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Get a preview of The Fillmore Silver Spring
The Fillmore Silver Spring — a new venue we’re extremely excited about — is scheduled to open in September. But they just opened an official...
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Pop! goes 2ndstage
Keith Alan Baker directs Pop!, a madcap musical murder mystery that peeks into Andy Warhol’s infamous Factory, as written by Maggie-Kate Coleman with music composed...
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Survive at Freddie’s and raise funds for ASGRA
The drag queens of Freddie’s Beach Bar in Arlington present Survivor Freddie’s, a fundraiser for the Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA). The queens raising...
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Birds of a Feather at The Hub
The Hub Theatre presents the world-premiere production of gay humor writer Marc Acito’s Birds of a Feather, an inspiring story about families and the bird-brained...
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Team Work
As general manager for the past 14 years, Joey Oldaker, known as Joey-O, helped shape many memories of the club originally known as Badlands. But...
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Farewell to Badlands/Apex
Metro Weekly put out a call to the community to offer its own memories of Badlands/Apex. What follows are a selection of the responses that...
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Thanks for the Memories
What do you remember about Badlands and Apex? ''When I started at Badlands in 1993 there were two walled-in alcoves where the main bars [off...
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White House Briefing: Bond, Bankruptcy, Immigration and Obama
In today’s White House briefing both Metro Weekly and Kerry Eleveld with Equality Matters got in questions about LGBT issues, with Eleveld following up on...
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GLAAD Withdraws Support for AT&T’s Proposed Merger with T-Mobile
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today submitted a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) withdrawing its support for AT&T’s proposed merger...
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Season of Discontent
Way back in the early summer of 1992, I spent many of my young activist days hanging out in the ACT-UP DC office where things...
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Marriage Wars
Part Two of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act ''Given your stated and longstanding opposition to...
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Maryland Marriage Coalition
LGBT rights organizations joined forces at Baltimore City Hall on Tuesday, July 12, to launch Marylanders for Marriage Equality, a coalition that seeks to secure...
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Lawsuit Settled
This week, Sean Bugg, president of Jansi LLC, publisher of Metro Weekly, confirmed that Jansi, along with Isosceles Publishing Inc. and Randy Shulman, reached a...
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Community Needs
Transgender, transsexual and gender non-conforming people in D.C. have serious concerns about their safety, are severely underemployed, and face major difficulties accessing adequate healthcare according...
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Everybody Hurts
When Harry Potter makes his curtain call, it's not just any end. It's The End. The end to a decade-long cinematic buffet that's made such...
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Rock Out
I know what you're thinking. A jukebox musical with cheesy rock and noisy hair metal from the '80s? Starring Constantine Maroulis, an American Idol also-ran...
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Pounding Flesh
Even considered as tragicomedy, The Merchant of Venice is an awfully dreary affair. The tale is dominated by the Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who is reviled...
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Sizzlin' Good Stuff
The theater world is on notice: In a few weeks, a past season's worth of understudies at Signature Theatre will take the stage in a...
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Koz Celebre
A random shirtless guy ran right through a video shoot for smooth jazz artist Dave Koz's new single, ''This Guy's In Love With You.'' ''He...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Time and tide take on new significance as deadlines approach and procrastination deepens its tentacled presence in your heart of hearts. Why the...
