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The best and worst in entertainment, as well as a few 'guilty pleasures'
By Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid
- SGN A&E Writer
Two trends I wish the entertainment 'monster' would break in the new year, reality shows. There are way too many of these shows with no strong people of color leads and, even, some who feature no people of color at all. That said, I offer you my personal list of what I thought was best in film, local theatre, and in television, as we more
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Pluto balances optimism and hedonism in the midst of Irish Troubles
By Lorelei Quenzer
- SGN A&E Writer
Breakfast on Pluto
Opens Friday at
Landmark Varsity Theater
When the second scene of a movie has a camera magically following a pair of robins flitting from branch to telephone wire, dodging cars and buses in a busy street and alighting on two milk bottles in front of more
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Back to the future, 60's style cult classics and costume contest at N.W. Film Forum
By Maggie Bloodstone
- SGN A&E Writer
The year 1968 remains one of my all-time favorite years, and if I had it to do all over again, I would have been born 10 years earlier. As it was, I was a mere 11 years old, mooning over the Monkees , wearing out my first pair of Go-Go boots, and pulling my skirt up to my neckline as soon as Mom turn more
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Book Marks
By Richard Labonte
- SGN Contributing Writer
Throughout 2005, I reviewed 100 books in this column, and read as many more, and there are dozens of potentially good reads I haven't gotten to yet. This offering of 10 fiction and 10 nonfiction titles is pared down from an initial list of almost 50; those cited here are decidedly personal pic more
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SHOWTIME: THE SPECTACLE AND CONTROVERSY OF OPENING CEREMONIES
By Jim Provenzano
- SGN Contributing Writer
What would a huge gathering of LGBT people be without pageantry and controversy? Every four years since 1982, the Gay Games' opening and closing ceremonies have seen a bit of both.
Now Montreal's OutGames has its own controversy, by booking the performing company that fired Matthew Cu more
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Q-Scopes by Jack Fertig
ARIES (March 20 - April 19): Your ideas and your accomplishments will be much noticed. Your reputation will fare better if you can maintain constructive continuity from thought to deed. Blowing your own horn can lead to embarrassment. Just let your work speak for itself.
TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): Although you generally more
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