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  • Hearsay

    By on September 11, 2002

    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...

  • Getting ”Naked” with Amber

    By on September 11, 2002

    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...

  • San Francisco Treat

    By on September 4, 2002

    Glittering: Cockette Dusty Dawn (center). John Waters puts it best. ''They were the first kind of, like, bearded drag queens -- hippie, weird, freak drag...

  • Stranger in a Straight Land

    By on September 4, 2002

    There we sat in a staff meeting, all twelve of us, listening to the vice president for operations talk about kitchen upkeep.      "Every bottom...

  • Striking Out

    By on September 4, 2002

         For a bowler, there's no sweeter sound than the clamor of ten white pins crashing to the floor in a strike.      ''I love...

  • Sacred Ground

    By on September 4, 2002

    Two on the Twelfth: Sutton and Twyford (Photo by Stan Barouh ) Has enough time passed since the horror of September 11 that the terrorists'...

  • Five Star Album

    By on September 4, 2002

    Andy Stochansky, despite his strengths, falls squarely into the dreaded ''...but he sucks live'' category. His recent stint at the Iota Café in Clarendon can...

  • Film Preview

    By on September 4, 2002

    SEPTEMBER City by the Sea CITY BY THE SEA -- Robert DeNiro plays a police detective whose son (James Franco) becomes a primary suspect in...

  • Art Preview

    By on September 4, 2002

    American Visionary Art Museum 800 Key Highway Baltimore, Md. 410-244-1900 High on Life: Transcending Addiction -- Featuring artwork created by drug addicts while in the...

  • Dance Preview

    By on September 4, 2002

    Dance Place 3225 8th St. NE 202-269-1600 www.danceplace.org Bolshoi Ballet Step Afrika! -- Explosive and percussive ensemble highlighting the African-American fraternity and sorority art form...

  • Books Preview

    By on September 4, 2002

         As summer winds down, it's time to take a moment and seriously consider the idea of the summer beach book. Aside from the fact...

  • Popular Music Preview

    By on September 4, 2002

    SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS No. 2 9/5: Neil Gust, formerly the gay co-frontman of Heatmiser, reinvents himself as the gay co-frontman of rawwwk-chopped pop outfit No. 2,...

  • Stage Preview

    By on September 4, 2002

    Actors' Theatre of Washington 202-543-3607 www.atwdc.org After Dark -- GLBT-focused company brings back last season's romantic comedy hit (1409 Playbill Café, 11/8 to 12/23)... Naked...

  • Classical Music Preview

    By on September 4, 2002

    D.C.'s Different Drummers 202-269-4868 www.dcdd.org Fall Symphonic Band Concert -- Mark your calendars now to catch the next performance by members of Washington's GLBT community-focused...

  • Truly Yours

    By on September 4, 2002

    Dear Miss Lena,      Is revenge WRONG? When I broke up with my ex, I was left with mountains of debt, a broken heart, and...

  • The MW Student Handbook

    By on August 28, 2002

    Photography by Michael Wichita Also see the accompanying Resource Guide. You're a freshman, so you're a little bit stupid. S'ok. D.C. is easy if you...

  • Student Handbook: Bibliography

    By on August 28, 2002

    POLITICAL SCIENCE D.C. Statehood Green Party 1314 18th St. NW 202-296-1301 www.dcstatehoodgreen.org Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) 202-667-5139 www.glaa.org Read about these locations in...

  • Good Eats

    By on August 28, 2002

    Lord I was born a wrestling man: Tweel and Fry. (Photo by Ian Armstrong)      Generally speaking, processed meat is not a subject for close...

  • Girl Trouble

    By on August 28, 2002

    Adultry, anyone?: Aniston. There is a moment in The Good Girl involving blackberries that comes as a complete shock, in part because it depicts a...

  • Pomp and Circumstance

    By on August 28, 2002

    Grooms with a View: Dan and Gregg. (Photo courtesy of Bravo) As far as guilty pleasures go, mine don't get much guiltier than The Disney...