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  • Death Unbecomes Her

    Perhaps everyone who goes to see Over Her Dead Body will leave the theater believing themselves psychic, because it's impossible not to see every plot...

  • Trivial Pursuits

    Quick! Can you name 10 countries in Africa that begin and end with a consonant? How about the temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and...

  • Crack’s Circus: The Wurst Show in Town

    Ladies and (not-so-)gentlemen, the circus is back in town. The circus, that is, better known around these parts as Crack. In time for Mardi Gras,...

  • Fashion Forward Fun

    This year Cherry is bringing to town several of house music’s most revered DJs, as well as some of the gay scene’s more promising newcomers....

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: It's not the temperature, so it must be the time. There's something different. It's all around you. It's in the air you...

  • Gold Rush

    ''Oh, goddammit, fuckhead ass!'' Judy Gold's phone won't stop making loud bleeping noises. And it's getting on her nerves. And the one thing you don't...

  • Damien Ministries' Nickel Dies

    Rev. James R. Nickel, executive director of Damien Ministries, the HIV/AIDS organization inspired by the Catholic Church and located in Northeast, had beaten renal cancer...

  • Now Open

    The Concerned DC Providers Coalition, a group committed to improving the health of ''young transgender women of color and men of color who have sex...

  • Assault at HRC Store

    Sgt. Brett Parson, head of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department's special liaison units, including the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), and the Human Rights...

  • Grant Givers

    Brother Help Thyself, a community-based organizations that helps other non-profit organizations serving the GLBT and HIV/AIDS communities in Baltimore and D.C., gave away more than...

  • Tragedy in Woodbridge

    Darius Cooke no longer sleeps in the bed he once shared with Keith Jamar Truesdale, his partner of nearly two years. Until he moves out...

  • Church Lady

    When Rev. Christine Wiley took her turn to speak at a recent HIV/AIDS town-hall meeting called to address the alarming data recently cited in a...

  • Musical Therapy

    Three songs into Bob Mould's compelling new album, it sounds like he's giving up. As if he's not even going to bother finishing the song...

  • Miami Sizzle

    DJ Oren Nizri will make his D.C. debut next week, but chances are you've already heard his deck-work. Nizri's recorded sets as resident DJ at...

  • Acts of Bravery

    Over at Woolly Mammoth, sisters are doing it for themselves. The risk-taking downtown theater company has literally packed the house with two one-woman shows. Nilaja...

  • Pure Gold

    It's hard to say what Theater J audiences will carry away with them after seeing Judy Gold perform 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (...

  • Funny Business

    If ever you've been torn between stand-up or improvisational comedy, comic Jennie McNulty feels your pain. ''It's not a sketch show, not just stand-up --...

  • Last Word

    ''You would need a magnifying glass to see any real or substantive differences between the three candidates.'' -- Alan Van Capelle, executive director of the...

  • Purging Playwright

    As surreal experiences go, Martin Moran has one that's hard to beat. He's the author of The Tricky Part -- first a Lambda Literary Award-winning...

  • Feel the Heat

    The D.C. metro area is many things, but inaccessible is not one of them. And lucky for us during these ugly, gray weeks of winter,...