| News | SMYAL's Weiss announces resignation | Executive director to leave position at D.C. GLBTQ youth organization | by Sean Bugg |
| News | Balking at the Deal | A gay media merger founders in Rehoboth Beach over allegations of crime and obscenity | by Will O'Bryan |
| Film | Independent Spirit | Kevin Smith's 'Clerks II' is a fine return to form, while Richard Linklater's 'Scanner Darkly' is an experimental adventure | by Randy Shulman |
| Music | Holiday Road | As smart and sophisticated as it is, Diana Ross's long-lost album of jazz covers, 'Blue,' never fully draws you in | by Doug Rule |
| Stage | One Act Wonders | Actors' Theatre shakes loose the bonds of a button-down city with an evening of oversized comedy and camp | by Tom Avila |
| Stage | Innocence Lost | The Peanuts gang hits the teenage wasteland at Studio, while two sets of divas raise the roof at Arena | by Jolene Munch |
| Soundwaves (archive) | Soundwaves | Baltimore hosts indie-dance Virgin Festival, The Killers, Thievery Corporation, plus Fatboy Slim and the Imelda Marcos musical | by Doug Rule |
| Opinion | The New York Effect | Commentary: OutRight | by Dale Carpenter |
| Horoscope | Horoscope | July 20-26, 2006 | by Carrie Megginson |
| Snapshots | UMMAH's White Attire Affair | The Ronald Reagan Building | Henry Linser |
| Snapshots | Velvet's Last Dance | Nation | Henry Linser |