Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Glambert Goodies

    By on May 31, 2012

    Adam Lambert doesn't cover Destiny's Child on his new set Trespassing. But for some reason, something about the beat and the attitude of the album's...

  • Dance to the Music

    By on May 31, 2012

    ''I played Harold Hill in high school,'' laughs Parker Esse, when asked how familiar he is with The Music Man. Of course, his starring role...

  • The A Word

    By on May 31, 2012

    ''Our friends were just vanishing!'' says playwright Steven Dietz of the 1980s. ''It was hard to not write a play about AIDS.'' But unlike Larry...

  • Some Enchanted Story

    By on May 31, 2012

    The precursor to today's fight for marriage equality was, of course, the fight for interracial marriage. And that didn't reach its biggest milestone, the Supreme...

  • Superstars

    By on May 31, 2012

    A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, WSC Avant Bard's spring rep of Euripides's The Bacchae and Sam Shepard's The Tooth of...

  • Vice Squad

    By on May 31, 2012

    It's worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs...

  • Skype Video Chat: Phil Hartnoll of Orbital

    By on May 28, 2012

    On April 19, I was fortunate to interview Phil Hartnoll of the pioneering electronica band, Orbital. He was in his home in England, me in...

  • The Dan Tepfer Trio at Atlas

    By on May 27, 2012

    A New York-based pianist and composer, Dan Tepfer is a formidable jazz musician on the international stage. He’ll perform at the Atlas with bassist Thomas...

  • National Memorial Day Concert at the Capitol West Lawn

    By on May 26, 2012

    Daughtry, Natalie Cole, Trace Adkins and this year’s American Idol finalist Jessica Sanchez will perform along with the National Symphony Orchestra as part of the...

  • Joey Arias returns to L’enfant

    By on May 26, 2012

    L’Enfant Cafe and Bar’s Speak Easy transforms the space into a Prohibition Era venue — complete with back door entrance, dim lighting and drawn shades...

  • Do the Electric Guest puzzle! Stream Jenny!

    By on May 25, 2012

    Successfully put all the pieces into place on the “puzzle” at the Electric Guest website and you’ll get some exclusive streams — a pleasantly strummed...

  • Kylie Minogue wants you to dance on her new “Time Bomb” [video]

    By on May 25, 2012

    Kylie Minogue released the video for “Time Bomb,” her latest dance music single.  The Australian singer and actress turns 44 on May 28, and she...

  • Double Serving

    By on May 24, 2012

    At one point in the middle of the complicated hijinks of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's The Servant of Two Masters, Truffaldino, the servant in question,...

  • Retro Grooves: Electric Guest

    By on May 23, 2012

    There's a new R&B-flavored electronic rock band on the scene, and there's a reason listening to Electric Guest's debut album will remind you of contemporary...

  • Heated Verbiage

    By on May 23, 2012

    There is power in words. D.C.'s Regie Cabico knows that. Just read a few lines of his poem ''Love Letter from Andrew Cunanan.'' I have...