IHOP Shooter Gets 6 Years: LaShawn Carson sentenced for March 2012 non-fatal...
News: LaShawn Carson, a 29-year-old mother of two young children, was sentenced Thursday to a total of six-and-a-half years in prison on a charge of aggravated assault while armed and related firearms...
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Polls Offer Mixed Bag for D.C. Elections: Data favors Mayor Gray, but offers...
News: While two recent polls show D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) benefiting from a split field of Democrats, there are also indications Gray could face a tough race, either in the primary or in the...
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Wheeler Drops Out of Ward 1 D.C. Council Race: Former Jim Graham challenger...
News: Beverly Wheeler, one of three candidates challenging out gay D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) announced Monday that she is withdrawing from the race and throwing her support to one of her...
View ArticleVirginia General Assembly Kills LGBT Bills: Nondiscrimination bill deadlocks...
News: Both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly killed pro-equality measures Monday as two top priorities for the LGBT community – repealing a state statute banning same-sex marriage, and...
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Mizeur Matters: Not content to ''wait her turn,'' the lesbian seeking...
Feature Story: According to most pundits, Heather Mizeur is the clear underdog in her bid to win the Maryland Democratic Party's nomination for governor in the June 24 primary. The lesbian delegate...
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Steel City Streak: Mr. MAL 2014 Joe Birdwell makes it 4 in a row for Pittsburgh
News: ''I was always the one in the back of the bar,'' Joe Birdwell says. Up until fairly recently the 37-year-old lived a kind of shadowy existence, too inexperienced and too unsupported to engage...
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Everything's Coming Up Rose: Once stationed Barracks Row, Ryan Rose returns...
Clublife: Ryan Rose started his career as a porn actor a bit over two years ago, when faced with unexpected unemployment. ''When the company I was working for closed their doors suddenly, overnight, I...
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Rousseve's Reality: UCLA's dance diva brings his own brand of Stardust to...
Dance: As a child growing up in Houston, David Rousseve had dreams of being a Broadway triple-threat performer -- singer, dancer and actor. Surprisingly, that was his principal motivation when choosing...
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Reading Sean Strub: Founder of Poz magazine brings his important new memoir...
Books: "Twenty years ago, when a young gay man was diagnosed," says longtime AIDS activist and writer Sean Strub, "there was this loving, supportive AIDS and gay community that would wrap their arms...
View ArticleOutdated Offense: MAL offers an obnoxious reminder that some still think it...
Opinion: Another January weekend ends, and with it so does the Centaur MC's annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend. Congratulations to Joe Birdwell, Mr. MAL 2014. While everything seemed to go by the...
View ArticleSecond Status Conference Ordered in Columbia Heights Murder: Prosecutor tells...
News: Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia told a D.C. superior court judge Friday that they are still seeking an indictment against a man accused of shooting a gay...
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Comfortably Numb: As gay-rights victories continue to pile up, we sometimes...
Opinion: Clichés get a bad rap because they beat dead horses until the cows come home with all the originality of the wall of books Barnes & Noble shelves under the label "Teen Paranormal Romance."...
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Joint Effort: Colorado Congressman Jared Polis is leading the charge to...
Feature Story: Earlier this month, Congressman Jared Polis extended a headline-grabbing invitation to President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In a Jan. 23 letter addressed to two...
View ArticleThe Pot's in the Kitchen: Cannabis Recipes
Feature Story: Cooking and cannabis have a long history together. It was long used in Cambodian cooking, for example, with Westerners returning home with tales of "Happy Pizza." Seems this didn't go...
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Mulling Over Marijuana: The District and Maryland are headed for a crash...
Feature Story: It's the one area of public policy that still prompts giggles and bad jokes about junk-food cravings, but the push to reform the nation's laws on marijuana is growing. Much like marriage...
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Unexpected Moves: Alvin Ailey's Robert Battle advances the company's popular...
Dance: "I started taking dance because I used to imitate Michael Jackson," says Robert Battle, who recalls playing piano and singing as a child growing up in Miami before Thriller inspired him to move....
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Toasting the Travelers: National Geographic honors inspiring Travelers of the...
Events: Every year National Geographic Traveler magazine receives, according to the magazine's George Stone, "lots of cool letters from passionate individuals telling us about their travels ... almost...
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Jazzed: MetroStage's ''Ella Fitzgerald'' is best when its simply singing,...
Stage: Freda Payne has absolutely no trouble channeling the big voice of Ella Fitzgerald, and it's actually quite remarkable. Payne, who had a pop hit in 1970 with "Band of Gold," hits all the right...
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Victor's Return: Nation alum Victor Calderone returns to D.C. for a more...
Clublife: "My audience is predominantly straight these days," DJ Victor Calderone says, "but especially in New York and in Miami the boys still come out for me. Which is great to see. That's the way I...
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Wilde at Heart: Despite its confectionary-like pleasures and exuberant...
Stage: A late-Victorian romp filled with Oscar Wilde's relentless wit and merciless jabs at high society, the Shakespeare Theater Company's The Importance of Being Earnest may be just the ticket for a...
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