Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Amy Ray at Iota Cafe

    By on April 13, 2012

    In the past dozen years, Amy Ray has released several solo albums in between Indigo Girls records and tours, all informed more by her punk...

  • Cabin Fever

    By on April 13, 2012

    Don't watch the trailer, don't ask your friends, and above all else, don't read about it online. (Except, um, here.) The Cabin in the Woods...

  • Comic Culture

    By on April 13, 2012

    Fandom has reached something akin to a roaring pitch on the fringes of today's pop culture. For every hit television show or movie, dozens of...

  • Untamed: Review of 'Taming of the Shrew'

    By on April 12, 2012

    Strip the art from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and you are left, more or less, with a rather bitter, violence-prone woman who, married against...

  • Occupational Art

    By on April 12, 2012

    ''It's a real mix, and a real attempt to bring our local artists together,'' says Quique Aviles. The actor and performer has essentially created a...

  • Paying Homage

    By on April 12, 2012

    Every night just before performing his one-man show, Jorge ''Jay'' Alvarez has a moment of panic. ''Oh my God, do I have this in me...

  • Muscle Opera

    By on April 12, 2012

    ''I think this may be the first time that anyone has dealt theatrically with gay physique magazines,'' says Michael Korie. Before there were official gay...

  • Rapp Star

    By on April 12, 2012

    ''When I do events or concerts, most of the fans that stay afterwards are female,'' says Anthony Rapp. ''It's not like it's a secret.'' Nope,...

  • Adventure Theatre celebrates 60 years of cute-themed theater

    By on April 12, 2012

    Last year, the Adventure Theatre won its first-ever Helen Hayes Award for the show If You Give a Pig a Pancake. This summer, the children's...

  • Wiping out with OFF!

    By on April 11, 2012

    If you’re into this kind of ear-punishing hardcore, then you’re going to love this freshly-released video from OFF! The song is called Wipe Out and...

  • Albums we can’t wait for: Melody Gardot’s The Absence

    By on April 11, 2012

    Melody Gardot will release her new album The Absence on May 29. It’s the follow-up to her 2009 critically-acclaimed best-seller, My One and Only. If...

  • Countdown to Yuri’s Night

    By on April 11, 2012

    Intended as a “holiday for space,” the annual event Countdown to Yuri’s Night celebrates the world’s first manned space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin...

  • Amy Ray at Iota Cafe

    By on April 10, 2012

    In the past dozen years, Amy Ray has released several solo albums in between Indigo Girls records and tours, all informed more by her punk...

  • Norah Jones premieres her “Happy Pills” video

    By on April 10, 2012

    Here’s the music video for “Happy Pills,” the lead single from the forthcoming Norah Jones album, Little Broken Hearts. The album is produced by Danger...

  • Bonnie Raitt video of Gerry Rafferty song features gays and lesbians in the mix

    By on April 9, 2012

    On her new album, Slipstream, the legendary blues rocker Bonnie Raitt covers Scottish singer Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 hit “Right Down the Line.” The video, by...