All posts by Doug Rule
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Hillwood’s 12th Annual Gay Day Set for Tomorrow
Any day can be a good gay day to take in the riches of upper Northwest D.C.’s Hillwood Estate and Museums, the well-preserved mansion and...
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Pop Art
Jose Ortiz never forgot an experience he had over a decade ago at New York's Queens Museum of Art. ''You follow all the rules and...
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A View of Rome
Remember John Waters's A Dirty Shame? ''I was the 'splosher,''' says Susan Rome, who played Messy Melinda. ''I was the person who derived sexual satisfaction...
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Spotlight on Spinella
Stephen Spinella boldly thanked his male lover in 1993 when he won a Tony Award for Best Actor. ''There was a little squeaky-squeaky about that,...
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Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2013: The Highlights
“You are absolutely the best crowd we’ve ever had,” Aino Jawo of Icona Pop told the crowd assembled at ths past Saturday’s Virgin Mobile FreeFest...
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National Theatre tonight screens the campy classic The Women
Tonight, the National Theatre kicks off its two-months-long free Monday night screening series “Joan Crawford: Hollywood Star” with George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women. Metro...
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Dakshina’s Indian Arts Festival Kicks off Tonight
Tonight, Sept. 20, is the launch of Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company’s 10th Annual Fall Festival of Indian Arts at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman...
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Virgin Mobile FreeFest: Cheat Sheet and Spotify Sampler
The forecast calls for a cloudy afternoon and evening — but there’ll be no raining on the pop music parade that is this Saturday’s Virgin...
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Elton John: ‘The Bitch’ Is Coming Back to Verizon
The gay piano man Elton John will perform “All The Hits” on his first stop at the Verizon Center in eight years, in support of...
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Film on Plight of Gay Jamaicans Debuts Locally Tonight
Before Uganda and Russia stirred international outrage for antigay policies, there was Jamaica, which is still an impossible place to live as an openly gay...
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Hot and Not
Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy feels very much of its time – the turn of the 1980s – as it starts. Lead character Arnold Beckoff is very...
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Carrying the Torch
''Torch Song Trilogy had a very big emotional impact upon me when I saw it the first time around,'' Michael Kahn says. Of course, that...
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Moving Up
''Have you always been a dancer?'' Actor Alex Mills gets that question a lot, since his principal work in the D.C. theater scene has been...
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Last Chance for the Potter Parody
“We’re still pinching ourselves and waiting for somebody to realize that we are just two guys running around dressed up as wizards,” jokes Daniel Clarkson...
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Galleries and Museums in D.C.
Museums and galleries often see their role as one of spotlighting and analyzing pivotal events and developments. So it should come as no surprise that...
