Pop Symphony: Both Kylie Minogue and Tori Amos succeed in revamping their pop...
Music: Will Madonna one day turn her hits into three-chord punk-rock blasts? Might Katy Perry relaunch ''Firework'' – or ''I Kissed A Girl'' – as a death-metal racket? Anything's possible. After all,...
View ArticleSurface Value: Microsoft's Surface is light, fast and good-looking, and it...
Tech: The Surface is a curious device, and one of firsts. It's the first device to launch with Windows RT. The first dedicated PC hardware product from Microsoft. The first tablet running Windows that...
View ArticleBombs Away: Keegan Theatre has done a mostly masterful job with Arthur...
Stage: All My Sons opens with a terrible thunderstorm – made more ominous by incorporating the sounds of fighter jets and bombs bursting in air. It's an audiovisual assault by lighting designer...
View ArticleCox Appeal: Deborah Cox's musical pursuits continue to have significant gay...
Stage: For the record, Deborah Cox does not think she's a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body. ''I've never looked at myself like that,'' Cox laughs. ''I really don't know what the connection is...
View ArticleLingering Accents: Arena Stage's Molly Smith worked ''to create a ''My Fair...
Stage: ''I think it's a universal story that's quite specific to this moment in time in America,'' says Arena Stage's artistic director Molly Smith, who directed a new production of the Alan Jay Lerner...
View ArticleFolksy Feeling: ''Woody Sez'' is a warm tribute to a folk hero
Stage: If your idea of a fun Saturday night is popping a cold one and tuning the radio to A Prairie Home Companion, then you should seriously consider getting out of the house for once. I don't mean...
View ArticleUp Town: Town Danceboutique celebrates five years as gay D.C.'s leading dance...
Clublife: In the early '90s, nationally recognized club singers, from Crystal Waters to CeCe Peniston, were the chief draw for gay nightclubs. Soon after, DJs became the marquee talent, packing 'em in...
View ArticleSwan Song: DC Eagle readies its final anniversary week at the building it's...
Clublife: Although the DC Eagle is expected to someday soon move out of the building it has called home since 1987, there is still plenty of time for an anniversary party – 41 and counting. To get the...
View ArticleNo Nest Yet: Landlord for the DC Eagle grants longtime leather bar an...
News: As the saying goes, rumors of the demise of the DC Eagle are greatly exaggerated. Of course, there was that Facebook invitation to a Nov. 24 ''moving party'' that encouraged people to ''make...
View ArticleMarking Transgender Day of Remembrance: Locals prepare traditional memorial...
News: Local LGBT activists are readying their annual observance of the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Sharing the same mission of mourning and education as other groups around the world,...
View ArticleFrom Tuesday to Tomorrow: Gay conservatives hope to teach Election Day's lessons
News: It wasn't long after the first polls closed on the East Coast on election night that Republicans knew something was wrong. First Michigan was called for President Barack Obama, the same state...
View ArticleMaryland's Marriage Success: Question 6 strategies may not work everywhere,...
News: The dust is beginning to settle after Maryland voters approved Question 6, a referendum on the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which grants same-sex couples access to Maryland marriage licenses....
View ArticleWelcome to Missibama: If Election Day was that bad, secede indeed
Opinion: As we move into the holiday season, imagine a Southern town square with a resplendent Nativity scene on some warm December evening. Nearby, lights shine on the courthouse sculpture of the Ten...
View ArticleDays Go By: A gay plotline on ''Days of Our Lives'' may not be the most...
Opinion: Soap operas were a kind of omnipresent force of entertainment during my youth. Many of them are long gone by now, distant memories for aging fans: The Doctors, Somerset, Another World. But the...
View ArticleVirginia Board Stands Firm Against Cuccinelli: Despite pressure from the...
News: Virginia's Board of Juvenile Justice this week re-endorsed a set of revised rules that protect LGBT youth. The move comes despite pressure from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) to rescind the...
View ArticleTrial Set for Robinson: Suspect in August attack on transgender woman rejects...
News: The man accused of attacking a transgender woman in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood in August rejected a government plea offer Wednesday, prompting a D.C. Superior Court judge to schedule him for a...
View ArticleCoverboy: Eric: Indulgent Explorer
Coverboy Interview: Few people embody the idea of joie de vivre as much as this week's Coverboy. Having moved to Suitland, Md., from Toledo, Ohio, just three weeks ago, 23-year-old Eric likes to...
View ArticleChamber Head Faces Misdemeanor: Guenther pleads not guilty after accusation...
News: Following an Oct. 26 incident, Mark Guenther, the executive director of the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, was charged Nov. 7 with an ''unlawful entry'' misdemeanor in D.C....
View ArticleNew Charges Possible in Howard Theatre Stabbing: Government awaiting...
News: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia says it expects superseding indictments to be handed down in the next two weeks for the three suspects accused of stabbing a gay minor in...
View ArticleGLLU Website Ceases: Activists critical of move from full site to MPD page
News: An external website for the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) is no longer operating, prompting some local LGBT activists to question why the site – which...
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