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  • Hunting for a Home

    By on February 20, 2014

    Through her love of cats, Laura Goodman found the love of her life. ''I fell in love with my partner when she came...

  • The Pets Issue

    By on February 20, 2014

    Some might argue that animals don't belong in close confines with humans, that the wild is more suitable for paws, fins, beaks and claws. While...

  • Mindy Chateauvert

    Sexual Union

    By on February 13, 2014

    Someone you know is a sex worker. Historian Melinda Chateauvert cites that slogan, from a San Francisco health and advocacy organization, in her new book...

  • Janet Mock

    Mighty Real: Janet Mock

    By on February 6, 2014

    Janet Mock's memoir, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, came out this month. As for Mock, she came out...

  • Mulling Over Marijuana

    By on January 30, 2014

    It's the one area of public policy that still prompts giggles and bad jokes about junk-food cravings, but the push to reform the nation's laws...

  • The Pot's in the Kitchen

    By on January 30, 2014

    Cooking and cannabis have a long history together. It was long used in Cambodian cooking, for example, with Westerners returning home with tales of ''Happy...

  • Joint Effort

    By on January 30, 2014

    Earlier this month, Congressman Jared Polis extended a headline-grabbing invitation to President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In a Jan. 23 letter...

  • Mizeur Matters

    By on January 23, 2014

    According to most pundits, Heather Mizeur is the clear underdog in her bid to win the Maryland Democratic Party's nomination for governor in the June...

  • Where Leather Meets Levity

    By on January 16, 2014

    As dependable as cherry blossoms in spring, Washington is once again ready to welcome the Centaur Motorcycle Club's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, Jan. 17 to 20....

  • A Helper's Heart

    By on January 16, 2014

    ''For a long time,'' Ramien Pierre says, ''I would surreptitiously look at leather images, watch leather porn and follow it on the Internet.'' In other...

  • Remembering Jim Raymond

    By on January 16, 2014

    As the Centaur MC's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend unfolds, many taking part will have Jim Raymond in their thoughts. A Centaur and a longtime fixture in...

  • MAL 2014 Calendar of Events

    By on January 16, 2014

    The host hotel for the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend is the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW. Events marked with...

  • Learning To Fly

    By on January 9, 2014

    In 2012, Robert J. Priore made a splash on these very pages. ''That was kind of when I was single, and just trying to put...

  • 2014: Year in Preview

    By on January 2, 2014

    When you're done enjoying all the Scene shots from 2013, have a taste what's ahead in the coming year. (All information subject to change.) JANUARY...

  • The Year in Scene 2013

    By on January 2, 2014

    Photographs by Ward Morrison, Christopher Cunetto, Todd Franson, Rhuaridh Marr and Randy Shulman. // Visit Metro Weekly's Scene section to see all of our