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  • Books Preview

    As always, the bookstores promise to overflow this fall with books galore, offering a respite from the terrifying reign of the beach books. Well, perhaps...

  • TV Preview

    NBC The Ellen DeGeneres Show -- She's baaaaccck! This time in her very own talk show. Ellen DeGeneres is returning to the little screen (after...

  • Stage Preview

    ACTORS' THEATRE OF WASHINGTON 1835 14th Street NW www.atwdc.org LILIES -- Jeffrey Johnson directs this compelling gay romantic drama set in a boy's school in...

  • ASGRA's 2003 Atlantic Stampede

    Friday, September 5 Hyatt Regency Stampede Jamboree Admission: $15 9pm-2am Entertainment includes DJ John Stypa, DJ Dawn Clokey, DJ Stan Slutter, the stand-up comedy of...

  • Country Siren

    What is it about Canada that produces such amazing country artists? Maybe it's the wide open spaces. Or maybe it's just the cleaner, crisper air....

  • Horsing Around

    When a one-ton bucking bull is tossing you around a rodeo arena like a rag doll, who's the clown you want watching your back? Ronald...

  • Visible Progress

    We've come a long way since the day Dr. Zachary Smith got lost in space. Or when Jodie Dallas came out to his family on...

  • Play Ball!

    You see them in the spring and summer, spread out around the base of the Washington monument or along the playing fields near the Roosevelt...

  • Waiting on Fame

    Topher Goodman There's a sign posted outside Rocco's on 22nd Street that reads: THE CAMERAS ARE OFF. But the television program that is sort of...

  • Life Lines

    Photography by Todd Franson Three months ago, lying on a path alongside the George Washington Parkway with a broken arm, many thoughts were rushing through...

  • Urban Assets

    The architecture-driven artwork of Joey Manlapaz leaves the viewer with a strong impression -- an impression of structural fortitude, of form's pas de deux with...

  • Right Here, Right Now

    Photography by Todd Franson Casually dressed and sitting in his apartment building's lobby, Patrick Guerriero looks like a man intent on taking half a day...

  • Page Turners

    Photography by Michael Wichita In the back of Sparky's coffee shop members of Boys and Books sit on folding chairs, bar stools, or crowded on...

  • Shameless

    ''Kick him to the side of the curb.'' This is the somewhat brutal advice given by an audience member to Topher Bellavia last Saturday night...

  • Weatherproof Pride

    Photographs by Randy Shulman and Michael Wichita It didn't rain. Not a single drop. Not on the parade, not on the festival. But as late...