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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's funny how quickly tasks, activities, obligations and other things pile up this time of year. You started with a handicap, remember? Don't...
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A Time to Remember
When Earline Budd and Brian Watson of Transgender Health Empowerment (THE) first discussed plans to commemorate the eighth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, they originally...
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Historic Controversy
If Peter LaBarbera had his way, there would be a caution sign next to all of Franklin Edward Kameny's 70,000 artifacts documenting the gay rights...
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Scatter Pop
It is the best of albums, it is the worst of albums. With apologies to Charles Dickens, never before has there been a more polarizing...
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Destiny's Child
An adoring, profanity-laced love note to the fans who helped push Jack Black up the stairway to fame, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny...
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New Traditions
As a self-described Scrooge, I always applied that label to myself without actually knowing the full story of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol: A...
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Stage Fright
There are any number of ways to have an enjoyable evening when attending Legends! at The National Theatre. You can walk down memory lane, reading...
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Soundwaves
Mika FREDDIE MERCURY'S SPAWN: MIKA... George Michael. Robbie Williams. Elton John. Scissor Sisters. Up-and-coming pop sensation Mika channels those four contemporary artists, among many others....
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Memory Lane
Moms and memories take center stage this year as part of the musical reminiscing on past holidays that makes up the 26th annual holiday concert...
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It Starts with Human
For every 100,000 D.C. residents in 2004, 179 were diagnosed with AIDS, the highest rate in the nation. Out of the total D.C. population of...
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Family Feast: T-Day, My Way
The first Thanksgiving dinners I remember were the most conventional. My family was still a nuclear one, living in suburban Springfield. Thanks to my Irish-American...
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Family Feast: Food for Thought
You probably wouldn't expect to eat Ghormeh Sabzi on Thanksgiving Day. And unless you're Persian, you probably have no idea what the hell Ghormeh Sabzi...
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Family Feast: Cross Cultural
Cooking my first Thanksgiving dinner for my in-laws last year, things were going perfectly up until the point when I sliced off the tip of...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: We live in times as interesting as they are potentially lucky. How can you access the serendipitous while avoiding the compellingly intense parts?...
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Temple Bound
It's been more than a month now since the Academy of Washington's weekly events came to a halt when Club 55, the venue that hosted...
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Without a Trace
Michele Anne Riley's 7-year-old son cannot understand why his gay uncle disappeared. ''I told that Donald is missing, that he's disappeared,'' says Riley,...
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With Feeling
Andrew Hudson's life has always revolved around art. The native of Birmingham, England, who ended up in Washington in 1965, has painted, studied, taught and...
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Unfinished Restoration
If it were a musical, maybe I would love it. But as it stands, Michael Kahn's premiere of the recently adapted The Beaux' Stratagem is...
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Rough Ride
Studio Theatre's The Long Christmas Ride Home is, most certainly, long. What begins as a visually-arresting narrative becomes disjointed as the wonderful bond created with...
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Strong Bond
For all the public furor Bond fans made when Pierce Brosnan was shelved after 2002's Die Another Day, only to be replaced for Casino Royale...
