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Jack's Back
A little too low key for its own good, About Schmidt amounts to much less than the sum of its parts. ''I don't know whether...
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Night Flight
Twelfth Night glows with an alternative-styled sexiness, while Last Seder is a skillful exploration of family dynamics in disarray. Playing for laughs: Marshall and Twyford....
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Feast Your Ears
A gorgeous mix of jaunty ballads and emotive instrumentals, Feast of Wire is the polar opposite of a shampoo commercial Country music's insurrection into pop...
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Soundwaves
RUSSIAN GIRLS IN LOVE... It might be, as every music critic writing about them has skeptically suggested, just a gimmick that the Russian teenagers in...
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Hearsay
Paying homage to Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, Hearsay finds itself a master… Diving headfirst into the Deep End… Hearsay's first official sighting of a leatherman came...
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Feeling Feint
Photography by Michael Wichita If P Street is where the roots were planted, the family tree has since branched out to Connecticut Avenue, 17th and...
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Soundwaves
DISCO INFERNO… Can you believe it's been thirty years since disco first boogie-oogie-oogied? Well it has, and ABC has come to the rescue to commemorate...
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Finest Hours
The Hours is perhaps the most improbable mainstream-oriented movie to emerge from Hollywood this year. A character-study mood piece that envelops you like a mist,...
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Fantasy Man
Biographer Charles Castillo gives more depth to John Rechy the man, while taxing Rechy the fantasy. Once upon a time, gay Americans were better known...
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Delightful Dogs
Sharp and accessible satire makes What Dogs Do highly recommendable to audiences of every stripe. A play about the inner workings of theatre can be...
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Soup's On
Taking Stock: Ani DiFranco The annual Queerstock music festival is predicated on a radical idea -- that the fight for liberation is useless if you...
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First Lady of Leather
Photography by Todd Franson ''Many times, I see people who I call ‘sniffers.' They come to the hotel where MAL is held and look around...
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Born Again
Photography by Michael Wichita In many ways, December 27 was a bigger day for the tabloids than the medical community. The news of the world's...
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Transformation Train
It's April 1993, and we are golden. Everywhere we look, we are affirmed -- everyone's smiling and friendly, and after my first six months in...
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What's in a Word?
GLAA's Rick Rosendall (Photo by Michael Wichita) Are you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual? Or do you prefer the more modern appellation,...
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Truly Yours
Dear Lena, Have you ever lived (or spent much time) in a gay community that's better than Washington's? I get so frustrated sometimes, because I...
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Gender Battles on Title IX
The sound of macho-nacho cheese snacks pouring into man-sized serving bowls reminds me that Super Bowl season is here. But for many women, a more...
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Killer Diller
Razzle-dazzling: Gere A musical is only as great as its songs. Which would make John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago one of the greatest musicals...
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Domestic Drama
Maternal instinct: Coleman as BettyAnn (Photo by Carol Pratt) ''You don't have a family,'' says the successful R&B singer Paul (Sekou Laidlow) to BettyAnn (Rosalyn...
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Mad About Musicals
''Whatever happened to class?'' Just like the delicious duet ''Class'' sung by prison matron Mama Morton and celebrity double-murderer Velma Kelly, that's a question a...
