Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Unfinished Business

    By on October 17, 2007

    While ''Seasons of Love'' was the unquestioned centerpiece of the late American composer Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, it was the more intimate ''One Song Glory''...

  • Bite Night

    By on October 17, 2007

    ''I don't care what they are,'' barks an anxious Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett). ''I just care what they do about them!'' And well he...

  • Female Trouble

    By on October 10, 2007

    What's so remarkable about The Taming of the Shrew is that, despite all the changes to the status of women in the last century, Shakespeare's...

  • Word Smiths

    By on October 10, 2007

    It's hard to say what's tougher about Steve Connell and Sekou (tha misfit)'s two-man show, The Word Begins -- the raw-to-bleeding wordplay, the street-hard posturing...

  • Law and Disorder

    By on October 10, 2007

    ''I'm not a miracle worker,'' scowls Michael Clayton (George Clooney) to a self-important client of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, a corporate law firm for whom...

  • Karen Black Magic

    By on October 10, 2007

    In case you were wondering, Karen Black, whose acting career has spanned the last five decades, has never seen Karen Black Like Me, the infamous...

  • Melissa Warming

    By on October 3, 2007

    Melissa Etheridge reassures herself that she's fine on her bright and boisterous new single ''Message to Myself.'' The song is suspiciously sunny and sweet. It...

  • Spiritual Shenanigans

    By on October 3, 2007

    Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... Maybe I have TV Land on the brain, but director...

  • Coming Home

    By on October 3, 2007

    He created a stir earlier this year by stripping Macbeth down to its bare essentials. But one Shakespearean tragedy performed entirely in the buff is...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 26, 2007

    Kylie Minogue RED-BLOODED VALENTINE?... Chances are it'll be February before we get more love from Kylie Minogue. But many an American gay boy will consider...

  • Dangerous Liaisons

    By on September 26, 2007

    David Cronenberg's films have always been uneasy creations, disturbing excursions into the human psyche and its corporeal container. His earliest gore-enriched works, The Brood, Scanners...

  • Facial Expressions

    By on September 26, 2007

    You probably know their names. You may even personally know some of the 28 people featured in the Rainbow History Project's new exhibit of portraits,...

  • Tough Lessons

    By on September 26, 2007

    When Ernest J. Gaines' novel A Lesson Before Dying was published in 1993 it found fast fame. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, awarded a National...

  • Full House

    By on September 26, 2007

    What's so enthralling about Synetic Theater's production of The Fall of the House of Usher, is how thoroughly it braids conventional theater with dance and...

  • The Good German

    By on September 19, 2007

    It's hard to think of one without the other. Just as Microsoft often comes to mind when you think about Apple, so you wonder about...