Arts + Entertainment
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Returning to Laramie
Two weeks ago, the cover of Metro Weekly featured Scott Suchman's dramatic and incredibly evocative photo of actors portraying participants at a candlelight vigil for...
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VelocityDC Shines Light on Local Dance Scene
No one refers to Washington as a capital, or even a hotbed, of dance. But a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...
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Homecoming Dance
{Return #1 (Photo by Matthew Murphy)} ''My older sister was so clumsy,'' Jenelle Figgins says. ''I guess my mother assumed that she'd be able to...
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Boo! Spooky Movie Time at AFI Silver
Now that the weather is starting to turn cold and dreary, and each night is coming a little earlier, you might be itching for that...
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GTA V claims its seventh Guinness World Record, asks what you’ve done with your week
Grand Theft Auto V continues its stratospheric rise to the top of the entertainment charts, with this week’s revelation that the title now holds seven...
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Yoko Ono’s long journey to “The Land of Hell” and back
Not many 80-year-old women are releasing experimental rock albums while simultaneously hitting the top of the dance charts these days. But then, Yoko Ono has...
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Baltimore’s Visionary Art Museum Takes on Technology
Maybe the weirdest, wildest museum you’ll ever visit, Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum opens its 19th original thematic yearlong exhibition this weekend. Human, Soul &...
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Pet Shop Boys debut new video for “Thursday”
Pet Shop Boys are back with a new video for the song “Thursday” from their latest album “Electric.” Filmed in Shanghai, it features some of...
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Cher Plans to ‘Kill’ It at Verizon Center Next Year
The incomparable Cher has announced her “I’m Not Dead Yet Tour” — oops, I mean the “Dressed to Kill Tour.” Which comes after her “Farewell Tour”...
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Falling for ''Gravity''
The heavens are silent. It's a matter of science. There's no air pressure in a vacuum, so in space, there's no sound. That's why we...
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Lady in the Limelight
''I would torture my family with made-up arias and stuff, and sing around the house,'' Sutton Foster says of her childhood days in Georgia and...
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Chamber Soul
Marques Toliver got his start in the music business by busking, playing violin on the streets in St. Augustine, Fla. These days you're more likely...
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Disappointing Dive
Sir Elton John has nothing left to prove. His status in the top tier of rock-and-roll royalty is unquestioned. His 31st studio album, The Diving...
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Tempters and the Tempted
Offered through the lens of a debauched 1930s Vienna, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Measure for Measure is thinking well outside the box. Using a cabaret...
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Actors Delight
Sometimes it's the sheer audacity of an actor that draws you to a particular play. In Eric Coble's new work The Velocity of Autumn, now...
