Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Jiffy Lube Live’s 2012 Job Fair

    By on March 8, 2012

    Jiffy Lube Live is holding its 2012 Job Fair this Saturday, March 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The venue is hiring for seasonal,...

  • Amsterdamned

    By on March 8, 2012

    Who over 30 hasn't thought at some point that know-it-all twentysomethings -- lounging in their skinny jeans, tweeting about their favorite CW shows -- will...

  • Rocky Concert

    By on March 8, 2012

    Craig Cipollini, and Anthony Preston as Rocky, photographed by Todd Franson, Friday, Feb. 24 If Lady Gaga were to stage The Rocky Horror Show, the...

  • Divine Dance

    By on March 8, 2012

    LAST YEAR, JD SAMSON, of the feminist dance-punk trio Le Tigre, released Talk About Body with her queer dance collective MEN, which also sometimes includes...

  • Musical Communion

    By on March 8, 2012

    Amy Ray takes listeners to church on her new solo album, Lung of Love. The church, that is, of rock music. ''Oh the rock is...

  • Musical Theater Band

    By on March 8, 2012

    ''She was certain that I was gay, because I was in New York to study musical theater and I was playing piano [at a gay...

  • Mars Barred

    By on March 8, 2012

    Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story that debuted in a pulp magazine 100 years ago, John Carter is a very expensive movie. If there's...

  • Athletic Supporters

    By on March 7, 2012

      {2011 Team DC Fashion Show (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Years ago, a model passed out onstage at Team DC's Fashion Show. ''He hadn't eaten...

  • Sampson’s Intimate Evening of Comedy

    By on March 7, 2012

    Local standup comedian Sampson performs “Live Love Laugh” along with special guests for a performance at the DC Center to benefit the local theater arts...

  • Civilization at Woolly Mammoth

    By on March 6, 2012

    Six hungry city-dwellers scramble for sustenance in Civilization (All You Can Eat), a scathing satire — or “provocative vaudeville,” to quote the press release —...

  • Just announced: Radiohead at DC’s Verizon Center

    By on March 5, 2012

    Radiohead is coming to D.C.’s Verizon Center on Sunday, June 3. The ongoing world tour is in support of their new album, The King of...

  • Lights at the 9:30 Club

    By on March 5, 2012

    Canadian electro-rock singer Valerie Anne Poxleitner has actually changed her legal name to Lights. A child of missionary parents who grew up in remote places...

  • The Hamilton’s Perpetual Groove

    By on March 4, 2012

    Variously described as a band playing “improv rock” and “trance arena rock,” the Athens, Ga.-based Perpetual Groove has become popular on the rock festival circuit...

  • SMYAL Youth Arts Ensemble at Intersections

    By on March 4, 2012

    The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League’s Youth Arts Ensemble offers a work-in-progress this weekend at Intersections: A New America Arts Festival at the Atlas. Dance...

  • First Look: GMCW’s Frank-N-Furter

    By on March 4, 2012

    It’s not conventional by any means — then again, Rocky Horror never is — but the Gay Men’s Chorus has gone in a somewhat different...