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Heart of the Matter
Near the end of the gay marriage documentary Tying the Knot, an Oklahoman farmer named Sam sits outside the home he's fighting desperately to keep...
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No Tex, Just Mex
Nearly three years ago Andale arrived in Washington and changed how we think about Mexican cuisine. This isn't a place to come in search of...
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Naval Maneuvers
Rum, buggery and the lash sail into the Washington National Opera with Francesca Zambello's production of Benjamin Britten's sea-going epic Billy Budd. Alas, if only...
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Teacher's Pet
Jefferson Mays is going to die. The innocent seventeen year-old has been convicted of murder in 1948 rural Louisiana and now he must pay the...
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Soundwaves
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW… Martha Wash, the Two Tons of Fun/Weather Girls woman (and Sylvester's “Mighty Real” backup singer) with certainly one of the most booming...
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Low Carb at Lower Cost
Like no other people in the world, Americans are obsessed with dieting and staying in shape. While I don't have any studies to back this...
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D.C. Lambda Squares
Members of the D.C. Lambda Squares Mission: D.C. Lambda Squares provides opportunities for members, visitors and guests to dance in non-traditional roles and a comfortable...
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Environs
It pays to be an urban pioneer, particularly when you find a stunning Victorian townhouse in what will become D.C.'s hot neighborhood. Sky-high ceilings, stunning...
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Booby-Gazing
It felt so stereotypically lesbian: My partner and I saved our money, conspired with a travel company, got our documents in order, wrote some big...
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Goes to War
Today, the Department of Defense can offer a count showing that military operations related to invading Afghanistan and Iraq -- operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi...
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Fantasyland
When Ivan Sidorovich Zhukov sends a letter, he doesn't have to walk it to the nearest mailbox down the street, or even search for a...
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Wonder Women
David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer Prize-nominated M. Butterfly is, by all reasonable measures, a perfect play. The playwright brilliantly, poetically entwines his story of wants versus...
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Viva La Revolution!
In staging Umberto Giordano's twisted tale of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier, Polish director Mariusz Trelinski pulls off an amazingly ambitious and yet always dramatically...
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Virtual Reality
At the beginning of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the ''Hindenburg III'' ceremoniously and gracefully docks atop the Empire State Building. This gorgeous,...
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Hearsay
Crappy weather shuts down the Gay Day at K.D.... Mounting the cowboys at ASGRA's Atlantic Stampede... Hearty laughs galore at Titan... Last Saturday, Hearsay was...
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Staying Power
When the third-generation Nissan Altima debuted in 2002, it was at the vanguard of the Japanese automaker's aggressive new design stance. Leaving behind the staid...
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Grand Old Protestors
There's been a lot of talk about elderly protesters lately. Women, specifically. From Kansas. Midwestern, blue-rinsed, female Medicare-recipients marching with U.N. flags. It's a hot...
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Setting the Course
Boston may have gotten the Democrats, and New York the Republicans, but Washington hosted a major political conference of its own last weekend as the...
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An Office of One's Own
Wednesday, Sept. 8, was a gray day in Washington. Among Mayor Anthony Williams's announcements at that day's routine press briefing were what flood preparations the...
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Soundwaves
DISCO FEELS LOVE… If you were asked to name just three artists who helped shape dance music as we know it, Donna Summer would factor...
