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  • Smoke Saga

    Washington moved another step closer to banning smoking in all workplaces -- including bars and nightclubs -- following a 12-1 vote Dec. 6 in favor...

  • Court on Campus

    May the federal government deny funds to universities that ban military recruiters from campus? That's the issue the Supreme Court began considering this week in...

  • Roll Over

    News broke slowly last week about the American Family Association's announcement that it would call off its planned boycott of Ford Motor Company. Donald E....

  • Paul Kawata

    When Paul Kawata agreed to serve as executive director of the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in 1989, the organization had a staff of four...

  • Adam Tenner

    Headquartered in a basement along Pennsylvania Avenue SE, nearly spitting distance from the Capitol, the drop-in center and offices of Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) are very...

  • Julie Scofield

    Among the quotes one could only hear in Washington, add the following: ''I have a great passion for the role of state government.'' It's a...

  • Zee and Be Seen

    Rob Vander Zee creates images that may elicit a number of different responses. He offers landscapes sensual and serene. Pensive portraits may leave a viewer...

  • Full House

    It isn't so much Eartha Kitt's sultry version of ''Lazy Afternoon'' that should have inspired S.M. Shephard-Massat to pen Starving, but the aching lyrics of...

  • A Diversity of Options

    Hipster to oldster, gay to straight, funky to formal, Adams Morgan remains one of D.C.'s most eclectic and popular destinations for a wildly diverse range...

  • SMYAL Like You Mean It

    The Mayflower Hotel ballroom can be an intimidating place for public speaking, with its florid walls, formal architecture and, of course, a full-size buzzing crowd...

  • Environs

    A TALL ORDER in Columbia Heights in this 2BR condo with a two-story living room and floor to ceiling windows that show off the cityscape....

  • High Note

    Could Madonna's latest studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, be her swansong to music-making? It's hard to imagine, and she also hasn't said as...

  • Deciphering Syphilis

    Syphilis infection rates are apparently on the rise in the U.S. On Nov. 8, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the...

  • Back to the Future

    The expectations are as high as a towering Manhattan skyscraper. After such successful local productions of Take Me Out and The Dazzle, the area premiere...

  • Courting the Community

    The first in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral and Council races. You may be tempted to think that...