Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Lady Bunny and Flotilla DeBarge at L’Enfant’s Speak Easy

    By on April 25, 2012

    Following on its insanely popular brunch house party La Boum every Saturday and the annual Bastille Day French Maid Relay Race, L’Enfant Cafe and Bar...

  • Hayes Honors Gays

    By on April 25, 2012

    The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, held Monday, April 23, at the Warner Theatre, opened with ''Hello'' from last year's Broadway sensation The Book of...

  • Jazzy Mondays at Bohemian Caverns

    By on April 23, 2012

    Every Monday night the 17-piece Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra performs a variety of music from the big band repertoire — including pieces by Duke Ellington,...

  • Puro Tango at GALA Hispanic

    By on April 23, 2012

    GALA Theatre presents Puro Tango, a celebration of the tango, directed by Hugo Medrano and featuring singer Nelson Pino and other internationally acclaimed musicians, dancers...

  • Crown of Shadows at the Round House Theatre

    By on April 22, 2012

    Jason Gray Pratt’s Crown of Shadows: The Wake of Odysses is having its world premiere at the Round House Theatre. It offers a gripping, modern...

  • Masculine Impressions at Vitruvian Gallery

    By on April 22, 2012

    Masculine Impressions is the latest titillating exhibit to come to Vitruvian Gallery, the gallery devoted to male figurative art. Gary Fisher’s latest series of artworks,...

  • Video: Payphone by Maroon 5

    By on April 20, 2012

    Maroon 5 announced their highly anticipated fourth studio album Overexposed, slated to debut June 26. The album’s first single, “Payphone,” features Wiz Khalifia and is...

  • New Video: Hills Like Elephants’s Invisible Ink

    By on April 19, 2012

    San Diego-based Hill Like Elephants recently released its debut album, The Endless Charade (Requiemme Records/BMG Chrysalis). Their video single, “Invisible Ink,” is below. More about...

  • 2nd Annual Home & Design Weekend

    By on April 19, 2012

    The real estate firm Washington Fine Properties celebrates design and home furnishings offered by merchants on or near 14th Street NW and including free in-store...

  • Cylindrical Cinema

    By on April 19, 2012

    Kerry Brougher doesn't think architect Gordon Bunshaft or other developers of the Hirshhorn Museum anticipated that the circular, donut-shaped building, completed in 1974, would one...

  • Nightclubbing

    By on April 19, 2012

    Roxann Rowley wasn't struck by lightning, but a similar experience sparked her dance career. ''I was hit by a car crossing the street,'' Rowley explains,...

  • Tickets on sale Saturday for that lollipop quintet, One Direction

    By on April 19, 2012

    One Direction, the British boy band — and not the California pop group, suing Simon Cowell and co. for stealing their already established name —...

  • Mercy McKay

    By on April 19, 2012

    ''I often think, 'Where's Rosie when you need her?''' laughs Nellie McKay. Rosie O'Donnell was nowhere to be found last year, after the New York-based...

  • Broadway Rock

    By on April 19, 2012

    Gavin Creel is a two-time Tony-nominated actor (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie), who's currently gearing up to star in the national tour of The Book of...

  • Bully for 'Bully'

    By on April 19, 2012

    There's no such thing as an honest documentary. Any one, told in any way, will be twisted and tacked into place by a filmmaker's intentions....