Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Glee’s Telly Leung performs at the Blue Moon

    By on August 8, 2011

    Telly Leung appeared on the last season of Glee, as Wes, part of the all-male a cappella Dalton Academy Warblers. His Broadway credits include Flower...

  • The Phillips explores Wassily Kandinsky

    By on August 7, 2011

    “Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting with White Border” provides a fascinating, in-depth look at Wassily Kandinsky’s creative process during the five months leading...

  • INXS with Berlin at Wolf Trap

    By on August 6, 2011

    The Australian pop-rock group INXS has been trying to rekindle its ’80s-era hitmaking magic for years now. In 2005 they even appeared in a reality...

  • Step Afrika’s Summer Steps

    By on August 6, 2011

    The Washington Performing Arts Society presents a Summer Steps program with young members of Step Afrika!, showcasing the traditions of stepping and other percussive dance...

  • Death Cab for Cutie rides into Merriweather

    By on August 6, 2011

    For a decade now, Seattle-based Death Cab for Cutie has been an enormously popular alt-rock band whose silly name actually captures its sound: cute but...

  • Small Works at Washington Printmakers

    By on August 6, 2011

    “The 14th Annual National Small Works” competition contains 30 prints from artists across the nation, all approximately 13×13 in size. Running concurrently is the solo...

  • Studio Theatre does some housecleaning

    By on August 6, 2011

    The Studio Theatre hosts its Annual Garage Sale on today, Saturday, August 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale features items from 2010-2011...

  • CHAW presents DHS Pinafore

    By on August 5, 2011

    Every summer the Capital Hill Arts Workshop presents a different Gilbert and Sullivan production in partnership with the GLBT Arts Consortium. This year brings a...

  • Arlo Guthrie + the NSO = Unbeatable mix

    By on August 5, 2011

    Emil de Cou conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in a Wolf Trap performance with folk legend Arlo Guthrie along with the eclectic ensemble Time for...

  • Tickets on sale now for Moby at the Fillmore Silver Spring

    By on August 5, 2011

    Mary J. Blige’s inaugural concert next month at the Live Nation-owned Fillmore in Silver Spring sold out in minutes last Friday. The venue just announced...

  • WARL’s nonstop pet adoption weekend

    By on August 5, 2011

    The Washington Animal Rescue League hosts a special nonstop adoption event this weekend as a way to kick off its participation in the national ASPCA’s...

  • Pack Mentality

    By on August 4, 2011

    Pixie Windsor started her business in Adams Morgan, and still loves living in that neighborhood. But…. ''MidCity is just really what's happening right now,'' says...

  • Book It

    By on August 4, 2011

    ''It's so rare these days that we have the opportunity to celebrate LGBT literature,'' says David Mariner of The Center, D.C.'s LGBT community center. ''We've...

  • Kelly's Dilemma

    By on August 4, 2011

    Kelly Rowland is a tease. Take a few headlines over the past year as evidence. ''Kelly Rowland Tries Disco for Third Album.'' ''Kelly Rowland's Album...

  • Jersey Boys

    By on August 4, 2011

    When William Waybourn took the photographs for the D.C. Strokes 2008-2009 calendar, he was able to pose the rowers -- or at least keep a...