Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Black Cat’s 17th Anniversary Party

    A host of local bands help the concert venue celebrate 17 years on a stretch of 14th Street that hasn’t even been hip for half...

  • Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival

    The Kennedy Center’s ninth annual Page to Stage Festival offers free readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by more than 40...

  • Hotspur at the 9:30 Club

    Hotspur returns for another energetic headlining gig at the venerated hometown 9:30 Club. The band's brand of Coldplay-eseque pop-rock is so catchy, the melodies and...

  • Loni Love at the DC Improv

    A regular panelist on Chelsea Handler’s show on E! — and also red carpet correspondent for the channel’s post-Oscars party — Loni Love presents her...

  • Tony Savoie at the Long View Gallery

    Multi-media artist Tony Savoie’s distaste for war is front and center in much of his work, now on display at Long View. His pieces often...

  • Thrill Seekers

    Planet Snoopy will be closed next Saturday night, Sept. 11, during Brother Help Thyself's annual outing at Kings Dominion. '' is for the kids......

  • True Love

    ''I would have loved for my mom to have had a relationship with someone,'' says comedian Loni Love. Love was raised with her brother by...

  • The Lonely Guy

    The American. It's rather a bland title. But if you bring a star's name into it -- for example, ''George Clooney is…The American'' -- you...

  • Swedish Delight

    ''Somebody alert the authorities, I got criminal intent,'' Robyn raps on one hip hop-flavored track on her playfully sublime new EP, Body Talk Pt. 2....

  • Game Boys

    When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of, well, any of...

  • The Sound of Music at Wolf Trap

    Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved Broadway musical celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a week-long run at Wolf Trap's Filene Center. Mandy Bruno stars as...

  • Now in theaters: Eat Pray Love

    Recently divorced and desperate to break her pattern of serial relationships, Elizabeth Gilbert packs her belongings into storage and begins a year-long, three-country quest to...

  • These United States at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

    Jesse Elliott leads this alt-country/indie-rock band These United States. With roots in D.C. and Lexington, Ky, it’s said to be one of rock's best kept...

  • The Whole Plate Project at the Art Reactor Gallery

    Art Reactor Gallery is a new artist-run photo-focused gallery/workshop/studio space in Hyattsville presents its first curated exhibit. The Whole Plate Project focuses on photographs made...

  • Native Musicians in Popular Culture at the NMAI

    The National Museum of the American Indian’s “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture” explores the many native artists who have had successful...