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  • New Video: Hills Like Elephants’s Invisible Ink

    San Diego-based Hill Like Elephants recently released its debut album, The Endless Charade (Requiemme Records/BMG Chrysalis). Their video single, “Invisible Ink,” is below. More about...

  • 2nd Annual Home & Design Weekend

    The real estate firm Washington Fine Properties celebrates design and home furnishings offered by merchants on or near 14th Street NW and including free in-store...

  • Cylindrical Cinema

    Kerry Brougher doesn't think architect Gordon Bunshaft or other developers of the Hirshhorn Museum anticipated that the circular, donut-shaped building, completed in 1974, would one...

  • Nightclubbing

    Roxann Rowley wasn't struck by lightning, but a similar experience sparked her dance career. ''I was hit by a car crossing the street,'' Rowley explains,...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You can wake yourself from the dream state into which you've fallen. You can extricate yourself from the web of suppositions and innuendoes...

  • Tickets on sale Saturday for that lollipop quintet, One Direction

    One Direction, the British boy band — and not the California pop group, suing Simon Cowell and co. for stealing their already established name —...

  • Stick in the Eye

    Whether or not we are hard-core political junkies, most of us in the LGBT community share some common understandings about politics as it relates to...

  • HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.

    Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...

  • Marriage Matters

    Internalized homophobia is commonplace. You could say it's the result of powerful marketing – repeated catch phrases, sermons and punditry reinforcing a notion that gay...

  • Signs of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.

    A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers –...

  • Sweet 16 in Dupont

    While Youth Pride Day may have gotten its start in Dupont Circle, there was much more room out of the way down at P Street...

  • GLAA Celebrates 41st Anniversary

    The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), the nation's oldest continuously running gay rights advocacy organization, will mark its 41st anniversary with...

  • Mercy McKay

    ''I often think, 'Where's Rosie when you need her?''' laughs Nellie McKay. Rosie O'Donnell was nowhere to be found last year, after the New York-based...

  • Broadway Rock

    Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of...

  • Global LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection

    London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some...

  • National LGBT News Briefs: Campus, Catholics and Cops

    Pitt Bathroom Policy Contradicts City/County Nondiscrimination Codes A University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) facilities policy contradicts that of the city and county in which the university...

  • Dining Out for Life 2012

    Food is universal. We have the technology to reduce our necessary daily intake of calories to a few ounces of liquid. That might be an...

  • Family Restaurant

    For the latter half of the 20th century and now moving dependably into the 21st, Annie's Paramount Steak House has offered a warm welcome to...

  • Bully for 'Bully'

    There's no such thing as an honest documentary. Any one, told in any way, will be twisted and tacked into place by a filmmaker's intentions....

  • Hunter's Beacon

    Steven Hunter's first job as head chef was at Perry's in Adams Morgan. ''I was there when they started the drag brunch,'' says Hunter, who...