Metro Weekly

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  • Second City Safari

    My partner tells the story of her family's Brady Bunch-inspired drive to the Grand Canyon and back, two parents and three kids with pop-up camper...

  • Divine Intervention

    We were on I-5 heading south toward Seattle, stopped in traffic, when Carl's sister called to tell us that there was some sort of SWAT...

  • Plays, Pumps and Progress

    With showgirls, ''hottie guards,'' elaborate headdresses and even a touch of royalty -- the King and Queen of Sodom, no less -- the Actors' Theatre...

  • Home Team

    The fourth in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral race. Michael A. Brown likes to get around the city....

  • Good Sports

    The sporting arena in its various forms is the place where athletes come to test themselves against one another, and their own personal bests. Sometimes...

  • Moving Forward

    The third in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral race. As the D.C. summer begins its annual shift into...

  • Zoo Story

    If you've ever been to the Duplex Diner at 18th Street and Florida Avenue, it's quite likely you already know Alex MacLennan. Maybe not well,...

  • Velvet Touch

    Here is what Ed Bailey will be doing on Saturday, July 15, the closing night of Velvet Nation, the seven-year, mammoth dance event he created...

  • Velvet Memories

    When Velvet Nation makes its last stand next month, D.C. will lose a nightlife institution, a place that helped seal the city's reputation as a...

  • Silver Celebration

    THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY, music has been used to make statements that go far beyond stringing notes together for the sake of a pleasing tune. Patriotic...

  • Pride 2006

    View more Capital Pride Festival photos As the stormy weather dissipated at dusk on Friday, June 9, it left at least one rainbow over D.C....

  • Bosom Buddies

    ''Oh, that's too perfect!'' Christine Baranski whooshes into the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, and immediately positions herself next to an elegant bare-breasted sculpture carved from...

  • Christine Baranski

    METRO WEEKLY: How did the performing bug bite you? CHRISTINE BARANSKI: It's hard to exactly pinpoint, but the fact is that my paternal grandparents were...

  • Harriet Harris

    METRO WEEKLY: Let's begin with what first got you interested in acting. HARRIET HARRIS: I'm from Texas. I grew up in Fort Worth, and there...

  • Fired Up

    Clarence* J. Fluker wants everyone to be just as excited as he is. A tall order, perhaps, given his naturally enthusiastic and gregarious personality. But...