Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Musical Wizardry

    By on July 15, 2009

    There's this amazing detail in sounds and colors and orchestrations that you just really don't hear in the movie theater anymore,'' says the National Symphony...

  • 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...

  • The Gay Fringe

    By on July 8, 2009

    Can you imagine telling total strangers the details of your local sexual escapades? Actor Brent Stansell will do just that with his first solo show,...

  • Gay Puree

    By on July 8, 2009

    Brüno is like anal bleaching: You can't believe anyone would actually do it, the thought of it makes you cringe, and you're happy that it's...

  • Russian Jewry

    By on July 1, 2009

    Oy vey! The Yiddish construction is fun to use and say in English, even though it expresses dismay or exasperation. Yet, just the sound of...