Arts & Entertainment
Dining Out for Life is next week
More than 100 restaurants to donate proceeds
Dining Out for Life (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key)
Food and Friends hosts Dining Out for Life Thursday at more than 100 participating restaurants in the Washington area, including Freddie’s Beach Bar and Restaurant (555 23rd Street South, Arlington, Va.) and 18th and U Duplex Diner (2004 18th St., N.W.).
Food and Friends is a nonprofit organization that provides meals, groceries and nutrition counseling to people who are battling HIV/AIDS and other life challenging illnesses. Between 10-110 percent of proceeds benefit Food and Friends.
For details, visit diningoutforlife.com.
Baltimore
This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
Pope of Trash dishes on Trump, plane etiquette, last meal, and more
By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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