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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...
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Two Kings
Over the next six months some 60 organizations -- from the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra to the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company -- will present more than...
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Sunny Cynic
A bad breakup serves as the bread and butter for many a singer-songwriter. But few take to it with as much glee as Lily Allen,...
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Peace Pipes
This weekend, Washington will see yet another rally against American involvement in Iraq. Among the thousands coming to the capital is one-woman known for songs,...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Reconsider your goals and ambitions carefully. Have your aims become mere habits, or would their accomplishment reflect the fulfillment of your soul? Examine...
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Local Briefs
The D.C. Crystal Meth working group will be conducting surveys and outreach efforts in gay bars and clubs Jan. 25 through 27, part of the...
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Changes Ahead
Few clinics offered free services in Washington in 1968, yet that was the year that the Washington Free Clinic credits itself as the first such...
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Missing Arlington man found dead
Michele Anne Riley never had a chance to say goodbye to her brother, Donald Charles Ebe, who vanished nearly three months ago. On Wednesday, authorities...
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Back on the Streets
When D.C.'s new chief of police met with supervisors from the city's various police units to discuss plans for a new community policing effort, Sgt....
