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  • Unforgivable

    By on October 8, 2003

    Penn and Chapman When Clint Eastwood directs, his films tend to go either one way or the other. That is to say, either they're brilliant...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 8, 2003

    DANCE ON THE RADIO… “For dance music to flourish in America, acts need more radio play,” according to one of dance music's biggest movers, DJ...

  • Environs

    By on October 8, 2003

    Photography by Todd Franson Idle hands are the gay man's plaything, and you'll find them all over this 3BR, 2BA three-story townhouse on Capitol Hill,...

  • Reichen's Reality

    By on October 1, 2003

    It was a defining moment -- as well as an exhilarating one -- as America watched gay couple Reichen Lehmkuhl and Chip Arndt stagger up...

  • Bearing False Witness

    By on October 1, 2003

    It's Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and loved ones have pampered me with gifts of sweet things (for a sweet year). The jumbo bag...

  • Push for Pap

    By on October 1, 2003

    If a woman rarely or never has sex with men, should she still get regular Pap smears? Absolutely, say experts in lesbian health. Yet a...

  • Buzzworthy

    By on October 1, 2003

    Photography by Todd Franson Much buzz accompanied the opening of David Greggory late last spring. It is, after all, the handsome and stylish collaboration of...

  • Mixed Blessings

    By on October 1, 2003

    Oftentimes it's resilience more than consistency that distinguishes someone as a true diva. Riding the waves of changing music impulses has long dogged Aretha Franklin's...

  • Club Flub

    By on October 1, 2003

    Culkin and Green Party Monster, which opens this weekend at Visions, is an oddly captivating yet not entirely successful journey into the creatively eccentric, drug-infused...

  • Rock Hard

    By on October 1, 2003

    Jack Black What happens when a mainstream movie is infused with an independent sensibility? School of Rock, that's what. The feel-good surprise of the year,...

  • Electro Magnetism

    By on October 1, 2003

    Cassidy Karakorn and Coby George have made it their mission to revive Tracks. Like many devotees of the former nightclub, Karakorn and George, along with...

  • Truly Yours

    By on October 1, 2003

    Dear Lena, I'm a 27-year-old bisexual male and I'm married to a female. My problem is that I'm a true bisexual -- I honestly enjoy...

  • Environs

    By on October 1, 2003

    Want history? Here's a 2BR, 2BA condo on Logan Circle built by the son of a president. After years of rumored ill-repute and general ramshackleness,...

  • The Reluctant Hedonist

    By on September 24, 2003

    ''I intend to write an opera one day,'' says Rufus Wainwright. ''Especially after these horrifyingly personal albums. I think I might need to concentrate on...

  • Reality Bites

    By on September 24, 2003

    When I was a little kid, I used to watch a show called Romper Room and hoped each day with all my might that Miss...

  • Up a Creek

    By on September 24, 2003

    About the best thing that can be said for Cold Creek Manor is that it isn't completely dull. You'd think it would be, given how...

  • Half-Baked Beach

    By on September 24, 2003

    It is that end of summer time, that back to school time, that Congressional recess is over time, that time for something light to read....

  • Diva Fatigue

    By on September 24, 2003

    When any half-pint pop singer can call herself a diva in song, something is woefully wrong. Becky Baeling sings -- no, shouts -- ''I'm a...

  • Growing Pains

    By on September 24, 2003

    In the liner notes to Erykah Badu's ambitious if perplexing EP Underground Worldwide, she writes that several tunes were inspired by her ''Frustrated Artist Tour...

  • Missing the Boat

    By on September 24, 2003

    Maybe it's just me. Maybe I've come to expect too much from a Tom Stoppard play by way of cerebral titillation and a love affair...