Arts + Entertainment
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Donna Summer’s everlasting dance
When I first came out as a college student in the mid-‘90s, the gay dance club in Columbia, Mo., would end the night with Donna...
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Beautiful Dreamers
If opera is your music for heartbreak and plots be damned, then Massenet's gorgeously overwrought Werther is for you. This is boy meets already-engaged girl...
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Martyr Complex
Was Saint Sebastian gay? History is actually iffy on the subject. But the celebrated, martyred Christian is sometimes referred to as ''a homosexual icon,'' in...
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Black Comedy
Even Jack Black isn't sure if his newest film, Bernie (see review, page 54) is a comedy or a tragedy -- but don't hold that...
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Theatre Lab’s Dramathon
The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts reprises last year’s popular Dramathon tomorrow, Friday, May 18. The Dramathon features eight 10-minute plays, written in...
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Dustin Lance Black’s Prop 8 Play Coming to DC for Pride
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced a one-night-only reading of 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, to take...
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New Video: Nicki Minaj “Right By My Side”
Nicki Minaj has released the video for “Right By My Side,” featuring Chris Brown. It’s the latest single off her new album Pink Friday: Roman...
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Mid City Artists’ Spring Open Studios Tour is Saturday
Artists who are part of the Mid City Artists collaborative open their studios for the public to meet, learn, enjoy and buy art as part...
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School Dances
''Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago?'' Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears...
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New Music: The Dig’s I Already Forgot Everything You Said
The New York City-based The Dig will release their new album, Midnight Flowers, on May 29. We’ve got a sample of their first single, the...
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Proud Son
''I think there's no doubt that whatever the stereotype of two lesbians raising kids is, a clean-cut, engineering, Eagle Scout entrepreneur from Iowa probably isn't...
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Deborah Cox Headlines Capital Pride Main Stage
Gay-popular singing sensation Deborah Cox will close this year’s Capital Pride festivities as headline performer on Sunday, June 10. The festival Main Stage lineup also...
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Hair-Raising Tale
When Everett Maroon puts his mind to writing, there's no telling what might come out. Take the novel Super Queers he's shopping around. It's your...
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Theatre Alliance “Hums” along
The Theater Alliance presents the world premiere of Nicholas Wardigo’s Hum, an allegory of Orwellian proportions following a couple’s journey to discover what life is...
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Stewart Lewis at Busboys and Poets
Recently transplanted to D.C., this gay singer-songwriter offers a soulful blend of pop and folk that has been featured on many TV shows, including Dawson’s...
