Clublife
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Mixing It Up
While it may have been a simple and ''silly'' thing when he made a short video to audition as DJ for the daytime talker Ellen,...
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Fur Fever
Fur may be named for the now-verboten warming garments once made in the nightclub's warehouse space, but these days it generates heat as one of...
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Beats and Buzz
It may have taken some time, but the buzz on DJ Tony Ruiz is finally booming as big as his beats. Ruiz is Pittsburgh's most...
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Birthday Bar
There are older gay bars in D.C. than JR.'s Bar and Grill. And there are older JR.'s bars in the country than the local namesake....
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Sunday Shake-Up
''I suppose people should think about this as Cher's final tour,'' longtime club promoter Mark Lee jokes as he talks about his future in the...
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Freddie's Funhouse
''Take Jimmy Buffett and a drag queen, mix them together and add lots of purple,'' says Tony Rivenbark. And what does that get you? Freddie's...
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Leather Ladies
When you think of the D.C. Eagle, women -- especially lesbians -- don't necessarily spring to mind. ''It's a pretty male-dominated space,'' admits Schelli Dittmann,...
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Birthday Suit
Chi Chi La Rue may have shot a porn film called Striptease on location at D.C.'s Wet nightclub, but like so many films, the fantasy...
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Big Blowoff
Forget small. Forget intimacy. Forget cramped. Blowoff is about to get bigger. A lot bigger. The popular monthly party, created three years ago by indie...
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Back to Love
Ask D.C.-native dance-pop singer Rachel Panay about her first musical influence, and she doesn't hesitate (though she does insert a ''you're gonna laugh'' warning). In...
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Jacked Up
''When people only come to a club to get high and to get laid, it makes my job kind of irrelevant,'' says DJ Chad Jack....
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Latin Heat
Hector Zarate's first job as a teenager new to the U.S. from Peru was painting houses. Half a lifetime later, he spends his days importing...
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Wigging Out
Cookie Buffet may have clawed her way through the local political arena last year, as her alter ego Christopher Dyer won a seat as an...
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Monthly Escape
''I had an amazing time, it was an amazing crowd, and an amazing club,'' says DJ Escape of his debut at Cobalt last month. He...
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Cupid's Stupid
If you're looking for non-ironic expressions of warm Valentine's feelings next week, you may want to steer clear of the Black Cat where mothertoungue stages...
