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Certification Gives Herring Virginia AG Win
The Virginia State Board of Elections today certified Democrat Mark Herring as the winner in the commonwealth's attorney general race, giving Herring, an LGBT-supportive candidate,...
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11 hottest cars of the LA Auto Show
It’s that time of year again. The holidays are beckoning, Black Friday is looming, cold weather is slowly encroaching and the world’s car manufacturers have...
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Mayor Gray to Officially Open the DC Center Today
Almost a year after the official announcement of its new location in the Frank D. Reeves Municipal Center, The DC Center, the city’s LGBT community...
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British Airways takes the award for most awesome billboard
We’ve all seen them — littering highways, buildings and a myriad of other places as we navigate daily life. Billboards are just an accepted part...
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David Crabb’s Goth and Gay Days Deep in the Heart of Texas
A two-time winner of the storytelling organization The Moth’s StorySLAM, the New York-based David Crabb offers a local presentation of his off-Broadway one-man show all...
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Virginia Caucuses Continue Through Saturday
Despite regional differences between the Tidewater and Northern Virginia exurbs, Democrats and Republicans – so far – seem to be adopting a traditional ''red-blue'' divide...
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Talking Transmission
A panel of LGBT advocates specializing in health and social welfare, moderated by MSNBC's Thomas Roberts, met Thursday, Nov. 21, as part of a webcast...
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Obama signs bipartisan bill lifting ban on HIV-positive organ transplants
President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday a bill lifting the ban on organ transplants between people who are HIV-positive. The HIV Organ Policy Equity...
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Holy Mole: El Centro D. F. honors a traditional Mexican sauce with a special menu
It happens to everyone. You catch a whiff of something cooking and it transports you to a different time and place. For me, it’s the...
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Maurice Hines Is Tappin Again for ‘Warm’ D.C. Audiences
“I love the D.C. audiences. They’re very, very warm,” Maurice Hines tells Metro Weekly. “Certain cities are not. You have to warm them up…I don’t...
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Safeplug keeps the NSA out of your home for $49
It seems not a day goes by without a story regarding another internet hacking scandal, someone losing their identity online, or claims that the...
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Jolly Holidays
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and right now every arts organization and venue in the Washington area is gearing up to offer...
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Southern Man
In an extraordinary combination, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate is funny, unflinchingly honest, and awful in the best possible way. Somewhere in the neighborhood of Tracy Lett's...
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Magic To Do
Of all the adjectives you could use to describe Beaches, the maudlin movie from 1988 starring Bette Midler as C.C. Bloom, it's doubtful ''inspiring'' would...
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Holiday Blue Notes
The holidays are approaching, but events are making it hard to get in the festive spirit. Not only is a friend spamming me with polls...
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D.C. Marks Transgender Day of Remembrance
More than a hundred District activists, members of the LGBT community and others rallied at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, Nov....
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Hungering for More
The mood of a franchise film matters. Consider the effect it can have on character, story and purpose. What would Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy be...
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An Epidemic’s Leading Ladies
Elizabeth Taylor just couldn’t take it anymore. A staggering number of people, including many friends and fellow celebrities, were falling ill and dying at a...
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Fixtivus
It's been a hard-knock life for us here in Capital City. From the government shutdown to ''Obamacare'' and even Miley Cyrus, everything just seems broken....
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Get A Life
Over the last few months, I’ve been getting the same question from a few people. “Can you help get me back in shape? I want...
