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Black Comedy
Even Jack Black isn't sure if his newest film, Bernie (see review, page 54) is a comedy or a tragedy -- but don't hold that...
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What's your favorite Donna Summer song?
// Read Doug Rule's post remembering Donna Summer in
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Theatre Lab’s Dramathon
The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts reprises last year’s popular Dramathon tomorrow, Friday, May 18. The Dramathon features eight 10-minute plays, written in...
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Dustin Lance Black’s Prop 8 Play Coming to DC for Pride
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced a one-night-only reading of 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, to take...
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New Video: Nicki Minaj “Right By My Side”
Nicki Minaj has released the video for “Right By My Side,” featuring Chris Brown. It’s the latest single off her new album Pink Friday: Roman...
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Mid City Artists’ Spring Open Studios Tour is Saturday
Artists who are part of the Mid City Artists collaborative open their studios for the public to meet, learn, enjoy and buy art as part...
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Philadelphia: Promoting art in the City of Brotherly Love
Just days before the opening of the Barnes Foundation’s Philadelphia campus on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia yesterday launched the city’s first-ever coordinated and sustained visual...
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LGBT Locals Cheer Obama's Marriage-Equality Stance
To say that the reaction of the D.C. area's LGBT community to President Barack Obama's endorsement of marriage equality was favorable would be the understatement...
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School Dances
''Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago?'' Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears...
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National LGBT Briefs: Little State, Big Move
Rhode Island Moves to Recognize Out-Of-State Marriages Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I) on Monday, May 14, signed an executive order to recognize same-sex couples...
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Global LGBT Briefs: Executions and Incitement
Reports Surface of More Gay Executions in Iran While unconfirmed, reports are coming out of Iran that four men have been sentenced to death for...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Unexpected material comes bubbling up from the depths, like a swamp. And the release of all that pent-up matter comes as a huge...
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New Music: The Dig’s I Already Forgot Everything You Said
The New York City-based The Dig will release their new album, Midnight Flowers, on May 29. We’ve got a sample of their first single, the...
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House Passes Version of Violence Against Women Act That Excludes LGBT Provisions
The House — over White House opposition — today passed its version of the Violence Against Women Act on a 222-205 vote. Among the provisions excluded...
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Drawn Together
An interesting thing happened when Christopher Cunetto met Jason Edward Tucker. One could almost call it a Big Bang for the D.C. queer artistic community,...
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The Gay Gourmand
Jonathan Bardzik photographed at Eastern Market by Todd Franson, on March 31 Maybe you've heard that tired complaint about the word ''gay'' being ''corrupted.'' If...
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The Rot on the Right
When Tracy Thorne, a Navy fighter pilot, came out of the closet on live television to Nightline's Ted Koppel in 1992, it was a defining...
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From Evolution to Romney
In the week since President Obama announced that he had ''evolved'' on the issue of same-sex couples wishing to marry, the contrast between Obama and...
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Four new long-distance, nonstop flights come to National Airport
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday announced that new nonstop flights will be available from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) to four cities that,...
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Stein-Backed McDuffie Wins in Landslide
Judging from the results, the Ward 5 special election was a cakewalk for Kenyan McDuffie. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, not including absentee and...
