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Latin Heat
Hector Zarate's first job as a teenager new to the U.S. from Peru was painting houses. Half a lifetime later, he spends his days importing...
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Stage Presence: Gay Fruit of the Vine
In 2003, Vincent Worthington, who had worked in theater since he was 14, was faced with an important decision. Keith Waters, founder and Artistic Director...
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Stage Presence: Motivating Fences
''I didn't audition for Troy because I didn't think I would be considered for Troy.'' Michael Sainte-Andress is referring to the leading character in Fences,...
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Stage Presence: Theatrical Bonds
In 1999, Jeanette L. Buck -- a local filmmaker, playwright and director -- was accosted by a stranger in her home, brutally attacked and left...
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14th & U: A Revitalized Corridor
It's no secret that 14th Street in Northwest is one of the city's fastest growing and most dynamic neighborhoods. Over the past few years, new...
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This Mama Keeps on Going
Go Mama Go's Noi Chudnoff Since August 2001, Noi Chudnoff has offered funky and affordable artwork, housewares and gifts from her shop, Go Mama Go...
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Sweet-Smelling Success
Flowers are a welcoming sign for passers-by at Flowers on 14th. Starting with a part-time job when he was in high school, Jeff Fritz has...
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Day care goes to the dogs on 14th Street
Anyone who's ever had a dog knows that a canine is more than just a pet. Man's (and woman's) best friend is also one of...
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D.C. Boys of Leather
Members of D.C. Boys of Leather ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION: Founded in 1999, D.C. Boys of Leather provides leatherboys a forum in which to have fun, learn,...
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Environs
You can't help but fall for this two-story Shaw 2 BR plus den townhouse. If the exposed brick and bigger-than-it-looks interior don't grab you, the...
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Hopping Mad
Walking toward my Unitarian church on Easter morning, I struck up a conversation with an older gentleman who was headed my direction. He was, like...
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Give a Hoot, Don't Recruit
When it comes to protesting the Pentagon's ban on allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly, law schools have been in the forefront. But...
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Smoke Signals
In Washington's ongoing tug-o-war over tobacco, the Whitman-Walker Clinic Board of Directors voted late last month to support expansion of the city's smoke-free workplace laws...
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Hearsay
Hearsay was recently asked to join the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington by a source who will go unnamed to protect his secret identity. Needless...
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Wigging Out
Cookie Buffet may have clawed her way through the local political arena last year, as her alter ego Christopher Dyer won a seat as an...
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Learning Experience
When Eytan Fox was an Israeli teenager, he went to Germany as part of a folk dancing troupe. He and his friends were all anxious...
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Simply Magical
It's easy to mistake Big River for just another fluff musical based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After all, its jazzy ragtime...
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Operatic Wonder
As we all know, Joan of Arc died hard and Tchaikovsky's Maid of Orleans is for a different sort of die-hard -- the operatic kind....
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Animal Husbandry
If Edward Albee's goal as a playwright is to expose the lies that organize our everyday lives, then he succeeds brilliantly with The Goat or,...
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Rock Steady
Named after a song from post-punk pioneers Public Image Ltd. -- and not after the British radio station -- Radio 4 is far from the...
