Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Hunting Bin Laden

    By on January 10, 2013

    Zero Dark Thirty is not a ''pro-torture'' film. It's also not much of an ''anti-torture'' film, either, in so far as it isn't simply interested...

  • Songs of Sandé

    By on January 10, 2013

    ''I understand how it feels to feel different, and to feel like you want to find others, you want to find a community and be...

  • Minecraft achieves 5 million XBox 360 downloads, 17.5 million overall

    By on January 3, 2013

    For those of you totally obsessed with the extraordinary Minecraft (“one more block, one more block”), here’s a bit of trivia you’ll explode like a...

  • Is Microsoft counting the days till the next Xbox console?

    By on January 3, 2013

    *Name subject to change. It seems fairly likely that the E3 countdown clock just posted by Microsoft’s Larry Hryb on his blog is evidence that...

  • War Torn

    By on January 3, 2013

    War is a drug on which human society appears to be hopelessly addicted. That, at least, is the sad essence of An Iliad, Lisa Peterson...

  • Mazel Tov

    By on January 3, 2013

    Celebrated Spanish actress Carmen Maura plays a ditzy mom in Mikael Buch's new gay romantic comedy Let My People Go! Maura, you may recall, was...

  • Chain Male

    By on January 3, 2013

    Here comes Quentin Tarantino, galloping into the terrible history of American slavery with a shotgun in his hands and a bundle of dynamite slung across...

  • Gomez, Darling

    By on January 3, 2013

    When Marga Gomez dances, people think she's just trying to be funny. ''I dance really terribly,'' admits Gomez, whose own mother was a professional dancer....

  • DJ lil’e Divas Dance Party at the 9:30 Club

    By on January 2, 2013

    DJ lil’e (nee Erin Myers) continues to tweak her popular divas dance party. For its latest iteration at the 9:30 Club, it’s a “battle” between...

  • Million Dollar Quartet

    By on January 2, 2013

    Co-directed by Signature Theatre’s Eric Schaeffer, Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott’s hit Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet was inspired by the true story of the...

  • Kate Wingfield's Best and Worst Stage of 2012

    By on December 27, 2012

    {Strange Interlude: Francesca Faridany (Photo by Scott Suchman)} A good night at the theater is kind of like plane travel for brains. A really great...

  • Doug Rule's Best and Worst Stage of 2012

    By on December 27, 2012

    {Brel: Natascia Diaz, Sam Ludwig, Bobby Smith, Bayla Whitten (Photo by Christopher Banks)} Theater is generally intended to be a mentally transporting experience, but of...

  • The Fighting Baritone

    By on December 27, 2012

    ''Because my teacher knew that I could handle the higher notes,'' says singer-songwriter Ari Hest, ''he would stick me with the girls sometimes, or with...

  • The Best and Worst Music of 2012

    By on December 27, 2012

    {Scissor Sisters (Photo by Neil Krug)} The year 2012 goes down as a sad one, the year we lost both Donna Summer and Whitney Houston....

  • The Best and Worst Films of 2012

    By on December 27, 2012

    Don't be discouraged by Hollywood schlock -- we're living in a wonderful age of film. Even if there were a few duds in the last...