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Coalition of Organizations to Launch Maryland Marriage Equality Campaign
Equal rights organizations are joining forces today at 11 a.m. at Baltimore City Hall to launch a coalition that seeks to secure marriage equality in...
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Brent Everett Comes to Town [video]
On Saturday, July 9, adult film star Brent Everett made a special live appearance at Town Danceboutique in Washington, D.C. Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart caught...
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Kimpton Hotels offers summer love to LGBT travelers
Since it started in San Francisco in the 1980’s, Kimpton Hotels has made LGBT travelers a core part of its business. That commitment continues with the hotel...
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Ninth Circuit Says It “Appears” Government Is Not Defending DADT in LCR Case Appeal
In an order from the clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today, the court followed up on the three-judge panel’s...
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Virgin Mobile FreeFest is 9/10 — lineup includes Cee Lo Green, Deadmau5, Patti Smith
The Virgin Mobile FreeFest Presented by Kyocera was announced today by Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, who delivered the message via a...
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Editor’s Pick: The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at Wolf Trap
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the young Aspen Santa Fe Ballet kicks off Wolf Trap’s three-part Summer Dance Series with a world premiere Wolf Trap commission...
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Marc Broussard at the 9:30 Club
“Bayou Soul” is the descriptor for Louisiana singer-songwriter Marc Broussard‘s music, a gumbo of funk, swampy blues, R&B, even church hymns. If you’ve ever watched...
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Free Screening: Leslie Jordan’s My Trip Down the Pink Carpet
Reel Affirmations offers a free screening of My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, based on the memoirs of gay comedian Leslie Jordan, who has haunted...
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Dance Place’s DC/Philly Exchange
The Washington, D.C./Philadelphia Exchange features two companies and two visions representing two cities. Works in the program were choreographed by the companies’ artistic directors: Malcolm...
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Rabbit Run gets Civil (War)
The woman-owned and operated company Run Rabbit Run Theatre presents All for the Union in Confederate Virginia!, a true-to-life play about three young women in...
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Dcypher Dance at Joy of Motion
Dcypher Dance, Joy of Motion Dance Center’s resident adult hip hop company, presents “Ascension: Phase 5,” a high-energy concert of new works with choreography by...
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Citing DOJ’s “Nationwide Effect” Given to Bankruptcy Decision, Gay Couple OKs Ending Appeal
Today, in a bankruptcy court filing in Los Angeles, lawyers for a married gay couple seeking to file a joint bankruptcy petition claimed victory, following...
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Kasey Chambers at The Birchmere
A popular and critically lauded female artist in her native Australia, Kasey Chambers performed at the Birchmere a few years back with her husband Shane...
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Moratorium Issued on DADT Discharges; No Decision on Appeal
The Pentagon has stopped all enforcement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in a memorandum issued to military branch secretaries dated today, following a July 6...
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Beyonce’s new video: The Best Thing I Never Had
Here’s a look at Beyonce’s video, just out: Follow @metroweekly
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Zookeeper: When animals give dating advice.
Sadly, Zookeeper is not the screen adaptation of D.C. author Alex MacLennan’s book of the same name. Instead it’s about talking animals and their zookeeper,...
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Animal Collective at Merriweather Post Pavilion
Four best friends from Baltimore County teamed up to make wild, eccentric, challenging rock music — or as they call it “sonic free form electronic...
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Editor’s Pick! Divas at Wolf Trap
Emil de Cou conducts Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbins’ Broadway), Christiane Noll (Jekyll & Hyde) and Jan Horvath (Phantom of the Opera) along with the National...
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Editor’s Pick: The Match Game (sans Gene Rayburn)
As part of the Capital Fringe Festival, the Studio Theatre plays host to a live stage version of the classic TV game show Match Game,...
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The Capital Fringe Festival is Underway!
Not to be confused with the amazing Fox TV show, the Capital Fringe Festival — an assortment of offbeat theater, music and art — is...
