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Color Splash’s David Bromstad at Strosniders
Gay HGTV hunk David Bromstad — last week's Metro Weekly cover profile — gives an interactive, 90-minute presentation on color and decorating at three Strosniders...
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Purple Rain at Landmark’s E Street CInema
Through early November, Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics. This weekend brings Albert Magnoli’s 1984 Purple Rain...
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Oral Arguments Set for Dec. 6 in Prop 8 Case
This afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit announced that the oral arguments in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case will be held...
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Reel Affirmations Night of DADT on Screen
Reel Affirmations presents two military-themed films on Friday, Oct. 22 — A Marine Story, a drama starring Dreya Weber and Alex Everett, at 7 p.m.,...
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The Flying Karamazov Brothers at Wolf Trap
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov inspired this legendary American group's name and each performer has taken on a Russian persona. The Flying Karamazov Brothers offer...
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Belly Horror at The Birchmere
Now in its fifth year, the cabaret Belly Horror features performance artists in what is billed as "a sinisterly sensual smorgasbord of belly dance, inspired...
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Songs of the Dragons at Studio 2ndstage
Young Jean Lee's show is more jagged kinetic poem than traditional narrative, and it plays with stereotypes at a pace that is at once furious...
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Pentagon Revises DADT Discharge Procedures [UPDATED]
Discharges under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will now take the approval of the service branch secretary, and only in consultation with the...
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BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Stays DADT Injunction
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a temporary stay of U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’s Oct....
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LCR Attorneys: “No Reason To Alter” DADT Injunction With Temporary Stay
Attorneys for the Log Cabin Republicans filed their opposition this afternoon to the Department of Justice’s request that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
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SMYAL Youth address recent LGBTQ suicides [video]
Metro Weekly reporter Justin Stewart talks with Andrew Barnett, executive director of D.C.'s Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) and several SMYAL youths about the...
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DOJ Appeals DADT Stay Request to the Ninth Circuit
The Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for an emergency stay of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia...
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Outspoken, Ep. 10: Nation Reunion at Town [video]
In this week's installment of Outspoken, host Ebone Bell attends the Nation Reunion party at Town in Washington, D.C., and asks patrons what their favorite...
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DADT Goes Fubar
To care about politics is to be perpetually disillusioned. In the normal course of life, this isn't an indictment. We live in a democracy made...
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Mova Files for Bankruptcy
Babak Movahedi, the owner of the Washington, D.C. gay bar Mova Lounge, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today for the business that operates the...
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Halloween's a Drag
There are vague memories – just a blur – of tromping around in my mother's pumps. What was I, 3? As a high school junior,...
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DADT Ruling Fallout
For further developments on this story, check Metro Weekly's Poliglot blog.As the breadth of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips's Oct. 12 order halting all...
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Rhee Recap
Michelle Rhee has been a controversial figure in D.C. politics since her appointment as D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) chancellor by Mayor Adrian Fenty in June...
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Catie Curtis at Jammin Java
The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a lovely show, and...
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GLAA Ratings Redux
The local and nonpartisan Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, the country's oldest continuously running LGBT-advocacy organization, last week released candidate ratings for races in D.C.'s...
