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Environs
Photography by Todd Franson This is where you want to live: An almost-new 3BR, 2 1/2 BA, 4-floor townhouse in the always convenient ‘burbs of...
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Wise Holiday Spending
The holiday season is a time of parties, decorations, gift giving -- and debt. Unfortunately, long after the snow has melted and the trees sprung...
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Parental Guidance
Photography by Todd Franson ''I certainly didn't take this job for any notions about limelight or attention on me. As a person, I'm more of...
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The Kiss of Activism
On Wednesday, November 5th, Stephanie Haaser kissed a girl. The twelve-second kiss occurred between Haaser and classmate Katherine Pecore during lunch period at River Hill...
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Santa Claws
Holiday movies are designed, by and large, to spread good cheer, to make us all warm and glowy inside, to make us feel charitable toward...
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Ménage àTrois
Once upon a time, in a land very, very near, Queen Molly Smith decided to dip her royal toes into the immense pool of American...
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Soundwaves
MP3 KILLED THE 12-INCH STAR… The Internet is a glimmer in the eye of the music industry. Well, it is now, after the industry has...
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Soaring Angels
The sheer scope and monumentality of HBO's Angels in America will surprise few. That the production triumphs and gives new legitimacy to television as a...
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Yule Be Swell
Photography by Todd Franson Whether they're from a farm in Virginia or the mountains of Colorado, an army of trees has begun its annual invasion...
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Far From Over
It's been a long time since the first World AIDS Day in 1988. In those earlier days of the epidemic, it was one of many...
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Song of the Quilt
Photographs by Todd Franson The Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington and D.C.'s Different Drummers on their first full rehearsal, Tuesday, November 18th, 2003. ''When...
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Women's Work
Among the many pleasures of last month's Reel Affirmations Film Festival was seeing myself on the big screen. I'm proud to have been just one...
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Smart Charity
The holiday season has arrived. For many of us, the holidays mean too much food, too much shopping and, at times, too much family. But...
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Marriage Win in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Supreme Court on Tuesday finessed the issue of gay marriage, deciding that same-sex couples have the right to wed but leaving it to...
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Amazing Adventure
It's been ages since I witnessed an audience applaud a movie. But the Sunday matinee crowd gathered at Master and Commander: The Far Side of...
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Utterly Shawful
You know that promising moment when you think you've solved a Rubik's Cube, that annoyingly enigmatic toy straight out of the pocket-protector weird science of...
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Dishing It Out
Photos by Todd Franson A wondrous thing happened last spring in Foggy Bottom at the River Inn. The Foggy Bottom Café, which had fallen to...
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Babs or Bette
Barbra Streisand poses bestride a film camera in a newly released Annie Liebowitz photo. But the noted filmmaker hasn't made a new movie. Instead, Streisand's...
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Political Pop
''Dance-y, garage-y electronic feminist pop. '' That's how Johanna Fateman describes Le Tigre, a lesbian band bent on creating happy electronica for a politically progressive...
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Soundwaves
BEMOANING MTV… This week we thought we had good news to share with those who've ever bemoaned the lack of outlets to see dance music...
