Metro Weekly

Nightlife

  • Herndon Hideaway

    By on February 2, 2011

    Last summer, So Addictive Lounge started a gay night on Wednesdays. By November, Thursdays and Fridays had gone gay too. ''We were thinking about adding...

  • Temperature Rising

    By on February 2, 2011

    Eddie Elias knows a thing or two about heating up and cooling down a room. He toiled for 12 years as a heating and air-conditioning...

  • Horoscope

    By on February 2, 2011

    Heavenly Round-Up: What gets big must get small. What seems dark carries the seeds of light. What was impossible may now be merely cutting edge....

  • Coverboy: Mark

    By on January 27, 2011

    The path that brought Mark, 29, to Fairfax is a little tricky to follow. First, his Pennsylvanian dad met his New York – via Cuba...

  • Horoscope

    By on January 26, 2011

    Heavenly Round-Up: You're still swimming against the tide. There's more good news there than you may be accustomed to noticing. One, you're still swimming. (You...

  • Swanky Sunday

    By on January 19, 2011

    Remember Lizard Lounge? Mark Lee's popular Sunday night party permanently closed over two years ago, but a new decade brings what could be a long-awaited...

  • Horoscope

    By on January 19, 2011

    Heavenly Round-Up: It's not so much the trouble in paradise as that there are flaws in the perfection of stasis. It might be tempting to...

  • Birthday Suit

    By on January 12, 2011

    Who said anything about snow? ''We are not expecting the 's' word. We are not talking about the 's' word,'' says Karen Diehl of Cobalt's...

  • Horoscope

    By on January 12, 2011

    Heavenly Round-Up: Sobering reality hits the wall of egotistical self-involvement. The blowback won't be pretty, however necessary it may be to correct your course and...

  • Big (Drag) Finish

    By on January 5, 2011

    Ever see a drag queen walk the runway on a balance beam? How about while dodging hurdles? Or blindfolded? You have if you've ever stopped...

  • Horoscope

    By on January 5, 2011

    Heavenly Round-Up: Here in the top-end of the year, the darkness serves as an incubator for our becoming. The severity of the weather promotes hibernation...

  • Horoscope

    By on December 29, 2010

    Heavenly Roundup: Here at the heel-end of the year, you find yourself refocused, revitalized and refreshed. You're ready to pick up the pieces of your...

  • Raise Your Glass

    By on December 23, 2010

    The year 2010 was as bad as -- or worse than -- 2009. But it ended with a gay bang, with the long-delayed, down-to-the-wire repeal...

  • Horoscope

    By on December 23, 2010

    Heavenly Round-Up: However hard you plan, however much you may take into account, there's always one thing more you haven't considered or acted on. Does...

  • Holiday Spirit

    By on December 15, 2010

    Drag queen Ella Fitzgerald is an angel who tumbled to earth. Literally. ''I went to pose as an angel and slipped,'' says Donnell Robinson, who...