Metro Weekly

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  • Black Out

    By on May 23, 2012

    Men in Black III shouldn't have happened. That's not to say that it was a particularly bad idea – it doesn't even approach the terrible...

  • Maps and Mythology

    By on May 23, 2012

    The specter of AIDS haunts Steven Dietz's Lonely Planet – and yet the disease is never mentioned by name. But it is AIDS causing the...

  • Gay Skate: Xanadu

    By on May 23, 2012

    ''It appeals to more than just the gay audience, but for some reason it appeals to our sensibility the most,'' says Matthew Gardiner. In fact,...

  • All Skate

    By on May 23, 2012

    Leg warmers, roller disco, an Aussie pop star cavorting on the big screen as a muse from Greek mythology…. Gee, the '80s got off to...

  • Joel Stein reads from Man Made at Sixth & I Synagogue

    By on May 19, 2012

    Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity explores the absurdities of modern masculinity from Time columnist Joel Stein. The funny and poignant book was provoked...

  • Schemekel at the Washington Jewish Music Festival

    By on May 19, 2012

    Now in its 13th year, the Washington Jewish Music Festival winds down with at least one concert of definite LGBT appeal tomorrow, Sunday, May 20,...

  • A Little Bloated

    By on May 18, 2012

    How does a family endure? Studio Theatre 2ndStage's The Big Meal is entirely preoccupied with that question, and curiously, its answer is found in an...

  • Bull's Eye

    By on May 18, 2012

    Let's get one thing out of the way: Bernie is about much more than a real-life murder. ''What you're fixin' to see is a true...

  • Donna Summer’s everlasting dance

    By on May 17, 2012

    When I first came out as a college student in the mid-‘90s, the gay dance club in Columbia, Mo., would end the night with Donna...

  • Beautiful Dreamers

    By on May 17, 2012

    If opera is your music for heartbreak and plots be damned, then Massenet's gorgeously overwrought Werther is for you. This is boy meets already-engaged girl...

  • Martyr Complex

    By on May 17, 2012

    Was Saint Sebastian gay? History is actually iffy on the subject. But the celebrated, martyred Christian is sometimes referred to as ''a homosexual icon,'' in...

  • Black Comedy

    By on May 17, 2012

    Even Jack Black isn't sure if his newest film, Bernie (see review, page 54) is a comedy or a tragedy -- but don't hold that...

  • Theatre Lab’s Dramathon

    By on May 17, 2012

    The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts reprises last year’s popular Dramathon tomorrow, Friday, May 18. The Dramathon features eight 10-minute plays, written in...

  • Dustin Lance Black’s Prop 8 Play Coming to DC for Pride

    By on May 17, 2012

    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced a one-night-only reading of 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, to take...

  • New Video: Nicki Minaj “Right By My Side”

    By on May 17, 2012

    Nicki Minaj has released the video for “Right By My Side,” featuring Chris Brown. It’s the latest single off her new album Pink Friday: Roman...