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  • Stage

    ADVENTURE THEATRE Glen Echo Park 7300 MacArthur Blvd. Glen Echo, Md 301-634-2270 adventuretheatre.org Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse -- Even Lilly has some bad days, but...

  • Dance

    CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Maryland Dance Ensemble (12/2-3) 29th Annual Choreographers' Showcase -- Choreographers from the area present...

  • Classical Music

    BACH SINFONIA Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center Silver Spring, Md. 301-362-6525 bachsinfonia.org Suoni Belli: Instrumental Wonders of the Italian Baroque -- A journey into...

  • Music: Pop, Rock, Folk and Jazz

    9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW 202-265-0930 930.com Atari Teenage Riot (9/17) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (9/17) Molotov (9/18) Girls (9/19) Pepper & The...

  • Above and Beyond

    AFI SILVER THEATRE 8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring 301-495-6720 afi.com/Silver Opera In Cinema -- Landmark productions from some of the most venerable opera houses in...

  • Museums and Galleries

    1708 GALLERY 319 West Broad St.Richmond, Va.804-643-17081708gallery.org FEED 2011: A Juried Biennial -- Featuring artists Kyan Bishop of D.C., Larissa Borteh of New York, Shawn...

  • News Analysis: AP’s New Marriage Poll Shows Country “Grappling” With Marriage Equality

    Today, the Associated Press released polling that showed that a majority of Americans support “the government giv legal recognition to marriages between couples of the...

  • Party Down

    For those who often find themselves simply shocked by extremism in political debate, these are certainly trying and exciting times. Although I'm not one who's...

  • NBJC Takes the Hill

    Following on an annual outing begun last year, the National Black Justice Coalition will be returning to Capitol Hill next year for ''Out on the...

  • Local Killed in Texas Accident

    Brian McKernan, 44, known to many in the area for his years of substance-abuse work at Whitman-Walker Health, was killed Sept. 6 in Austin, Texas,...

  • Double Defeat

    Part three of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act The day before the House of Representatives...

  • Duplex Vision

    Kevin Lee photographed by Todd Franson at the Duplex Diner on Friday, September 9 ''I was always shying away from the word 'change,''' says Kevin...

  • Overly Apparent

    Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of The Liar two...

  • Triumphant Tosca

    A perfect balance between elegant austerity and a swiftly-rendered, passionate tale of hearts, pure and not so pure, the Washington National Opera's Tosca is everything...

  • Shorts Circuit

    It's kind of amazing short films aren't more popular. The barriers that stand in the way of feature-lengths -- namely, cash, the crazy expensive cameras...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: There's a pronounced degree of something you can only call lunacy going around like a late-summer flu. There's this slightly off-kilter perspective through...

  • Clint Eastwood libertarian on gay marriage; ‘8’ set to open on Broadway

    Clint Eastwood appears in the current issue of GQ with Leonardo DiCaprio. The magazine asked Eastwood (a well-known Hollywood Republican) what he means when he...

  • Atlantic City holds annual gay weekend

    As New Jersey’s Atlantic City struggles to recapture its place as “America’s Playground,” Caesars Entertainment is continuing its pursuit of LGBT travelers. It is holding its...

  • Cheney on Marriage Equality: “I Certainly Don’t Have Any Problem With It”

    In his continuing comments on marriage equality, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, were asked about the subject today on The View,...