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Surveying the Transgender Scene: DC Trans Coalition carrying out needs...
News: For the next six months to a year, the DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) will be surveying members of the District's transgender community in hopes of obtaining a fresh perspective on the major concerns...
View ArticleGeneration Now: Celebrating an anniversary for Metro Weekly is made sweeter...
Opinion: Eighteen years old may seem young for a human being, but it seems pretty old for a magazine. This issue of Metro Weekly is the one where we flip the calendar and celebrate our 18th anniversary...
View ArticleHouse Arrest for IHOP-Shooting Suspect: Judge releases woman accused in...
News: The woman arrested and charged with shooting a gay man following an altercation at a Columbia Heights IHOP restaurant has been placed under house arrest as she awaits a felony status hearing....
View ArticleWho's your favorite Avenger?: Take our poll. Enter to win an XBox 360.
Poll: // Read Chris Heller's review of The Avengers. ...more
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Biblical Proportions: However you come to it, WNO's biblical and...
Opera: With a busy narrative, a biblically minded libretto, and a director who assumes a cogent, educated audience, the Washington National Opera's Nabucco isn't for those who like their opera...
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Coverboy: Brandon: Hard worker seeking success
Coverboy Interview: Resilience, hard work and independence are values prized by 24-year-old Brandon. The native Marylander earns his keep as an office administrator for the federal government by day...
View ArticleCapital Pride Accepts Charity Challenge: Friends of Pride matching grant...
News: Capital Pride's ''Friends of Pride,'' a special recognition for those individual donors who help keep the annual LGBT festival free for attendees, isn't new. But it's been steadily increasing in...
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Reflective Rufus: Mark Ronson has helped refine Rufus Wainwright's sound, but...
Music: Rufus Wainwright is 38 going on 60. His new album Out Of The Game starts with an older man's jokey lament about his wilder days and ends with bagpipes and a solemn hymn that could serenade a...
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Bad Faith: It takes a big leap of faith to buy into the fanciful Broadway...
Stage: Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at church. Technically, most of the...
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Blood Sucking: ''Dark Shadows'' is another nail in Tim Burton's artistic...
Film: Stop me if any of this seems familiar: Johnny Depp wears makeup and an odd costume to play a quirky man with an accent. Tim Burton directs a movie chock-full of pale skin and lackluster...
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The Hole Truth: Drummer Patty Schemel reveals life in her former band Hole
Film: You often hear about pop artists and bands partying hard, being reckless with life and drugs. But you rarely see it. ''I didn't really want to tell the whole world about the way it was and then...
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How It Ends: In the pursuit of LGBT equality, not everyone sees the same...
Feature Story: ''We are an ahistorical people,'' Cleveland attorney Leslye Huff says. ''The number of lesbians in this town, who are under 40, who don't know that we had a monthly newsletter called...
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Swing Time: Steven Reineke leads the NSO Pops in some Voodoo fun
Concert: This summer, Steven Reineke will perform with Idina Menzel at Wolf Trap, supporting the Broadway and TV star with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops. But this weekend, Reineke will lead a...
View ArticleQuaranta Claims Victory: Beats party's favored slate to become D.C. Young...
News: Running on a reform platform, Toby Quaranta, 28, won nearly 60 percent of the votes for president of the D.C. Young Democrats, Saturday, May 5, becoming the second openly gay president of the...
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Confronting the Virus: Local activist launches new HIV/AIDS campaign
News: Think of it as the ''It Gets Better'' campaign for people affected by HIV. Washington-area blogger and HIV activist Justin B. Terry-Smith is asking people around the world affected by HIV/AIDS,...
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Sarah Smiles: After years of struggling with gender identity, AU student...
News: As April turned to May, change was afoot on D.C.'s American University campus. For starters, April 30 marked the end of Student Government President Tim McBride's term. The next day, The Eagle,...
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Westward, Shrew!: Folger's ''Shrew'' is an uneasy marriage between a tale...
Stage: The West is more mild than wild in Folger Theatre's new production of The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare's so-called comedy that revels in male superiority and female submission....
View ArticleNational LGBT Briefs: Milk, Mourning and Miami: San Diego gets a new street,...
News: Harvey Milk Takes to the Street San Diego LGBT Pride announced Tuesday that the San Diego City Council voted unanimously to name a street in that city after the iconic LGBT civil right hero...
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Pool Party: Constellation takes a dip in the pool
Stage: ''Some of the front rows of the audience [get wet],'' says Constellation Theatre Company's managing director A.J. Guban. ''Just a little splash, just a little bit.'' Obviously, Constellation's...
View ArticleWorld LGBT Briefs: Women Take On Traditionalists: Manji, Clinton and the...
News: South African Bloc Suggests Removing Gays from Constitution Responding to an invitation from the South African Parliament's constitutional review committee to submit comment, that country's...
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