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  • Soundwaves

    Charmed city... At least two gay club tours traveling around the country will stop at Baltimore's Hippo nightclub. First up: DJ Seth Gold's Black Out...

  • High Jinx

    ''It's about being wacky and theatrical and bizarre, coming up with really irreverent, potty-mouth humor,'' says Shea Van Horn, referring to his preferred style of...

  • God Knows

    Recounting her initial fears about launching a transgender choir, founder Ashley Moore says, ''Are people going to be able to stop laughing long enough to...

  • Still Cooking

    It's hard to pinpoint exactly when and where Barbara Cook kicked off her long and varied career. The Broadway legend, who lives in New York...

  • Queens of Comedy

    How many gay Washingtonians does it take to start a monthly comedy night? Just two, it seems. On the surface, that's not a very funny...

  • Time Misspent

    Is there anything more dreadful than running into that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend you just can't stand? Now there is. At least the unexpected ex sighting...

  • Web Head

    The giddy anticipation of a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself. You enter more excited than you ultimately exit. Such is frequently the...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: Is this the fullness of time about which one hears so very much? If so, then why are you tap-dancing for all...

  • Bowing Out

    Craig A. Bowman, longtime executive director of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, a not-for-profit GLBT organization, announced his resignation from the position on Thursday, April...

  • New Year, New Mix

    The local Asian/Pacific-Islander GLBT community is an expansive mix, reflecting cultures from Pakistan to Fiji, from the tropics to the high Himalaya. The nearly infinite...

  • Resigning the Case

    Thomas ''Tad'' DiBiase, the prosecutor leading the investigation into the unsolved murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone, who was murdered in a Swann Street townhouse...

  • On the Beat

    She may be the newly appointed supervisor of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), but underneath it all, Sgt....

  • Moviegoing Maryland

    The Maryland Film Festival kicks off a stunning four-day event today, Thursday, May 3, and runs through Sunday, May 6, with most of the screenings...

  • Fractured Nest

    There's something intriguing about the intimate, something about limited scale that gives rise to daring creativity. Think of the rise of the hip boutique hotel....

  • The Kids Are All Right

    Unlike the past two years, it didn't rain. And by midday, there was an exuberant mood and plenty to see and do at the 11th...

  • Cheers and Tears for Hattoy

    In what may have been exactly the sort of politically star-studded event the recently deceased Bob Hattoy would have appreciated -- and, some would argue,...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: What's done is done. You can't change the past, even with full-bore whining, sulking and tantrums. Remember that passive-aggressive behaviors are equally ineffective...

  • Honor Roll

    Lieutenant Alberto Jova, and several other representatives from the Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) of the Metropolitan Police Department were all present to accept...

  • Leadership changes

    Tasha Hill was already on her way to Washington from Colorado before accepting a position as the new executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth...

  • Murderer sentenced to 26 years

    There was no seat to be found on Friday morning in Courtroom 111 at the D.C. Superior Court, as Preston Randolph Logan awaited his sentence...