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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...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Is it forgiveness? Absolution? A fresh start? Whatever you call it, you're in a position to reposition yourself. Now that you've won a...
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Feeling Nellie
Really, what better name could there be for a gay sports bar than ''Nellie's''? You can thank Douglas Schantz's great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, the eponymous inspirations...
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Kid Stuff
My inner child is one happy camper. It's like I woke up to find that today is the first day of summer, and my birthday,...
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Chemical Reaction
The Chemical Brothers hit it big a decade ago, with the duo's monster balls-to-the-wall hit ''Block Rockin' Beats.'' Since then, the Brothers have released a...
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Heartbreakers
Don't ask the girls in Lez Zeppelin if they're lesbians -- they won't dish. ''Keeping a little bit of mystery to a group is very...
