Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Habit Forming

    To make great art, you simply have to be in the habit of making art, period. The trick is, art needs an audience along the...

  • Kiss and Tell

    Do you remember your first kiss with a lover? The moment you let your guard down and melt into another person can be a mind-altering,...

  • Amos's Ambition

    The D.C. gay barkeep and waiters were not pleased with Tori Amos. '''What is this rock-and-roll white trash look?''' Amos recalls them asking of her...

  • Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South

    Author, scholar and performer E. Patrick Johnson stars in Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, a one-man show about the perceptions, angst, triumphs...

  • Round House heats things up with Fahernheit 451

    Round House Theatre launches its new season with Ray Bradbury’s stage adaptation of his science-fiction masterpiece Fahrenheit 451. Directed by Sharon Ott, the multimedia production...

  • JR.’s celebrates 25 years with a customer appreciation party

    There are a ton of things going on in D.C. this Tuesday, Sept. 20, most of them surrounding the implementation of DADT repeal. But there’s...

  • Ay, Carmela! at GALA Hispanic

    GALA Hispanic Theatre presents ¡Ay, Carmela!, about a vaudeville comedy duo who have fallen into the hands of Franco’s fascist troops during the Spanish Civil...

  • Taylor Dayne at the Delaware Pride Festival

    Tell it to your heart: Taylor Dayne headlines this year’s Delaware Pride, held in Rehoboth Beach this Saturday, Sept. 17. Also on tap: Jonny McGovern...

  • Montgomery Co. Mensch

    In his 2006 novel, Hard, Wayne Hoffman presented a gay 1990s Manhattan struggling to strike a balance between ''safer sex'' and ''sex positive.'' With his...

  • National Geographic’s All Roads Film Festival

    The National Geographic’s All Roads Film Festival showcases indigenous- and minority-culture film, photography and music, this year with 47 cultures from 24 different countries represented....

  • Review: Imagining Madoff at Theater J

    Rick Foucheux’s portrayal of Bernie Madoff, the Ponzi-schemeing crook thrown into the spotlight of Theater J’s production, is a lot of things. But it isn’t...

  • Hillwood’s Gay Day

    Activities at the 10th annual Gay Day at Hillwood include an LGBT family garden party with Rainbow Families, “Punch on the Portico,” exclusive peeks into...

  • Overly Apparent

    Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of The Liar two...

  • Triumphant Tosca

    A perfect balance between elegant austerity and a swiftly-rendered, passionate tale of hearts, pure and not so pure, the Washington National Opera's Tosca is everything...

  • Shorts Circuit

    It's kind of amazing short films aren't more popular. The barriers that stand in the way of feature-lengths -- namely, cash, the crazy expensive cameras...