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Italia’s Got Talent. And in 2016, AirOtic was born.“Initially, when we started the show, we were performing at Hunters in Wilton Manors, in Fort Lauderdale, a gay mecca,” says Kier. “We were performing in a gay venue, and the show is quite homoerotic.

English with an Accent.Making its world premiere, with a one-night-only engagement at GALA Hispanic Theatre on Friday, April 1, in advance of a scheduled November run at Lincoln Center, the show builds a poignant immigration story around original songs composed by Anggelo and frequent collaborator Jaime Lozano. The immigrant in question happens to be an innocent caterpillar “fleeing the crime and noxious dictatorship of Venezuela.”Anggelo chose the caterpillar/butterfly metaphor not only for the narrative of metamorphosis but for its natural link to immigration.“The monarch butterfly, they fly in from Mexico to here, or from here to Mexico. So it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s an immigration story!’ When they journey, human immigration is parallel to the immigration for the monarch butterflies.

posthumously pardoned Rustin, on the grounds that the anti-sodomy statutes he was convicted under have since been overturned and ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.“It is critical that we honor Bayard Rustin’s work in the Civil Rights movement,” Johns said in a statement.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1.Among the upcoming lineup of nearly three dozen featured events include: The signature Blossom Kite Festival, offering a variety of competitions and demonstrations taking flight from the grounds of the Washington Monument as well as other area parks or virtually (3/26).Cherry Night, a one-night-only celebration of D.C.

Funnier Than Fiction: Real Hot Girl Sh*t, presented in Studio K of the REACH, includes Rabia Chaudry, bestselling author of Adnan’s Story and executive producer of HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed, sharing her side of the story of a 1999 Baltimore County murder that got amplified in 2014 through the popular Serial podcast.Another standout is the mononymous Meshelle, self-styled as “the Indie-Mom of Comedy,” as seen on Martin Lawrence Presents The First Amendment Stand Up on STARz and Search for the Funniest Mom in America 3 on Nickelodeon.Also taking the stage is wife and mother Gabby Shea, the “Best Storyteller in Philly” Marjorie Winther, the 2022 Moth StorySLAM Champion Ansa Edim, therapist and DC Writers’ Salon lead Ali Cherry, and Shabnam Aslam, a second-generation Iranian-Pakistani-American passionate about her work grounded in humanitarianism, human rights, and empathetic actions.Friday, March 18, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $25.

Symphony No. 5 and the French overture from Handel’s Water Music as well as arias from his operas Rinaldo, Alcina, and Serse, all featuring Isaacs, who sang the South African National Anthem at Mandela’s memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral in 2013.The program centerpiece, however, is the premiere of Koapeng’s Yixesha! Ke Nako (The Time Is Now!), a work commissioned by Classical Movements for New Orchestra of Washington.

Secrets of the Sprakkar, which explores the cultural roots of Iceland’s progressive attitude towards equality, in a discussion with Icelandic women authors Audur Ava Ólafsdóttir and Thora Hjorleifsdóttir moderated by local journalist and author Andrew Evans, at the Eaton DC (3/19, starting at 2 p.m.).A screening of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s stunning film Lamb, a creepy, dark folktale that served as Iceland’s official submission for consideration as Best Foreign Film at the 94th Academy Awards, at the Eaton DC (3/20, starting at 5 p.m.).A spin of the Wheel of Prizes, presented by Icelandair, will occur prior to each event (excepting the dinner and the bath) with prizes including Blue Lagoon skincare products, an Icelandic wool blanket, a Reyka Vodka package, a year’s supply of Icelandic Provisions-branded skyr, and the grand prize: a trip for two to Iceland including a stay at the Blue Lagoon.The event will touch down in Boston and Denver later this spring, and Chicago, Toronto, and Seattle in the fall.

