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Unscripted: Rufus Wainwright offers an unscripted, intimate concert for fans
Music: When he performs at the 9:30 Club on Feb. 12, Rufus Wainwright says his show ''will have a certain freshness to it.'' It won't be scripted or pre-recorded -- in contrast, he adds with a laugh,...
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Zom Rom Com: A rare, delightful sort of commercially minded film, ''Warm...
Film: A geeky-looking boy is mired in existential despair. He worries about his pale skin, his poor diet, his bad posture. He wants to meet people. He wants to connect. He wants to stop feeling so...
View ArticleObama's Invitation to Activism: Inauguration speech was moving, meaningful...
Opinion: President Obama's second inaugural address charted a confident mainstream agenda for his second term. In doing so he rebuked hostility toward science, defended the social safety net as a...
View ArticleJohn McCain's Bitter Battle: On immigration reform, the self-regarding...
Opinion: So this week finally saw a bout of bipartisan movement in the Senate with the introduction of an immigration-reform plan. This is exciting news for me, in part because my general political...
View ArticleGLOV Elects New Officers: LGBT anti-violence, anti-hate-crime group sets...
News: The LGBT anti-hate-crime group Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), a program of The DC Center, this week announced its newly elected officers for 2013. Hassan Naveed and Matthew Corso,...
View ArticleBHT Grantees Include SMYAL, Gay Men's Chorus: Local organization awards more...
News: Brother, Help Thyself, a local grassroots group that provides financial support and resources to assist local nonprofit organizations for the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities in the...
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GM's Sabin Blake talks about Cadillacs: Washington Auto Show
Video: At the 2013 Washington Auto Show, Sabin Blake, Marketing Manager of General Motors, talks with Aram Vartian about his love of cars, the GM Cadillac line, and his life as an out gay executive.The...
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Zach: King of the Dance Hall
Coverboy Interview: Chris Brown told us in his hit single to ''Turn up the music – I need it in my life.'' That holds for Zach, too, who you might catch gyrating and swaying to the club hits at Town...
View ArticleAnti-Bullying Task Force Presents Guidelines to Mayor Gray: Variety of...
News: At a Thursday press conference, the task force responsible for devising guidelines for a comprehensive D.C. anti-bullying policy presented its plan to Mayor Vincent Gray (D). Bullying has been of...
View ArticleCorkins Pleads Guilty in FRC Shooting: Suspect in Family Research Council...
News: Floyd Lee Corkins II, the suspect in the August shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters in Washington, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this morning to three felony...
View ArticleRobinson Trial Date Rescheduled: Man accused of attacking transgender woman...
News: A man accused of attacking a transgender woman in D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood in August had his trial on a charge of simple assault pushed off for almost two months following the government's...
View ArticleCarson Charged: U.S. Attorney's Office files indictment against suspect in...
News: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has filed an indictment against LaShawn Carson, the woman arrested following a two-week investigation into the shooting of a gay man inside...
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Blown Up: Rich Morel and Bob Mould celebrate a decade of beer, bears and...
Feature Story: "We are like two peas in a pod." Bob Mould wrote these words of his friend and colleague, Rich Morel, in his 2011 autobiography, See a Little Light. ''Rich and I hit it off right away,...
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Linas Garsys' artwork for Blowoff: Ads and fliers for Blowoff events
Feature Story: Chicago (Photo by Linas Garsys) (Photo by Linas Garsys) IBR Weekend: San Francisco (Photo by Linas Garsys) (Photo by Linas Garsys) (Photo by Linas Garsys) (Photo by Linas...
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Swan Song: ''Side Effects'' is an oddly ho-hum send-off for one of this...
Film: This is the end for director Steven Soderbergh. He says he's packing up, retiring from film, moving on to other artistic projects. If he is finished, Side Effects is an oddly ho-hum send-off for...
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Wedding Party: GMCW to serenade Maryland couple at a special concert wedding
Music: ''About four years ago I took a stab at writing a song,'' says J.T. Hatfield Charles, ''which is by no means anything more than something a first-grader would write.'' Hatfield wrote the song,...
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Shock and Blah: Studio's latest ultimately warrants the attention it gets...
Stage: How does one justify a play with the English language's most vulgar word in its title? Well, that's not my bailiwick here. The best I can do is to try to justify going to see it, whatever...
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Pool Days: The special challenge of staging ''Metamorphoses'' at Arena Stage
Stage: A decade after Mary Zimmerman won a Tony Award for her direction of Metamorphoses, her dramatic interpretation of the Ovid classic is still giving her fits. When reached last week as she...
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Local Heroes: There's something distinctly un-American in the way Thornton...
Stage: A wolf in sheep's clothing, Thornton Wilder's Our Town lulls with its gentle, sometimes humorous, depiction of small-town New Hampshire life in the early 20th century. But after two acts...
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