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  • Looney Tunes

    He may sing ''I've gone identity mad!'' on his debut album's opening tune and single, ''Grace Kelly,'' but Mika doesn't actually sound as confused about...

  • Local Briefs

    Gay Men's Chorus appoints new E.D. Robert Johnson has been playing the piano since he was 9 years old. Now 31, Johnson, a member and...

  • Culture Club

    A voice-over narration that condescends to the audience isn't the most auspicious start for a film, particularly for Boy Culture, the story of a Seattle...

  • Monsters and Mayhem

    Wake up, moviegoing America! Right before your eyes last weekend came an original: a witty, exceedingly well-crafted tribute to the exploitation flicks of the '70s,...

  • Gays Groups Evaluate May 1 Candidates

    Ahead of the May 1 special election for D.C. City Council seats from Wards 4 and 7, as well as a Board of Education seat...

  • Talking About Silence

    It is perhaps the quietest day of the school year: The Day of Silence, a national effort in which students at high schools, colleges and...

  • Hearsay

    A prodigal if uncomplicated return... Testing. Testing. Is this thing on?... Oh, you don't TALK into it, you TYPE into it and when words come...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: It's been a long, slow climb up the steep, steep hill. Now you can see a clear path down that slippery slope before...

  • Stumbling 'Regiment'

    As soon as Placido Domingo, wearing his Washington National Opera General Director hat, stepped on stage to tell us that former Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist JiYoung...

  • Classic Failings

    How is it that two strong leads, a romantic love story and a few catchy musical numbers combine to make such a mediocre production? However...

  • Conquering Comedy

    Only see Woolly Mammoth's production of She Stoops to Comedy if you want to laugh. Only see this show if you enjoy intelligent humor. Only...

  • Policing the Police

    Relations between D.C.'s gay community and the police have come a long way in the past 50 years. Where vice cops once routinely entrapped gay...

  • Correction

    The March 29, 2007, story ''The Beat Goes On,'' incorrectly referred to Richard Rosendall's statement as ''an open letter.'' The statement was oral testimony on...

  • Departing Mautner

    After nearly eight years heading the nation's largest lesbian health organization, Kathleen DeBold announced her resignation from the Mautner Project just four months after going...

  • Campus Pride

    You needn't enroll in a class at Northern Virginia's George Mason University to learn about the various activists, popular artists, scientists and authors who have...

  • Scene Stealer

    I don't want to be premature about this, but it seems Joseph Gordon-Levitt has completely conquered the ''Curse of the T.V. Sitcom Child Actor.'' Many...

  • No Secrets

    After opening night of Sherry Glaser's one-person hit Family Secrets in New York, in 1993, her father bought out the entire theater for the next...

  • Screening for Staff

    It's not always easy to see the problems other people face. For gays and lesbians who were born in the United States, for example, it...

  • Easter Sunday Services

    Visit the Community Calendar for information about open and affirming churches in the metropolitan Washington area. CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY is asking you to join...

  • Just another Sunday

    It only takes a few seconds and I'm there. Thirteen years old again, at a Christian camp with a group of 10 other boys, in...