She Loves Me (★★★★☆) is but one of many pleasures to behold in director Matthew Gardiner’s sprightly, delightful trip to that fabled shop around the corner.Miklós László’s 1937 play Parfumerie first established the venerable love story between contentious Hungarian shop clerks Georg and Amalia, spinning a romantic confection so sweet, it’s been revived, adapted, and reinvented in forms from film to this beloved musical-comedy, originally produced on Broadway in 1963.The snappy book by Joe Masteroff has held up well, and, while the waltzing score, with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, can seem a tad old-fashioned, the songs shine like gems when placed in their most advantageous setting.Gardiner and company have done plenty to create that proper atmosphere, starting with Lee Savage’s set, which opens like a music box to reveal the pristine, pastel-pretty shop floor of Maraczek’s Parfumerie.Reconfiguring like some happy-go-lucky Transformer around a centerstage turntable, the set impresses while offering Gardiner and choreographer Kelly Crandall D’Amboise myriad opportunities to keep the actors and decor moving in amusing directions.Adam Honoré’s lighting design doesn’t always add as helpfully to the scenery, but contributes beautifully to standout numbers like “A Romantic Atmosphere” and “Dear Friend.” It’s the performances, though, that light up every scene.Ali Ewoldt’s demure yet daring Amalia Balash bubbles with charm and nervous energy, unaware she’s engaged in a pen-pal romance with the one man she leasts gets along with in real life, fellow parfumerie clerk Georg Nowack, played a hint too gruffly by Deven Kolluri.The pair sing wonderfully, solo and in tandem, but the show’s most successful duet

Full Send podcast uploaded on Wednesday, Trump was asked about what music he likes to play when hosting events at his Florida resort, in response to a report from last month that Mar-a-Lago members had received a message touting the fact that the former president would be “playing the role of disc jockey” at select parties.Trump said that he does not physically DJ, or “spin” at the Mar-a-Lago parties, but is in charge of the song list.When asked what his “go-to banger” is, Trump replied: “I have a lot of them. You know a song that does get people moving? — I love Broadway stuff, Phantom of the Opera and Les Mis, etc. — You know what gets them rocking? ‘Y.M.C.A.’“‘Y.M.C.A.’, the gay national anthem.

deployment of tear gas against protesters, the shoving of a kneeling protester, the shooting of a woman with a rubber bullet, and controversies stemming from the use of facial recognition technology to identify protestors — which critics have said has difficulty making accurate identifications of people of color.At the time, Scirotto said he wanted to ensure the department fostered better relations with people in the community who have historically been suspicious of, or had fraught relations with, police — a goal that many felt was a positive step. But in the fall, Scirotto promoted a list of minority employees, which led three white officers and one Hispanic officer to file complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that he was promoting people in a biased manner.The subsequent investigation into Scirotto’s actions found that “almost every witness,” out of 21 interviewed, “was dissatisfied” with Scirotto’s approach to promotions and “most believed that Chief Scirotto made clear his intention to promote based on race, gender or sexual orientation.”“Some believed it was about time changes were made, but stated if promotions were based on things such as race it would even hurt or undermine the people promoted,” the report said.The investigation report accused Scirotto of saying that photos on a conference room wall were “too white” and vowing: “I’m gonna change that.” It also alleged that, in a separate incident, Scirotto passed over a white man with 20 years tenure with the department for a promotion, instead narrowing the field down to two candidates of color, saying: “Which one is blacker?”Lagerbloom defended his decision to fire Scirotto, telling The Associated Press: “There’s everything we

demonstrate outside Disney theme parks in Florida and California urging the company to denounce the proposed bill, which President Joe Biden has slammed as “hateful.” Further exacerbating the public backlash against Disney was an Orlando Sentinel report that Disney, despite casting itself as an LGBTQ-affirming place, gave money to every single sponsor and co-sponsor of the bill, including the bill’s Senate sponsor, Sen. Dennis Baxley (R-Belleview), who has proposed multiple pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation during his time as a politician in Tallahassee.In response to stories about Disney’s political donations, Abigail Disney, the 62-year-old granddaughter of the company’s co-founder Roy O.

