Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Bond That Binds

    By on November 9, 2012

    Midway through Sam Mendes's Skyfall, James Bond is stuck in a familiar situation. He's tied to chair, smirking as a peculiar-looking man lectures him on...

  • Operatic Obsession

    By on November 8, 2012

    ''I've recently fallen in love with opera,'' says Alan Paul, conceding, ''I've been on an obsessive, opera-going mission over the last year.'' And he's not...

  • Lovely Lianne

    By on November 8, 2012

    ''Actually, I expected nothing and I was pleasantly surprised,'' says Lianne La Havas, when asked about her success as a singer-songwriter. Only 23 years old,...

  • Log Cabin Fever

    By on November 8, 2012

    Lincoln is why Hollywood should exist. Steven Spielberg's wonderful film about our 16th president isn't a war epic or a maudlin biography. The film only...

  • Flock of Foul

    By on November 8, 2012

    ''There is nothing in the world as amazing as something that is neither completely clear, nor completely unclear,'' goes one of the morals imparted in...

  • Theater Booster

    By on November 8, 2012

    ''By several different measures, Washington is the nation's largest theater community outside of New York,'' says Buzz Mauro. ''It's a great theater town, but it...

  • Buy a Food & Friends pie, sustain a life.

    By on November 7, 2012

    Thanksgiving is drawing near and that means it’s pie time! Food & Friends is offering four pie flavors as part of its Slice of Life...

  • Round House grows a beard — James Beard, that is.

    By on October 31, 2012

    Nick Olcott portrays James Beard, who brought fine cooking and a jolly personality to the small screen in 1946 — long before Julia Child, Emeril...

  • Four Legs Good

    By on October 31, 2012

    In this age in which every successful fantasy or adventure novel has been – or will be – fully ''realized'' via computer generation, there is...

  • Dirty Truth

    By on October 31, 2012

    Right now there's a freestanding toilet in a remote section of the third-floor stage at Studio Theatre. There's also a lot of dirt on the...

  • Lover's Return

    By on October 31, 2012

    ''The ladies love me,'' Alice Smith says after being asked about gay fans. And why is that? ''It's because I'm sexy,'' the singer-songwriter says with...

  • Pop Love

    By on October 31, 2012

    It's funny how freeing coming out can be. Though Mika only officially came out as gay a few months ago, after he had already completed...

  • Horse Play

    By on October 25, 2012

    {Warhorse (Photo by Brinkhoff Mogenburg)} Christopher Mai is a dancer by training, and has done some previous work with puppets. But for his latest role?...

  • Unfilmable

    By on October 25, 2012

    If there's anything worth praising in Cloud Atlas, the colossal adaptation of David Mitchell's nesting doll of a novel, it's the spectacle. Directors Tom Tykwer,...

  • The Partying Dead

    By on October 25, 2012

    If in the days after Halloween you still aren't ready to let the ghouls and grossness go – or if you still want to dress...