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  • Preening in Denmark

    Since everyone pretty much knows the deal with Hamlet, the only question is if the Shakespeare Theatre Company's current production is the interpretation for you....

  • Witch Slapped

    It was probably one of those ideas followed by the exclamation, ''That's so crazy it just might work!'' Don't simply create a stage version of...

  • A Friend Indeed

    Hello, old friend. If you're a fan of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, it's impossible to pick up his new book, Michael Tolliver...

  • Banal Bunch

    Well... it's better than the first one. Faint praise, indeed, but it's really the best you can say for the second installment of the Fantastic...

  • Summer Splash

    Saturday, June 23 may go down as the ''day'' the Hillwood Gardens ''rocked'' when Pillow Talk screens on the Lunar Lawn of this sprawling estate...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Your mouth is kiting checks faster than your persona can reject them. It's not that you're in a low-energy holding pattern. Simply put,...

  • Before He Can Marry

    Forty years ago this week, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in Loving v. Virginia, ''The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of...

  • Hearsay

    Pride Weekend Wonders... Oops, Hearsay did it again. By the time Hearsay's weekend rolled into Monday, it was too late to turn back. Hearsay is...

  • Diving for Dollars

    Lambda Divers, a not-for-profit social organization that works to promote scuba diving among the gay community, donated a total of $5,700 to three organizations that...

  • 'Raw' Deal

    Sometimes it's not the four-letter words that cause a commotion. Sometimes it only takes three: r-a-w. That's the word that rankled some local sensibilities when...

  • Countdown to Closure?

    If ever there was a difficult row to hoe, the displaced gay adult venues formerly of Southeast D.C. can claim it. Open barely a month,...

  • History in the Unmaking

    The good news is that nobody was hurt. The bad news for local lesbian activist Cheryl Spector and other members of metropolitan Washington's gay community...

  • Rainbow Rock

    Cyndi Lauper's 21-year-old classic pop hit ''True Colors'' is already something of a gay anthem. Now it's set to become even more -- a signature...

  • Blood Bath

    Blood and guts and gore. Oh my! Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II delivers everything that you would expect from the sequel to the 2005 original:...

  • Hazy Memories

    Those were the days: Ice cream cones cost 12 cents, going to the movies was the time to neck with your girlfriend, and an older...

  • Capital Pride 2007

    Yes, that was Mayor Adrian M. Fenty marching and throwing bead necklaces at the Capital Pride Parade on Saturday, June 9. Fenty joined hundreds of...

  • Gay 'Bash'

    America was a new country, with just 33 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, when Susanna Cox was condemned to hang for...

  • Up in Flames

    A video archive documenting more than 21 years of Washington's GLBT community was destroyed on Wednesday, June 6, when the apartment complex it was stored...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: Are the fruits of your labors manifesting in unexpected shapes and sizes? Reaping what was sown can be useful in deciding what to...

  • Rowing Your Boats

    Continuing to grow the city's annual Stonewall Regatta, the local GLBT rowing club, D.C. Strokes, on June 2 offered the 14th regatta with 22 rowing...