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  • 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...

  • Environs

    By on April 26, 2006

    MAX IT OUT with this 2 BR, 2 BA customized condo in the heart of Capitol Hill. Warms tones please the eye while smart spaces...

  • Community Theatre

    By on April 26, 2006

    Joel Markowitz likes to tell the story about the night he repeatedly shushed a stranger in a darkened theater. When the lights came up, the...

  • Youth Pride Festival Rescheduled Due to Weather

    By on April 20, 2006

    Citing a weather forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for substantial rain Saturday, April 22, the Youth Pride Alliance board members have decided...

  • Gay Families on a Roll

    By on April 19, 2006

    Though the rain slowed at times, it refused to go away, making for a soggy time at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. But...

  • Gays in Eurabia

    By on April 19, 2006

    Four years after the assassination of gay Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, his warning of the threat posed to the rights of European gays and women...