Black Pride Schedule of Events: DC Black Pride 2012
Black Pride Guide: All events at the Host Hotel unless otherwise noted. Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel400 New Jersey Ave. NWWashington, D.C. View Larger Map Thursday, May 24 DC Black Pride ''Party...
View Article2012 DC Black Pride Workshop Schedule: Schedule of events for your success,...
Black Pride Guide: Saturday, May 26Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel400 New Jersey Ave. NWWashington, D.C. View Larger Map Schedule Capital One Job Fair11am-3pm, Olympic RoomPresenter: Capital One Bank...
View ArticleBlack Pride Vendors: Sunday Expo, May 24 2012
Black Pride Guide: As of press time; subject to change. The Expo will be held on Sunday, May 27From Noon to 6 p.m. Francis-Stevens Educational Campus2425 N St. NWWashington, D.C. Vendors AIDS...
View ArticleBattle Ground: Former ''X Factor'' contestant Simone Battle offers her...
Black Pride Guide: ''I guess it's time to take it in, my gaydar needs some inspection,'' Simone Battle sings on her peppy song ''He Likes Boys.'' Battle, you see, fell for a pretty boy who likes...
View ArticleFrom the DC Black Pride Board: DC Black Pride 2012
Black Pride Guide: May 25, 2012 Greetings DC Black Pride Attendees! The DC Black Pride Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the 2012 DC Black Pride: ''It's A Family...
View ArticleDC Black Pride's Exceptional Expo: Health and Wellness means everything from...
Black Pride Guide: You already know what a bad Health & Wellness Expo might look like. There's the table for the HIV testing. Have another brochure about nutrition. The real thrill is the high...
View ArticleProclamations and Recognitions: DC Black Pride 2012
Black Pride Guide: Welcome Message from the DC Black Pride Board Board and List of Sponsors Black Pride Vendors Proclamations & Recognitions Entertainment Battle Ground: Simone Battle of X-Factor...
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View ArticleCarson Hearing Postponed: Woman charged with shooting a gay man at a Columbia...
News: A scheduled May 22 status hearing for LaShawn Carson, accused of shooting a gay man at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant, has been postponed. A new hearing has been set for June 5. While the...
View ArticleGLAA Issues ''Manifesto Against Religious Bullies'': Two-page document serves...
News: The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C., (GLAA) issued its ''Manifesto Against Religious Bullies'' today, just as the DC Black Pride weekend is kicking off. The manifesto cites...
View ArticlePhil Hartnoll of Orbital (video): A Soundwaves Skype Chat
Video: Phil Hartnoll of Orbital talks with Metro Weekly's Randy Shulman. Hartnoll talks about his renunion with his brother and the pioneering electronica's band's subsequent return, their new album...
View ArticleCoverboy: Jacques: Mr. Independent
Coverboy Interview: If Ne-Yo had a song called ''Mr. Independent,'' it would be Jacques's signature tune. The 22-year-old Howard University junior describes himself as a ''go-getter'' who likes to make...
View ArticleDC Black Pride Goes Back to School: Sunday's Health and Wellness Expo was...
News: With attendees filtering in and out, about 150 people filled the schoolyard of the Francis-Stevens Educational Complex Sunday, May 27, at any given time, all there to participate in the ''It's a...
View ArticleKameny Home Sold: Unnamed buyer purchases historic site, while dispute...
News: The house of Franklin E. Kameny, a leader in the gay civil rights movement who died in 2011 at age 86, has been sold, according to the attorney handling the estate. Glen H. Ackerman, managing...
View ArticleCommittee Approves Beninda, Budd: Human Rights Commission nominees move...
News: The D.C. City Council's Committee on Aging and Community Affairs today approved the nominations of two well-known transgender women, Alexandra Beninda and Earline Budd, to the 15-member D.C....
View ArticleLizzbian Power: Comic, pundit and progressive, Lizz Winstead talks about her...
Feature Story: Maybe you've heard the story about Lizz Winstead, as a budding comic, getting yanked off her feet by a bit of theater machinery as she prepared to introduce the acts at a bitchin'...
View ArticleVice Squad: ''Bachelorette'' makes for an awfully vulgar, awfully funny 90...
Stage: It's worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs Will Ferrell and Adam McKay...
View ArticleSuperstars: Layered, cohesive and atmospheric, ''Tooth'' and ''Bacchae'' do...
Stage: A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, WSC Avant Bard's spring rep of Euripides's The Bacchae and Sam Shepard's The Tooth of the Crime deliver a sense of epic, musically oriented...
View ArticleSome Enchanted Story: Marcelo Guzzo finds it enlightening how the audience...
Stage: The precursor to today's fight for marriage equality was, of course, the fight for interracial marriage. And that didn't reach its biggest milestone, the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia,...
View ArticleThe A Word: Steven Dietz's play ''Lonely Planet'' has had lingering,...
Stage: ''Our friends were just vanishing!'' says playwright Steven Dietz of the 1980s. ''It was hard to not write a play about AIDS.'' But unlike Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart or Tony Kushner's...
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