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  • Kiki & Herb

    By on October 30, 2002

    Photography by Michael Wichita It's like a frat band on the Lawrence Welk Show. It's like Steve and Edie on a bender. It's like bong...

  • Power Pop

    By on October 30, 2002

         The buzz from New York on the cabaret act Kiki & Herb over the last couple of years has been so scintillating, so delicious,...

  • Very Bad Man

    By on October 30, 2002

    Dream on: Mitchell as Cervantes/Quixote (Photo by Joan Marcus)      It's just wrong.      There's no better way to sum up the revival of Man...

  • High Style

    By on October 30, 2002

    Great Dame: Te Kanawa with Schaufer. (Photo by Carol Pratt/The Washington Opera) Director Steven Lawless brings us a polished and absorbing production of Samuel Barber's...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 30, 2002

    Thievery Corporation Richest Man in Babylon Eighteenth Street Lounge Music DJ Boy George A Night In with Boy George: A Chillout Mix Moonshine Didn't you...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 23, 2002

    DJ Dan Round Trip Kinetic Records DJ Escape Party Time 2003 Groovilicious Music Crystal Waters never got the attention she deserved with ''Come On Down,''...

  • Terror Tape

    By on October 23, 2002

    Bad reception: Henderson Bad reception: Henderson      ''I hate television -- gives me headaches,'' grumbles 16-year-old Katie (Amber Tamblyn) to a friend in the opening...

  • Change to Spare

    By on October 23, 2002

    Beck When Beck claimed to be a loser in 1994, few people actually bought it. Even those who bought it didn't really buy it. They,...

  • Ex Caliber

    By on October 23, 2002

         A giant ad in Monday's Washington Post -- it's a full page but somehow it looks bigger than the others -- touts an upcoming...

  • Bound for Glory

    By on October 23, 2002

    Quick -- how many major professional baseball, football and basketball stars are out of the closet? Zero. Now, how many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender...

  • Art from the Heart

    By on October 23, 2002

    ''It was the beginning of a new era, '' says Frank Yurrita, recalling the first Art for Life art auction held in 1994. Spearheaded by...

  • Reel Affirmations 12

    By on October 16, 2002

    The city's most comprehensive viewer's guide to the 12th Annual Reel Affirmations gay & lesbian film festival. Reviews by: Sean Bugg Kristina Campbell Will Doig...

  • LEAVING METROPOLIS

    By on October 16, 2002

    Thursday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $15 Brad Fraser is one of Canada's premiere playwrights. He is not, it so happens, one of its...

  • HIS SECRET LIFE

    By on October 16, 2002

    Friday, Oct. 18, 7 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Antonia's life would seem to be perfect. When not working at the hospital as a nurse giving...

  • ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN

    By on October 16, 2002

    Friday, Oct. 18, 9 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 Let's get one thing perfectly clear: Matt LeBlanc does not make a pretty woman. Nor...

  • SHOWGIRLS (with David Schmader)

    By on October 16, 2002

    Fri., Oct. 18, 11 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, $9 With the addition of Schmader: The infamously bad 1995 film Showgirls is only half the story of...

  • GEORGIE GIRL

    By on October 16, 2002

    Saturday, Oct. 19, Noon Goethe Institut, $9 While America was grilling its president about a contact high he got at a Stones show a million...

  • HAND ON THE PULSE

    By on October 16, 2002

    Saturday, Oct. 19, 2 p.m. Goethe Institut, $9 It's about time someone documented the founding of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and Joyce P. Warshow's documentary...

  • STRANGER INSIDE

    By on October 16, 2002

    Saturday, Oct. 19, 3 p.m. Lincoln Theatre, FREE It's hard to remember to blink during Stranger Inside, the compelling story of young Treasure...

  • HOPE ALONG THE WIND: The Life of Harry Hay

    By on October 16, 2002

    Saturday, Oct. 19, 3 p.m. Goethe Institut, $9 In 1948, Harry Hay “wrote a document that would spark a revolution,” recites the dulcet-voiced...