Metro Weekly

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  • You Shouldn't Have

    By on December 15, 2004

    A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...

  • Equal Opportunity

    By on December 8, 2004

    Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...

  • SLDN's Full Court Press

    By on December 8, 2004

    When Monica Hill joined the Air Force in the 1990s, she and her partner thought it was an excellent way to both act on her...

  • Shake-Up at HRC

    By on December 1, 2004

    Less than one year after taking the helm, Cheryl Jacques has resigned as the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the organization announced Tuesday evening,...

  • Suit Your Shelf

    By on December 1, 2004

    There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...

  • Making the Syphi-list

    By on December 1, 2004

    Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracking sexually transmitted diseases in 2003 does not offer much good news for...

  • First Class

    By on November 17, 2004

    In the coldest stretch of Iowa winter during my last two years of high school, there was a bittersweet part of each day: walking outside...

  • No Cherry on Top

    By on November 17, 2004

    Four gay and lesbian community groups that were the designated beneficiaries for last spring's Cherry 9 circuit party will not be receiving any Cherry donations...

  • Expo Absent

    By on November 10, 2004

    Since the spring of 2001, gay Washingtonians have been greeted by more than cherry blossoms. That's when the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Expo comes...

  • A Far Cry

    By on November 10, 2004

    Among the tears shed this Election Day were those of my friend Gerrit, who is five and who really hoped with all of his heart...

  • Gay-N-C

    By on November 10, 2004

    With the city's heavily Democratic majority among registered voters, presidential races may not be much of a contest in the District of Columbia. Nonpartisan advisory...

  • Pink People Feeling Blue

    By on November 10, 2004

    It's fair to say that America is polarized. The 2004 election helped quantify the division, with 51 percent on the right, 48 percent on the...

  • Is It Over?

    By on November 3, 2004

    I sometimes fear that the Republican Party, like children who set fire to their toys rather than share with their siblings, might choose to destroy...

  • Worst-Case Scenarios

    By on November 3, 2004

    As you strive to achieve financial goals, it's common to overlook the potential for major financial setbacks -- even though they can strike without warning...

  • Truth-Mongering

    By on October 27, 2004

    Ever since John Kerry shocked the nation by declaring on live national television that Mary Cheney is a lesbian, I haven't been able to look...