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  • 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...

  • War Torn

    By on March 29, 2006

    Enterprising dad: Bakula and cast (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) It's hard to get excited about a musical set during the American Civil War, no...

  • Broadway Bound

    By on March 29, 2006

    ''A choreographer is always unhappy,'' says Maurice Hines. ''We're always unhappy with our choreography.'' But during a recent dress rehearsal for Hot Feet, the lavish...

  • Sudden Departure

    By on March 22, 2006

    Whenever my phone rings and I see my parents' number in the little window, my first thought is always that my grandmother died. She's very...

  • Anniversary Gift

    By on March 22, 2006

    The Center, ''home for GLBT in metro D.C.,'' was counting its blessings Tuesday, March 14, in the company of about 40 well-wishers. The rough count,...

  • Last Dance

    By on March 22, 2006

    The party at VelvetNation is coming to an end, promoters announced Wednesday, March 22. The biggest ongoing, weekly gay bash in D.C. will be going...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 22, 2006

    SONIA BOMBS THE DANCE FLOOR... Even in remixed form, it's not often that you hear a folk song on the dance floor. And it's almost...

  • Rabble Rousing

    By on March 22, 2006

    V for Vendetta is a rich and strange little nugget of a movie. Based on a 25-year-old comic book by the famously eccentric Alan Moore,...

  • Chair Apparent

    By on March 22, 2006

    The second in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral and Council races. Linda Cropp It's definitely election season when...

  • Honky Tonk

    By on March 22, 2006

    ''I gotta get drunk, I just can't stay sober. There's a lot of good people in town, who like to see me holler, see me...

  • FAIR's Fair?

    By on March 15, 2006

    Much of the reaction to the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR to uphold the Solomon Amendment has been ill-informed. Commentators, especially in...

  • PSA tackles ''PNP''

    By on March 15, 2006

    Crystal methamphetamine has plagued the local gay community, with addiction to the drug growing steadily during the past five years, according to public health officials....

  • Healthy Dialogue

    By on March 15, 2006

    As part of National LGBT Health Awareness Week, Whitman-Walker Clinic on Tuesday night presented a public forum on gay health. ''It's a little smaller crowd...

  • Oldham Redux

    By on March 15, 2006

    He may not be a native son, but New York native Frank J. Oldham Jr. is no stranger to D.C. In the early '90s, he...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 15, 2006

    Deep Dish DANCE AWARDS GO DEEP... Previous Grammy winner Deep Dish failed to grab a Grammy this year, but the International Dance Music Awards is...

  • Dry Plains Drifter

    By on March 15, 2006

    The old man is snoring, all right. Not because it's raining or it's pouring, but because Lisa Peterson's revival of The Rainmaker hardly revives anything...