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Heavenly Round-Up: There's a brooding quality in the air. This is the calm before the other shoe drops, on both the micro and meta levels....
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Slave Masters
Organizers of the fourth annual MASTER/slave Conference say they expect more than 300 people to attend this year's event, which kicks off on Friday, July...
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Change of Scene
Ed Bailey and John Guggenmos, the masterminds behind a string of gay nightclubs and bars for nearly two decades in Washington, including Tracks and VelvetNation,...
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Universal Mother
Marjorie C. MacGregor (Photo by 'Metro Weekly' file photo) There are pictures of Marjorie C. MacGregor on display at 17th Street's Trio Restaurant, where...
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Simon Says
Simon Aronoff remembers being a child who would go to sleep with an expectation of waking up in a boy's body, rather than the female...
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Soundwaves
SECOND CHANCE TO D-D-D-DANCE... Junior Senior is coming back-back jack-jack! Yes, we're talking those same silly, stuttering Scandinavians who four years ago made ''everybody feel...
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Cute Sister Act
''Remember when I was so strange and likeable?'' ''Remember when I was sweet and unexplainable?'' Actually, identical twins Tegan and Sara Quinn are still so...
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Transcendental Rock
''I remember being as a dyke or a bitch for liking loud, aggressive music,'' says Lucas Silveira, about his days as a teenage metal...
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Homer's Odyssey
Cast of 'The Simpsons Movie' WOO-HOO! With super-duper hype and hullaballoo, The Simpsons Movie finally arrives in theaters and lands with... a big comic BANG!...
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Fringe Factor
IF YOU WANT TO MOVE into D.C. and lobby from K Street, glad-hand on behalf of Rep. So-and-So from any given Springfield, or save the...
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Fringe Benefits
Jonathan Padget (right) Jonathan Padget knows his way around the Washington theater scene. Having spent a number of years as a former Metro Weekly staff...
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Exposing the ''Experts''
Here in Washington, being publicly discredited is no bar to employment for the industrious and well-connected. If you are sufficiently shameless, being a disgraced former...
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Hearsay
Sporting news... There wasn't enough CO2 at Nellie's Sports Bar this past Monday to high-ball the high-quality beers on draft -- and at times there...
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Relocation moves forward
The D.C. City Council on Tuesday passed, after second reading, gay Councilmember Jim Graham's (D-Ward 1) heavily amended One-Time Relocation of Licensees Displaced by the...
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Reinvigorating the activists
Members of several Northern Virginia equal rights organizations, including Equality Fairfax and the Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance, are heading to the state capital for...
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Words Worth
Councilmember Graham (center) at Dupont North Metro On Saturday, July 14, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the D.C. Commission on the Arts and...
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Birds and Bees
The mood in the basement ballroom of the downtown JW Marriott seemed fairly sedate Sunday afternoon, July 15, as Joan Roughgarden of Stanford Univesity presented...
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Wondering About 'Down Under'
Although the District has, effectively, erased nude-male dancing venues off the city's nightlife map in favor of a baseball stadium, adult entertainment of a female...
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Power Spray
When sporting have a buzz cut, what need do you have for Hairspray? So I missed both John Waters' 1988 original movie starring Ricki Lake...
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Naked Ambition
Jose Carrasquillo's interpretation of Macbeth at the Washington Shakespeare Company, a production where the full cast is nude for the entirety of the play, has...
