Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 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...

  • Flyboy

    By on December 3, 2008

    'Tis the season for traditions. The stories behind some family traditions are unpacked every year like a favorite Christmas tree ornament. Others are observed because...

  • Bathhouse Blues

    By on December 3, 2008

    If you were to record an album at a gay sex club, what kind of music would it be? Dance music seems obvious -- it's...

  • Musically Gifted

    By on November 26, 2008

    Hilary Duff just released a Best Of collection. Sure, the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire is only 21. Only five years and some eight hits into...

  • Life Songs

    By on November 26, 2008

    After a recent dress rehearsal with the Capitol Pride Symphonic Band, director Joe Bello was feeling emotional. ''They actually moved me to tears on the...

  • Chilled Milk

    By on November 26, 2008

    Bio-pics are tricky things. Filmmakers who undertake them are required to balance narrative flow with documented real-life experiences. They often take liberties with the truth,...

  • Bonding Behavior

    By on November 19, 2008

    That dashing, debonair, heartthrob who can make the impossible seem easy is back. And the best part is that he's playing James Bond again. Daniel...

  • Crazy Rich

    By on November 19, 2008

    The difference between eccentricity and madness is, sometimes, how much money sits in your bank account. At least that's how it would seem to have...