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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...
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Soundwaves
KNAPP'S ''SOAKIN WET'' REPRISE... Just last weekend, many D.C. dance denizens got soaking wet playing in the rain and the thundershowers in New York. The...
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Manipulations
''La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid.'' Before Dorothy Parker, there was Pierre Choderlos de LaClos, and his 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses...
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Haunted Mansion
Children shouldn't play with dead things: Hudson In The Skeleton Key, Kate Hudson plays hospice worker Caroline Ellis, a spunky, care-filled young woman whose curiosity...
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Cutting through the Static
F. Scott Fitzgerald was famously wrong in his declaration, ''There are no second acts in American lives.'' Americans, particularly those in the public eye, have...
