Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Qomedy Tonight!

    By on August 19, 2009

    Poppy Champlin was frustrated. As a lesbian stand-up comic she was landing the right kinds of gigs -- Dinah Shore Classic, Rosie O'Donnell's cruises --...

  • Alienation

    By on August 12, 2009

    Some stories hinge on a dramatic juncture in human history. Some are guided by a need to delve into the intricacies of relationships and emotions....

  • Amped Indigo

    By on August 12, 2009

    Amy Ray says she’s more of the rocker in the Indigo Girls. “Yeah, definitely. I mean, Emily can play an electric guitar like crazy,...

  • Signature Moment

    By on August 5, 2009

    Earlier this year, Arlington’s Signature Theatre won the Tony Award as the country’s best regional theater. This Saturday, at its annual open house, the theater...

  • Cook's Country

    By on August 5, 2009

    If there’s a secret ingredient, you can bet it’s butter. Butter makes everything better. And there is absolutely no substitute for it in cooking. Using...

  • Sensitive Singers

    By on August 5, 2009

    Over two and a half years ago, Duncan Sheik produced the debut album from gay pop singer Chris Garneau. Music for Tourists was released one...

  • Purring Along

    By on July 29, 2009

    James Kirkwood’s P.S. Your Cat Is Dead was one of the first plays to address gay themes. But it was originally a flop on Broadway,...

  • Fairy Dust

    By on July 29, 2009

    “The story is, like all Gilbert and Sullivan, very silly,” says Jill Strachan, executive director of the nonprofit Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, of Iolanthe. “Some...

  • Leukemia Laughs

    By on July 29, 2009

    Though it happens all the time in movies or in sitcoms, I’ve never actually known someone to make a deal with a cabbie that the...

  • Still a Thrill

    By on July 22, 2009

    Jody Watley (Photo by Mike Ruiz) Jody Watley has been an advocate for gay rights since her solo career took off in the mid-’80s. In...

  • F**k Buddies

    By on July 22, 2009

    Humpday is a movie more awkward and squirm-inducing than Brüno. Who would have thought it possible, let alone come so soon on the heels of...

  • Profanity and Puzzlement

    By on July 22, 2009

    We’re all adults here, yes? We can handle a little swearing? A little vulgarity? A conversation that might veer into controversial areas like abortion, adultery...

  • Playing Safe

    By on July 15, 2009

    ''I know you're patient. I know you'll wait,'' Lucas Silveira sings with a drawl as The Cliks' new album begins. ''But it's complicated, and I...

  • Fantasia Factor

    By on July 15, 2009

    Ironic that word of James Frey’s new multi-book deal should be in the news at the same time The Color Purple is hitting the stage...

  • Hormonal Harry

    By on July 15, 2009

    Hogwarts homework assignment: Re-watch (or re-read) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. If you don’t, you’re going to be utterly lost because there...