Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Game Show

    By on November 12, 2008

    Two adages come to mind after seeing Slumdog Millionaire: ''Don't judge a book by its cover,'' and, ''Not everything you need to know can be...

  • White House Rock

    By on November 12, 2008

    Do you have that friend? The guy who spends an inordinate amount of time deciding what cocktails or wine or, thanks to the whole gastropub...

  • Baby Boom

    By on November 12, 2008

    Watching an audience take their seats is always something of a pre-show entertainment, but it was particularly fun at Woolly Mammoth's Boom with the unique...

  • Exposure to Art

    By on November 12, 2008

    Local artist Frank Muzzy is literally exposing himself for this year's Art for Life, the annual Whitman-Walker Clinic art auction benefit. A noted painter of...

  • Think Pink

    By on November 5, 2008

    ''I guess I just lost my husband,'' sings Alecia Moore, better known as the pop star Pink, at the top of the first song on...

  • Lady Killer

    By on November 5, 2008

    Despite the fevered grace renowned soprano Renee Fleming brings to the conflicted femme fatale of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, this is one opera that requires more...

  • Personal Best

    By on November 5, 2008

    In 2003, Will Gartshore crafted a cabaret at Signature Theatre entitled Finding Home, which examined his previously rootless existence between New York and Washington along...

  • Money Shot

    By on October 29, 2008

    Pornography in the United States is a multi-billion dollar industry and director Kevin Smith is apparently trying to tap some of that revenue stream with...

  • Let It Bleed

    By on October 29, 2008

    Scary movies, spooky stories, chilling tales -- Halloween is a time to settle in for a good fright that comes from a horror movie or...

  • Cabaret Pearl

    By on October 29, 2008

    Pearl Bailey died 18 years ago, but her irrepressible spirit has been reincarnated in the body of Roz White -- and Washington is all the...

  • Rebel Yell

    By on October 29, 2008

    There was a time when the best parts of movies happened off-screen. The passionate kiss before the scene faded to black. The brilliant plan hatched...

  • Wartime Zeroes

    By on October 22, 2008

    You would hardly need to fall into the ''news junkie'' category to be aware of how ugly the presidential campaign has gotten. Even a recent...

  • Swept Away

    By on October 22, 2008

    Just as things reach a feverish, high-pitched frenzy in Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, you pray Mary J. Blige will pop up to tell everyone,...

  • Passage to India

    By on October 22, 2008

    Aniruddhan Vasudevan started dancing when he was 6 years old. Twenty years later, it's become a vocation. ''My family is very interested in the arts,...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 22, 2008

    MADONNA'S NEW MARRIAGE... Maybe Madonna will finally come back to D.C. with her next tour, since George W. Bush will no longer be president --...