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  • Truly Yours

    By on July 10, 2002

    Dear Lena, My friend set me up on a blind date with a guy who works in her office. Now, I'm not usually one to...

  • Soundwaves

    By on July 10, 2002

    DIRTY VEGAS Dirty Vegas Capitol Records JAZZANOVA In Between Ropeadope Records PLAYGROUP DJ Kicks !K7 Records While some beat heads get all George Wallace when...

  • Back in Time

    By on July 3, 2002

    The Diaries      Does it take all the bells and whistles Arena Stage gave Tom Walker last season to make a new John...

  • Go Figure

    By on July 3, 2002

         Loving the Wendy MacLeod play The House of Yes and its subsequent film adaptation, I knew deep inside my bones that MacLeod's satirical black...

  • Thin Skinned

    By on July 3, 2002

    Eminem Marshall Mathers is one angry young man, but it's all for show. And what a show: Mather's latest, The Eminem Show, is...

  • And The Wiener Is…

    By on July 3, 2002

    This Independence Day is certain to be one heavier on tradition than usual. You know -- as American as apple pie, mom, hot dogs, blah-blah-blah.......

  • And I Love Him

    By on July 3, 2002

         When my friends and I were in the ninth grade, the bass player for the band Duran Duran announced plans to get married. There...

  • Into the Mousetrap

    By on June 26, 2002

    It's ten past nine, and apparently Stinger Ray's is the place to be. Located just off of Terminal A, the bar's neon glow is a...

  • Minority Rules

    By on June 26, 2002

    Future shock: Cruise Slowly but surely, Steven Spielberg has been growing up. Benevolent, wide-eyed wonderments that characterized such early works as Close Encounters...

  • Love It

    By on June 26, 2002

    Runaway Brides: Norris, Jacobson and Biggs What's not to love about Big Love? Not a thing, I'm ecstatic to say. Avant-garde playwright Charles...

  • Go Go-Go

    By on June 26, 2002

    Judging from the likes of Terra Nova, The Crackwalker, and now David Rabe's In the Boom Boom Room, the emerging professionals of Project Y Theatre...

  • All By Himself

    By on June 26, 2002

    If you've ever enjoyed a recorded Mandy Patinkin vocal performance, but have never seen him live, you should definitely try to snag a seat for...

  • Truly Yours

    By on June 26, 2002

    Dear Lena, A guy I dated recently was really weirded out when I sent him a gift two-and-a-half weeks into the relationship. He couldn't understand...

  • Lypsinka Speaks!

    By on June 19, 2002

    To say that John Epperson is the ''Pride of Mississippi'' probably wouldn't be the most accurate of statements. Now, that's not to disparage Epperson's estimable...

  • The Words of Tammy Faye

    By on June 5, 2002

    What is it that gays love about Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner? Is it her camp value? Her perky, love-gushing way with words? Is it her unbridled...

  • Truly Yours

    By on June 5, 2002

    Dear Lena, I'm white, but I only date Asian men. My friends call me racist. I say it's just personal preference. What do you think?...

  • Post Gay

    By on May 29, 2002

    A bit of clarification: This is a story about Hank Stuever, a Washington Post Style section writer who, as it happens, is a gay man....

  • Words of Caushun

    By on May 22, 2002

    Collectively, rap and hip-hop artists have pretty much cornered the market on gay bashing. There's DMX's vibrantly visual ''Well in the back wit ya faggot...

  • Bar Quest

    By on May 15, 2002

    The martini's iconic status has elevated it almost to the point of cliché. Sean Connery made ''shaken, not stirred'' 007's very identity. Lauren Bacall never...

  • Language of Love

    By on May 8, 2002

    Irish author Jamie O'Neill flips intently through the pages of a book. Though it's his own novel, At Swim, Two Boys, and he knows every...