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  • 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...

  • A New Turn-On

    By on July 30, 2003

    Dear T, We only met this weekend but already I know that I love you. I hate to sound like I'm new at the game...

  • Parched Paper

    By on July 30, 2003

    Look up ''dry '' in the thesaurus, and you will find almost fifty synonyms for the word. Dry as moistureless: barren, drained, juiceless, shriveled, thirsty....

  • Blurred Vision

    By on July 30, 2003

    The gimmick worked. The addition of 3D to the apparently annual Spy Kids series of movies brought the film in at number one last weekend...

  • Dumbing Down

    By on July 30, 2003

    Thalia Mass outrage would result if the makers of Corona-brand beer altered the recipe of their mega-popular Mexican brew. Americans can mostly stomach unaltered imported...

  • Urban Legends

    By on July 30, 2003

    In the mid-eighties, photographer Jim Goldberg began work on what would eventually become Raised by Wolves, an insightful photo exposé capturing the lives of homeless...

  • Unconditionally Awful

    By on July 30, 2003

    Unconditional Love is one of those strange, wretched made-for-TV movies that leaves one asking that familiar Hollywood question: What on earth were they smoking? The...

  • Triple Treats

    By on July 30, 2003

    Since its opening in February, a new restaurant in Georgetown has received plentiful buzz and admiration from an ever-expanding club of patrons who adore its...

  • Soundwaves

    By on July 30, 2003

    DIAL 1-900-DIXALOT… From the land of Big Butts comes word of new material (or new ass-ets, as it were). Remember Sir Mix-A-Lot? Eleven years ago,...

  • Hearsay

    By on July 30, 2003

    Hearsay spends a night in Charm City at the newly refurbished Grand Central and finds 8,000 square feet of fun, fun, fun, plus a little...

  • Environs

    By on July 30, 2003

    2BR, 2BA, 2 prkg spots in Adams Morgan = 2 Good 2 B True! Two-level condo with a cozy balcony, quasi-kitsch entertainment antiques, and a...

  • Life Lines

    By on July 23, 2003

    Photography by Todd Franson Three months ago, lying on a path alongside the George Washington Parkway with a broken arm, many thoughts were rushing through...

  • Ready for Vacation

    By on July 23, 2003

    Set loose on summer vacation and still jubilant over the Supreme Court ruling on gay sex, my girlfriend and I headed to Santa Cruz, California,...

  • Trickery

    By on July 23, 2003

    BOY MEETS BOY It's amazing how truly awful television can be. Just when you think it can't get any worse, Bravo brings us Boy Meets...

  • Agent Zero

    By on July 23, 2003

    Pity Rowan Atkinson. As gloriously funny as he is -- and he ranks up there with Sellers, Tati, Chaplin, and all the Pythons -- he...

  • Libations and Libidos

    By on July 23, 2003

    At first glance, D.H. Lawrence and Tennessee Williams may not seem like two probable writers to present in rep: one serves up cold drinks, the...

  • Soundwaves

    By on July 23, 2003

    ISO GAY COWBOY… We reported last month about gay porn star Jeff Stryker's coming full-frontal invasion of country music. He will release, with his band,...

  • Truly Yours

    By on July 23, 2003

    Dear Lena, I am a student spending a summer in D.C. doing an internship. All of my friends from school are back at home and...

  • Nicely Furnished

    By on July 23, 2003

    Reincarnations Two years ago, the northeast corner of 14th and Rhode Island in Logan Circle stood abandoned. The metal-grilled check cashing business had moved out,...

  • Urban Assets

    By on July 16, 2003

    The architecture-driven artwork of Joey Manlapaz leaves the viewer with a strong impression -- an impression of structural fortitude, of form's pas de deux with...