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Musical Comedy
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and, sometimes, a play is just a play (or just a musical). This is not meant to sound...
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From the Publisher
Note: This letter from the publisher is, in large part, referring to the printed version of Metro Weekly magazine. The year was 1997. The month,...
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The Year in Pictures 2006
Don't miss the Letter from the Publisher, too. January · HRC's L Word Premiere Party
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A Man for All Seasons
This time last year -- as in other years past -- there was a holiday-season ''smackdown.'' Once again, voices on the right warned of the...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's the annual end-game, when we open ourselves to the hope of a brighter tomorrow. The winter solstice can color the week with...
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Uberdull
Sometimes in show business, it's good to have a gimmick to generate interest in your product. The gimmick deployed by Steven Soderbergh for The Good...
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Breaking Point
For the past few years, the world's 70 million Anglicans -- better known in the United States as Episcopalians -- have been grappling with a...
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Coffee Talk
Grant P. Thompson is not HIV-positive. But 20 years ago, everyone in the gay community -- positive or negative -- was affected by the burgeoning...
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A Canadian Lesson
The new Conservative government in Canada has lost its promised attempt to repeal same-sex marriage in that country. The vote in Canada's Parliament was even...
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A Life Remembered
It's been more than a decade since Tyra Hunter, following a car crash, died on a street in Southeast D.C. But her story has lived...
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Temporary Reprieve
Temp (noun): a temporary employee, typically an office worker who finds employment through an agency. Odyssey (noun): a long and eventful or adventurous journey. From...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You're up to your ears wrapping up the old year in order to put out the new one. You're swamped with veritable swarms...
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Ambling Along
I've never really been to church before. My family always went skiing instead. I grew up in northern Massachusetts, not far from the White Mountain...
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Correction
''One More Step: Gay marriage gets its day in Maryland's high court,'' (12/7) incorrectly reported that 17 people -- one widower and eight couples --...
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Labor Pains
It's sort of official: Mary Cheney, the vice president's lesbian daughter, and partner Heather Poe are going to have a baby. In Virginia. The pregnancy,...
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Change at BHT
Several months from now you may not find Larry Stansbury of Brother Help Thyself working from his office on 14th Street NW. You may not...
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Fenty Moves Forward
Democratic Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty won't take office until Jan. 2, but his transition machine has been churning efficiently for weeks. Several cabinet-level appointments have been...
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Unfettered Access
Trey Watkins is modest. The second-year, gay grad student at George Washington University's School of Public Health is quick to point out that he's not...
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Hollaback Gwen
''I heard that you were talking shit and you didn't think that I would hear it.'' Gwen Stefani came out swinging, swaggering and stomping on...
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Bling Bang
''In America, it's bling bling. Out here it's bling bang,'' says diamond smuggler Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) to American journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), of...
