Metro Weekly

Clublife

  • A Star is Reborn

    Are you ready? Nearly three years after drag queen Ella Fitzgerald and nude male dancers struck out in Southeast D.C., they're back to play ball...

  • Unreasonably Hot

    It may not be the season for sizzling, but if it's balmy you're after you can go quite a bit higher than 30 Degrees. Just...

  • Revved-Up Beats

    Before Eddie Baez became a DJ, he was, of all things, a motorcycle mechanic. ''I was fixing motorcycles for security at some of the bigger...

  • Globetrotting Groove

    DJ Luke Johnstone Luke Johnstone is a globetrotting gay club DJ, but he most frequently goes west to California and far east to Asia and...

  • Vegas Santa

    Ethan Reynolds doesn't look at all like Santa Claus. But the 28-year-old gay model and actor is coming to town as the plump, jolly old...

  • One-Stop Shop

    Cobalt's 30 Degrees lounge has new stain-resistant white leather furniture. ''Once you do something nice, and your customers realize you've done something nice, they respect...

  • Everybody Dance

    Tony Moran's partner of nine years died last May. ''Dealing with that while others were watching was difficult,'' says Moran, an acclaimed dance music producer...

  • Tounge Untied

    ''I've been grooming some Mini-Mes,'' jokes Natalie Illum, longtime president of the feminist open-mike extravaganza known as Mothertongue. Illum will step down as the all-volunteer...

  • Watch and Dance

    ''It's the little movie that could,'' says Richard Kimmel about his first feature film, Schwarzwald: The Movie You Can Dance To. Based on music and...

  • Radiant Day

    Singer Inaya Day recalls the time she first heard herself on the radio, in the mid-1990s. ''I heard this song come on, and the chorus...

  • Musical Phase

    Phase 1 started having live music only a couple years ago, but just one night a week. It was, as the bar's manager Angela Lombardi...

  • Pakt-Man

    Moving back to D.C. after seven years away, Jim Gade knew, for the most part, what he was coming back to. That doesn't mean he...

  • Upstairs Haven

    Annie's Upstairs If it's been a few months since you've been upstairs at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, you're in for a surprise. ''What was once a...

  • Tea Party

    Bella Stassi is proving that girls of all ages still just want to have fun. ''Our event is different because we're not targeting one specific...

  • Design Star

    It all started in the clubs for designer Andrew Christian. ''I was involved in the underground club scene when I was a teenager,'' says Christian,...