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  • Sink or Swim

    When he was in his 50s, Don Kilhefner started having difficulty getting out of bed in the morning. ''I felt depressed,'' the Los Angeles psychologist...

  • Medical Check-In

    Nearly 30 years to the day of the Whitman-Walker Clinic being officially chartered -- Jan. 13, 1978 -- the clinic held a press conference. The...

  • Exorcizing Demons

    Singer-songwriter Nicole Reynolds had her heart broken recently, and as history has shown, heartbreak can be a powerful artistic muse. Reynolds translated her tumultuous experience...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: Someday your prince will come, but this minute the dear is all confused and riding bang off in the other direction. So...

  • Ship of Dreams

    In an age when so many writers of plays (and prose, for that matter) doom their characters to nausea-inducing sincerity or overcooked irreverence in the...

  • Young Bucks

    In just a few months, Rent will take its final Broadway bows. The rock remix of Puccini's opera drove some to camp out for days...

  • Rampage

    Ya gotta have a gimmick. Well, these days in the horror-film genre you do, if you want to cut through the movie marketing clutter and...

  • Bowled Over

    Doug Bowles may not be the only gay conductor in town, but in the genre of swing and big-band music, he's pretty sure he's one...

  • M.A.L. 2008

    Chris Grasso It's impossible to be blasé the first time you walk around the host hotel or the grand, main performance space for the Centaur...

  • Wishing Will

    My first plan for the new year was to send Mayor Fenty a subscription to Monocle, the fabulous new magazine from the same empire that...

  • Footloose and (mostly) leather-free

    If the thought of thousands of people in town wearing leather and celebrating the leather lifestyle scares you, well, get a non-cowhide grip. (Hearsay hears...

  • Leather, leather everywhere (and not a drop of mink)…

    If you’re part of the leather lifestyle — or even if you just like the look of a man in leather — is this ever...

  • Will Gartshore’s Sensitive Side…

    Hearsay was alerted to this YouTube post of D.C. musical theater phenom Will “Let Me Rip Off My Shirt” Gartshore, performing Sensitive Song at Crack....

  • Varla Jean Merman Speaks Your Language…

    Why, lucky-loo, you’ve got two chances this weekend to see Varla Jean Merman. Who is this mer-man, you ask? Well, she’s reportedly the love child...

  • No Endorsement from Stein Club

    Members of Washington's Gertrude Stein Democratic Club were unable to reach a majority vote in selecting a candidate to endorse for the 2008 presidential elections...

  • Mautner Project Appoints New E.D.

    As the newly appointed executive director of the Mautner Project, Leslie J. Calman is hoping to double the health organization's budget, currently nearing $1 million,...

  • Marriage Buildup

    Lawmakers in Maryland finalized a definition for ''domestic partner'' last week to comply with a state law passed last year that requires insurance companies in...

  • Clinical Restructuring

    Whitman-Walker Clinic announced Jan. 10 that it will layoff more than 10 percent of its workforce as part of a ''restructuring'' of the long-time GLBT...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: You've been practicing really hard. You've been gearing yourself up. You've been reviewing and drilling. But are you ready? Is your heart...

  • Buzz Down Under

    In the summer of 2005, HBO's Six Feet Under ended on a haunting note, with its characters' deaths foretold in a montage that un-spooled to...