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Post Poll: More Virginians Support Marriage Equality Than Oppose It
Big news in today’s poll out from The Washington Post: Virginians are pro-marriage equality. From the Post: Forty-seven percent of Virginians say gay couples should...
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Sports agent tweets attack on hockey star Sean Avery’s support for gay marriage
“Very sad to read Sean Avery’s misguided support of same-gender “marriage”. Legal or not, it will always be wrong. … To clarify. This is not hatred...
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Editor’s Pick: Liberty Smith
One of the largest and most expensive shows Ford’s Theatre has yet mounted, Liberty Smith features 20 glorious singing actors, reenacting and reinterpreting the history...
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Win tickets to Raphael Saadiq at the 9:30 Club
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to Raphael Saadiq at the 9:30 Club! Enter directly at metroweekly.com/win or using the form below.
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La Mission at Film Forward Festival
Benjamin Bratt plays a traditional Latino father who struggles to come to terms with his teenage son’s homosexuality in La Mission, which screens as part...
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Duncan Hunter Aims to Delay DADT Repeal
Just in from the office of Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.): During consideration of the national defense authorization act this week by the House Armed Services...
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Win tickets to Britney Spears!
Britney Spears is coming to the Verizon Center this summer and we have a pair of tickets to give away! Fill out the form below....
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The District’s proposed 6% tax on ticketed arts events
A source at the Helen Hayes Awards sent out this email alert on Friday regarding the district’s proposed six percent tax on ticketed art events....
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Court Yard Hounds at Sixth & I
Without leader Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chicks might sound a lot like Sheryl Crow. At least that’s the impression left by the music of the...
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Fran Lebowitz speaks publicly on Public Speaking
The inimitable Fran Lebowitz will appear at a special screening of Public Speaking, Martin Scorsese’s 2010 documentary about her career. Andy Warhol gave Lebowitz her...
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Echo & the Bunnymen at the 9:30 Club
The British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen toured last year in support of a new album, The Fountain, but this year they’re back to...
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Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound
Metro Stage presents The Real Inspector Hound, Tom Stoppard’s hilarious send-up of classic Agatha Christie murder mysteries. John Vreeke directs a cast that includes Ralph...
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The Textile Museum goes Green
Green: the Color and the Cause is the second exhibit in the museum’s year-long exploration of the ties between textiles and environmentalism. The exhibit explores...
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Editor’s Pick: Cocktail tasting with Dale DeGroff
Master mixologist Dale DeGroff shares anecdotes from historical drinking spots and traces the evolution of the cocktail in his book Life In Saloons, Speaks and...
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NSO Pops: Jon Secada and Tito Puente Jr.
Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops in a concert paying tribute to Latin rhythms, courtesy of percussionist Tito Puente Jr., son of the legend, and...
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Win tickets to The Twilight Singers at the 9:30 Club
From the 9:30 Club website: “Whenever you’re here, you’re alive” are the first words sung on Dynamite Steps, the fifth album from Greg Dulli’s Twilight...
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
A Slate film critic said that Werner Herzog’s latest film, Cave of Forgotten Dream, a three-dimensional documentary about 30,000-year-old paintings in the Chauvet cave in...
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Three literate lesbians — Lisa Gitlin, Fay Jacobs and Amy Dawson
Three lesbian authors will entertain as they read from their recent works. D.C.’s Lisa Gitlin reads from her comic memoir I Came Out For This?,...
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Nick Benton’s Gay Science
The author of the provocative “Gay Science” historical analysis series, Nick Benton will speak on his views about gay identity and purpose at Georgetown’s Dumbarton...
