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Blood Simple
Alfred de Musset lives. Though the French romantic never saw his epic Lorenzaccio presented upon the stage during his lifetime, European audiences are familiar with...
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Hard Lessons
In Good Company is an agreeable comedy that might have been overlooked altogether if not for Topher Grace's pitch-perfect performance as a 26-year-old corporate upstart...
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Hearsay
Eavesdropping around at MAL Weekend... A very heated amateur night... Subairi holds a tsunami fundraiser... It all started a few Fridays back, at the Mid-Atlantic...
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Soundwaves
2004'S TOP DANCE ACT.... Billboard's bestselling album in 2004 from a dance/electronic artist was not brought to us by a lesbian sex act. Despite half...
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Homegrown History
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most culturally romantic periods of American history. In a sense, it was the spark that ignited a fire...
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Military Backup
For the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based Military Community Services Network has been trying to fill a niche. Today's military may have a commitment to...
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Dire Straights
Let's get one thing straight: a lot of men are not. But those who fervently claim they are, would never -- I repeat, never pretend...
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Fantasy Island
My mother's main goal in life is to be warmer. At any given moment, she's devoting a significant portion of mental resources to figuring out...
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Securing Security
As a general rule, I tend to avoid political arguments. To me, political beliefs are similar to religious beliefs, both are based largely on faith,...
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Sucker Punch
If you're planning to produce a bleak, dispiriting tale of bitter realities in post-Soviet Russia that bears the title Black Milk, perhaps you ought to...
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Second Chances
''Will I ever be normal?'' The question is put to a psychologist by Walter, a 45-year-old man recently released from a dozen years spent in...
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Environs
Make an artistic statement with a four-story Adams Morgan townhouse, where two decades of projects and renovations have created both a home and a showcase...
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Appreciation
Last Thursday morning, January 6, at 5:15 a.m., one of the GLBT community's biggest hearts gave out. The passing of Billy Collison at the age...
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The Exhibitionists
For some, MAL is about the legendary Leather Cocktails, the event from which the weekend born. Then there are those who look forward to the...
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Judgment Day
''I think it's about who he is on the inside and whether or not he has the ability to speak from his heart, whether that...
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Taylor-made Title
One cold and drizzly afternoon, roughly a year ago, hundreds of leather aficionados gathered inside Almas Temple downtown for more than three hours of pageantry...
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MAL 2005
The Centaur Motorcycle Club's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has grown over the years into the nation's largest club-sponsored leather event. The original seed of the weekend,...
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Busted!
Among the more scintillating New Year's resolutions I heard this year was one friend's declaration that 2005 is the year of cleavage. While I don't...
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Barriers to Health
Ironically, a few weeks after Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer diagnosis helped put ''a lesbian face'' on cancer, the same-sex marriage backlash as witnessed in the...
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Tsunami Spares Gay Enclave
On Dec. 26, 2003, an earthquake in Bam, Iran, killed nearly 30,000 people. A year later to the day, history made a terrifying encore with...
