Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 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....

  • Tickets on sale Friday for Fiona Apple

    By on April 18, 2012

    The eccentric pop singer/songwriter, 16 years after her debut, plans to release her first album in seven years this summer and tour to support it....

  • The Wanted perform their new single on NBC’s The Voice

    By on April 18, 2012

    The Wanted performed their latest single “Chasing the Sun on NBC’s The Voice last night. The group’s U.S. debut EP drops on Tuesday, April 24....

  • Getting Wonky with Orbital

    By on April 17, 2012

    Orbital has returned with their first album in eight years. The British electronica music legends — Paul and Phil Hartnoll — have created in Wonky...

  • Christopher K. Morgan’s Limited Visibility returns for one weekend only

    By on April 17, 2012

    The resident company of D.C.’s CityDance, Christopher K. Morgan & Artists , closes its season with Morgan’s first evening-length work, Limited Visibility, exploring what we...

  • On the Waterfront at American Century

    By on April 17, 2012

    Kathleen Akerley directs an American Century Theater production of Budd Schulberg’s On the Waterfront, which has some significant differences from Elia Kazan’s 1954 Oscar-winning film,...