First, 17th street club Cobalt retired its high-heel ban. Now, it's doing away with another gay bar tradition: "Bad pop remixes from 1998 layered over a thump-thump beat." That's how Michael Adolphson describes the typical music at a D.C. dance club. This Saturday, Adolphson, 26, and Brian Barrera, 27, hope to bend the stereotype with [...]

George Mason community bemused, infuriated by tiara recipient.
Drag queen Ryan Allen wasn't the only man to be honored at George Mason's homecoming festivities earlier this month. In a more traditional turn of events, fellow Mason man Ricky Malebranche was crowned Mr. Mason. Malebranche has possibly the most tempered opinion on the man-as-homecoming-queen broohaha: