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    20 Great Stoner Albums

    By on February 2, 2014

    Since Metro Weekly’s most recent print edition was “The Pot Issue,” it seems a perfectly opportune time to explore some great albums to play while...

  • Wilde at Heart

    By on January 30, 2014

    A late-Victorian romp filled with Oscar Wilde's relentless wit and merciless jabs at high society, the Shakespeare Theater Company's The Importance of Being Earnest may...

  • Jazzed

    By on January 30, 2014

    Freda Payne has absolutely no trouble channeling the big voice of Ella Fitzgerald, and it's actually quite remarkable. Payne, who had a pop hit in...

  • Toasting the Travelers

    By on January 30, 2014

    Every year National Geographic Traveler magazine receives, according to the magazine's George Stone, ''lots of cool letters from passionate individuals telling us about their travels...

  • Unexpected Moves

    By on January 30, 2014

    ''I started taking dance because I used to imitate Michael Jackson,'' says Robert Battle, who recalls playing piano and singing as a child growing up...

  • West Winging It

    By on January 30, 2014

    Given my nation of birth, Britain, it could be expected that my personal politics would be heavily influenced by the ethical socialism that proved popular...

  • Supportive Synagogue

    By on January 30, 2014

    A year ago Gil Steinlauf, leader of the oldest and largest Conservative synagogue in Washington, took a stand for gay rights. Writing in the Jewish...

  • Disney Channel makes history with first gay couple

    By on January 28, 2014

    The Disney Channel made history Sunday night in an episode of family sitcom Good Luck Charlie. The sub-plot of the episode revolved around daughter Charlie’s...

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    Classic album revisited: The Fixx “Phantoms”

    By on January 26, 2014

    The Fixx has always been a bit outside the lines. They never fit neatly into any particular genre, falling somewhere between new wave, post-punk and...

  • Reading Sean Strub

    By on January 23, 2014

    ''Twenty years ago, when a young gay man was diagnosed,'' says longtime AIDS activist and writer Sean Strub, ''there was this loving, supportive AIDS and...

  • Rousseve's Reality

    By on January 23, 2014

    As a child growing up in Houston, David Rousseve had dreams of being a Broadway triple-threat performer -- singer, dancer and actor. Surprisingly, that was...

  • Star of “The Bachelor” calls gay people more perverted, doesn’t want them on TV

    By on January 18, 2014

    Juan Pablo Galavis, star of reality dating show The Bachelor, has derided the possibilty of a gay or bisexual bachelor appearing on the show in an...

  • Marvin's Room

    By on January 16, 2014

    ''It was very heartbreaking for our whole company.'' Marissa McGowan is recalling the 2012 death of storied American composer Marvin Hamlisch. ''He meant so much...

  • Leather's Superheroes

    By on January 16, 2014

    ''When you get all these men together, and they stand in these power stances,'' Anthony Dortch Jr. says, ''all I think of is, 'Wow, this...

  • French Toast

    By on January 16, 2014

    On the surface you might not expect a collaboration between the InSeries's Carla Hubner -- originally from Chile -- and the Washington Ballet's Septime Webre...