Metro Weekly

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  • Life Before Wartime

    By on April 15, 2009

    ''Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,'' says the show's director Christopher Gallu. ''It's got all these songs that were never intended to be put...

  • Nuts

    By on April 15, 2009

    Sometimes you should absolutely judge a book by its cover. 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' The moment you take your seat for Round House...

  • South Rising

    By on April 8, 2009

    Regardless of the geographic realities, there are times when one could be quite sure that the Mason-Dixon Line runs right through the center of our...

  • Strangely Enough

    By on April 8, 2009

    Patsy Cline's is the first voice heard on the debut, solo-artist album from Sharam Tayebi, one-half of the celebrated D.C. dance duo Deep Dish. Doesn't...

  • Collision Course

    By on April 8, 2009

    Excelente. Una maravillosa película. Fantástico. And many other superlatives that I no longer remember from high school Spanish. By all standard measures, Sin Nombre should...

  • Squaring Off

    By on April 8, 2009

    When square-dance devotees talk about this all-American (well, sort of) art form, they're bound to get to the patterns eventually. And why not? From above,...

  • Roller Coasting

    By on April 1, 2009

    Ah, the '80s. Who doesn't miss the hair, the fashion sense, the music, and the simpler times? James (Jesse Eisenberg) might disagree with that last...

  • Life and Love

    By on April 1, 2009

    Bob Mould (Photo by Noah Kalina) Bob Mould sounded like he had all but given up on his last album, District Line. ''It's the same...

  • Nice Piaf

    By on March 25, 2009

    Jil Aigrot Jil Aigrot has become known for singing as Edith Piaf. So perfect is her Piaf, she was tapped to voice the singing portions...

  • Storyteller

    By on March 25, 2009

    The stoop is a culture all its own. It's a city thing, somehow different than the rural or small-town front porch. It's the original social-networking...

  • Sea-Worthy

    By on March 25, 2009

    As one familiar with England's wild and windy Norfolk coast, there is much that resonates in the Washington National Opera's production of Benjamin Britten's Peter...

  • Broadway Bebe

    By on March 25, 2009

    A few years ago, Bebe Neuwirth created an uproarious caricature of conservative firebrand Ann Coulter on Al Franken's Air America radio show. ''I think she...

  • God Damned

    By on March 18, 2009

    Alas, where to begin? There are but two ways of looking at director Ethan McSweeny's interpretation of Euripides' Ion: It is either a masterpiece of...

  • Troubled Pathway

    By on March 18, 2009

    One of the toughest lessons to teach a beginning visual artist is the understanding that every piece they create will not be a finished work...

  • Male Bonding

    By on March 18, 2009

    It's springtime again -- season of love, hope, budding bromance. That's no typo, gang -- bromance is the new romance. It's all about the dude...