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Provincetown Bear Week: Planning for Foraging and Fur Trapping
It’s an overwhelming list of activities: BigMuscleBears at Paramount, Furball at the Boatslip, Bearracuda at Purgatory, Blowoff at the Boatslip, Fag Bash at Governor Bradford,...
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Songs of Summer 2013 Sampler
Just in time for your weekend, Metro Weekly has assembled a Spotify playlist of the leading contenders as Song of Summer 2013. That is, at...
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Duplex Diner Celebrates 15 Years Tonight
Over the past 15 years, D.C.’s restaurant scene has grown by leaps and bounds — in number, in quality, in variety. The bar scene has...
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McBride Preliminary Hearing Deferred
The man arrested in connection with the brutal stabbing of a transgender woman in Southeast D.C.'s Fort Stanton neighborhood had his preliminary hearing on an...
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Cuba Libre’s Curried King Mackerel Escabeche
Chef and Partner Guillermo Pernot of Cuba Libre shows us how to make his Curried King Mackerel Escabeche. Cuba Libre in D.C. Video: Aram Vartian...
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Coverboy: Daly
Grab your passport and your suitcase, because Daly is on the move. The 26-year-old was born in Germany, but started his migration at 5, living...
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HRC releases poll showing majority of Virginians hold pro-LGBT views
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, released polling at a press conference in Richmond Thursday showing the citizens of...
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Fortune Feimster at Arlington Drafthouse This Weekend
Is it as fun working for comedian Chelsea Handler as it would appear? “Oh for sure,” Fortune Feimster tells Metro Weekly. “We’re all lucky because...
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Pennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane refuses to defend law banning gay marriage
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) announced today she would not defend the state’s law prohibiting same-sex marriage. Kane’s satement came in response to a...
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Chevy Camaro SS: Desert Drive Time
The American road trip is an institution, a free, open, majestic exploration of this vast, great nation, in which the participants are able to make...
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Card's Game
One of my few hard and fast rules of life is ''Always bring a book.'' It fills up all those interstitial moments in life spent...
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Protecting Our Pink Planet
There are a couple companies I avoid simply because my polite letters regarding dreadful customer service went unanswered. Although I steer clear, I've never asked...
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DREAMer's Post-DOMA Big Day
Tuesday was a day of celebration for Prerna Lal. Not only was it her wedding day, but she also had the opportunity to make a...
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Monster Mashup
There is only one reason why anybody would want to endure Pacific Rim. That reason happens midway through the movie, when a giant robot faces...
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Art Party
When Mikey Torres decided to start a queer-focused, performance-based party, he didn't want to just copy what he liked about Town's holiday-Sunday party, WTF, or...
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Alien Visitation
Right now, Washington is awash with tourists. They're trying to take in too much in too little time, and will end up getting at least...
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The fun. Activist
''It's all fun. and gay 'til someone loses their rights.'' The phrase comes from a T-shirt sold by the rock band fun. on its website...
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Amusing Klymaxx
Back in the mid-'90s Bette Midler took inspiration from Bernadette Cooper for her popular Diva Las Vegas revue. ''They love me, they hate me, but...
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Call Girl
Carly Rae Jepsen is responsible for the song of summer 2012. Maybe you remember it, the one with the unforgettable music video in which, as...
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Scientific Songwriter
''A lot of the stuff that they're making fun of is actually things that I like about Portland,'' says Chris Pureka, referring to the IFC...
