Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Abbey Road on the River: Beatles Tribute Festival

    By on September 4, 2010

    Touted as the world’s largest Beatles-inspired music festival, Abbey Road on the River brings five days of rock revelry and reverie to the National Harbor...

  • The Tillman Story at Landmark’s E Street Cinema

    By on September 4, 2010

    The truth about Pat Tillman, the professional football playing Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan, is far more complex and ultimately more heroic than the news...

  • Shakespeare Theatre’s Twelfth Night closes Sunday

    By on September 4, 2010

    The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents Twelfth Night, this year’s 20th annual “Free for All.” Randy Harrison plays Sebastian as part of a cast that also...

  • Black Cat’s 17th Anniversary Party

    By on September 4, 2010

    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

    By on September 3, 2010

    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

    By on September 3, 2010

    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

    By on September 1, 2010

    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

    By on September 1, 2010

    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

    By on September 1, 2010

    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

    By on September 1, 2010

    ''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

    By on September 1, 2010

    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

    By on September 1, 2010

    ''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

    By on September 1, 2010

    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

    By on August 31, 2010

    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

    By on August 31, 2010

    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...