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  • Status Symbol

    By on February 9, 2005

    The first time out of the gate wasn't that auspicious for the Toyota Prius, part of the vanguard of the gas-electric hybrid cars just edging...

  • Pluck Off

    By on February 9, 2005

    I don't know what came over me the night, somewhere in the throes of adolescence, that I let my friends put make-up on me. I...

  • Deducing Deductions

    By on February 9, 2005

    Can you feel the excitement in the air? That's right. It's tax season again. All right, I'll admit that for most people, doing their taxes...

  • Conferring for Campus Equality

    By on February 9, 2005

    Elizabeth City State University is about as ''small town'' as you can get. It's roughly 45 miles south of Portsmouth, Va., just over the North...

  • Growing Pains

    By on February 9, 2005

    At first glance, Kimberly Levaco is a normal 16-year-old girl with a precocious mind and a flair for the melodramatic. But look a little closer...

  • Cupid's Stupid

    By on February 9, 2005

    If you're looking for non-ironic expressions of warm Valentine's feelings next week, you may want to steer clear of the Black Cat where mothertoungue stages...

  • Still Laughing

    By on February 9, 2005

    Thirty years later and they still make each other laugh. As Kathleen DeBold and Barbara Johnson, both 49, tell the tale of how they met...

  • Evergreen

    By on February 9, 2005

    Bernie Pulliam and William Taylor have traversed an ocean and two decades, and they've taken it in stride. Their first meeting may have set the...

  • Now More Than Ever

    By on February 9, 2005

    It was fall of 1984 when Michael Hussey and Bennett DeOlazo went to a Trivial Pursuit party that set in motion a not-so-trivial pursuit for...

  • Mystical Marriage

    By on February 9, 2005

    It's hard to imagine a more wholesome setting than the Matthews-Williams household in suburban Silver Spring. On a Saturday morning, the home buzzes with energy....

  • Happy Together

    By on February 9, 2005

    With Valentine's Day around the corner and romantic merchandise for sale on all sides, it may seem inevitable to get a little cynical about romance....

  • Boxing Hilary

    By on February 9, 2005

    I'm not particularly fond of boxing movies. I flinch at the sight of fists curled up in big padded gloves, thrusting for blood. Nor am...

  • Old Pipes

    By on February 2, 2005

    Though she's being nice about it, our downstairs lesbian neighbor has informed us through a series of handwritten notes Scotch-taped to our door that our...

  • Stage Haze

    By on February 2, 2005

    As the reigning queen of psychological stage haze, Caryl Churchill doesn't apologize for the lack of explanation or analytical epilogue in her work. It's a...

  • Pop Pleasures

    By on February 2, 2005

    Erasure created a classic pop song almost the minute the duo launched. ''Oh L'Amour '' was the third single from the pioneering synth-pop duo's 1985...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 2, 2005

    DANCE SPOTLIGHT ON D.C.… Could 2005 be the year D.C.'s dance community gains greater recognition? Well, let's do our part to push it. The community's...

  • Hostile Territory

    By on February 2, 2005

    ''Why did you move to the hate state?'' That's what I've been asked, in various forms, since I left D.C.'s Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights neighborhood last...

  • BHT Holds 27th Reception

    By on February 2, 2005

    Roughly 100 people gathered Saturday afternoon, Jan. 29, at Titan, for Brother, Help Thyself's annual grants reception. In all, the all-volunteer, Washington-Baltimore organization awarded $91,655...

  • DC OUTfront (Amnesty International)

    By on January 26, 2005

    ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: LGBT people are entitled to the full range of human rights protections afforded to anyone else, and that governments have an obligation to...

  • Identity Krises

    By on January 26, 2005

    Until my senior year in college, I was half the person I am today. I don't mean that this was the point at which I...