Jesus Christ Superstar took shape as a landmark album.Released in 1970 to resounding success, that recording captivated audiences worldwide, spawning the original Tony-nominated production, the cult classic 1973 film, and countless concerts, adaptations, and revivals — including, nearly 50 years later, director Timothy Sheader’s acclaimed London production staged by Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.Now, Sheader and choreographer Drew McOnie’s driving, modern-dress iteration is repping the musical’s 50th anniversary on a North American tour, currently anointing the Kennedy Center Opera House with dulcet voices and shredding guitars.Performed by a youthful cast wielding microphones and playing instruments, supported by a stellar orchestra stacked behind them on scaffolding, the show strikes an agreeable balance between concert and theater.“Our production is based off the original concept album,” says Paul Louis Lessard, whose gold-lamé-frocked King Herod is an impish delight in the show, challenging Jesus to prove himself the miraculous Christ. “The idea was, if you put on the record at the beginning of our show and pressed play, what you experience with our production is what it would be like to listen to that record all the way through without stopping.”Because the production’s focus is honoring Webber and Rice’s score, Lessard adds, “our creative team was very encouraging about every performer bringing themself to the role, and making the music the priority of the show and this interpretation.

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Once Twice Melody (★★★★☆) was released in four installments, with a chapter landing once per month. Their decision to slowly titrate the album’s release allowed it to reveal its strength in an almost teasing way, as the majesty of the whole became gradually more apparent as the second and third chapters dropped.

provided the edge for the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020, powered by a surge in new voter registrations. According to the survey, about 84% of LGBTQ Americans are registered to vote, and engaging the LGBTQ community to flock to the polls this November could provide the edge for pro-equality candidates in a number of highly contested races.

engaged in oral sex with a 16-year-old male in South Florida.Parson, 53, has been charged with two felony counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison for each charge.Under Florida law, the age of consent is 18 years old.

Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, true to its title, seemed to put a satisfying capstone on their career, and the subsequent years of extensive touring as self-described “late-blooming road warriors” seemed like something between an epilogue and a victory lap. But defying expectations has been the theme of their late career, and after years coasting on their well-deserved iconic status, it turns out Tears for Fears had another album in them after all.The Tipping Point (★★★☆☆) is not only their first studio album in 17 years, but for Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, it represents a kind of hard-won artistic freedom.

https://act.eqfl.org/a/fightback12.This short musical about a gay train conductor who puts his life and relationship in jeopardy won “Best in Show” at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Directed by Jeffrey Simon, who made the film to challenge “the white masculinism culture of the typical western,” the 18-minute film packs in a lot of plot (and musical numbers) and stars Coby Getzug, Barrett Riggins, and Liam Cronin.

The Wizard of Oz. We are very young. Under the age of five, collectively.

Move, I’m Gay launched their show in February 2020 with no firm expectations of how long they might last.The Portland-based duo simply dove in, with Franny dishing on the latest entertainment dirt, Brenda taking the lead discussing LGBTQ+ history and politics, and both serving up stories about their own experiences as single gay men about town.“We started very casually,” Scott says, “then started to create a structure, and it’s just become a weekly part of our lives.” And two eventful years since they began, Move, I’m Gay is set to cast its 100th episode, an achievement worth celebrating in the increasingly crowded landscape of talk and entertainment podcasts.“We made it all the way to one hundred when we thought we were going to do three,” says Ortega, acknowledging that their key to pushing through this pandemic and finding their audience has been consistency. “I think we’ve taken three breaks in this entire time.

departure of David Mariner in 2019, and served as director of arts and cultural programs prior to that.“The Board greatly appreciates Kimberley’s steadfast and effective leadership, deep compassion, and extraordinary perseverance as she has been able to successfully continue our work in such unprecedented times,” DC Center Board President Andrew Zapfel said in a statement.

flammkuchen, a super-thin tarte flambée with crème fraîche and different types of toppings. And he plans for Licht to host events soon, when “I have a full staff complement in order to do them.”For now, Licht is still getting acquainted with the community.

