Clublife
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One-Stop Shop
Cobalt's 30 Degrees lounge has new stain-resistant white leather furniture. ''Once you do something nice, and your customers realize you've done something nice, they respect...
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Everybody Dance
Tony Moran's partner of nine years died last May. ''Dealing with that while others were watching was difficult,'' says Moran, an acclaimed dance music producer...
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Tounge Untied
''I've been grooming some Mini-Mes,'' jokes Natalie Illum, longtime president of the feminist open-mike extravaganza known as Mothertongue. Illum will step down as the all-volunteer...
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Watch and Dance
''It's the little movie that could,'' says Richard Kimmel about his first feature film, Schwarzwald: The Movie You Can Dance To. Based on music and...
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Radiant Day
Singer Inaya Day recalls the time she first heard herself on the radio, in the mid-1990s. ''I heard this song come on, and the chorus...
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Musical Phase
Phase 1 started having live music only a couple years ago, but just one night a week. It was, as the bar's manager Angela Lombardi...
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Pakt-Man
Moving back to D.C. after seven years away, Jim Gade knew, for the most part, what he was coming back to. That doesn't mean he...
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Upstairs Haven
Annie's Upstairs If it's been a few months since you've been upstairs at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, you're in for a surprise. ''What was once a...
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Tea Party
Bella Stassi is proving that girls of all ages still just want to have fun. ''Our event is different because we're not targeting one specific...
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Design Star
It all started in the clubs for designer Andrew Christian. ''I was involved in the underground club scene when I was a teenager,'' says Christian,...
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Talent and Tiaras
As the co-owner of Cocker Productions, Robert York, a former director of Capital Pride, has been producing Capital Pride pageants for nearly a decade now....
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Hip Hop Stop
Tony Campbell literally stumbled into his current role as a party promoter. ''Mike, I'm a doctor, I don't know anything about it,'' Campbell says he...
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Sky High
A months-long teaser campaign for Cobalt's new party stoked confusion. ''For the longest time people thought we were promoting a new gay airline,'' jokes Cobalt...
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Spring Awakening
Stephen Pevner still vividly remembers the two-day closing party of The Saint, the storied gay New York nightclub. ''I would say unequivocally it was the...
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Junior's Junior
No one is more surprised by how quickly DJ Jerome Farley's solo career is rising than, well, Jerome Farley. ''I have to tell you, I...
