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  • Dealing with a Vengeful Serial Killer

    If this Halloween is the 10th or greater anniversary of your doing one or more of the following... Accidentally causing the death of a stranger,...

  • Outing the Vote

    According to figures posted by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, the District of Columbia counts about 330,000 registered voters. About 90 percent of...

  • Reel Affirmations 18

    Welcome to Metro Weekly's guide to the Reel Affirmations film festival for 2008. There's more than 60 presentations of film and video shorts this year...

  • Where We Live

    Old Dominion Diversity It's akin to Wisteria Lane meeting reality. Welcome to the City of Falls Church, with manicured yards and sun-dappled flowers in planters...

  • Gay History Month

    In September, for example, the Library of Congress announced that a collection of materials from pioneering gay-rights local Frank Kameny, known as the Kameny Papers,...

  • Milk-ing the Silver Screen

    Harvey Milk, one of the pivotal figures in the gay-rights movement, will soon have his brilliant but too-short life and career depicted on the big...

  • Bloc Party

    Gay liberation was a product of its times. Its birth at the end of the '60s was no accident. By the time street queens and...

  • Months to Mark the Years

    The idea of Black Gay History is about as far out there as is Gay History Month, and the two curiosities are not unrelated. The...

  • The Gold Standard

    Mitchell Gold has been busy. Those Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams ''signature stores'' keep popping up, including the local outlet near 14th and Church Streets...

  • Irreverent Icon

    Some might argue that ''icon'' is too reverent a word to apply to Holly Woodlawn. From Puerto Rico to Miami to Times Square, Woodlawn has...

  • Gender-Juggling

    Special Agent Galactica is every woman. ''She's a rock chick. She is a '50s dynamo singer. She's pop. She is whatever is necessary,'' says Jeffrey...

  • Schedule of Events

    All performances at the Church Street Theater, 1742 Church St. NW Prices as noted, otherwise Pay What You Can. September 26 Opening Gala Featuring Holly...

  • Dance

    CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu · Tie Shopping with My Father -- Kathrine Iacono's father was a...

  • Museums and Galleries

    ART FOR LIFE Carnegie Institute of Washington 1530 P St. NW www.wwc.org/artforlife · The 15th annual reception and art auction to benefit Whitman-Walker Clinic's HIV/AIDS...

  • Readings and Lectures

    BORDERS BOOKSTORES Various locations www.borders.com · Naomi Wolf -- Give Me Liberty (9/16, 18th & L Streets NW) · Michael Scott -- The Magician (9/16,...