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  • Soundwaves

    Gifts to dance by... Looking for the perfect gift for your dance-music lover -- or even just yourself? Happy Holidays are here. Joe Bermudez Mainstream...

  • Drag Queen Instincts

    Never mind her new album's title. Celine Dion doesn't know from chances. Oh sure, she strays a little from her Titanic-sized sentimental journeys. She rocks...

  • Dust Off

    Great expectations can lead to great disappointments. As a fan of Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' series, I eagerly awaited the theatrical release of the...

  • Holy Hate

    Plan to get up extra early this Sunday, Dec. 9, and head over to the Washington Jewish Film Festival to catch a one-time screening of...

  • Buried Treasure

    Somewhere along the journey the Hispaniola lost its way. And, unfortunately, the storied ship from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is not the only thing...

  • Holiday Witticism

    Every year I put off the advent of the holiday season as long as humanly possible. It gets harder each cycle, now that holiday music...

  • Tuesdays at Apex Blast Off!

    A few weeks back Hearsay checked out Blast Off, the new weekly Tuesday night party at Apex, where the legendary nightclub’s general manager and newly...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: It's a party! It's a revolution! It's a drive to reform life as we know it! It's all that and more --...

  • Upwardly Mobile

    2008 Nissan Versa From seat warmers to intermittent wipers to keyless entry, the luxuries of the automotive past inexorably become the necessities of the present....

  • For the Children

    December 1, World AIDS Day, will again mark that sad anniversary that, while a time to tout advances such as an entirely new class of...

  • Local Loss

    Cornelius R. Alexander Jr., known by friends simply as ''Neil,'' loved football. On Sunday, Nov. 18, however, with the Dallas Cowboys defeating his beloved Redskins,...

  • Marriage Options

    In conjunction with The Center, ''Home for GLBT in Metro DC,'' DC for Marriage, a nascent local organization, will present a public forum to discuss...

  • Power in Numbers

    The twelve thousand American flags that will decorate the National Mall beginning Friday, Nov. 30, through Sunday, Dec. 2, represent the many military service members...

  • Scrooging Around

    If you are searching for the essential holiday theater ticket for the Aunt Bee in your life, look no further than Arena's premiere of Christmas...

  • Courtside Drama

    For some, the sexier elements of the work of William Shakespeare were not fully evident until film director Baz Luhrman set his attention to the...

  • Last Word

    ''I am gay and there's no reason to hide it.... It was not a campaign issue. There is not a gay agenda.'' -- Brian Bates,...

  • Stein Democratic Club Elects Officers

    Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, among the District's most influential gay organizations, elected officers for the coming year at the club's Nov. 19...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: You have options to go with your issues. You have choices to round out your dilemmas. You have ethical consciousness to guide...

  • Red Carpet Reflex

    It's not clear how much of Madonna's next album will feature work from Tim ''Timbaland'' Mosley and Justin Timberlake, or whether Timbaland's protégé Nate ''Danja''...

  • Songs of Hope

    They haven't forgotten Jesus. But don't expect Jason & deMarco to sing songs about praising the lord, either. At least not on Friday, Nov. 30,...