Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Stringing Along

    By on December 9, 2009

    ''It's hard to make a mandolin sound sad. You can play it in a minor key, but it's got a sprightly tone,'' says Catie...

  • A Light Fantastick

    By on December 2, 2009

    What would make life easier for all involved would be saying that Arena Stage's new production of The Fantasticks is…fantastic. It's a headline writer's dream...

  • Renaissance Man

    By on December 2, 2009

    You may know Dylan Davis, Cobalt bartender and promoter. Or Dylan Davis, Universal Gear model. This weekend, you can see another side to the popular...

  • All in the Family

    By on December 2, 2009

    There aren't many playwrights who can speak to us in an exceptionally accessible, relevant and funny voice while simultaneously, almost insidiously, delivering a dark, querulous...

  • House party

    By on December 2, 2009

    What once started as a Victorian Christmas Home Tour in Logan Circle more than 30 years ago has evolved to become the Logan Circle House...

  • Road Weary

    By on November 26, 2009

    The long and winding road leads... well, I don't know where. In The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy's recent short novel, it seemingly leads to...

  • Musical Monstrosities

    By on November 26, 2009

    ''Yeah, you make me wanna listen to music again,'' Adam Lambert sings at the top of his debut, For Your Entertainment. The album is as...

  • Lights! Camera! Fraction!

    By on November 26, 2009

    Apparently, all the world is not just a stage, it's a soundstage. As You Like It Over at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall,...

  • Victorian Plunge

    By on November 26, 2009

    When a play arrives emanating even the vaguest whiff of the avant garde, even a theatergoing stalwart, finger poised over the ''buy tickets'' button, may...

  • Viral Campaign

    By on November 26, 2009

    Sometimes advertising becomes art. Case in point: Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup cans. Thinking broadly, Jeff McElhaney's advertising campaigns of the 1980s and '90s might...

  • Moon Men

    By on November 19, 2009

    Better than the first one. Still sucks. That's the distilled version for those who are sick and tired of hearing about ''The Twilight Saga'' and...

  • Tears Worth Shedding

    By on November 18, 2009

    When it comes to the word precious and movies, it's tough not to think of a kidnapped girl trapped in a hole trying to lure...

  • Show Time

    By on November 18, 2009

    At a time when the heavy bass of shows like Passing Strange and In the Heights and Rock of Ages are setting Converse-shod feet to...

  • Punk Doll

    By on November 11, 2009

    Amanda Palmer is nothing if not unpredictable. Amanda Palmer ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,''...

  • Gift of Gab

    By on November 11, 2009

    ''Tonight I'm recording – ahem – a holiday CD,'' Kathy Griffin says at the top of her new recorded set, Suckin' It For The Holidays....