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  • Sturm and Twang

    By on April 12, 2006

    Andy Bell has one of the most underappreciated voices in pop music, and Erasure is one of pop's most underappreciated bands. Bell's big, theatrical, multi-octave...

  • Overboard

    By on April 12, 2006

    Like a bottle of premium champagne that's lost all its fizz, Olney Theatre Center's flat and flimsy Anything Goes manages to somehow relay all of...

  • Family Ties

    By on April 12, 2006

    When it comes to gay and lesbian families, the past year has seen a bit of bunny business. You may remember last year when Buster...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 12, 2006

    ''PRECIOUS'' DANCE TRACKS... Every year in March dance music's leading movers and shakers go to party after party in Miami as part of the Winter...

  • Ball Games

    By on April 5, 2006

    As a kid, I threw like a girl. Or, I would have, if the girls on my little league team hadn't thrown better than I...

  • Lizard Lounge's Last Act

    By on April 5, 2006

    The Lizard will shortly no longer be a king on the Sunday night scene. After almost eight years the weekly Lizard Lounge party will close,...

  • Bliss Free

    By on April 5, 2006

    Is there anything Will Gartshore can't do? After spectacular turns in last year's Urinetown and A Year with Frog and Toad, the local superhero manages...

  • The Perfect Tonic

    By on April 5, 2006

    Like many of life's little luxuries, from a great glass of wine or a beautifully made suit, the Washington National Opera's production of Donizetti's L'Eisir...

  • Happy at Last

    By on April 5, 2006

    When you hear that Morrissey has just released a new album, your first thought is that it will sound just like his old albums --...

  • To Tell the Truth

    By on April 5, 2006

    So let's be brutally honest. If I were any kind of critic I would immediately launch into a long list of reasons why you should...

  • Searching for Home

    By on April 5, 2006

    Sandy Douglass knows the ins and outs of aging. She's the CEO of The Methodist Home of the District of Columbia, a non-profit retirement community...

  • Gay Old Timers

    By on April 5, 2006

    Rainbow Retirement Sitting at the southern tip of the mouth of Tampa Bay, there is a spot akin to somewhere over the rainbow. It's here,...

  • Lizard Lounge club announces closing night

    By on April 2, 2006

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  • Let Catholics Discriminate

    By on March 29, 2006

    As laws protecting gay Americans from discrimination proliferate, they increasingly conflict with important liberties. The latest example of this clash comes from Massachusetts, where the...

  • Upping the Ante

    By on March 29, 2006

    I was in Spanish class when the note came. It was a small piece of memo pad paper with an office staffer's handwriting on it....

  • Log Cabin's Councillor

    By on March 29, 2006

    In the middle of March, new members were sworn-in for the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). Considering the epidemic's disproportionate infection rate in the...

  • Crime Solvers

    By on March 29, 2006

    As detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) trudges home after a long day, he quietly enters his bedroom, and from the right side of the room...

  • Freddie's Funhouse

    By on March 29, 2006

    ''Take Jimmy Buffett and a drag queen, mix them together and add lots of purple,'' says Tony Rivenbark. And what does that get you? Freddie's...

  • Trans-American

    By on March 29, 2006

    When Ruby Corado arrived in the Washington area as an immigrant from El Salvador, she was a teenager. She was also male. ''What marked the...

  • Brass Ring

    By on March 29, 2006

    If you haven't yet tired of the rampant pandering to the American myth present in every daily experience from the selling of cars to the...