rosalind Franklin, whose...
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The Washington Chorus: Elena Ruehr
Julian Wachner directs The Washington Chorus in its third annual New Music for a New Age concert. This year’s featured composer is Elena Ruehr, known...
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Hot Pick: UrbanArias Festival
UrbanArias is a new opera company dedicated to producing short, contemporary operas. Its inaugural festival launches this weekend with fifteen different events and three short...
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Hot Pick: Dakshina at Dance Place
For its annual Dance Place performance, the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company presents a mixed program of dance, including Anna Sokolow’s solo pieces Kaddish and...
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Last weekend to catch Blue Man Group
Yes, they’re bluer than blue. And they’re just about the most engaging avant-garde theatrical experience out there. Blue Man Group offers an escape from the...
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House Subcommittee Talks DADT Repeal Implementation with Pentagon Officials
[Photo: House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee members listen to testimony about the implementation of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act. (Photo by Chris...
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Arachne Aerial Arts fly into Joe’s Movement Emporium
With “Flyaway,” Arachne Aerial Arts, showcases some of the most innovative aerial talent in the region at Joe’s Movement Emporium. It’s all part of a...
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Metronomy’s new single: The Look
Check out the new music video — The Look — from the UK band, Metronomy. It’s a bit minimal musically (and, to be honest, visually),...
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DOMA's Immigration Imbroglio
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Wednesday, March 30, that it had ended its temporary hold on cases in which married, same-sex bi-national...
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Ira Glass comes to Lisner
Ira Glass, the host of public radio’s This American Life talks about his dalliances with television — specifically what he and his staff learned and...
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Atlas’s Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor
The Atlas Performing Arts Center has quickly organized a screening of several of the more memorable films starring the late, great Elizabeth Taylor. The Whitman...
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Anthony De Mare + Piano + Sondheim = Musical Bliss
Anthony De Mare got turned on to the music of Stephen Sondheim at an early age and even now, as a contemporary classical pianist, Sondheim...
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Navy Petty Officer’s DADT Discharge Hearing Raises Questions About DADT’s Continued Enforcement
More than three months ago, on Dec. 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act into law, declaring to the...
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Alison Nathan, Former Obama White House Associate Counsel, Nominated for Federal Court
[Photo: President Barack Obama greets departing Associate Counsel to the President Alison J. “Ali” Nathan, left, Meg Satterthwaite, and their twin sons Oliver and Nathan,...
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Murder, but no Hate Crime
A jury found Justin L. Navarro guilty of first-degree murder for stabbing Kevin Massey 18 times. They did not find Navarro guilty of a hate...
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Mobile Drinks
Want a happy hour drink at a non-happy hour time of day? There's an app for that. ''BarTab is an app that allows users to...
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Lights Up
The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...
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Send in the Clowns
For those of us who avoid the antics of clowns at all costs, 95 minutes in their company might sound like torture. In fact, we'd...
