Metro Weekly

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  • Tickets are still available for Madonna’s Monday night show at the Verizon Center.

    By on September 23, 2012

    In his review of the North American debut of Madonna’s MDNA Tour in Philadelphia, Metro Weekly’s Yusef Najafi noted that the visuals were stunning, but...

  • Cult Classic

    By on September 20, 2012

    The Master is a magnum opus of conflict. No man, attitude, sight or sound is immune to its discord. Paul Thomas Anderson uses every millimeter...

  • Queen for a Day

    By on September 20, 2012

    Timed perfectly for the Tudor fever generated by author Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and its sequel, the Washington National Opera's season-opener of Donizetti's Anna Bolena...

  • Show Pieces

    By on September 20, 2012

    What do you call a farce that's not particularly funny? The real Mackay. Of course, what you want is the real McCoy – something from...

  • Passionate Feeling

    By on September 20, 2012

    Melissa Etheridge ends her new album 4th Street Feeling in a state of heat, plain and simple. ''I think I'm ready to try my hand...

  • Rock Starr

    By on September 20, 2012

    To set the record straight, Garrison Starr is not the girl Katy Perry kissed and told about in song. ''No, no, it wasn't,'' Starr laughs....

  • Intimate Festival

    By on September 20, 2012

    ''We've had crazy responses from people already worried about whether or not they're going to be able to get in,'' says Angela Lombardi, general manager...

  • Adam Lambert comes to the 9:30 Club for Maryland Marriage Equality

    By on September 19, 2012

    The openly gay pop star and former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert has announced a surprise concert next Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the 9:30 Club...

  • Orbital playing US dates starting this weekend.

    By on September 19, 2012

    The electronic duo Orbital — Paul and Paul Hartnoll — is coming to the states next week to several west coast dates. They’ll be playing...

  • The Bar d’O reunion at L’Enfant Cafe’s Speak Easy

    By on September 14, 2012

    Joey Arias is kicking off a new season of his popular, select Sundays social dining and cabaret shows at L’Enfant Cafe with as big of...

  • Mean Girls

    By on September 13, 2012

    Let's just get this out of the way: Leslye Headland's Bachelorette is not a Bridesmaids rip-off. Yes, both films revolve around women misbehaving at weddings,...

  • Ram Tough

    By on September 13, 2012

    Craig Ramsay is not just a pretty face. He's also a pretty body. And a song-and-dance man, former hockey player, health a fitness superstar –...

  • Broadway's Future

    By on September 13, 2012

    ''If there's one thing that drives me crazy,'' says Michael Kerker, ''it's when people say there really aren't any great young musical theater writers ....

  • Wrestling Demons

    By on September 13, 2012

    A semi-satirical distillation of the mercenary world of professional wrestling as recounted by a particularly ambivalent member of its fraternity, Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance...

  • Sleeper Film

    By on September 7, 2012

    This much is obvious about comedian Mike Birbiglia: The guy knows how to brush off trauma. After taking a leap through a second-story window of...