Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Die Hard Death Knell

    By on February 14, 2013

    Almost a quarter-century after Die Hard premiered, the travesty of John McClane lives on. He's bruised and balder, wrinkled and wearier. Whatever once seemed charming...

  • Oscar! Oscar!

    By on February 14, 2013

    ''With Lena Lett commenting on people's outfits, I think it's going to be better than Joan Rivers,'' says Michael Fowler, co-chair of this year's...

  • Nordic Adventures

    By on February 14, 2013

    Alicia Adams has a dream job. As vice-president for international programming at the Kennedy Center, Adams serves as curator for the center's international festivals, travelling...

  • Science As Art

    By on February 14, 2013

    Tobias Klein is not one of those people who argue that modern society has become too obsessed with technology. ''Our electronic environment is becoming part...

  • Oscar-Nominated Short Films

    By on February 11, 2013

    Once again Landmark’s E Street Cinema, in partnership with ShortsHD, offers two feature-length programs of the short films nominated at the upcoming Academy Awards. A...

  • Local Heroes

    By on February 7, 2013

    A wolf in sheep's clothing, Thornton Wilder's Our Town lulls with its gentle, sometimes humorous, depiction of small-town New Hampshire life in the early 20th...

  • Pool Days

    By on February 7, 2013

    A decade after Mary Zimmerman won a Tony Award for her direction of Metamorphoses, her dramatic interpretation of the Ovid classic is still giving her...

  • Shock and Blah

    By on February 7, 2013

    How does one justify a play with the English language's most vulgar word in its title? Well, that's not my bailiwick here. The best I...

  • Wedding Party

    By on February 7, 2013

    ''About four years ago I took a stab at writing a song,'' says J.T. Hatfield Charles, ''which is by no means anything more than something...

  • Swan Song

    By on February 7, 2013

    This is the end for director Steven Soderbergh. He says he's packing up, retiring from film, moving on to other artistic projects. If he is...

  • Homoerotic Tendencies

    By on January 31, 2013

    ''It's time for the Corcoran to reach out more consciously to LGBT audiences,'' says Bernard Welt, a professor of art and humanities at the Corcoran...

  • Zom Rom Com

    By on January 31, 2013

    A geeky-looking boy is mired in existential despair. He worries about his pale skin, his poor diet, his bad posture. He wants to meet people....

  • Unscripted

    By on January 31, 2013

    When he performs at the 9:30 Club on Feb. 12, Rufus Wainwright says his show ''will have a certain freshness to it.'' It won't be...

  • Lost Order

    By on January 31, 2013

    Oh, the fun one could have reciting choice New Order lyrics back to the band led by Bernard Sumner, while listening to what passes for...

  • 'Zorro' Strikes Again

    By on January 23, 2013

    Despite billing as ''the first modern superhero,'' Zorro isn't strictly a superhero in Constellation Theatre Company's Zorro. In fact, in this entertaining stage adaptation of...