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  • Meth by the Numbers

    Thomas McDermitt was battling addiction long before discovering ''crystal.'' In the five years since graduating from high school in 1986, McDermitt outgrew his alcohol addiction...

  • Return of the King

    It was the late 1990s when Wallace Acton decided he'd had his fill of metropolitan Washington. He packed his bags and moved to New York....

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: Things are definitely more like they are now than they've ever been. Yes, that might be self-evident, but it's never been more...

  • Last Word

    ''Men who have sex with men account for almost half of all people estimated to be living with HIV in the United States, and African...

  • False Cure

    Sharon Kass of Silver Spring, a stranger, is concerned for my welfare. In March 2006 she sent me links to several ''ex-gay'' Web sites. In...

  • Making Census Sense

    For anyone who doesn't speak statistics or computer programming, decennial census reports conducted by the by the U.S. Census Bureau can be rather confusing. ''It's...

  • Teen Tales

    Alex Sanchez, the former metro Washingtonian who has made a name for himself writing a number of novels dealing with gay teens coming of age,...

  • Soundwaves

    Gifts to dance by... Looking for the perfect gift for your dance-music lover -- or even just yourself? Happy Holidays are here. Joe Bermudez Mainstream...

  • Drag Queen Instincts

    Never mind her new album's title. Celine Dion doesn't know from chances. Oh sure, she strays a little from her Titanic-sized sentimental journeys. She rocks...

  • Dust Off

    Great expectations can lead to great disappointments. As a fan of Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' series, I eagerly awaited the theatrical release of the...

  • Holy Hate

    Plan to get up extra early this Sunday, Dec. 9, and head over to the Washington Jewish Film Festival to catch a one-time screening of...

  • Buried Treasure

    Somewhere along the journey the Hispaniola lost its way. And, unfortunately, the storied ship from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is not the only thing...

  • Holiday Witticism

    Every year I put off the advent of the holiday season as long as humanly possible. It gets harder each cycle, now that holiday music...

  • Tuesdays at Apex Blast Off!

    A few weeks back Hearsay checked out Blast Off, the new weekly Tuesday night party at Apex, where the legendary nightclub’s general manager and newly...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round Up: It's a party! It's a revolution! It's a drive to reform life as we know it! It's all that and more --...

  • Upwardly Mobile

    2008 Nissan Versa From seat warmers to intermittent wipers to keyless entry, the luxuries of the automotive past inexorably become the necessities of the present....

  • For the Children

    December 1, World AIDS Day, will again mark that sad anniversary that, while a time to tout advances such as an entirely new class of...

  • Local Loss

    Cornelius R. Alexander Jr., known by friends simply as ''Neil,'' loved football. On Sunday, Nov. 18, however, with the Dallas Cowboys defeating his beloved Redskins,...

  • Marriage Options

    In conjunction with The Center, ''Home for GLBT in Metro DC,'' DC for Marriage, a nascent local organization, will present a public forum to discuss...

  • Power in Numbers

    The twelve thousand American flags that will decorate the National Mall beginning Friday, Nov. 30, through Sunday, Dec. 2, represent the many military service members...