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The Diva Next Door
Opera is like beets -- people love it or hate it. But regardless of one's taste for opera, Patricia Racette is one to watch --...
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Hot Stuff
Hot Fuzz is a cross between Die Hard and The Full Monty. No, that's not quite right. Maybe it's more like Point Break meets Four...
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Hearsay
Glowing at fur... Hearsay is no longer water-logged, but it still feels bloated after the torrential downpours a couple weekends back -- and Hearsay's not...
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Unburied Treasure
Escobar, right, with Russotto.|Stan Barouh In 1994, Washington theater lost a treasure. In 2007, that treasure has been reclaimed, albeit briefly. For those who don't...
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Current Events
What a difference a week makes. Round House Theatre's production of Crime and Punishment concludes its run in an environment much different from the one...
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Roman Meal
Knobbly English knees, homoerotic grappling and an awful lot of heavy breathing filled the Eisenhower Theater's stage for opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company's...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: You've shifted pointless boulders uphill long enough, Sisyphus. With that immense obstacle out of your line of vision, you may be surprised to...
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Hear 'Em Roar
''Come out and dance with us. Come out and dance with Men,'' JD Samson says, a bit playfully. Samson, a lesbian, is definitely not a...
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Combating Hate Crimes
On March 14, 2007, a 25-year-old gay man named Ryan Keith Skipper was murdered in Polk County, Fla. He was stabbed 20 times in what...
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Sissy Fuss
A freak and a sissy. Not to mention an orphan and, most challenging, a Southerner. Such was the childhood of Kevin Sessums, best known for...
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Chronic Heidi
Well, the pressure is on. With Arena Stage reviving The Heidi Chronicles, the seminal and much lauded play of cultural icon Wendy Wasserstein, ''in loving...
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More Is Less
If you stayed awake in 10th-grade history, then correctly answering, ''What was the fate of Sir Thomas More?'' is a no-brainer: He crossed the King,...
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Geek Love
First of all, it's okay if your first reaction to hearing about a show that parodies Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals is, ''How will I know...
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Game Plan
Something different happens when a professional athlete steps out of the closet and into the public eye. Entertainers, lawyers, even politicians -- their stories can...
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Correction
In the April 12 issue of Metro Weekly, District II Board of Education candidate Sekou Biddle was reported to have secured the Gertrude Stein Democratic...
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Revising Treatments
From ''super strains'' of HIV, to exotic and resistant forms of chlamydia, news of sexually related bugs, germs and microbes is certain to prick up...
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Buying Time
It's been two months since Preston Randolph Logan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but it will be at least one more week before he receives...
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A Family Affair
''Men have seeds, and women have eggs... and if two women fall in love and want to have a baby together, they need a seed.''...
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Acknowledging Accomplishment
Washington is a city bursting at the seams with history, though gay history doesn't often come to mind. New York trumps other locales with the...
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Who We Are
Who We Are Youth Pride Alliance, now in its 11th year, was founded in 1996 by Christopher Dyer. Our primary function is the annual production...
