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  • As Seen on Tee-Vee! Yee-haw!

    Those talented and tasty DC Cowboys may have been voted off NBC's America's Got Talent last month (too soon!) after making it through several rounds...

  • Brad Pitt supports fight to keep gay marriages with $100,000 donation

    ”Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the...

  • Sarah Palin refuses answer on her beliefs about homosexuality [video]

    ”Oh, I don’t know. But I’m not one to judge. And, uh, you know, I’m from — uh, a family, and from a community with...

  • ‘Brokeback Mountain’ fans’ ghastly, pornish rewrites irritate writer Annie Proulx

    ”’Brokeback Mountain’ has had little effect on my writing life, but is the source of constant irritation in my private life. There are countless people...

  • Obamaphobia

    I'm sick of the phony reasons some gay people give for opposing Barack Obama. I am not talking about my friends in Log Cabin Republicans,...

  • Latino Art and Honors

    The Latino GLBT History Project (LHP) commemorates Hispanic Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Heritage Month with ''Presente,'' an exhibit chronicling D.C.'s gay Latino history. The...

  • Assaulting Behavior

    The Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit of the Metropolitan Police Department is reporting that members of the Metro Transit Police responded to an assault at...

  • Gay History Project

    In this election season, the Gay History Project has attempted to interview both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president, using the same format: the...

  • Stirred to Action

    Perhaps a picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to motivating a community, a picture -- far more than flow charts of crime...

  • Watch and Dance

    ''It's the little movie that could,'' says Richard Kimmel about his first feature film, Schwarzwald: The Movie You Can Dance To. Based on music and...

  • Stage Presence

    Though one cannot but envy the idea of seeing an opera with beer, hotdogs and vast commodes on tap, it is also somewhat hard to...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: What's done is done, right? Well, yes and no -- in this case. Envision for yourself what it is that you might go...

  • Sharp Edges

    My experience with the Mitsubishi Lancer goes way back. That is, if you're counting hours logged playing Gran Turismo on the PlayStation, where tricked out...

  • Bundle of Grief

    For the first few months of her pregnancy, Andrea Askowitz didn't know what was wrong. ''I just felt really anxious and angry and just not...

  • Feminine Imposition

    There are only three groups who should willingly sit through The Women: females who nightly juggle TMZ.com, Haagen Dazs and Lifetime while wrapped in a...

  • Ball Bearing

    ''It's a lot easier to get stuff made for TV than it is for movies,'' says Alan Ball. And he should know: The screenwriter of...

  • Men Uplifting

    Resurrection, Daniel Beaty's ode to the lives, hearts and souls of five African-American men and a son, is both everything you would expect it to...

  • Visiting Hours

    In David Mamet's play Squirrels, the character Arthur describes the act of storytelling as going ''From nothing to nothing.... 'Nothing.' Rising action. Climax. Falling action....

  • Flying High

    Oh, the drama. A would be king takes to a stage dressed in the pageantry of ancient Rome to greet his throngs of loyal followers....

  • Schedule of Events

    All performances at the Church Street Theater, 1742 Church St. NW Prices as noted, otherwise Pay What You Can. September 26 Opening Gala Featuring Holly...