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Praise for Padget
Jonathan Padget, a former Metro Weekly staff writer and contributing playwright/composer to the 2007 Capital Fringe Festival, recently earned honors at his current spot as...
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Sex-Worker Soiree
Different Avenues, a local organization advocating on behalf of young people -- particularly GLBT youth -- affected by homelessness, HIV and violence, released a report...
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Adams Morgan Malevolence
It won't be surprising if gay locals begin to suspect that Pizza Mart and late nights are a dangerous mix. In December 2005, a gay...
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Marathon Man
On July 25, when Ted Hobart sets out on his 50-mile ''ultrathon,'' it will be farther than he's ever run. Those 50 miles cannot compare,...
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Food Fight
During my wild ''pescetarian'' days of no meat nor chicken, I refused to eat at McDonald's. My boycott was based upon the notorious ''McLibel'' suit...
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Design Star
It all started in the clubs for designer Andrew Christian. ''I was involved in the underground club scene when I was a teenager,'' says Christian,...
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Soundwaves
ABBA MAMMA MIA, HERE THEY GO AGAIN... Forget The Dark Knight. Oh sure, it's raking it in at the box office, on track to break...
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Going Batty
Heath Ledger as The Joker in 'Batman: The Dark Knight' The answer is yes. Heath Ledger is that good as The Joker. Would his performance...
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Dancing on the Fringe
Choreographer Daniel Phoenix Singh wanted to pay respect to what he's seen at Chaos, Zanzibar and Town. ''Just take some ideas you see in a...
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Positively Quixotic
If you've not seen the ads yet, the next reality show inspired by a musical to warm your heart will be ABC's High School Musical:...
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Devilish Behavior
In its native Britain, Jerry Springer: The Opera, was a hit. With many, however, it was also a miss. When the BBC aired a televised...
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Ted Ahead
Ted Allen When it comes to cooking, it's not as hard as it looks. Take Ted Allen's pan-roasted salmon with tomato vinaigrette on a bed...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: Did all that murk spontaneously clear up? Was it something somebody said? Or did? It's hard to know why everything seems so much...
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The Raw Stuff
In this age when your grocery store stocks frozen, organic vegetables -- shipped from China -- one may fairly wonder what the term ''organic'' even...
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Products Full of Sunshine
If calculators and watches are what come to mind when thinking about solar-powered devices, you've got some of catching up to do. Our lucky little...
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Crime Update
In the July 24 issue of Metro Weekly, the story ''Adams Morgan Malevolence'' mentioned a possible hate-crime incident occurring at 14th and U Streets NW....
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Madonna’s gay brother, Christopher, says she ‘crossed boundaries’
” during an interview with a gay magazine. She casually mentioned it but the only people who knew I was gay at the...
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Man convicted of assaulting, robbing, murdering gay men met on Internet chat sites
”All the victims were, or are, homosexual. He has taken advantage of their sexual preferences and violated them…. The crimes are very serious. He’s victimized...
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Duplex Diner Adds Faux Winehouse to its Menu….
So now we know. Amy “Syringe Binge” Winehouse can’t walk very well. She won’t give up the microphone easily, either. And she’s not punctual to...
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Jailed transsexual reveals crooked guards’ favors to cop-killer in next cell
”I have no idea why they did what they did. Some people in the jail suggested it was for money. I never saw any ...
