Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "aids"

  • 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...

  • Five Alive

    Under the noonday sun Monday, a group of local religious leaders offered another ray of light. Downtown, on the steps of the Metropolitan African Methodist...

  • Party Crasher

    Titan Bar held all the elements for a party Monday evening. Beyond the regular bar offerings, there was a buffet. The crowd of about 50...

  • Talking Tina

    Crystal methamphetamine was on dozens of people's minds Monday afternoon at the Barceló Hotel on P Street. While mention of a hotel and crystal meth...

  • Blonde Ambition

    One could almost say Mrs. Robinson is the original desperate housewife. But there's nothing desperate about the woman currently playing her on The Graduate's national...

  • Art History

    Peter Stebbins remembers meeting David Jamieson when the two entered the University of Vermont as freshman in 1983. ''I came home to find a gathering...

  • 'Our Heroes: A 20-Year Journey of AIDS Through Our Eyes'

    Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library 901 G St., NW Multiple exhibits through Dec. 31 LaQuis Harkins, ''And So Goes a Nation'' poetry reading 6:30-8:30...

  • Chef's Best

    Graham Beard Graham Beard, Volunteer Graham Beard holds the distinction of being Food & Friends' first volunteer, having responded to a classified ad in 1988....

  • Community Kitchen

    Food & Friends started from scratch in 1988, when the Rev. Carla Gorrell decided that she wanted to help nourish Washingtonians suffering from AIDS-related illnesses....

  • Legendary Ladies

    ''It's not a huge evening, '' says A. Cornelius Baker of ''A Celebration of Life, '' the Whitman-Walker Clinic's eleventh annual Spring gala. ''It's not...

  • HIV Positive Drop-In Coffee House

    HIV Positive Drop-In CoffeeHouse Hosted by FriendsMeeting House of Washington Mission: Provide people living with HIV a comfortable and social place to interact. Founded: 1984...

  • Song of the Quilt

    Photographs by Todd Franson The Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington and D.C.'s Different Drummers on their first full rehearsal, Tuesday, November 18th, 2003. ''When...

  • Far From Over

    It's been a long time since the first World AIDS Day in 1988. In those earlier days of the epidemic, it was one of many...

  • Eyes on the Hill

    Ernest Hopkins of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Laura Hanen of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors brief attendees at AIDS...

  • Checking In with Food & Friends

    Shniderman ''This has been the winter from hell,'' says Food & Friends executive director Craig M. Shniderman, bemoaning the relative onslaught of snow that, in...