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  • Pink Politicking

    By on May 10, 2006

    Five of the district's front-running Democratic mayoral hopefuls entered the rainbow arena Monday night for a political forum that included some verbal fireworks, a literal...

  • Mission Forgettable

    By on May 10, 2006

    Mission: Impossible III should end with a warning: ''This movie will self-destruct in 5 seconds.'' I'm not kidding. Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff...

  • Secret Service

    By on May 10, 2006

    In a time of war, a good man is hard to find. Which makes it all the more frustrating that the U.S. military continues to...

  • Titus on the Potomac

    By on May 10, 2006

    Take a beautiful sunset as seen from the Kennedy Center balcony, add a warm wind off the Potomac, throw in a glass of bubbly, and...

  • Captive Audience

    By on May 10, 2006

    Stop me if you've heard this one before: An Irishman, an Englishman and an American are kidnapped and tossed together in a dark and dirty...

  • Be Bar scores a victory

    By on May 3, 2006

    The seven members of the district's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon, May 3, to seat only ANC 2F as a protestant of...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 3, 2006

    REPLAY RIHANNA... Last summer, Rihanna, a native of the Caribbean island of Barbados, had a hit with ''Pon de Replay.'' It's not hard to understand...

  • Pulse of the People

    By on May 3, 2006

    Ranging from alarm to hope, a panel of D.C.'s black gay leaders strove to outline what they saw as the state of their community as...

  • Sand Pebbles

    By on May 3, 2006

    In case you've never studied women's history and you're not entirely sure who George Sand was, don't count on getting a thorough lesson from MetroStage's...

  • Punky Brew

    By on May 3, 2006

    ''For all my life,'' Ariel Aparicio sings in a raspy voice, ''I wanted to be in a cool as fuck band.'' He's now fulfilled that...

  • Borderline Crazy

    By on May 3, 2006

    I remember watching that Richard Linklater movie, Slacker, in 1991 and thinking to myself, ''These people are pathetic.'' I was 13 and had no concept...

  • Unmasked

    By on May 3, 2006

    In his 1997 biography of Truman Capote, the eccentric, gay author whose literary works are regarded as among the best America has to offer, George...

  • Visibly Proud

    By on May 3, 2006

    In many ways, Pride is about being seen, being visible. And that's one of the goals behind Pride & Heritage, D.C.'s annual celebration of the...

  • Propulsive Pop

    By on April 26, 2006

    With the Scissor Sisters taking its sweet time producing a second album, what are fans and followers of the half-gay and all-glammy disco-rock band to...

  • Lily Tomlin

    By on April 26, 2006

    Do Ernestine! The plea perches in the back of your head, chirping incessantly, while you talk to Lily Tomlin. Please, PLEASE do Ernestine. Or Edith...

  • Traditional Values

    By on April 26, 2006

    The headline of the lead story in last week's Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco's gay newspaper of record, said it all: ''Gay Families Join Easter...

  • A Bee in My Bonnet

    By on April 26, 2006

    As far as I know, I am allergic to bees. When I was a child, wandering barefoot through the grassy expanses of my home state,...

  • GLAA Marks 35 Years

    By on April 26, 2006

    When the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance celebrates a milestone, it's a bit like the tortoise making his victory lap to the hare's chagrin. Steadily,...

  • Parallel Lives

    By on April 26, 2006

    In a country clouded by indifference and terminally ill with apathy, it takes a political gadfly of a playwright like Tony Kushner (Angels in America,...

  • Command Performance

    By on April 26, 2006

    The Mexican folk singer Chavela Vargas was Frida Kahlo's extramarital lover for some five years. That fact helped Vargas gain wide recognition and it has...