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RA Xtra: Children of God
Kareem J. Mortimer’s tough and touching drama, set in Brazil, Children of Godfocuses on two young men struggling to come out. The film screens as...
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Euan Morton at Signature
After performing last year in the wonderful revival of the rock musical Chess, Euan Morton returns to Signature, this time to perform his amusingly titled...
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Pianist Radu Lupu with the NSO
Gianandrea Noseda makes his NSO debut conducting renowned pianist Radu Lupu in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program is...
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Lauryn Hill at Ram’s Head Live
Given recent shows elsewhere, she might start this show late. But that Lauryn Hill — that’s Ms. Lauryn Hill now, she insists — is set...
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Marriage Talk in Annapolis
Hundreds of supporters and opponents of legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Maryland filled the state's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee room in Annapolis on Tuesday,...
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Linkin Park
Linkin Park, the tuneful nu-metal/rap rock band, stops in D.C. on its world tour supporting last year’s A Thousand Suns, a middling concept album about...
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Gang of Four at the 9:30 Club
Gang of Four, the definitive punk-funk/post-punk band, has returned 30 years after storming the airwaves and inspiring everyone from R.E.M. to Red Hot Chili Peppers...
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Do It with Justin [video]
Our latest series, ''Do It with Justin'' premieres on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. Subscribe to Metro Weekly's YouTube channel so you don't miss the
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Obit: Jeff Coudriet
Sunday was somber as news spread about the passing of local gay activist Jeff Coudriet. After several months of battling lung cancer, Coudriet, a native...
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Out in the Silence at Artisphere
D.C.-based filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer’s 2010 documentary Out In The Silence focuses on a popular young jock brutally bullied at his small-town high...
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Why Is the Craig Ferguson Sketch Anti-Trans?
It turns out that claiming something is anti-trans humor stirs up people, and brings them out of the woodwork to tell you why you have...
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The Alexandria Kleztet
Exciting and innovative, the Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. The free concert...
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Tynan at the Studio Theatre
Philip Goodwin stars in Tynan, a one-man show, from Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers, about the great theater critic Kenneth Tynan, based on his diaries...
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Evil Cat
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Tuesday night screening series. This Tuesday offers the 1986 film...
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Rhianna returns to sex theme with video for ‘S&M’ [video]
”I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.Sex in the air, I don’t care, I love the smell of it.Sticks and stones may...
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Do heteros need a proximity detector? Gay hook-up service, Grindr, aims to find out
”It shows the whole range of gay men…. They just want to hook up…. I don’t know that that’s going to work for girls. They...
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Anne Rice tells gay son, Christopher: My 12-year study showed Catholic Church ‘was dishonorable, dishonest… immoral’ [video]
”That was a Catholic who wrote to me. She is very upset that I left the Catholic Church, and she writes e-mail after e-mail, and...
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Activist: Ferguson’s Sketch Only Funny If “Transgender People [Are] a Human Punchline”
Following up on the Metro Weekly post about Craig Ferguson’s Feb. 4 sketch featuring his “half-sister” — played by a man and named “Peg” —...
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Unevenlane at Dance Place
Under the artistic direction of founder Mary Lane, Unevenlane offers stories connecting with emotions to create richly layered dances full of curious intersections, angles, and...
