Metro Weekly

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  • 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...

  • Stage: The Best of 2008

    By on December 31, 2008

    I wasn't sure that I'd be able to come up with a list for best shows of 2008. I'm not going to get all dramatic...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Destiny's Adults

    By on November 19, 2008

    It sounds like a joke, right? And not an especially good one. But Beyonce isn't kidding. She really has adopted a laughably bad alter ego...