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Dear Mapel (★★★★☆) also profoundly honors the lost art of letter-writing. That distinctly direct and intimate mode of expressing what’s most deeply felt, and saying what often can’t be spoken, serves as Psalm’s chosen means of addressing the father he barely knew.Via letters to Mapel, the award-winning performer and playwright vividly evokes his own coming-of-age enriched by art and music, while examining the main thing, or person, that went missing.For this world premiere production, director and production designer Natsu Onoda Power engulfs Mosaic’s Sprenger Theatre stage in a sweeping deluge of paper missives.

Bright Road (1953), Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), and 1974’s comedy Uptown Saturday Night, which the actor and singer directed. That film, in particular, is notable for its cast, which includes Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Calvin Lockhart, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bill Cosby.Also on the bill, Robert Altman’s 1996 jazz-noir Kansas City, in which Belafonte plays a gangster named “Seldom Seen.” The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, and Steve Buscemi.The channel is also highlighting the innovative independent works of Melvin Van Peebles, a one-man creative force who often starred in, wrote, directed, and composed his films.Of the four entries, the most notable are Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), in which a Black man outruns white police authorities (the score, by Van Peebles, was performed by Earth, Wind & Fire) and Watermelon Man (1970), a renowned social comedy starring Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons, in which a white bigot wakes up to find his skin has turned Black.Also on tap: The Harder They Come (1972), featuring reggae artist Jimmy Cliff as a singer who faces down corruption in Jamaica’s music industry.

published in the July 2021 World Journal of Men’s Health claimed to be “the first to demonstrate the presence of the COVID-19 virus in the penis long after the initial infection in humans,” suggesting that widespread cell damage from COVID-19 “can contribute to resultant erectile dysfunction.”Of course, that study wasn’t the last to demonstrate such a correlation. A few months later, a University of Florida Health study published in the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation found that “men with COVID-19 are more than three times more likely to be diagnosed with erectile dysfunction, than those who are not sickened by the coronavirus.” According to the study’s lead author, Dr.

model policies provide a footprint for potential policies that acknowledge transgender students’ gender identity, ensuring they can have their gender affirmed, be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns, have their gender reflected on school records and transcripts, access facilities like bathrooms or locker rooms consistent with their gender identity, and are guaranteed equal access to school resources, clubs, or sports teams.The model policies are not a one-size-fits-all dictate, nor are they consistent from county to county. Last March, the Department of Education only said that the policies adopted by individual school boards had to be “consistent with” the aim of the model policies — in other words, ensuring that transgender students are not mistreated or denied opportunities granted to other students.

conduct a 30-day internal investigation into David’s role in the sexual harassment scandal. But according to David’s lawsuit, HRC’s Board co-chairs Morgan Cox and Jodie Patterson — who had previously issued a statement supporting David — called him at the start of Labor Day weekend to demand that he resign.David asked what the investigation had uncovered, and whether a report would be issued explaining what he was accused of doing wrong.

only 15 out LGBTQ athletes competed.Outsports reports that the athletes hail from 14 countries and will compete in nine different sports, including ice hockey, figure skating, skiing, and snowboarding.They include veteran LGBTQ competitors like Canadian figure skater Eric Radford, the first out gay man to win a gold Winter Olympics medal, bisexual Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst, the most decorated LGBTQ Olympian of all time, and gay skier Gus Kenworthy, who will be competing for Great Britain after switching from Team USA (Kenworthy holds dual citizenship).Also Read: A tennis player yelled anti-gay slurs at the Olympics. He blamed the weather.The Beijing Winter Games will also feature a number of freshly out LGBTQ athletes, including Brazilian skeleton athlete Nicole Silveira and Team USA figure skater Timothy LeDuc, who will be the first out nonbinary athlete at the Winter Olympics.Team USA’s Brittany Bowe, a world record-holding speed skater, holds the honor of being the only out LGBTQ athlete to be chosen as a flag bearer for the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.Bowe, the only openly LGBTQ woman athlete on Team USA, will compete in her third Olympic games in Beijing.

female athletes will have to go before a three-person panel of independent medical experts, who will determine whether the swimmer’s prior physical development as a man gives the athlete a competitive advantage over her cisgender female competitors. The swimmer must also provide bloodwork showing that the concentration of testosterone in her blood has been less than 5 nanomeles per liter continuously for a period of at least 36 months.The policy does not mention anything specifically about transgender male athletes, although presumably a trans male would have to forego hormone therapy to remain on a team designated for women, as Yale swimmer Iszac Henig has.

