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  • Soundwaves

    By on August 20, 2003

    WHERE THE GRAMMYS DON'T SHINE... The Grammy Awards are always a hit-and-miss ceremony, but every winner is a hit, commercially speaking. How, then, to even...

  • Hearsay

    By on August 20, 2003

    Hard or soft, they're all big ol' balls to us… An androgynous legend announces retirement… Psst, want a used sex toy?… Hearsay has long concerned...

  • Visible Progress

    By on August 20, 2003

    We've come a long way since the day Dr. Zachary Smith got lost in space. Or when Jodie Dallas came out to his family on...

  • Requisite Requiem

    By on August 20, 2003

    The combining of popular movie horror icons to make a quick buck is a time-honored tradition in Hollywood. Anybody remember Frankstein Meets the Wolfman? But...

  • Environs

    By on August 20, 2003

    4BR, 2BA Victorian in Logan Circle, with original stained glass, working dumbwaiter, and two modern refrigerators in a refurbished kitchen. Big airy rooms. Refurbished floors....

  • Watch and Wear

    By on August 20, 2003

    Long before the Fab Five of Queer Eye took to the airwaves, fashionistas on TLC's What Not to Wear were transforming eyesores into knockouts. In...

  • Truly Yours

    By on August 13, 2003

    Dear Lena, I've been with my boyfriend for a year now and just found out that he's a sex addict. He says he hasn't been...

  • Play Ball!

    By on August 13, 2003

    You see them in the spring and summer, spread out around the base of the Washington monument or along the playing fields near the Roosevelt...

  • Girl Meets Whirl

    By on August 13, 2003

    This new wave of television programming designed to challenge and confuse our notions of what is straight and what is gay has me, well, challenged...

  • Queen of Arts

    By on August 13, 2003

    Once upon a time (roughly two or three times a season), a very peculiar thing here in the real-world ''Wonderland '' happens: a theatre company...

  • Tricky Dicks

    By on August 13, 2003

    Puppetry of the Penis marks the latest evolution in appendage exploitation -- and the male member will never be the same. The show is simple,...

  • Freakin' Awesome

    By on August 13, 2003

    Whoever decided to cast Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in the Disney remake of Freaky Friday should be sent a box of expensive chocolates,...

  • Uniquely Indian

    By on August 13, 2003

    While the suburbs have long been blessed with great Indian dining, aside from the Bombay Club there haven't been any other truly fine Indian restaurants...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 13, 2003

    CAREER SPEARS... Britney Spears and her publicity machine are in overdrive, working to keep her name in the headlines -- from now until the end...

  • Mum's the Word

    By on August 13, 2003

    Fall is no time to be naked, yet so many of the city's window boxes that teem with colorful flowers during the summer are left...

  • Waiting on Fame

    By on August 6, 2003

    Topher Goodman There's a sign posted outside Rocco's on 22nd Street that reads: THE CAMERAS ARE OFF. But the television program that is sort of...

  • First Person

    By on August 6, 2003

    Returning from a three-week summer getaway, I find my e-mail box crammed with political updates -- and instructions for me to sign and send petitions...

  • Toiletries

    By on August 6, 2003

    Alyson Hannigan has American Wedding's funniest line. Watching in disbelief as the crass, crude, lewd, sexually motivated Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott) engages in an...

  • Gay Dreaming

    By on August 6, 2003

    If you're insecure and scare easily, Hollywood isn't the town for you. That's the sobering message behind Gay Hollywood, a powerful new documentary from AMC...

  • Ruff Life

    By on August 6, 2003

    Imagine coming home from work to find couch pillows ripped open and strewn across the floor like candy wrappers on Halloween and your previously fashionable...