Metro Weekly

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  • 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...

  • Home Sweet Home

    By on October 9, 2002

    War is hell -- especially when you're particularly fond of the enemy. No, I'm not talking about al Qaeda or Iraq. I mean the war...

  • Traversing the Big C

    By on September 25, 2002

         Ed is dying of pancreatic cancer. All year we've been getting e-mails about his diagnosis, then his prognosis, then his treatment progress, then his...

  • Tennis, Anyone?

    By on September 11, 2002

         All it took for tennis to shed its stuffy, elitist reputation was a long-haired sex symbol with a cocky attitude, a few Canon commercials...

  • 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...

  • Auntie Establishment

    By on August 21, 2002

         The performance hall in my hometown is smaller than I remember it, but most things back there are. It's been at least 10 years...

  • Wet-n-Wild

    By on August 14, 2002

    Washington Wetskins      Take some basketball, mix in dashes of soccer and football, then flood the playing field with water until it's too deep to...

  • Renegades Rugby

    By on July 24, 2002

    Washington Renegades (Photo by Michael Wichita) Just watching a Washington Renegades rugby practice from the sidelines, one starts to feel gripped by the passion on...

  • Future Tense

    By on July 24, 2002

    Photos by Michael Wichita and Jonathan Padget We consider ourselves a pretty modern, no nonsense society when it comes to forward-thinking. Low-tar cigarettes, tap lights,...

  • 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...

  • 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.......

  • Greetings

    By on May 4, 1994

    IMAGINE LOSING ONE'S CHILD. That's how the staff of Michael's Entertainment Weekly felt when, on April 11, 1994, the announcement came down from above that...