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13 Virginia Races to Watch in 2013
In Virginia's elections for the House of Delegates, 44 seats have candidates running unopposed, while 56 seats are being contested. The following list includes some...
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Patty Boom Boom Throws Support to ‘Battis’ Tonight
Tonight ushers in the third edition of a party at U Street nightclub Patty Boom Boom meant to celebrate tropical music genres while also advocating...
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Artisphere Turns 3 with 1,000 Andy Warhols
Tonight is the night to don a black turtleneck and silver wig and head over to Arlington’s Artisphere for its “Night of 1,000 Andys Dance...
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Oregon dad killed while honoring bullied, gay son with cross-country walk
“It’s wrong, you know, we can’t have this anymore in our society…. Feeling like I wanted to die myself, and knowing I couldn’t — I...
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Nothing Passé about National Coming Out Day
In last week’s Metro Weekly cover story, Dan Savage, the Savage Love sex columnist and It Gets Better Project co-founder, discussed coming out. This founding...
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Flashback: Top 10 singles this week in 1973
Forty years ago this week, Cher — who has just released a new album and is about to launch a major tour — was at...
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Boy George debuts new video for “King of Everything”
Boy George’s latest album, “This is What I Do”, hits stores later this month, and the pop icon has just released a dramatic video for the...
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Carson Found Guilty in IHOP Shooting
A D.C. Superior Court jury today found 28-year-old Lashawn Carson guilty of aggravated assault while armed and related weapons charges for shooting a gay man...
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Returning to Laramie
Two weeks ago, the cover of Metro Weekly featured Scott Suchman's dramatic and incredibly evocative photo of actors portraying participants at a candlelight vigil for...
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VelocityDC Shines Light on Local Dance Scene
No one refers to Washington as a capital, or even a hotbed, of dance. But a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...
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Homecoming Dance
{Return #1 (Photo by Matthew Murphy)} ''My older sister was so clumsy,'' Jenelle Figgins says. ''I guess my mother assumed that she'd be able to...
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Government, Cheesed
In the summer of 1991 I scraped together some coins from my rapidly depleting change bowl and hopped on the 14th Street bus that took...
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Bear Crazed
Michael Ian Hodges, you might say, was going berserk. ''They don't have to bring in these higher-priced DJs and party promoters,'' Hodges says, referring to...
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Garrison Gibbons Rises Above Hate
The night started like any other performance at Ole Miss. The house lights dimmed, the stage lights came up, and our production of The Laramie...
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Pipe Dreams
Go figure. The young celebrity musician behind the biggest and loudest musical instrument is himself relatively brash and audacious. Moreover, Cameron Carpenter, the international concert...
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Boo! Spooky Movie Time at AFI Silver
Now that the weather is starting to turn cold and dreary, and each night is coming a little earlier, you might be itching for that...
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Frightful: Halloween at Kings Dominion and Six Flags America
In recent years, major theme parks have extended their seasons beyond Labor Day by tapping into this country’s seemingly insatiable bloodlust for Halloween. Virtually every...
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Betty White is going purple for GLAAD’s Spirit Day
“Call me Betty Purple.” Actress, role model and all-around adorable human being Betty White is joining other celebrities in showing their support for GLAAD’s Spirit...
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Pat Robertson compares transgender people to his castrated horse
“We talk about transgender, I have a former stallion which is now a gelding, because stallions get very aggressive. He wasn’t trying to be a...
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Cadillac reveals the 2015 Escalade, forgets to tone it down
Ah, the Escalade. Never has a less-subtle vehicle existed than Cadillac’s largest SUV. And in true form its latest update for the 2015 model year...
