Events
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Toasting the Travelers
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...
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Supportive Synagogue
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...
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Getting Crafty
''If you go to the mall, things are starting to look a little bit haggard,'' Deann Verdier says. ''People are shopping and picking over things.''...
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Jolly Holidays
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and right now every arts organization and venue in the Washington area is gearing up to offer...
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Libation Laps
Between the recent AIDS Walk Washington and the Marine Corps Marathon, quite a few spectators might be inspired to move their feet. But if the...
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Good Fortune
''I'm trying to make it good fortune and not bad fortune,'' Emily Fortune Feimster teases about the family name that she uses as her first...
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Memoirandum
This Monday, June 10, at Harman Hall, comic actress Rachel Dratch will read from celebrity autobiographies -- just not her own. ''Actually, when I was...
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Kick Starter
''Just watching people try and play kickball in drag is hilarious,'' Karl Muller says. ''The dresses are flying, the wigs are going, and everything.'' This...
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Faith in Humanity
Chris Stedman's mother rifled through her teenage son's diary and read about his struggles with homosexuality. But unlike many other parents, her response was to...
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Manning Up
''I think there wasn't someone like me on TV before, so maybe it was a little culture shock. Like, who's this big gay cartoon clown?''...
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Oscar! Oscar!
''With Lena Lett commenting on people's outfits, I think it's going to be better than Joan Rivers,'' says Michael Fowler, co-chair of this year's...
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Gomez, Darling
When Marga Gomez dances, people think she's just trying to be funny. ''I dance really terribly,'' admits Gomez, whose own mother was a professional dancer....
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The Partying Dead
If in the days after Halloween you still aren't ready to let the ghouls and grossness go – or if you still want to dress...
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Ghost Story
Catherine Aselford and her colleagues occasionally hear eerie, unidentifiable sounds while working out of Old Town Alexandria's Athenaeum. No one's sure who, or what, exactly...
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Campus Politics
Professors are supposed to be smart. That's why they're professors. Certainly, Joy Ladin is no dummy. The literature professor waited until she'd secured tenure before...
