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Where Do We Fit?
With the November elections five weeks past, people are finally turning away from electoral discussions. Who could blame the voters on the losing side if...
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Equal Opportunity
Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...
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Web of Receipt
I have a confession, a very un-American confession. I hate shopping malls. Can't stand them. I hate trying to find parking, hate pushing through hordes...
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Uncoupling
In Closer, four strangers drawn together by fate form into romantic pairs and then proceed to uncouple and re-couple, in the process ripping each other...
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Dickens Nouveau
Just when you thought you knew Ebenezer Scrooge and his shopworn miserly antics, just when Charles Dickens seemed a safe bet for an evening filled...
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Soundwaves
MCLACHLAN'S CALLING… Some videos are worth celebrating because they're so good. Gwen Stefani's “What You Waiting For?” for example. And some videos are worth celebrating...
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Underwhelmed
After Mitsubishi tapped Dirty Vegas to promote its Eclipse model two years ago with the song ''Days Gone By,'' the band became the most popular...
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Hearsay
The unauthorized scoop on the new Mr. DC Eagle... Shopping till dropping, then dancing... Is 26 really that old? Yes, it is... Did anyone else...
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SLDN's Full Court Press
When Monica Hill joined the Air Force in the 1990s, she and her partner thought it was an excellent way to both act on her...
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Shake-Up at HRC
Less than one year after taking the helm, Cheryl Jacques has resigned as the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the organization announced Tuesday evening,...
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'Our Heroes: A 20-Year Journey of AIDS Through Our Eyes'
Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library 901 G St., NW Multiple exhibits through Dec. 31 LaQuis Harkins, ''And So Goes a Nation'' poetry reading 6:30-8:30...
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Art History
Peter Stebbins remembers meeting David Jamieson when the two entered the University of Vermont as freshman in 1983. ''I came home to find a gathering...
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Suit Your Shelf
There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...
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Making the Syphi-list
Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracking sexually transmitted diseases in 2003 does not offer much good news for...
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Earnest Melodrama
When Molly Smith invites Everett Quinton, renowned alum of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company, to direct The Importance of Being Earnest at Arena Stage, it's...
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Mythbuster
It's been six years since Bill Condon made the phenomenal Gods and Monsters, which explored the hushed tragedy of James Whale, the gay director behind...
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National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, D.C. Chapter
MISSION: Founded in 1991, NLGJA is an organization of journalists, online media professionals and students that works from within the journalism industry to foster fair...
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Sitting Pretty
Not long ago, I wrote that Subaru ''has carved a marketing niche for itself by creating cars that exude the practical and eschew the pretty.''...
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Next Exit 4 Years: Mapping a New Direction
Los Angeles and New York may be the country's cultural poles, but Washington sets the tone. The web of executive decisions, bureaucratic regulations, Supreme Court...
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First Class
In the coldest stretch of Iowa winter during my last two years of high school, there was a bittersweet part of each day: walking outside...
