Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Shape Shifters

    By on February 18, 2009

    Defying stereotype and tradition, Brian Simerson of MOMIX thinks dance is becoming less gay. ''There do seem to be fewer gay men and lesbians in...

  • Choosing Oscar

    By on February 18, 2009

    It's Oscar time -- let the judging begin! The clothes, the hair, the jewelry... and if there's any time left you might get around to...

  • Mystery Man

    By on February 18, 2009

    Morrissey (Photo by Travis Shin) Why is Morrissey (barely) holding a contented little boy on the cover of his new album? And what is the...

  • Balancing Act

    By on February 18, 2009

    The playwright Edward Albee is quoted as saying that those audience members able to detect the love story in his play Who's Afraid of Virginia...

  • Express Yourself

    By on February 11, 2009

    It's not always easy being gay, in the real world or the virtual. But while progress in the everyday world of work, society and relationships...

  • Soundwaves

    By on February 11, 2009

    Tracy Young D.C.'S YOUNG VALENTINE... Last fall, DJ Tracy Young spun in her hometown of Washington for the first time in way too many years,...

  • Devil's Reign

    By on February 11, 2009

    Capturing a mood somewhere between Clive Barker's cult-classic Hellraiser and Ken Russell's hilariously creepy Lair of the White Worm, Synetic's no-holds-barred Dante's Divine Comedy is,...

  • Log Cabin Republican

    By on February 11, 2009

    While it would be a stretch to say that it is the main question on the minds of Washingtonians discussing the re-opening of Ford's Theatre,...

  • Something Wicked

    By on February 11, 2009

    Pauline Anson-Dross of Wicked Jezabel (Photo by Todd Franson ) Pauline Anson-Dross is ready for Cupid this year. ''Oh yeah, we're feeling the love...

  • Attention Shoppers!

    By on February 11, 2009

    Sometimes a movie is like an ice-cream cone. It's all sweet and sugary goodness, but there's nothing packed into the cone so it cracks and...

  • Chilly Willy

    By on February 4, 2009

    The year was 1990. Madonna, decked out in her finest Marie Antoinette drag, hit the stage of the MTV Awards and made a song that...

  • Frame by Frame

    By on February 4, 2009

    Scene from 'Coraline' In this day and age of CGI-assisted animation, you have to admire the stubborn tenacity (or is that outright insanity?) of those...

  • Hopelessly Undevoted

    By on February 4, 2009

    Here are the facts of life according to He's Just Not That Into You: Women are pathetic and hopeless in love; the only way to...

  • Flamenco Power

    By on February 4, 2009

    Miguel Marin helped start the Flamenco Festival in 2000. ''The idea from the beginning was to have a date with Spain,'' the festival's director says...

  • Music Man

    By on January 28, 2009

    Mark Morris Dance (Photo by Gene Schiavone) As Gene Kelly belts out in Singin' in the Rain, ''Gotta dance!'' Mark Morris does too, but his...