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  • Evergreen

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    ''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

    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)

    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

    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...

  • Absent Recognition

    This past year was groundbreaking for gays in black journalism. From black churches supporting or opposing gay marriage to the alarming rise in HIV infection...

  • Big Mover

    You may have heard that the region's highways are being overrun by vehicular behemoths, SUVs whose enormous width and girth hog lanes and block the...

  • Opera Queen

    ''I fell in love with opera when I was 13, when I first heard the voice of Maria Callas,'' says John Pascoe. ''I heard her...

  • Blood Simple

    Alfred de Musset lives. Though the French romantic never saw his epic Lorenzaccio presented upon the stage during his lifetime, European audiences are familiar with...

  • Hard Lessons

    In Good Company is an agreeable comedy that might have been overlooked altogether if not for Topher Grace's pitch-perfect performance as a 26-year-old corporate upstart...

  • Hearsay

    Eavesdropping around at MAL Weekend... A very heated amateur night... Subairi holds a tsunami fundraiser... It all started a few Fridays back, at the Mid-Atlantic...

  • Soundwaves

    2004'S TOP DANCE ACT.... Billboard's bestselling album in 2004 from a dance/electronic artist was not brought to us by a lesbian sex act. Despite half...