Stage: Children should be seen and not heard. For many of us this was the general house rule growing up. An attitude held by grandmothers and elder statesman aunts who had already raised their own children and didn't need to hear the same complaints and questions all over again. They had done their time.
Such is the attitude of the iron matriarch helming the family of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. This is the first full-length Simon play to appear at Theater J's Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater and it deserves a warm and enthusiastic welcome.
There's a lovely sentimentality at work here, a wonderfully broad, almost romantic notion of family. A family you may well recognize. The uncle no one talks about. The aunt everyone talks about. The grandmother peopler people talk about, but very softly to make sure she doesn't hear you. (Of course, she always hears you.) ...more
Such is the attitude of the iron matriarch helming the family of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. This is the first full-length Simon play to appear at Theater J's Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater and it deserves a warm and enthusiastic welcome.
There's a lovely sentimentality at work here, a wonderfully broad, almost romantic notion of family. A family you may well recognize. The uncle no one talks about. The aunt everyone talks about. The grandmother peopler people talk about, but very softly to make sure she doesn't hear you. (Of course, she always hears you.) ...more
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington BladeThe Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's largest local LGBT political organization, presented its annual leadership awards Oct. 29 to six people it named as community champions.
One of the awards was awarded posthumously to Desi Deschaine, a club member and local activist who died earlier this year in a boating accident. The club designated another of the awards in Deschaine's name for special recognition for service and leadership.
Among those attending the awards reception, held at the National Women's Democratic Club in Dupont Circle, were D.C. City Council members Kwame Brown (D-At Large), David Catania (I-At Large ...
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington BladePresident Obama on Friday signed a bill extending for four years the Ryan White AIDS Care Act, the largest federal program providing assistance to low-income people with HIV or AIDS.
At a White House ceremony attended by members of Congress and AIDS activists, the president also announced that his administration would issue a final rule on Monday to eliminate the longstanding federal ban on allowing HIV positive visitors and immigrants from entering the country.
White House spokesperson Shin Inouye said the rule change would take effect Jan. 4.
Obama praised Congress for passing on a bipartisan basis t ...
WASHINGTON (AP)The Obama administration argues there is no right to marriage-based federal benefits in new court papers seeking to throw out a lawsuit brought by Massachusetts over gay marriage.
The Justice Department and Massachusetts — the first state to allow gay marriage — are at odds over a 1996 federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Massachusetts says that law is discriminatory and deprives gay couples in the state of certain federal spousal benefits.
The Obama administration agrees the Defense of Marriage Act is discriminatory and wants it repealed, but says it ...
The Obama administration argued in court Friday that the federal government should not be obligated to extend benefits to same-sex couples in states where their marriages are considered legal. 
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Pop powerhouse Lady Gaga will give a little something extra to some of her biggest fans â€" a lock of her hair. 
Buju Banton's performance in Tampa's Ybor City incites local fury. 
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Administration argues in latest DOMA filing that there is 'no fundamental right' to gay marriage benefits
Andrew Brown argues that the Church of Sweden is not so gay-friendly, despite agreeing to bless gay marriages
Many House liberals fold and look ready to accept compromise health care bill
Administration argues in latest DOMA filing that there is 'no fundamental right' to gay marriage benefits
Andrew Brown argues that the Church of Sweden is not so gay-friendly, despite agreeing to bless gay marriages
Many House liberals fold and look ready to accept compromise health care bill
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