Hadestown, abruptly quitting New York for Vermont ahead of the birth of her second child in early 2020 not only gave her the space to reconnect with herself, it gifted the spark that would allow her to deliver the self-titled Anaïs Mitchell (★★★☆☆), her first album of original material in almost a decade.If you’re familiar with the colorful stories and characters of Hadestown, Mitchell’s prowess as a songwriter and storyteller needs no introduction. For all that Mitchell makes of her desire to tell her story, what really stands out in Anaïs Mitchell is not so much the stories themselves, but the way she pulls out moments in time and pins down the ephemeral feelings that accompany them.

THE WASHINGTON BALLET: SWAN LAKEJulie Kent and Victor Barbee have been preparing for years to unveil a new production of Swan Lake. The married duo at the helm of the Washington Ballet — Kent as artistic director and Barbee as associate artistic director — had long planned for the quintessential classical ballet to follow, as Kent has put it, as “the logical next step in building the repertoire for the company,” following Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, and other kindred 19th-century romantic ballets in prior seasons.“Victor and I will curate and tailor the production to our company — drawing on our years of experience, the detailed [choreographic] notations, and various research — to present a wonderful marriage of dramatic theatricality and technical proficiency,” to quote Kent.Now, a full two years after its intended debut, postponed because of the pandemic, the company is ready to share the tragic love story set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s powerful score and featuring the iconic choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov — enhanced with additional staging and some refined movement by Kent and Barbee.The company’s dancers, including Adelaide Clauss as Princess Odette and Gian Carlo Perez as Prince Sigfried, will be aided by exquisite costumes and scenic design by Peter Cazalet and accompanied by a live orchestra conducted by Charles Barker to conjure senses of magic, intrigue, melancholy, and suspense — all in service to the Washington Ballet’s triumphant return to the Kennedy Center and specifically the Eisenhower Theater.Performances begin Wednesday, Feb.

So You Think You Can Dance — an interest not fueled by a desire to compete on the hit FOX reality show, or even to learn any of the featured choreography.“At its peak, I could barely walk in a straight line,” quips the professional dancer and choreographer. “But I can tell you almost anything from season 1 to season 7.

called on nations to outlaw unnecessary genital surgeries on intersex individuals, calling in “tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Three former U.S. Surgeons General have also called for intersex surgeries on infants to be banned.Wiener’s bill, which has been backed by several LGBTQ advocacy groups, has been introduced in committee for three consecutive years, but has failed to emerge from committee due, in part, to a lack of understanding about intersex health issues, and in part due to intense lobbying from some medical associations, especially those representing the limited number of specialists in reproductive health and/or genital reconstruction surgeries.“SB 225 was a basic civil rights law, standing for the important principle that people should be able to make decisions about their own lives, as opposed to having other people make those decisions for them,” Wiener said in a statement issued after withdrawing the bill.

hostile and tense ANC meeting earlier this month, when a handful of residents concerned about issues like noise, drunk and disorderly patrons, and public safety lobbed attacks against As You Are Bar, with some even suggesting that the bar, like its predecessors, would ultimately fail or would lead to frequent disputes between residential neighbors and As You Are staff. But on Tuesday, many of the public commenters had nothing but positive things to say.“My family and I would find it extremely meaningful to have these amazing proprietors run their business in our neighborhood,” neighborhood resident Sean Cuddihy told the ANC commissioners.

mwtv@metroweekly.com.ALESSO, KATY PERRY – WHEN I’M GONEThe official video for Perry’s latest single premiered during halftime of the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship on ESPN. The song is the first-ever collaboration between the iconic producer and the pop superstar. Visit www.alessoworld.com.THE WEATHER STATION – TRIED TO TELL YOUA personal record about experiencing climate change, The Weather Station’s Ignorance is one of 2021’s most highly praised albums.