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  • Heart of Darkness

    By on March 27, 2013

    Adapting an adaptation, The American Century Theater puts an intelligent and provocative spin on Orson Welles's Voodoo Macbeth, itself a radical interpretation of Shakespeare's Scottish...

  • SimCity’s gorgeous urban landscapes

    By on March 25, 2013

    Reviewing the new SimCity in last week’s issue, Metro Weekly video game critic (and regular Technocrat contributor) Rhuaridh Marr raves about the look of the...

  • Urban Playground: SimCity Review

    By on March 21, 2013

    Forget the launch debacle, which has cast a dark cloud of incompetency over Electronic Arts, SimCity is a great game. EA's server woes, and subsequent...

  • Disco Ball

    By on March 21, 2013

    A reporter recently asked members of the band Escort if any of them are gay. Turns out, unbeknownst to co-founder Eugene Cho, at least one...

  • Diverse Folk

    By on March 21, 2013

    Ask Catie Curtis if her uplifting, anthemic song ''Another Day on Earth,'' complete with a ''whew-ew-ew'' refrain, is a crowd-pleaser, and she confirms so in...

  • 80s pop from the gay U.K.

    By on March 20, 2013

    On BBC2 Radio‘s Wednesday night broadcast of The People’s Songs, an hour-long episode will be dedicated to the historical influence of gays in British pop music....

  • Magic Show

    By on March 14, 2013

    What happened to Steve Carell? He set the comedy world on fire with his naive-fool shtick in The Office and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, sweetening his...

  • Who's That Girl?

    By on March 14, 2013

    In the words of Jean Genet, ''Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.'' And anyone who likes their...

  • Political Animal

    By on March 14, 2013

    Having West Wing withdrawal? House of Cards DTs? Richard Schiff has the answer for you. It's called Chasing the Hill, and it's a political Web...

  • Skate Away

    By on March 14, 2013

    ''I remember my dad taking me to the roller-skating rink when I was a kid, and I did have roller blades in college,'' James Ellzy...

  • Perfect Storm

    By on March 14, 2013

    It's no surprise that Synetic would turn its hand (and bodies) to The Tempest as one of its Silent Shakespeare series. The dreamy, island-bound narrative,...

  • Sky Ferreira at U Street Music Hall

    By on March 12, 2013

    Okay people, don’t sleep on this. Sky Ferreira was touted by various influential New York music critics as the artist-most-likely-to-breakout from the thousands who performed...

  • British farce in Kensington

    By on March 10, 2013

    The British Players offers a racy farce about a man planning a rendezvous with his mistress behind his wife’s back. Chrish Kresge directs Robin Hawdon’s...

  • EA Conference Was One Small Step for Gay Gaming, One Giant Leap Still Waiting to be Taken

    By on March 8, 2013

    When Electronic Arts pulled together a roomful of journalists, bloggers and gaming industry types, it didn’t look like an historic event. But while it can...

  • Punk-Funk D.C.

    By on March 7, 2013

    Did you know? Washington, D.C., circa the 1980s was a hotbed of pop music, helping germinate two very distinct strands of sound. There was hardcore...