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Life as Cabaret: Will Gartshore offers a cabaret inspired by recent life events
Music: Early last year, Will Gartshore broke his wrist curling. ''A freak curling accident,'' he concedes. ''Very Canadian.'' Didn't know Gartshore was Canadian, eh? Since the turn of the millennium,...
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The Soprano: Michele Kennedy and the Folger Consort toast early female composers
Music: ''When I first joined I was too shy to look up at the conductor,'' says Michele Kennedy of her early days in the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Kennedy eventually overcame her shyness to become the...
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The Vanishing: ''How to Disappear'' is too long, too manic and, ultimately,...
Stage: There are three things you should know about Theater Alliance's How to Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: It's too long, too manic and, ultimately, too obvious to justify all of its...
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Review: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: Audra McDonald is extraordinary in...
Stage: Last August, Stephen Sondheim took to the New York Times to attack Diane Paulus, Suzan-Lori Parks and Audra McDonald for being arrogant and disrespectful in talking about Porgy and Bess. But in...
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Out on 14th Street: CAGLCC members are helping remake the once down-and-out...
Business: I remember in the 1960s watching the buildings burn on TV. I remember visiting a relative on Swann Street in the early 1980s, praying that my car would still be there after dinner. And I...
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Junior's Return: Legendary gay New York DJ Junior Vasquez is happy to return...
Clublife: Junior Vasquez took the news of Whitney Houston's death hard. ''I was pretty much depressed,'' he says. ''I was bed-ridden for about four days, it just got to me.'' The legendary gay DJ...
View ArticleBallot-Box Solidarity: You may not be a woman, but you should vote as though...
Opinion: When Rick Santorum talks of imposing his idea of God's Plan on his fellow citizens; when Rush Limbaugh calls a law student a "slut" and a "prostitute" for advocating access to contraceptives;...
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View ArticleTeam DC Fashion Show 2012 (video): DC area models show off men's underwear...
Video: In our 50th episode of Outspoken, Ebone Bell goes backstage at the Team DC Fashion Show and Model Search at Town Danceboutique on Saturday, March 10, to talk to some of the budding...
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New Attacks Alarm D.C.: LGBT community organizers plan march and fundraiser...
News: Concerned members of the LGBT community have announced plans for a silent march and a fundraiser in the wake of two anti-gay attacks earlier this week, one in Columbia Heights, the other in...
View ArticleGay Men's Chorus of Washington's 'Rocky Horror Show' (video): The Gay Men's...
Video: The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington is presenting an all-male version of The Rocky Horror Show at GWU's Lisner Auditorium, March 16-18. Metro Weekly was at the final dress rehearsal on Thursday,...
View ArticlePFLAG and PFOX Debate MCPS Fliers on News Channel 8: Pro-LGBT organization...
News: The ongoing debate regarding distribution of fliers by the group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) to students at Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), countered by fliers from the...
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Rhyme Time: Magnetic Fields offers more comically clever wordplay in the...
Music: ''The only girl I'll ever love is Andrew in drag,'' Stephin Merritt sings on The Magnetic Fields' uproarious new single. The song sounds a bit like a droll echo of the '70's disco hit ''Saturday...
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Idina Menzel's new album is a delightful escape into her songbook: Barefoot...
Music: Remember Idina Menzel's attempts at pop stardom? Just as well if you don't. She's released a total of three forgettable pop albums, though only her 2008 set I Stand charted. (That was after her...
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Coverboy: Long: From Vietnam to the DMV
Coverboy Interview: When he was 15, moving to the U.S. from Vietnam, Long says it was the equivalent of winning a Wonka-esque golden ticket. But the reality wasn't all chocolate waterfalls and...
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MPD Reports Reveal More Anti-LGBT Attacks: Recent attacks sparking strong...
News: As seasonal temperatures rise, attacks with some indication of anti-LGBT bias are also apparently increasing. A shooting at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant and a combined robbery and assault...
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Standing Out for Equality: Equality Virginia honors five ''OUTstanding''...
News: Ahead of the organization's Ninth Annual Commonwealth Dinner, April 14, Equality Virginia this week announced its 2012 OUTstanding Virginians, who will be honored at the dinner. Equality Virginia...
View ArticleCatholic Conclave: New Ways Ministry holds national LGBT Catholic conference...
News: A Catholic case for same-sex marriage took center stage in Baltimore during the weekend at a national conference where a church theologian advocated marriage equality from a faith-based...
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Six-Month Field Test: Assessing DADT repeal at the half-year mark shows...
News: Sixth months ago, the United States military, under the direction of President Barack Obama, began allowing out gay, lesbian and bisexual service for the first time in the nation's history. On...
View ArticleJohnson's Symposium Speech: Lesbian denied Communion at her mother's funeral...
News: A national symposium in Baltimore dealing with gay and lesbian relationships in the Catholic Church concluded on an affective note March 17 when the woman denied Holy Communion at her mother's...
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