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Coverboy of the Year (video): Who will it be -- Tim, Rich or Aaron?
Video: Who will be the 2012 Coverboy of the year? Watch our trailer to see who the top three finalists are and then visit http://www.metroweekly.com or pick up an issue on Thursday, Dec. 13, to learn...
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Coverboy: Chad: Clark Kent by Day
Coverboy Interview: Move over, Clark Kent. Chad is another tale of two personas. By day, he's the logical, rational, serious researcher at the National Institutes of Health. By night, he's an outgoing,...
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Supreme Court Showdown: With Prop. 8 and DOMA heading for SCOTUS, historic...
News: Supreme Court: (L to R) Thomas, Sotomayor, Scalia, Breyer, Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Kagan and Ginsburg Advocates have been left energized but wary following the Supreme Court's Dec. 7...
View ArticleDC Center Gets Reeves Center Home: Mayor Gray's Tuesday evening announcement...
News: Home, at last. That's the sentiment of The DC Center's director, David Mariner, after the announcement Tuesday night by Mayor Vincent Gray (D) that the LGBT community center will be relocating to...
View ArticleLay of the Legislative Land: Virginia Senate Leads House in Support for...
News: Equality Virginia last month released a scorecard listing where Virginia legislators stand when it comes to anti-LGBT discrimination. Among the specific items on which legislators were scored was...
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11 Amazing Tech Gifts: A Holiday Gift Guide for all the techies on your list
Tech: Technology is the ultimate Christmas gift. More useful than diamonds, a greater fashion statement than clothing, more satisfying than chocolates. Or socks. If you're the kind that likes to aim...
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Drag King Christmas: Phase 1 of Dupont offers gifts of drag kings, as groomed...
Clublife: ''I am your sole drag queen of the house,'' purrs Isis Deverreoux of Phase 1 of Dupont. In fact, Deverreoux is becoming essentially the lesbian venue's fairy drag mother. Specifically, she's...
View ArticleUntraditional Tidings: A sampling of alternative holiday happenings at area...
Music: Got the holiday spirit – but tired of tradition? Call it bah-humbug blasphemy, but most area theaters and concert venues aim to entice the average Scrooge with at least one alternative holiday...
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Show Stopper: Jane Siberry's ''unusual'' live shows offer a different energy
Music: Jane Siberry isn't your typical pop singer/songwriter, so why would her live show be any different? ''It's quite unusual, or that's what people tell me,'' the Canadian artist says, who appears...
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A Cheyenne New Year's: The year 2013 promises to be a banner year for...
Music: Cheyenne Jackson is surely one of the nicest guys working in the entertainment industry today -- but everyone has a breaking point. ''Some of our friends recently bought a dog,'' Jackson says,...
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Hobbit Forming: ''The Hobbit'' is a lighter, simpler story than ''Lord of the...
Film: I was ready to be underwhelmed by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Nearly a decade after The Return of the King, director Peter Jackson hasn't merely adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's novel into a...
View ArticleCongratulations, Coverboys: Coverboy Confidential is a Metro Weekly...
Opinion: During my pre-Metro Weekly years, I would pick up an issue and go straight to Coverboy Confidential. I still read it, of course, but now with an editor's eye, making sure ''skydiving'' is...
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Remembering Armando Montano: Former Coverboy with immense promise died in 2012
Feature Story: Those who knew Armando ''Mando'' Montano, who appeared in Metro Weekly as the Aug. 11, 2011, Coverboy, were dealt a shock in June when the 22-year-old was found dead in Mexico City,...
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Coverboy Second Runner-Up: Tim Warguleski: Telling it like it is, never timid...
Feature Story: Timothy Warguleski (Photo by Julian Vankim) If you look up the word ''blunt'' in the dictionary, finding a picture of Metro Weekly Coverboy Tim Warguleski, a 22-year-old aspiring...
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Coverboy First Runner-Up: Rich McPherson: This bear-lovin' cub makes his own...
Feature Story: Rich McPherson (Photo by Julian Vankim) Rich McPherson tends dance to his own tune. He's got the drive and the discipline, matched by an independent streak. Does it come from bouncing...
View ArticleCoverboy of the Year 2012 Interviews (video): Behind the scenes at the photo...
Video: We go behind the scenes at the 2012 Coverboy of the Year shoot and talk to the three finalist, none of whom, at the time, knew where they placed. Host Ebone Bell talks to Aaron, Rich and Tim...
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2012 Coverboy of the Year: Aaron Lee Smith: A little bit country, from West...
Feature Story: Aaron Lee Smith recently shot some hoops with a buddy's 8-year-old son. At least, he attempted to. ''I was trying to dribble, trying to do a layup,'' Aaron says, laughing. ''And he asked...
View ArticleSharing Stories: SpeakEasyDC sends off Hanukkah at Sixth and I this Saturday
Stage: Amy Saidman got turned off of becoming a standup comic. ''Other comedians are cold and aloof and unfriendly,'' Saidman says, ''telling homophobic jokes to 20 people in a basement. … It's so not...
View ArticleStein Club Schism: Democratic counsel recommends invalidating club's unusual...
News: In response to a series of challenges brought against the results of the Dec. 3 officer elections for the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the District's top LGBT political organization, a lawyer...
View ArticleDeadly Romance: America's relationship with guns holds the nation hostage
Opinion: America's romance with guns, an emblem of our frontier spirit, has claimed its most innocent victims. When shots rang out in Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, Principal Dawn...
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