Metro Weekly
  • The Legitimacy Lie

    March was a heady month in the District of Columbia. The influx of same-sex couples at the marriage bureau boosted applications to six times their...

  • Pride Mourns Miles

    The Capital Pride Alliance announced this week that Bill Miles, co-founder of the organization and current board secretary, died on Saturday morning, April 10, at...

  • Watergate's Strange Bedfellows

    June 2010 will mark not a milestone, but an anniversary nonetheless, of the Watergate break-in that forever altered the landscape of American politics, if not...

  • We Are Family

    LGBT families come in all shapes, sizes and colors. And while Ellen Kahn, president of the board of Rainbow Families DC, says there is not...

  • Positively Powerful

    Whitman-Walker Clinic's black-tie spring gala, ''Masquerade on the Mall,'' with the breathtaking backdrop of the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, is bound to be one of...

  • Heroic Deeds

    The least offensive thing about Kick-Ass is its title. The most offensive? That's way too hard to pinpoint. Kick-Ass is flat-out, balls-to-the-wall funny. Now, if...

  • Fool's Goldfrapp

    ''Oh-oh-oh, I've gotta rocket,'' Alison Goldfrapp wispily sings on the first single of Head First, her eponymous duo's fifth album. She knows just what she...

  • Obama Issues Hospital Directive

    In a memorandum released by the White House on Thursday evening, President Barack Obama has directed Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to...

  • Washington Post documents Rep. Eric Massa’s inappropriate advances on gay male staffers

    ”Both the Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff attempted to rein in the Congressman, but their efforts were ineffectual and by the...

  • Musical Roots

    ''You've got to let the story in, let the silliness wash over you until you giggle,'' says Coy Middlebrook, director of Little Shop of Horrors....

  • [show] Business

    If you don't have anything nice to say, the saying goes, come sit by me. is one of those fun but ill-mannered...

  • Lie Hard

    After Henry V and Richard II, dishes as rich as pheasant, The Shakespeare Theatre Company offers the clever 17th century confection, Corneille's The Liar. Under...

  • Honing in on Honey

    The mid-Atlantic is in bloom. Winter's crisp, barren branches are bursting with green. The once snow-buried yards are sun-kissed and welcoming a rainbow of blooms....

  • School nears settlement with transgender student prevented from attending prom in dress

    ”In his lawsuit, Logan said he had worn female attire during school throughout his junior and senior years and went by the gender-neutral nickname of...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Your star is shining, but clouds veil the sky. You're ready for action, but rain falls outside. You want to go the distance,...