All posts tagged "christmas"
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Untraditional Tidings
Got the holiday spirit – but tired of tradition? Call it bah-humbug blasphemy, but most area theaters and concert venues aim to entice the average...
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11 Amazing Tech Gifts
Technology is the ultimate Christmas gift. More useful than diamonds, a greater fashion statement than clothing, more satisfying than chocolates. Or socks. If you're...
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North Pole Longing
{GMCW: Born This Way (Photo by Ward Morrison)} ''Mrs. Claus is going to be very classy, with maybe just a hint of Karen Walker,'' says...
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Tree Topping
It took us six years of searching to finally find a solution to one of our most vexing annual problems of the holiday season. Namely,...
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Xmas Column
The American Family Association is mad at Banana Republic. They're also mad at Family Dollar and Radio Shack and a handful of others. Seems these...
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Metro Weekly Poll: Getting Festive
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Outspoken, Ep. 18: Naughty or Nice? [video]
In honor of the holiday season, host Ebone Bell ventured into the lobby of GWU's Lisner Auditorium before the GMCW's Holiday Concert and asked ''Have...
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Survey Says: Lesbians are Sadder
Lesbians are more likely to experience higher levels of stress and depression than straight women around the winter-holiday season, according to a new study conducted...
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Xmas Fear
This week I'll be heading to New Port Richey, Fla., to spend Christmas with my widowed mother who lives alone in a ''55 and older''...
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Holiday Tidings
Given the avaricious nature of the season -- when Santa treats everyone like a little baby Jesus, everybody wins -- it's no surprise that I...
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Two Christmases
In one of the more poignant moments of a motion picture that I hold dear -- a staple of my personal cinematic catalog -- there...
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Christmas Candie
When the term ''flautist'' came along -- 1860, according to Merriam-Webster -- the traditionalists, that bunch who'd been using ''flutist'' since 1603, may have been...
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Ornamental
In August, you complained that the stores were breaking out their Christmas consumables way too early, but here we are two weeks from the big...
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Magnificent Music
I don't see how the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. could have made a more musically rewarding and emotionally uplifting contribution to the December...
