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Puppy Love
New moms and dads and parents-to-be are often taken aback and a little incredulous when I offer, excitedly, to babysit. They think I'm being polite....
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Paging Mark Foley
As October surprises go, the Mark Foley IM imbroglio is the Washington scandal that keeps on giving. Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned abruptly on Sept....
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Power Walking
As the D.C. AIDS Walk took its first steps on the Washington Mall in the spring of 1987, Pat Hawkins and the 100 or so...
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Fur Fever
Fur may be named for the now-verboten warming garments once made in the nightclub's warehouse space, but these days it generates heat as one of...
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Killer Queen
In The Queen, Helen Mirren, portraying Queen Elizabeth II, gives perhaps her most remarkable performance in an already remarkable career. She vanishes completely into the...
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Force of Nature
Arena Stage's new production of Cabaret is a force of nature -- a thunderstorm that starts as the rumble of gin-fueled laughter and ends with...
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Soundwaves
GEORGE MICHAEL'S POTTY MUSIC... Oh no, not again. According to the Associated Press, late last Saturday night George Michael was found in London slumped over...
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Ball Breaker
Do you find it sexy for a man to hurl, smash or crack mirrored disco balls? It may sound sacrilegious to gay culture, but there's...
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Oh, Henry
It's good, but it's not great. We're not talking, of course, about the timeless music from Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe or the original George...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You could tune in to the sense of structure that's been welling up in your life. You could resolve to be more productive,...
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What About Poly?
Not long ago, hundreds of progressive academics and activists issued a manifesto calling for health care and jobs for all, universal peace, an end to...
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Player Two
I'm fresh off a round of Shadowgate and I'm wired. I just drank two Presidente longnecks just to bring me back down to level. I'm...
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A Clear Course
There's something about Minnesota U.S. House candidate Michele Bachmann that sets me off. It's not just her homophobia, which causes her to claim with serene...
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Letters to the Editor
As a gay resident of Dupont Circle, I am very pleased to have such an active Dupont Circle Citizens Association (DCCA) that protects our neighborhood...
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Girl on Film
Eighteen years ago, Margaret Murray faked her way into a life in film. A single mom living in Florida, Murray was working in a bank...
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Soundwaves
FERGIE TAKES ON TINA... Stacy Ferguson has had an effect on the Black Eyed Peas something akin to crystal meth. Before Fergie, the Peas were...
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A Cut Below
Jake Shears isn't joking when he sings ''I Don't Feel Like Dancin','' on the first single from the Scissor Sisters' sophomore album. Sure, the song...
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Beats and Buzz
It may have taken some time, but the buzz on DJ Tony Ruiz is finally booming as big as his beats. Ruiz is Pittsburgh's most...
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Fish Tale
The end of childhood is a rite of passage to be delayed and then mourned. It's the moment when we no longer view the world...
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Destiny's Child
From the first glimpse of the diminutive Owen Meany, a boy with oversized ears and screaming blond hair, we know he's more than a little...
