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  • Truly Yours

    By on November 20, 2002

    Dear Lena, With the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays looming large, I can already feel myself getting down in the dumps. Every year, I just get...

  • Soundwaves

    By on November 13, 2002

    Earth Music Vol. 2 Junior Vasquez Tommy Boy 12 Inches of Cox Chris Cox Provocative Music/Capitol Bedrock Compiled & Mixed John Creamer & Stephane K...

  • Perfect Shape

    By on November 13, 2002

    Love hurts: Twyford and Barrow (Photo by Carol Pratt)      I think I've now seen the best stage production of 2002.      Of course, it'll...

  • Rhapsodic

    By on November 13, 2002

    8 Mile High: Eminem      It's not easy for a pop sensation to cross over from the cozy confines of the recording studio to the...

  • Ebony & Ivory

    By on November 13, 2002

    Photography by Michael Wichita Does anything quite say ''urban sophistication'' like the elegant simplicity of a piano bar? And if you throw around words like...

  • History Lessons

    By on November 13, 2002

    Photography by Michael Wichita ''I can't believe they got it wrong. '' Edward Phillips stands among thirteen packing crates in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's...

  • Gay Cabaret

    By on November 13, 2002

    Great eight: the cabaret ensemble (Photo by GMCW) If I had to pick a favorite moment in Stops Along the Way, I'm not sure I...

  • Breast Wishes

    By on November 6, 2002

    I'm a few hours away, as I write this, from my first mammogram. It's a procedure I've been thinking about for years as a gay...

  • Old Hat

    By on November 6, 2002

    Office politics: Church and Clarke (Photo by Kathleen Akerley) Politics and religion are riddled with hypocrisy, and moral conservatives who rail against sexual content in...

  • Shooting Gallery

    By on November 6, 2002

    Taking aim: Moore A tourniquet wouldn't stop the rush of bleeding heart liberalism that accompanies the films of Michael Moore. Not to oversimplify things, but...

  • Truly Yours

    By on November 6, 2002

    Dear Lena, My boyfriend and I have been dating on and off for a few years. I lost my job several months ago and recently...

  • Soundwaves

    By on November 6, 2002

    Last week Christina Aguilera kicked off a “Dirrty” season of overwrought singing and undernourished diva-wannabes. This week, none other than Whitney Houston and Toni Braxton...

  • Love Machine

    By on November 6, 2002

    Photographs by Michael Wichita Ex-gay activist Jonathan Paulk on stage at the Love Won Out conference. At a Love Won Out conference, you hear oodles...

  • Hearsay

    By on November 6, 2002

    Mayor Williams engages constituents in a Fireplace chat… Apex opens in grand style with hot men and boys aplenty… Hearsay wasn't too upset when its...

  • Hearsay

    By on October 30, 2002

    · Hearsay does Reel Affirmations the right way, through a Absolut vodka-induced haze, and takes Strand to task for being late… · The meaning of...

  • Spare Any Change?

    By on October 30, 2002

         Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays wants you to go straight, and they've enlisted a hot guy to convince you.      He looks like he's...

  • Kiki & Herb

    By on October 30, 2002

    Photography by Michael Wichita It's like a frat band on the Lawrence Welk Show. It's like Steve and Edie on a bender. It's like bong...

  • Power Pop

    By on October 30, 2002

         The buzz from New York on the cabaret act Kiki & Herb over the last couple of years has been so scintillating, so delicious,...

  • Very Bad Man

    By on October 30, 2002

    Dream on: Mitchell as Cervantes/Quixote (Photo by Joan Marcus)      It's just wrong.      There's no better way to sum up the revival of Man...

  • High Style

    By on October 30, 2002

    Great Dame: Te Kanawa with Schaufer. (Photo by Carol Pratt/The Washington Opera) Director Steven Lawless brings us a polished and absorbing production of Samuel Barber's...