Metro Weekly

All posts by Sean Bugg

  • Let's Take a Break from Chick-fil-A

    I'm sure everyone had the same thought as I did this weekend upon hearing the news that New York City tabloids were splashing a picture...

  • Review: 'Persona 4 Arena'

    Genre-mashups aren't exactly a new thing in video games. Developers, just as movie directors and novelists do, will cheerfully borrow any idea that injects new...

  • Queer the Smear

    It is absolutely no secret that I have a foul mouth, a propensity for profanity that goes beyond those within earshot and often ends up...

  • Field Goals

    It seems fair enough to say that Wade Davis has an impulsive streak. Six years ago on Christmas Eve, stranded in a Chicago airport by...

  • Playing Chicken

    Based on my television, Web browsing and Facebook feed — the 21st century trinity of staying ''informed'' — the entire world appears to have to...

  • Fight Back: 'Vito' on HBO

    Some people are lucky enough to make a small difference in the world they live in. And some people are stubborn, angry and committed enough...

  • Pro Homo

    I've been a professional homosexual since 1993. I don't mean that I was an escort, although that probably would have paid better than my job...

  • True Talk

    Back when I was still a young HIV-prevention worker in the long-ago 1990s, I came across a new campaign for gay men that had launched...

  • Pretty Pretty Bang Bang

    So here we were, just an hour since our arrival at my sister's home in oh-so-rural Kentucky. Cavin and I brought our nephew, Andrew, here...

  • Life in Coopersville

    Naturally, I already knew that Anderson Cooper was gay, for a number of reasons. First, I work in Washington as a journalist, an industry of...

  • Don't Stop Believing

    There was a point in my life when I thought nothing could have more meaning than music. Specifically, during my teenage years in high school...

  • Home Game

    Walking around the upper deck of the Nationals stadium on Tuesday night with friends at Team DC's Night out at the Nationals, a few thoughts...

  • Buns Away

    So I'll share a little secret: When I first decided to take my 12-year-old nephew to this year's Capital Pride Parade to ride in our...

  • Diablo III post-review: Demons still needin’ killin’

      Even though I wrapped up my Diablo III review a few days ago, I’m still feeling the pull of demon slaughtering recreation. I’ve launched...

  • Reasons for the Season

    So, four seasons, 12 months and 52 issues later, here we are again at Pride weekend. Sometimes it feels like a holiday, with all the...