Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Nina's Legacy

    By on October 11, 2012

    Meshell Ndegeocello isn't living in the past. She says the present is far better. ''I was reading the Nina Simone I Put A Spell...

  • Diva Delights

    By on October 11, 2012

    ''We've nicknamed it the Beef Jerky Dress around here,'' laughs Kathryn Wat, chief curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She's referring...

  • Campus Politics

    By on October 11, 2012

    Professors are supposed to be smart. That's why they're professors. Certainly, Joy Ladin is no dummy. The literature professor waited until she'd secured tenure before...

  • Killing Yourself

    By on October 4, 2012

    There's no such thing as time travel without plot holes. As characters jump backward and forward in a timeline, technical complexities multiply. Laws of physics...

  • Hot Mess

    By on October 4, 2012

    The Paperboy is a hot mess. ''Hot'' because it contrives to get Zac Efron out of his clothes as often as possible. ''Mess'' because it's...

  • Pink Passion

    By on October 4, 2012

    Lady Gaga may be the reigning diva for many, or most, of those in the younger gay generation. But if they'll only reconsider, there is...

  • Life and Deathfix

    By on October 4, 2012

    ''I'm in good health,'' says Rich Morel, adding with a laugh, ''I'm going to make it through the weekend.'' Morel is in better health –...

  • Love Hate

    By on October 4, 2012

    With its nightmare-filled bank of jumbled TV screens – always on and always ready – Synetic's dance-theater interpretation of Jekyll and Hyde suggests mightily that...

  • Watch Barbra Streisand’s new video, “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today”

    By on October 2, 2012

    Barbra Streisand’s new album Release Me drops on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The music video from “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” is available to...

  • Animal Collective at Merriweather

    By on September 30, 2012

    The little ensemble Animal Collective, originally from Baltimore but now spread out around the world, years ago became the big kahuna in the indie-rock universe,...

  • In Spite of Love at GALA

    By on September 30, 2012

    GALA opens its 37th season with the delightful comedy from Agustin Moreto, a contemporary of Lope de Vega, or the master of Spain’s Golden Age...

  • Show Explorer

    By on September 27, 2012

    ''Playing that role early on in my career actually helped me to come to terms with myself,'' Antonio Vargas says of playing Paul in a...

  • 'Brel' Done Well

    By on September 27, 2012

    Jacques Brel's ''Ne Me Quitte Pas,'' usually translated in English as ''If You Go Away,'' stands as one of the best songs ever written, holding...

  • Big Government

    By on September 27, 2012

    An utterly giggle-worthy mix of satire, irreverence and fuel-injected wit, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's souped-up take on Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector seriously raises the...

  • Cocksure

    By on September 27, 2012

    Offering plenty of curb appeal in the form of wit, slapstick, a libidinous thundering bass, damsels in distress, sword fights and a reasonably gratifying comeuppance,...