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Fresh Fruit
I think I'm in love with Peter Paddington. And not just because he reminds me of the overweight, under-popular, 13-year-old me. Pitiful, loveable and innocently...
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Atlantic Stampede Dance Schedule
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 Line-dance lesson 11:40 p.m. in the Columbia Ballroom Two-step lesson 12:50 a.m. in the Columbia Ballroom SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 Square-dance lesson 1:45...
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Rodeo 101
Think of the National Mall as the wide-open plain, Remington's as the local honky-tonk, and summer tourists as cattle. To make the illusion complete, some...
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History's Lessons
When Moisés Kaufman cobbled together all of the manuscripts, poems, witness testimony, biographical accounts and fictional literature that culminates in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials...
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Disenchantment
In the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, Terry Gilliam bellyaches about the poor quality of today's movies, in the process singling out Steven Spielberg and...
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DeBoldly Going
Susan Hester calls Kathleen DeBold ''Mautner's Miracle.'' ''She thinks about the Mautner Project in every waking hour,'' marvels Hester, the lesbian health organization's founding executive...
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Merry Melody
In 2002, nearly every major entertainment magazine singled out the Norwegian duo Röyksopp as a dance/electronica band to watch, producers of what so many hailed...
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Back to Love
Ask D.C.-native dance-pop singer Rachel Panay about her first musical influence, and she doesn't hesitate (though she does insert a ''you're gonna laugh'' warning). In...
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Bad-Ass Lesbians
I knew when I boarded the Metro and saw them that the two women sitting near me, dressed in a fashion that is way more...
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Why Iran Matters
A friend and I were recently shooting the breeze over a pot of coffee when he asked me a question that stopped me in my...
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Gathering Steam
The local, monthly community meetings to discuss GLBT participation in the Millions More Movement (MMM) are quickly gaining steam. The seventh monthly meeting, initiated in...
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Wondrous Woman
Nobody spins better, or with more superheroic grace, than Lynda Carter. Indeed, for her latest role in Sky High, Carter -- forever revered as the...
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Pee Town
Let's get this out of the way right up front: Urinetown is not what you think it is. Despite whatever tawdry, profane images your mind...
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Peters Principle
In 1996 Bernadette Peters made her solo concert debut in New York City. Peters, 48 at the time, was well more than two decades into...
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Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) National Capital Area
Members of GLSEN at a recent happy hour event ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and...
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Quick Change Artist
In the grand scheme of automotive design, marketing and sales, it's commonplace to take a car from Company A, change around a few design elements,...
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Community Building
Much of metropolitan Washington's community is from elsewhere. Michael Sessa, raised in a thoroughly Italian-American neighborhood in Boston's Revere suburb is no exception. Traces of...
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Proud Moments
Every June for the last 30 years, the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area has celebrated pride with energy and enthusiasm. Whether it was a few hundred...
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Crossed Tracks
While recently speaking to someone who lives in D.C., I was told that Columbia Heights, the neighborhood in which I lived for many years, is...
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Five Alive
Under the noonday sun Monday, a group of local religious leaders offered another ray of light. Downtown, on the steps of the Metropolitan African Methodist...
