Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Vampire Barre

    By on October 25, 2012

    ''It's been loosely referred to as the Rocky Horror Show of ballet,'' jokes Michael Pink. ''It comes back and back again because it sells out....

  • Seasonal Scares

    By on October 25, 2012

    If there's a perfect time to read The First Male, the fifth novel from local gay author Lee Hayes, that time is now. Published in...

  • Almost Like Clockwork

    By on October 18, 2012

    Anthony Burgess came to loathe so intensely the one piece of literature he's best known for, a few years before he died he created a...

  • Dishonor Above All

    By on October 18, 2012

    In a world dominated by tightly scripted first-person shooters, rigidly focused platformers and set-piece sandbox games, boundaries are a frequent occurrence and annoyance for the...

  • Babs Is Back

    By on October 18, 2012

    Barbra Streisand sounds as great and glorious as she did in her heyday on her new offering, Release Me. Of course, that's because most of...

  • Rose Colored

    By on October 18, 2012

    ''I always say I'm the president of the Bette Midler Changed My Life Club,'' jokes Amanda McBroom, who early in her career wrote ''The Rose.''...

  • Funny Mann

    By on October 18, 2012

    For the record, Aimee Mann doesn't do windows. That's despite what you may have seen on Portlandia. In the IFC sketch comedy show, the rocker...

  • Ghost Story

    By on October 17, 2012

    Catherine Aselford and her colleagues occasionally hear eerie, unidentifiable sounds while working out of Old Town Alexandria's Athenaeum. No one's sure who, or what, exactly...

  • Testosterone and Other Toppings at Vitruvian Gallery

    By on October 15, 2012

    ”Testosterone and Other Toppings” is the latest exhibit of male figurative art at the gay-owned Vitruvian Gallery, but this time the art comes from a...

  • Mavis Staples is coming to The Hamilton

    By on October 15, 2012

    Chicago-born gospel great Mavis Staples got her start in her family band the Staple Singers and has gone on to sing with everyone from Ry...

  • Mock the Vote’s Pre-election Comedy Showcase

    By on October 13, 2012

    Brian Parise, winner of the 2011 Pardon the Pundit Political Comedy Competition, hosts this showcase featuring three politically minded comedians: Jordan Carlos, Stephen Colbert’s black...

  • Spring Awakening at Dominion Stage

    By on October 13, 2012

    Arlington’s LGBT-minded Dominion Stage offers a production of Spring Awakening, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s exhilarating, sexually and angst-driven musical about coming of age in...

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well at MetroStage

    By on October 12, 2012

    Natascia Diaz, one of D.C. theater’s greatest performers, is currently polishing Jacques Brel’s standard “Ne Me Quitte Pas (“If You Go Away”) at MetroStage in...

  • Spooky movies at the AFI Silver

    By on October 12, 2012

    Now in its seventh year, the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival nearly doubles to nine days of horror screenings, and also includes the first-ever...

  • Survival Instincts

    By on October 11, 2012

    I don't have to tell you that How to Survive a Plague is an important film. Nor do I have to tell you that it...