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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Revenge of the Nerd

    Watching Jon Heder in School for Scoundrels, one can't help but wonder what will happen to the 29-year-old's career once he outgrows his geekiness and...

  • Living Large

    Shortly after clambering into the Land Rover LR3, I found myself sitting behind the wheel and repeatedly pressing the button that made the big SUV...

  • Life Choice

    It's a brave move to stage Sophie's Choice as an opera, considering the popular culture stature of both William Styron's original novel and 1982's star-filled...

  • Ramming Speed

    Titan, one of the gay bars that helped usher in the newly redeveloped nightlife scene on 14th Street NW, has changed its name to better...