Metro Weekly

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  • Hi Lo-Fang

    By on April 17, 2014

    Matthew Hemerlein will perform as Lo-Fang at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue next weekend, for a concert not two months since the pop musician’s debut...

  • Super Powered

    By on April 10, 2014

    There’s a reason we’re so infatuated with superheroes: power. Flight, fire, invulnerability, invisibility — whatever the special ability, we’re envious of and enthralled by it....

  • Unhappy Campers

    By on April 10, 2014

    An ideal evening at the theater for precocious high schoolers and the politically curious, Lawrence Wright’s Camp David is a primer on President Jimmy Carter’s...

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    Movie Review: Captain America – The Winter Soldier is a stunner

    By on April 4, 2014

    Have you noticed how very boilerplate superhero movies have become? Everything is interchangeable — from the hero and his or her specific degree of angst,...

  • Flashback: Top 15 singles this week in 1986

    By on April 4, 2014

    The Billboard Hot 100 for this week 28 years ago, in the edition published on April 5, 1986, was a particularly good one.  Nine of...

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    50 Best Alternative Albums of the ’90s

    By on April 4, 2014

    April 5th marked the 20th anniversary of former Nirvana vocalist Kurt Cobain’s death, and coincidentally last week Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll...

  • Acting American

    By on April 3, 2014

    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is as American as apple pie — especially as portrayed in the new production at Ford’s Theatre. The...

  • Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” 30 Years Later

    By on April 3, 2014

    If anybody had told me when I was 12 years old and listening to Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual incessantly on my bedroom turntable that...

  • German Engineering

    By on April 3, 2014

    Sonia Rutstein recently met a man in Germany who inquired about her name. ”Oh, ‘Rutstein.’ This is a German name. Are you German?” she recalls...

  • Stepping Out

    By on April 3, 2014

    “I can’t think of many dance concerts that I’ve seen where it’s been two black men dancing a story that was LGBT,” says Shawn Short,...

  • Why Kate Bush’s Return to the Stage is Music History

    By on March 31, 2014

    On Friday, March 21, 2014, British musical icon Kate Bush made a casual announcement on her website that caused shockwaves of disbelief and feverish anticipation...

  • Washington Wordsmith

    By on March 27, 2014

    “People think it’s karaoke, but it’s not karaoke,” Regie Cabico says about the weekly variety show he runs at Black Fox Lounge. “You really do...

  • Clash of the Titans

    By on March 27, 2014

    I’m going to cut through a little of the hype surrounding Titanfall, the first-person, multiplayer shooter from Respawn Entertainment. It debuted to rapturous acclaim at E3,...

  • Love Is the Drug

    By on March 27, 2014

    Although people often call Donizetti’s rom-com The Elixir of Love a good opera for the uninitiated, director Stephen Lawless’s production requires a caveat: Remember that...

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    40 Years of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”

    By on March 24, 2014

    Sir Elton John is often recognized by fans and critics more for his long string of classic singles than for his albums. It is true...