Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • SONiA's Splash

    Sonia Rutstein was as disheartened as every other gay person by the passage last fall of California's Propositon 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative. ''We move...

  • Perfect Reception

    There are some individuals who can make your life exponentially easier if you consistently remind yourself how much power they wield. Waiters. Restaurant hosts. Bartenders...

  • Limited Horizon

    Several songs on U2's new album, No Line on the Horizon (), clock in at over five minutes, featuring long instrumental passages. It's as if...

  • Identity Crisis

    Let me make myself perfectly clear: Watchmen isn't your ordinary comic-book superhero movie. It's an extraordinary comic-book superhero movie. Cast of 'The Watchmen' The long-awaited,...

  • Hounds of Love

    In his somewhat overlong, overdone comic-poignant The Dog in the Manger, now at The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, Spanish Renaissance playwright Lope de Vega...

  • Creature Feature

    Montreal-based musicians Jean-Phi Goncalves and Betty Bonifassi each had their own careers going before they teamed up to experiment as Beast. Among other things, Goncalves...

  • Up from Down Under

    Missy Higgins became a pop star in her native Australia with her first hit, the piano-churned ''Scar.'' Five years later, she's finally starting to catch...

  • Choosing Oscar

    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

    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

    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...

  • Shape Shifters

    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...

  • Express Yourself

    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

    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

    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

    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,...