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  • Countdown for Chaos?

    Despite rumors to the contrary, Club Chaos, a 10-year-old GLBT restaurant and bar located at 1603 17th St. NW, has not shuttered its doors. It...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: It's a long, long trail a-windin', and sometimes it seems to be twisting back on itself, so that you're going forward by...

  • What IS Is

    When it comes to the Lexus line-up of sedans, the best things tend to arrive in the largest -- and smallest -- packages. And while...

  • Syringes and Spine

    This week on Capitol Hill, supporters of syringe-exchange programs (SEP) for HIV prevention celebrated a victory. Last year, Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y.) led successful efforts...

  • Love Nesting

    Plenty of couples may claim their homes are ''love nests,'' but Warren Ellis and Joe -- ''Joe-Angel'' -- Babb stake their claim with a little...

  • Bittersweet Valentine

    ''I would someday love to write a great love ballad,'' says jazz singer-songwriter Felicia Carter, appearing this weekend at Twins Jazz on U Street. ''Somehow...

  • Shadowland

    k.d. lang is getting old. Does that sound like a bad thing? The 46-year-old doesn't think so. In press notes to her new album Watershed,...

  • Masterpiece Theater

    One might not think of ''cowboy music'' when thinking of great American composers. But that's what the Rock Creek Singers, 24 vocalists composing an ensemble...

  • Champagne Taste

    You might not believe it, but Amanda Lepore has only recently started to really put herself out there. She's always been out there, of course....

  • Young Again

    DJ Tracy Young won’t be spinning Sunday at the Grammy’s or at any Grammy after-party. She’s also not nominated for a Grammy as a remixer...

  • Billy’s Beats

    Billy Carroll has been DJ-ing for more than 30 years, getting his start at seminal New York nightclubs Studio 54 and Paradise Garage and going...

  • Baked Goods

    This Saturday brings us one of D.C.’s most enjoyable annual events, Scarlet’s 37th Annual Bake Sale and Auction. If playing with the English language is...

  • Apex Turns 25 with a Birthday Blowout

    What do you want to do when you turn 25? What’s that, you say you already did? Well, this year, so has Apex! Yes, 25...

  • Goodbye Dakota, Hello Sudsy

    Now it can be told. Sold last December, Glen “Hamburger Mary” Mlaker‘s former Titan/Dakota Cowgirl space will become a chi-chi restaurant serving mostly high-end pizza...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: Ideologies are as ideologies do. Your dreams are in danger of crystallizing around you to form a sort of self-made cage, as...

  • The Square Route

    Brian Jarvis and Kent Forrester with the Lambda Squares Regardless of where a person was raised, if that person is an American there's a pretty...

  • Branching Out

    The D.C. Chapter of Immigration Equality will host a reception and fundraiser in support of same-sex, bi-national couples, and GLBT or HIV-positive asylum seekers, on...

  • Warm Donation

    Ray Daniels D.C. Black Pride has donated 14 bags of coats, about $1,000 and food items to Damien Ministries, collected...

  • Baking for Beneficiaries

    The Scarlet Foundation Inc., organizer of Scarlet's 37th Annual Bake Sale and Auction, is using this year's event to honor Cornelius ''Neil'' R. Alexander Jr.,...

  • Clarification

    In Feel the Heat (Domestic Partner, 1/31/08), jetBlue Airways was credited with being the first U.S. airline to include anti-discrimination protection for gender identity when...