Metro Weekly

Columns

  • Times Square Tantrums

    Not since Sinéad O'Connor ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992 have so many believers been so...

  • Just Gone

    Any lump of coal would be difficult to swallow, but the one I got the day after Christmas left me stunned. Marty Davis, publisher and...

  • Days Gone By

    To get the cliché out of the way, looking back over a just-completed year is generally an exercise in indulging our own perspectives. Those of...

  • Tree Topping

    It took us six years of searching to finally find a solution to one of our most vexing annual problems of the holiday season. Namely,...

  • Amen, Hitch

    Like countless others, I posted a tribute on Dec. 16 to writer Christopher Hitchens, who died the previous day at age 62. Someone on Facebook...

  • Past Imperfect

    My life ended on an early December evening in 1987 when one of my fraternity brothers came into my frat-house bedroom and asked me, ''Are...

  • Xmas Column

    The American Family Association is mad at Banana Republic. They're also mad at Family Dollar and Radio Shack and a handful of others. Seems these...

  • Red and Circuses

    One of the more amusing sidelines in the ongoing quest for the Republican presidential nomination has been watching the blogs and media run out of...

  • Very Much Alive

    Rep. Barney Frank's announcement that he would not seek a 17th congressional term came just as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was rising in the...

  • To Be Frank

    Naturally, as a gay man running an LGBT magazine I'm always finding things in our coverage that make me pause and reflect, to remember what...

  • D.C. in the Red

    When I moved back East from Portland, Ore., I'd more or less had my fill of ''crunchiness.'' The guy I moved out there with had...

  • That Guy

    For much of my life, I've tried hard not to be that guy. You know that guy, the one who has a number of sincerely...

  • Golden Hour

    It was the ''golden hour'' of late afternoon on Nov. 3 during the viewing for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny when I walked outside the...

  • Are We There Yet?

    So, yes, it's lamentable that political progress is generally a stop-and-go affair, with long stretches of frustration and ennui punctuated by momentary outbursts of excitement...

  • Pulling the Lever

    My first time going to vote was with my mother, a recollection that's gauzy enough to indicate that it was probably somewhere around 1974. The...