Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Memorable Tune

    By on January 21, 2009

    Tommy Tune Jan. 1, 2009, officially marked Tommy Tune's 50th year in show business. And the lanky, improbably tall dancer-choreographer is commemorating the occasion by...

  • Afterbirth

    By on January 14, 2009

    Let's face facts -- a horror movie being released in January is a bad omen. But The Unborn boasts a writer/director with a track record...

  • Noises On

    By on January 14, 2009

    Sitting in the Woolly Mammoth Theatre audience for Mike Daisey's one-man show, How Theater Failed America, you may find yourself wondering, ''Is Mike Daisey talking...

  • Stalled

    By on January 7, 2009

    Old men say the darndest things. Though sometimes those things are racial slurs so vulgar that they can't be printed here. In Gran Torino, Clint...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 7, 2009

    GRAMMY GIRLS (AND RUFUS)... Did you hear- Kathy Griffin did, in fact, get her Grammy nomination. You know, the one she was angling for. The...

  • Smart Dance

    By on January 7, 2009

    Who you calling a bimbo: Bimbo Jones Katherine Ellis is a powerhouse vocalist, as self-assured and larger-than-life as if ripped straight out of a gay...

  • Stage: The Best of 2008

    By on December 31, 2008

    I wasn't sure that I'd be able to come up with a list for best shows of 2008. I'm not going to get all dramatic...

  • The Year in Music

    By on December 31, 2008

    The year 2008 was a good one for recorded pop music, though not as great as it could or should have been, and most of...

  • The Best and Worst Films of 2008

    By on December 31, 2008

    When the credits started to roll, did you jump to your feet and applaud or storm the box office and demand your money back- In...

  • Pretty in Pink

    By on December 24, 2008

    Let's get right to the point. It is as silly and bubblegum as you thought it would be. Those question marks you included the first...

  • Musical Therapy

    By on December 23, 2008

    You have to hand it to D.C.'s theater community. They never miss a chance to surprise or, perhaps more accurately, to shock. Arena Stage has...

  • Ring Leader

    By on December 17, 2008

    Well, she did it. Britney Spears now has her comeback. Her new album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's main album chart and moved nearly...

  • Epic Intimacy

    By on December 17, 2008

    It's been some 20 years since Victor Hugo's novel of students and street hustlers took to the stage in a spectacle about poverty, true love...

  • Broken Wing

    By on December 17, 2008

    In many ways, the theater is an ideal home for the dramatic treatment of subjects controversial, disturbing and even sickening. Alive, breathing and intimate, the...

  • Winter Wonderlands

    By on December 10, 2008

    Among the signs of the holiday season is the appearance of ''family friendly'' shows meant to bridge the divide between serious grown-up work and (the...