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From Berlin to Sunset
The new cabaret From Berlin to Sunset revolves around the constellation of emigre artists in Nazi-era 1940s Hollywood, including Billy Wilder, Erich Korngold, Kurt Weill...
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Soundbite: Sean Bugg discusses King & Spaulding and Chrissy Polis on Swish Edition
On this week’s Swish Edition, Metro Weekly editor Sean Bugg discusses the King & Spaulding brouhaha, the attack on Chrissy Lee Polis in Baltimore, and...
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This week’s episode of Swish Edition
Featuring news headlines and commentary from Metro Weekly editor Sean Bugg.
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Youth Pride: Booths and Vendors
Saturday, April 30, 2011Dupont CircleNoon to 5 p.m. Rain date: Saturday, May 7 Andromeda Transcultural Health American University Beltway Bears Breaking the Cycle Burgundy Crescent...
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Youth Pride Sponsors
Gold DC Office of Human Rights HRC SMYAL Silver La Clinica del Pueblo The Trevor Project Whitman Walker Health Bronze Andromeda Transcultural Health Cherry Fund...
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Equality Maryland Names Interim Executive Director
The board of directors at Equality Maryland announced today that Lynne Bowman, former director of programs and services at Equality Federation and a founder of...
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Jazz Relativity
''If you go to an average 18-year-old and ask him, 'What's on your iPod?''' says Vijay Iyer, ''he'll be like, 'Well, Lil Wayne and Lady...
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Music First
Ask Leisha Hailey about The L Word, and at first she stumbles. ''Oh gosh, it's been so long since I've been on that show,'' says...
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Help From Ohio
When Lynne Bowman starts working at Equality Maryland on Monday, May 2, her number one priority is stabilization. ''My role at Equality Maryland will be...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're gravid with the forces of nature at their most elemental. This heaviness occasionally descends into queasiness. Take more ginger in your diet...
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Alliance of Fighters
Representatives from the faith, business and arts communities joined political activists and public officials on April 20 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Gay...
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Theater Thursday! The Walworth Farce at Studio Theatre!
Two brothers and an innocent stranger are held hostage by a despotic father in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce — and the audience doesn’t escape...
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Theater Thursday! Divorcees at Gala!
You can’t help but notice similarities between the 1988 Spanish film Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown and this Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians,...
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Theater Thursday! Art at Signature!
Three longtime friends debate the purchase by one of a hugely expensive painting in Yasmina Reza’s Art. As the friends become increasingly fractious and, eventually,...
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Outspoken: What's in Your Easter Bonnet? [video]
This week, Ebone Bell makes her way through a crowded JR.'s on Easter Sunday during the bar's annual Easter Bonnet contest to find out what...
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Mame's Scrapbook: Five Decades of Fabulous
After a tour in the Navy, Carl Rizzi came to D.C. for a career in the Postal Service. But the life of a fabulous high-drag...
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Seasonal Change
While next week may be the official 17th anniversary of Metro Weekly, this week actually marks the 17th year of working on the magazine. It...
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A Perfect Storm
The event at the Rosedale, Md., McDonald's on Monday evening, April 25, was both a vigil in support of Chrissy Lee Polis – a trans...
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Telling Secrets
LGBT locals – particularly those in the leather and HIV communities – likely know Justin Terry-Smith. He served as Mr. Maryland Leather 2010. He's been...
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Sticks and Stones
''Hello my name is fag.'' ''Or at least that's the name I was called in school,'' said D'Angelo Morrison, an intern at the Sexual Minority...
