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Lypsinka Dearest
John Epperson's favorite Joan Crawford film is Berserk. The one with the ax? ''No,'' he corrects the reporter gently, ''that one was called Straight Jacket....
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Cutting Edge
Matthew Bourne doesn't mind if you mistake Edward Scissorhands, his dance adaptation of the 1990 Tim Burton film, for a musical. ''You can forgive people...
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Grateful Dead
Wouldn't it be nice if we could capture the souls of our loved ones just before their ascent (or descent, as it were) to the...
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Funny Valentine
Sure, you could reserve a candlelit table at one of D.C.'s finest restaurants, or prepare your own seductively sumptuous feast at home next Wednesday. But...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Is there more light, or does it just feel that way now that a solution has broken through the clouds of indifference? If...
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Just Friends
I don't know how anyone has the constitution for a breakup. The average person weathers even life's most routine daily predicaments with great difficulty, and...
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Local News Briefs
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Eight out of every 10 people living with AIDS in Washington are African-American. That includes Robert Cobb, a 54-year-old gay client...
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Community Growth
Gigi Thomas is on call 24 hours a day. The transgender client advocate and hotline supervisor for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS), in Adams Morgan,...
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Drinking and Entering
Last summer, Washington's gay nightlife community bid farewell to a handful of gay bars and clubs in Southeast, including VelvetNation, to make way for the...
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That '70s Show
Abe Lincoln would be proud. Gazing out over the stage of Ford's Theatre, our 16th president might be pleased as punch to witness the late...
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Better Late
Norah Jones scored quite the sleeper success with her debut album five years ago. With no expectations, Come Away With Me was quietly released but...
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Soundwaves
MAMMA MIA! MERYL... Is there anything Meryl Streep can't do? Well, she's not likely to get the four members of dance-pop pioneers ABBA to perform...
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Chill Out
According to the formula concocted a few years ago by British psychologist Cliff Arnall, Jan. 22 was the most depressing day of 2007. Unsurprisingly, Arnall's...
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Simply Supon
Admit it -- designers are not the first thing that come to mind when you think of Washington, D.C. They're probably not the second thing,...
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CTA gives to SMYAL
The Capital Tennis Association (CTA), a local not-for-profit organization that coordinates and promotes tennis in the gay community, recently donated $15,275 to the Sexual Minority...
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License for Ladies
As the redevelopment juggernaut of the Southeast waterfront steams ahead, fueled by the Washington Nationals baseball stadium construction, the fates of shuttered adult businesses catering...
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Growing Concerns on 14th Street
Even though it was 11 p.m. on a Tuesday night, Sak Pollert didn't think much of the two men who were following him as he...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: As you review your karmic debts, can you imagine the ties that link past to future as an asset? What good can you...
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A New Blow to DADT
Bit by bit, support for the military's ban on openly gay service members is crumbling. In a recent and important op-ed in the New York...
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The Invisible Youth
My mother called me the other night looking for answers. A childhood friend of mine had killed herself, and my clearly shaken mother wanted to...
