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Stein Club Honors Activists: D.C.'s LGBT Democratic club offers 36th...

News: In this red-hot political season, some local partisans are taking a few hours off Oct. 25 to celebrate a select few at the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club's 36th Anniversary Leadership Awards....

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Ellen DeGeneres wins Mark Twain Prize (video): Jimmy Kimmel, Jane Lynch and...

Video: On Monday, Oct. 22, the John F. Kennedy Center awarded Ellen DeGeneres the Mark Twain Prize for humor at its 15th annual event. Several of the celebrities who presented at the event including...

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Good Humor Honor: Kennedy Center bestows its Mark Twain Prize for American...

News: Last night, Kristen Chenoweth and Lily Tomlin led the honors at the Kennedy Center for Hollywood's preeminent cute and clever comic, Ellen DeGeneres. The occasion was the 15th Annual Kennedy...

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Steve Harvey on the Red Carpet at the Mark Twain Prize: Comedian honors Ellen...

Video: Comedian Steve Harvey was part of the celebration for Ellen DeGeneres at the 2012 Mark Twain Prize, on Monday, Oct. 22. Metro Weekly's Randy Shulman spoke to him on the red carpet about Ellen,...

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Signs of the Times: Log Cabin's reason for supporting Mitt Romney, a...

Opinion: There goes the neighborhood (Photo by Sean Bugg) My neighborhood these past two weeks has become an incessant reminder of why this is the most depressing point of the election season, as...

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Split in Support: Councilmember Michael Brown and challenger David Grosso...

News: Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club split over two candidates popular among members of the LGBT community Tuesday night, Oct. 23, resulting in no endorsement for the non-Democratic...

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Local Elections Count!: From Question 6 to Kaine and Allen, the local...

Feature Story: The United States might be in the grips of election fever, as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney duke it out in cash-covered campaigns. In the DMV – D.C., Maryland and Virginia – that fever...

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Pop-Up and Go: With creativity, flair and options, g.life will give you more...

Business: To some it's a delicacy called pâté; to others it's just fancy chopped liver. ''Previously owned'' is the evolution of the used-car business. And there's the ''Pop-Up,'' which takes the...

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Seasonal Scares: Local Lee Hayes's latest bypasses gay and goes straight for...

Books: If there's a perfect time to read The First Male, the fifth novel from local gay author Lee Hayes, that time is now. Published in September, the supernatural thriller offers ample horror, well...

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Vampire Barre: The Washington Ballet's latest is as much Broadway as ballet

Dance: ''It's been loosely referred to as the Rocky Horror Show of ballet,'' jokes Michael Pink. ''It comes back and back again because it sells out. People adore it. It has that cult status.'' He's...

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The Partying Dead: Alexandria's Torpedo Factory has your ticket to deadly...

Events: If in the days after Halloween you still aren't ready to let the ghouls and grossness go – or if you still want to dress up – Alexandria's Torpedo Factory has your ticket to thrills. The Old...

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Unfilmable: ''Cloud Atlas'' is a film with a thousand moving targets, all of...

Film: If there's anything worth praising in Cloud Atlas, the colossal adaptation of David Mitchell's nesting doll of a novel, it's the spectacle. Directors Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski...

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Horse Play: ''War Horse'' offers newfound appreciation for horses and puppeteers

Stage: Warhorse (Photo by Brinkhoff Mogenburg) Christopher Mai is a dancer by training, and has done some previous work with puppets. But for his latest role? ''We studied the emotional aspects of...

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Kerr's Courage: AIDS Walk Washington honors an activist's decades in the...

News: The 26th annual AIDS Walk Washington is coming together. The community has already raised more than $500,000 for Whitman-Walker Health and 17 ''Community Partner'' organizations. Nearly 4,000...

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Shape-Shifting and Distractions: The middle class and gay Americans have much...

Opinion: Like a mythical shape-shifter or a repertory actor, Mitt Romney will pretend to be whatever you need. Politicians often do this, but he reaches new heights of brazenness. Time and again he...

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Your Guide to Halloween Nightlife in D.C.: Parties and contests happening at...

Clublife: This year Halloween falls on a Wednesday. But before you hump that night away, practically every gay bar in the area will give you opportunities for tricks and treats this weekend. And then...

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Fashion Fetish: L'Enfant Café's monthly Etiquette party offers ''a...

Clublife: It may take place the Saturday before Halloween, but the costume party at L'Enfant Café near Adams Morgan is ''not full-on costume,'' explains Chord Bezerra. It's also not specifically a...

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Jurors Deliberate as Furr Acquitted on One of Nine Charges: Off-duty MPD...

News: Jurors in the trial of Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer accused while off-duty of shooting at a car containing five people, including two transgender women, in the...

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Corkins Pleads Not Guilty to Seven New Charges: Suspected FRC shooter...

News: Floyd Lee Corkins II, the man accused of shooting a security guard at the Washington headquarters of the anti-gay Family Research Council (FRC) in August, pleaded not guilty to 10 charges against...

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Coverboy: Sean: Bound for Glory

Coverboy Interview: Bouncing around Virginia as he grew up, Sean made the best of family troubles by focusing on gymnastics. His mother, a lieutenant colonel in the Army, was away for many of his teen...

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