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  • Growth Spurt

    By on April 19, 2006

    Marking its 10th year, the stage is set for Youth Pride Day in Rock Creek Park at the corner of P and 23rd streets NW...

  • Couples Therapy

    By on April 19, 2006

    So much unexpected joy is created by Richard Clifford's fresh, frilly production of The Game of Love and Chance at the Folger Theatre that you...

  • Country Roads

    By on April 19, 2006

    ''We wanted to do something unique when it came to Cherry weekend, and we knew there hadn't been a country women's dance ever before,'' says...

  • Soul in the Machine

    By on April 19, 2006

    ''You get completely put in a different time zone when you hear them. It's like smelling a perfume, you get reminded of a certain kind...

  • Cherry

    By on April 19, 2006

    Spring in Washington is a time for blooming and booming: When nature's emerging foliage and flowers bring out the big and the brassy, from parades...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 19, 2006

    JANET'S NOT ''CRAZY IN LOVE''... We should hear a new single from Janet Jackson within the next month, or months in advance of Jackson's next...

  • Hard Satire

    By on April 19, 2006

    Satire in the movies. On the one hand, it can be sharp, biting, memorably dark. On the other hand, it can be crass, base, instantly...

  • Bourne Different

    By on April 19, 2006

    ''It's known wrongly as the all-male Swan Lake,'' says British choreographer Matthew Bourne of his inventive reinvention of a classical dance staple that, a decade...

  • Be Bar Faces Off with Opponents

    By on April 19, 2006

    Opponents and supporters of the proposed Be Bar at 1318 Ninth St. NW , which would cater to the gay community with a lounge and...

  • Asian Queers United for Action (AQUA)

    By on April 12, 2006

    Members of AQUA at a recent happy hour event Mission: To serve gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) in the Washington,...

  • Perking Me Up

    By on April 12, 2006

    Our relationship began in the early '90s, when I was still living in Des Moines and she was in New York City. I'd never been...

  • D.C. Coalition Coalescing

    By on April 12, 2006

    About 50 people joined the D.C. Coalition at a reception Sunday, April 9, introducing the community to the group's new board members, elected last month....

  • The Kids Are Not Alright

    By on April 12, 2006

    There was a full house of about 150 people in the Human Rights Campaign's Equality Forum space April 5. It was a ''who's who'' of...

  • Civic Responsibility

    By on April 12, 2006

    Everybody knows the Honda Civic. Chances are, you've spent a lot of time in one, whether you owned one as your first grown-up car, or...

  • Lucky Boy

    By on April 12, 2006

    One of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite recurring themes was that of the wrong man, an acute case of mistaken identity that often took the hero on...

  • 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...