News + Politics
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Tennis, Anyone?
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...
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Stranger in a Straight Land
There we sat in a staff meeting, all twelve of us, listening to the vice president for operations talk about kitchen upkeep. "Every bottom...
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Striking Out
For a bowler, there's no sweeter sound than the clamor of ten white pins crashing to the floor in a strike. ''I love...
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Auntie Establishment
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...
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Wet-n-Wild
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...
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Renegades Rugby
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...
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Future Tense
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,...
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And The Wiener Is…
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.......
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And I Love Him
When my friends and I were in the ninth grade, the bass player for the band Duran Duran announced plans to get married. There...
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Greetings
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...
