All posts tagged "washington"
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Homegrown History
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most culturally romantic periods of American history. In a sense, it was the spark that ignited a fire...
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Local Leverage
By so many measures, the 2004 presidential race is unprecedented. The George W. Bush vs. John Kerry slugfest is breaking records with money spent and...
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Blog Me A Story
When Andrew Sullivan took the stage Sunday night at DC9, a hipster bar filled with punk sensibility, a handful of hisses and under-the-breath utterances floated...
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Raising the Bar
Every state in the nation has an attorney general serving as top lawyer. So do American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and...
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Dropping the GOP
In the summer of 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech in a small town in Kansas. No one knew then that Roosevelt -- who left...
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An Office of One's Own
Wednesday, Sept. 8, was a gray day in Washington. Among Mayor Anthony Williams's announcements at that day's routine press briefing were what flood preparations the...
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Targeting Dupont
Washingtonians have plenty of reasons to feel anxious, looking at the city through Code Orange-tinted lenses. An errant airplane causes the frenzied evacuation of Congress....
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Finding the Center
It's an unassuming place, Stead Park, bounded on two sides by streets that define to a large extent the center of the gay and lesbian...
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Mark Lee
Photography by Todd Franson If you have an e-mail account, chances are good you've gotten an Atlas E-mail Alert from Mark Lee. And if you've...
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They Fought the Law
''Even today I think those first six months of 1975 were the peak period of gay activism. We were really on a roll. '' That's...
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Make It Legal
Washington, D.C.'s Domestic Partnership registry, administered by the Department of Health's Vital Records Division, is the biggest legal step, so far, that gay and lesbian...
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High Times
When Arthur Cotton Moore first pulled up to The Cairo in 1974, two men were carrying a corpse out the front door as casually as...
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2002 in Pictures
Over 350 photos are featured in this week's printed edition of Metro Weekly. Click on the links below to view photos from our many events...
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Late Night Feeding
Photography by Michael Wichita Brain: We're drunk, we're tired, we've spent too much money. The night is now over. Go home. Stomach: Uh, ahem? Down...
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Student Handbook: Bibliography
POLITICAL SCIENCE D.C. Statehood Green Party 1314 18th St. NW 202-296-1301 www.dcstatehoodgreen.org Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) 202-667-5139 www.glaa.org Read about these locations in...
