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  • Sweet Revenge from la Suite Noire

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (4 out of 5) Thursday, 10/20/2011, 5:00 PM Shorts presentation, $12 at West End Cinema French with English subtitles ...

  • Blue Decade

    ''Basically, they were playing all of the wrong music,'' Mark Rutstein says about Cobalt when he became the dance club's manager three years ago. ''They...

  • Religious Enrichment

    Jay Michaelson thought coming out would spell the end of his religious life. He was wrong. It became a new beginning. ''I really thought that...

  • The People Sing

    ''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...

  • Photos of Angie / Bullied

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (4 out of 5) Tuesday, 10/18/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $5 at West End Cinema JUSTICE WAS SERVED...

  • An enchanted evening at the NSO

    Rebecca Luker is as corny as Kansas in August. Well, at least that’s what she’s singing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend. What...

  • We Were Here

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 11:00 AM Feature presentation, $12 at Globe Theatre DAVID WEISSMAN...

  • Bashment

    Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 6:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Atlas Center for the Performing...

  • Lesbian Central

    Why have all the lesbians gone to Alexandria? That may be the question on many minds next weekend, when the Birchmere hosts a couple shows...

  • Surround Sounds

    ''In the '80s, I was a synth-pop boy,'' says Richard Chartier. ''I was very into that.'' But unlike many or even most synth-pop fans, the...

  • Reel Affirmations 20

    Welcome to Metro Weekly's total review and guide to the Reel Affirmations film festival for 2011. Reel Affirmations 20 runs from Thursday, Oct. 13, through...

  • A Musical Mystery

    Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...

  • Raising the Bar

    Sitting on its prominent 17th Street corner, the expansive windows of JR.'s look out on a community that its helped become a little more ''out''...

  • Refreshing

    Is Andy Bell over electronic music? ''Then I go insane, I'm bored of this modern town,'' Erasure's gay frontman sings on one track of the...

  • A fortunate symphony

    Almost anytime a particular scene calls for dramatic, downright scary music, Hollywood instinctively turns to the opening number, “O fortuna,” in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana....