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Push for Pap
If a woman rarely or never has sex with men, should she still get regular Pap smears? Absolutely, say experts in lesbian health. Yet a...
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Buzzworthy
Photography by Todd Franson Much buzz accompanied the opening of David Greggory late last spring. It is, after all, the handsome and stylish collaboration of...
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Mixed Blessings
Oftentimes it's resilience more than consistency that distinguishes someone as a true diva. Riding the waves of changing music impulses has long dogged Aretha Franklin's...
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Club Flub
Culkin and Green Party Monster, which opens this weekend at Visions, is an oddly captivating yet not entirely successful journey into the creatively eccentric, drug-infused...
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Rock Hard
Jack Black What happens when a mainstream movie is infused with an independent sensibility? School of Rock, that's what. The feel-good surprise of the year,...
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Electro Magnetism
Cassidy Karakorn and Coby George have made it their mission to revive Tracks. Like many devotees of the former nightclub, Karakorn and George, along with...
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Truly Yours
Dear Lena, I'm a 27-year-old bisexual male and I'm married to a female. My problem is that I'm a true bisexual -- I honestly enjoy...
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Environs
Want history? Here's a 2BR, 2BA condo on Logan Circle built by the son of a president. After years of rumored ill-repute and general ramshackleness,...
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The Reluctant Hedonist
''I intend to write an opera one day,'' says Rufus Wainwright. ''Especially after these horrifyingly personal albums. I think I might need to concentrate on...
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Reality Bites
When I was a little kid, I used to watch a show called Romper Room and hoped each day with all my might that Miss...
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Up a Creek
About the best thing that can be said for Cold Creek Manor is that it isn't completely dull. You'd think it would be, given how...
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Half-Baked Beach
It is that end of summer time, that back to school time, that Congressional recess is over time, that time for something light to read....
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Diva Fatigue
When any half-pint pop singer can call herself a diva in song, something is woefully wrong. Becky Baeling sings -- no, shouts -- ''I'm a...
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Growing Pains
In the liner notes to Erykah Badu's ambitious if perplexing EP Underground Worldwide, she writes that several tunes were inspired by her ''Frustrated Artist Tour...
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Missing the Boat
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I've come to expect too much from a Tom Stoppard play by way of cerebral titillation and a love affair...
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Powerless Flower
You've got to at least admire Ken Ludwig for doggedly attempting to revitalize the classic farce genre. His early efforts, Lend Me A Tenor and...
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All Good
Something had to come along. Something charming, funny, even addictive. We just never thought it would come from ABC. Sure enough, the network's new sitcom,...
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Toast with the Most
Villaware's Uno Classic Since their introduction into the home in 1926, toasters have become a culinary icon spawning dozens of incarnations -- from the classic...
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Funny Girl
''Next to ‘Why do you always serve chicken?' and ‘Can I have a table as far away from my ex-lover as possible?‘ the most-asked Gala...
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Night Riders
Photography by Michael Wichita Zipping around in bumper cars may be child's play compared to today's high-intensity roller coasters and gravitational thrill rides. But the...
