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Everything in its Place
As you’re looking around your home wondering how you ended up with so much stuff, you may be tempted to blame the clutter for keeping...
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Twenty-Four Hours Without DADT
For more than 24 hours, the United States has been constrained from enforcing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although CNN is reporting that...
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Mourning at Howard [Updated]
Adding to the troubling series of recent suicides by young LGBT or questioning people, seemingly as a result of bullying, another young person has taken...
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Ibex Puppetry at Clarice Smith Center
In Panther and Crane, Ibex Puppetry’s Heather Henson carries forward the legacy of her father Jim Henson through her own vision, with a story of...
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Angella Foster at the Kennedy Center
Angella Foster’s commissioned piece “Speechless” uses movement, text, live music and video projections to tell the stories of families who care for special needs children...
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Generation Last
Carl Paladino really is the unwanted gift that keeps on giving, a politician whose every apology leads to another apology in a recursive loop that...
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Pumped to Race
Organizers of the 24th annual High Heel Race, set for Tuesday, Oct. 26, are asking for three things: One, they need volunteers. Two, they want...
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Acquiescent Accomplices
In one of the blunter responses to the recent spate of student suicides, comedian Sarah Silverman said by video, ''Dear America: When you tell gay...
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No Place Safe
Ben Carver is not talking to the press. But in a nearly 1,700-word Oct. 5 blog post on BenCarver.com, the D.C. resident describes how he...
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Sentinels Score
Basketball players from across the country – more than 200 – will descend on Washington this weekend for Capital City Classic II, D.C.'s second biennial...
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Stein Offers Awards
There's certainly cause to celebrate, says Gertrude Stein Democratic Club President Jeffrey Richardson of the group's upcoming annual awards reception on Oct. 28. ''We're really...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: What are you seeding by intent? What are you seeding by accident? What you sow right now is the ''crop'' that will see...
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Velvet Goldmine
Manny Lehman. Aubrey. Reg. Cryogenic freeze. ''There are a lot of things that people think of when they think of Nation, but nobody thinks of...
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Fairy Tale Romance
Sometimes what you want is the fairy tale, a storybook romance that begins with ''once upon a time'' and ends with -- if not slain...
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Unorthodox Material
Miryam Kabakov's new anthology features first-person narratives from queer Orthodox Jewish women In his writings, the influential 12th century Jewish philosopher Maimonides speaks of a...
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Mini Affirmations
Bears on a soapbox – that's the most concise way of describing the preachy BearCity, about finding love in the wild woods of New York...
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Furry Friends
More than 16 years ago, Doug Langway stood across the street from a New York bear bar wondering if he had the guts to go...
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Talkies
In the '80s, Joel Hodgson was in his 20s living in L.A., working the stand-up comedy circuit. He was offered a sitcom. He turned it...
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Maddow: Anti-gay ‘culture war’ campaigns used by Tea Party’s DeMint, Paladino, Angle, O’Donnell, others [video]
”We must stop pandering to the pornographers and the perverts who seek to target our children and destroy their lives. ”I did not march in...
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News Analysis: What Is DOJ Thinking?
I’m going to try and avoid going too deep into the woods tonight — because it’s late and because I’m tired — but I have...
