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Halloween Screenings at the Atlas
The Atlas Performing Arts Center, haunting the H Street Corridor, is screening creepy classic films all day on Halloween Sunday, Oct. 31, starting at 2...
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Rocky Horror at the Landmark E Street Cinema
Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics through early November. This weekend brings the biggest cult classic of...
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West End Cinema opens with Howl
The newest theater in town — the West End Cinema — focuses on indie and international fare, as well as documentaries. It opens this weekend...
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Joshua Bergasse at Shenandoah Conservatory
Guest theater choreographer Joshua Bergasse (national tour of Fame, regional productions of Carousel, West Side Story) contributes a new work for the kick-off to the...
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Actress Betty White supports gay marriage
”I don’t care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time — and there are gay relationships that are more...
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School board VP apologizes for wishing gays AIDS and death; says he will resign [video]
”Seriously, they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearing it for them is if they all commit...
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Barbara Cook at The Birchmere
Widely considered the foremost interpreter of the American Songbook, the Tony- and Grammy-winning Barbara Cook performs a one-night-only concert at the intimate Birchmere. The original...
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Oklahoma at Arena Stage
Arena Stage’s Molly Smith sets her production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s great American musical Oklahoma! in the robust world of territory life filled with a...
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Scott G. Brooks at Longview Gallery
The prolific and uniquely gifted Brooks — responsible for the occasional Metro Weekly cover illustration — unveils an exhibit of all-new paintings. We the People...
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The Washington International Horse Show
An equestrian tradition since 1958, the Washington International Horse Show brings top horses and riders from the U.S. and abroad, including Olympic champions, to the...
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Robert Randolph at the 930 Club
After four years, soul/funk collective Robert Randolph and the Family Band finally released a new record, We Walk This Road. Produced by T Bone Burnett,...
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Obama on Marriage: “Attitudes Evolve, Including Mine” (With Follow-Up From Gibbs)
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs elaborated today during the press briefing on President Barack Obama’s comments on Wednesday to AmericaBlog’s Joe Sudbay about marriage equality....
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Bracing for Midterms
Despite significant disappointment – or even anger – from many LGBT advocates and activists about the lack of progress toward LGBT equality achieved in the...
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White House Reminder
In a letter to educators released Oct. 26, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali provides guidance to educators on, among other topics,...
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DADT Roller Coaster
On Wednesday evening, Oct. 20, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit put a temporary hold on the injunction against enforcement of the...
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Push for AG Post
The Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance, a volunteer LGBT political organization, announced this week that it endorses a referendum that seeks to change how D.C.'s...
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Small Town Boy
It was later in the evening when Sherry Dee grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out on the then-empty dance floor where some...
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The 7 Scariest Places in D.C.
They lurk behind their innocent facades, waiting for the moment your sense of safety lulls you into complacence. They toil and fester as they plot...
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Coverboy: Shane
Having served three years in the Army, Shane was let go, not because he was out, but due to a medical condition (exercise-induced asthma). Now...
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Golden Silence
Mummenschanz is now in its 38th year. ''It sounds so important when we number the years,'' says the European performance art company's Floriana Frassetto, ''but...
