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  • Get Rational

    Get Equal, which specializes in direct actions like heckling our allies with demands for Total Equality Right Now, has at least one like-minded boor in...

  • Drive Time

    In the moments before an accident, some people relate the experience of having their entire life flash before their eyes. But that has always seemed...

  • Marital Bliss

    Truth be told, most comic operas are funnier in theory than in reality. The buffo, over-rouged in a teetering wig, capers about the stage and,...

  • Sia Change

    Sia Furler is honored to be Christina Aguilera's ''bitch.'' Furler, who records under her first name, just wrapped up work co-writing for Aguilera, as well...

  • The 2010 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards

    The idea that youth is wasted on the young is the fallacy of someone with a misspent youth. The reality is that youth is the...

  • PFOX Receives ''Appreciation'' from Fenty: UPDATED

    NOTE: This story has been updated to include a response from Mayor Adrian Fenty's office. The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington D.C. is...

  • Amy Loudermilk

    Next Generation Awards 2010 By the time she was 10, Amy Loudermilk knew that phoning her best friend and getting a busy signal meant one...

  • Andrew Barnett

    The Next Generation Awards 2010 When Andrew Barnett headed out to earn his bachelor's degree, the Alexandria native got about as far away as he...

  • Harjant Gill

    The Next Generation Awards 2010 Some people turn to drinking and partying to cope with heartbreak. Harjant Gill turned to filmmaking. ''When I started college,...

  • Hyacinth Alvaran

    The Next Generation Awards 2010 Hyacinth Alvaran's story may have started in the Philippines, but her story is being told most forcefully in here in...

  • Brian Watson

    The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? Over the past year, Brian Watson has cut back on some of his local advocacy --...

  • Eboné Bell

    The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? It's been nearly a year and a half since Eboné Bell quit her day job to...

  • José Ramirez

    The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? As Metro Weekly honors the second round of Next Generation awardees, one of the 2009 crop...

  • Linh Hoang

    The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? It's April 20. Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is spewing airliner-threatening ash into European airspace. Linh Hoang is...

  • Inner Light Securing Space

    Inner Light Ministries hopes to close a deal on purchasing the space it has been using over the past year, at 1912 Q St. SE,...

  • Wone Trial Nearing

    While the status-hearing exchange between attorneys in the Robert Wone case remained civil, there was an element of chaos. Inside D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn...

  • Drag Daddy

    Behind every D.C. drag queen, there's a daddy. Or at least, there's Big Daddy, promoter J.P. Gulla. This Sunday, May 2, at Omega DC, Gulla...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: There's a lot of ''can't,'' ''won't'' and ''shouldn't'' in the air just now. Is it that everyone is overwhelmed? Is it that too...

  • Brunch Buddy, Part 1 [video]

    Houston Mayor Annise Parker (D) was a featured speaker at the Victory Fund's Champagne Brunch, held at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel on Sunday, April 18....

  • Hostile Court

    Lawyers attempting to keep secret the names of those who signed the petition to put Washington's domestic partnership referendum on the ballot fought an uphill...