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Hank's Loses CommonWealth Cousin
For about two years, Jamie Leeds's CommonWealth ''gastropub'' offered up roasts, pints and Scotch eggs in a Columbia Heights setting fit for a Brit. But...
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Tiara Fairy Tale
When David Lowman says he has performed as Reba McEntire, he's not just being an over-the-top drag queen. ''I actually toured with Reba McEntire for...
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Jewish Conflict
You don’t go to the theater for silence. It’s not a place for meditation or prayer, after all -- at least not if it’s a...
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Joker's Wilde
For those familiar with Bill Bryson's latest doorstop, At Home, a humorous and highly informative historical account of Anglo-American domestic life, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's...
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Nothin' Dirty Goin' On
The message popped up on the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC's (GMCW) Facebook page early on Thursday morning, just about a week before the...
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Return to Form
''It's just like me to overstay my welcome,'' Michael Stipe sings near the top of R.E.M.'s new album Collapse Into Now. Later, the queer artist...
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Norwegian Nonsense
''It's just a ridiculous name for a group,'' chuckles Svein Berge, one-half of the Norwegian duo known as Röyksopp. ''Let's call ourselves something that is...
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Marriage Convenience
Mayor Gray may have taken time out March 3 at the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ to mark the one-year anniversary of marriage equality...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Is your dogma driving your karma, begorrah? Are you in a state of philosophical confusion compounded by a compulsion to git ‘er done,...
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May 9 Set As Hearing Date Showdown Between DOJ and House GOP Lawyers in Windsor DOMA Case
The Republican House leadership’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, discussed earlier today here, just got a lot more concrete. They will be facing...
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As House GOP Fights to Defend DOMA, Democrats Start Push for Repeal Measure
The decision of the House Republican leadership on March 9 to authorize the House counsel’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in court prompted...
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Hanson’s exuberant new music video
Hanson’s new video for the upbeat single “Give A Little” — to be released on iTunes on April 5 — is playful, punchy and, quite...
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The Strokes headline Sweetlife Festival Sunday, May 1 at Merriweather
Just announced — The Sweetlife Festival 2011 is coming to Merriweather on Sunday, May 1, and what an amazing line-up of acts: The Strokes, Girl...
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Maryland Transgender Activist Exonerated of All Ethics Charges, Seeks Apology from Montgomery County
It was in the fall of 2007 that Maryland’s Montgomery County passed a bill that protects citizens from discrimination in areas such as housing, employment,...
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Loretta Lynn Postponed
The Loretta Lynn concert set for this Thursday, March 17 has been rescheduled. The new date is Oct. 15, 2011. Tickets will be honored. Refunds...
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Whores and Hard Candy
This weekend the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington presents a fully staged, all-male production of the Broadway musical The Best Little Whore House In Texas...
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Community Debates Gender Identity Bill
The exclusion of a public accommodations provision from a Maryland bill aimed at ending transgender discrimination has led one group of LGBT activists, Trans Maryland,...
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Oetken, Out Gay Nominee, “Unanimously Qualified” for N.Y. Federal Judgeship, ABA Panel Says
J. Paul Oetken, the out gay New York attorney who was nominated by President Barack Obama for a federal judicial appointment in late January, told...
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The Big Uneasy at AFI Silver
Simpsons castmember — voice of Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner, among others — and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer will appear...
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Theatre J’s The Chosen
Aaron Posner directs his adaptation of this beloved play based on the novel by Chaim Potok about two boys, two fathers and two very different...
