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Problem Child
Maid service: Sarandon. Igby Slocumb is a rebel with a cause. At 17, Igby is more than a handful, foul-mouthed and ill-behaved, the kind of...
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Traversing the Big C
Ed is dying of pancreatic cancer. All year we've been getting e-mails about his diagnosis, then his prognosis, then his treatment progress, then his...
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Emotional Waters
You had better come properly equipped for this season's Washington Opera opener -- Donizetti's mesmerizing Lucia Di Lammermoor. You'll want lumbar support, breath mints, and...
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Asian Influence
Photography by Michael Wichita Edu. Bernardino has a serious case of boy band on the brain. Though not an uncommon malady these days, Bernardino comes...
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Pleasant Parade
Romantic virgin: Cohn (Photo by Scott Suchman) Cabaret meets Pacific Overtures in Privates on Parade, the 25th anniversary season opener for The Studio Theatre....
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Three Cheers
There's a gem of a new musical to be found at Alexandria's MetroStage right now -- Three Sistahs, featuring the positively crackerjack trio of Crysta...
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Soundwaves
DJ Chris Cox Provocative Trance Provocative Music/Capitol Records DJ Dave Dresden Provocative Progressive Provocative Music/Capitol Records What, precisely, is trance? Or progressive? It's hard to...
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Inevitably Ani
Ani DiFranco There's no business like show business. Unless you're Ani DiFranco, in which case you'd probably fire your agent for even suggesting such...
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Truly Yours
Dear Miss Lena, I like to use poppers during sex but my boyfriend doesn't. He's tried them and liked them, but now refuses purely...
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Bull Market
Photography by Michael Wichita and Jackie Hubschman Being so close to Washington, there are spectators here at the Atlantic Stampede who have probably seen more...
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Tennis, Anyone?
All it took for tennis to shed its stuffy, elitist reputation was a long-haired sex symbol with a cocky attitude, a few Canon commercials...
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Fantastic Farce
Nuclear Family: Reese, Harris, Frith and McGinn (Photo by Carol Pratt ) Even if you've seen productions of What the Butler Saw, the final...
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Anemic Anthems
Is the story of Washington, D.C. -- the quirks, flaws and distinctions that transcend the standard image projected day in and day out by the...
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Swimmer's Cramp
All wet: Bradford. You know that commercial where two girls wax idiotically about how good their yogurt is? Let's imagine for a moment they...
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Soundwaves
The Riddler Dance Mix NYC -- Vol. 2 Tommy Boy Records Alcazar Casino E-Magine/RCA It takes hubris to be a DJ, obviously. The Riddler is...
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Hearsay
Hearsay goes jeans crazy at U-Gear's Fashion Show… Mayor Williams goes triangle crazy on 17th… The newest crowns in town… See more of MW's Exclusive...
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Getting ”Naked” with Amber
The thanks to ''all my fantastic fans! You're my inspiration!'' dispatched by almost every pop star in their album booklets is usually meaningless blather and...
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San Francisco Treat
Glittering: Cockette Dusty Dawn (center). John Waters puts it best. ''They were the first kind of, like, bearded drag queens -- hippie, weird, freak drag...
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Stranger in a Straight Land
There we sat in a staff meeting, all twelve of us, listening to the vice president for operations talk about kitchen upkeep. "Every bottom...
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Striking Out
For a bowler, there's no sweeter sound than the clamor of ten white pins crashing to the floor in a strike. ''I love...
