All posts by Will O'Bryan
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2009: The Year in Review
If ever there were a roller-coaster year, 2009 was it. Oh, there were highs, much like the one that helped close out the year with...
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Heat for a Hero
With a weekend snowstorm headed to the District -- a city not celebrated for its snow-worthiness -- many Washingtonians were likely preoccupied Friday, Dec. 18,...
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Hurtling Toward Hope
With the new year and new decade approaching, I realized I hadn't indulged in much retrospection. Then, standing in line at the grocery store, I...
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Buying in Bulk
Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or Solstice -- or you're simply a guest at a nondenominational holiday party -- it's the season to give...
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Grant Cleveland
First things first. If you read Grant Cleveland's October ''Coverboy Confidential'' interview, you might still have a couple of questions. For starters, Metro Weekly asked...
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RCKNDY
The first thing you need to know about RCKNDY is that the name is pronounced ''rock candy.'' With that out of the way, owner David...
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Chamber's New Chief
Try to follow the pink dollar in D.C. these days, and you've got to be sharp. After all, after nearly two decades, the Potomac Executive...
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Punch-Line Politics
Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar.... Wait, scratch that. Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new...
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Calling Contractors
Some people know how to rally a crowd, recruit volunteers or throw a fundraiser. A select few may have less obvious talents, including those rarely...
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Working the Numbers
When people hear about census-taking this time of year, it usually involves the story of Joseph and Mary trekking to Joseph's hometown of Bethlehem to...
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A Moral Compass
There are all sorts of Catholics. There's Andrew Sullivan. The pope. Newt Gingrich. Sister Jeannine Grammick, that glorious woman who defied the Vatican in her...
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Dutch Treat
When you close your eyes at work for a wee respite of daydreaming this season, chances are you're more likely to envision yourself soaking up...
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Finding Hope
Watch a random episode of The Simpsons and you may well hear a panicked Helen Lovejoy -- the reverend's wife -- screaming, ''Won't somebody please...
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Viral Campaign
Sometimes advertising becomes art. Case in point: Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup cans. Thinking broadly, Jeff McElhaney's advertising campaigns of the 1980s and '90s might...
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Courting Inequality
As expected, the faction fighting against marriage equality in the District, led by Bishop Harry Jackson of the Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., filed...
