Virginia's 2013 Battlefield: Fisette and Parrish assess the importance of...
News: Many in Virginia's LGBT community are steeling themselves ahead of what they expect to be brutal fall campaigns, the outcomes of which could deeply impact how LGBT residents are treated by state...
View ArticleThree Steps to the Future: From Hawaii to James Franco to Tom Daley to hate...
Opinion: It's an old saw of journalism that if you can string together three related instances you have a trend or, at least, a think piece. So let's start mashing up three seemingly unrelated gay...
View ArticleStage: Live Theater and Musicals in D.C.: Fall Arts Preview 2013
Feature Story: It never ceases to amaze how remarkably rich, involving and varied the theater scene in Washington is. But it's always been that way -- only now there's more of it than ever. No matter...
View ArticleMusic: Pop, Rock, Folk and Jazz: Fall Arts Preview 2013
Feature Story:From Beyoncé to Pharrell Williams to the Zac Brown Band, if it’s big you want, big you can get this season at area concert venues. But there’s also Cyndi Lauper and Pet Shop Boys -- and a...
View ArticleAbove and Beyond: Comedy, Readings, Discussions, Spoken Word, Multimedia,...
Feature Story: Next weekend ushers in the National Book Festival on the National Mall, and later comes a locally focused day-long literary event at the Folger Library followed by the big annual Jewish...
View ArticleClassical Music: Symphonies, Operas and Choral in D.C.: Fall Arts Preview 2013
Feature Story: The region's fall classical music season doesn't start in earnest until after the leaves begin to turn. And then in no time it's holiday season, when classical music companies and...
View ArticleDance: Ballet, Modern and Cultural Performances in D.C.: Fall Arts Preview 2013
Feature Story: Washington may not be a capital when it comes to the art of dance, but a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call the nation's capital home. This fall, many of these...
View ArticleGalleries and Museums in D.C.: Fall Arts Preview 2013
Feature Story: Museums and galleries often see their role as one of spotlighting and analyzing pivotal events and developments. So it should come as no surprise that in our digital age, more and more...
View ArticleFilms for Fall 2013: Blockbuster Movies and Documentaries: Fall Arts Preview...
Feature Story: Our long summer nightmare of terrible movies is over. For the rest of the year, we'll no longer slog through the bloated dregs of Hollywood. So long, After Earth. See you never, Elysium....
View ArticleTelevision: 31 New Shows for 2013: Fall Arts Preview 2013
Feature Story: I'll say this now -- Fall 2013 will go down as one of the worst in recent memory for television. The caliber of entries is so utterly mediocre, so devoid of any fresh or truly...
View ArticleAGLA Welcomes Fairfax Pride President: Brian Reach to discuss possible NoVa...
News: The Arlington Gay & Lesbian Alliance (AGLA) will host a community forum Sunday, featuring guest speaker Brian Reach, president of Fairfax Pride. The event will explore Reach's vision for a...
View ArticleMontgomery Co. Police Searching for Trans Teen: Nathaniel Martin-Malone, 15,...
News: Montgomery County Police are asking the public to be on alert for a missing transgender teen, asking for any information related to the teen's disappearance. According to the Montgomery County...
View ArticleLHP Announces Honorees: Latino GLBT History Project to celebrate three local...
News: The Latino GLBT History Project (LHP) will honor three local activists for their efforts on behalf of the Latino LGBT community at the organization's 8th Annual Hispanic LGBTQ Heritage Awards,...
View ArticleTropical Terror: Pulitzer Center film fest begins with look at Jamaica's LGBT...
Film: Micah Fink might be straight, but sometimes the ''ally'' badge alone is enough to cause anxiety. ''I think anybody who works with this community in Jamaica is automatically suspect,'' says Fink,...
View ArticleComfortably Numb: The Navy Yard shooting rampage will make us angry, but we...
Opinion: One of my instinctual reactions to bad news or worse people is humor, which is why I've always enjoyed writing about Ken Cuccinelli, Rick Santorum and other intellectual luminaries of the far...
View ArticleMoving Up: Known for his physical work with Synetic Theater, actor Alex...
Feature Story: ''Have you always been a dancer?'' Actor Alex Mills gets that question a lot, since his principal work in the D.C. theater scene has been with Synetic Theater, the physical theater...
View ArticleCarrying the Torch: Brandon Uranowitz delivers the relevance and emotion in...
Feature Story: ''Torch Song Trilogy had a very big emotional impact upon me when I saw it the first time around,'' Michael Kahn says. Of course, that was over 30 years ago, when Harvey Fierstein's play...
View ArticleHot and Not: ''Torch Song'' radiates still, while Miss Saigon snuffs out the...
Stage: Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy feels very much of its time – the turn of the 1980s – as it starts. Lead character Arnold Beckoff is very much an old-school drag queen, carrying a lifetime...
View ArticleOn the Road to Nowhere: This tale of neighboring couples is a painfully real,...
Stage: Sometimes it’s all about the synergy. With Woolly’s Detroit, the power of the ride is not just in playwright Lisa D’Amour’s potently drawn prisoners of America’s lower middle class and the...
View ArticleEnter the ''Success Zone'': With some coaching, most can master an optimal...
Business: Networking may seem easy, even natural. Especially for seasoned business professionals whose livelihoods rely on cultivating and maintaining vast networks of professional contacts. But as...
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